CBS Evening News - 1999-02-18

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[0:01] The headlights were bigger and rounder.

[0:06] Gwennneth [music] Paltro, Dharma, and

[0:07] Cena on Entertainment Tonight.

[0:11] New health concerns and questions

[0:13] tonight for millions of Americans. Was

[0:15] there something dangerous in the polio

[0:17] vaccine you got as a child in the 1950s?

[0:21] Is there something dangerous in the

[0:23] produce you feed your child in the

[0:25] 1990s? A buildup of US and Allied forces

[0:28] in Europe? Are US missiles and troops

[0:31] going into Kosovo? And could this happen

[0:34] to you? These men had their 401k

[0:38] retirement savings stolen by someone

[0:40] they never suspected.

[0:44] This is the CBS Evening News

[0:48] [music]

[0:49] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News

[0:52] headquarters in New York.

[0:54] >> Good evening. There's news tonight about

[0:55] possible health risks from two

[0:57] unexpected fronts. The first involves

[1:00] the effects later in life of one of the

[1:02] breakthrough medicines of the century,

[1:04] the polio vaccine. Millions of baby

[1:07] boomers goddess children. The other

[1:09] involves the fruits and vegetables you

[1:11] feed your children. First, the polio

[1:13] vaccine story. CBS's John Roberts has

[1:15] the fears and the facts.

[1:18] The weekend headlines from England

[1:20] raised fears across America today that

[1:23] the sulk polio vaccine from the 50s and

[1:25] 60s may be causing cancer.

[1:27] >> Please do not be alarmed.

[1:29] >> But Dr. Janet Butell, who wrote the

[1:31] scientific article that prompted those

[1:33] headlines, came out today to say they

[1:35] were not accurate.

[1:37] >> It's unnecessarily alarming and I think

[1:39] that it's misinterpreting the data as is

[1:42] currently available.

[1:43] >> What Dr. Butel did find was that genetic

[1:46] material from a monkey virus called SV40

[1:49] had been discovered in certain rare

[1:51] types of human cancer and raised the

[1:53] possibility they were causing it. That

[1:56] same virus had contaminated some batches

[1:58] of the injected polio vaccine given to

[2:00] between 10 and 30 million Americans

[2:03] before it was pulled from the market in

[2:05] 1961.

[2:06] But urged the public not to draw any

[2:09] conclusions that the vaccine was putting

[2:11] people at any greater risk of cancer.

[2:13] But there is no data that uh that

[2:16] provides a direct link between the virus

[2:19] that's being found in cancer today with

[2:23] any related to the polio vaccine.

[2:26] >> She did suggest, however, that a

[2:28] striking increase in a certain type of

[2:30] lung cancer called methyloma since 1960

[2:33] was suspicious and warranted more study,

[2:35] especially since evidence of the monkey

[2:37] virus was found in some tumors. Other

[2:40] doctors say they'd looked to other risk

[2:42] factors before SV40.

[2:44] >> We know that messy are associated with

[2:46] smoking and asbestous, things that

[2:48] happened during the war and right after

[2:50] the war associated with this very rare

[2:52] tumor.

[2:53] >> The National Cancer Institute has been

[2:55] tracking this issue for more than 40

[2:57] years and has found no increase in

[2:59] cancer rates among people who received

[3:01] the polio vaccine. It's hoped that an

[3:03] international study now ongoing will

[3:05] once and for all answer the question as

[3:07] to whether SV40, which can cause tumors

[3:10] in animals, does the same thing in

[3:12] humans. Dan John Roberts, thanks. Now,

[3:16] about fruits, vegetables, and the health

[3:17] impact on your growing children. A study

[3:20] out today says the produce so important

[3:22] to health and nutrition may in some

[3:24] cases also pose a pesticide residue risk

[3:27] for children. CBS's Jacqueline Adams has

[3:30] the well-balanced food facts for you.

[3:32] To stay healthy, Americans are supposed

[3:34] to eat five servings of fruits and

[3:36] vegetables every day. But the next issue

[3:38] of Consumer Reports is warning that even

[3:41] one serving of some produce can endanger

[3:44] children if it's laden with high levels

[3:46] of pesticide residue. Children are not

[3:49] just little adults when it comes to

[3:50] eating because they're smaller, can eat

[3:53] the same amount of food, and get per

[3:55] pound of body weight a much higher dose

[3:57] of pesticides. All the pesticide levels

[3:59] fell within legal limits, but Consumer

[4:01] Reports analysts computed what they

[4:03] deemed unsafe toxicity scores for

[4:06] apples, grapes, green beans, peaches,

[4:08] pears, spinach, and winter squash. Two

[4:11] out of five children who eat a US grown

[4:13] peach they say will get too much of the

[4:16] pesticide methylarathione.

[4:18] >> It might affect puberty. It might affect

[4:19] fertility. It might affect any of a

[4:22] number of of factors that are regulated

[4:23] by the body's hormonal system, which

[4:25] >> Dr. Gross today coupled his study with a

[4:27] letter to the Environmental Protection

[4:28] Agency asking that certain pesticides be

[4:31] banned or restricted. The EPA is

[4:33] currently weighing the pesticide risk to

[4:35] children, but insists that America's

[4:37] food supply is still the safest in the

[4:39] world. Some food analysts warn that

[4:41] children face an even greater danger in

[4:43] snacking on highfat, highly sugared

[4:45] food.

[4:46] >> And if somebody reads this and they get

[4:48] concerned and they go to other foods and

[4:51] ignore fruits and vegetables in their

[4:53] diet, I think that is a real risk.

[4:55] Both the EPA and Consumer Report say

[4:58] parents need not worry. Careful washing

[5:00] and peeling a fruit can all but

[5:02] eliminate the pesticide risk, as can

[5:04] eating canned or organic fruit.

[5:07] Jacqueline Adams, CBS News, New York.

[5:10] >> And then there's the health risk posed

[5:11] by automobile airbags. In Pennsylvania

[5:14] today, a remarkable jury decision in a

[5:17] class action lawsuit involving a woman

[5:19] who got a handburn from an airbag during

[5:22] an accident. The jury awarded $58.5

[5:26] million to thousands of Pennians who had

[5:30] Chrysler cars with similar airbags,

[5:32] whether they were hurt or not. Automaker

[5:35] Daimler Chrysler says it will appeal the

[5:37] award. The company also says the airbag,

[5:40] after all, did save the woman's life. In

[5:43] Jasper, Texas today, the trial jury

[5:46] considering the hate crime killing of a

[5:47] black man was confronted with a silent

[5:50] witness on wheels and a chain of

[5:52] evidence. CBS's Bob McNamera is covering

[5:55] the trial.

[5:57] In a dramatic courtroom moment,

[5:59] prosecutors displayed the 24t long chain

[6:02] they said was used to lash James Bird

[6:04] Jr. to the back of a truck and drag him

[6:06] to his death. Today, too, the truck was

[6:09] a star witness. the pickup owned by one

[6:12] of the accused killers and used to drag

[6:14] Bird that night last June. As defendant

[6:18] John William King listened, an FBI agent

[6:20] said on the truck's tires, the steel

[6:22] chassis, and tailpipe, traces of human

[6:24] tissue and blood were found. More

[6:27] evidence linking King and the truck to

[6:29] the murder of James Bird last June.

[6:32] There was also testimony from William

[6:33] Hoover, an ex-convict who did time with

[6:36] King. Hoover saying in prison, King

[6:38] talked of kidnapping a black man and

[6:41] killing him as part of a gang initiation

[6:43] right. Hoover was a reluctant witness

[6:45] and refused to discuss his testimony

[6:47] later.

[6:49] Each day now,

[6:51] >> James Bird senior comes to the

[6:53] courthouse to hear the testimony against

[6:56] the man accused of killing his son.

[6:58] >> King of your son. And each day too,

[7:01] Ronald King struggles to court to sit

[7:04] near the son he adopted as a baby,

[7:06] clinging to the faint hope his boy's

[7:08] life will be spared.

[7:09] >> I truly don't know how he's going to

[7:10] react in the end. However they find him,

[7:13] I think that's when he's going to need a

[7:15] great deal of support.

[7:16] >> To James Bird's family, each day at

[7:18] court is carried in the dignity of a

[7:20] family's deepest loss.

[7:22] >> It's like a wound that's very deep and

[7:24] sometimes it takes a while for those

[7:26] wounds to heal, but you have to start

[7:28] the process. It is a story of a vicious

[7:31] crime of hate and two brokenhearted

[7:33] families each having to pay a heavy

[7:36] price.

[7:37] >> Bob Mcamera, CBS News, Jasper, Texas.

[7:40] >> Still ahead on the CBS Evening News, our

[7:43] special series, Guarding Your Money.

[7:45] Will your 401k be there when you retire?

[7:48] Boris Yelson, President Clinton, and a

[7:50] warning, or was it? And a superpower

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[9:32] >> United States is building up its air

[9:33] power in Europe tonight with the

[9:34] deadline less than 48 hours away for a

[9:37] new peace arrangement or not on Kosovo.

[9:40] Once again, the US and its allies are

[9:42] trying to force concessions from

[9:44] Serbia's hardline leader Slovidon

[9:46] Mallovich. They want him to accept a

[9:48] self-ruule plan for Kasovo and a NATO

[9:51] peacekeeping force in the Serbian

[9:53] province where 90% of the people are

[9:55] ethnic Albanians. CBS's David Martin has

[9:58] the latest from the Defense Department.

[10:01] In a few more days, F-17 stealth

[10:04] fighters will be in Italy and B-52

[10:06] bombers armed with cruise missiles will

[10:08] be positioned in England, poised to

[10:11] strike targets in Serbia. The US wants

[10:13] Serb President Mallosvich to think hard

[10:15] about what will happen if he refuses to

[10:18] sign a peace agreement. Secretary of

[10:20] State Albbright spoke with Malloich by

[10:22] phone this morning.

[10:23] >> He should understand that if air strikes

[10:25] occur uh they will uh be he will be hit

[10:30] hard and he will be deprived of the

[10:31] things that he values.

[10:33] >> In theory, air strikes could begin with

[10:35] cruise missiles launched from US Navy

[10:37] ships anytime after the noon Saturday

[10:39] deadline for an agreement expires. But

[10:42] as a practical matter, Western diplomats

[10:44] and international observers in Serbia

[10:46] and Kosovo will have to be given time to

[10:48] get out of harm's way.

[10:50] >> If the current stalemate continues, the

[10:52] mission will have to be evacuated in

[10:55] advance of NATO air strikes.

[10:57] >> In the event the stalemate breaks and

[10:58] there is an agreement, the lead elements

[11:00] of a NATO peacekeeping force, these are

[11:02] British tanks, are already on the move

[11:04] toward Kosovo. 2200 US Marines are in

[11:07] the Aian Sea waiting for orders to

[11:09] offload at a Greek port and begin the

[11:11] overland trek to Kosovo where they will

[11:13] be responsible for policing the eastern

[11:16] part of the province. The assumption is

[11:18] Mallovich will decide he'd rather live

[11:20] with NATO troops than with NATO bombs

[11:22] and grudgingly agreed to a deal. But

[11:24] either way, the US military is about to

[11:27] be committed to action in Kosovo. David

[11:30] Martin, CBS News, the Pentagon. Boris

[11:32] Yelson set off a diplomatic flap today

[11:34] with a bit of cold war bluster. Asked

[11:37] about Kosovo. He said he had told

[11:39] President Clinton Russia will not stand

[11:41] for NATO military action against Serbia,

[11:43] though Yeltson didn't say how he would

[11:45] prevent it. Yelson said he talked with

[11:48] President Clinton by phone yesterday.

[11:50] But White House spokesman denied this

[11:51] and the Kremlin later admitted there was

[11:54] no such call.

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[13:40] President Clinton's postimp

[13:43] tour took him on the road to New

[13:44] Hampshire today and especially on the

[13:46] campaign trail for Democrats, hoping to

[13:49] retake control of Congress in election

[13:50] year 2000. CBS News White House

[13:53] correspondent Scott P is traveling with

[13:54] the president.

[13:57] >> For the first time since his aqu

[13:58] quiddle, the president met the people

[14:00] face to face in New Hampshire. The

[14:03] reaction was divided. The conservative

[14:05] local paper called him a disgrace. But

[14:08] Mr. Clinton wouldn't have started this

[14:10] campaign anywhere else. It was New

[14:13] Hampshire that resurrected him once

[14:15] before.

[14:18] >> I would very much like to see the spirit

[14:22] in the country and in Washington DC that

[14:24] I felt here in New Hampshire so many

[14:25] years ago when I first came here.

[14:27] >> It was seven years ago, this very day,

[14:30] that New Hampshire saved the Clinton

[14:32] campaign.

[14:33] >> At least I proved one thing. I can take

[14:35] a punch.

[14:37] >> [cheering]

[14:38] >> The punch then was a series of scandals,

[14:41] but he came in second and christened

[14:43] himself the comeback kid.

[14:46] >> What's beginning now in New Hampshire is

[14:48] his last campaign, an effort to repay

[14:50] the party that stood beside him. You'll

[14:53] find Mr. Clinton increasingly on the

[14:54] road promoting candidates and above all

[14:57] raising money. He has emerged perhaps as

[15:00] a stronger campaigner than he has ever

[15:02] been, leaving many Republicans amazed.

[15:06] >> He always wins. He's the best politician

[15:08] I've ever seen. Probably the best

[15:09] politician in American history.

[15:11] >> New Hampshire Senator Robert Smith is

[15:13] running for president. He is one

[15:15] conservative Republican who is dismayed

[15:17] that the popularity of Democratic issues

[15:20] has risen with the president's scandal.

[15:23] >> Social Security patients bill of rights,

[15:25] build more schools, hire more teachers.

[15:28] How do the Republicans catch up to this?

[15:30] >> You know, the Republican party has got

[15:32] to stand up for the principles that it

[15:34] believes in and let the chips fall. Let

[15:36] let the voters be the judge. Don't worry

[15:39] about polling and consulting and

[15:41] determining how we got to be more

[15:43] Democrat be more like the Democrats in

[15:45] order to win elections. Mr. Clinton

[15:46] believes elections may help him rewrite

[15:49] history. For the party, this is a

[15:51] two-year campaign to win the House and

[15:53] the White House. For the president, it

[15:56] is one last shot at a final comeback.

[15:59] Scott Py, CBS News, with the president

[16:01] in Manchester, New Hampshire. Your

[16:03] federal income tax forms are getting

[16:05] more and more complicated. For an

[16:07] average taxpayer who itemizes deductions

[16:09] and has some investment income, the IRS

[16:12] now estimates it will take more than 22

[16:14] hours to fill out the return. That's a

[16:17] full 3 hours longer than last year. In a

[16:20] moment, news about the income many

[16:22] Americans put away for retirement. Ray

[16:24] Brady reports how some people lost their

[16:26] entire 401k savings when the CBS Evening

[16:30] News rolls on.

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[18:50] >> Ever wonder about the money you put into

[18:51] a 401k plan at work? How safe it is? and

[18:55] will it be there when you retire? In

[18:57] tonight's Eye on America, you'll see why

[18:59] it's so important to ask those

[19:01] questions. CBS's Ray Brady shows you

[19:03] what can happen when you put money into

[19:05] a 401k and blind trust in an employer in

[19:10] part two of our series guarding your

[19:11] money.

[19:13] >> I still don't know whether it has to

[19:14] have be a

[19:15] >> These are worried men. They invested

[19:17] their money in a 401k only to find out

[19:21] it had been ripped off, gone every penny

[19:24] of it. Mike Campus.

[19:26] >> How would you feel if you worked 20

[19:27] years for somebody and you had nothing

[19:29] to show for it?

[19:30] >> Fred Immel.

[19:31] >> I'm not sure that I really like 401k

[19:33] programs. These seven men were the sales

[19:35] force in a small California tractor

[19:37] dealership owned by Mike Kovak, their

[19:40] boss, their friend, and the man court

[19:42] papers charge again and again took funds

[19:45] from their 401k plan till all $98,581

[19:51] of it was gone. Tim McMillan,

[19:54] >> if the man had come at us with a gun and

[19:56] robbed us, we'd have been able to take a

[19:58] tax deduction. We can't even do that.

[20:00] Unlike traditional pension plans,

[20:02] there's no insurance against fraud on

[20:04] 401ks. So, your 401k investment is

[20:08] protected primarily by the Labor

[20:10] Department, which both monitors the

[20:12] plans and also attempts to recover any

[20:15] money stolen from them. But since 1995,

[20:19] the Labor Department has investigated

[20:21] more than 3,700 companies. And as its

[20:24] own figures show, it's collected money

[20:27] on some,00 cases. only a third of those

[20:30] it looked into Secretary of Labor Alexis

[20:34] Herman.

[20:35] >> In those cases, we actually recovered

[20:37] 90% of the funds, which amounted to

[20:39] about 53 million for workers, and it

[20:42] covered about 40,000 workers.

[20:44] >> That may sound impressive, but as the

[20:46] tractor salesman found, there's a

[20:48] loophole in the law. 401ks in companies

[20:51] with fewer than 100 workers are exempt

[20:54] from any audit for the federal

[20:56] government. That means that nearly four

[20:58] in every 10 American workers has a 401k

[21:02] that's basically unprotected.

[21:05] >> Approximately 70% of the complaints that

[21:07] we get in fact come from workers in

[21:10] small businesses. So while we want to be

[21:12] sensitive to additional burdens on small

[21:14] business, we think that we do need to

[21:16] take further action to strengthen plans

[21:19] for workers who are in small businesses.

[21:21] >> Get all of this in writing. The labor

[21:23] department does run a hotline for

[21:24] concerned workers, a kind of early

[21:26] warning system on troubled plants. Even

[21:29] so, the tractor salesmen fear they won't

[21:32] see much of the money allegedly taken by

[21:34] their boss.

[21:35] >> The only way we're going to get the

[21:36] money back is if there's retribution

[21:38] from him,

[21:40] and the other satisfaction would be to

[21:42] see him in jail.

[21:44] >> Well, I'm going to have to work the rest

[21:45] of my life. I mean, you never can make

[21:48] it up. Neither can 68-year-old Robert

[21:50] Lawless, the only one of the tractor

[21:53] salesmen who's retired, living in a

[21:55] mobile home. He plays solitire by day

[21:58] and watches TV at night. All the while

[22:01] agonizing over the loss of his 401k

[22:04] money.

[22:05] >> You know, if I had some money like that,

[22:06] I could travel a little bit, do take

[22:08] some trips, and go back east, see my

[22:11] family. And the security you have in

[22:13] that in the bank is is uh something, you

[22:16] know, you never know how your health's

[22:17] going to go. and money like that would

[22:19] come in handy.

[22:20] >> A lament that may be echoed by other

[22:22] workers unaware that the money in their

[22:24] 401k

[22:26] may well be left unguarded. In

[22:29] Washington, I'm Ray Brady for Eye on

[22:32] America. On CBS's Market Watch, a rare

[22:35] burst of inflation. The government says

[22:37] wholesale prices went up half a percent

[22:39] in January. Food and energy led the way.

[22:42] Leave them out though, and wholesale

[22:44] prices overall actually fell a bit.

[22:46] Mortgage interest rates are up for the

[22:48] third straight week, but still averaging

[22:50] below 7% for a 30-year fixed.

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[25:06] >> How do you improve on perfection? That's

[25:08] the question for the New York Yankees as

[25:10] they open baseball spring training. Last

[25:12] year they won more games than any team

[25:13] in baseball history, including a perfect

[25:16] game by pitcher David Wells. So today,

[25:19] the Yanks traded the left-hander Wells

[25:21] and two other players to the Wiggon

[25:24] Toronto Blue Jays for the game's premier

[25:26] pitcher, right-hander Roger Clemens.

[25:28] This blockbuster trade is the talk of

[25:31] the sports world tonight. And now about

[25:33] the big surprise trade today in postage

[25:36] stamps. What's missing from this picture

[25:38] and why? He was one of our most noted

[25:41] modern artists, a painter honored

[25:43] postumously with a stamp today, yet a

[25:45] key feature of his image has gone up in

[25:48] smoke. CBS's Elizabeth Kaledan has the

[25:51] facts. No ifs, ands, or buts.

[25:54] >> Like his vast abstract canvases, Jackson

[25:57] Pollock was larger than life. A

[26:00] brilliant but rough-edged man. a

[26:02] hardrinking chain smoker rarely seen

[26:04] without a cigarette dangling from his

[26:06] lips.

[26:09] But today, with much fanfare, the

[26:11] federal government will help Jackson

[26:13] Pollock kicks the habit, unveiling a new

[26:16] 33 cent stamp based on a famous

[26:18] photograph of the artist without his

[26:20] trademark cigarette. The postal service

[26:23] says it's a design issue. They wanted a

[26:25] stamp of Pollock the Artist, not Pollock

[26:27] the Smoker. But cultural historians are

[26:29] outraged, saying the political

[26:31] incorrectness of smoking today is

[26:33] leading us to snuff out our own past.

[26:36] >> The communists used to airbrush

[26:38] inconvenient persons from photographs.

[26:41] Americans are airbrushing

[26:44] signs of inconvenient sins. I think it's

[26:47] a joke.

[26:48] >> It's not the first time the post office

[26:50] has had a no smoking policy. Blues

[26:53] guitarist Robert Johnson was captured

[26:55] smokefree in 1994 and a stamp of

[26:58] legendary journalist and chain smoker

[27:00] Edward R. Muro shows no cigarette.

[27:03] >> This may be the u the last PC of the '9s

[27:07] filotical correctness.

[27:09] >> For author Christopher Buckley, it's a

[27:12] sad statement that the government

[27:13] doesn't trust us with the truth.

[27:16] >> Essentially what you're doing is

[27:17] tampering with the cultural DNA. [music]

[27:20] Imagine. Buckley says the next cigarette

[27:23] purge, Casablanca, just wouldn't be

[27:26] Casablanca. [music]

[27:29] Seductive scenes from classic movies

[27:31] would vanish like, [music]

[27:32] well, smoke.

[27:33] >> It's as if uh we think we're going to go

[27:36] to heaven if we use enough airwick.

[27:38] >> It's true teen smoking is on the rise,

[27:40] but critics say altering the image of a

[27:43] postage stamp isn't likely to change

[27:45] that. It's just a smokeokc screen, they

[27:47] say, blocking the view of who we really

[27:50] are. Elizabeth Kaledan, CBS News, New

[27:53] York.

[27:54] >> And that's part of our world tonight.

[27:55] I'll be back later here on CBS with 48

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[28:01] >> A brutal murder in this forest.

[28:03] >> I was nine when she died.

[28:05] >> Unsolved for 21 years.

[28:07] >> We don't know really what happened to

[28:09] Ruth. Now, this dedicated cop is about

[28:12] to crack the case later on 48 hours.

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