World News Tonight (ABC) - 1985-02-27

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[0:00] Two clicks down the dial, March 4th.

[0:08] >> From ABC, this is World News Tonight

[0:11] with Peter Jennings.

[0:12] >> Good evening. The plight of the nation's

[0:14] farmers continues to mesmerize

[0:16] politicians across much of the country.

[0:18] In Iowa today, one of the biggest, if

[0:20] not the biggest, farm rally in search of

[0:22] support ever since the depression. In

[0:24] Washington, a congressional vote to

[0:26] support the farmers. President Reagan

[0:28] doesn't like it. We begin with that

[0:29] rally in Ames, Iowa. Here's ABC's Jay

[0:32] Schadler.

[0:34] >> They arrive from across the street and

[0:35] from a thousand miles away from Kansas

[0:38] and Missouri, Georgia, and Colorado,

[0:40] 18,000 strong with a painfully simple

[0:43] message.

[0:43] >> We're going broke. That that that is

[0:46] that's it in a nutshell.

[0:47] >> Outside, they nailed the coffin shut on

[0:49] what they called the administration's

[0:51] too little too late farm policy. While

[0:53] inside the vast Hilton Coliseum, well,

[0:56] the administration wasn't fairing much

[0:58] better.

[0:58] >> And I suggest the president of the

[1:00] United States come out of the Rose

[1:01] Garden. He's been there so long, he

[1:04] thinks all is rosy.

[1:08] >> For many of these people, the cheering

[1:09] may end soon. 60,000 Midwest farmers are

[1:12] threatened with bankruptcy as land

[1:14] values plummet, their equipment debt

[1:16] grows, and the family farm arrives at an

[1:18] economic crossroads. The American public

[1:21] seems to think they can live without us.

[1:24] They can't. When the corporations take

[1:26] over, there will be no more cheap food

[1:28] policy and we will not be on the farm.

[1:32] >> Joining the farmers today were hundreds

[1:34] of union members whose farm related

[1:36] companies have already felt the ripple

[1:37] effect from this crisis. UAW spokesman

[1:40] Carlos Plet spoke for many. We can tell

[1:44] our administration and the White House

[1:47] loud and clear they ain't seeing nothing

[1:50] yet.

[1:54] >> Although 3 weeks ago, union organizers

[1:56] were in ci giving farmers tips on

[1:58] playing hardball politics. For the most

[2:00] part, they're still only lending moral

[2:02] support to a growing farm movement that

[2:04] within the past month has forced farm

[2:06] auctions to be cancelled in Georgia,

[2:08] form tractor cades in Missouri and Ohio,

[2:10] and encourage dairymen in New York to

[2:13] pour out their frustrations on a milk

[2:15] support system they claim drives

[2:17] supplies up but prices down.

[2:19] Today's rally is obviously only the

[2:22] latest act in this traveling road show

[2:24] of farm protests. The organizers here

[2:26] prefer to describe it as a dress

[2:28] rehearsal for what they say will be

[2:30] their next major engagement, a march on

[2:33] Washington early next month. J Shadler,

[2:35] ABC News, Ames, Iowa.

[2:39] This is Britt Hume. The effort to

[2:40] dramatize the plight of the farmers is

[2:42] already well underway in Washington

[2:44] where across from the White House today

[2:46] there appeared 250 small white crosses.

[2:49] They're intended to symbolize the number

[2:50] of farmers said to be going under every

[2:52] day. There's really a death in our

[2:54] family. Farmers are dying throughout

[2:57] America. And unless and until this

[2:59] administration begins to act and act

[3:01] promptly, more and more of our family

[3:03] farmers will go out of business. On

[3:05] Capitol Hill, the House and the Senate

[3:07] as well moved with unaccustomed speed

[3:09] toward votes on measures to make more

[3:11] credit on easier terms available to

[3:14] strapped farmers immediately. But before

[3:16] a House committee, the president's

[3:17] budget director said the emergency steps

[3:19] the administration agreed to last week

[3:21] were enough. and bills containing more

[3:23] would be vetoed.

[3:24] >> We don't need additional legislation and

[3:27] we don't want to open the barn door wide

[3:30] and therefore we would hope that the

[3:32] House would not approve this legislation

[3:35] and we wouldn't accept it uh if it is

[3:37] sent down to the White House.

[3:39] >> The yays are 318,

[3:43] the nays are 13. The bill is passed. But

[3:49] the House disregarded Stockman's warning

[3:50] and voted to provide an additional $3

[3:52] billion for emergency farm loans and to

[3:55] allow farmers to borrow now up to half

[3:57] the money the government normally lends

[3:59] them at harvest time in the fall.

[4:02] >> And this evening, Senate Democrats

[4:04] joined by a handful of farm state

[4:06] Republicans voted a series of measures

[4:08] similar to the House bill. All this farm

[4:11] aid they are voting may be vetoed and it

[4:13] won't help their credibility on the

[4:14] deficit. But in next year's election in

[4:16] the farm belt, the Democrats think this

[4:18] issue will help a lot. Brit Hume, ABC

[4:21] News on Capitol Hill.

[4:23] >> One thing we have learned in the last

[4:25] few days is that much of the public

[4:26] appears to be behind the farmers. We

[4:28] have just conducted a national poll on

[4:29] the subject. And we find that four out

[4:31] of five people say the government should

[4:33] give special aid such as loans or loan

[4:36] guarantees to farmers in economic

[4:37] trouble. And a majority of the people we

[4:40] talked to say they do believe that

[4:41] farmers are worse off financially than

[4:44] most Americans. Joining us tonight from

[4:46] Ames, Iowa, where the rally took place,

[4:48] Dixon Terry, a grain and dairy farmer

[4:51] and one of the organizers of today's

[4:52] rally. And from Washington, ABC's George

[4:55] Will. Mr. Terry, may I ask you first, I

[4:59] don't mean to sound unsympathetic, but

[5:00] why should farmers be different than any

[5:02] other businessman in the country in

[5:04] trouble?

[5:06] I don't think we're asking any different

[5:07] type of treatment than any other

[5:09] business in the country. Uh the

[5:10] essential message that came out of the

[5:12] rally today is that farmers don't want a

[5:14] handout from the government. We want a

[5:16] fair price for our production in the

[5:18] marketplace. And we want federal farm

[5:19] programs that provide for that kind of

[5:21] price in the marketplace.

[5:22] >> But farmers for 50 years, come whatever

[5:24] weather, come whatever market, have

[5:26] always had price support from the

[5:28] federal government. Haven't you just

[5:29] become accustomed to having it?

[5:32] >> Well, we've uh we haven't. We've been

[5:34] accustomed to having farm programs that

[5:36] have been totally ineffective in terms

[5:38] of balancing our production that our

[5:40] production capabilities in this country

[5:42] with the real market needs that are out

[5:43] there. What we need is a entirely uh new

[5:46] direction in our foreign policy that

[5:49] gauges our production toward the real

[5:51] needs for both this country and

[5:53] international markets and provides for a

[5:56] reasonable price floor for uh for

[5:58] farmers for the production that they do

[6:00] have.

[6:00] >> But times have changed, haven't they?

[6:02] Other businesses have had to adapt. The

[6:04] shoe industry, the textile industry, the

[6:05] automobile industry to mention just a

[6:08] few. Are farmers saying they can't adapt

[6:09] to a free competitive market?

[6:11] >> No. Farmers can adopt and farming.

[6:14] Agriculture is changing. Uh the issue is

[6:17] not whether we're going to go back to

[6:18] some earlier form of agriculture or

[6:20] farming. Uh we realize that agricultural

[6:22] is changing. But the key issue is in

[6:25] whose interest these changes are are

[6:26] being decided. You know, we we maintain

[6:29] that a food production system that's

[6:31] based on family farming is in the

[6:33] interest of the whole society, but a lot

[6:35] of the decisions that are being made

[6:36] about agricultural policy right now are

[6:39] being made in the interest of large

[6:40] agricultural conglomerates who want

[6:42] cheap farm products.

[6:43] >> Let's bring George Will in here for a

[6:44] second, George, and ask you to play

[6:46] government. Why shouldn't we help the

[6:47] farmers? They hold a special place in

[6:49] the American heart.

[6:50] >> Well, the farmers certainly have a case

[6:51] to be made, Peter, but it's an awkward

[6:53] one for this administration to

[6:54] acknowledge. The farmers can say, "Were

[6:56] it not for the deficit, the dollar

[6:58] wouldn't be so strong and we could sell

[7:00] more overseas. Were it not for the

[7:01] deficit, interest rates wouldn't be so

[7:03] high and our operating costs wouldn't be

[7:05] so burdensome." However, this is a year,

[7:08] Peter, when we in Washington are going

[7:10] to call a lot of bluffs. The American

[7:12] people say they don't want big

[7:13] government, but they scream when you

[7:14] touch any particular program. Farmers

[7:17] for years have said, "We want to live

[7:18] with a free market and get the

[7:20] government off the farm." The fact is,

[7:22] it turns out that conservatism is always

[7:24] the belief that it's time to cut my

[7:26] neighbor's subsidy and adjusting to a

[7:28] free market involves a lot of

[7:30] casualties.

[7:30] >> Final word from you, Mr. Terry. Do you

[7:32] think that President Reagan is indeed

[7:33] just calling your bluff?

[7:35] >> Uh, I think President Reagan and perhaps

[7:37] Mr. Will doesn't realize is we're

[7:39] talking about much more than providing

[7:41] for the needs of family farmers being

[7:43] driven out of business. the the crisis

[7:45] in agriculture it goes way beyond family

[7:47] farmers and is affecting the the basic

[7:49] financial institutions of our whole

[7:51] country which is going to have impacts

[7:52] way beyond uh our farming communities.

[7:55] So uh essentially the decisions that are

[7:57] being made about agricultural policy now

[7:59] are decisions uh that are going to

[8:01] decide who's going to control the food

[8:03] production system in this country. And I

[8:04] think the great majority of American

[8:06] citizens do not want a corporate

[8:08] controlled agricultural system. And for

[8:10] that reason, I think President Reagan is

[8:12] going to find that family farmers have

[8:13] many allies throughout this country in

[8:15] the cities as well as in the towns and

[8:17] countryside.

[8:17] >> You agree with that, George?

[8:18] >> Well, the gentleman says the question is

[8:20] who will control? He doesn't want

[8:21] corporations to control it. But there is

[8:23] an alternative between the corporations

[8:25] and government there is the market. What

[8:27] if, and this is the drama of what we're

[8:28] seeing, what if the market says the

[8:31] family farm is out of date and the

[8:32] corporate farm is the most efficient?

[8:34] Then you have a real value question to

[8:36] answer,

[8:38] >> George. and Mr. Terry, thank you both

[8:40] very much for joining us. Later in this

[8:43] broadcast, as Nicaragua offers an olive

[8:45] branch to the United States, its

[8:46] military tries to cope with young men

[8:48] fleeing the draft. Geraldine Ferraro,

[8:50] Goodbye, Capitol Hill. Hello, Madison

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[10:05] >> Another question in our most recent ABC

[10:07] News Washington Post poll had to do with

[10:08] the government of Nicaragua. 70% of the

[10:11] people we asked said they oppose any

[10:13] American attempt to overthrow the

[10:15] government in Nicaragua, even though 60%

[10:18] believe that is exactly what President

[10:20] Reagan wants to do. As John McQuey

[10:22] reports, in the midst of the

[10:24] administration's fight to renew aid for

[10:26] anti-government forces, Nicaragua's

[10:28] president has thrown something of a

[10:30] curve.

[10:32] >> Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega, in

[10:34] a surprise move, has met the Reagan

[10:36] administration's recent harsh criticism

[10:38] with a new peace initiative, an

[10:40] invitation to members of Congress to

[10:42] visit Nicaragua, to go anywhere, see

[10:44] anything they want, to prove Nicaragua's

[10:46] intentions are peaceful. Secretary of

[10:48] State Schultz, who was on Capitol Hill

[10:50] today, said the State Department was

[10:52] studying Ortega's initiative, but was

[10:54] skeptical.

[10:55] >> We haven't said that we are unwilling to

[10:56] meet with them, just that there's no

[10:58] point in it right now unless they have a

[10:59] different view. We don't want a Soviet

[11:02] base on the land mass of the Western

[11:05] Hemisphere.

[11:07] One Cuba is enough. Administration

[11:10] analysts concede that Ortega's so-called

[11:12] peace initiative is a stroke of

[11:14] political genius, that it could well

[11:15] sink the president's drive to win

[11:17] funding for the guerillas that he calls

[11:19] freedom fighters. On the floor of the

[11:21] House today, the president's Nicaraguan

[11:23] policy had few friends.

[11:25] >> We drive Nicaragua into the arms of the

[11:27] Kremlin, and we're shocked when we find

[11:29] them there.

[11:29] >> The president wants Congress to resume

[11:31] funding for military operations directed

[11:33] against the people and territory of

[11:34] Nicaragua. That too is tatamount to a

[11:37] declaration of war. Ironically, while

[11:39] Ortega is offering a peace initiative,

[11:41] US intelligence sources say that 42,000

[11:44] Nicaraguan troops have masked on the

[11:46] border with Honduras. Just across that

[11:48] border are 17,000 of the guerillas that

[11:50] President Reagan wants to help. Some

[11:53] analysts contend that a Nicaraguan

[11:54] attack into Honduras aimed at wiping out

[11:57] the gorillas could come at any time.

[11:59] John McQuey, ABC News, the State

[12:01] Department.

[12:02] >> McQuey mentions the number of

[12:04] Nicaraguans on the border. For the

[12:05] Nicaraguans, it has been no easy feat to

[12:07] assemble a force in the tens of

[12:09] thousands. It seems that a large

[12:11] percentage of young Nicaraguans don't

[12:13] want to join the Sandinista Army. ABC's

[12:16] Peter Collins has been on special

[12:17] assignment.

[12:22] This is life in an army training camp as

[12:25] depicted by Sandinista TV.

[12:30] There is good food, good training, good

[12:32] time.

[12:36] And this is the reality facing many

[12:39] young Nicaraguan recruits. About 15 or

[12:41] 20 are being killed every week in

[12:43] ambushes by the so-called quantras.

[12:48] >> This is a deserter from the Sandinista

[12:50] army.

[12:51] >> They issued us uniforms, guns, and

[12:53] ammunition and sent us directly to the

[12:55] mountains without training. At that

[12:57] time, I was 13. In our second ambush,

[13:00] nine of us were killed. The fear of

[13:02] getting killed combined with opposition

[13:04] to the Sandinista revolution has

[13:06] produced widespread resistance to what

[13:08] is officially called patriotic military

[13:10] service.

[13:12] This woman has eight sons. She's hiding

[13:15] her eldest at home. We don't want our

[13:18] sons to go and drench their hands in

[13:20] blood. For what?

[13:23] These are draft dodgers literally on the

[13:25] run. They agreed to meet with ABC News

[13:28] in the hills where they've been hiding

[13:29] near the capital of Managua.

[13:33] >> You feel like a thief or a murderer. You

[13:35] go around like a man without a country.

[13:38] >> It's estimated that of the 200,000 young

[13:40] men eligible for the draft, only 65%

[13:43] have registered. Desertions from the

[13:45] army are running at 20%. In response,

[13:48] the Sandinistas have set up roadblocks

[13:50] to catch draft evaders. The checks are

[13:52] deceptively casual. As one youngster put

[13:55] it, you take a bus and you wind up in

[13:57] the army. The young draft resistors say

[13:59] one thing over and over. They don't want

[14:01] to fight in what they see as a civil war

[14:04] among Nicaraguans for the interest of

[14:06] one political party, the Saninistas.

[14:10] In the beginning, I was with the

[14:12] revolution, but the people have been

[14:14] tricked.

[14:16] The basic reason that we here, like many

[14:18] people all over Nicaragua, don't want to

[14:20] go is that we don't want to defend these

[14:22] people. Sandinista leaders have told

[14:25] foreign diplomats that because of the

[14:27] resistance, they're having trouble

[14:29] manning the army. As for these

[14:31] resistors, some said they would join the

[14:33] guerillas. Peter Collins, ABC News,

[14:36] Nagarote, Nicaragua.

[14:39] When we come back, Geraldine Ferraru,

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[16:20] American dollar, a European central

[16:22] banks came to the aid of their

[16:24] currencies today. They sold millions of

[16:26] dollars, driving the price of the dollar

[16:28] down and their own currencies up. The

[16:30] British pound, for example, gained 4

[16:32] cents. On Wall Street today, the Dow

[16:34] Jones Industrials lost about five points

[16:36] in fairly heavy trading. And speaking of

[16:39] money matters, what is in a name or a

[16:41] face for that matter? Pretty much taken

[16:44] for granted these days that just about

[16:45] any famous face belonging to an athlete

[16:47] or an actor will eventually wind up

[16:49] trying to sell you something. So why not

[16:51] a famous politician? Here's ABC's Stone

[16:54] Phillips. Last year, Michael Jackson

[16:57] opened Pepsi's ad campaign with a bang.

[17:03] >> This year, Billy Jean has given way to

[17:05] Gerald Dean. Very funny.

[17:08] >> For Pepsi, it's a natural. A famous

[17:11] politician and mother selling Diet Pepsi

[17:13] with the same message she delivered to

[17:14] women in her historic run for national

[17:16] office.

[17:17] >> And we can be whatever we want to be.

[17:21] >> Come on, Mom. It's a tough choice.

[17:23] >> Sure, it's tough. And you can be

[17:24] anything you want to be.

[17:25] >> When you make a choice, what's right is

[17:27] what feels right. Diet Pepsi.

[17:30] >> You know, there's one choice I'll never

[17:32] regret. Politics. Mm-m. Being a mother.

[17:35] The former vice presidential candidate

[17:37] decided to do the commercial for the

[17:39] money said to exceed three4 of a million

[17:41] dollars for the 30 secondond ad and

[17:43] because Pepsi promised she could say

[17:45] whatever she wanted.

[17:46] >> I mean I it's right for the message. I

[17:48] think it's right for the money. I think

[17:49] it's right for the fun of it. I think

[17:51] it's and as I said I think the company

[17:52] is okay too.

[17:53] >> But critics say it's wrong that

[17:55] Ferraro's cashing in changing from

[17:58] heroin to hustster.

[17:59] >> I think it'll sort of blur her image

[18:00] with the public. Imagine instead of

[18:02] becoming a public figure who stands for

[18:03] something, she's just another celebrity,

[18:05] she's sort of interchangeable with

[18:06] Michael Jackson, although I doubt if she

[18:08] dances as well.

[18:10] >> Women can be what we want to be. And

[18:12] here's my opportunity to give that

[18:13] message out to the country. And Pepsi is

[18:15] willing to do it for me.

[18:17] >> Ferraros is not the first such

[18:18] commercial. In 1975, a former Republican

[18:21] vice presidential candidate did one for

[18:23] $10,000. And the presidential hopeful

[18:26] for 1988 is currently hawking a

[18:28] newspaper, but without compensation.

[18:31] >> Ferraro's commercial is scheduled to

[18:32] start next month and run through the

[18:34] fall. By then, she may well have

[18:36] announced her candidacy for the US

[18:38] Senate. Stone Phillips, ABC News, New

[18:41] York.

[18:42] In other news, a grand jury in New

[18:44] Orleans tomorrow is expected to hand

[18:46] down indictments against Louisiana

[18:47] Governor Edwin Edwards. Justice

[18:49] Department officials have been

[18:50] investigating charges that Edwards

[18:52] misused his office to benefit some of

[18:54] his former business associates. Some

[18:56] disturbing testimony today about the New

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[21:28] In overseas news today, a couple of

[21:29] military attaches headed for home under

[21:32] protest. The US sent the Polish military

[21:34] atache and his wife packing from

[21:36] Washington. Military ataches from all

[21:38] the Warsaw packed countries were on hand

[21:40] at the airport to say goodbye. The

[21:42] Polish atache was evicted in retaliation

[21:44] for Poland's decision to kick out an

[21:46] American military atache charged with

[21:49] taking photographs in a restricted area.

[21:51] Meyers, Colonel Frederick Meyers and his

[21:53] wife were applauded by Western diplomats

[21:56] as they left Warsaw today. A meeting at

[21:58] the Vatican today, the first of its kind

[22:00] in six years. Pope John Paul and Soviet

[22:03] Foreign Minister Andre GMO discussed

[22:05] world peace and the status of the church

[22:07] in the Soviet Union. The atmosphere was

[22:10] described as not warm, but cordial.

[22:13] Neither the Vatican nor the Soviets ever

[22:15] give you much more than that. There has

[22:17] been another step in the painstaking

[22:19] process of finding peace in the Middle

[22:21] East. Egypt's President Husni Mabarak

[22:23] has come up with a plan which would

[22:25] facilitate Israelis and Palestinians

[22:28] sitting down together even if those

[22:30] Palestinians are chosen by the Palestine

[22:32] Liberation Organization. As ABC's Bob

[22:35] Zelnik reports, it appears that Israel

[22:37] is saying yes.

[22:39] Speaking to a Zionist gathering in the

[22:41] coastal resort city of Natana, Shimon

[22:44] Perez accepted the Mubarak plan

[22:46] >> and I welcome it completely without any

[22:49] qualifications.

[22:51] >> Specifically, Egypt and Israel have

[22:53] agreed for Israel to enter direct

[22:55] negotiations with delegations

[22:57] representing Jordan and the Palestinian

[22:59] Arabs. the talks to be hosted by Mubarak

[23:02] in Cairo with an American presence

[23:05] without preconditions such as Israel's

[23:07] agreement in advance to withdraw from

[23:09] all occupied territories but with no

[23:12] representation for declared members of

[23:14] the PLO. Perez also agreed to Mubarak's

[23:17] demand that the PLO delegate the

[23:19] Palestinians to attend the talks.

[23:22] >> But it's for them to do. We are not

[23:25] participating in making the Jordanian

[23:27] Palestinian delegation. Neither Jordan's

[23:30] King Hussein nor PLO chairman Yasa

[23:32] Arafat have as yet commented on the

[23:34] Mubarak plan. However, the presence of

[23:37] Osama Albas, Mubarak's top confidant,

[23:39] both here and earlier in Arman with

[23:41] Hussein and Arafat, suggests some degree

[23:44] of consultation. What sets this moment

[23:47] apart is the widely shared sense of

[23:49] urgency that unless the Palestinian

[23:51] question is solved soon, the opportunity

[23:54] may not come again for a long, long

[23:56] time. Bob Zelnick, ABC News. Natana.

[24:01] >> When we come back, the other St. John's.

[24:03] Winning is fine, but not everything.

[24:10] It's true. You know, American industry

[24:12] needs energy to grow. But imported

[24:15] energy is unpredictable. It can even be

[24:18] taken away. So, our industries are using

[24:21] more electricity from resources found

[24:24] here at home, like coal and nuclear

[24:27] energy. And we're all using energy more

[24:29] efficiently. Efficiency, coal, and

[24:33] nuclear energy. That's homegrown energy

[24:36] America can count on.

[24:38] This beautiful southern mansion is home

[24:41] to the worldass cuisine of Anony's in

[24:43] Atlanta. Tonight, we're secretly

[24:45] replacing Anony's regular coffee with

[24:47] dark, sparkling decaffeinated folders

[24:50] crystals. Will it be rich enough for our

[24:52] special guests?

[24:52] >> It has a very good flavor to it.

[24:54] >> Rich.

[24:54] >> It's decaffeinated folders crystals.

[24:57] >> This is instant coffee.

[24:59] >> Are you serious?

[25:00] >> That's amazing.

[25:01] >> See, I'm really amazed cuz it is

[25:02] delicious.

[25:03] >> Decaffeinated Folders Crystals. Coffee

[25:05] rich enough to be served in America's

[25:07] finest restaurants.

[25:09] >> Color Tile will stop at nothing to

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[25:39] Tonight on Night Line, see the dramatic

[25:41] documentary that can't be shown in

[25:43] England because it violates British

[25:45] secrecy laws. Ted Cobble examines the

[25:47] controversy surrounding it tonight.

[25:51] Finally this evening, the very best of

[25:52] college basketball meeting tonight in

[25:54] New York. Number one ranked St. John's

[25:56] University versus number two ranked

[25:58] Georgetown. The level of competition

[26:00] easily at its finest. That game tonight

[26:03] reminded us of another school. Indeed,

[26:05] another St. John's. The college that is.

[26:08] Here's ABC's Ray Gandalf.

[26:14] >> At St. John's College, a small non

[26:16] sectarian school in Annapolis, Maryland,

[26:19] there are no intercolgate sports, only

[26:21] intramurals. Everybody can play.

[26:25] The gym built in 1904 looks like a set

[26:28] from Dante's Purgatorio, but it's filled

[26:31] with a spirit that big-time college

[26:33] athletics does not foster. A spirit that

[26:36] Aristotle would have understood.

[26:38] >> It's competitive and it's fun. You don't

[26:40] have to be great to play.

[26:41] >> That's what it's all about. They It's

[26:44] not in the winning, but in discovering

[26:46] the best in ourselves.

[26:48] Athletic director Jacobson also referees

[26:51] every game in every sport, more than 200

[26:54] games a year, changing the rules to fit

[26:57] the spirit. Basketball games are divided

[26:59] into five periods. The best players on

[27:02] the two teams playing the first, third,

[27:04] and fifth periods, the scrubs the second

[27:06] and fourth.

[27:09] Jacobson was a student at St. John's

[27:11] when it abandoned intercolgate sport in

[27:13] 1939. He was imprisoned as a

[27:15] conscientious objector in World War II,

[27:18] became a farmer and carpenter, and

[27:20] returned to St. John's as athletic

[27:22] director in 1958. He runs the program on

[27:25] a budget of $4,000 a year,

[27:28] >> and next year it's going to be 4,200.

[27:30] They they gave me a uh 5% inflation

[27:35] raise.

[27:35] >> All 400 students, whether they choose to

[27:38] compete or not, are assigned to a team

[27:40] that plays some sport or another all

[27:42] through the year. They play just as

[27:44] hard, if not as well, as the Big East or

[27:47] the Big 10. But winning is not the only

[27:50] thing.

[27:51] >> It's wrong to take, you know, that

[27:53] competitive uh idea, I think, and sort

[27:56] of distort it and twist it and let it

[27:58] consume everything else. It's like the

[28:01] uh tail wagging the dog.

[28:03] >> St. John's does engage in one

[28:05] intercolgate sport. For the past two

[28:08] springs, here on the lawn by the Liberty

[28:10] Tree, it has played its august neighbor,

[28:12] the US Naval Academy at Croquet. The new

[28:16] rivalry stands St. John's two Navy

[28:19] nothing. And oh my, it feels good. Ray

[28:22] Gandalf, ABC News, Annapapolis,

[28:25] Maryland.

[28:26] >> Wild sport, croquet. That's our report

[28:29] on World News Tonight. I'm Peter

[28:30] Jennings. For everyone at ABC News, good

[28:32] night.

[28:35] Wednesday when Coke takes off on a case

[28:37] of mistaken identity.

[28:38] >> You mean there might be two of you?

[28:40] Don't move.

[28:41] >> It's double trouble.

[28:42] >> Kill him

[28:42] >> for the fall guy. Then Alexis finds out

[28:45] her daughter is the other woman.

[28:46] >> Amanda, I'm sorry. On Dynasty tonight.