CBS Evening News - 1999-09-08

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[0:00] Terror

[0:02] in Timor and no help on the way.

[0:05] Civilians are driven from their

[0:07] homeland, robbed and killed along with

[0:10] the UN people who tried to protect them.

[0:13] Bill Bradley officially launches his

[0:15] challenge to Al Gore for the Democratic

[0:17] presidential nomination and full-time

[0:20] workers denied full-time benefits. Now

[0:24] they're fighting back.

[0:28] This is the CBS Evening News

[0:32] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News

[0:35] headquarters in New York. Good evening.

[0:38] A student leader in East Timore today

[0:40] warned of a quote holocaust unless the

[0:44] world can protect the people there from

[0:46] a reign of terror. But so far, the world

[0:48] has done little to stop an orgy of

[0:50] murder, arson, robbery, and forced

[0:53] removal against the people of the small

[0:55] province who voted last week for

[0:57] independence from Indonesia. This is a

[0:59] complicated story involving, among many

[1:02] other things, ancient distrust between

[1:04] Muslims and Christians. CBS's Richard

[1:06] Roth begins our coverage.

[1:10] The army says it's restoring the peace

[1:12] in East Teour, as its soldiers today

[1:14] were removing the people. The military

[1:17] claims it's a voluntary exodus. Others

[1:20] call it political cleansing, pushing out

[1:22] a population that voted for

[1:24] independence.

[1:26] Indonesia's Navy is sending boatloads

[1:28] from East Teour to other islands. As

[1:30] many as 200,000 people have now left the

[1:33] province, a quarter of the population.

[1:36] But one refugee said it's not a rescue

[1:38] mission the government's running. It's a

[1:40] goodbye operation. With East Teour's

[1:43] capital emptying and with burning and

[1:45] looting all around its besieged

[1:47] headquarters, the UN said it would pull

[1:49] out tomorrow, then delayed its plan.

[1:52] Food and water are almost gone inside

[1:54] the compound where some 2,000 people

[1:56] have taken refuge.

[1:59] If the few hundred UN workers pull out,

[2:02] there's fear for the safety of anyone

[2:04] left behind. British reporter Joanna

[2:06] Jolly is inside the compound. as soon as

[2:10] we go, if we leave them behind, um I I

[2:13] just don't know what's going to happen

[2:14] to them.

[2:15] >> American journalist Alan N just left the

[2:18] compound today.

[2:19] >> The Indonesian army and their militias

[2:21] are setting fire to homes and

[2:23] businesses. Uh they're shooting, doing

[2:26] massive shootings in the streets. It's

[2:28] hell on earth.

[2:29] >> But Indonesia today told a UN delegation

[2:31] it wants no foreign help handling the

[2:33] crisis.

[2:34] >> I've explained that position now for the

[2:37] time. I think during phase two we are uh

[2:42] we remain to be responsible for security

[2:46] in Eastimmore.

[2:48] >> Demonstrators are making the same point

[2:50] on the streets of Jakarta. Whether as

[2:52] peacekeepers or just witnesses,

[2:55] Indonesia doesn't want foreigners in

[2:57] East Teour. Richard Roth, CBS News,

[3:00] London.

[3:02] >> Portugal, the former colonial ruler of

[3:04] East Tor called today for a UN force to

[3:07] intervene. whether or not Indonesia

[3:09] approves, but no other nation joined

[3:11] that call. And in Washington, top US

[3:14] officials all but ruled out sending US

[3:16] troops. John Roberts has the latest from

[3:18] the White House. John. Dan. The

[3:20] president just completed a round of

[3:22] phone calls to the Secretary General of

[3:24] the United Nations and the leaders of BR

[3:26] Britain, Australia, and New Zealand,

[3:28] rallying international pressure on

[3:29] Indonesia to either end the violence in

[3:32] East Torow

[3:33] in an international force to do it. But

[3:36] responding to questions about potential

[3:38] US involvement in that force, the

[3:39] Secretary of Defense said today it would

[3:41] not include American troops.

[3:44] >> The United States uh cannot be and

[3:46] should not be viewed as the policeman of

[3:48] the world.

[3:49] >> The administration says it would offer

[3:51] logistical support to a possible

[3:53] Australian-led peacekeeping force,

[3:55] perhaps even offering ships as

[3:56] transport. But when asked why the White

[3:59] House would not respond in East Teour

[4:00] the way it did in Kosovo, the national

[4:02] security adviser said it was a matter of

[4:05] geography.

[4:06] >> This is a an Asian country that uh is

[4:10] going to respond much better to uh a

[4:13] international peacekeeping force that

[4:15] has very much an Asian uh domination, an

[4:18] Asian lead to it than to a western lead.

[4:21] >> It appear and it appears increasingly

[4:23] likely that an international force will

[4:25] be needed. The secretary general of the

[4:27] UN told the security council as much

[4:29] saying the peacekeeping force was ready

[4:31] to go. The task now is to convince

[4:33] Indonesia to allow them in. Dan John

[4:35] Roberts at the White House. Republican

[4:38] critics of US Attorney General Janet

[4:39] Reno cranked up the pressure once again

[4:41] today. This came following revelations

[4:44] that the FBI concealed information about

[4:47] its use of flammable tear gas canisters

[4:50] and possibly other flammable materials

[4:52] during the siege of the branch civilian

[4:55] compound near Waco, Texas.

[4:58] Janino says among other things they

[4:59] concealed it from her. The latest today

[5:02] on this was an outright call for Reno to

[5:04] step down from Senate Republican leader

[5:06] Trent Lot.

[5:08] uh based on the pattern now that has

[5:10] developed over 6 and 1/2 years and uh

[5:13] the events involving uh not only the

[5:15] appointment of independent councils, a

[5:17] refusal to provide information or answer

[5:20] questions uh by the congress uh the

[5:22] problem with the Waco investigation, uh

[5:25] the situation with the Puerto Rican

[5:26] pardons, all of that uh leads me to

[5:28] conclude that the attorney general

[5:29] should resign. Senator L.

[5:31] >> For her part, Attorney General Reno has

[5:33] selected former Republican US Senator

[5:35] John Danforth of Missouri to lead what

[5:37] she says will be an independent

[5:39] reinvestigation into what happened at

[5:41] the branch of Indian compound. The

[5:43] formal announcement is expected

[5:45] tomorrow. The presidential campaign

[5:47] kicked into a higher gear today.

[5:49] 56-year-old Bill Bradley went home to

[5:51] Missouri to officially declare that he

[5:53] is running for the Democratic

[5:55] presidential nomination. And as CBS's

[5:57] Phil Jones reports, Bradley did so amid

[6:00] new evidence in the early going that

[6:02] yes, he could just might give Al Gore a

[6:04] run for his money.

[6:07] >> Welcome home. The next president of the

[6:09] United States, Crystal City's own Bill

[6:11] Bradley.

[6:12] >> Bradley's official presidential

[6:13] announcement couldn't have come at a

[6:15] better time. A recent poll in the

[6:17] crucial state of New Hampshire showed

[6:19] Bradley in a dead heat with Vice

[6:21] President Al Gore. Today, Bradley never

[6:23] mentioned the Clinton Gore White House,

[6:25] but those listening seem to understand

[6:28] who he was talking about.

[6:30] >> I'm more interested in leadership than

[6:32] polls and politics,

[6:35] and I believe we need a new kind of

[6:36] leadership.

[6:42] >> Leadership that puts the people front

[6:44] and center, not the president.

[6:48] Bradley has promised to make race

[6:50] relations a major issue based on what he

[6:53] had learned as a little leager back in

[6:55] Missouri. I can remember walking out of

[6:57] restaurants in the bootill of Missouri

[6:58] because they wouldn't serve our black

[7:00] catcher.

[7:02] Racism disturbed me then and still

[7:06] angers me now.

[7:07] >> He talked about America's soaring

[7:09] economy that he said has still left many

[7:12] behind on issues like healthcare. While

[7:14] kings and dictators come to this country

[7:17] for the best health care treatment in

[7:19] the world, you and I both know that this

[7:22] care is not available to the 45 million

[7:25] citizens who have no health insurance at

[7:27] all.

[7:30] So far, Bradley is playing the

[7:32] presidential game on his terms and

[7:34] having success. He has raised about $12

[7:37] million without taking big corporate

[7:39] donations. Vice President Gore has

[7:42] raised 20 million, but he spent a lot

[7:44] more. Today, Bradley didn't have to

[7:47] provide details on major controversial

[7:49] issues. He'll get specific later this

[7:51] fall. Bradley knows that knocking off Al

[7:54] Gore, who enjoys all the advantages of

[7:56] incumbency, remains an uphill battle.

[7:59] Phil Jones, CBS News, Crystal City,

[8:02] Missouri.

[8:03] >> Still ahead on the CBS Evening News, the

[8:05] first lady comes face to face with a

[8:07] red-hot Senate campaign issue. Full-time

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[9:54] The political flap over what some regard

[9:56] as Hillary Clinton's flip-flop over

[9:58] clemency for supporters of a Puerto

[10:00] Rican nationalist group linked to

[10:02] violent acts came up today on her latest

[10:05] trip to New York. CBS's Russ Mitchell is

[10:07] tracking the first lady's positions and

[10:10] the reaction to this latest one.

[10:12] >> Good morning. Good morning. How are you?

[10:15] >> Today, for the first time, Hillary

[10:16] Clinton met with reporters about the

[10:18] issue that has her catching heat from

[10:20] both opponents and supporters. Over the

[10:22] weekend, she asked the president to

[10:24] withdraw his offer of clemency to 16

[10:26] jailed members of a Puerto Rican

[10:28] terrorist group.

[10:29] >> I stand by what I said on Saturday, but

[10:31] if this process has now moved forward,

[10:34] I'm sure I share the hopes of uh uh

[10:37] everyone that uh this uh agreement will

[10:40] be abided by and uh that uh uh the

[10:43] prisoners when they are released will uh

[10:46] you know be integrated back into

[10:49] society. The FALN was responsible for a

[10:52] series of bombings in the 70s and 80s,

[10:55] including this one on Wall Street.

[10:57] Although those being released were not

[10:58] the actual bombers, Mrs. Clinton's

[11:00] position is angering prominent members

[11:02] of New York's Puerto Rican community who

[11:04] feel they should have been consulted by

[11:06] the first lady. If people listen to what

[11:08] I'm saying in my community, then I think

[11:10] that she has a problem. But the

[11:12] interesting part is that I'm not

[11:13] listening to what people are saying to

[11:15] me in my community, and they're very

[11:17] upset about her actions. The first lady

[11:19] says the convicted terrorists have not

[11:21] shown enough contrition to be released.

[11:23] Political observers say Mrs. Clinton

[11:25] could have avoided this entire mess if

[11:27] she had announced her position weeks ago

[11:29] when the president first made his offer

[11:31] of clemency.

[11:32] >> Campaigns that take aggressive tax tend

[11:34] to win. She's now on the defensive on

[11:36] something that frankly should never have

[11:37] happened.

[11:38] >> 12 FAL members have accepted the

[11:40] agreement and could be released by the

[11:42] end of the week. And despite the first

[11:44] lady's thoughts, the president says he

[11:46] has no plans to change his mind. Russ

[11:50] Mitchell, CBS News, New York.

[11:52] >> The death toll doubled in Greece today

[11:54] from the earthquake that rocked Athens

[11:56] yesterday. More bodies than survivors

[11:58] were dragged from the rubble today.

[12:00] Officials say at least 61 people died.

[12:03] More than 2,000 were injured and many

[12:05] more are homeless. Tens of thousands of

[12:08] Greeks have refused to go back indoors,

[12:10] fearing possible aftershocks and

[12:12] structural damage to their homes. On the

[12:15] CBS Weather Watch, tropical storm Floyd

[12:18] formed way out in the Atlantic today.

[12:20] It's the sixth tropical storm of the

[12:22] season. Forecasters expect Floyd to

[12:24] reach hurricane strength by tomorrow and

[12:27] say it could become a major hurricane.

[12:30] For now, Floyd poses no immediate threat

[12:32] to land. Next up on the CBS Evening

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[12:36] full-time battle to get into business

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[14:45] Boris Yelson telephoned President

[14:46] Clinton today. The Russian president

[14:48] denied he was involved in an

[14:50] international money laundering scheme.

[14:52] Russia's chief prosecutor, a man

[14:54] suspended by Yelson in March, said this

[14:57] week that Yelson and his daughters

[14:59] should be questioned about accusations

[15:01] that they may have received kickbacks

[15:03] from a Swiss construction company.

[15:05] Yelson says he is cooperating with the

[15:07] investigation, but insists he has done

[15:09] nothing wrong. On the CBS market watch,

[15:12] stock prices closed mixed today. The Dow

[15:14] blue chips closed up two points. The

[15:16] tech heavy Nasdaq lost 28. 20 current

[15:19] and former employees of Bell Atlantic,

[15:21] all black, are suing the phone company.

[15:24] They allege that it retaliates against

[15:26] workers who report discrimination.

[15:29] Could it be that one of the nation's top

[15:31] universities with a reputation for

[15:33] cutting edge, even radical politics is

[15:36] discriminating against applicants

[15:38] because their mothers who work at home

[15:40] part-time? CBS's Sandra Hughes has the

[15:43] story of one mom who popped that

[15:45] question in a lawsuit.

[15:47] >> It's one of the nation's most

[15:49] competitive business schools where

[15:51] applicants are routinely turned away.

[15:53] But Katherine Zimmerman, a successful

[15:55] computer consultant, says she was

[15:57] rejected from the University of

[15:58] California's MBA program because she was

[16:01] a stay-at-home mom who worked part-time.

[16:04] >> I feel like they have basically

[16:09] refused to offer me an opportunity that

[16:11] I believe would make them proud and help

[16:14] my daughters have a very positive future

[16:16] and a role model as a business leader

[16:18] and woman today. Despite being refused

[16:21] entrance three times, Zimmerman still

[16:23] wants to attend the school. So, she's

[16:25] suing for admission.

[16:26] >> I want them to recognize that raising

[16:28] children is part of being fully

[16:30] employed.

[16:30] >> In her lawsuit, Zimmerman claimed she

[16:32] was told by a university admissions

[16:34] employee that quote, "100% of

[16:36] stay-at-home mothers are rejected from

[16:38] the evening MBA program." According to

[16:41] an annual survey of the nation's leading

[16:43] business schools, only onethird of

[16:45] students are female, which puts Berkeley

[16:48] at 38% above the national average.

[16:51] Officials at UC Berkeley wouldn't

[16:53] comment on the lawsuit, but they did

[16:55] admit the admissions policy for some

[16:57] programs at the HOS School of Business

[16:59] requires full-time employment, but

[17:01] business school admission consultants

[17:03] say that working part-time is not a

[17:05] reason to be rejected. I think the

[17:07] question for the school is not so much

[17:09] is the person working part-time or

[17:12] full-time or is the person working in

[17:14] their house or in a 10story office

[17:16] building. More specifically, they're

[17:18] asking, "Okay, let's look at the total

[17:21] package of this applicant." Katherine

[17:23] Zimmerman says her package was in line

[17:25] with other students and the only thing

[17:27] holding her back was motherhood. Sandra

[17:30] Hughes, CBS News, Los Angeles.

[17:33] >> Coming up next, CBS's Eye on America.

[17:35] Tonight, full-time workers denied

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[19:47] >> US unemployment is at a 29-year low.

[19:51] Almost everybody who wants a job has

[19:52] one. So everything's great, right? Not

[19:55] quite. Many are working full-time but

[19:58] getting no benefits because their

[20:00] employers refuse to consider them quote

[20:03] permanent. Now, as Wyatt Andrews reports

[20:06] in tonight's Eye on America, this issue

[20:08] is coming to a head in a case that

[20:10] involves tax laws, labor laws, and a lot

[20:13] of money.

[20:15] >> Come on, let's go in the house.

[20:17] >> For years, Jim Emerson had a '9s kind of

[20:20] job. He worked at Microsoft, one of the

[20:22] world's richest companies. He averaged

[20:24] $60,000 a year and he edited Cinemania

[20:28] Plastics,

[20:29] >> the popular CDROM software about

[20:32] Hollywood and the movies.

[20:34] >> I worked for three and a half years.

[20:37] >> He was full-time uh more than full-time.

[20:40] You know, it's Microsoft.

[20:42] >> But what was missing from the picture

[20:43] were benefits. He had none. No health

[20:46] insurance, no 401k.

[20:49] At a time when other Microsoft

[20:51] full-timers enjoyed some of the richest

[20:53] benefits and stock options anywhere,

[20:55] Emerson was employed as a freelance

[20:58] contractor. My predecessor was a

[21:00] full-time employee. There's no way you

[21:02] could say that that what I was doing was

[21:04] uh was a temporary job.

[21:06] >> Despite that, Microsoft took pains to

[21:08] keep Emerson as a temporary, suggesting

[21:11] after 2 years that he sign up with this

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[21:16] maintain the fiction of being freelance.

[21:19] So, this was a Microsoft supervisor.

[21:21] >> Mhm.

[21:22] >> Saying, "Go sign up with the temp

[21:24] agency,

[21:24] >> right?

[21:26] >> Same job that I'd already been doing for

[21:28] 2 years." So, you're still

[21:29] >> And Emerson says he wasn't the only

[21:31] full-timer who was signed up as a temp.

[21:34] >> Well, everybody knew that it was a scam,

[21:36] you know, that this was Microsoft's way

[21:38] of avoiding paying benefits, of avoiding

[21:41] paying their fair share of uh of Social

[21:43] Security taxes.

[21:44] >> I don't think it's actually legal.

[21:47] >> You don't think it's legal? No.

[21:48] >> David Stovall, Emerson's lawyer, has

[21:51] filed a class action lawsuit against

[21:53] Microsoft, claiming the company

[21:55] mislabeled some 10,000 full-time workers

[21:58] as contingent or non-permanent to save

[22:00] money.

[22:01] >> Ordinary regular workers who used to be

[22:03] part of the regular workforce are now

[22:04] called contingent in order to deny them

[22:07] paying benefits.

[22:08] >> Today, those workers have a name,

[22:10] permats, and Microsoft is not alone in

[22:13] using them. Permatamps are a growing

[22:15] part of the US workforce, as are charges

[22:18] of abuse. Media giant Time Warner and

[22:20] the oil company Arco also face charges

[22:23] they labeled full-timers as temporary.

[22:26] Hundreds of other companies, including

[22:28] CBS, have kept perm attempts on the

[22:30] books. Microsoft is just the most

[22:33] visible example of a sea change going on

[22:35] in the economy. A conversion from the

[22:37] full-time fullbenefit workforce to a

[22:40] freelance lowbenefit workforce. The

[22:43] assignments are of such a nature that

[22:44] quite often they're short-term.

[22:46] >> Microsoft calls its freelance workforce

[22:49] necessary. Software products are

[22:51] developed and sold so quickly, chief

[22:53] operating officer Bob Herbald argues

[22:56] Microsoft has to have flexibility.

[22:58] >> The eb and flow of the need for

[23:00] individuals in this industry is very

[23:02] significant.

[23:03] >> But what about Jim Emerson's three and a

[23:06] half years working on the same product?

[23:09] Well, some assignments end up ending

[23:11] much longer than than we originally

[23:13] planned,

[23:14] >> but that that CDROM was around for for

[23:16] years.

[23:16] >> Well, I'm not going to comment on a

[23:18] specific assignment. Microsoft says it

[23:20] treats its temps well, that they are

[23:22] highly paid, and that they do receive

[23:24] some benefits through the temp agencies

[23:27] like S&T on site. Jim Emerson admits

[23:30] that's true, but

[23:31] >> but that isn't what this lawsuit is

[23:32] about. This lawsuit is about the people

[23:34] who are who are obviously not temps. Um

[23:39] people who've been there for years. So

[23:41] the Microsoft lawsuit asks a '90s kind

[23:44] of question. Is the use of permatamps

[23:47] essential to productivity or an end run

[23:50] around laws that protect workers? In

[23:52] Redmond, Washington, Wyatt Andrews for

[23:54] Eye on America.

[23:57] Tomorrow night, we'll look at the push

[23:59] to change the system so that workers

[24:01] don't have to depend on any single

[24:03] employer for their benefits. And coming

[24:05] up next on tonight's CBS Evening News, a

[24:08] boy on a broomstick climbing the

[24:11] bestseller list.

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[26:19] We're closing tonight with a back-

[26:20] to-school book report on Harry Potter.

[26:23] Who's he? The latest in a long line of

[26:26] fictional kids from Huckleberry Finn to

[26:28] the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. In this

[26:31] case, with a little bit of Superman

[26:33] thrown in. Richard Schlesinger explains

[26:36] why kids are just wild about Harry.

[26:39] >> Not since little Annie has an orphan

[26:42] been so lucky.

[26:43] >> He could fly on a broomstick, which I

[26:45] thought was pretty cool. He is

[26:46] adventurous, brave, cou, courageous, and

[26:50] nice.

[26:51] >> Today, American bookstores started

[26:53] selling the third book about Harry

[26:55] Potter. Even though he's an orphan

[26:57] raised by evil foster parents, life's

[27:00] not all bad for him. He has magical

[27:02] powers and millions of fans. HARRY

[27:06] >> In Britain, where Harry Potter

[27:07] originated, the release of a new book

[27:09] has to be timed so kids won't skip

[27:12] school to buy it. In this country, the

[27:14] first two books are on the bestseller

[27:16] list. That's almost unheard of for

[27:18] children's stories.

[27:19] >> I think I'm enjoying it just as much as

[27:21] my daughter is.

[27:22] >> In England, so many adults were reading

[27:24] the books that the publisher brought out

[27:26] a more grownup version. In his latest

[27:28] adventure, Harry is 13 and still

[27:31] enrolled in the Hogwarts School of

[27:33] Witchcraft and Wizardry. He's being

[27:35] pursued by an escaped murderer, and the

[27:38] author hopes her readers are both amazed

[27:40] and amused. A lot of the humor for me

[27:43] comes from this conflict between this

[27:46] magical, very subversive world and the

[27:48] worker day world where people simply

[27:50] refuse to see what's right under their

[27:51] noses, which is that there are still

[27:53] wizards living everywhere,

[27:55] >> but in secret.

[27:56] >> He kicked this trunk open, pulled out

[27:58] his wand.

[27:59] >> What may be most amazing about these

[28:01] books is the magical power they have

[28:02] over kids. They're old-fashioned page

[28:05] turners. There's nothing high tech about

[28:07] wizardry, and Harry Potter has no

[28:09] relation to reality. Virtual or

[28:12] otherwise. Richard Slesinger, CBS News,

[28:15] New York.

[28:17] >> Virtual or otherwise, that's part of our

[28:18] world tonight. Dan Rather reporting for

[28:20] the CBS Evening News. See you again

[28:22] tomorrow. Good night.

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