The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (PBS) - 1992-03-03 - 1 of 2

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[0:57] Good evening. I'm Charlene Hunter Galt

[0:59] in New York.

[1:00] >> And I'm Jim Lara in Washington. After

[1:02] our summary of the news this Tuesday, we

[1:05] look at the results of today's

[1:06] presidential primaries with David Gurgen

[1:08] and Mark Shields. Elizabeth Brackett

[1:11] talks with a group of voters in

[1:12] Hattisburg, Mississippi. Two economists

[1:14] interpret new economic indicator

[1:17] numbers. And Judy Woodruff interviews

[1:19] the UN official in charge of watching

[1:21] Iraq.

[1:23] Part of helping the world live and

[1:25] communicate better is keeping it well

[1:28] informed.

[1:30] That's why funding for the McNeel Lair

[1:32] NewsHour is provided by AT&T

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[1:47] and by the Corporation for Public

[1:49] Broadcasting and viewers like you. This

[1:53] was another big day in the 1992 race for

[1:56] president. There were primaries in

[1:57] Maryland, Georgia, and Colorado.

[1:59] Caucuses in Minnesota, Utah, Washington

[2:02] State, and Idaho. President Bush won the

[2:05] Georgia race over challenger Pat

[2:07] Buchanan. Here are the results as of

[2:09] now. The president with 61%, Buchanan

[2:12] 39%. That's with 52% of the vote in. Mr.

[2:15] Bush also is headed for victory in

[2:17] Maryland. And here are those results.

[2:20] The president was 71 to Buchanan's 29.

[2:22] Only 10% of that vote has been counted.

[2:25] In a statement this evening, President

[2:26] Bush welcomed his victories in Georgia

[2:28] and Maryland. He also pledged to work to

[2:31] gain the support of frustrated voters

[2:33] who turned to Buchanan. On the

[2:35] Democratic side, Bill Clinton won in

[2:37] Georgia. It was his first primary

[2:39] victory of the campaign. those results.

[2:42] Clinton with 63% followed by Paul Sunis

[2:45] with 18, Jerry Brown eight, Bob Kerry

[2:48] five, Tom Harkin two. That's with 52% of

[2:51] the vote in. The networks projected a

[2:54] win for Paul Sus in Maryland with

[2:56] Clinton second. Here are those results

[2:58] with 11% of the vote in. Sus 41% to

[3:01] Clinton's 31, Jerry Brown nine, Carrie

[3:04] five, Harkin five. Polls have just

[3:07] closed in Colorado. We will bring you

[3:09] those results as they come in and we

[3:11] will have more on the campaign results

[3:13] right after the news summary. Charlane,

[3:16] >> there were signs today that the nation's

[3:18] economy may be emerging from recession.

[3:21] After two months of declines, the

[3:22] government's index of leading indicators

[3:25] turned around in January to post its

[3:27] sharpest gain in more than a year. The

[3:29] index signals the course of the economy

[3:32] over the next 6 to9 months. In a

[3:34] separate report, the government said new

[3:36] home sales also turned around in

[3:38] January, soaring 12.9%.

[3:41] Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan

[3:43] today gave this cautious assessment

[3:45] about a recovery. He spoke on Capitol

[3:48] Hill.

[3:49] >> The performance of the economy clearly

[3:51] has been disappointing.

[3:53] The recovery in business activity since

[3:55] last spring has been anemic. Job losses

[3:58] have continued to mount and confidence

[4:01] has sunk to depressed levels.

[4:04] As we look ahead, there are a few

[4:07] hopeful signs, but at this stage, they

[4:10] are quite tentative.

[4:12] >> The Senate Finance Committee today

[4:14] approved a Democratic tax bill that

[4:17] would raise taxes on the wealthiest

[4:19] Americans. The plan also includes

[4:21] business and investment tax cuts and a

[4:24] $300 per child tax break for families

[4:27] with incomes below $70,000 a year.

[4:31] President Bush said this morning he

[4:33] opposed any plan to increase taxes. He

[4:36] was also asked whether raising taxes

[4:38] last year was the biggest mistake of his

[4:40] presidency.

[4:43] >> Well, I don't know about the biggest,

[4:44] but yes, I see I'm very disappointed

[4:47] with Congress. Uh I thought this one

[4:49] compromise, and it was a compromise,

[4:51] would result in no more tax increases. I

[4:54] thought it would result in total control

[4:56] of domestic discretionary spending. And

[4:59] now we see Congress talking about

[5:01] raising taxes again and some in Congress

[5:04] are talking about trying to break down

[5:05] the uh the spending caps. And so I'm

[5:08] disappointed. And given all of that,

[5:10] yes, a mistake. Later in a speech to the

[5:13] National Association of Evangelicals in

[5:16] Rosemont, Illinois, Mr. Bush said he

[5:18] would veto a bill aimed at reinstating

[5:21] abortion rights if the Supreme Court

[5:23] overturned Row versus Wade. A bill known

[5:26] as the Freedom of Choice Act has been

[5:29] introduced in Congress. Mr. Bush had

[5:31] this to say about it.

[5:33] >> It would impose on all 50 states an

[5:37] unprecedented regime of abortion on

[5:40] demand going well beyond

[5:44] even Row versus Wade. This is not right

[5:48] and it will not become law as long as I

[5:50] am president of the United States of

[5:52] America.

[5:54] >> Mr. Bush also announced his first formal

[5:56] summit with Russian President Boris

[5:58] Yeltson. He said Yeltson would come to

[6:00] Washington in June for two days of talks

[6:03] on nuclear and military issues and what

[6:06] he called joint efforts in support of

[6:08] reform in Russia. Former Soviet troops

[6:11] halted their withdrawal from a disputed

[6:13] region in Azerbaijan today. They did so

[6:16] after they were attacked by Armenian

[6:18] militants. It came amid reports of a

[6:20] massacre in the region which is called

[6:23] Negro Cabarak. We have a worldwide

[6:25] television news report narrated by Vera

[6:28] Frankle. A word of caution, some of the

[6:30] pictures in it are graphic.

[6:35] >> Exactly what happened at Kjali is far

[6:37] from clear.

[6:39] Armenia says it shelled the ethnic Azeri

[6:42] town within the enclave because it

[6:44] harbored two rocket launchers.

[6:46] The Azeris have been mourning what they

[6:48] claim happened next.

[6:51] >> Machine gun fire cutting down villagers

[6:54] as they fled to escape the barrage.

[6:57] The Armenians dispute the allegations of

[6:59] a slaughter.

[7:00] They insist mostly bandits and few

[7:03] civilians were there, but reports of the

[7:06] fighting indicate that the bloodiest

[7:07] ethnic conflict in the former Soviet

[7:09] Union has left no place safe or secure.

[7:13] Survivors

[7:14] were taken by helicopter to a hospital

[7:16] at Agdam.

[7:19] The feud between mainly Christian

[7:21] Armenians and Muslim Aeris over Nagorno

[7:24] Carabach has even splintered into

[7:26] attacks on former Soviet troops trying

[7:28] to withdraw from the enclave.

[7:30] Those former Soviet troops began their

[7:32] withdrawal last week for their own

[7:34] safety. They are the final buffer

[7:36] between the enclaves rival factions. The

[7:39] Chinese Foreign Ministry issued a

[7:41] statement today saying President Bush's

[7:43] veto yesterday of a bill attaching

[7:45] conditions to China's trade status was

[7:48] sensible. The bill would have tied

[7:50] progress on human rights, among other

[7:52] things, to a renewal of most favored

[7:54] nation status for China. Secretary of

[7:57] State Baker got a grilling from members

[7:59] of Congress today over US financial

[8:02] contributions to United Nations

[8:04] peacekeeping efforts. The Bush

[8:05] administration has requested a total of

[8:08] $700 million over two years to cover the

[8:12] US share of peacekeeping in Cambodia, El

[8:15] Salvador, and Yugoslavia. Congressman

[8:17] Joe Early, a Massachusetts Democrat,

[8:20] said that was too much at a time of

[8:22] tight budgets and domestic spending

[8:24] cuts.

[8:25] >> The system isn't working. The American

[8:27] people are upset and we're not paying

[8:29] any attention to them. They don't want

[8:32] to spend se They don't want to increase

[8:34] sevenfold.

[8:36] Sevenfold 700 million from a hund00

[8:39] million peacekeeping force.

[8:41] >> Mr. Mr. Early due to the change in world

[8:44] conditions there's going to be some

[8:46] increase in peacekeeping expenditures

[8:48] but there are decreases and you know

[8:51] there decreases in military

[8:54] expenditures. Either we address the

[8:55] national security interests of the

[8:58] United States or we don't. And you know,

[9:00] maybe uh maybe what you're suggesting is

[9:02] we simply withdraw. There's a lot of

[9:06] candidates uh who've campaigned on that

[9:09] on that kind of an argument in the past

[9:11] and they've been singularly unsuccessful

[9:13] because I don't think the American

[9:14] people want

[9:17] America to withdraw from its leadership

[9:19] role around the world.

[9:21] >> United Nations mediation efforts

[9:23] produced a ceasefire agreement today in

[9:26] the East African nation of Somalia.

[9:28] Leaders of the country's two rival

[9:30] factions signed the accord in the

[9:32] capital Mogadishu. At least 5,000 people

[9:36] have been killed since fighting broke

[9:38] out there last November. Nine previous

[9:40] ceasefires have failed. A UN envoy urged

[9:44] the faction leaders to make this one

[9:46] stick.

[9:47] >> And that's it for the news summary

[9:48] tonight. Now it's on to Gurgen and

[9:50] Shields, voter voices in Mississippi,

[9:53] some good economic news, and the United

[9:56] Nations ban on Iraq.

[10:06] This was presidential primary or caucus

[10:09] day in seven states. The polls have

[10:11] closed in Georgia, Maryland, and

[10:13] Colorado. President Bush took Georgia,

[10:15] and Maryland against Pat Buchanan. Here

[10:18] are the Georgia results with 61% of the

[10:21] vote in. The president has 61%, Buchanan

[10:24] 39%. The Maryland results. On the

[10:27] Republican side, the president was 71 to

[10:30] Buchanan's 29. That's with only 10% of

[10:32] the vote in. The networks have projected

[10:35] another victory for the president in

[10:36] Colorado where the polls closed just

[10:38] about 10 minutes ago. Turning to the

[10:41] Democratic race, Bill Clinton has won

[10:43] Georgia. Here are those results. With

[10:45] 62% of the vote in, Clinton 63%

[10:49] is 18. Brown eight, Carrie five, hearken

[10:52] two. television network to projected a

[10:55] win for Paul Sanis in Maryland. Here are

[10:57] those. That's with 11% of the vote in.

[11:00] Sus has 41 to Clinton's 31. Brown was

[11:03] third with nine. Then come Carrie and

[11:05] Harkin with five each. In Colorado, the

[11:08] networks report a three-way race very

[11:10] close between and among Jerry Brown,

[11:13] Paul Zongas, and Bill Clinton. That race

[11:15] is too close to call at this moment. We

[11:17] will provide updated totals later in the

[11:20] program. Gergen and Shields are here now

[11:22] for some analysis of what has happened

[11:25] thus far. David Gurgen is editor at

[11:27] large of US News and World Report. He's

[11:29] in Houston tonight. Mark Shields is a

[11:31] syndicated columnist and he is in

[11:33] Washington tonight. Okay. Going in this

[11:36] thing tonight, uh there were

[11:39] expectations or uh where the bar was for

[11:43] a lot for for everyone. Let's go through

[11:45] it, gentlemen, if we can. Bill Clinton

[11:47] had to win. He not only had to win, he

[11:49] had to win big in Georgia. Did he win

[11:51] big enough?

[11:51] >> Oh, he went big. I mean, big win. No

[11:54] question about it. Anytime you get 62%

[11:57] is projected, 60% and the rest of the

[11:59] field gets 40, it's a big win. David, do

[12:02] you agree? Did he do what he had to do?

[12:04] >> He sailed over the bar, Jim, with about

[12:06] 10 points to spare.

[12:07] >> Okay. Paul Sanangas, David, in um in

[12:10] Maryland, the projected he won. He's got

[12:12] about 49% of the vote.

[12:15] >> He Well, I think he's going

[12:17] >> I mean 41% I'm sorry. Projected vote,

[12:19] excuse me. It's a very solid win for Sus

[12:22] Jim. I think he cleared the bar as well.

[12:23] He was leading by about six or seven

[12:25] points in the polls going in to the

[12:26] finals. So, I think it's a very solid

[12:28] win for him outside his native New

[12:29] England.

[12:30] >> And that was the test, was it not, Mark?

[12:32] He had to prove that he could win

[12:33] outside of his area.

[12:34] >> Had to had to get out of New England.

[12:36] People where people didn't say George

[12:38] Bush. Uh he says George Bush and people

[12:40] in New in Maryland and Baltimore and

[12:43] Annapolis and Rockville understood him

[12:45] well enough to give him two out of five

[12:47] votes. It was it was a good victory.

[12:49] >> David, on Colorado, as I just reported,

[12:51] we don't have the uh the the polls have

[12:53] just closed. We're having we have

[12:55] projected uh uh results from the from

[12:58] the networks and they say it's very

[12:59] close. Uh Brown, Sus, and Clinton. Does

[13:03] that say anything or is it too early to

[13:04] say much about that?

[13:05] >> Well, you know, it's been very volatile

[13:07] in Colorado before, five weeks ago

[13:09] before Bill Clinton had some of his

[13:10] personal troubles and allegations. Uh he

[13:13] was strong out there was pretty far

[13:15] ahead. Then Sus moved ahead and then

[13:17] these attacks on Sonis and nuclear

[13:19] power. I I think Rick took really took a

[13:21] poll and Jerry Brown has been streaking

[13:23] upwards. He's become the wild card in

[13:25] this race.

[13:26] >> You agree Brown is a wild card that has

[13:28] to be reckoned with in some way.

[13:30] >> He sure does. I mean uh he he ran well

[13:32] in Maine and caucuses where they measure

[13:34] intensity of support on the same issue.

[13:37] Uh but a primary is a bigger turnout.

[13:40] It's it's a larger political universe

[13:42] where just the intensity and of zeal is

[13:45] not is not usually enough to carry the

[13:47] day. So I mean if if Jerry Brown's in a

[13:48] three-way tie right now or that

[13:51] approaching that then he's he's showing

[13:54] late strength.

[13:55] >> Yeah. What about uh what about Harkin

[13:57] and uh and Carrie?

[13:59] >> Uh it's a long look between good news. I

[14:02] mean, it's been since Iowa for Tom

[14:04] Harkin when he won in his home state

[14:06] just before New Hampshire, 10 days, 8

[14:08] days before New Hampshire. And uh that

[14:10] was the 10th of February. Uh we're now

[14:12] into March and there's no good news for

[14:14] him. Bob Kerry uh we could go Tuesday,

[14:17] he was king of the hill, having won big

[14:19] in South Dakota and there's no good news

[14:20] there tonight.

[14:21] >> David, let's assume that things uh

[14:23] finish tonight the way they look like

[14:25] they're going to finish. Uh Clinton wins

[14:28] in in Georgia, Susan.

[14:31] It's very close in Colorado. Is there a

[14:36] quote frontr runner among the Democrats

[14:38] as a result of tonight going into Super

[14:40] Tuesday a week from tonight?

[14:42] >> Two obvious front runners now, Jim, I

[14:45] think. And uh interestingly enough, Bill

[14:47] Clinton, who's I think very shrewd with

[14:48] his media strategy, has already come out

[14:50] tonight and made it very clear that his

[14:52] main opponent is is Paul Sanis. They're

[14:54] going to go head-on head through Super

[14:56] Tuesday. I think Clinton is setting him

[14:57] up a little bit on that because

[14:58] obviously Clinton will do well there.

[15:00] Although, as Marcus pointed out on other

[15:02] occasions, uh, Sonas may be very

[15:04] competitive in a state like Florida this

[15:06] next Tuesday, but then I think really

[15:07] think they they head into the Midwest

[15:09] and Illinois and and Michigan. And at

[15:11] the moment, Clinton has some real

[15:13] strength in Illinois.

[15:14] >> Yeah. But Sunus now has to lower

[15:17] incredibly expectations throughout the

[15:19] South, doesn't he? And say, "Okay, sure.

[15:21] He's Clinton's Clinton's a southerner.

[15:23] Let him have it."

[15:24] >> We're we're on the we're on the home

[15:26] court and try and win and steal steal a

[15:28] win in in Florida. Florida. I mean to

[15:29] try and beat him in Florida if in fact

[15:31] he can. Uh the other thing that shaping

[15:34] up Jim based upon the returns tonight

[15:35] and as well from New Hampshire is that

[15:37] the the profile of the Paul Strongest

[15:39] voter is that of a higher income higher

[15:42] education voter. Now if you're you're a

[15:44] Paul Strong support you'd say that's the

[15:45] thinking he's the thinking man's

[15:46] candidate. If you're not a Paul Song

[15:48] supporter you'd say that's the Shabli

[15:49] and Brie crowd and they they'll drive on

[15:52] their vos and probably vote Republic on

[15:54] election day. Bill Clinton by contrast

[15:56] has kind of put together what had been

[15:58] historically the base of the Democratic

[15:59] party working class both show great

[16:02] support among black voters in Georgia

[16:03] today and among bluecollar whites and

[16:05] they'll be saying well you know that

[16:07] that's that's interesting that they're

[16:08] going to vote Democratic anyway I would

[16:10] say the songist people so it's almost

[16:12] it's almost a little bit of armed camps

[16:15] uh we're going to the mattresses within

[16:17] the Democratic primary right now

[16:19] >> David the big test for uh for Clinton

[16:22] above and beyond everything else was

[16:24] simply

[16:24] Had he put behind him the the draft and

[16:28] the woman issue,

[16:31] has he done it as a result of tonight

[16:34] >> in Georgia? Jimmy Certain.