NBC Nightly News - 1992-03-19

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[0:00] Has Nintendo been naughty tonight? At

[0:02] 7:30.

[0:07] It's been a hell of a ride. It's been a

[0:08] hell of a ride.

[0:10] Paul Tsongas bails out.

[0:11] >> What I'd like to do at this point Saddam

[0:14] Hussein, the US may be planning another

[0:16] attack on Iraq.

[0:18] And a Japan-bashing computer game made

[0:20] in Japan for the Japanese.

[0:22] >> This is NBC Nightly News with Tom

[0:25] Brokaw.

[0:26] Reporting tonight

[0:27] >> [music]

[0:27] >> from Washington, D.C.

[0:30] Good evening from Washington. Paul

[0:31] Tsongas, the professorial Greek-American

[0:33] from Massachusetts with a bottom-line

[0:35] economic message is out of the

[0:37] Democratic presidential race tonight,

[0:39] just 1 month after his New Hampshire

[0:41] triumph. That leaves the frontrunner

[0:43] Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown, who's

[0:45] become the Energizer Rabbit of this

[0:47] campaign. NBC's Andrea Mitchell tonight

[0:49] on what all of this means. Andrea?

[0:52] Tom, in the end, the man with a message

[0:53] ran out of money and was forced to

[0:55] suspend his unorthodox campaign.

[0:58] Paul Tsongas left the campaign trail as

[1:00] he'd entered it with self-deprecating

[1:02] humor and a sense of mission. I believe

[1:05] the force of our message and our sheer

[1:07] survival

[1:09] has caused people all over this country

[1:12] to see a new path.

[1:14] Tsongas called Bill Clinton, now the

[1:15] commanding favorite for the nomination.

[1:17] And he

[1:19] reaffirmed his commitment to trying to

[1:21] win the White House in November and

[1:22] trying to defeat

[1:24] uh George Bush. Clinton still has to

[1:26] dispatch Jerry Brown, who portrays

[1:28] himself as a revolutionary and refuses

[1:30] to quit. It was just over a year ago

[1:33] when Tsongas began his quest to redefine

[1:35] the Democratic Party. George Bush was at

[1:37] 90% in the polls. No other Democrat

[1:40] wanted to challenge him. In New

[1:42] Hampshire, Tsongas prescribed unpopular

[1:44] economic medicine.

[1:45] If you come out for middle-class tax

[1:47] cut,

[1:48] people will think that's great.

[1:51] And I said to them, "I know that, but

[1:52] it's terrible economics." And he won in

[1:54] New Hampshire, but Bill Clinton stole

[1:56] the thunder by coming out first to

[1:58] proclaim his second-place finish. New

[2:00] Hampshire tonight

[2:02] has made Bill Clinton the comeback kid.

[2:06] >> [cheering]

[2:07] >> Clinton's money, organization, and

[2:08] energy began to wear Tsongas down.

[2:11] Instead of sticking to his message, he

[2:12] resorted to stunts to combat Clinton's

[2:15] attacks. Losing Florida cost him money

[2:17] and momentum going into crucial

[2:19] primaries in the Midwest.

[2:21] Again, Clinton out-campaigned him,

[2:24] appealing to working-class voters and to

[2:25] blacks as Tsongas never could.

[2:28] Tsongas was strong with swing voters,

[2:30] independents, suburbanites, but even in

[2:32] his backyard, Connecticut, he couldn't

[2:34] connect with traditional Democrats. You

[2:36] say it's going to take time to implement

[2:38] these plans, but what do I do to survive

[2:40] in the interim? Today, party leaders

[2:42] began falling in behind Clinton. So, I'm

[2:44] pleased that that the process looks like

[2:46] it is beginning to come

[2:48] to an end and that we will have a

[2:49] nominee that that we can rally around.

[2:52] With Tsongas out of the race, Clinton

[2:53] can now reach out to the swing voters

[2:55] who liked Tsongas and are essential to

[2:57] winning in the fall. Tom? Thank you,

[2:59] Andrea. And Senator Tsongas is with us

[3:02] now from his hometown in Lowell,

[3:03] Massachusetts tonight. Senator, Senator,

[3:06] what didn't work? Your message or your

[3:07] style?

[3:08] Well, it's not the message. I think the

[3:10] message was very powerful. I mean, we

[3:11] were dismissed when we began this a year

[3:13] ago. And the only reason I survived this

[3:15] far and won the states that I did was

[3:17] because of the message, but obviously

[3:20] the maybe the messenger wasn't the

[3:21] perfect messenger,

[3:23] >> [snorts]

[3:23] >> but the message was right. And the fact

[3:25] is that the Democrats are going to have

[3:27] to adopt and embrace that message if

[3:29] they want to take on and defeat George

[3:31] Bush in November.

[3:32] >> You heard that questioner in Connecticut

[3:34] in Andrea Mitchell's spot saying, "What

[3:35] do I do in the meantime?" You did have a

[3:37] message of short-term pain for long-term

[3:40] gain. That's pretty hard to sell in a

[3:41] presidential campaign, isn't it? It's

[3:43] pretty hard to sell, but you know,

[3:45] you've got a generation coming along,

[3:46] Tom, that will not be well served by the

[3:49] politics that we're espousing here. And

[3:51] the fact is if we don't get serious

[3:52] about making some choices, then we're

[3:55] just going to squander this country and

[3:56] say to our kids, "Well, good luck to

[3:58] you." And I don't think I mean, when we

[4:00] campaigned those last few days in

[4:02] Michigan and

[4:04] >> [snorts]

[4:04] >> in Illinois and talked to students, the

[4:06] students of this country, I think

[4:08] they're going to surprise people.

[4:09] There's a generation out there that will

[4:10] be motivated cuz they understand the

[4:12] threat this country is under both

[4:14] economically, socially, environmentally.

[4:16] And [snorts] I must say that gave me

[4:18] great confidence at the end of this

[4:20] campaign that in fact there is a

[4:22] generation coming along that is prepared

[4:24] to be less self-centered than the

[4:27] Reagan-Bush generation, which we are all

[4:29] part of. Senator, uh your staff tells us

[4:31] that you're quite tired. Is your health

[4:32] okay?

[4:34] My health? My health is

[4:35] My health is fine. It's my pocketbook

[4:38] that we're having trouble with. We

[4:39] simply ran out of the resources

[4:41] necessary

[4:42] uh to compete in New York. You know, I'm

[4:44] going to swim in the nationals

[4:46] in May, both in North Carolina and in

[4:48] Florida, so you can judge at that point.

[4:50] No, my health is fine. Thank you very

[4:51] much, Senator Paul Tsongas tonight from

[4:53] Lowell, Massachusetts.

[4:54] Here in Washington, the House of

[4:55] Representatives tonight is on the

[4:56] defensive once again. This time, as

[4:58] NBC's Robin Lloyd tells us now, it

[5:01] involves the House Post Office. I

[5:03] respectfully submit to you my

[5:05] resignation as postmaster of the US

[5:07] House of Representatives. The clerk of

[5:09] the House of Representatives read the

[5:10] postmaster's letter of resignation.

[5:13] Another scandal seemed to be brewing.

[5:15] Robert Rota served as postmaster for

[5:18] nearly two decades. His departure comes

[5:20] amid allegations of drug dealing by a

[5:22] clerk in the House Post Office.

[5:25] Three other former clerks who worked

[5:27] there have pled guilty to embezzlement

[5:29] of post office funds.

[5:31] Today, the Washington Times reported

[5:33] more allegations. Illegal check cashing

[5:35] of thousands of dollars at the post

[5:37] office by congressmen. Law enforcement

[5:40] officials said this was an apparent

[5:41] violation of federal postal regulations.

[5:44] The Speaker of the House, Tom Foley, was

[5:46] backpedaling and defensive. There is no

[5:49] uh spreading uh scandal here. There are

[5:52] unfortunately charges of some misconduct

[5:56] by post office employees. But Rota is

[5:59] now the second House officer to quit in

[6:01] a week of scandals beginning with a

[6:03] House Sergeant at Arms, Jack Russ, who

[6:05] was forced out because of his

[6:07] involvement in the House bank scandal.

[6:10] And Republicans, smelling blood, were

[6:12] trying to steer voters' anger at the

[6:14] Democratic leadership. It's kind of like

[6:16] walking through a a pasture and kicking

[6:18] over cow pies. Every time you do,

[6:19] there's a whole another bunch of flies

[6:21] comes out from underneath of it. Those

[6:23] flies increasingly seem to be buzzing

[6:25] around the head of Speaker Foley. After

[6:27] a weekend of blistering criticism from

[6:29] their constituents about the hot check

[6:31] scandal, even many Democrats are blaming

[6:34] Foley. We want to see some changes here.

[6:37] We want to see this place cleaned up.

[6:38] And if it means stepping on a few toes,

[6:40] so be it. This latest scandal is driving

[6:43] an already skittish Congress into a

[6:45] frenzy. And with the official list of

[6:47] the worst check bouncers due out next

[6:49] week, the atmosphere is only going to

[6:51] get worse.

[6:53] Robin Lloyd, NBC News, Washington.

[6:55] And the talk of renewed military attacks

[6:58] on Iraq has heated up in this nation's

[7:00] capital once again. If Saddam Hussein

[7:03] continues to resist UN orders to

[7:05] dismantle Iraq's nuclear weapons

[7:06] program,

[7:07] will President Bush order a military

[7:09] strike?

[7:10] NBC's diplomatic correspondent, John

[7:12] Dancy, has been looking into this. John,

[7:14] what's the latest? Tom, events are in

[7:15] motion tonight and we should have some

[7:17] answers in about a week.

[7:20] On Saturday, an experienced 34-member UN

[7:23] ballistic missile team, similar to this

[7:25] one, will go into Iraq. The members of

[7:27] the team hope to supervise destruction

[7:29] of more Iraqi missiles and the equipment

[7:32] used to make them. But first, Iraq must

[7:35] reveal the location of the missiles and

[7:37] sites where they were manufactured,

[7:38] something Iraq has refused to do. If

[7:41] that continues, President Bush has

[7:43] received a list of options that includes

[7:45] bombing of suspected targets. Lesser

[7:48] options include tightening the economic

[7:50] screws on Iraq.

[7:52] The State Department was leery of

[7:53] discussing any of this today. We never

[7:56] discuss options and I'm not going to

[7:57] begin today.

[7:58] One reason to keep from further angering

[8:01] Arab leaders like Egypt's Mubarak and

[8:03] Syria's Assad. They supported the US

[8:06] last year during the war, but now they

[8:08] oppose a military

[8:11] raid. US officials believe Mubarak,

[8:14] especially, may be covering himself with

[8:16] his Arab who accompanied Deputy Prime

[8:19] Minister Tariq Aziz to New York last

[8:21] week have promised to give the UN a

[8:23] complete accounting as required. That

[8:26] could defuse the crisis and ease a major

[8:29] UN worry. Scholar Gary Milhollin follows

[8:32] the Iraq nuclear issue closely. The UN

[8:35] inspectors strongly suspect that there

[8:37] is still a hidden nuclear weapon

[8:39] material-making site in Iraq

[8:42] that they haven't found. And as far as I

[8:45] know, they don't know where it is yet,

[8:46] but if they do, you can be fairly

[8:48] confident that we're going to bomb it.

[8:51] Bombing Iraqi weapons sites could be

[8:53] politically risky for President Bush. If

[8:55] it succeeds, it's a plus, but if it

[8:57] fails or there are heavy American

[8:59] losses, it could revive talk that Bush

[9:01] mishandled the war. Tom?

[9:04] Thank you, John Dancy, at the State

[9:05] Department tonight. Well, Nightly News

[9:07] continues in a moment. The alternatives

[9:09] to silicone breast implants now that Dow

[9:11] Corning is out of that business.

[9:16] And our daily difference in the '90s. A

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[10:26] As we reported last night, Dow Corning

[10:28] announced today it is now getting out of

[10:30] the silicone breast implant business,

[10:31] but is that the end of the story for

[10:33] potentially harmful implants?

[10:36] As NBC's Robert Hager reports now, not

[10:38] by a long shot.

[10:40] In spite of Dow Corning's departure from

[10:42] the business, the federal government

[10:43] appears ready to permit the remaining

[10:45] two manufacturers of silicone implants

[10:48] to resume production shortly. Sources

[10:50] say next month, FDA Commissioner Dr.

[10:52] David Kessler is apt to lift the

[10:54] moratorium he imposed last January.

[10:57] Although implants would be limited to

[10:59] approved clinics, and implants for

[11:00] cosmetic reasons would be restricted.

[11:03] Unknown whether women will still want

[11:05] silicone implants after all these months

[11:07] of debate about safety, and whether

[11:09] plastic surgeons will be willing to

[11:10] perform the operations.

[11:12] Already there's been some increase in

[11:14] use of implants filled with salt water

[11:16] rather than silicone. Some complain

[11:18] they're more difficult to implant, but

[11:20] most agree they're safe. Washington

[11:22] University in St. Louis is experimenting

[11:24] with peanut oil as an implant filling.

[11:26] But some patients like Linda Willis in

[11:28] Salt Lake have been so traumatized by

[11:30] trouble with their silicone implants

[11:32] that they wouldn't trust any implant for

[11:34] now. So I'm saying, forget it all. I'm

[11:36] done with this implant issue. I've been

[11:38] through enough.

[11:41] I've been through enough.

[11:44] But still silicone has defenders. At

[11:46] Houston's M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,

[11:48] surgeons recommend patients wait for the

[11:50] moratorium on silicone to lift. Dr.

[11:53] Charles Balch. The potential benefits

[11:55] outweigh the risk in the mastectomy

[11:58] patients when other reconstruction

[12:00] options are not available to them.

[12:03] Dow Corning has always defended its role

[12:05] in pioneering silicone implants and

[12:07] tracking health issues, but in

[12:09] announcing the company's departure from

[12:10] the business today, Dow Corning's new

[12:12] chairman, Keith McKennon, spoke

[12:14] candidly. How has Dow Corning handled

[12:17] all this?

[12:18] So-so.

[12:19] I wouldn't I mean, sure not perfectly.

[12:23] If we have done things not so right,

[12:25] we are sure going to try from now on to

[12:27] do things right or

[12:29] better. FDA officials now call the

[12:31] company cooperative. Robert Hager, NBC

[12:34] News, Washington.

[12:36] Wildlife experts tonight are puzzled by

[12:38] a new environmental mystery, the deaths

[12:40] of huge numbers of migratory birds. It's

[12:43] happening at the birds' winter refuge,

[12:44] California's Salton Sea. More now from

[12:47] NBC's George Lewis.

[12:49] A grim sight along the shores of the

[12:51] Salton Sea, the bodies of thousands of

[12:54] dead birds.

[12:55] Every morning workers begin collecting

[12:57] the carcasses, 120,000

[13:00] of them at last count.

[13:02] They're calling it the worst die-off of

[13:04] birds since the Exxon Valdez oil spill

[13:06] in Alaska. These particular birds, the

[13:10] eared grebes, have

[13:12] there's been some

[13:14] other die-offs noted over over history,

[13:17] but nothing ever of this magnitude.

[13:19] Grebes use the Salton Sea as a

[13:21] stopping-off point between their

[13:23] northern breeding areas and their

[13:25] wintering grounds in Mexico. More than a

[13:27] million of them migrate annually.

[13:30] But this year, one out of 10 won't live

[13:32] to complete the journey.

[13:34] It could be a disease that's killing

[13:36] them off. As a precaution, the bodies of

[13:38] the dead grebes are incinerated to

[13:40] prevent the spread of any viruses or

[13:42] bacteria.

[13:43] But the experts have another theory,

[13:45] that maybe man is killing the grebes

[13:47] inadvertently. At this point we don't

[13:49] know.

[13:50] We're in the process of narrowing it

[13:52] down.

[13:53] We're working with contaminant issues

[13:55] possibly.

[13:56] California's Imperial Valley is known as

[13:58] America's winter salad bowl. There are

[14:01] farms all around the wetlands here.

[14:04] Agriculture uses tons of chemical

[14:06] fertilizers and pesticides, which are

[14:09] carried by irrigation water into the

[14:11] Salton Sea.

[14:13] The agriculture that's created this

[14:17] this Mecca for wildlife is probably

[14:21] going to begin to reaching the point

[14:22] where it's now killing it.

[14:25] It will be up to a government lab to

[14:26] figure out what specifically is killing

[14:28] the birds. For now, the case of the dead

[14:31] grebes remains one of those unsolved

[14:33] mysteries. George Lewis, NBC News, Los

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[16:18] Our daily difference tonight, in the

[16:19] '90s, hate crimes are on the rise once

[16:22] again. People being singled out for

[16:23] harassment and violence because of race,

[16:26] ethnic origin, religion, and sexual

[16:29] preference. And no group has seen

[16:31] intolerance grow more quickly than

[16:33] homosexuals. NBC's national

[16:35] correspondent, Bob Kur tonight.

[16:39] To help illustrate what it says is a 31%

[16:42] increase in violence against gays and

[16:44] lesbians, their National Task Force

[16:47] showed a home video. The man watering

[16:49] the lawn set up a camera across the

[16:51] street to prove he was being menaced by

[16:53] a neighbor.

[16:56] The Task Force collected statistics from

[16:58] homosexual groups in New York, Boston,

[17:01] Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and San

[17:03] Francisco. All showed increases in

[17:06] assaults, police abuse, vandalism, and

[17:09] murder. Though in Boston and New York,

[17:11] police actually reported a decrease in

[17:13] anti-gay crimes. Those attending today's

[17:17] news conference condemned what they call

[17:19] a climate of fear and intolerance that's

[17:22] costing lives. They then took turns

[17:24] beating us or calling us queers and

[17:26] and a ton Calloway and his

[17:30] Vietnamese lover were attacked in a

[17:32] Dallas park. Both were shot, his lover

[17:35] was killed. There is so much I loved

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[17:39] gaping hole in my life.

[17:42] A climate of hate

[17:45] is if not being nurtured, at least is

[17:47] being tolerated in our country.

[17:49] Homosexual groups believe the increase

[17:52] in so-called gay bashing is partly the

[17:54] result of attitudes encouraged by public

[17:57] figures. In the last year, gay men and

[17:59] lesbians were the target of venomous

[18:01] attacks by Patrick Buchanan. We were the

[18:04] object of insulting jokes by David

[18:06] Beckwith, press secretary to Vice

[18:08] President Quayle, and by Senator Robert

[18:10] Kerry. Pat Buchanan called homosexuality

[18:13] perverted sex. It is my deep-felt belief

[18:16] that it is morally wrong, that it is

[18:19] socially ruinous, that it is medically

[18:21] destructive. Gay activists insist the

[18:24] movie industry is just as much to blame.

[18:27] They single out portrayals of homosexual

[18:29] villains in JFK, The Silence of the

[18:32] Lambs, and now the new film Basic

[18:35] Instinct, which opens tomorrow.

[18:37] In Hollywood last night, protesters

[18:39] wanted to confront the stars of Basic

[18:42] Instinct as they arrived for a special

[18:44] screening. But Michael Douglas and

[18:46] Sharon Stone avoided them.

[18:48] We got 31 stab wounds for what?

[18:50] >> film, Douglas is a detective

[18:52] investigating a serial murderer who

[18:54] kills men with ice picks. He has an

[18:57] affair with his primary suspect, a

[18:59] bisexual woman. All the movie's villains

[19:02] are lesbian or bisexual. I certainly

[19:05] acknowledge

[19:07] the gay and lesbian's concern for more

[19:09] positive images in movies and

[19:11] television. I think they're very right.

[19:12] I don't really

[19:14] I don't personally feel that it relates

[19:16] to this. Gay activists now say they'll

[19:18] disrupt the Academy Awards. Bob Kur, NBC

[19:22] News.

[19:24] Back in a moment with more news and John

[19:26] Chancellor's commentary on Jerry Brown

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[21:30] 200 miles above the earth today, a Soyuz

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[21:53] John Chancellor is with us now with his

[21:54] commentary from New York on the

[21:56] Democratic presidential race. John. Tom.

[21:58] And then there were two, Bill Clinton

[22:01] and Jerry Brown. Brown is the one with

[22:03] the 800 number who has set a limit of

[22:05] $100 on campaign contributions. He says

[22:08] he's fighting for the little guy against

[22:10] the political system corrupted by big

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[22:14] wrong. Well, that's a huge change in

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[22:46] The Chronicle story says this reopened

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[22:54] asked about this by the Chronicle, he

[22:55] said the law limiting contributions was

[22:58] an assault on the First Amendment, which

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[23:04] said of his work as party chairman, and

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[23:24] reinvented himself before and he has

[23:26] reinvented himself again. Tom. Thank

[23:29] you, John. And with all this talk about

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[23:41] Coca-Cola awarded him a million shares

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[23:57] Back with Japan bashing, Japan bashing

[24:00] that is from Japan in a moment.

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[26:04] There has been a marked increase in

[26:06] Japan bashing in this country and guess

[26:08] who's decided to make money from it.

[26:11] Well, NBC's Brad Willis has the answer

[26:12] now from Tokyo.

[26:16] Japan bashing in the USA. Growing

[26:19] tension between Washington and Tokyo.

[26:22] Not exactly fun and games. Or is it?

[26:29] The makers of this new video game think

[26:30] so and they're hoping to cash in big on

[26:33] bashing.

[26:38] It's for Japanese only. They play the

[26:40] role of America facing off with the

[26:43] Tokyo government. The battle is

[26:45] symbolized as cowboy versus samurai.

[26:48] Accusation, the Japanese are racist.

[26:51] Response, both countries could do

[26:54] better. The samurai fends off the

[26:56] bullets. Score one for Japan.

[26:59] Another accusation, Japan's markets are

[27:02] closed to foreigners. That's a winner

[27:04] for the USA.

[27:08] The game is based on actual news events

[27:10] over the past decade.

[27:12] Stock scandals in Japan. The fight to

[27:14] block the Japanese from fishing whales

[27:16] into extinction.

[27:18] Accusations that US workers are stupid

[27:20] and lazy.

[27:22] President Bush collapsing during dinner

[27:24] with the prime minister.

[27:26] Its makers hope the Japanese people

[27:28] might learn something while they play.

[27:31] It's not just for amusement. We want

[27:34] Japanese to look at things from an

[27:35] American point of view.

[27:37] We think it will help US-Japan

[27:39] relations.

[27:42] There is food for thought here.

[27:44] Hamburgers dotting a map of America

[27:47] slowly turn to sushi as Japan gets the

[27:49] upper hand.

[27:50] Dollar bills fly to Tokyo while Japanese

[27:53] cars and computer chips roll in.

[27:56] With tensions between the two countries

[27:58] rising, it's made clear that both have

[28:00] much to lose. Japan bashing has several

[28:03] possible endings. In one scenario, the

[28:05] Japanese simply buy out America and take

[28:07] over. In another, there's all-out war.

[28:12] But remember, in this case, Japan

[28:14] bashing is just a game.

[28:18] Brad Willis, NBC News, Tokyo.

[28:23] That's all the news for this Thursday

[28:24] night. I'm Tom Brokaw. I'll see you

[28:26] tomorrow night.

[28:29] Worried about his parents' bills.