CBS Evening News - 1992-03-30

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[0:02] The end comes for Baby Theresa, the

[0:04] infant born without a brain. The legal

[0:07] and ethical debate goes on.

[0:09] New charges that the government is not

[0:11] properly inspecting the meat and poultry

[0:13] you eat.

[0:14] Also, Eye on America tonight, Biosphere

[0:17] 2. What in the world is going on in

[0:19] there?

[0:20] This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:24] >> [music]

[0:28] [music]

[0:29] >> Good evening. Dan Rather reporting. The

[0:31] infant known as Baby Theresa died today

[0:33] in a Florida hospital. Surviving her are

[0:36] difficult and painful questions of law

[0:38] and ethics.

[0:40] Correspondent Juan Vasquez is covering

[0:41] the story.

[0:43] >> Baby Theresa, born without a brain and

[0:45] hardly able to breathe on her own,

[0:47] finally died in her mother's arms this

[0:50] afternoon. She lived only 10 days, but

[0:52] in her brief life she sparked a profound

[0:54] debate about ultimate issues of life and

[0:57] death.

[0:58] >> She gave me a lot of strength.

[1:01] A lot of knowledge.

[1:05] A lot of courage.

[1:08] >> Doctors say two babies in every thousand

[1:10] are born without a brain, but that is

[1:12] not what this infant will be remembered

[1:14] for. Her parents fought to have her

[1:15] declared legally dead so her organs

[1:18] could be donated to save other children.

[1:20] But because she was born with a brain

[1:22] stem that allowed her to breathe, the

[1:24] courts considered her a living person,

[1:26] not eligible to have her organs removed

[1:28] for transplant. And she became the focus

[1:30] of an effort to have the law changed.

[1:33] >> The issue that the family bringing up is

[1:35] whether or not the medical community and

[1:38] legal communities all willing to agree

[1:40] that a patient who's born without the

[1:42] cerebrum

[1:44] but just with a brain stem is clinically

[1:46] dead or not.

[1:48] >> At the nearby University of Miami Organ

[1:50] Bank, officials track potential donors

[1:52] and recipients.

[1:53] >> There's probably about 9,000 of here

[1:56] waiting.

[1:57] >> What's most important, experts here say,

[1:59] is Teresa raised awareness about the

[2:01] 24,000 Americans awaiting transplants.

[2:04] >> Is that families should be more aware of

[2:06] transplantation,

[2:08] of brain death, what it means to be

[2:10] brain dead,

[2:11] uh and uh hopefully consider organ

[2:14] donation very seriously after they've

[2:16] lost a loved one.

[2:17] >> Because the law protected Teresa and

[2:19] kept her alive, her organs deteriorated.

[2:22] Only the corneas might be saved for

[2:24] transplant. But even before she died,

[2:26] her family found consolation in that.

[2:29] >> Even if it's the eyes, a gift of sight

[2:32] is very precious.

[2:34] And that alone

[2:35] is

[2:36] enough right there, because she's done

[2:38] her part.

[2:40] >> Late this afternoon, the Florida Supreme

[2:41] Court finally agreed to hear the

[2:43] family's appeal to have the baby

[2:44] pronounced legally dead. Ironically,

[2:47] their decision came about the same time

[2:49] as baby Teresa's heart finally stopped.

[2:52] Juan Vasquez, CBS News, Miami.

[2:56] >> It turns out that the federal

[2:57] government's seal of approval on the

[2:59] meat and poultry you buy may not mean as

[3:02] much as you think. Who says so? The

[3:04] Agriculture Department itself. In a

[3:05] report that was supposed to be secret, a

[3:07] report the public wasn't supposed to

[3:09] see. But CBS News correspondent Bruce

[3:12] Morton did see it, and here's his

[3:14] report.

[3:17] This woman and millions of other

[3:19] Americans buy meat and poultry inspected

[3:21] by the US Department of Agriculture. The

[3:23] poultry is government stamped wholesome.

[3:25] Is it?

[3:26] >> Every single package says

[3:29] wholesome.

[3:30] United States Department of Agriculture

[3:32] says this meat and poultry is wholesome.

[3:35] It's a lie.

[3:36] >> The Agriculture Department commissioned

[3:37] a report meant to be confidential, but

[3:39] leaked all over Washington, which says

[3:41] the Food Safety and Inspection Service,

[3:43] which inspects all meat and poultry, has

[3:46] lost sight of a clear-cut and widely

[3:48] agreed upon mission, together with

[3:50] strategies, goals, and plans for

[3:51] carrying out that mission.

[3:53] The current poultry slaughter system,

[3:55] the report says, is deficient from a

[3:57] public health viewpoint.

[3:58] >> They're inspecting foods like the old

[4:01] days, not looking for the

[4:02] microbiological and chemical

[4:04] contaminants that could cause serious

[4:06] risk for consumers.

[4:07] >> Critics say the service should be

[4:08] checking bacteria counts, establishing

[4:10] standards for things like salmonella,

[4:12] and that the National Academy of

[4:13] Sciences has been recommending these

[4:15] changes since 1985. The agency's new

[4:18] head promises another step.

[4:20] >> First, you have to find out what the

[4:21] hazards are. You have to quantitate

[4:24] those hazards, and that's what we intend

[4:25] to do with this survey. Second, you have

[4:27] to

[4:28] do the risk assessment. And that should

[4:30] take some time. Then you have to develop

[4:32] systems to manage that risk. Then you

[4:34] may eventually get to a point where you

[4:36] develop guidelines or criteria.

[4:38] >> Industry spokesmen say meat and poultry

[4:40] are thoroughly inspected, the safest in

[4:42] the world.

[4:43] >> Most of the foodborne illness that we do

[4:44] have occurs because of improper cooking

[4:47] and handling, not because of inspection

[4:49] problems.

[4:50] >> Critics say the Agriculture Department

[4:51] doesn't want bacteria standards because

[4:54] the industry doesn't want them.

[4:55] >> For 20 years, the department has said

[4:59] we don't want to set standards for

[5:01] bacterial contamination.

[5:04] The public should understand

[5:07] that chicken is contaminated.

[5:09] >> How much bacteria is on meat and

[5:11] poultry? We don't know. Will the

[5:13] Inspection Service introduce bacteria

[5:14] standards? Maybe.

[5:16] Later on.

[5:18] Bruce Morton, CBS News, Washington.

[5:21] >> President Bush says he will announce

[5:22] this week another new package of

[5:24] economic aid to Russia and other former

[5:26] Soviet Republics. Mr. Bush has been

[5:28] criticized by Republicans and Democrats

[5:30] for not doing enough to help the former

[5:32] communist superpower switch to democracy

[5:35] and a free market system. A United

[5:37] Nations study estimates that

[5:38] unemployment in Russia could reach an

[5:40] official 16% this year as state-run

[5:43] businesses shut down or lay off workers.

[5:46] With no more guarantees from the

[5:48] government, correspondent Anthony Mason

[5:50] reports Russians are taking to the

[5:51] streets to survive.

[5:54] >> Dawn in Moscow and a lonely retired

[5:56] policeman lugs his crate into position.

[5:59] Downtown and across from the Bolshoi

[6:01] Theater, Victor sets up shop. For sale,

[6:04] a few watches, a hair dryer, the profits

[6:07] to supplement his pitiful $2 monthly

[6:09] pension.

[6:11] "I hate this," he says, "but how else am

[6:14] I supposed to survive?"

[6:16] Victor is not alone for long. Every

[6:18] morning now in the center of Moscow,

[6:20] thousands, tens of thousands, bring

[6:23] their goods and stake their ground on a

[6:25] stretch of sidewalk that begins across

[6:27] from the KGB building and turns the

[6:29] corner at the Bolshoi. In the past few

[6:32] weeks, this street, once named for Karl

[6:34] Marx, has been transformed into a

[6:36] quarter-mile boulevard of raw,

[6:38] unregulated capitalism. In effect, a

[6:41] black market with the government's

[6:43] blessing.

[6:45] The Soviet Union never saw such a

[6:47] supermarket. Imported shoes,

[6:49] chandeliers, they may not be crystal,

[6:51] but the crystal is.

[6:54] "I buy dollars and Deutschmarks," the

[6:56] sign says. "It's illegal and he knows

[6:59] it." But on the edge of it all in their

[7:01] mobile headquarters, the police have

[7:03] been told to sit tight.

[7:06] "It's disorderly. It's unhealthy," the

[7:08] sergeant complains, but his orders are

[7:10] to leave the market alone.

[7:13] Selling sports shoes out of your car

[7:15] would have been a crime under communism,

[7:17] but Yelena, a mother of three, says,

[7:19] "I'm solving my own problems. That's

[7:21] what everybody here is doing."

[7:24] Like Yuri, doing a brisk business in

[7:26] umbrellas.

[7:28] "I never made more than 300 rubles a

[7:30] month as a driver," he says. "Here, he

[7:33] makes that much in a day."

[7:35] Russia's new leaders insist this chaos

[7:37] is the first step towards mature

[7:39] capitalism.

[7:40] >> Now, it's very, very

[7:42] difficult to change anything.

[7:45] >> And watching the clean-up after one day

[7:48] of street capitalism will convince you

[7:50] the change here is a messy business.

[7:53] Anthony Mason, CBS News, Moscow.

[7:56] >> Still ahead on tonight's CBS Evening

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[9:17] >> New York today became the latest city to

[9:19] add anti-gun education to the public

[9:21] school curriculum from kindergarten

[9:23] right up through high school. Miami and

[9:25] Los Angeles have similar programs. Some

[9:28] school systems are trying to get guns

[9:29] out of the classroom by offering their

[9:31] owners hard cash. Jacqueline Adams has

[9:35] more about that.

[9:37] >> There's an epidemic ravaging US cities,

[9:39] an epidemic of violence. The carnage can

[9:42] be seen every night on the local news.

[9:45] >> Numerous shots rang out at this

[9:47] Minneapolis duplex striking

[9:49] >> gun and pulled off two shots and the

[9:50] Jefferson High School student laid dying

[9:53] in the school hallway.

[9:53] >> host's first customer came in and shot

[9:56] him.

[9:57] >> We have one gun for every man, woman,

[9:58] and child in the country.

[9:59] >> Increasingly young people are using

[10:01] those guns.

[10:03] >> There are kids that are scared. They do

[10:04] carry them for protection. A lot of kids

[10:06] feel like I'd rather be caught with it

[10:08] than be without it.

[10:10] >> In desperation, city officials from San

[10:12] Francisco to Brooklyn to Philadelphia

[10:14] have tried to convince teenagers

[10:16] especially to turn in their guns by

[10:18] offering cash bounties.

[10:21] >> Okay, $50 is your senior rate.

[10:23] >> In Minneapolis, the effort was so

[10:25] successful that funds dried up in less

[10:27] than a week. 5,000 handguns, sawed-off

[10:30] shotguns, and rifles were turned in for

[10:32] $50 each.

[10:33] >> Tell the kids that you work with about

[10:35] the drop your guns program. No questions

[10:37] asked.

[10:39] >> After raising another $50,000, county

[10:41] officials resumed the program and this

[10:43] time aimed it at local schools.

[10:46] >> Guy doesn't have to carry a gun to be

[10:47] macho. Doesn't make you any bigger or

[10:49] any stronger or any smarter.

[10:52] Guns are dangerous items.

[10:53] >> But not everyone thinks gun amnesty

[10:55] programs are worth the money. Critics

[10:57] complain that people with old guns,

[10:59] worthless guns, gun dealers are turning

[11:01] in their weapons largely for the cash

[11:03] while teenagers and criminals are

[11:05] holding on to theirs.

[11:07] >> All I know is that somebody was willing

[11:09] to give me $50 for a gun that was worth

[11:12] six bucks.

[11:13] >> If they got a gun, they got they ain't

[11:14] going to turn it in for $50.

[11:16] >> They're not going to turn it in.

[11:16] >> Especially not no gang member.

[11:18] >> The people who are going to kill are not

[11:20] going to give you their guns in the gun

[11:21] amnesty program. I think we have to face

[11:23] that fact and use the enforcement

[11:26] strategies that we've been using against

[11:28] drugs and start focusing in a

[11:30] police-directed war on guns in America.

[11:34] >> Supporters, however, say gun amnesty is

[11:36] at least a start, a sign to parents and

[11:39] the teenagers who carry guns that

[11:41] someone, someplace, cares.

[11:45] Jacqueline Adams, CBS News, Minneapolis.

[11:48] >> One of the most infamous handguns in

[11:50] American history may be about to

[11:52] disappear forever. The pistol used by

[11:54] Jack Ruby to kill Lee Harvey Oswald,

[11:56] alleged assassin of President John

[11:58] Kennedy, is in the hands of US Capitol

[12:00] Police tonight. The unloaded gun was

[12:02] seized over the weekend from a sightseer

[12:04] who said he's a representative of the

[12:06] gun's owner. District of Columbia policy

[12:09] is for seized weapons to be destroyed.

[12:11] The owner has asked a judge to order

[12:12] this gun returned to him.

[12:15] There is more CBS News straight ahead.

[12:16] Next up, the man behind the Willie

[12:18] Horton ad is back,

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[14:15] possibility H. Ross Perot named a

[14:17] temporary running mate today. He's James

[14:19] Stockdale, retired US Navy admiral and

[14:22] former Vietnam POW. Texas billionaire

[14:24] Perot says he will run if supporters can

[14:27] put his name on the ballot in all 50

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[14:39] Get ready for more negative advertising

[14:41] in the presidential campaign. The whole

[14:43] campaign may be about to get a lot

[14:45] dirtier. The man behind the ad that

[14:47] helped destroy Michael Dukakis in 1988

[14:50] said today he's preparing a new assault

[14:53] on Bill Clinton.

[14:54] Phil Plant is at the White House.

[14:58] >> If you liked the 1988 presidential

[15:00] campaign, you're going to love 1992.

[15:03] >> Dukakis not only opposes the death

[15:05] penalty, he allowed first-degree

[15:06] murderers to have weekend passes from

[15:08] prison.

[15:09] One was Willie Horton.

[15:11] >> Floyd Brown is back. Brown heads the

[15:13] Conservative Political Action Committee,

[15:15] which paid for the Willie Horton ad. And

[15:18] just like 4 years ago, he can't wait to

[15:20] help George Bush, especially if his

[15:23] opponent is Bill Clinton.

[15:25] >> Every time I pick up the morning

[15:26] newspaper, I feel like a kid in the

[15:28] candy store. The fact is is that he is

[15:31] just uh

[15:32] uh very vulnerable.

[15:33] >> Brown says he will raise $10 million to

[15:35] make what he calls comparative ads for

[15:38] the '92 campaign. He says there is no

[15:40] connection with the Bush campaign.

[15:42] The White House was alarmed enough to

[15:44] send Assistant Press Secretary Judy

[15:46] Smith door-to-door in the press room

[15:48] today to disavow Brown's committee and

[15:50] demand that he stop soliciting funds.

[15:53] They may be a little sensitive at the

[15:55] White House because of what happened in

[15:56] 1988. One man who worked on the Horton

[15:59] ad was working at the same time for the

[16:01] official Bush campaign. The producer of

[16:04] the Horton spot had previously worked

[16:06] for Bush media adviser Roger Ailes. And

[16:08] this time around, Democrats don't buy

[16:11] the idea that there's no connection.

[16:13] >> I would bet there's not a viewer tonight

[16:15] who believes that this isn't connected

[16:17] to George Bush and his effort to win

[16:19] re-election.

[16:20] >> Bill Clinton wasn't buying it, either.

[16:22] >> George Bush said on David Frost that he

[16:24] would do anything it took to win.

[16:26] I'm getting sick and tired of people who

[16:28] are too weak-kneed to take him on.

[16:30] >> In case there's any doubt about what

[16:32] kind of campaign lies ahead, a senior

[16:33] official said today that the president

[16:35] will make family values a key campaign

[16:37] issue, but that he won't be doing any

[16:40] ads attacking Clinton's character. No,

[16:42] said the official, the president will

[16:43] let others do that.

[16:46] Phil Plant, CBS News, the White House.

[16:48] >> Coming up next, Eye on America. Tonight,

[16:51] Biosphere 2. Is it science or science

[16:54] fiction?

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[18:45] >> It's been 6 months now since four men

[18:48] and four women entered that high-tech

[18:50] greenhouse known as quote Biosphere 2.

[18:53] Promoters call it a scientific wonder.

[18:56] Critics wonder, what's really going on?

[19:00] Bob Orr takes a look in tonight's Eye on

[19:02] America.

[19:07] >> Welcome to Biosphere 2, perhaps the most

[19:10] ambitious and complex scientific

[19:12] experiment ever envisioned.

[19:14] >> Or so they claimed as the eight

[19:16] biospherians were sealed inside a huge

[19:18] glass box in the Arizona desert. Nothing

[19:20] could enter, no air, no water, nothing

[19:22] we were told as biospherians raise their

[19:25] own food and develop technologies for

[19:26] man to live on other planets. And to

[19:28] hear them tell it, they are.

[19:30] >> Given the the complexity and the

[19:32] innovations of a lot of the systems in

[19:33] Biosphere 2, what's been remarkable is

[19:37] how how little trouble we've had, how

[19:39] reliable everything has been operating.

[19:41] >> But with no fanfare, Biosphere 2

[19:43] stockpiled lots of food beforehand. And

[19:46] after this was supposedly sealed tight,

[19:48] fresh air was not only pumped in,

[19:50] scrubbers were secretly brought in to

[19:51] keep the air clean. And when biospherian

[19:54] Jane Poynter had to leave for medical

[19:55] reasons and hustled back with a ditty

[19:57] bag stuffed with supplies, critics cried

[20:00] foul.

[20:01] >> The argument here is not whether the

[20:02] public is being ripped off. There is no

[20:04] government money involved. This is a

[20:06] private business venture. The argument

[20:08] is whether the public is being

[20:09] hoodwinked.

[20:10] >> They welcomed me with open arms.

[20:11] >> But when the man hired by Biosphere 2 to

[20:13] make a documentary began to notice

[20:15] certain things, Biosphere slammed the

[20:17] door shut.

[20:18] >> For instance, uh dead hummingbirds.

[20:21] An interesting thing. Why did the

[20:23] hummingbirds die? But as soon as I

[20:25] picked up my camera to get a shot of

[20:26] them, a biospherian stepped in front of

[20:28] me, blocked the lens, and said, "No dead

[20:30] things."

[20:31] >> Environmentally sound? Don't tell that

[20:33] to the project's original architect.

[20:35] >> They could cool half the University of

[20:36] Arizona with the air conditioning

[20:38] required to cool this glass box in the

[20:40] middle of Arizona, in the hottest place

[20:42] in the in the country.

[20:43] >> And there is a cheaper, more

[20:45] ecologically sound way to cool that

[20:47] structure.

[20:48] >> Oh, yes. They wouldn't even use solar

[20:50] power.

[20:50] >> Well, I'd like to say there's absolutely

[20:53] no fraud in the Biosphere.

[20:55] >> But there absolutely are questions about

[20:57] the credentials of project director

[20:58] Margaret Augustine, who claims a degree

[21:00] in architecture from something called

[21:02] the Institute of Ecotechnics in London.

[21:05] Located in an art gallery here, it has

[21:07] no phone, no faculty, no library, nor is

[21:11] it accredited.

[21:12] >> You have worked with her as an

[21:13] architect. How would you consider her?

[21:15] >> I'm confident she's uh selling herself

[21:17] as something that she is not. That's

[21:19] fraudulent.

[21:20] >> The critics also complain that some of

[21:21] the players at Biosphere 2 aren't really

[21:23] scientists, but are new age quacks. They

[21:26] also should have a theater group in New

[21:27] Mexico just a few years ago, whose

[21:29] members used to sit around the dining

[21:31] room table wearing animal masks, saying

[21:34] absolutely nothing, then howling at the

[21:36] top of their lungs.

[21:37] >> Yes, a lot of howling.

[21:39] >> Dr. Andrew Weil, who teaches now at the

[21:40] University of Arizona Medical School,

[21:42] has never quite gotten over one of the

[21:44] dinners.

[21:44] >> I have traveled widely and seen lots of

[21:46] strange sights, so I'm not usually

[21:48] phased by by things, but it was not what

[21:50] I expected of a scientific research

[21:52] group.

[21:53] >> Augustine dismisses criticism by saying

[21:55] all great science has been

[21:56] misunderstood.

[21:57] >> I mean, the Biosphere ought to be

[21:59] applauded as an incredible um American

[22:04] engineering achievement. I think we're a

[22:05] project that is is looking at the bottom

[22:08] line of of the planet.

[22:10] >> The structure is built out in the

[22:11] Arizona desert.

[22:12] >> Criticism has not kept tourists from

[22:14] flocking here, nor has it kept Biosphere

[22:16] from making extravagant new claims.

[22:18] >> So, just in the first engineering

[22:20] challenge, we've really moved the field

[22:22] quite a bit ahead.

[22:23] >> So, in in plain English, you can teach

[22:25] NASA something.

[22:26] >> Oh, absolutely.

[22:27] >> But NASA's life support director gently

[22:29] scoffs at that claim, and the drumbeat

[22:31] of criticism grows louder.

[22:34] >> I think it makes a great theme park, and

[22:36] if they want to represent it as that,

[22:37] that's fine. But what bothers me is that

[22:39] it has been misrepresented as science.

[22:42] >> These people are really scary.

[22:43] >> Do you regard this as a great

[22:45] opportunity that's been squandered?

[22:47] >> Oh, yes.

[22:48] >> Biosphere 2 is bursting with life, says

[22:50] director Augustine, but bursting all

[22:52] around is a controversy which will not

[22:53] go away, whether this is a harbinger of

[22:56] the future or a hoax. This is Bob Fo in

[22:59] Oracle, Arizona, for Eye on America.

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[25:26] has the story of Beauty, the Beast, and

[25:29] the Oscars.

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[26:02] >> In fact, animation is booming. 12 new

[26:05] movies are in the works. Artists who a

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[26:09] swamped.

[26:10] >> I'm kind of stunned by the whole thing.

[26:12] You know, suddenly I'm being taken out

[26:13] to dinner.

[26:14] I mean, studios are inviting me to their

[26:15] parties. Suddenly it's become a very

[26:17] wonderful thing to be an animator.

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[26:24] computers to help animate his new film

[26:26] with a save-the-rainforest theme, all

[26:29] riding the coattails of the Beast.

[26:31] >> I think that as long as there's money to

[26:32] be made in animation, more people will

[26:34] get into it. And I think it's finding an

[26:36] audience.

[26:37] >> What's up, Doc?

[26:38] >> What does an old master think of all

[26:40] this new excitement? Friz Freleng gave

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[26:49] >> I don't think that

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[26:53] really belongs in that category. I can't

[26:55] compare the girl to any movie actress

[26:58] that I know of.

[26:59] >> In other words, she's good, but she's no

[27:02] Thelma or Louise. But at Disney, Beauty

[27:05] and the Beast has grossed $122 million

[27:08] so far, and if it wins tonight, well,

[27:10] they couldn't draw the money faster.

[27:13] Such stardom, no one here seems quite

[27:15] prepared for.

[27:16] >> Are you going to be going to the Oscars?

[27:18] >> Uh no, I couldn't get tickets.

[27:21] >> There may be something there that wasn't

[27:23] there before.

[27:24] >> What's there at the Oscars tonight is a

[27:26] new enthusiasm for an old art. In a

[27:29] movie year featuring controversy,

[27:31] conspiracy, cannibalism, much of America

[27:35] tonight is rooting for the lovers.

[27:38] Bill Lagattuta, CBS News, Hollywood.

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