NBC Nightly News - 1985-12-02

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[0:01] Siberia in much of America. The head of

[0:04] NASA indicted and Yolena Bonner is out

[0:06] of Russia tonight.

[0:09] NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokoff.

[0:13] Good evening and think warm thoughts for

[0:16] your friends and relatives in much of

[0:17] the American West and Midwest tonight.

[0:19] They're under siege by early winter

[0:21] storms and record cold temperatures from

[0:23] the state of Washington across the Lake

[0:25] Erie. Temperatures were well below zero

[0:28] in the mountain states and great plains.

[0:29] In Montana, Miles cities 33 below broke

[0:32] a record established nearly 100 years

[0:34] ago. As NBC's Anne Rubenstein tells us

[0:37] tonight, the calendar says it's still

[0:39] autumn, but the weather is vintage

[0:41] winter.

[0:44] >> It was the first major storm of the

[0:45] season. It's at record low temperatures

[0:47] in at least a dozen states, and winter

[0:50] is still weeks away. By the time the

[0:52] storm reached Buffalo, New York, it was

[0:54] already 2 days old, but still powerful.

[0:56] It caused major problems in the suburbs.

[0:59] Winds of almost 60 m an hour caused

[1:01] flooding along Lake Erie's shore.

[1:05] The high waters forced people to leave

[1:07] their homes and neighborhoods. Major

[1:08] roads in Buffalo were closed because of

[1:10] the flooding. Frigid temperatures and

[1:12] high winds are forecast again for

[1:14] Buffalo tonight.

[1:18] In Minneapolis, the storm dumped 21 in

[1:20] of snow, a record there for a single

[1:22] storm. Tow trucks worked to clear the

[1:25] roads. Officials say it may take two

[1:27] more days, though, to plow all the

[1:28] streets, which were impassible over the

[1:30] weekend. In Wisconsin, there was heavy

[1:32] snowfall in some parts of the state, got

[1:34] almost 2 feet. Roads were closed in many

[1:36] areas, and hundreds of holiday travelers

[1:39] got stranded. In one small Wisconsin

[1:41] town, the village hall was turned into a

[1:43] shelter overnight for about 26 people.

[1:46] They were all forced off the roads by

[1:48] blizzard conditions. The Red Cross

[1:50] brought in food and bedding. By this

[1:52] morning, most people were just waiting

[1:53] it out.

[1:56] Also hit hard was De Moine, Iowa. Total

[1:58] snowfall there was 17 in. The Iowa

[2:01] National Guard was called out to help

[2:02] rescue stranded motorists over the

[2:04] weekend. In many parts of Iowa, schools

[2:07] and colleges were closed today. People

[2:09] there and across the storm's wide path

[2:11] were trying to dig out, plow out, just

[2:14] get out from under the first storm of

[2:16] the season. Anne Rubenstein, NBC News.

[2:20] >> And another major storm is moving into

[2:22] the Pacific Northwest tonight. An area

[2:23] where in the lowlands there's usually a

[2:25] lot of rain, but not so much snow.

[2:31] But look at these driving conditions

[2:32] north of Portland.

[2:37] There were scores of accidents. Schools

[2:39] were closed in many areas. And these

[2:41] conditions stretched all the way to

[2:42] Vancouver, which was described today as

[2:44] being one big popsicle.

[2:49] James Begs, the chief administrator of

[2:51] NASA, was one of four men indicted today

[2:53] on charges of defrauding the government

[2:55] on a major defense contract. NBC's law

[2:58] correspondent Carl Stern reports.

[2:59] Tonight, the case involved a defense

[3:01] contractor that's been in trouble

[3:02] before. General Dynamics.

[3:06] Space Agency administrator James Begs, a

[3:08] former executive of the General Dynamics

[3:10] Company, and three other executives of

[3:12] the company were accused today of

[3:14] defrauding the government out of

[3:15] millions of dollars in defense

[3:17] contracts.

[3:18] >> Mr. Banks is charged uh al in all seven

[3:21] counts along with the other three uh

[3:23] General Dynamics executives uh with

[3:25] conspiring to defraud the United States

[3:28] and with uh making false statements or

[3:30] submitting false statements to uh to the

[3:32] Department of Defense. The indictment

[3:34] concerns development of the so-called

[3:36] Sergeant York anti-aircraft system,

[3:38] cancelled now, is unworkable after an

[3:40] expenditure of almost $2 billion. It is

[3:43] alleged that Begs ordered losses on the

[3:44] Sergeant York charged to other

[3:46] government accounts. In Washington, Begs

[3:48] issued a statement saying, "I am

[3:50] innocent of any criminal wrongdoing."

[3:52] Congressman Robert Toroselli of the

[3:54] Space Committee said Begs should leave.

[3:56] >> Mr. Begs, I think, faces no choice.

[3:59] someone who believes in the space

[4:00] program, and I know that he does, he

[4:04] must leave NASA, or the program is going

[4:06] to be jeopardized.

[4:08] >> General Dynamics has already been

[4:09] awarded more than $6 billion in Pentagon

[4:12] contracts this year. It makes the

[4:14] Trident submarine, the F-16 fighter

[4:17] plane, and the M1 tank. But it has

[4:20] frequently been in trouble over its

[4:22] gifts and billing practices. Responding

[4:24] to today's indictment, the company

[4:26] called the dispute a highly

[4:27] sophisticated regulatory and accounting

[4:29] matter which should be resolved in a

[4:31] civil forum, not a criminal case. One

[4:33] senator said it is time for the

[4:35] government to use its power to stop

[4:36] doing business with General Dynamics.

[4:38] >> That they've never, to my knowledge,

[4:40] used it against General Dynamics, and I

[4:42] can't think of a case where they've used

[4:43] it against a major contractor. So, they

[4:46] have the power, the defense department

[4:48] does, but they're reluctant to use it.

[4:49] As of tonight, begs refused to say

[4:51] whether he would step down. The maximum

[4:54] penalty if he is convicted is 35 years

[4:56] in prison. Carl Stern, NBC News,

[5:00] Washington.

[5:01] >> Also coming up on this program tonight,

[5:03] Tom Pettit on the legal nightmare that

[5:05] followed the poison gas nightmare in

[5:06] Boal, India. It's now been one year and

[5:10] these people haven't collected a scent.

[5:12] Fred Briggs tonight on sitting ducks and

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[6:58] Soviet dissident Elena Bonner came out

[7:00] of exile today. Internal exile deep

[7:02] inside the Soviet Union and flew to

[7:04] Italy. She came for medical treatment

[7:06] and a family reunion. But as Keith

[7:08] Miller reports tonight, the price that

[7:10] she is paying for her journey is

[7:11] silence.

[7:14] >> It was her first trip outside of the

[7:15] Soviet Union in 6 years, and the ground

[7:18] rules were simple. Talk to the press and

[7:20] lose any right to return.

[7:22] >> I am very happy.

[7:25] >> In Milan, Yolena Bonner was met by her

[7:27] son and son-in-law. The reunion was

[7:30] subdued. There was bad news. Speaking

[7:33] Russian, Bonner said her husband, Soviet

[7:35] dissident Andre Sakurov, was not in good

[7:37] health. That was all she would say, all

[7:40] she could risk. Any violation of the

[7:43] condition to stay silent could cost her

[7:45] her citizenship and any chance of seeing

[7:48] her husband again.

[7:50] >> While leaving Moscow, security agents

[7:52] went through her luggage. They

[7:54] discovered an excess of tax-free caviar,

[7:57] which she was allowed to keep. It was a

[7:59] small consideration.

[8:01] Last spring, Bonner was convicted of

[8:03] anti-siet slander and banished to the

[8:05] closed city of Gorki. There, she joined

[8:07] her husband, a celebrated nuclear

[8:10] physicist who has been in internal exile

[8:12] for 5 years for antis-siet statements.

[8:15] Sakurov reportedly staged a hunger

[8:17] strike to win permission for his wife to

[8:19] seek medical treatment abroad.

[8:22] In Italy, she will undergo an

[8:24] examination for glaucoma and later

[8:26] travel to the United States for heart

[8:27] surgery. Nina Harkovich, a friend for 20

[8:30] years, says she is anxious to see

[8:33] Bonner, concerned about her health, but

[8:35] not her spirit.

[8:36] >> She's a volcano.

[8:39] >> But Bonner is unlikely to engage in any

[8:41] antis-siet eruptions on this trip. By

[8:44] allowing her to travel, the Soviets have

[8:46] at least shown a gesture of compassion

[8:48] on the issue of human rights. By keeping

[8:50] her silent, it has ensured that any

[8:53] complaints will not be openly discussed.

[8:55] Keith Miller, NBC News, Rome.

[8:58] In this country, President Reagan today

[9:00] tried to lower expectations for concrete

[9:03] results from the Geneva Summit meeting

[9:04] with Mikail Gorbachoff. In a speech in

[9:07] Seattle, the president said he did not

[9:08] expect miracles, but he had managed to

[9:10] open a crack in the door for improved

[9:13] relations.

[9:13] >> Small independent businesses.

[9:15] >> Geneva let loose a lot of hopes, mine

[9:19] among them. But there have been power

[9:21] hopeful times before. We have to

[9:24] understand which policies work and which

[9:25] ones don't. blurring the issues and

[9:28] ignoring the areas of friction between

[9:31] the Soviet Union and the United States

[9:33] is no way to create a more peaceful

[9:35] world. And White House officials today

[9:38] passed up several opportunities to deny

[9:40] reports that National Security Adviser

[9:42] Robert McFarland plans to resign.

[9:44] Spokesman said, "We're not talking about

[9:46] it." And they would not comment on

[9:48] persistent reports that McFarland is

[9:50] leaving because of friction with the

[9:51] president's chief of staff, Donald Rean.

[9:54] Meanwhile, another Kennedy is preparing

[9:56] to enter the political wars. NBC News

[9:58] has confirmed tonight that Robert

[10:00] Kennedy's oldest son, Joseph Kennedy

[10:02] III, will soon announce that he is

[10:04] running for the House seat held for 17

[10:06] years by Thomas P. Tip O'Neal, who plans

[10:09] to retire. Before O'Neal, that House

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[10:14] F. Kennedy.

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[11:56] >> General Ver is back on the job in the

[11:58] Philippines tonight, reinstated by

[12:00] President Marcos as head of the armed

[12:02] forces in that country. A Philippine

[12:04] court found ver and 25 others not guilty

[12:06] in the murder of opposition leader

[12:08] Benino Aino. The United States State

[12:10] Department, on the other hand, said

[12:11] today it was very difficult to reconcile

[12:13] the court's finding with the judgment of

[12:16] an independent commission which ruled

[12:17] that Aino had been murdered by the

[12:19] military. NBC's Steve Mallerie has the

[12:22] view tonight from Manila.

[12:23] >> Morning. This is a day of national

[12:25] sorrow.

[12:27] >> 100 demonstrators gathered outside the

[12:29] courthouse to protest the verdict.

[12:33] The tribunal ruled that all 26

[12:35] defendants were innocent of charges

[12:37] relating to the assassination of

[12:38] opposition leader Manno Aino.

[12:41] >> General Fabian Ver had reason to be

[12:43] pleased. He left the courthouse quickly

[12:45] to meet with President Ferdinand Marcos

[12:47] who reinstated him to his post, Chief of

[12:49] Staff of the Philippine Armed Forces.

[12:52] >> You may resume your duties as uh chief

[12:56] of staff immediately. Marcos is expected

[12:59] to reorganize the armed forces to blunt

[13:01] criticism from the United States which

[13:03] is concerned about corruption in the

[13:05] military. So Ver may not retain his

[13:07] position too long. August 21st 1983

[13:11] Benign no Aino arrived in Manila to

[13:14] challenge Marcos rule. Within seconds of

[13:16] leaving the aircraft, shots were heard

[13:18] and Aino was dead.

[13:20] >> I still hold Mr. Marcos responsible for

[13:23] the assassination of Ninoi. Cory Aino,

[13:26] the wife of the slain opposition leader.

[13:28] >> I really believe that uh Marcos had to

[13:31] give the orders.

[13:34] After all, we've been living, you know,

[13:36] under one man rule for a long time. So,

[13:38] I can't imagine anybody else.

[13:40] >> Of all the potential opponents to

[13:42] Marcos, Mrs. Aino has emerged as the

[13:45] strongest challenger to Marcos's 20

[13:47] years of rule. Tomorrow morning, Cory

[13:49] Aino is expected to announce that she

[13:51] will face Ferdinand Marcos in next

[13:53] year's presidential election. It is a

[13:55] challenge she inherited by the turn of

[13:57] events which began more than two years

[13:59] ago when Binigno Aino was assassinated.

[14:02] Steve Mallalerie, NBC News, Manila.

[14:05] >> And in France today, the crime was

[14:07] robbery, a Brinks heist that netted a

[14:09] highly organized team of thieves no less

[14:11] than $9 million in cash. Their target

[14:14] was a depo not far from Paris. Members

[14:16] of the armed gang kidnapped two Brinks

[14:18] employees from their homes and brought

[14:20] them to the depot while other gunmen

[14:22] held families of the employees hostage.

[14:24] The guards were overpowered. The safes

[14:26] were emptied. And when the job was done,

[14:28] the hostages were released. The robbers

[14:30] got away in a stolen van with $9

[14:32] million.

[14:34] A suspected terrorist named Omar Fatah

[14:36] is being questioned by Italian police

[14:38] tonight who say that he may have played

[14:40] a role in the hijacking of both the

[14:41] Achille and that Egyptian airliner. When

[14:44] police arrested Fatah and Verona, they

[14:46] seized 44 pounds of explosives in his

[14:48] home, as well as timers and detonators,

[14:51] machine guns and other weapons, and

[14:53] several passports. They say Fatah may be

[14:55] an accomplice of PLO leader Abu Abbas.

[14:59] In this country, administration

[15:01] officials confirmed today that three

[15:02] American military officers did fly to

[15:04] Malta with Egyptian commandos who

[15:06] stormed that hijacked Egypt air jet last

[15:09] week. They said the American officers

[15:11] were in a position to pave the way for

[15:13] the special American counterterrorism

[15:15] unit, which has yet to confront

[15:17] terrorists. Now, as NBC's Pentagon

[15:19] correspondent Fred Francis reports

[15:21] tonight, there are new plans for this

[15:23] American unit. NBC News has been told by

[15:26] administration officials that because of

[15:28] an increase in terrorism in the Middle

[15:30] East and in Europe, the Army's elite

[15:32] Delta Force will soon be expanded and

[15:35] that a large detachment of that

[15:37] counterterrorist force will be

[15:38] permanently based in Europe. The

[15:41] commando unit now based at Fort Bragg,

[15:43] North Carolina, just can't get to the

[15:45] scene of terrorist attacks soon enough.

[15:47] According to one Pentagon source, who

[15:49] said expanding Delta will take time

[15:52] since the unit is seriously under man

[15:54] with fewer than 100 commandos. Delta

[15:57] Force was sent to the NATO base at

[15:59] Siggonilla, Sicily last week. But the

[16:01] Maltese government repeatedly refused it

[16:04] permission to join the Egyptian commando

[16:06] team, which eventually assaulted the

[16:08] Egyptian airliner. That Egyptian team

[16:11] was trained by the Delta Force. But

[16:13] according to one source, the Egyptians

[16:15] apparently forgot a lot of what they

[16:17] learned. Flying with the Egyptian

[16:19] commandos was American Major General

[16:21] Robert Wagan and two other senior

[16:23] officers. They took no part in the

[16:26] assault.

[16:26] >> They were instructed not to participate

[16:28] in any operation and they did not do so.

[16:31] These personnel were to provide liaison

[16:32] in the event it was thought necessary to

[16:34] call in US technical advice or

[16:36] assistance.

[16:37] >> The American officers were there as

[16:39] moral support and to pave the way for

[16:41] Delta but had no special skills to help

[16:44] the Egyptians. One expert said the

[16:46] outcome might have been less tragic if

[16:48] the three officers had been

[16:50] counterterrorist specialists. The

[16:52] experts said they would have known there

[16:54] are several ways to break into a Boeing

[16:57] 737 and that the Egyptians were using

[16:59] the crudest methods. Fred Francis, NBC

[17:03] News, the Pentagon.

[17:05] >> And there are two serious new charges in

[17:07] the powered spy case tonight. Federal

[17:09] prosecutors say that Jonathan Pard told

[17:11] them that he was given permission to

[17:13] escape into the Israeli embassy in

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[17:17] the FBI. And officials also say that his

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[19:03] >> On special segment tonight, Bo Paul

[19:06] waits. There were angry demonstrations

[19:07] outside the Union Carbide Plant in Boal,

[19:10] India today, just one year after the

[19:12] world's worst industrial accident.

[19:14] Emotions still are running high. People

[19:16] still are dying from exposure to that

[19:18] toxic leak. And as NBC's Tom Pettit

[19:21] reports tonight, efforts to help the

[19:22] victims have become not just a legal

[19:24] nightmare, but a legal scandal as well.

[19:30] This is Boal, India, one year later. No

[19:33] one has received a penny in damages.

[19:35] That is not unusual in damaged suits. Or

[19:37] so the lawyers say.

[19:39] >> It doesn't move as quickly as we would

[19:41] like things to move. But this case is

[19:43] moving quite quickly.

[19:44] >> After the disaster of Bo Pal on December

[19:47] 3, 1984, what's been going on since then

[19:50] has been a disgraceful legal disaster.

[19:54] >> The pesticide factory, a Union Carbide

[19:56] subsidiaries factory, remains closed.

[19:59] And the people wait one year after the

[20:02] worst industrial accident in history.

[20:05] 1,762

[20:07] dead, says the government of India.

[20:11] Others say 2,500.

[20:15] Perhaps 200,000 suffered exposure to the

[20:18] gas.

[20:20] 20,000 have eye or lung ailments.

[20:23] Perhaps 17,000 are permanently disabled.

[20:26] Medical chaos and illegal quagmire. But

[20:29] US attorneys were on the job. Melvin

[20:32] Belli from San Francisco, one of the

[20:34] first on the scene. John P. Cole of

[20:37] Washington DC. Uh,

[20:38] >> there's a hell of a tragedy here.

[20:42] >> Cole would get agreements to represent

[20:44] about 50,000 Indians. Eventually, more

[20:47] than 100 American lawyers were in the

[20:49] case.

[20:50] >> Lawyer George Romani of Miami says he

[20:52] even saw a few Americans buying clients

[20:55] from Indian lawyers. They were paid 100

[20:58] rupees which is less than $10 about $10

[21:02] at the time uh for each case and that if

[21:05] the case was more serious like a debt

[21:07] then the going rate was 1,000 which is

[21:10] about $100.

[21:13] Today in Boal people still line up but

[21:16] they're giving their power of attorney

[21:17] to the government of India which hired

[21:19] an American attorney to sue union

[21:21] carbide. We represent all the victims of

[21:23] the Bullpal disaster and that number is

[21:26] approximately 200,000.

[21:28] >> India's lawsuit in federal district

[21:30] court of New York is not exclusive.

[21:33] These American attorneys also

[21:34] representing victims in Boal are still

[21:36] in the case. How big is this case?

[21:39] Melvin Belly sees big numbers.

[21:41] >> But it's well well over 500 million.

[21:45] >> Would half go to the lawyers?

[21:47] >> Oh no. Nothing approaching half.

[21:49] >> Quarter? I doubt it. Less than that,

[21:52] >> I would think so.

[21:53] >> How many clients do you represent

[21:55] >> directly and indirectly? Some 25,000.

[21:59] >> Not until January will the judge decide

[22:01] whether the Boal case will be tried in

[22:03] this country or sent back to the courts

[22:05] of India. India doesn't want it back.

[22:08] Union Carbide does. The cases belong in

[22:11] India. To my mind, there's no question

[22:14] about that. Are you going to have

[22:16] 103,000

[22:18] Indians speaking Erdo and Hindi come to

[22:21] the United States with their medical

[22:23] history with their medical records with

[22:25] their doctors or should they stay in

[22:27] India where their doctors and medical

[22:29] records and medical history and they are

[22:31] and the plant is and the plant employees

[22:32] are and the government of India who

[22:34] shares responsibility here is present if

[22:36] it goes back to India I don't know Tom

[22:39] it can go on for a long long time

[22:42] >> if it's tried in a Indian court our role

[22:44] was ended

[22:45] And your money has ended,

[22:46] >> right? It's been a wonderful year for

[22:49] lawyers and a terrible year for the

[22:50] people who were hurt.

[22:53] >> The people have not even received the $5

[22:55] million in interim aid offered by the

[22:57] company at court suggestion. The money

[23:00] was delayed by Indian government red

[23:01] tape. If the whole case goes back to

[23:04] India, experts believe Union Carbide

[23:07] would come out better. But would the

[23:09] people or their American lawyers? This

[23:12] man is Mangal Sony who lost his son in

[23:15] the accident. His attorney is in Beverly

[23:18] Hills and sent him a letter urging him

[23:21] to keep track of his phone bills and his

[23:23] checking account.

[23:25] In the meantime, the people of Boal wait

[23:28] for justice and for money.

[23:32] Tom Pettit, NBC News.

[23:36] The National Cancer Institute in this

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[25:46] >> A sitting duck is a phrase that we use

[25:48] to describe an easy target. But these

[25:50] days, a sitting duck is a lot more than

[25:52] that. In the right condition, it's a

[25:54] piece of art and an expensive one at

[25:56] that. Confused? Well, NBC's Fred Briggs

[26:00] tonight on sitting ducks and geese and

[26:02] their price tags.

[26:05] To every game bird, there is a season.

[26:09] In much of the country, it's the season

[26:11] for hunting geese or ducks. Doing it

[26:13] properly is costly. Never mind the price

[26:15] of guns, ammunition, hunting clothes, or

[26:17] guides. The decoys can wind up being the

[26:20] most valuable pieces of equipment.

[26:21] >> It's the only utilitarian

[26:24] sculpture in the world.

[26:26] >> Before he died recently, Dr. Star had

[26:28] one of the largest decoy collections in

[26:30] the nation, nearly a thousand, worth

[26:32] more than half a million dollars. He

[26:34] became a collector when he became a

[26:35] hunter 35 years ago.

[26:37] >> I knew I was on to an art form. That was

[26:40] the thing that got into my head.

[26:42] >> Most of us think of names like Renoir,

[26:44] Picasso, Goya when we think of art, but

[26:47] the decoy collector,

[26:48] >> Elmer Croll, uh, Cobb, Lincoln,

[26:52] self-taught artists who made their own

[26:54] for hunting, then sold decoys to other

[26:56] hunters for a dollar or two, such as the

[26:58] artist's fate. This goose by the late

[27:00] Elmer Crow recently brought $65,000.

[27:03] If decoys are an art form, it's a native

[27:05] one. Using decoys to lure birds goes

[27:08] back at least a thousand years. The

[27:10] American Indians did it, and the

[27:12] colonists picked up the idea from them.

[27:14] Today, a decoys value has nothing to do

[27:17] with how well it lures. Stuffing an old

[27:19] sock has been known to deceive birds.

[27:21] It's workmanship, rarity, and there are

[27:23] as many varieties of decoy as there are

[27:25] varieties of birds.

[27:27] >> Start them out. $20,000 and give them

[27:28] the bidding. Anybody give me 20,000? Get

[27:30] them seted.

[27:31] >> Just a few years ago, this pair of

[27:32] decoys sold for $5,000.

[27:35] >> 56,000.

[27:37] Yes. And 57,000. Those are called

[27:39] squeezing it dry. By the way,

[27:41] >> well, when they get that high, it scares

[27:43] you because you know you can't afford

[27:44] them.

[27:44] >> Factory-made decoys are still available

[27:46] for $10 or $20. One doesn't hunt with

[27:49] $56,000 collector's items, especially

[27:52] since the birds make no such

[27:54] distinction. Fred Riggs, NBC News,

[27:56] Chesapeake Bay.

[27:59] That's nightly news for Monday night.

[28:00] I'm Tom Brokoff. I'll see you tomorrow

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[28:47] Up next on the scene at 6, a new plan is

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[28:51] row. And the trial begins for a man

[28:54] accused of raping, robbing, and killing

[28:55] a Hopkinsville liquor store clerk.

[28:58] >> Also tonight, a patient at the Middle

[28:59] Tennessee Mental Health Institute goes

[29:01] berserk and attacks two workers. And

[29:04] we'll begin our series, A Place to Live,

[29:06] looking at housing discrimination in

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[29:19] It means being the only store we know

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