CBS Evening News - 1984-04-06

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[0:04] Good evening. This is the CBS Evening

[0:05] News. Bob Schiffer sitting in tonight

[0:07] for Dan Rather. President Reagan laced

[0:09] into congressional critics today,

[0:11] accused them of meddling in White House

[0:13] handling of foreign affairs and declared

[0:14] American leadership is back. The White

[0:17] House called it a major foreign policy

[0:18] speech and insisted it was not related

[0:20] to the political campaign. Referring to

[0:23] his critics, Mr. Reagan said, "We will

[0:25] not return to the days of hand ringing,

[0:27] defeism, decline, and despair." Bill

[0:29] Plant has details.

[0:31] >> President Reagan came down hard on

[0:34] congressional critics of his foreign

[0:35] policy, calling for a return to what he

[0:37] described as the honorable American

[0:39] tradition that partisan politics stops

[0:41] at the water's edge. The president also

[0:44] suggested that Congress had gone soft on

[0:46] the occasional need to use force.

[0:48] >> Military force, either direct or

[0:51] indirect, must remain an available part

[0:54] of America's foreign policy. The

[0:56] president's speech, which was beamed by

[0:58] the US government to 18 other nations,

[1:00] was build by the White House as a broad

[1:02] overview of foreign policy. Mr. Reagan

[1:04] called for arms control and at the same

[1:06] time defended his policy of peace

[1:08] through strength. But his toughest

[1:10] language was addressed to the Congress,

[1:12] which he said was wavering on aid to

[1:14] Central America and had helped to

[1:16] sabotage his policy in Lebanon and

[1:18] prolong the violence. I believe that

[1:21] once we established bipartisan agreement

[1:23] on our course in Lebanon, the subsequent

[1:26] second-guessing about whether or not to

[1:27] keep our men there severely undermined

[1:30] our policy.

[1:32] >> Mr. Reagan argued that though Congress

[1:33] had given itself more responsibility for

[1:35] foreign policy, it often didn't seem to

[1:38] know how to use it. Unfortunately, many

[1:41] in the Congress seem to believe they're

[1:43] still in a troubled Vietnam era with

[1:46] their only task to be vocal critics and

[1:48] not responsible partners in developing

[1:50] positive practical programs to solve

[1:52] real problems.

[1:53] >> Bipartisan reaction to Mr. Reagan was

[1:56] less than enthusiastic.

[1:57] >> This is an election year.

[2:00] The president carries a lot of heavy

[2:02] baggage

[2:04] on his foreign policy failures. It's the

[2:07] fault not only of the Congress, but of

[2:09] the administration and the State

[2:11] Department. If we work out our

[2:12] difficulties, we'd have few fewer

[2:15] troubles around the world.

[2:16] >> Well, it's very tough to get a

[2:18] bipartisan foreign policy if you're

[2:19] reaching out with one hand and punching

[2:21] with the other.

[2:22] >> Later today, the Democrats outrage

[2:24] mounted and the White House got a little

[2:26] nervous, insisting the purpose of the

[2:28] speech wasn't to try to blame Congress

[2:30] for failures in foreign policy.

[2:32] Spokesman here also vigorously denied

[2:34] that the president was trying to make

[2:35] Congress an election-year issue, but

[2:38] they don't deny that they do expect much

[2:39] of the public to side with the

[2:41] president. Bill Plant, CBS News, the

[2:44] White House. Federal Reserve Board

[2:46] raised its discount rate half a

[2:48] percentage point to 9% today. That's the

[2:51] first increase since the spring of 1981.

[2:53] The discount rate is the interest rate

[2:55] that the Fed charges when it makes loans

[2:57] to commercial banks. The Fed increases

[2:59] the discount rate when it wants to curb

[3:01] credit expansion and discourage banks

[3:03] from borrowing. The move comes just a

[3:05] day after major banks announced another

[3:07] jump in the prime lending rate. The

[3:09] Labor Department today reported the

[3:11] nation's civilian unemployment rate held

[3:13] steady at 7.8% in March. That is the

[3:16] first time in 7 months now that the

[3:18] jobless rate has not dropped. But most

[3:20] analysts said today that the monthly

[3:21] decline in unemployment was just

[3:23] interrupted, not ended. The space

[3:26] shuttle blasted off on another mission

[3:28] today, and this time there was quite a

[3:29] crew along. Five humans and 3,000 live

[3:32] honeybees as passengers. The humans are

[3:34] going into space to make a service call

[3:36] on a broken satellite. The bees are for

[3:38] an experiment to see if bees act like

[3:40] bees at zero gravity. Morton Dean has

[3:43] our report from the Kennedy Space Center

[3:44] in Florida.

[3:47] >> 3 2 1 Solid motor ignition and liftoff.

[3:52] Liftoff of Challenger and the first

[3:54] flight to repair a satellite in space.

[3:56] We have cleared the tower.

[3:58] >> The shuttle was on its way toward

[4:00] proving a point. This 11th flight was

[4:03] planned to validate for the first time

[4:05] the spaceship's ability to perform one

[4:07] of the principal tasks for which it was

[4:09] designed.

[4:10] >> Roger Pinky. We were wondering how it's

[4:12] going up there. Are you guys having a

[4:14] good time?

[4:16] >> Uh, stand by. I'll take a poll.

[4:18] The five-man crew will transform the

[4:20] Challenger into a high-flying, highly

[4:23] sophisticated service station. On

[4:25] Sunday, they will make a road call to

[4:27] the Alien Scientific Satellite.

[4:29] Astronaut Pinky Nelson will use a jet

[4:31] backpack to fly away from the shuttle to

[4:34] the SolarMax satellite, and he'll latch

[4:36] onto it to stop it from spinning and

[4:38] wobbling, so the spaceship's robot arm

[4:41] can grab the satellite and lift it into

[4:43] the cargo bay. All this while traveling

[4:46] over 17,000 m an hour, 300 miles above

[4:49] the Earth. The onduty mechanics Nelson

[4:52] and James Van Hoffton will use a bag of

[4:54] space age tools to replace several parts

[4:57] before the Solar Max is dropped off to

[4:59] resume its study of the sun. It's an

[5:02] exhausting and dangerous task, but it's

[5:05] less expensive than sending up a new

[5:06] satellite. The new satellite would cost

[5:09] $235 million, about 190 million more

[5:13] than the repair job. Morton Dean, CBS

[5:16] News, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

[5:32] >> Mom, he's putting A1's steak sauce on

[5:34] his hamburger.

[5:35] >> My dear nephew, what is hamburger?

[5:37] Chopped ham? No, it's chopped steak. And

[5:39] what's better on steak than A1? A1 makes

[5:42] hamburgers taste like steak burgers.

[5:44] Take a bite. A1's herbs and spices blend

[5:47] with the meat's natural juices. It's

[5:48] >> delicious.

[5:49] >> Sure.

[5:50] >> It's really juicy and tastier.

[5:52] >> Best hamburger you'll ever have cuz it's

[5:54] a steak burger.

[5:55] >> Hey, ate your uncle steak burger.

[5:57] >> A1 makes hamburgers taste like steak

[5:59] burgers.

[6:02] >> 24 years now. I've been earning my bread

[6:05] by moving my fingers, picking banano for

[6:08] a bluegrass band. So when my arthritis

[6:11] acts up,

[6:13] well,

[6:15] it's a good thing there's Anderson.

[6:17] >> Regular strength pain relievers stop at

[6:19] 650 millig, but Andison gives you more

[6:21] medicine for temporary relief of minor

[6:23] arthritis pain. 800 mg.

[6:26] >> Oh man, arthritis.

[6:30] >> Andison, more medicine.

[6:34] Skies cleared over much of the Northeast

[6:36] today, but floods produced by a

[6:38] slowmoving rainstorm forced thousands to

[6:40] seek emergency shelter and block major

[6:43] highways. Chris Kelly reports.

[6:45] >> The nightmare began when a 5-in rainfall

[6:48] turned sections of northern New Jersey

[6:50] into a giant lake. Rivers and streams

[6:52] poured into neighborhoods, making it

[6:54] almost impossible for rescue workers to

[6:56] reach people in their homes.

[6:58] >> The current is just too strong to go in

[7:00] there with it. We had ropes around

[7:01] ourselves to try to get in there and

[7:03] they wouldn't just couldn't get in

[7:04] there.

[7:05] >> Without these trucks here, I wouldn't be

[7:06] stranded there all night.

[7:07] >> Many people were stranded, including 10

[7:10] who were marooned for hours at top a

[7:12] shopping center.

[7:13] >> We heard shouts last night. We couldn't

[7:15] hear where they, you know, locate them

[7:17] until this uh daylight this morning.

[7:20] >> It was the worst flood here in 15 years.

[7:22] And for thousands of evacuees,

[7:25] everything was lost, their homes in

[7:27] ruin. My son just came out this morning.

[7:30] There was about 5 feet in our living

[7:31] room, so everything's completely

[7:34] underwater. Yes, sir. We'll

[7:36] >> go to New York City.

[7:37] >> Not this way, sir.

[7:38] >> Well, how do I get there?

[7:39] >> I really don't know right now.

[7:41] >> And north of New York, travel was halted

[7:43] on two major highways still underwater

[7:46] today. Rivers raged out of control in

[7:48] the area where a foot of snow fell just

[7:51] one week ago. This time, a month's worth

[7:53] of rain poured down in just 2 days.

[7:56] Chris Kelly, CBS News, New York.

[8:00] >> Last night, CBS News reported the FBI's

[8:02] nationwide search for Christopher

[8:04] Bernard Wilder, a suspect in a series of

[8:06] murders, rapes, kidnappings, and

[8:08] disappearances involving at least seven

[8:10] young women. Well, as a result of the

[8:12] publicity about the case, the FBI has

[8:14] received an unusual vide tape. Rita

[8:17] Braver reports.

[8:19] >> The FBI won't say who provided the tape,

[8:22] but it appears to have been made for a

[8:23] video dating service. Wilder talked

[8:26] about the kind of social life he wanted.

[8:28] >> I have a what I call a need to meet and

[8:34] socialize on a more wider basis than I

[8:36] have been doing. I want to date. I want

[8:38] to socially meet and enjoy the company

[8:41] of a number of women. I would like to

[8:46] again see depth

[8:48] um sincerity

[8:52] >> along term but not right at this very

[8:55] moment jumping into a marriage basis by

[8:58] any means.

[8:59] >> Wilder's latest victim is believed to be

[9:01] Michelle Corfman who disappeared from a

[9:03] Las Vegas beauty pageant on Sunday. Her

[9:05] abandoned car was discovered in a

[9:07] parking lot on Tuesday. But now the FBI

[9:09] says it has a reliable tip that by

[9:12] Tuesday Wilder was in Lake Tahoe. He was

[9:14] seen traveling alone. Wita Braver, CBS

[9:17] News, Washington.

[9:19] >> There was some new developments today in

[9:20] the case of baby Jane Doe. The severely

[9:23] handicapped baby girl who's been the

[9:24] object of a bitter court fight pitting

[9:26] her parents against the Reagan

[9:28] administration. It was disclosed today

[9:30] that the baby, now 6 months old, went

[9:32] home from the hospital in suburban New

[9:34] York and recently underwent surgery to

[9:36] relieve fluid pressure on the brain. As

[9:38] her parents earlier refusal to approve

[9:40] surgery that had prompted the federal

[9:42] government's demand for access to the

[9:44] baby's medical records, that on grounds

[9:46] that the lack of surgery might be a

[9:48] civil rights violation. In refusing the

[9:50] operation, the parents had said that

[9:52] they did not want to prolong the baby's

[9:54] pain. They now say they agreed to this

[9:56] operation because if the surgery was

[9:59] going to make her more comfortable, then

[10:00] that is what we wanted for her.

[10:11] Some springs gardeners think good

[10:13] weather's never coming.

[10:16] >> It comes, but how do you make up for

[10:18] lost time with Stern's Miracle Grow

[10:21] plant food? Years of testing at a major

[10:23] university proved plants fed with

[10:25] Miracle Grow grow faster, stronger,

[10:27] produce more flowers and vegetables than

[10:29] with other types of plant foods. So even

[10:31] if it's been a cold, wet spring, you can

[10:34] make up for lost time and get more from

[10:36] your garden with Miracle Grow.

[10:45] >> And puts the fresh in your bread. Yeah.

[10:48] Freed's the one that took the stick out

[10:50] of gum. can of gum and puts the fresh in

[10:53] your breath. Yeah, that's the one.

[10:56] >> Freedent gum not only won't stick to

[10:57] your dental work, it helps clean in

[10:59] between to freshen your breath while you

[11:01] chew. The one that took the stick out of

[11:05] gum and puts the fresh in your breath.

[11:09] >> Freshen your breath with non-stick

[11:10] predent.

[11:13] >> Conflicting reports this evening about

[11:15] what happened in the West African nation

[11:17] of Cameroon. And government control

[11:19] radio from the capital says that

[11:20] loyalist troops have defeated a coup

[11:22] attempt by junior military officers, but

[11:24] the US State Department reports that

[11:26] there was a military takeover and that

[11:28] it apparently was violent. None of

[11:30] the,200 Americans in Cameroon was

[11:32] believed in danger. Poland's communist

[11:35] government today called it a compromise,

[11:37] but the settlement reached in the month

[11:39] old war of the crosses with the Roman

[11:40] Catholic Church clearly is a church

[11:42] victory. The government had ordered the

[11:44] removal of all crucifixes from

[11:46] state-owned buildings, but now says some

[11:49] crosses will be allowed back in public

[11:51] schools and that students will not have

[11:53] to declare their recognition of the

[11:55] secular nature of the schools. The

[11:58] Democratic presidential candidates took

[12:00] a break in campaigning for Tuesday's

[12:02] Pennsylvania primary and flew to

[12:03] Wisconsin today to campaign for the 18

[12:06] convention delegates at stake in

[12:08] tomorrow's caucuses there. They also

[12:10] stepped up attacks on each other. Walter

[12:12] Montdale again accused Gary Hart of

[12:14] being wishy-washy on supporting the

[12:15] nuclear freeze. And Hart filed a formal

[12:18] complaint with the Federal Election

[12:20] Commission challenging the legality of

[12:22] labor union political action committee

[12:24] money that is being funneled to people

[12:26] running as Montdale delegates. While a

[12:29] lot of attention is still focused on the

[12:31] fight in the frostbite states, there's a

[12:33] crucial test coming up next month in

[12:34] Texas. a test not only of the

[12:36] candidates's strengths, but the power of

[12:38] the nation's fastest growing minority

[12:40] group, Hispanics. Ed Rabel has our

[12:43] report.

[12:44] >> They are Mexican-Americans out of work,

[12:47] standing online for free food in the Rio

[12:49] Grand Valley. They are also targets of

[12:52] the largest voter registration drive

[12:54] ever mounted here to sign up 200,000 new

[12:57] Hispanic voters before election day. Why

[13:00] should anybody care? Listen,

[13:02] >> Texas is the crucial battleground. It is

[13:05] the battleground of the battlegrounds.

[13:07] The Hispanic vote, in my opinion, will

[13:08] be the swing vote.

[13:21] The power of the church is behind all

[13:23] this. A kind of quiet voter revolution

[13:25] going on here. While politicians who

[13:27] would be president looked elsewhere for

[13:29] votes, now Hispanics are saying, "You'd

[13:32] better look here." We're saying, "Hey,

[13:34] you know, both Democrats and

[13:36] Republicans, if you want our vote, if

[13:38] you want our support, we need help right

[13:40] now."

[13:44] >> In 1982, the Mexican-Americans accounted

[13:47] for only 8% of the vote. But

[13:49] >> the state is so evenly balanced, uh,

[13:52] particularly in national races,

[13:55] uh, that 8% of anything is an awfully

[13:58] big percentage. I would anticipate it

[14:00] would be higher at this time. They are

[14:02] credited with giving Governor Mark

[14:03] White, a Democrat, the margin of

[14:05] victory, and the number of registered

[14:07] Hispanic voters has grown since then.

[14:10] The same is true of Hispanic voter

[14:11] turnout in recent years.

[14:15] In the past, this has always been a kind

[14:18] of mandatory stop for national

[14:19] politicians who used the setting to

[14:21] court America's Hispanics. The

[14:23] politicians would just promise and

[14:25] promise and promise and the issues would

[14:28] just get passed on from year election to

[14:30] election and never get attacked. That

[14:32] just be left alone.

[14:34] >> This old man who's seen the politicians

[14:36] come and go says voting is pointless

[14:38] because nothing ever changes. But that

[14:41] attitude is changing, especially among

[14:43] younger voters.

[14:44] >> If the Democrats don't pay attention to

[14:46] us, we're going to elect Republicans.

[14:48] Somebody's got to pay attention to us.

[14:49] And the one that does is the one that

[14:51] gets her vote. very simple.

[14:53] >> It is very simple. So many of these

[14:56] younger voters are being registered here

[14:58] that they cannot be ignored.

[15:00] >> It's a sleeping giant that uh that uh

[15:04] you know we're going to all go after

[15:06] with equal vigor.

[15:07] >> They have increased registration. They

[15:09] have increased turnout uh and they could

[15:12] well elect the next president of the

[15:13] United States.

[15:14] >> Do I need to register anyone to vote?

[15:16] >> Ed Rael, CBS News in the Rio Grand

[15:18] Valley.

[15:20] Minute ago I said there were 18

[15:21] convention delegates at stake in the

[15:23] Wisconsin caucuses tomorrow. The people

[15:25] in Wisconsin know of course there are 78

[15:27] delegates at stake. One people, two

[15:30] nations. Well, today in Tennessee they

[15:32] celebrated a huge family reunion for the

[15:34] first time in almost a century and a

[15:36] half. James McManis reports.

[15:40] This is the story of a flame that would

[15:42] not die. It burns here in the Great

[15:44] Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. It

[15:47] lights a secret place in the Cherokee

[15:49] Nation of Oklahoma. And the same fire

[15:51] burns on this torch carried by Cherokee

[15:54] runners. The Cherokees say that when the

[15:57] flame dies, the world ends.

[15:59] >> For us, the eternal flame symbolizes the

[16:02] the uh the continuation of our culture

[16:04] and our religion and even our race.

[16:07] >> Listen to the story. 146 years ago,

[16:11] 17,000 Cherokee were driven from these

[16:13] mountains by the US Army. Forced to

[16:16] march 1,200 miles to Oklahoma, 4,000

[16:19] men, women, and children died. It was

[16:22] called the Trail of Tears. From their

[16:24] last council meeting here in Redcllay,

[16:26] Tennessee, the Cherokee carried the

[16:28] flame from their sacred council fire and

[16:31] kept it burning for more than a hundred

[16:32] years in Oklahoma. But the story does

[16:35] not end there. The children of North

[16:38] Carolina's Quala Reservation come from a

[16:40] few hundred Cherokee who fled the

[16:42] soldiers in 1838 and hid among the Great

[16:45] Smokies. For more than a hundred years,

[16:47] the Eastern Cherokee kept the faith. And

[16:50] one day, they brought a flame from the

[16:52] old council fire in Oklahoma back to

[16:54] their homeland. And now the Quala

[16:56] runners are carrying that flame to red

[16:58] clay for today's council of reunion, the

[17:01] first since 1838. There is a flash of

[17:04] anger in young Cherokee who know about

[17:07] the Trail of Tears.

[17:08] >> It makes you mad if you read in your

[17:10] Cherokee.

[17:11] You don't think that people could be so

[17:13] cruel to a nation that was so civilized.

[17:16] >> But Chief Robert Young Deere finds only

[17:18] sadness in the stories.

[17:20] >> Time erases

[17:23] everything but the memories.

[17:26] Well, there's really no bitter

[17:28] bitterness. At Red Clay, Chief Ross

[17:31] Swimmer of the Oklahoma Nation prayed

[17:33] with Chief Young Dear. And on a nearby

[17:35] hilltop, the sacred fire came home after

[17:37] nearly 150 years. The Cherokee teach

[17:41] their children to respect people of all

[17:42] races and to forgive. The Council Fire

[17:46] is lighted. The Trail of Tears has come

[17:48] full circle. James McManus, CBS News,

[17:51] Red Clay, Tennessee.

[18:02] How do I keep the wallpaper and the

[18:04] paste on the walls and off me?

[18:07] >> Ask Sherwin Williams.

[18:09] >> What kind of wallpaper will go with a

[18:11] striped couch?

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[18:22] wallpaper at regular price and get the

[18:24] second roll for just $1.

[18:26] >> Ethel, where's the couch?

[18:28] >> Next time.

[18:32] >> Wrap the gift yet?

[18:33] >> No, my arthritis is acting up and I'm

[18:35] out of aspirin.

[18:37] >> Take my Buffin. Plain aspirin smart, but

[18:39] it can upset your stomach. Taking

[18:41] Bufferin for minor arthritis pain is

[18:43] smarter. Some stomachs can be delicate,

[18:45] like fine china, and plain aspirin can

[18:47] upset them. Bufferin has aspirin doctors

[18:49] recommend most for hours of relief. Plus

[18:52] special buffers that help protect

[18:53] against stomach upset.

[18:55] >> How do you feel now? A lot smarter.

[18:58] >> Bufferin is smarter for arthritis. Also

[19:00] an extra strength.

[19:03] >> US government sources confirmed tonight

[19:05] that the central intelligence agency is

[19:08] actively directing the mining of

[19:10] Nicaraguan harbors. It had been thought

[19:11] that anti-sandinista rebels were

[19:14] responsible, but the government sources

[19:15] say that these rebels are not doing the

[19:17] mine laying. The nationality of just who

[19:20] is is not known, but the CIA has a

[19:22] freighter off Nicaragua's coast and

[19:24] boats are lowered from it to take the

[19:26] mines into the harbors.

[19:29] A bizarre story unfolded in a Los

[19:31] Angeles court today. A story involving

[19:33] sexual abuse of children in daycare

[19:36] centers. A case that prosecutors say

[19:38] could have national implications. We

[19:40] have a report from Terry Drinkwater.

[19:43] >> Nationally, over a million children are

[19:45] now in daycare centers and nursery

[19:47] schools, enrolled in most cases because

[19:49] their mothers must work. In this school,

[19:51] like the vast majority, the youngsters

[19:54] are properly cared for. But elsewhere,

[19:56] in alarming numbers, preschoolers have

[19:58] been exploited sexually. What

[20:01] prosecutors charge happened here at the

[20:03] Mc Martin School in a suburb of Los

[20:05] Angeles is just the latest, though

[20:07] perhaps the most shocking case in the

[20:09] country. Today, Virginia McMartin, three

[20:12] family members, and three teachers were

[20:14] charged with more than a 100 counts of

[20:16] child molesting. The prosecutor argued

[20:19] for no bail, citing fear among victims

[20:22] families that if the McMartin staff were

[20:24] not behind bars, they might harm the

[20:26] children again. My children are afraid

[20:29] to play outside alone for fear Ry will

[20:32] come and grab them.

[20:35] >> The district attorney believes that

[20:36] toddlers have been victimized at this

[20:38] school for the past 10 years. As

[20:41] required by law, the state makes

[20:43] surprise checks on the schools. A 1978

[20:46] report, the children happily enjoyed

[20:48] their indoor and outdoor activities, and

[20:50] later well-run and well staffed. All is

[20:53] in good order. The school had a long

[20:55] waiting list. It had all of the

[20:58] appearances of being a well-run, sound

[21:01] operation.

[21:02] >> Parents charged the inspectors were

[21:04] negligent. But why didn't the youngsters

[21:06] tell their parents what was happening to

[21:08] them? Prosecutors say in this case, as

[21:11] in most child molestation cases, the

[21:13] victims were threatened. If a child's

[21:16] puppy is beheaded in front of him or a

[21:19] rabbit and someone sticks a knife in

[21:21] that rabbit, um,

[21:24] that's a very convincing thing because

[21:26] what invariably goes along with that act

[21:29] is the statement, "This is you if you

[21:32] talk."

[21:33] >> Key McFarland has treated hundreds of

[21:35] sexually abused children.

[21:36] >> This is a little girl, and it looks like

[21:38] a real little girl. Oh, it's got a

[21:39] little

[21:39] >> She showed us how she uses anatomically

[21:41] correct dolls and puppets to try to coax

[21:44] the truth from preschoolers.

[21:45] >> Mr. Parrot, can you help Suzy show us

[21:49] what happened to her?

[21:51] >> There is a mic and a recorder less

[21:53] painful than talking about it to a

[21:54] person.

[21:55] >> The way that you make yucky secrets go

[21:57] away is you tell them and then they're

[21:59] out of you and they don't make you feel

[22:01] bad inside anymore.

[22:02] >> Rain Jacobs was four when she was abused

[22:05] in another suburban Los Angeles nursery

[22:07] school. She's now eight and still in

[22:09] therapy.

[22:10] >> It's going to take a long time before

[22:12] she feels like she's a a real person,

[22:15] that she's worth something and that she

[22:17] really is a good little girl.

[22:18] >> Cynthia Taylor's son was two. He's now

[22:21] six.

[22:21] >> He had a lot of resentment towards me

[22:23] because I'm the one who made him go. I'm

[22:26] Yes. He told me every morning he didn't

[22:28] want to go.

[22:29] >> And you know why now?

[22:30] >> Yes. Now I know why. Because he had been

[22:33] abused.

[22:35] The problem is so vast some schools are

[22:38] beginning to teach children that they

[22:40] are indeed very vulnerable.

[22:43] >> Does everybody know kind of about know

[22:44] about private parts? Everybody know what

[22:47] that is private parts of your body. You

[22:49] know that your body belongs to you.

[22:51] Nobody has a right to touch your body if

[22:53] you don't want them to or

[22:55] >> and the lesson what to say to someone

[22:57] who touches you.

[22:58] >> Leave me alone.

[22:59] >> Good. Meanwhile, in the Mc Martin case,

[23:02] there have been denials from some of

[23:04] those charged.

[23:05] >> I saw no evidence of anybody harming any

[23:07] children.

[23:08] >> For the prosecution, there will be the

[23:09] problem of youngsters testifying.

[23:12] >> Most children when they are molested are

[23:14] molested by a person that they trust, a

[23:16] person they have confidence in.

[23:18] >> And parents beyond this and other

[23:20] courtrooms.

[23:21] >> They don't want to

[23:24] face that these things do happen. And

[23:26] they do all the time. Studies show in

[23:30] this country one youngster in four is

[23:32] sexually abused before reaching high

[23:34] school. Terry Drinkwater, CBS News, Los

[23:37] Angeles.

[23:39] Late today, five of the seven McMartin

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[26:29] Jabar making 16 points, a one-man

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[26:35] >> Swing left, right hand, 12footer.

[26:44] All his playing life as Luel Cinder in

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[27:04] >> And best of all, as far as Jabar was

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[28:59] In our news tonight, a convicted sex

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