CBS Evening News - 1999-05-19

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[0:00] and

[0:02] >> division among the Serbs as a Russian

[0:04] envoy brings a peace idea to Bgrade.

[0:07] Deeply divided Serbs demonstrate for and

[0:10] against Mallosovich. A woman wins the

[0:13] right to die and her mother could face

[0:15] murder charges. A case of dull reversal.

[0:19] She's the candidate now and it takes

[0:22] some adjusting. And doctors use

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[0:31] This is the CBS Evening News

[0:35] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News

[0:38] headquarters in New York.

[0:40] >> Good evening. For the first time, there

[0:41] are definite public signs that Serbian

[0:44] support for Slobanon Mallich's defiance

[0:46] of NATO may be slipping. There is

[0:48] another peace idea being floated by a

[0:50] combination of the Russians, the Fins,

[0:52] and the Americans. and NATO missiles

[0:54] today caused what's being called great

[0:57] material damage and killed some people.

[1:00] CBS's David Martin begins our coverage

[1:02] of the war. NATO has now dropped more

[1:05] than 14,000 bombs and US officials say

[1:08] they are picking up intelligence that

[1:10] some Serb army units in Kosovo have had

[1:12] enough. that as many as 500 uh Serbian

[1:16] army soldiers appear to have deserted

[1:19] their deployment locations in Kosovo

[1:21] yesterday to return to their homes in

[1:23] Serbia.

[1:23] >> And the Pentagon says air strikes have

[1:25] destroyed 90% of Serb artillery in

[1:28] Kosovo. We've also made significant

[1:31] progress against the APCs and the uh

[1:34] tanks, taking out probably about a third

[1:37] or more of the total armored vehicles uh

[1:40] as well as many other vehicles such as

[1:42] trucks. But it's too late to stop the

[1:44] massacre of civilians. The State

[1:46] Department already has released a

[1:48] reconnaissance photo of a mass burial

[1:50] site. Today, it released a videotape of

[1:52] what that same burial site looked like

[1:54] from the ground. Air strikes alone

[1:57] cannot stop the killing. Only ground

[1:59] troops can do that. Serbs guarding the

[2:02] invasion routes into Kosovo can see

[2:04] American helicopters just across the

[2:06] border in Albania, but the US insists it

[2:09] will not send in troops until there is a

[2:11] peace agreement. British officials want

[2:13] to go in as soon as the Serb army is no

[2:15] longer able to mount an organized

[2:17] resistance. The British call that a

[2:19] semi-permissive environment. But Defense

[2:22] Secretary Cohen told CBS News, "The US

[2:24] will not send troops into a

[2:25] semi-permissive environment because it's

[2:28] no different than a hostile

[2:29] environment." As Joint Chiefs Chairman

[2:31] Shelton puts it, "I've never been semi

[2:34] shot at." David Martin, CBS News, the

[2:37] Pentagon.

[2:38] >> On the diplomatic front, US Envoy Strobe

[2:40] Talbert finished two days of talks in

[2:42] Helsinki with the Finnish president and

[2:44] Russian diplomat Victor Sheridan.

[2:46] Talbert then went on to Germany where

[2:47] the G7 nations and Russia are trying to

[2:50] write a UN resolution on Kosovo. Sher

[2:53] Miden flew to Belgrade to talk directly

[2:55] with Sloban Mallosvich. CBS's John

[2:58] Roberts is in the Serbian capital

[3:02] carrying with him what is believed to be

[3:03] the framework of a deal. Russian envoy

[3:06] Victor Chermired arrived in Belgrade

[3:08] with a single focus

[3:10] >> to stop everything for Milos, for all of

[3:13] us. Although most important is that the

[3:15] bombing stops. Stop killing people. That

[3:17] is what we are hoping for. His Balkans

[3:20] mission followed a day and a half of

[3:22] talks with Finland's President Atasari,

[3:24] now the allies pointman on Kosovo and

[3:27] Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbat.

[3:29] >> We have basic agreement on the contours

[3:32] of peace and what's required now is

[3:35] agreement by the Belgrade leadership of

[3:37] what it takes to get to that peace.

[3:39] Milosvich appears more open to an

[3:41] agreement now that two months of NATO

[3:43] bombing has inflicted more damage on the

[3:45] Yugoslav infrastructure than was done in

[3:47] World War II. And there are growing

[3:49] divisions among the people. A day after

[3:52] large anti-war demonstrations were

[3:54] reported in two southern Serbian towns,

[3:56] members of Mallosvich's socialist party

[3:58] attacked the headquarters of the

[4:00] opposition Yugoslav Democratic Party in

[4:02] Belgrade. The Democrats are blamed for

[4:05] inciting the anti-war protests and

[4:07] attempting to bring down Melovich.

[4:09] >> They want to present themselves as

[4:11] patriots and us as Democrats uh as

[4:15] traitors of the nation.

[4:17] >> CBS News had interviewed Democratic

[4:19] Party leaders amid the damage to their

[4:21] building. Our videotape was confiscated

[4:24] by army sensors who said, "We violated

[4:26] rules governing foreign press coverage

[4:28] here." Another sign of a nation under

[4:31] siege growing ever more weary of war. In

[4:34] the end, any type of settlement may have

[4:36] to be the sort of deal that allows both

[4:38] sides to claim victory. NATO wants to

[4:41] say its bombing campaign worked and won

[4:43] the return of the refugees. Below needs

[4:46] to say he stood up to the world's

[4:48] mightiest military alliance and

[4:50] survived. John Roberts, CBS News,

[4:53] Belgrade. The US Justice Department is

[4:55] trying again to take US citizenship away

[4:58] from John Deyanuk. He is the alleged

[5:00] Nazi who was convicted in Israel as Ivan

[5:03] the Terrible from the Trobinka death

[5:05] camp. He was later cleared when evidence

[5:08] pointed to another man. The Justice

[5:10] Department now says he took part in the

[5:12] mass murder of Jews at three other

[5:14] camps. In Florida, there's a whole new

[5:17] dimension tonight in the right to die

[5:18] debate. This case involves a daughter

[5:20] who asked to die after she was shot and

[5:23] gravely wounded by her mother and the

[5:26] mother could now be open to a murder

[5:28] charge. CBS's Byron Pittz has late

[5:31] details.

[5:32] >> For two months in her hospital bed, her

[5:34] spine suffered by a single bullet.

[5:36] 42year-old George F. Smith couldn't

[5:38] walk, couldn't breathe, or eat on her

[5:40] own. But late today, she was granted the

[5:43] one choice she could make. And it's my

[5:45] choice, she said. To die with dignity.

[5:48] Geette Smith's desire to discontinue

[5:50] life support was carried out this

[5:52] afternoon.

[5:53] >> But turning off a ventilator that's kept

[5:55] her alive took a judge's approval and a

[5:58] daughter's plea.

[5:58] >> I can completely understand how she

[6:01] wouldn't want to live, not being able to

[6:03] do nothing but look out her eyes.

[6:05] >> Today, Candace Smith lost her mother,

[6:07] but now it's her grandmother's life

[6:09] that's in jeopardy. Police say

[6:11] 68-year-old Shirley Egan shot her

[6:13] daughter last March after overhearing

[6:15] Geette Smith discussing plans to put her

[6:18] in a nursing home. Prosecutors say

[6:20] there's a good chance they'll charge

[6:21] this frail 4'11, 85lb grandmother with

[6:25] first-degree murder. Geette Smith was

[6:28] kept alive till this afternoon so

[6:30] lawyers could record her testimony

[6:31] that'll be used at trial. Legal analysts

[6:34] say prosecutors must now prove that

[6:36] Geette Smith died due to her injuries

[6:39] and therefore her mother should face

[6:40] murder charges.

[6:42] >> The issue here is whether the

[6:44] intervening act of the daughter to

[6:47] decide to die should relieve her mother

[6:49] of responsibility for her death.

[6:52] >> Whether it was murder or a victim's

[6:53] choice, advocates for the disabled say

[6:56] the choice was wrong.

[6:58] >> Another person with a disability's life

[7:00] has been lost. And in a lot of ways,

[7:02] it's because this society views life

[7:06] with severe disability as worse than

[7:08] death.

[7:10] >> Legally, allowing George Smith to turn

[7:12] off a respirator was the easier choice.

[7:14] That's the law in Florida. The

[7:15] complicated issue now should her mother

[7:17] face the death penalty because of it.

[7:20] Dan

[7:21] >> Byron Pittz in Orlando, Florida. Still

[7:23] ahead on tonight's CBS Evening News, the

[7:25] remarkable story of experimental surgery

[7:28] to save unborn twins. Bob Dole's trip to

[7:32] the woodshed and natural disasters are

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[9:13] >> Rain swollen rivers sent flood waters

[9:15] gushing through northeastern Iowa today.

[9:17] In some cases, the worst flooding in

[9:19] decades. 1,500 people fled as homes and

[9:22] businesses were swamped and damaged. But

[9:25] so many roads were flooded northwest of

[9:27] Debuke, residents were told they'd be

[9:29] safer staying put. There's news tonight

[9:32] about a hidden human factor in making

[9:34] so-called natural disasters more of a

[9:37] disaster. New research says Americans

[9:40] keep moving into disasterprone areas of

[9:42] the nation, costing huge amounts in

[9:45] damages, some of it unnecessary, and

[9:48] that's not counting the added loss of

[9:50] life. CBS's Bill Whitaker has the

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[9:55] >> Unbelievable.

[9:57] If it seems to you nature's fury, like

[9:59] the tornadoes in Oklahoma, is hitting us

[10:01] harder, costing us more, you'd be right.

[10:04] The National Science Foundation study

[10:06] found that recent natural disasters have

[10:09] become full-blown financial disasters,

[10:11] costing $500 billion in the last 20

[10:14] years.

[10:15] >> There have been large periods of time

[10:17] when our dollar losses approached $1

[10:20] billion a week.

[10:22] >> Hurricane Andrew, $25 billion. The

[10:25] Northridge earthquake, even more. Why?

[10:28] For one thing, more of us live in

[10:30] disasterprone areas like Florida and

[10:32] California. For another, some preventive

[10:35] measures actually make things worse. The

[10:38] dams and levies along the Mississippi

[10:40] channeled it into a racing flume during

[10:42] the monstrous 93 floods.

[10:45] >> We can use science. We can use

[10:47] technology

[10:48] to interact with our natural world, but

[10:51] will never be totally safe.

[10:54] >> And we can expect disaster price tags to

[10:56] keep rising. This freeway cost about $30

[10:59] million to rebuild after the Northridge

[11:01] quake. And scientists say it could have

[11:03] been worse. Both Northridge and

[11:05] Hurricane Andrew struck outlying

[11:07] suburbs, not dense city centers.

[11:10] >> Northridge and Andrew were we're about

[11:13] half to a third of what a disaster

[11:17] closer to the center of Los Angeles,

[11:19] closer to the center of the San

[11:21] Francisco Bay area or the center of

[11:23] Miami would be. The good news is we can

[11:26] change our habits, move back from rivers

[11:28] and coastlines, strengthen existing

[11:31] structures. If we don't, we can expect

[11:33] more, much more of the same. Bill

[11:36] Whitaker, CBS News, Los Angeles. As

[11:40] investors await the Federal Reserve's

[11:41] next move sometime this summer on

[11:43] interest rates, stock prices rallied

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[13:37] >> Lest we forget, yet another new wave of

[13:40] refugees poured out of Kosovo today.

[13:42] About 2,500 arrived in neighboring

[13:44] Macedonia with stories of being

[13:47] violently expelled from their homes by

[13:49] Serb forces who then burned their

[13:51] houses. The stories could not be

[13:53] immediately confirmed, but some 226,000

[13:56] refugees are now in Macedonia alone, and

[13:58] the government there has offered some

[14:00] help, but not nearly enough. The huge

[14:02] job of caring for them has mostly fallen

[14:05] to volunteer groups from Europe and

[14:06] America. People willing to put their own

[14:09] lives aside to save others. CBS's Alan

[14:12] Pizzy found them on the front lines on

[14:14] assignment in Macedonia.

[14:17] >> In the beginning, there is horror,

[14:19] misery on a scale so grand it seems

[14:22] overwhelming.

[14:24] Then, slowly out of chaos comes order

[14:27] imposed against all odds by ordinary

[14:29] people willing to labor in extraordinary

[14:32] situations.

[14:33] >> I promise you will not lose your chance

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[14:38] >> Please trust me. willing to risk

[14:40] potential danger.

[14:42] >> It's not really a secure area. The Serbs

[14:45] are operating right up in these hills

[14:46] here.

[14:47] >> Willing to work in stifling hot tents.

[14:50] >> What do we have?

[14:52] >> 182 over 91.

[14:53] >> Alone, these American relief workers

[14:55] can't solve everything. But together,

[14:57] they help weave the fragile refugee

[14:59] safety net. Californian Joanna Cotcher

[15:02] is a committed professional. If we have

[15:04] a huge inflow and we don't have tents

[15:06] up, we just think, okay, shelter,

[15:09] warmth, water, food, take care of the

[15:13] vulnerable people, the sick and the

[15:14] elderly and the newborns, and it's just

[15:16] an hour to hour to hour thing.

[15:19] >> The transit camp is the first place

[15:21] refugees reach. Cotcher sees them in,

[15:24] and she often sees them out.

[15:26] >> And I want to tell you, it really, it

[15:28] really tears at you. I mean, these

[15:30] people have incredible strength. That's

[15:32] what prompted Ron Redmond to take a

[15:34] leave of absence from his reporter's job

[15:36] in Seattle to work 18-hour days as a

[15:39] spokesman for the UN relief agency. And

[15:41] >> when I saw from 10,000 mi away what was

[15:44] happening here, I really had to come. I

[15:47] just uh I really felt like it was

[15:50] necessary for me to be here.

[15:52] Redmond's job also includes helping move

[15:55] refugees, but his primary purpose is

[15:57] collating and feeding out the

[15:59] information constantly demanded by a

[16:01] multinational press corp.

[16:03] >> This could happen anywhere really and

[16:05] people should realize that and thank God

[16:07] that it's not happening to them.

[16:09] >> What's happening often emerges in the

[16:11] medical tent.

[16:12] >> Um, any pain in his throat?

[16:14] >> Dr. Heather Papowitz decided the human

[16:16] touch was better than making money back

[16:18] home in Connecticut. At first, cuz I

[16:20] trained in internal medicine, you know,

[16:22] my first thought about seeing a kid was

[16:24] fear. But after a while of seeing the

[16:27] children and um getting more comfortable

[16:29] with them, I'd love seeing them.

[16:32] >> Hello.

[16:33] >> The relief workers know they will be

[16:35] emotionally scarred from this, but the

[16:37] rewards they say make that a price worth

[16:40] paying.

[16:43] >> On assignment in Macedonia, I'm Alan

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[19:23] >> on the CBS campaign 2000 watch tonight,

[19:26] problems, some of them unique, are

[19:28] emerging in the likely Elizabeth Dole

[19:30] for president campaign. To put it

[19:32] bluntly, her husband has been giving her

[19:34] campaign some trouble, and he is said to

[19:36] now be so far back in the doghouse, they

[19:38] have to ship him daylight by FedEx. CBS

[19:41] News chief Washington correspondent Bob

[19:43] Schiffer spoke to Mrs. Dole about this.

[19:46] >> And while we're fighting,

[19:47] >> she's famous. She brings out big crowds.

[19:49] She runs stronger in the polls than any

[19:51] Republican but George Bush. And she does

[19:53] innovative things. Today, she was

[19:55] talking to graduating college students

[19:57] across the country via the internet.

[20:00] graduates, this is your time. My

[20:03] heartfelt congratulations.

[20:05] >> She's also been quick to take on

[20:07] controversial issues like guns.

[20:09] >> I simply cannot accept that in modern

[20:12] America, you need an AK-47 to defend

[20:15] your family.

[20:17] >> Yet, she's having trouble raising money.

[20:19] In a New York Times interview, even her

[20:21] husband, Bob Dole, had doubts about

[20:23] whether she'd really run and suggested

[20:26] he might contribute to the campaign of

[20:28] rival candidate John McCain.

[20:31] Insiders say the problem is that because

[20:33] a woman has never made a serious run for

[20:35] the top job, people just assume she's

[20:37] running for vice president. But when I

[20:39] caught up with her today, she was having

[20:41] none of that.

[20:42] >> Oh, no. No, Bob. Uh, I want to set the

[20:45] record quite straight there. um you

[20:48] would not undertake this uh physically

[20:50] arduous in that you're in five cities in

[20:52] in a day uh procedure for vice

[20:54] president. You run you run to win.

[20:57] >> Her husband's office now says he was

[20:59] joking about helping another candidate,

[21:01] but not everyone laughed.

[21:03] >> Now, what about Senator Dole?

[21:07] >> Well, Bob had a little visit to the

[21:10] dolled woodshed. He looked pretty good

[21:12] there, but obviously uh the

[21:15] interpretation was not what he intended.

[21:17] I'm going to be speaking about the man I

[21:20] love.

[21:21] >> So, as Mrs. Dole concentrates on

[21:23] improving her fundraising skills, it

[21:25] sounds like her husband may have to

[21:27] concentrate on learning more about being

[21:28] a candidate spouse, but he has a good

[21:31] role model close by. Bob Schaefer, CBS

[21:34] News, Washington.

[21:36] US military veterans are entitled to a

[21:38] burial in a national cemetery, but

[21:40] veterans groups say space is running

[21:42] out, so they're going to ask Congress

[21:44] tomorrow to build more national

[21:46] cemeteries. World War II vets are now

[21:48] dying at a rate of more than 1,000 a

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[24:02] >> In tonight's Eye on America, the second

[24:04] of our two hard news reports about your

[24:06] health and new frontiers. Tonight,

[24:08] pioneering fetal surgery to try to save

[24:11] failing twins before they're born. CBS's

[24:15] Elizabeth Kaledan takes you to and shows

[24:17] you the cutting edge where high-tech

[24:19] surgery meets high-risisk pregnancy.

[24:21] >> Puppies. Set of puppies. When they got

[24:24] married 5 years ago, Kevin and Lisa

[24:26] Arthur weren't even sure they wanted

[24:28] children. But when Lisa got pregnant and

[24:31] something went terribly wrong, they were

[24:33] never so sure of anything in their

[24:35] lives.

[24:36] >> We wanted to save both these babies. We

[24:38] weren't going to give in on either one

[24:39] of them.

[24:39] >> Two weeks after they discovered they

[24:41] were having twins, the Arthurs were told

[24:43] the babies were dying of a disease

[24:45] called twin twin transfusion syndrome.

[24:48] >> Pretty shocking at first. I I'd never

[24:50] heard of this before. In a normal

[24:52] pregnancy, blood is exchanged between

[24:54] identical twins evenly through arteries

[24:56] and veins in the placenta. In twin twin

[24:59] transfusion syndrome, the flow of blood

[25:01] is uneven. One baby is getting more

[25:04] blood than its heart can handle, while

[25:06] the other baby stops growing because

[25:08] it's starved of blood. Faced with a

[25:11] crisis, the Arthurs had few options. If

[25:13] they did nothing, both babies were

[25:15] likely to die. Standard therapy might

[25:18] save one of the babies, but could also

[25:20] cause brain damage. Their best hope was

[25:22] an experimental fetal surgery that gave

[25:25] both of their twins a chance of

[25:27] survival.

[25:28] >> And I will meet you in the recovery room

[25:30] area.

[25:31] >> Dr. Ruben Quintterero of Tampa's St.

[25:33] Joseph's Women's Hospital pioneered the

[25:36] procedure.

[25:37] >> We have developed a surgical technique

[25:38] that allows us to identify the correct

[25:42] vessels that are responsible for the

[25:44] disease. Using a tiny instrument called

[25:46] an endoscope, he gives us a rare glimpse

[25:49] of what's happening inside the womb.

[25:51] >> Here's the edge of the placenta.

[25:53] >> Watching on monitors as he works, Dr.

[25:55] Quantero traces each and every artery

[25:58] connecting the Arthur twins, looking for

[26:00] any artery that does not have a

[26:02] returning vein.

[26:03] >> Vein and this one comes back to the same

[26:06] baby.

[26:07] >> The procedure is risky, especially

[26:09] because the smaller baby is at a

[26:11] difficult angle.

[26:11] >> This is right above the baby's face.

[26:13] After several hours, Dr. Quantero finds

[26:16] the problem.

[26:17] >> See that there?

[26:18] >> And seals it off with a laser, restoring

[26:20] an even exchange of blood.

[26:22] >> Got it. Hang on. Hang on.

[26:23] >> Done.

[26:24] >> 10% of identical twin pregnancies result

[26:27] in twin twin transfusion syndrome. And

[26:29] Dr. Quintterero operates on only the

[26:31] most severe cases.

[26:33] >> So hopefully we'll have two living

[26:35] babies tomorrow.

[26:36] >> So for the next 24 hours, all the

[26:39] Arthurs can do is wait. Everybody's

[26:42] pushing.

[26:43] >> The next day, the Arthurs have a

[26:45] follow-up ultrasound.

[26:46] >> Wondering if both of them were were

[26:48] really in there and still doing okay.

[26:50] Was definitely the worst time of my

[26:52] life.

[26:52] >> Here's the heartbeat of the little baby

[26:54] still going. And here's the heart of the

[26:56] big baby.

[26:58] >> There are two strong heartbeats.

[27:00] >> When they were there, it was just it was

[27:02] a blessing. It was just the greatest

[27:03] feeling in the world.

[27:04] >> All right. Matthew and Mitchell were

[27:06] born 10 weeks after the procedure.

[27:09] Premature and underweight, but otherwise

[27:12] okay. Mitchell, who was not getting

[27:14] enough blood, stayed in intensive care

[27:16] for weeks before being released. But now

[27:18] both boys are home together again after

[27:21] a difficult journey.

[27:22] >> They kept calling our kids the miracle

[27:24] babies.

[27:25] >> Advances in fetal surgery mean they will

[27:28] now share the bond of brotherhood. in

[27:30] Charleston, South Carolina. I'm

[27:32] Elizabeth Kaledan for Eye on America.

[27:36] >> And that's part of our world tonight.

[27:37] There's much more ahead from CBS News

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