CBS Evening News - 1992-08-19 (partial; with WCBS sports)
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[0:00] Dodgers. That's all LA would need as the
[0:03] Mets turned another no-name pitcher into
[0:04] Sai Young. Rookie Pedro Estasio held the
[0:07] unmazes to just six hits. Four zip the
[0:09] final score.
[0:11] Oh my. Tonight, the Mets turned to Doc
[0:13] Gooden while the Dodgers will counter
[0:14] with Oral Hersheiser. In the ring last
[0:17] night, fight fans down in Florida saw
[0:19] some quick business as a trio of boxers
[0:21] turned out the lights in a hurry. They
[0:23] saw not one but three straight first
[0:25] round knockouts. First, there was Lionel
[0:26] Butler in the orange trunks, who
[0:28] flattens Tony Tubs into the ropes for KO
[0:30] number one. All right, then there was
[0:32] Dave Rayun in the blue trunks, who lays
[0:34] out Eddie Avant with a barrage of
[0:36] punches, also in round number one. And
[0:40] finally, we have Billy Lewis in the
[0:41] white shorts, who just drills Jeff
[0:43] Kennedy. Bingo, sending him in the ropes
[0:45] for three consecutive first round
[0:48] knockouts. And finally, how about this
[0:50] for a major pro football disc, the
[0:52] Packers pick all-American Terrell
[0:53] Buckley in the first round of the NFL
[0:55] draft. Today, Buckley turns around and
[0:57] signs a baseball contract with the
[0:59] Atlanta Braves. Something tells me there
[1:01] might be an NFL scout looking for a new
[1:03] job today. I'm Ronettis Sports.
[1:05] >> He want He wanted to be with a winner, I
[1:07] guess. Aren't the Braves ahead of their
[1:10] >> Those fighters, are they bums of the
[1:11] month?
[1:12] >> Those those guys
[1:13] >> bums of the month club.
[1:14] >> Yeah, they could be. Yeah, I think
[1:15] they'd be right in there among the best.
[1:16] >> Cuz who are they?
[1:17] >> Nobody. Where did those guys come from
[1:19] and why are they fighting
[1:22] these questions?
[1:23] >> Next channel
[1:26] and I'm Dana Ton of CBS Evening News
[1:28] with Dan Rather. It's next ready and ask
[1:29] us tonight. We'll be back at 11:00. Good
[1:31] night.
[1:35] >> Ross Perau waiting in the wings. He
[1:38] tells CBS News he's ready to run again
[1:40] for president, but there's a big if.
[1:43] >> Also, an exclusive CBS News interview
[1:45] with Barbara Bush. The first lady talks
[1:48] about abortion, family values, and her
[1:50] husband's health. Also, Eye on America.
[1:53] Tonight, a visit to Clarksdale,
[1:55] Mississippi to get a gut check from
[1:57] hardworking Americans on how they view
[2:00] the subject of family values.
[2:03] This is the CBS Evening News
[2:10] from the Astradome in Houston, Texas,
[2:12] and the Republican National Convention.
[2:14] Dan Rather reporting. Good evening.
[2:16] Independent Ross Perau confirmed today
[2:19] to CBS News that he is thinking again
[2:21] about running. Perau gave the
[2:23] confirmation to CBS News correspondent
[2:25] Scott P in Dallas.
[2:28] >> In an exclusive interview with CBS News,
[2:30] Ross Perau said late this afternoon he
[2:33] is standing by to reenter the race for
[2:35] president. Perau says he does not want
[2:38] to run, but might be forced to if the
[2:41] two established parties do not propose
[2:43] what he calls hard-minded solutions to
[2:45] the nation's economic problems.
[2:48] >> If both parties refuse to listen to the
[2:51] people, if both parties continue to
[2:54] listen to the special interests that
[2:55] gave them the pack money, then if the
[2:57] volunteers came together another time
[2:59] and said, "You've got to do it." We'd
[3:02] have a spirited conversation. It would
[3:04] be
[3:06] un unforgivable if neither party would
[3:08] face these issues when the people want
[3:10] them faced.
[3:12] >> You're available.
[3:13] >> I only less like a fire extinguisher,
[3:16] you might say. Uh, you know, if all else
[3:19] fails.
[3:20] >> Perau's own plan in book form is being
[3:22] shipped to stores today. It opens with a
[3:25] warning. Our nation may confront a
[3:27] situation similar to the Great
[3:29] Depression. Perau proposes balancing the
[3:32] federal budget in 5 years with an
[3:34] aggressive combination of tax increases
[3:36] and spending cuts, including raising the
[3:39] top tax rate from 31 to 33%, a 50 cent
[3:43] per gallon gasoline tax increase, an
[3:46] order to federal agencies to cut
[3:48] spending 15% and increases in Medicare
[3:52] taxes and premiums. It is a 118page
[3:55] prescription that many analysts believe
[3:57] is too bitter to swallow. Well, a
[3:59] candidate of major party that runs on a
[4:01] platform like that would lose.
[4:04] >> Perau is still funding offices in all 50
[4:06] states and has paid for a new series of
[4:09] TV commercials. He says he's receiving
[4:11] thousands of calls and letters urging
[4:13] him to get back in the race.
[4:15] >> My sense is when he dropped out, he got
[4:16] a lot more beat up than he thought he
[4:18] would. Uh I don't think he wants to have
[4:19] his epitap being that he was a quitter.
[4:21] I think he has several things that are
[4:22] coming forth his book on issues and what
[4:24] have you. And I think he I think he
[4:25] liked the limelight. So my sense is
[4:27] he'll get back into it.
[4:28] >> More than five million people sign
[4:30] parole petitions and today he says he
[4:33] wants to protect their interests.
[4:35] >> Only if they're ignored
[4:38] uh would you maybe run into what I call
[4:40] the escape hatch possibility, but I
[4:42] consider that one in a thousand at this
[4:44] point. No one can be sure where this is
[4:46] all leading, but by midepptember, Perau
[4:49] will almost certainly be on the ballot
[4:51] in all 50 states with commercials on the
[4:54] shelf and his volunteer network still
[4:57] largely intact.
[4:59] Scott Py, CBS News, Dallas. Here at the
[5:03] Astrodome, President Bush and Vice
[5:04] President Coyle will be officially
[5:06] renominated tonight. Today, the Bush
[5:08] Quail campaign was trying to put down a
[5:10] story started by the president himself
[5:13] about a possible shakeup in Mr. Bush's
[5:15] cabinet. CBS News White House
[5:17] correspondent Susan Spencer has our
[5:19] report.
[5:21] >> The ticket rode a mockup victory train
[5:24] into a GOP gala today, hopeful that the
[5:26] possibility of riding a real one in
[5:28] November is improving as the drum beat
[5:31] of Clinton Congress bashing rolls
[5:32] merrily along.
[5:34] The status quo is under siege and the
[5:37] only way to break the deadlock in
[5:39] Washington is to clear out the dead wood
[5:42] on Capitol Hill. And I'm going to do
[5:44] what Harry Truman did. Take that case to
[5:47] the American people for a November
[5:50] decision.
[5:51] >> The public still views Mr. Bush
[5:53] considerably more negatively than it
[5:55] does Governor Clinton. But CBS News
[5:57] overnight soundings find Clinton's
[5:59] negatives rising since the GOP artillery
[6:02] came out. Now, you know what Bill
[6:04] Clinton wants for agriculture? He wants
[6:06] more regulation, not less. Environmental
[6:10] laws that are less flexible and more
[6:12] burdensome.
[6:13] >> Clinton sounds like he doesn't think the
[6:15] public is going to buy it.
[6:17] >> They've been pretty rough the last two
[6:18] nights, but it's all they know to do.
[6:20] They they they can't run on their
[6:21] record. It's the worst economic record
[6:23] in 50 years. They don't have any new
[6:25] ideas. They're basically promising
[6:27] discover America if you give them a
[6:29] fourth straight term.
[6:30] >> Bush spokesman, meanwhile, were putting
[6:31] out a fire. The president himself
[6:33] started when trying to sell the idea of
[6:35] change last night. He promised a cabinet
[6:38] shakeup should there be a second term.
[6:40] Not to imply, spokesman quickly said
[6:42] that there's anything wrong with the
[6:44] cabinet now.
[6:45] >> Well, the president's just pointing out
[6:47] the historical pattern that there are
[6:49] turnovers in a second term.
[6:51] >> Housing Secretary Jack Kemp, who
[6:52] delivered a heartfelt speech on the
[6:54] president's behalf last night, was
[6:56] widely reported on the cabinet hit list.
[6:58] Mr. Bush called him this morning
[7:01] >> said, "Please don't believe this uh
[7:03] stuff in the paper and uh you've done a
[7:05] great job and I want you to continue."
[7:06] So, I'm take the president to his word.
[7:08] >> The man who is supposed to prevent such
[7:10] snafoos, arrived this afternoon. Jim
[7:12] Baker, still officially Secretary of
[7:14] State, but unofficial campaign ZAR, is
[7:17] expected to oversee the final touches of
[7:19] the speech. It is said likely to include
[7:22] the president's version of why he broke
[7:24] his no new taxes pledge. But reporters
[7:27] are now being steered away from
[7:29] expecting any specific tax cut proposal
[7:32] or indeed anything very specific in this
[7:34] speech. The overriding idea, one source
[7:36] said, is quite simple. Make the country
[7:39] feel good about George Bush and very
[7:41] uneasy about Bill Clinton. Dan
[7:43] >> Susan, what's the read? How negative
[7:45] will the president be about Bill Clinton
[7:47] tomorrow night?
[7:48] >> Of course, the Bush campaign doesn't
[7:50] call this negative. It calls it defining
[7:52] the opposition. I think before this
[7:54] crowd, you're going to hear a lot of
[7:55] definition. And the definition is going
[7:57] to be that Bill Clinton is your typical
[7:59] tax and spend liberal, that you can't
[8:00] trust him with your pocketbook, much
[8:02] less your country. Uh, family values
[8:04] will be thrown in to imply that Bill
[8:05] Clinton doesn't have any. I expect quite
[8:07] a bit of red meat.
[8:09] >> Can we expect specifics on what the
[8:12] president plans to do about business,
[8:13] jobs, and the economy?
[8:14] >> Well, that's got to be the other half of
[8:16] the equation. He has to reestablish his
[8:18] own credibility on the economy. He has
[8:20] to present what he has laughingly
[8:22] referred to as the vision thing because
[8:24] after four years a lot of people feel
[8:26] like they don't understand what he sees
[8:28] for the future.
[8:29] >> Susan Spencer down on the floor. Thanks.
[8:32] The official theme here at the
[8:33] convention tonight is, as the
[8:35] Republicans put it, family values. Labor
[8:37] Secretary Lynn Martin will deliver the
[8:39] Bush nominating speech. Also addressing
[8:41] the convention, Marilyn Quail. But as
[8:43] Eric Inberg reports, the highlight
[8:45] tonight will be the speech by the most
[8:48] popular Republican in America.
[8:51] >> That most popular Republican is Barbara
[8:54] Bush.
[8:55] >> The last time I looked, Miss Bush, your
[8:56] popularity uh standing with a public was
[8:59] maybe 40 to 50 points ahead of the
[9:01] president. No.
[9:02] >> Has he come to you for advice on how
[9:04] >> No. And that's so silly because uh of
[9:08] course you can be popular when you don't
[9:11] have to make any decisions when um
[9:14] you're you're sort of not a threat to
[9:16] anybody.
[9:18] >> Devoting herself to causes from
[9:20] illiteracy to child care. She has
[9:22] carefully avoided political conflict in
[9:24] the past. She's been more a sturdy
[9:26] helpmate than a political battler.
[9:31] But as the GOP confronted the abortion
[9:34] issue again, Mrs. Bush offered abortion
[9:37] rights advocates the only encouraging
[9:39] words they heard from the White House.
[9:42] With so many uh women in the Republican
[9:44] party now taking a pro-choice position,
[9:47] >> which is great. I mean, that's
[9:48] >> what do you what do you say to them? Uh
[9:50] is there room for them in this party?
[9:52] >> Absolutely. We're the convention that is
[9:54] allowing pro-choice and pro-life people
[9:57] to speak. We're inclusive. if we're not
[10:00] exclusive.
[10:01] >> While sounding like an abortion rights
[10:03] supporter, Mrs. Bush argues that the
[10:05] focus should be elsewhere.
[10:07] >> But I think we should be talking about
[10:10] the fact that there's no such thing as
[10:12] safe sex and that children should
[10:15] abstain and we should be teaching our
[10:18] children early that there are family
[10:20] values that are very important. Beloved
[10:22] as the nation's grandmother and ghost
[10:24] writer for first dog Millie, she is also
[10:27] a savvy, sometimes tough political wife.
[10:30] But not as tough, she says, as Vanity
[10:33] Fair magazine portrayed her in a rare,
[10:35] uncomplentary article.
[10:37] >> A 1988 campaign staffer recalls that
[10:39] when she frowned, it had the capacity to
[10:42] send shuddters through a lot of people.
[10:44] >> Wow.
[10:44] >> Is that the real Barbara Bush?
[10:46] >> That's the 1992
[10:48] political year. If you can't get to
[10:51] George Bush one way, knock his family.
[10:54] >> She scoffs at any talk of presidential
[10:56] health problems.
[10:57] >> Is his health
[10:58] >> great? Absolutely great.
[11:00] >> And yours?
[11:02] >> Well, mine is fabulous, but I mean, I'm
[11:05] not running the mile as fast as I used
[11:07] to. I've taken up golf and I'm terrible,
[11:10] and it's one of my heartbreaks.
[11:12] >> She has a soft side, which comes across
[11:14] in her public events, but there's no
[11:16] mistaking she has a steely side as well.
[11:19] Good.
[11:20] >> Is it true that your kids call you the
[11:21] enforcer?
[11:23] >> Probably. Not to my face, of course. No.
[11:27] >> Candidate wives will be in the thick of
[11:29] the campaign this fall, as evidenced by
[11:32] the many attacks made on Hillary Clinton
[11:34] here this week. And the Republicans are
[11:36] moving Barbara Bush out to a new
[11:38] partisan role as a symbol of what they
[11:41] say traditional attitudes toward
[11:44] families are in America. Dan,
[11:46] >> thanks, Eric. Still ahead on the CBS
[11:48] Evening News Tonight, the United States
[11:49] and its allies prepared to take more
[11:52] Iraqi airspace. That story when the CBS
[11:55] News continues from the Houston
[11:57] Astradome
[12:10] one for peace.
[12:12] >> We are prepared to talk in this
[12:15] direction. The first chance they'll have
[12:17] to do that will be next week at the
[12:19] European Community sponsored peace
[12:21] conference in London. If the West
[12:23] accepts Serbian control in 2/3 of
[12:26] Bosnia, it will then mean that thousands
[12:28] of Muslims will need a new homeland.
[12:56] whole grain total.
[12:58] >> Of course,
[12:59] >> Total is the only leading cereal that
[13:01] has beta carotene plus 12 other vitamins
[13:04] and minerals.
[13:05] >> With this news about beta carotene, I'm
[13:07] eating total. Of course,
[13:12] >> there is news quite a bit of it beyond
[13:14] this convention tonight. The United
[13:16] States, Britain, and France have
[13:17] reportedly drawn up an ultimatum, a new
[13:19] one for Saddam Hussein. Stop attacking
[13:22] Shiite rebels or we'll shoot down your
[13:24] war planes. But a spokesman for
[13:26] President Bush says there is no final
[13:28] agreement to put the plan into action.
[13:30] David Martin at the Pentagon has the
[13:32] latest.
[13:34] British warplanes were getting ready
[13:35] today to return to the Persian Gulf to
[13:37] help enforce the no-fly zone the US and
[13:40] its allies are about to create to
[13:42] protect the Shiites of southern Iraq.
[13:44] With a similar no-fly rule already in
[13:46] effect in the north, that does not leave
[13:48] Saddam Hussein much country to call his
[13:50] own. There is no question the US and its
[13:53] allies have decided to take a harder
[13:55] line on enforcing the UN sanctions
[13:57] against Iraq. The question is why now?
[14:01] Iraqi officials claim it's all a George
[14:03] Bush make my reelection day campaign.
[14:05] >> They are looking for a provocative
[14:07] action to give them pretext for a
[14:10] military action and this is to boost the
[14:14] re reelection of uh Mr. Bush.
[14:17] >> But George Bush is not calling the shots
[14:19] by himself.
[14:20] >> The view taken in Paris by President
[14:22] Meterron and by me is equally as strong
[14:24] as that of uh President Bush in
[14:27] Washington. President Meterron and I
[14:29] don't have elections. Saddam brought
[14:31] this new hardline upon himself by, among
[14:33] other things, refusing to let UN
[14:35] inspectors enter his agriculture
[14:36] ministry last month. The standoff was
[14:39] allowed to drag on so long that there
[14:41] was more than a little truth to what
[14:43] Democrats were saying.
[14:44] >> If President Bush and Vice President
[14:46] Quail are such whizzes in foreign
[14:51] policy, why is it that Saddam Hussein is
[14:56] thumbming his nose at the entire world?
[14:59] In fact, Saddam is doing more than just
[15:01] thumbming his nose. His thugs are
[15:02] actually shooting at UN personnel.
[15:05] >> It was a lot of bullets and we were very
[15:07] lucky. We were three people in the car
[15:10] and uh I was the only one hit.
[15:13] >> George Bush and Saddam Hussein may be on
[15:15] a collision course in the middle of this
[15:17] presidential election, but it is Saddam
[15:19] who ultimately controls that course. He
[15:22] is the one who must decide whether to
[15:24] comply with or defy the UN resolutions.
[15:27] David Martin, CBS News, the Pentagon.
[15:30] >> There's more CBS News straight ahead
[15:32] from the Astradome, including wildfires
[15:34] spreading their heat in California and
[15:37] all this talk about family values. But
[15:40] who's family and what values?
[15:51] Now, you don't need a
[15:59] Because jams are less than 20 calories
[16:02] and naturally fat-free. A real man's
[16:05] breakfast with a name like Smuckers. It
[16:07] has to be good.
[16:10] >> If they want to change America, they
[16:12] come to us to talk to you. CBS This
[16:15] Morning with Harry Smith and Paul is on
[16:17] >> Bill Clinton to be their candidate for
[16:19] president.
[16:22] Some good news about the economy made it
[16:24] into the astrodome today after the
[16:26] tremor of yesterday about housing
[16:29] construction being down. The government
[16:31] reported today that the US trade deficit
[16:33] fell last month as exports it is said to
[16:36] hit a record high. More US exports could
[16:39] mean more jobs for Americans. Residents
[16:42] of Anchorage, Alaska had a job today
[16:45] cleaning up after a volcano. The
[16:47] eruption of Mount Spur covered the city
[16:49] with gritty ash. The volcano some 80
[16:51] miles west of Anchorage erupted
[16:53] yesterday, sending a plume of ash and
[16:56] smoke more than 10 miles into the sky.
[16:59] In California, the problem is brush
[17:01] fires and blistering heat. Correspondent
[17:03] Bill Lagatuda reports. Californians are
[17:06] looking for a break in this long torid
[17:08] summer.
[17:10] It's been so hot in California and so
[17:12] dry lately, it's a wonder more of the
[17:15] state is not on fire. Tonight, 10,000
[17:18] acres of forest land in Northern
[17:19] California are still burning, and the
[17:22] heat wave is making the firefighting a
[17:24] brutal job. Temperatures are in the
[17:26] 100s, humidity barely 5%.
[17:29] >> GOT TO WORK ON RIGHT THERE.
[17:31] >> TODAY, people were evacuated near the
[17:33] small town of Murphy's. More than a
[17:35] dozen buildings have burned.
[17:38] In Southern California, paying attention
[17:40] in school was tougher than usual today.
[17:43] It was over a hundred here, too. And
[17:45] many classrooms are without air
[17:47] conditioning. This is how some teachers
[17:50] were forced to solve the problem.
[17:52] >> Feel better?
[17:53] >> Yeah.
[17:53] >> Better.
[17:54] >> It's like the sun is right in front of
[17:55] your face. Very hot. I mean very hot.
[18:00] >> It is so hot in the room. I can't sit
[18:02] FOR MORE THAN 5 MINUTES MYSELF.
[18:04] >> There is not enough money in the budget
[18:06] to buy more air conditioners. And some
[18:08] principals are giving up letting the
[18:10] kids out early. Head to the beach for
[18:13] relief. This week, some of them were
[18:15] closed because of pollution, though most
[18:17] will open by the weekend, and just in
[18:20] time. Lately here, there's been a run on
[18:23] electric fans and waiting pools and
[18:26] frozen yogurt. It's hardly Houston style
[18:29] heat, and Californians do love the
[18:31] summer, but lately it's been a little
[18:33] much. Bill Lagatuda, CBS News, Los
[18:36] Angeles.
[18:38] Coming up next from the Houston
[18:39] Astrodome, the leading contender for the
[18:41] Republican presidential nomination in
[18:43] 1996.
[19:03] This is the Brightar primary audio
[19:05] circuit.
[19:08] Some top Republicans are already getting
[19:10] themselves in position for the 1996
[19:13] presidential campaign. A survey of the
[19:15] delegates here at this convention finds
[19:18] less than 6% want Secretary of State
[19:20] Baker to be the nominee next time
[19:22] around. Less than 10% like Vice
[19:25] President Quail. The big favorite
[19:27] supported by one out of three actual
[19:30] delegates is Housing Secretary Jack
[19:32] Kemp.
[19:34] My fellow Americans,
[19:36] the liberal Democrats just don't get it.
[19:43] >> Jack Kim fired his first shot last night
[19:45] in the 1996 race for president. So did
[19:48] Senator Phil Graham.
[19:51] So did Governor William.
[19:55] Pat Buchanan did it Monday night.
[19:58] Dan Quail will do it tomorrow night.
[20:02] In Houston this week, political agendas
[20:04] come in all different sizes. For while
[20:06] George Bush is fighting to get
[20:08] reelected, others are looking ahead. And
[20:10] if all potential presidential candidates
[20:12] in 96, Jack Kemp is the overwhelming
[20:15] favorite of delegates to this
[20:16] convention.
[20:18] >> Secretary of Hel.
[20:22] >> The popular housing secretary calls
[20:23] himself a bleeding heart conservative.
[20:26] He wants to lead a conservative war
[20:28] against poverty. But Kemp does not often
[20:30] have the ear of President Bush. And
[20:32] within the administration, there's not
[20:33] much support for his policies.
[20:35] >> The president doesn't say it the way I
[20:37] say it, but uh he's been there. He knows
[20:40] uh the problems. The leadership of the
[20:42] Democratic Congress is absolutely going
[20:44] to stonewall any attempt to to give
[20:46] President Bush any any legislation that
[20:48] would do what has to be done for our
[20:50] inner cities.
[20:51] >> You heard Pat Cannon's speech on Monday
[20:53] night. It was a not just a world apart.
[20:56] It was a cosmos apart from Jack Kemp's
[21:00] speech. There is a religious war going
[21:02] on in this country. It is a cultural war
[21:07] as critical to the kind of nation we
[21:10] shall be as the cold war itself. For
[21:13] this war is for the soul of America.
[21:15] >> I I worry about the idea of some type of
[21:17] a giad between the left and the right.
[21:19] Uh some holy war. I like to think that
[21:22] while you can be conservative in your
[21:23] values, you can be progressive and
[21:25] reform-minded in your policies. And
[21:27] that's what uh I believe in. Sounds
[21:30] good. But can any candidate, even a Jack
[21:32] Kemp, who is popular within his own
[21:34] party, ever get the party's nomination
[21:37] talking that way?
[21:37] >> Ronnie Reagan got the nomination in 80
[21:39] and again in ' 84. Uh his conservatism
[21:42] was values as well as reform and change
[21:45] of the tax code. That's mine. Uh is it
[21:48] possible to be a good guy and finish
[21:50] first? I think a lot of people have
[21:52] proven that that's true.
[21:54] >> Coming up next from Houston, I America,
[21:56] it's time to forget about the
[21:57] politicians. You will hear from real
[21:59] families about family values.