NBC Nightly News - 1996-03-12

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[0:02] As President Clinton leaves for a

[0:04] terrorism conference, an NBC News

[0:05] exclusive, Russia's nuclear capacity and

[0:08] terrorist. In the Pacific, China begins

[0:10] war games close by Taiwan. No sign the

[0:13] psychological warfare will go beyond

[0:15] that. The numbers are in tonight. It is

[0:17] a Super Tuesday for Bob Dole. On NBC

[0:20] News and the man, the candidate as

[0:22] you've never seen him before. Bob Dole

[0:24] up close and the GM strike spreading

[0:27] fast. maybe the whole company. Next

[0:31] >> from NBC News, this is NBC Nightly News

[0:35] with Tom Brokoff. Good evening. On the

[0:38] night that President Clinton left for an

[0:40] international conference on terrorism,

[0:42] we have an NBC News exclusive on the

[0:44] grave concerns regarding Russian nuclear

[0:46] materials and terrorists. There's a new

[0:49] government report out tomorrow and it

[0:51] will provide chilling details on the

[0:54] non-existent or primitive security at

[0:56] Russian nuclear stockpiles and what that

[0:59] could mean for world security. We'll

[1:01] begin tonight with NBC's Ed Rabel and

[1:03] his exclusive report.

[1:06] It's the most exhaustive congressional

[1:08] probe yet and its findings are alarming.

[1:11] The Russian system, which is supposed to

[1:13] safeguard more than 1,400 tons of

[1:15] nuclear material, enough to make tens of

[1:18] thousands of nuclear weapons, is

[1:20] woefully insufficient. One example,

[1:23] Moscow's Kirchhat Institute, home to

[1:25] several tons of bombgrade uranium, which

[1:28] just last year installed a burglar

[1:30] alarm. The US paid for it. But we now

[1:33] have the possibility of people who are

[1:36] willing to do unthinkable things, people

[1:38] who are willing to cause mass murder,

[1:40] gaining unthinkable uh destructive

[1:43] power.

[1:44] >> The report obtained exclusively by NBC

[1:46] News in advance of congressional

[1:48] hearings tomorrow says the nuclear

[1:50] materials from the former Soviet Union

[1:52] are highly attractive to theft. Nuclear

[1:55] inventories are neither accurate nor

[1:57] complete. Nuclear facilities rely on

[1:59] systems so old they cannot quickly

[2:02] detect the theft of nuclear materials.

[2:04] >> It's the number one security threat that

[2:06] we face. Our job is to make sure the

[2:09] other countries of the world, including

[2:10] Russia, make it their number one

[2:11] priority, too.

[2:12] >> The most disturbing part of the report,

[2:14] these photos taken by congressional

[2:16] investigators at the Kachov Institute

[2:19] and another facility near Moscow. They

[2:21] show highlyenriched uranium that could

[2:23] be easily used to make an atom bomb

[2:26] simply sitting unprotected. Critical

[2:28] nuclear facilities open to any potential

[2:31] thief or terrorist. A senior Pentagon

[2:33] official tells NBC News there is no

[2:36] evidence yet of any large thefts of

[2:38] nuclear material, but the US simply

[2:40] cannot be sure. Keeping Russia's nuclear

[2:43] arsenal out of the hands of terrorists

[2:45] is a top priority for the United States,

[2:47] ready to spend $400 million for

[2:49] increased security. But Pentagon

[2:51] officials say it is not that easy.

[2:54] Instead of spending the money to guard

[2:55] the materials, the Russians would prefer

[2:57] to use it to preserve their cold war

[2:59] nuclear establishment. Ed Rabel, NBC

[3:02] News, the Pentagon.

[3:04] President Clinton is on his way to Egypt

[3:06] tonight for that international

[3:08] anti-terrorism summit tomorrow. The

[3:10] meeting is aimed at salvaging the

[3:12] battered Middle Eastern peace process

[3:14] crippled by a series of deadly suicide

[3:16] bombings. The president will stop in

[3:18] Israel on Thursday. Earlier today,

[3:20] before leaving, Clinton signed a bill

[3:23] strengthening sanctions against Cuba in

[3:25] the aftermath of those two light planes

[3:26] that it shot down. At the same time, the

[3:29] Chinese continue to play by their own

[3:31] rules just off Taiwan. today beginning

[3:33] live fire exercises from a small armada

[3:36] of ships involved in what Beijing calls

[3:38] a training exercise. What the White

[3:41] House is calling a campaign of

[3:43] intimidation. China's leaders are

[3:45] determined to send a message to Taiwan.

[3:47] Don't declare your independence. As for

[3:49] the Taiwanese, well, they're prepared

[3:52] for anything. NBC's Andre Mitchell in

[3:53] Taiwan tonight. As China's ships and

[3:56] planes begin firing their largest air

[3:58] and sea exercise ever, Taiwan's islands

[4:01] near China go on red alert. Battle

[4:04] stations man, artillery shells lined up,

[4:07] guns positioned. The highest state of

[4:09] readiness short of outright war. The

[4:12] target area, a 6,000 square mile

[4:14] rectangle southwest of Taiwan, blocks

[4:17] major shipping lanes between Taiwan and

[4:20] mainland China. The Coast Guard keeps

[4:22] fishing boats away from the fire zone.

[4:26] Today, Taiwanese military leaders

[4:28] inspected defenses on nearby Quimoy,

[4:30] vowing to relentlessly destroy the enemy

[4:33] if attacked. Word that the live fire war

[4:36] games had begun reached the capital of

[4:38] Taipei during afternoon rush hour. No

[4:40] panic above ground. Below freshly

[4:43] whitewashed bomb shelters with new

[4:45] phones ready for the worst.

[4:48] >> The biggest lines today at the passport

[4:50] office. This woman is getting out. Sold

[4:53] her house. wired the money to Canada.

[4:56] >> I'm scared. She says that China will

[4:58] invade Taiwan. Not everyone is leaving.

[5:01] At the stock exchange, 90-year-old

[5:03] Wangqing Ch says she comes here for

[5:05] entertainment. Watching the market here

[5:07] is a spectator sport. Today, down but

[5:11] not sharply, and people are buying

[5:13] dollars, a safer currency. With today's

[5:16] exercises, anxiety grows. US military

[5:19] analysts monitoring China's

[5:21] communications tell NBC News there is no

[5:23] sign China plans to cross the line and

[5:26] actually invade. Andrea Mitchell, NBC

[5:30] News, Taipei.

[5:31] >> When NBC Nightly News continues the

[5:34] General Motor strike, the effect is

[5:35] spreading. What's it all about?

[5:38] >> This strike is about uh good, safe jobs

[5:42] for our children in Dayton. on strike

[5:46] and angry and putting thousands more out

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[7:28] Presidential politics tonight. It may be

[7:30] Super Tuesday, but one thing is lacking,

[7:32] and that's suspense. As expected, Bob

[7:35] Dole is sweeping to victory in all seven

[7:37] Super Tuesday states tonight. NBC News

[7:39] now has declared that at this hour he's

[7:41] won in Texas, Florida, Mississippi,

[7:44] Tennessee, and Oklahoma with partial

[7:47] vote returns in now. Dole, as you can

[7:49] see, has racked up more than 660

[7:52] delegates. That means that he's 2/3 of

[7:54] the way to the 996 that he needs for

[7:57] nomination. He could wind up with 75% of

[7:59] the delegates before this night is out

[8:01] that he'll need for the nomination.

[8:03] NBC's Gwen Eiffel has the whole story

[8:05] from the campaign trail.

[8:08] Exit polls look pretty good. Extremely

[8:10] good.

[8:11] >> Dole was so confident of an impending

[8:13] sweep that he spent the day campaigning

[8:15] with tourists on Capitol Hill while his

[8:17] remaining opponents hopscotch the

[8:19] Midwest in advance of next week's

[8:21] primaries. In Chicago, Steve Forbes

[8:23] criticized Pat Buchanan. He called him

[8:26] disruptive.

[8:27] >> He's just one example. Barraan, who's

[8:30] now done himself in, is another example.

[8:32] When you have a vacuum, unsavory or

[8:36] let's say divisive forces will rise up.

[8:38] >> Buchanan wouldn't respond to Forbes,

[8:40] turning his attention instead to

[8:42] bluecollar voters in Ohio.

[8:44] >> That's why I'm not quitting. I don't

[8:45] care what happens today. I'm going to

[8:47] fight him all the way to San Diego.

[8:49] >> If Dole wins all seven states voting

[8:51] today, that could give the likely

[8:52] Republican nominee a solid firewall this

[8:55] fall. Super Tuesday is not the grand

[8:57] tour it was eight years ago when 21

[8:59] states voted on a single day, but it

[9:02] offers clues on how the war will shape

[9:04] up between the Republican opponent and

[9:05] Bill Clinton in general election states

[9:07] like Florida and Texas. Jim Overweter, a

[9:10] veteran Texas Republican strategist,

[9:12] said Buchanan stumbled because he

[9:14] emphasized trade and immigration over

[9:16] moral issues. On some values questions,

[9:19] I think Texas uh voters are in tune with

[9:22] Pat Buchanan, but on major issues of

[9:25] economics,

[9:26] uh they seem to be polls apart.

[9:28] >> For Democrats, the political landscape

[9:30] has grown especially hazardous since

[9:32] 1994 when Republicans took over the

[9:34] majority of the region's governors,

[9:36] senators, and representatives.

[9:38] >> I think the region is critical for the

[9:40] Republicans for November, and I think

[9:41] Bob Dole in the Republican party wants

[9:43] to show how strong they are in the

[9:45] South. The verdict. Republicans wanted a

[9:48] candidate with experience who can beat

[9:49] Bill Clinton. The words could have been

[9:51] ripped from Dole's own campaign

[9:53] playbook. Gwen Eiffel, NBC News, Dallas.

[9:58] >> And in Lumberton, North Carolina

[10:00] tonight, a life sentence for Daniel

[10:01] Green, convicted of killing James

[10:03] Jordan, the father of basketball great

[10:05] Michael Jordan. This jury could have

[10:08] given him the death penalty.

[10:11] >> When we come back, NBC News and depth

[10:13] tonight. From on the ropes to what we

[10:15] presume will be the Republican nominee.

[10:17] What's going on behind the scenes for

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[11:53] >> NBC News in depth tonight. Bob Dole now

[11:55] all but assured a victory in his third

[11:58] run for the GOP presidential nomination.

[12:00] Although he is being cautious about his

[12:02] front runner status, but questions

[12:04] remain. Who is he? What makes him tick?

[12:07] Bob Dole gave NBC's Lisa Myers a rare

[12:10] behind the scenes look at his campaign.

[12:13] And here is her in-depth report tonight.

[12:16] >> 7 a.m. Monday, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

[12:19] >> Yes, sir.

[12:20] >> That was Bob Do's wakeup call from Mike,

[12:22] a trusted aid. It kickstarts a $42,000 a

[12:26] day political road show.

[12:29] There are 16 traveling staff, even a

[12:31] hair and makeup artist, Dole's grudging

[12:34] concession to the television age.

[12:36] >> Nice quiet breakfast. Yeah.

[12:38] >> Every campaign day begins the same way.

[12:40] Oatmeal or oat brand for the candidate,

[12:42] who's occasionally joined by his wife,

[12:44] Elizabeth, who mostly campaigns on her

[12:46] own.

[12:47] >> You end up in San Antonio.

[12:48] >> All right, here we go. On an average

[12:51] day, Dole and his chartered 727 named

[12:53] Leader Ship will touch down in three

[12:55] cities, travel 1,500 miles. Not bad for

[12:59] a 72-year-old candidate who sometimes

[13:01] shows less wear and tear than his

[13:03] 30-something staff.

[13:04] >> 11:00 a.m. leadership departs for

[13:07] Dallas.

[13:08] >> Unlike many campaigns, this one

[13:10] generally runs on time. Dole considers

[13:12] it rude to keep people waiting.

[13:16] There is no such thing as a standard

[13:18] Dole stump speech. Instead, his staff

[13:20] prepares a list of talking points.

[13:22] Sometimes he follows them, sometimes he

[13:24] doesn't. In fact, sometimes you get the

[13:26] impression Dole would like to skip the

[13:28] speech altogether.

[13:30] >> So, I know you're on the way to the

[13:31] grocery store, so I won't keep you very

[13:33] long.

[13:33] >> Bob Dole is not a performer. He is that

[13:36] rare politician not enthralled with his

[13:39] own voice.

[13:39] >> And let me just conclude by saying this.

[13:43] I'd say just one more thing before that.

[13:45] >> Sometimes you seem a little reluctant on

[13:47] the stage.

[13:49] >> Well, you always have a different group

[13:50] there and you never know really. Well,

[13:52] plus you have to say the same thing over

[13:54] and over again. It's kind of boring.

[13:56] >> Let's veto Clinton in November. Let's

[13:58] veto Clinton in November. We ought to

[14:00] veto Bill Clinton in November.

[14:02] >> To relieve the tedium, Dole looks for

[14:04] humor wherever he can find it. A leaky

[14:07] tent in a storm is a setup for a

[14:09] punchline. Most of us blow in, blow off,

[14:12] and blow out. And maybe before we leave

[14:14] here, blow up. I don't know what's going

[14:16] to happen. So, you got to have a little

[14:18] fun in this business. I think people

[14:19] want to see some of that. Just not too

[14:22] much, but uh enough to know that you're

[14:26] quick and you're alert and uh

[14:29] you know, I think that that destroys the

[14:31] age issue.

[14:32] >> Dole's favorite part of the day. His

[14:35] schedule calls it mix and mingle, a

[14:37] spontaneous walk through the crowds. He

[14:39] and his bodyguard call it mix and

[14:41] bangle.

[14:42] >> Oh, I like people. I like to talk to

[14:44] people. Some people will tell you what

[14:45] they think and others tell you somebody

[14:47] they know or they want you to they hand

[14:50] you something or say they're praying for

[14:53] you, whatever.

[14:54] >> Mhm.

[14:57] >> Do goes 12 to 14 hours nonstop, usually

[15:01] without a moment to himself. breakfast,

[15:04] picture after picture after picture, TV

[15:07] interviews, and hundreds of hands. He

[15:11] rarely misses an opportunity to promote

[15:13] his agenda. Tax credits in this case.

[15:15] >> Is it my 5-year-old? That's my

[15:17] 2-year-old.

[15:18] >> $500 credit for each one.

[15:21] >> We're counting on it, sir.

[15:22] >> Well, good. Don't give up. We're going

[15:23] to get it done. Get rid of Clinton.

[15:24] We'll get it done.

[15:26] about the heart.

[15:28] >> To try to soften his hard edges and

[15:30] emotionally connect with voters, Dole's

[15:32] advisers have persuaded him to tell his

[15:34] personal story at every stop.

[15:37] >> Stay on your message. Stay on your

[15:38] message.

[15:40] Talk about yourself. I said, I don't

[15:41] like to talk about myself.

[15:43] >> Still, he tries. I learned if you work

[15:46] hard and work hard and never give up and

[15:48] never give up and never give up and just

[15:50] keep on plugging and plugging and

[15:51] plugging away, someday you might be a

[15:54] candidate for the president of the

[15:55] United States. Think of it. Somebody

[15:57] from Russell, Kansas, who started with

[15:59] Zippo. Nothing.

[16:02] I may end up with nothing, but right now

[16:04] I'm on a roll. So, here we go.

[16:06] >> On a roll.

[16:07] >> Coffee, coffee, coffee. and honing his

[16:10] line of attack against a master speech

[16:13] maker and campaigner, President Clinton.

[16:15] >> To go out here and rev up about five or

[16:17] six hundred people.

[16:18] >> Another thousand miles, another town,

[16:21] another speech he's not wild about

[16:22] giving. Still chasing a goal which might

[16:25] finally be within reach. Lisa Myers, NBC

[16:28] News with the Dole campaign somewhere

[16:30] over America.

[16:33] When we come back, GM workers on strike

[16:35] tonight. Hear about the high stakes from

[16:37] one of them in his own words. And still

[16:39] ahead, an unlikely Olympian from an even

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[16:52] around my neck for the rest of my life.

[16:55] >> A man who really knows how to pull his

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[17:50] >> A brother.

[17:51] >> Oh, Lord.

[17:52] >> But they've got a lot to learn.

[17:53] >> How's it feel?

[17:54] >> Have what? being colored

[17:55] >> about relating to each other.

[17:57] >> Y I might as well be on Mars and be up

[17:58] here with y'all people.

[17:59] >> What do you mean y'all people?

[18:01] >> Get in here. I said get in here.

[18:04] >> You want ME TO CALL THE POLICE?

[18:05] >> NO, MAN. WE'RE JUST TALKING.

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[19:23] >> Now to that strike against General

[19:24] Motors. Two more GM plants were forced

[19:26] to close today in Texas and in New

[19:28] Jersey. That means that more than 60,000

[19:30] people now are out of work on the picket

[19:33] line. NBC's chief financial

[19:35] correspondent Mike Jensen tonight. Amen.

[19:38] >> If the strike goes on, analysts say by

[19:40] the end of the week, almost every one of

[19:42] GM's 29 assembly plants could be closed.

[19:46] Even though workers at only two GM parts

[19:49] plants are on strike, they make breaks

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[19:54] could mean shortages in auto showrooms.

[19:57] Already GM's Saturn and Yukon, a sport

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[20:02] >> Now we cannot fulfill the orders that we

[20:05] have. Yeah. So, it will affect us. 3,000

[20:07] UAW workers are on strike and another

[20:10] 60,000 have been laid off by GM. So far,

[20:14] few of them are complaining.

[20:16] >> We've received numerous uh letters uh

[20:19] telephone calls and messages uh from

[20:21] around the country in support of our

[20:24] efforts.

[20:24] >> The big issue is GM farming out work to

[20:27] other companies. The union is trying to

[20:29] hold the line on that.

[20:32] >> Both sides are deeply dug in. Experts

[20:34] say that for the first time, a union has

[20:36] a chance to win a big one. Tom,

[20:39] >> Mike, there have not been many major

[20:41] labor victories recently. Why is the UAW

[20:43] so confident this time?

[20:44] >> Well, they really think that these 3,000

[20:47] workers who have gone on strike have

[20:48] General Motors by the jugular. Uh,

[20:51] investment analysts say that this could

[20:52] be costing the company as much as $40

[20:55] million a day for as long as it goes on.

[20:57] Tom,

[20:58] >> thanks very much. Mike Jensen. Tonight,

[21:00] out on the picket line, you'll find

[21:01] Gordon Hunt, a striking GM worker with a

[21:04] wife and three children. In his own

[21:06] words tonight, he explains why he chose

[21:08] to forego a paycheck. His gamble, he

[21:11] says, for a better tomorrow.

[21:13] So, that's why I'm walking out for a few

[21:15] weeks here. Hopefully, it's just a few

[21:16] weeks to protect my job for the next 25

[21:19] or 30 years. I would say this would be a

[21:21] 35 to $40,000 a year job. But with the

[21:24] overtime, a person can work his self to

[21:28] death in here

[21:30] and uh probably realize, I don't know,

[21:32] 75 $80,000 a year. This strike is about

[21:36] uh good, safe jobs for our children in

[21:40] Dayton. And we're just making a stand

[21:43] trying to allow ourselves and our

[21:47] children and other people in this

[21:49] community the opportunity to have those

[21:51] same high-paying jobs after we've moved

[21:52] on. It allows my wife to stay home and

[21:56] raise our children. We don't have to

[21:58] rely on two incomes during this time. We

[22:01] have to make sacrifices. We can only uh

[22:04] buffer ourselves from a a loss in wages

[22:07] for so long. It's stressful. I'm not

[22:11] going to lie. It's you wonder when it's

[22:13] going to be settled. I am standing here

[22:16] not just for my children but for all of

[22:19] my co-workers children to asssure that

[22:22] they have a decent chance at a good

[22:25] paying career just as people of a

[22:28] previous generation stood for my

[22:30] benefit.

[22:32] >> Striker Gordon Hunt tonight in his own

[22:34] words. It was another wild ride on Wall

[22:37] Street today. After being down 90 points

[22:40] a minute afternoon, the Dow climbed back

[22:42] to finish with a small gain in very

[22:44] heavy trading today. The Nasdaq was

[22:47] down. Now to NBC News online, beyond the

[22:50] day's headlines, it's not your

[22:51] imagination. Americans these days are

[22:54] waiting longer than ever to get married.

[22:57] The average age for a first marriage

[22:59] almost 27 for men, 24 and a half for

[23:02] women. That's about four years older

[23:04] than it was in 1956, the year that

[23:07] marrying ages were at their lowest in

[23:09] this country. When it comes to looking

[23:11] for a job, some people, it turns out,

[23:13] are their own worst enemy. New York's

[23:15] sterling testing system screened 50,000

[23:17] corporate job applicants last year. Half

[23:20] had submitted false or incomplete

[23:22] information. 13% flunked a drug test.

[23:27] Almost twothirds had bad credit. 3% had

[23:30] been convicted of a felony.

[23:33] I'll be back with more news in a moment.

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[25:38] >> Dine. He made it all the way to Yale Law

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[25:44] her disabled son. Dateline NBC tonight.

[25:49] >> As you must have noticed by now, later

[25:52] this summer, the Olympic Games in

[25:54] Atlanta. All over the world, the best

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[26:01] ultimate challenge. For most, this is

[26:04] the culmination of a lifelong dream. For

[26:06] others, well, that dream came just a

[26:09] little bit later. Here's NBC's Rahma

[26:11] Ellis.

[26:14] John Debobi Sinakwami came to New York

[26:17] to chase a very unusual dream. He came

[26:20] from Togo in Western Africa in hopes of

[26:22] teaching music at the Harlem Boys Choir.

[26:25] >> Tall, tall, tall.

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[26:37] >> I just fall in love with swimming. I

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[26:55] >> I went to the pool almost every day for

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[27:00] >> And then a new dream.

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[27:09] Games.

[27:10] >> Now on leave from his job, he's training

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[27:27] With no money and no help from Togo, he

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