CBS Evening News - 1999-06-01

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[0:00] Julia Roberts exclusive new scene on ET.

[0:08] >> A new attack on youth violence.

[0:10] President Clinton goes after violent

[0:12] video games and the ads that sell them

[0:15] to children.

[0:16] >> Here's one at the most unbelievable all.

[0:18] It says, "Kill your friends guilt-free."

[0:22] >> Survivors of real life violence returned

[0:24] to Coline High School for the first time

[0:26] since the massacre. And there are new

[0:29] questions about the safety of a

[0:31] bodybuilding supplement used by Mark

[0:33] Maguire and other athletes.

[0:39] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:43] Rather.

[0:45] >> Good evening. Dan is off tonight. I'm

[0:46] John Roberts. News from Colorado and the

[0:49] nation's capital today about youth

[0:51] violence. Coline High School students

[0:53] were allowed inside today to retrieve

[0:55] their belongings. More about that

[0:57] emotional return in just a moment.

[0:59] First, Scott P reports. President

[1:01] Clinton today took on an industry he

[1:03] believes may be marketing violence to

[1:06] the youth of America.

[1:11] The president is ordering an

[1:13] investigation of the entertainment

[1:14] industry with particular aim at video

[1:17] games. The White House is suggesting

[1:19] that some entertainment companies are

[1:21] using advertising to market violence to

[1:24] children just the way cigarette

[1:26] companies deceptively lured kids to

[1:28] smoking. In the Rose Garden today, Mr.

[1:30] Clinton singled out these ads for

[1:32] ridicule.

[1:33] >> It says every sensation, every

[1:36] vibration, every mutilation.

[1:39] Nine programmable weapons buttons.

[1:44] Customizable feedback software. Push the

[1:46] stick that pushes back and feel your

[1:49] pain.

[1:51] And here's one that the most

[1:52] unbelievable of all. It says, "Kill your

[1:54] friends guilt-free."

[1:56] >> So today, the president ordered the

[1:59] investigation of entertainment

[2:00] advertising, suggested the PG-13 movie

[2:03] rating allowed too much violence, and

[2:06] asked video store managers to draw the

[2:08] line and enforce the ratings. The game

[2:12] industry fired back, saying, "Mr.

[2:14] Clinton is just wrong to connect video

[2:16] violence to real life.

[2:18] >> The causes of youth violence are very

[2:20] deep and very profound. And video games

[2:22] don't teach people to hate. They don't

[2:23] teach you to be a Nazi. They don't teach

[2:26] you to use weapons.

[2:27] >> We got to quit fooling around with this.

[2:31] We've got a chance. Our hearts are open.

[2:34] Our ears are open. Our heads are

[2:36] thinking.

[2:38] I know this stuff sells, but that

[2:41] doesn't make it right.

[2:42] >> Of course, Mr. Clinton counts many

[2:44] friends and campaign contributors among

[2:47] those in the entertainment industry. The

[2:49] attorney general said today the

[2:50] administration's approach would be to

[2:52] work with the industry, not against it.

[2:54] John Scott Py at the White House.

[2:56] Thanks. Now about the Littleton,

[2:58] Colorado students returning to Coline

[3:00] High today for the first time since the

[3:02] deadly shooting spree in April. Bill

[3:05] Whitaker reports. They were allowed in

[3:06] to get what they left behind, but they

[3:09] couldn't leave their memories behind.

[3:13] There's that eerie sense of deja vu. But

[3:16] this time, students are walking into

[3:18] Coline High to retrieve belongings left

[3:20] behind in their mad dash from death. To

[3:23] see the place once so full of adolescent

[3:25] life, now synonymous with young lives

[3:27] lost. For some, the emotions are raw.

[3:30] >> I ran out those doors that I just walked

[3:34] out of.

[3:36] Those were the doors that I ran out of.

[3:38] That's where my friends were hiding. The

[3:40] blood was gone, but glass still was on

[3:42] the floor and bullet holes in the walls.

[3:44] Dante [ __ ] went back with his mother.

[3:47] >> It's so still in there. It's not like it

[3:49] used to be. Noisy and congested.

[3:52] >> It's probably going to be the hardest

[3:53] for the freshman cuz we have to um deal

[3:57] with it. Plus, we have to rebuild the

[3:59] school.

[3:59] >> Like most, senior Casey Stoner hadn't

[4:01] been inside since the massacre. Her last

[4:04] school memory was of blood and terror. I

[4:06] think that there's a certain part of me

[4:09] and every other student, especially

[4:10] seniors, who feel like a lot of time, in

[4:13] a lot of ways, our school has been taken

[4:15] away from us. And being able to go back

[4:17] into the school is like the first step

[4:19] in reclaiming it.

[4:20] >> It was almost a month and a half ago

[4:22] that students fled classmates Eric

[4:24] Harris and Dylan Clebold's trigger-happy

[4:27] rampage. Isaiah Scholes was one of 15 to

[4:30] die that day. His sister and brother are

[4:32] two who chose not to come back to

[4:34] Coline. They're scared of the school.

[4:37] >> His parents are suing the killer's

[4:38] parents, the school, and have moved

[4:40] their family out of town.

[4:42] >> There's no way that I would send my kids

[4:44] in that area, period.

[4:46] Because there's some hate somewhere

[4:48] still out there.

[4:49] >> That's why others had to go back.

[4:52] >> I have to. It's there's no choice in it

[4:54] for me. That's my school. That's what I

[4:56] have to stand up for.

[4:58] >> The Rocky Mountain Coline, Colorado

[5:00] State Flower, flourishes this time of

[5:02] year. That's the hope for this school

[5:04] and these students today. They pick up

[5:06] their belongings. The hard part is

[5:08] picking up the pieces of their lives.

[5:11] Bill Whitaker, CBS News, Littleton,

[5:13] Colorado. Diplomats say the search for

[5:16] peace in the Balkans is at a critical

[5:18] point tonight. Russia's top envoy and

[5:20] the president of Finland are expected in

[5:22] Belgrade tomorrow to talk with Slov and

[5:24] Mallosvich about principles worked out

[5:26] by the Western Allies and Moscow.

[5:28] Yugoslavia says it accepts those

[5:30] principles, but with alterations on two

[5:33] key points. NATO's demand for a Serb

[5:35] withdrawal from Kosovo and an

[5:37] international peacekeeping force with

[5:39] NATO at its core. All of this came on

[5:42] day 70 of the bombing. CBS's Alan Pizzy

[5:44] reports from inside Yugoslavia.

[5:51] The NATO bombing campaign apparently

[5:53] went wrong again today. This time, air

[5:55] strikes along the Albania Kosovo border

[5:57] aimed at Serb army positions hit

[5:59] Albanian ones instead.

[6:03] Camera crews and anyone else in the area

[6:05] had to run for cover. At least seven

[6:07] bombs struck close to a road used by

[6:09] ethnic Albanian refugees fleeing Kosovo.

[6:12] The air campaign in Serbia continued

[6:14] unabated. Serb TV said this was a NATO

[6:17] plane being fired on and blamed the

[6:20] damage in the Kosovo town of Jakavita on

[6:22] NATO attacks and the mass funeral was

[6:24] held today for victims of a NATO strike

[6:26] that hit an old age home yesterday.

[6:30] Having spent millions on bombs trying to

[6:32] knock out communications here, NATO

[6:35] today tried a new way to reach the

[6:36] people of Yugoslavia. Planes dropped

[6:39] leaflets with the message that it was

[6:40] time for a change. The leaflets claimed

[6:43] that during their 10-year rule, Sloan

[6:45] Mallovich and his wife had gotten rich

[6:47] and brought ordinary Serbs only

[6:49] sanctions, poverty, and unemployment.

[6:52] If the idea was to make Serbs rebel

[6:55] against their leader, then NATO bombs

[6:56] seem to have missed the mark again.

[6:59] Everybody already knows that stuff, one

[7:01] man said. What does NATO think we're

[7:03] supposed to do about it? Alan FY, CBS

[7:05] News, Belgrade. NATO's goal is to

[7:08] prevail in time for the refugees to go

[7:10] home to Kosovo by winter. But today, a

[7:12] Pentagon spokesman said there is quote

[7:14] no artificial deadline. And the United

[7:16] Nations is making long range plans. It

[7:19] has already bought winterized tents for

[7:21] the refugee camps. Still ahead on

[7:23] tonight's CBS Evening News, America's

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[7:28] share of the online stock trading

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[9:16] >> A health alert heads up tonight about

[9:18] the safety and effectiveness of a hot

[9:21] selling dietary supplement used by star

[9:23] athletes to bulk up. It's a new study

[9:25] from the Journal of the American Medical

[9:27] Association. Sorting the facts from the

[9:29] claims.

[9:32] >> It was touted as Mark Maguire's not so

[9:35] secret weapon in his home run hitting

[9:37] arsenal. The controversial diet

[9:39] supplement Andrew Stein Dion. Said to

[9:42] increase levels of the male hormone

[9:43] testosterone. It became the strength

[9:46] enhancer of choice from bodybuilders to

[9:48] high school athletes. Regardless of

[9:50] questions about its safety,

[9:52] >> people are so preoccupied with their

[9:54] appearance or their athletic skills that

[9:57] they even if you demonstrate clearly to

[9:59] them that something might harm them,

[10:01] they're willing to take that risk.

[10:03] >> Now comes the first evidence that the

[10:05] risk may far outweigh the benefits.

[10:08] Studying 20 men who took the

[10:10] manufacturer's recommended dose of 300

[10:12] milligrams a day. Researchers at the

[10:14] University of Iowa founder steam dione

[10:17] did not raise testosterone nor increase

[10:20] strength but it did lower levels of good

[10:22] cholesterol raising the risk for heart

[10:24] disease. And Harvard researcher Joel

[10:26] Finkelstein who's conducting a larger

[10:28] study of androin dione for major league

[10:31] baseball says there appear to be other

[10:33] side effects. And dione increased

[10:36] estrogen levels in men and it's possible

[10:38] that that could lead to things such as

[10:40] breast enlargement.

[10:41] >> Critics of the supplement say that's

[10:43] enough evidence to make and dione

[10:45] illegal. Its use is already banned by

[10:48] the Olympics, the NCAA, and the NFL. And

[10:51] Major League Baseball, which now allows

[10:52] and Dion is expected to revisit the

[10:55] issue when its study is completed,

[10:57] perhaps as soon as this summer. On

[10:59] another medical front, some researchers

[11:00] say it could be the biggest advance in

[11:02] heart attack treatment in 15 years. An

[11:05] international study published today by

[11:07] the AMA found that combining a so-called

[11:10] clockbuster drug with a new super

[11:12] aspirin restored normal blood flow in

[11:14] more than 75% of heart attack patients

[11:17] within 90 minutes. Also, the combination

[11:20] appears to work in patients who don't

[11:22] respond to anything else. This was a

[11:24] mixed day on Wall Street. The Dow Blue

[11:26] chips down as much as 150 points,

[11:29] rallied to close up 36 points. But over

[11:32] on the high-tech heavy Nasdaq, stock

[11:34] prices plunged 58 points. Well, a Wall

[11:37] Street powerhouse has at long last

[11:39] decided to join the crowd trying to make

[11:41] money the new fashioned way, online.

[11:44] Here's our business correspondent,

[11:45] Anthony Mason.

[11:47] When Charles Schwab cut its commission

[11:49] fees to launch its online trading site

[11:51] 18 months ago, some analysts scoffed.

[11:54] But Mr. Schwab has had the last laugh.

[11:56] >> In the month of April, I think we had

[11:58] something like 200,000 transactions per

[12:01] day uh coming over the internet.

[12:03] >> His rivals noticed today the mighty Meil

[12:06] Lynch, which once dismissed the

[12:08] internet, launched its own online

[12:10] service.

[12:10] >> Appeared foolish for us after a period

[12:12] of time to ignore that part of the

[12:15] marketplace. Uh so we just decided to

[12:17] attack it. The Maril Lynch announcement

[12:19] is an indication of how much the trading

[12:22] industry has been shaken to its roots by

[12:24] the internet.

[12:25] >> Shaken by discounted commission costs

[12:27] and a boom in online trading. Upstart

[12:30] companies like Erade have stolen

[12:32] customers from the traditional brokers

[12:33] like Merrill. This company has realized

[12:36] that if it doesn't join with the trend,

[12:39] this mass movement trend toward lowcost

[12:42] uh trading on the internet, it's going

[12:44] to see its whole business model wiped

[12:46] out.

[12:46] >> With an army of 14,000 brokers who

[12:49] charge $100 and up, Merryill had reason

[12:51] to resist the change. A Merryill trade

[12:54] will now cost $29.95 online.

[12:57] >> We welcome them to the new age of the

[12:59] internet.

[13:00] >> Mr. Schwab can be so cordial because

[13:02] Merryill has a lot of catching up to do.

[13:05] With two and a half million online

[13:07] accounts, Schwab has half of all the

[13:10] discount trading business on the

[13:12] internet. John

[13:13] >> Anthony Mason. Thanks. Next up on the

[13:15] CBS Evening News Eye on America,

[13:17] accusations that a man was jailed for

[13:20] years because of the prosecutor's

[13:22] misconduct.

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[15:09] In DuPage County, Illinois today,

[15:11] closing arguments in the trial of five

[15:13] people who allegedly helped send this

[15:15] man, Rolando Cruz, to jail for 10 years

[15:18] for a murder that he didn't commit.

[15:20] What's more, those accused of framing

[15:22] Crews are a former county prosecutor and

[15:24] four sheriff's deputies. And as Wyatt

[15:27] Andrews reports in tonight's Eye on

[15:29] America, misconduct by prosecutors may

[15:31] be more common than you think.

[15:35] Anyone who thinks cheating by

[15:37] prosecutors is rare should flip through

[15:40] the files of New Orleans attorney Lori

[15:42] White.

[15:43] >> They build a case around the person

[15:44] that's brought to them rather than

[15:46] finding the right person. She has helped

[15:48] to reverse the convictions of nine men

[15:51] and to free six of them from prison.

[15:54] Each time by showing that prosecutors

[15:56] withheld or hid evidence that pointed to

[15:59] the defendant's innocence.

[16:00] >> These weren't little technicalities.

[16:02] These were huge

[16:04] items, documents, information that

[16:07] should have come out.

[16:09] >> Information like eyewitness testimony.

[16:11] In the case of Thomas Adams, who spent

[16:14] 27 years in prison for murder,

[16:16] prosecutors withheld evidence a white

[16:19] suspect was at the murder scene.

[16:21] >> Two different witnesses

[16:22] >> seeing a white guy in the area.

[16:23] >> Mhm.

[16:23] >> And Mr. Adams,

[16:25] >> he's black.

[16:26] >> Another of White's clients, Isaac

[16:28] Knapper, spent 13 years in prison for

[16:31] murder.

[16:31] >> They wanted to get a conviction. They

[16:33] didn't care by any means. They wanted a

[16:35] conviction. Napper was freed after White

[16:38] found a police report withheld by

[16:40] prosecutors showing the murder weapon

[16:43] was used by someone else a week later.

[16:46] >> It's enormous, outrageous information to

[16:49] withhold.

[16:50] >> Why?

[16:51] >> Because it would be so helpful to the

[16:53] defense.

[16:55] >> New Orleans trial judge Calvin Johnson

[16:58] calls prosecution misconduct routine.

[17:01] Last year in this letter, he pointed a

[17:03] finger at longtime New Orleans District

[17:05] Attorney Harry Khan, citing the failure

[17:07] of Kik's assistants to turn over

[17:10] critical information to defendants.

[17:12] >> Clearly, the evidence indicates that

[17:15] that kind of behavior on the pro on the

[17:16] part of prosecutors happened happens as

[17:18] a matter of course. You mean prosecutors

[17:20] withholding evidence? That happens as a

[17:22] matter of course. And to say and to sit

[17:24] here and say otherwise is it means that

[17:26] I have I'm like the ostrich with my head

[17:28] in the sand. District Attorney Harry

[17:30] Kanik decided against an interview for

[17:32] this story, but insisted through a

[17:34] spokeswoman his prosecutions are

[17:36] overwhelmingly handled with fairness.

[17:38] >> I never withheld anything that was in my

[17:40] possession.

[17:41] >> But we did talk to one of Kik's former

[17:43] assistants. David Patterson was the DA

[17:46] found withholding that police report in

[17:48] the Isaac Knapper case. Even after the

[17:51] state supreme court said he failed to

[17:53] disclose the report, he denies that and

[17:56] says Isaac Napper was guilty anyway.

[17:58] never prosecuted unfairly. I was never

[18:03] underhanded and I never attempted to

[18:05] prosecute anyone who I didn't believe

[18:08] was guilty. Defense attorneys say what

[18:10] happens to some prosecutors is akin to

[18:12] tunnel vision. Under pressure to convict

[18:14] the bad guys, these prosecutors will

[18:16] convince they have the right man and

[18:19] then unethically sit on information that

[18:21] contradicts their case.

[18:23] >> It's not rare. It occurs across America

[18:27] more often than than anybody can

[18:30] imagine.

[18:31] >> One thing is rare, and that's

[18:33] punishment. Out of Lori White's nine

[18:36] cases, not one errant prosecutor has

[18:38] ever faced public sanction, and they

[18:41] can't be sued. When Isaac Napper tried,

[18:44] the same court that freed him because of

[18:46] prosecution misconduct turned around and

[18:48] gave the prosecutors immunity. In New

[18:51] Orleans, Wyatt Andrews for Eye on

[18:53] America.

[18:54] >> Straight ahead, what's next for South

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[21:02] family accused. Lives shattered by the

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[21:10] Thursday.

[21:12] South Africa reaches a milestone

[21:14] tomorrow. Its second national election

[21:16] as a multi-racial democracy. 5 years

[21:19] ago, Nelson Mandela buried a partate in

[21:22] a landslide for his African National

[21:24] Congress. Tomorrow, the ANC is expected

[21:26] to win again. But Mandela is retiring

[21:29] while the new nation is still being born

[21:32] as CBS's Tom Fentonfound on assignment

[21:34] in South Africa.

[21:39] >> Welcome to the new South Africa where

[21:41] mixed crowds are as common as mixed

[21:43] drinks where blacks and greens are free

[21:46] to mingle.

[21:46] >> We have to reduce the cost

[21:47] >> and where Duda and Somi is an

[21:49] advertising executive. 5 years ago the

[21:52] only blacks at her firm were serving tea

[21:54] and cleaning up

[21:55] >> in advertising. These days, she spends

[21:57] much of her free time at schools

[21:59] spreading the word that more change will

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[22:07] we're just going to get into the economy

[22:09] and take over, but it's not working like

[22:11] that.

[22:11] >> It was unrealistic to expect that the

[22:13] huge economic and educational gaps would

[22:15] disappear overnight. Very few blacks can

[22:17] afford the homes in this neighborhood.

[22:19] The white minority may have lost its

[22:20] grip on political power, but it still

[22:23] holds the country's purse strings. is

[22:25] the second democratic election. A

[22:27] historic time in South Africa. Jenny is

[22:29] talking.

[22:29] >> If economic inequality remains, the

[22:31] change in attitudes among black and

[22:34] white is profound.

[22:36] >> Talk show host John Robbie still can't

[22:38] quite believe it.

[22:39] >> The lack of bitterness shown by um black

[22:41] South Africans I think is the most

[22:43] incredible thing in this country. And I

[22:45] think I suppose that is the miracle. The

[22:47] miracle worker is the outgoing president

[22:49] Nelson Mandela who through the force of

[22:52] personality was able to guide this

[22:54] country through a peaceful

[22:55] transformation. But if his

[22:57] administration was about deliverance,

[22:59] the next will be judged on delivery of

[23:01] basic services and security.

[23:05] >> Willie Roto was once a prisoner

[23:07] alongside Nelson Mandela. Now he's angry

[23:10] and running for parliament. People have

[23:12] no more patience with the country

[23:15] because they fight.

[23:16] >> His constituents, like the majority of

[23:18] the country's blacks, are poor and

[23:20] getting poor in many areas. Running

[23:23] water and electricity are still

[23:24] considered luxury items with black

[23:27] unemployment at more than 40%. The

[23:29] despair is deep and dangerous.

[23:34] >> It's the economy that takes the heat for

[23:36] a crime wave that is spinning out of

[23:38] control right across the racial divide.

[23:45] Tomorrow, South Africans will head to

[23:47] the polls carrying a heavy load. The

[23:50] fears that all the dreams born 5 years

[23:52] ago will never come true. And the hopes

[23:54] that the new South Africa can become

[23:57] their promised land. On assignment in

[23:59] Johannesburg, I'm Tom Fenton.

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[26:14] >> Finally tonight, a bizarre postcript to

[26:16] the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

[26:18] Newly released documents reveal what

[26:20] became of the bronze casket in which the

[26:22] murdered president made his final return

[26:24] to Washington. Eric Gberg has the story.

[26:28] The casket that brought John Kennedy's

[26:30] body home from Dallas would not be seen

[26:32] again after that November night in 1963.

[26:36] JFK's family selected a different one

[26:38] for the burial. And until today, when

[26:41] documents denied the public for 33 years

[26:43] became available, the story of how the

[26:46] government dumped the original casket

[26:48] into the Atlantic Ocean would not be

[26:50] told. It was 2 years after the

[26:52] assassination. The casket is stored in a

[26:55] vault at the National Archives in

[26:57] downtown Washington. Concerned it might

[26:59] fall into the hands of sensation

[27:01] seekers, the late president's brother,

[27:03] Robert, tells archives officials, "What

[27:05] I would like to have done is take it to

[27:07] sea." The actual disposal is turned over

[27:10] to the military. A submarine commander

[27:12] advises how to make it secure for

[27:14] dropping and sinking. 42 1/2-in holes

[27:17] are drilled into the casket. Three 80 lb

[27:20] sandbags are put inside. A memo written

[27:23] by an aid to Defense Secretary McNamera

[27:26] records how the casket is moved from the

[27:28] archives to a C130 transport plane at

[27:31] Andrews Air Force Base on February 18th,

[27:34] 1966.

[27:36] The crew flies to a point off the

[27:38] Delaware coast. The plane drops to 500

[27:40] ft and at precisely 10:00 a.m. the

[27:43] weighted casket is pushed out. It sinks,

[27:46] in the words of a witness, sharply,

[27:49] clearly, and immediately. All this only

[27:52] fuels the JFK conspiracy industry. And

[27:55] it's puzzling the new documents don't

[27:57] show anyone worrying that a secret

[28:00] coffin sinking might raise just the kind

[28:02] of questions the government was trying

[28:04] to put down. Eric Angberg, CBS News,

[28:08] Washington. And that is the CBS Evening

[28:10] News for Dan Rather. I'm John Roberts,

[28:12] CBS News in New York. Thanks for joining

[28:15] us. Good night.

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