CBS Evening News - 1999-08-16

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[0:02] Back to Coline, emotions run high as

[0:05] students return to class for the first

[0:07] time since a shooting massacre. A new

[0:10] turn in the Princess Diana crash

[0:12] investigation. The prosecutor makes an

[0:14] important decision. And a neighborly day

[0:17] in the neighborhood. The inside story of

[0:20] a highlevel search for a ble house.

[0:27] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:31] Rather.

[0:33] >> Good evening. Dan is off tonight. I'm

[0:35] Bob Schaefer. Well, the students of

[0:37] Coline High in Colorado raised the

[0:39] school's flags today for the first time

[0:42] since the deadly shooting spree there in

[0:44] April. It was all part of the opening

[0:46] day ceremonies to mark the start of a

[0:48] new school term. CBS News correspondent

[0:51] Cynthia Bowers is in Littleton and has

[0:54] our report.

[0:56] >> There's never been a first day of school

[0:57] quite like this one. A human chain of

[1:00] parents, cameras positioned on campus

[1:02] and high above. A highly choreographed

[1:05] ceremony with much of the nation

[1:07] watching. All this before class began.

[1:10] Today, 2,000 students walk courageously

[1:13] into a building both familiar and

[1:15] frightening. The same one many of them

[1:17] fled in terror just four months ago.

[1:20] >> I you know I remember what happened to

[1:22] me like it was yesterday.

[1:24] >> Stephanie Mson was shot in the ankle as

[1:27] she ran for her life.

[1:29] >> I have scars everywhere. It's kind of

[1:31] just like another scar.

[1:34] >> You have scars inside as well as out.

[1:36] >> Mhm.

[1:38] >> Even so today she is back along with

[1:40] Lance Klin who survived a shotgun blast

[1:43] to the face. You can't change the past.

[1:46] You can only prevail and move forward.

[1:49] >> And that's what today's rally was all

[1:51] about. A fresh start.

[1:53] >> Welcome home, Rebels.

[1:56] >> Intended to focus the Coline community

[1:58] on the future.

[2:00] >> Remember, we are 20,000 strong. We are

[2:03] Coline.

[2:05] School administrators made a deliberate

[2:07] decision not to make mention of the 13

[2:10] people murdered here last April, and

[2:12] that proved painful to some of the

[2:14] parents who lost their children.

[2:17] >> For me,

[2:20] it was like something was missing just a

[2:22] little bit.

[2:22] >> Beth NMO's daughter, Rachel Scott, was

[2:25] the first to die in the massacre. Today,

[2:27] her little brothers Craig and Mike were

[2:29] among the returning students. Well, it's

[2:32] been really hard to drive by Coline all

[2:35] summer. So,

[2:38] coming back today and bringing my boys,

[2:41] it was just really hard to leave them,

[2:44] you know.

[2:45] >> Principal Frank D'Angelus did pledge a

[2:47] safer school this year. Over the summer,

[2:49] bullet holes were plastered over, video

[2:52] cameras installed, security beefed up.

[2:54] D'Angelus also promised trouble will now

[2:57] be dealt with immediately, tolerance

[2:59] required. But some students doubt things

[3:02] will be much different.

[3:03] >> There's teasing everywhere. And even

[3:06] after this, I think people will still be

[3:08] cruel.

[3:09] >> No, it wasn't just a regular back to

[3:11] school day here.

[3:13] >> I'm never going to forget what happened,

[3:15] but I'm ready to put it, you know,

[3:17] behind me.

[3:18] >> But at Coline, it was perhaps the next

[3:21] best thing. On the whole, a fairly

[3:23] uneventful one. Cynthia Bowers, CBS

[3:26] News, Littleton, Colorado.

[3:29] This was also the reopening day at the

[3:31] North Valley Jewish Community Center in

[3:33] California. The shattered glass was

[3:36] gone, the bullet holes filled, and all

[3:38] appeared normal there from the outside,

[3:40] except for the police on hand as parents

[3:42] dropped off their children. Three young

[3:45] children were among the wounded last

[3:46] Tuesday when Buford Furrow sprayed the

[3:49] lobby with gunfire. One of the wounded,

[3:51] a 5-year-old boy, remains in serious

[3:53] condition at the hospital. There's a new

[3:56] CBS News poll out tonight about gun

[3:58] violence and what Americans think can

[4:00] and cannot be done about it. CBS News

[4:02] correspondent Diana Ol.

[4:06] >> The shootings happen anywhere, a school,

[4:09] an office, a daycare center, but every

[4:11] time the question is the same. What can

[4:14] be done to stop it? The answer for many

[4:16] is nothing. That's how 22% of Americans

[4:20] responded to a new CBS News poll on gun

[4:23] violence. 20% believed better parenting

[4:26] would help and only 14% said the

[4:28] solution is gun control.

[4:30] >> Nothing we do in this life is more

[4:33] important than how we raise our

[4:35] children.

[4:35] >> More morality, less legislation. That

[4:38] was the Republican cry earlier this

[4:40] summer when the House of Representatives

[4:41] fought a bitter battle over gun control

[4:44] and ultimately passed nothing. Today's

[4:46] poll shows Americans are almost evenly

[4:49] split on whether stricter gun laws would

[4:51] reduce violent crime, but most think

[4:53] Washington should give it a try anyway.

[4:55] 67% said Congress should pass stricter

[4:58] gun laws, even though only 39% think it

[5:01] will, and the National Rifle Association

[5:03] launched a summer radio campaign against

[5:06] that possibility.

[5:07] >> Congress doesn't need to pass more gun

[5:09] laws. What it needs to do is insist on

[5:11] the strict enforcement of the laws

[5:12] already on the books. by the other.

[5:14] >> A majority of those pled agreed with

[5:16] that argument.

[5:17] >> We're certainly not going to sit back as

[5:18] the premier organization representing

[5:21] law-abiding gun owners and let our

[5:23] rights be trampled by those who would

[5:25] suggest that somehow we have complicity

[5:28] in what is going on in in these

[5:30] shootings.

[5:31] >> The poll also reveals there are now guns

[5:33] in about half of America's households.

[5:36] And that may be why despite all the mass

[5:38] shootings, Americans still don't

[5:39] consider gun control a top priority.

[5:43] In fact, guns came in sixth, far behind

[5:46] social security, taxes, and healthcare

[5:48] when people named the issues government

[5:50] should address. And even a summer of

[5:52] violence didn't change that. Diana Ol,

[5:55] CBS News, Washington.

[5:57] In Oklahoma, the state agency that

[6:00] appoints public defenders told a judge

[6:02] today it simply cannot afford to defend

[6:05] Terry Nichols against state murder

[6:07] charges in the Oklahoma City bombing.

[6:09] The state legislature had appropriated a

[6:11] million dollars for the defense, but

[6:13] later redirected 900,000 of it to help

[6:16] tornado victims. Nicholls is currently

[6:19] serving a life sentence on a federal

[6:21] conviction for manslaughter and

[6:23] conspiracy. News tonight about the

[6:25] investigation of the Paris car crash

[6:27] that killed Princess Diana, her

[6:29] companion, and their driver. CBS News

[6:31] has learned a French prosecutor has made

[6:34] up his mind about the next legal step.

[6:36] Our senior European correspondent Tom

[6:38] Fenton has details.

[6:41] >> It has been almost two years since the

[6:43] crash in a Paris underpass took the life

[6:45] of Princess Diana. Two years in which

[6:47] French justice has explored every angle.

[6:50] the mechanical condition of the

[6:51] Mercedes, the post-mortem on the driver

[6:53] who was legally drunk and lost control

[6:55] at high speed, the fruitless hunt for a

[6:58] possible second car that was never

[7:00] found. But the only persons who faced

[7:02] charges were nine press photographers

[7:04] and a photo agency motorcyclist who

[7:07] zeroed in on the scene. They have been

[7:09] under investigation for possibly causing

[7:11] the crash by chasing the princess's car.

[7:14] Now the French prosecutor has

[7:16] recommended to the Paris judge in charge

[7:17] of the investigation that all charges

[7:20] against them be dropped. Virjini Barde

[7:23] represents two of the photographers.

[7:25] >> They are just waiting for the decision

[7:27] of the judge and they just say we are

[7:30] innocent.

[7:31] >> No one else is now being investigated.

[7:33] Still the crash is surrounded by as much

[7:35] speculation as the assassination of

[7:37] President Kennedy. Some people uh love a

[7:40] conspiracy theory. Americans know that

[7:42] because the grassy null in Dallas is

[7:43] still doing business and selling books.

[7:45] It's going to be the same with Diana.

[7:47] >> The French judge is expected to issue

[7:48] his reports soon. If he accepts the

[7:51] prosecutor's recommendation, that should

[7:53] effectively close the criminal case in

[7:55] the world's most thoroughly investigated

[7:57] car crash, but it won't end the

[7:59] controversy. Some people will always

[8:01] believe that there is more to the Diana

[8:03] story and refuse to accept that the

[8:06] crash that killed the world's most

[8:07] photographed woman could have been a

[8:09] mere accident.

[8:11] >> Tom Fenton, CBS News, London.

[8:14] >> And still ahead on tonight's CBS Evening

[8:16] News, suicide by cop and how the cops

[8:19] are trying to prevent it after a poor

[8:21] harvest in Iowa, the first dropout of

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[10:05] Well, the weekend's non-binding Iowa

[10:07] straw poll certainly had a binding

[10:09] effect today on at least one Republican

[10:11] presidential hopeful. And there is also

[10:13] a whole new spin now on who's hot and

[10:16] who's not and the rest of the campaign

[10:18] pack. We have the Iowa aftermath tonight

[10:21] from CBS News correspondent Eric King.

[10:24] The first casualty of the Iowa straw

[10:26] poll, Lamar Alexander today quit the

[10:29] race after six years and $24 million and

[10:32] untold plaid shirts. He was worried he

[10:35] said that George Bush is having things

[10:37] too easy. My only argument in the

[10:39] campaign was a winner is somebody who

[10:41] can beat Al Gore in a debate

[10:43] and we better have a rehearsal before we

[10:46] pick our candidate.

[10:48] >> A big Iowa winner, Elizabeth Dole saw

[10:51] immediate benefits from her third place

[10:53] finish. bigger crowds in New Hampshire.

[10:55] >> We're on our way to making history

[10:57] again, ladies and gentlemen.

[10:59] >> A question raised by Dole's strong Iowa

[11:02] showing. Has she tapped a brand new vein

[11:05] of GOP primary voters, women new to

[11:08] politics?

[11:08] >> It was it was especially good for me

[11:11] because we didn't spend gobs of money.

[11:13] Uh literally millions of dollars were

[11:16] spent. We did not do that.

[11:18] >> How y'all doing?

[11:18] >> Dan Quail, who finished an embarrassing

[11:20] eighth in Iowa, also had immediate

[11:22] fallout. his top aids in the key primary

[11:25] state of South Carolina today jumped

[11:27] ship to John McCain.

[11:28] >> Well, I would say that today, for

[11:30] example, with the entire quail

[11:32] leadership uh joining our team in South

[11:34] Carolina and our continued success in

[11:37] New Hampshire that we're very happy with

[11:39] where we are.

[11:40] >> Despite winning this early key test,

[11:42] Bush faces problems of his own. Even

[11:45] sympathetic Republicans say his Iowa

[11:47] speech contained more platitudes than

[11:49] hard positions. America's strongest

[11:52] foundation is not found in our wallets.

[11:55] It is found in our souls.

[11:59] >> As the political sun sets on Iowa, at

[12:02] least until next year, Bush knows he

[12:05] must fill in some of the blanks on his

[12:07] qualifications and policies. And that

[12:10] always complicates the front runner's

[12:12] path to the nomination. Eric Angberg,

[12:14] CBS News, Washington.

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[12:42] mail. And on Wall Street, stock prices

[12:45] closed higher today. The Dow up 73

[12:47] points, NASDAQ up seven.

[12:52] There may be a whole new approach to

[12:54] treating glaucoma, we're told. The

[12:55] nation's second leading cause of

[12:57] permanent loss of vision. New research

[12:59] published by the National Academy of

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[13:12] And coming up next, Eye on America

[13:14] tonight, suicide by cop. Training the

[13:16] police to recognize and prevent it.

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[15:25] Governor Tom Ridge of Pennsylvania has

[15:27] ordered a 24-hour lockdown of all state

[15:30] prisons and roundthe-clock perimeter

[15:32] patrols. This follows a second escape in

[15:35] two weeks rejected after two inmates,

[15:37] one a convicted murderer, broke out

[15:40] today from a prison in Dallas,

[15:42] Pennsylvania. A convicted murderer who

[15:44] escaped August 2nd from a prison in

[15:46] Huntington is still at large. Tonight's

[15:50] Eye on America is the latest in an

[15:52] evening news investigation of a growing

[15:54] problem for this country's police

[15:56] departments. It is called suicide by

[15:58] cop. People who want to die force a

[16:01] police officer to pull the trigger.

[16:03] Tonight, Jim Stewart reports how

[16:05] officers are being trained now to

[16:07] recognize when they're being drawn into

[16:09] someone else's nightmare.

[16:11] >> Hey, put your hands up. If you're going

[16:12] to leave, take the rest of your

[16:15] >> There may be no call for assistance that

[16:18] scares cops more than calls like this

[16:20] one.

[16:20] >> This is what you drove my ass to.

[16:22] >> Is it a domestic dispute out of control?

[16:25] Or is it a death wish? What police call

[16:28] suicide by cop?

[16:29] >> We don't want to shoot you. Put the gun

[16:31] down.

[16:31] >> The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office

[16:33] recently became the first department in

[16:35] the nation to begin classes to help

[16:38] officers tell what could be that life or

[16:40] death difference. When you got an

[16:42] individual comes outside with a gun to

[16:44] their heads outside,

[16:46] >> that means that they probably want to

[16:47] die today and there's a good possibility

[16:49] they might want to take a deputy sheriff

[16:51] or a police officer with them. So, who

[16:53] are these people who wish to die but

[16:55] want to have the cops pull the trigger

[16:57] for them? Well, a Harvard doctor has

[16:59] drawn up a profile of suicide by cop

[17:01] cases. He found that most are men about

[17:04] 35 years old. 70% have a criminal

[17:07] record. Most have abused alcohol or

[17:09] drugs, but nearly all of them, he found,

[17:12] have given what they're about to do a

[17:14] great deal of thought.

[17:15] >> He had a plan, and he carried it out.

[17:19] >> John Nelson was held hostage by one in

[17:21] Orange County, California, in a case

[17:23] showing just how hard it is for police

[17:25] to tell a real threat from a death wish.

[17:28] Embittered by a custody battle, Michael

[17:30] Generco stormed into a board of

[17:32] education building.

[17:33] >> Appears that there are some workers

[17:34] leaving the building on the north. He

[17:36] let most employees slip out a side door,

[17:38] but Nelson was held back.

[17:40] >> He obviously planned to, as he used the

[17:42] word, force the police,

[17:44] you know, to take action, and he

[17:46] mentioned that a number of times, and it

[17:48] was obvious to me what what that intent

[17:50] was.

[17:51] >> Outside, the SWAT team and snipers took

[17:53] up position. Inside, Jenneros waved what

[17:56] looked like a gun and told police he was

[17:58] coming out armed.

[17:59] >> We started going downstairs to go

[18:01] outside. I knew it was, you know, the

[18:03] potential for anything was going to

[18:05] happen.

[18:06] >> Lieutenant Ron Smith was in command.

[18:08] >> When he came out the front doors,

[18:10] officers immediately started to shout to

[18:12] him, "Drop the gun. Drop the gun. Let

[18:15] the hostage go."

[18:16] >> But he doesn't. Incredibly, General

[18:19] seemed to pause and stand exposed under

[18:21] a light in the crosshairs. When they

[18:24] rolled his body over, they found he

[18:26] didn't have a real gun at all.

[18:27] >> He only gave us one choice. We had to

[18:29] stop him right then. Everything that was

[18:32] done by the team was was morally

[18:33] correct. It was legally correct. And yet

[18:36] it was tragic to go on the ground.

[18:38] >> So the lessons are simple. Keep your

[18:41] distance. Keep the subject talking. And

[18:43] sometimes learn that it's better to

[18:45] simply back off.

[18:47] >> Make sure your commands are very simple.

[18:49] Again, you're dealing with somebody

[18:50] that's irrational. They're despondent.

[18:51] Life's tough. They're ready to end it.

[18:53] >> And are dead set on having someone else

[18:55] do it for them. In Washington, this is

[18:58] Jim Stewart for Eye on America.

[19:01] >> And when we come back, a new prime

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[21:13] Afghanistan's Taliban government

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[21:17] the United States about accused

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[21:34] caucuses, Russia's latest internal war

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[21:38] confirmed yet another prime minister. He

[21:41] immediately promised to restore

[21:43] stability and David Hawkins has more on

[21:46] that.

[21:48] >> The Russian Duma had harsh words for

[21:51] President Yelen for churning through

[21:52] five prime ministers in less than 18

[21:55] months. But they approved Yelten's

[21:57] latest choice, Vladimir Putin, without

[21:59] putting up much of a fight. The

[22:02] 46-year-old former KGB spy faces a

[22:05] tougher battle in Russia's south. In the

[22:08] Russian Republic of Dagistan, Muslim

[22:10] guerrillas have seized a handful of

[22:12] mountain villages and have declared the

[22:14] territory an independent Islamic state.

[22:17] The Russian military has stepped up air

[22:20] and artillery attacks against the

[22:21] rebels. And many fear the conflict will

[22:24] escalate into a repeat of Russia's

[22:26] disastrous civil war in neighboring

[22:28] Cheschna. Although Chetchna denies

[22:31] supporting the rebels, some of the very

[22:33] same Chetchin warlords who battled

[22:35] Russia to a humiliating defeat two years

[22:37] ago are leading the insurrection in

[22:40] Dagasan. The Russian media is full of

[22:43] speculation that the Kremlin plans to

[22:45] use the crisis as an excuse to declare a

[22:47] state of emergency and cancel upcoming

[22:50] elections in order to keep Boris Yeltson

[22:52] in power.

[22:54] Yeltson today denied those rumors and

[22:56] said there's no plot to cancel the vote.

[22:59] He said the situation in Dagasan is

[23:01] under control. His new prime minister

[23:04] though was not so sure. Although Putin

[23:07] says the campaign to rouse the rebels is

[23:09] working as planned. He told legislators

[23:12] they should quickly consider a law for

[23:14] imposing a state of emergency if only in

[23:17] Dagistan just in case. David Hawkins,

[23:21] CBS News, Moscow.

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[25:43] when the first couple goes shopping for

[25:45] a new house in the trendy New York

[25:47] suburbs, it's not your average house

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[25:53] White House standards, this was a

[25:55] low-key trip. For a while, in posh

[25:57] Westchester County, New York, real

[25:59] estate agents were acting more like

[26:01] secret agents. very very secret. We were

[26:04] under strict instructions not to reveal

[26:07] the name of the person who was coming

[26:08] in.

[26:09] >> The Clintons looked at five houses, each

[26:11] more than a million. This one has seven

[26:13] rooms, 6 and 1/2 baths, and is listed at

[26:16] a million7. There's no price for this

[26:18] one. It wasn't even for sale until

[26:21] realtor Francis Eisner called the owners

[26:24] and asked if they wanted to sell.

[26:26] >> I never did tell who the client was.

[26:28] They did not know the client until the

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[26:32] >> That's the truth. Everything was very

[26:34] secret.

[26:35] >> Imagine their surprise.

[26:37] >> They were surprised and very pleasantly,

[26:40] right?

[26:41] >> So were the neighbors. Nancy Molof was

[26:43] holding a surprise baby shower for her

[26:45] best friend, Liz, just across the

[26:47] street. Nancy ended up asking a female

[26:50] Secret Service agent to let the guest of

[26:52] honor through the blockade.

[26:54] >> I was very concerned that she would

[26:56] spill the beans, but then I realized

[26:57] she's a Secret Service agent, and if she

[26:59] can't keep a secret, who can? Liz got

[27:01] past the barriers and was surprised

[27:03] twice. First by seeing her friends, then

[27:06] by seeing her president.

[27:08] >> Yes, if you moved into the neighborhood,

[27:10] we'd be happy to have them over. Not for

[27:12] Liz's shower, certainly, but maybe for

[27:14] tea and cookies

[27:17] or maybe a Big Mac.

[27:20] >> There are cynics who ask if the Clintons

[27:22] can afford a million plus house. After

[27:24] all, they're living at government

[27:26] expense now and have millions of dollars

[27:28] in legal bills. But ex-presidents have

[27:31] done pretty well in the past, so

[27:33] financing probably won't be an issue.

[27:35] Mr. Clinton is fond of taking credit for

[27:38] the strong economy that has inflated

[27:40] real estate prices. Now he'll be able to

[27:43] put his money where his mouth is.

[27:45] Richard Slesinger, CBS News, New

[27:47] Rochelle, New York.

[27:50] And that's the news. Dan Rather will be

[27:52] along later tonight with a 48 hours

[27:55] Monday mystery. And here's Richard

[27:57] Slesinger again with a preview.

[28:00] He stole women's hearts and then he

[28:02] stole their money.

[28:03] >> He's a con man.

[28:05] >> But is he also a killer?

[28:07] >> I think he would have killed me, too.

[28:08] >> Now, can he charm his way out of murder

[28:11] charges? I

[28:12] >> think it's just awful.

[28:13] >> A 48 hours mystery later tonight.

[28:16] >> And for Dan Rather, this is Bob

[28:18] Schaefer, CBS News in New York. Good

[28:20] night.

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