CBS Evening News - 1999-05-03

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[0:11] much of Yugoslavia lights out as NATO

[0:13] hits a major power plant. In Washington,

[0:16] what's being called the first serious

[0:18] initiative for peace. In Germany, the

[0:20] freed US soldiers come out to wave. And

[0:23] in Colorado, Coline High School students

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[0:32] This is the CBS Evening News

[0:35] with Dan Rather reporting tonight from

[0:38] Belgrade.

[0:40] Good evening. Tension and fear on the

[0:42] rise here. NATO has hit a major power

[0:45] plant that blacked out Belgrade and in a

[0:47] large portion of Yugoslavia for the

[0:49] first time. Electricity has been cut off

[0:51] for long periods. Water supplies and

[0:53] telephone service interrupted. There is

[0:56] no perceptible panic. And you can see

[0:58] the Serbs in many ways are going about

[1:00] life rather normally. But the fear

[1:02] factor has risen. There's an

[1:05] undercurrent of it in the streets and

[1:07] among the citizenry. Large numbers of

[1:09] government officials are believed to

[1:11] have left the city as a precaution

[1:13] during the night. So if Slobon Mallovich

[1:15] believed that he would get some reward

[1:17] for his release of the captured US

[1:20] soldiers, so far he isn't getting it.

[1:22] Many diplomats and others here believe

[1:24] that Mallosvich is clearly beginning to

[1:26] feel increased pressure from the

[1:28] intensified air attacks and is now

[1:30] signaling that he may be ready to deal.

[1:32] But deal what is the question. Russia's

[1:36] special envoy Victor Chervin is in

[1:39] Washington today with a message about

[1:40] that from Melvich to President Clinton.

[1:44] More about that later, but first with

[1:46] news of the released US servicemen. We

[1:49] go to Germany and CBS News correspondent

[1:51] Mark Phillips.

[1:53] >> The three former prisoners and their

[1:55] families haven't made any public

[1:56] statements here, but there was a lot of

[1:58] body language in their only public

[2:00] appearance together so far. A father,

[2:02] Chris Stone, holding his son. A son,

[2:06] Andrew Ramirez, being held by his

[2:08] mother. Their condition not bad

[2:10] considering, but Sergeant Stone is still

[2:12] showing the signs of rough treatment for

[2:15] good reason. The Serbs had broken his

[2:17] nose. The X-ray did show uh that he had

[2:20] a fracture of his nasal bone. Um it was

[2:24] minimally displaced fracture.

[2:27] >> The injuries were obvious in the Serb TV

[2:29] images at the time of their capture, but

[2:32] their commander says the mistreatment

[2:34] didn't stop there.

[2:35] >> Anytime you're in captivity, I'm sure

[2:37] there's some duress. Uh and uh I believe

[2:40] that happened up front during their

[2:41] captivity,

[2:42] >> at the time of their capture or in the

[2:44] early stages as well.

[2:44] >> Early stages of their captivity. So even

[2:46] beyond the point where they were picked

[2:47] up, they were still mistreated if if the

[2:49] signs

[2:50] >> I believe somewhat. Yes.

[2:51] >> Yeah.

[2:51] >> However treated, the freeing of the

[2:53] Americans may be good news for two

[2:55] captured Serb soldiers who senior

[2:57] Pentagon officials say will probably now

[2:59] be released as well. The Serb and the

[3:02] American soldiers have become pawns in a

[3:04] game.

[3:05] >> How they're used, I don't know. I mean

[3:07] uh probably used somewhat, but uh

[3:11] >> by him by Melassovich

[3:12] >> by uh by Mallovich maybe. But our

[3:15] concern again was getting our soldiers

[3:17] back, their safety.

[3:18] >> Unwittingly, the three now freed

[3:20] servicemen have become weapons in Sloan

[3:22] Mallasovich's propaganda war. Their

[3:25] capture was a severe embarrassment to

[3:26] the military and their release another

[3:29] opportunity for Mallasovich to score

[3:31] points.

[3:32] >> The army has claimed back three of their

[3:35] own, but only because their adversary

[3:37] decided there was more to be gained from

[3:39] letting them go than from keeping them.

[3:42] Mark Phillips, CBS News, Lanskow,

[3:44] Germany.

[3:46] >> Now, for more about NATO's power plant

[3:48] bombing strategy, we go to CBS News

[3:49] correspondent John Roberts, who's also

[3:52] here in the country.

[3:54] >> Belgrade was struggling to get back in

[3:57] service today after NATO took the

[3:58] campaign to a new level. For the first

[4:00] time, targeting the electrical grade

[4:02] with what are called soft bombs, which

[4:05] release carbon filaments that

[4:06] shortcircuit but don't destroy power

[4:08] plants. NATO has its finger on the light

[4:11] switch in Yugoslavia now and we can turn

[4:15] the power off whenever we need to and

[4:18] whenever we want to.

[4:20] >> What NATO would probably prefer to turn

[4:22] off is another round of bad publicity.

[4:25] The Yugoslav army claims Allied bombers

[4:27] hit a civilian bus in three cars while

[4:30] targeting an army checkpoint on a road

[4:32] in northwest Kosovo, killing at least 17

[4:35] people. That attack comes just 2 days

[4:38] after NATO obliterated a bus on a bridge

[4:40] north of Christina. The Yuguslav

[4:42] military says more than 47 people died

[4:45] in that accident. And it doesn't end

[4:47] there. This is what's left of a part of

[4:50] the town of Valivo about 50 mi southwest

[4:53] of Belgrade. The intended target was a

[4:55] pipe factory just beyond this

[4:56] neighborhood. NATO says it was a

[4:58] military target that was making parts

[5:00] for the army. But at least four of those

[5:02] bombs fell on this neighborhood,

[5:04] destroying houses and apartments.

[5:07] >> Zelco message was at home when he says

[5:10] the whole neighborhood exploded.

[5:13] >> Where where were you when the bomb hit?

[5:17] >> He survived, hiding under the sink in

[5:20] his bathroom.

[5:22] >> The pipe factory had been hit several

[5:24] times before without damage to homes.

[5:26] This time, more than a dozen were

[5:28] destroyed. Two missiles that fell a few

[5:30] hundred yards away damaged what the

[5:32] health minister claims was a clearly

[5:34] marked hospital.

[5:35] >> If they decide to kill us all, okay,

[5:39] let's kill us. What can I say?

[5:42] >> And even as rescue workers comb the

[5:44] rubble for unexloded bombs. The air raid

[5:47] alert went out again.

[5:49] >> After last night's devastation, the

[5:51] people of Valivo have no illusions as to

[5:54] what NATO is capable of and what

[5:56] mistakes it can make. John Roberts, CBS

[5:59] News, Belgrade.

[6:02] >> The Russian special invoice meeting with

[6:03] President Clinton late today is being

[6:05] called the first serious initiative for

[6:07] peace. Scott P is at the White House

[6:09] with details.

[6:11] Late today, Russia's peace negotiator

[6:14] bounded into Washington searching for a

[6:16] compromise on Kosovo. Victor Cherimir is

[6:19] shuttling between Mallosvich and

[6:21] President Clinton. With the pace of

[6:23] diplomacy quickening, Mr. Clinton

[6:25] emphasized today that a suspension of

[6:27] the bombing is possible.

[6:29] >> We have said uh that under the right

[6:32] circumstances, we would be willing to

[6:34] have a bombing pause, but we would need

[6:37] a acceptance of the basic principles and

[6:39] at least the beginning of withdrawal of

[6:41] Serb forces.

[6:42] >> NATO has offered a bombing pause before,

[6:45] but Mr. Clinton reiterated today

[6:47] Melovich must first commit to all NATO

[6:49] demands.

[6:50] >> What must Mr. Mallosovich do to

[6:53] articulate this clear commitment that

[6:56] you seek? Second, what do his forces on

[6:59] the ground have to do? And how quickly

[7:02] would a NATO bombing pause follow? We

[7:04] want to be clear that all the Kosvars

[7:07] can come home, that the Serb security

[7:09] forces will leave, that they will they

[7:13] will we will have clear and unambiguous

[7:15] evidence that a withdrawal is underway,

[7:20] and that the the other conditions I

[7:22] mentioned in terms of self-government

[7:24] and especially the international

[7:25] security force have been accepted. This

[7:28] evening, the Reverend Jesse Jackson

[7:30] brought a letter from Mallowvich to the

[7:32] president, but a senior official here

[7:34] tells us there is nothing helpful in the

[7:36] letter. During his meeting with

[7:38] Chernameiran, we are told that Mr.

[7:40] Clinton told the Russian envoy that

[7:42] Malloich must agree to all of NATO's

[7:44] demands without compromise and must

[7:46] agree to a specific timetable for

[7:48] achieving them. Until then, the

[7:50] president said there could be no

[7:52] suspension in the bombing. Scott Py, CBS

[7:55] News, the White House. Over the weekend,

[7:59] thousands more refugees poured from

[8:02] Kosovo into Macedonia. Our man in

[8:05] Macedonia is Alan Kissing.

[8:08] >> Throughout the day, they masked at the

[8:10] border and stumbled out of the holding

[8:12] camp, exhausted and dehydrated by the

[8:14] intense heat. Some have been on the run

[8:17] from the Serbs for over a month.

[8:19] >> We're just not keeping up right now. Um,

[8:21] we need to send more numbers out of

[8:23] Macedonia as it is because the

[8:25] overcrowding in the camps is beyond our

[8:27] control. Now,

[8:29] >> the sheer numbers finally forced the US

[8:31] and other governments to act. The INS

[8:33] set up three tents today and began

[8:35] processing refugees who want to go to

[8:37] the US. The Hasholi family reluctantly

[8:40] signed up because they said sharing a

[8:42] tent with 20 strangers is a disaster.

[8:46] >> So, you don't want to stay in America

[8:47] anymore?

[8:49] The children's father was left in

[8:51] Kosovo. He could be among the 11,000 who

[8:54] have been crammed into the already

[8:55] oversted camps in the last 2 days alone.

[8:58] But finding missing people is a slow

[9:00] process. So is getting out. First, it's

[9:04] a picture session. Then forms to be

[9:06] filled out and of course questions. Is

[9:09] it your desire to travel to the United

[9:11] States?

[9:15] Yes, sir.

[9:16] >> In terms of US immigration laws, these

[9:18] people are in a unique situation because

[9:21] unlike other refugees, if the cost of

[9:23] our Albanians choose to go home when it

[9:25] is safe to do so, the American

[9:27] government will pay their way. The Hashi

[9:30] family got the okay for America today.

[9:32] But their tears were not of joy.

[9:36] >> How can I go when my father is left in

[9:37] Kosovo? Hannah Mashahi so there is

[9:40] nowhere safe for him to stay. This is

[9:43] one family whose fair back home the US

[9:45] will be paying one day. Alan Pizzy, CBS

[9:49] News, Braasha.

[9:51] >> I'll be back from here in Belgrade later

[9:53] in the broadcast with a special

[9:54] interview. But next up is Bob Sheeper in

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[11:52] more on that and the rest of the day's

[11:53] developments in Littleton.

[11:56] >> Good afternoon.

[11:57] >> The announcement came late this

[11:59] afternoon. The man who allegedly sold

[12:01] the semi-automatic weapon, the Tech DC9,

[12:03] to killers Eric Harris and Dylan

[12:05] Clelebold, turned himself into the

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[12:20] >> Meanwhile, Coline students resumed

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[12:25] >> Don't get tearary. Don't get teary.

[12:27] Still, Veronica Nunio and Briana Cook

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[12:32] the cafeteria when the shooting began.

[12:34] >> I'm nervous and scared, and I'm still

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[12:38] looking over my shoulder.

[12:40] >> Not all Coline students were welcomed

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[12:44] gunmen, some of the so-called trench

[12:46] coat mafia, to stay home for their

[12:48] safety and the school's peace of mind.

[12:51] >> My children won't be going back. Michael

[12:53] Scholes, father of slain student Isaiah

[12:55] Scholes, says he fears for his surviving

[12:57] children.

[12:58] >> Evidently, the schools is not set up to

[13:00] do what they need to do as far as

[13:01] security to protect these children so

[13:03] that someone's held accountable for his

[13:05] son's death. Michael Scholes is suing

[13:08] the killer's parents, the school, the

[13:10] gun makers and sellers. Jeffrey Figer,

[13:12] Dr. Jack Gavororthian's former attorney,

[13:14] is representing the Scholes family. And

[13:16] we have uh appar apparently some neglect

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[13:30] Harrison Clebold. Still, the Scholes and

[13:32] their attorney maintain others

[13:34] ultimately share responsibility for this

[13:37] tragedy. Bill Whitaker, CBS News,

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[15:44] >> The Coline High School shooting has

[15:46] parents all over America talking about

[15:48] their children. In a CBS News poll,

[15:50] three out of four parents said they

[15:52] could definitely tell if their child was

[15:54] alienated and depressed. Most others

[15:57] said they probably could tell. Well,

[15:59] tonight, Elizabeth Kaledan begins a

[16:01] special Eye on America series, Your

[16:03] Kids, What You Don't Know.

[16:07] >> Have you had suicidal feelings before?

[16:10] >> It's become a more common question at

[16:12] the Teen Line in Los Angeles, where the

[16:14] call rate has doubled since the shooting

[16:16] in Littleton, Colorado.

[16:17] >> Overwhelming number of the kids that

[16:18] call here feel um kind of outcast in

[16:22] some way. Not that they are outcasts,

[16:23] but that um the way they're feeling.

[16:26] It's an age-old adolescent complaint,

[16:28] but many teens say the struggle for

[16:30] belonging and a sense of self is harder

[16:32] these days. Some can relate to the sense

[16:35] of alienation that drove Eric Harris and

[16:37] Dylan Clebold to kill.

[16:39] >> I don't condone what they did obviously,

[16:41] but I could see why they did what they

[16:42] did to that extent. If they were that

[16:43] alienate, you know, I guess they

[16:44] figured, you know, if I'm going to die,

[16:45] I'm going to take a bunch of kids out

[16:46] with me.

[16:47] >> Psychologists believe that children are

[16:49] subjected to increasing academic and

[16:51] social pressures today. For some kids,

[16:54] the stress transforms typical alienation

[16:56] into something much darker. Depression.

[17:00] >> Many ways, this is a public health

[17:01] crisis.

[17:02] >> Dr. Peter Jensen of the National

[17:04] Institutes of Mental Health says as many

[17:06] as 5 to 10% of children suffer from

[17:09] depression. Because it is often

[17:11] overlooked, only one in three kids gets

[17:13] help. And left untreated, depression can

[17:16] lead to suicide. In the instance of

[17:18] suicide, for example, we know that many

[17:21] of those children were indeed many most

[17:24] of those children were indeed depressed.

[17:26] And had we been able to get to those

[17:28] children before, many times we think we

[17:30] could have averted a crisis.

[17:32] >> Eric Harris was reportedly taking

[17:34] anti-depressants, but whatever treatment

[17:36] he might have been getting wasn't enough

[17:38] to stop him from killing others and

[17:40] evidently taking his own life. This

[17:43] particular death spiral kept going and

[17:46] going and going and no one stopped it.

[17:50] >> Family violence expert Richard Gallis

[17:52] believes the shooting spree was the

[17:53] result of a freef fall from depression

[17:56] beginning with alienation ending in

[17:58] suicide.

[17:59] >> They were nine entities. The worst thing

[18:01] that can happen to a 16 or a 17 or an

[18:03] 18year-old or actually any human being

[18:05] is to feel they don't exist. Not all

[18:08] childhood depression explodes into

[18:10] violence, but it's not a stretch to

[18:12] imagine how it happens.

[18:13] >> Nowadays, I think kids can be more cruel

[18:16] and so a lot of a lot of students in

[18:19] turn build up a lot of anger within

[18:22] themselves. The key for parents is to

[18:24] pay attention to recognize when garden

[18:27] variety teenage rebellion develops into

[18:29] total detachment, turning the once

[18:32] unthinkable into something we're now

[18:34] struggling to understand. In New York,

[18:37] I'm Elizabeth Kaledan for Eye on

[18:39] America. To

[18:40] >> find out more about depression in

[18:42] teenagers, we spoke today with our CBS

[18:44] News medical consultant, Dr. Bernardine

[18:46] Healey of Ohio State University. We

[18:49] asked her what specific warning signs

[18:51] parents should look for in their

[18:53] adolescent children?

[18:55] >> Well, there are several specific things.

[18:56] One, one is a child's habits change. For

[18:59] example, their grades deteriorate.

[19:01] Social withdrawal. They feel like

[19:03] outcast. An outgoing child suddenly

[19:05] feels solitary. Evidence of drug or

[19:08] alcohol use. Uh signs of sadness,

[19:10] crying, irritability, no joy, no

[19:13] feeling, uh talk of death or suicide.

[19:16] And Bob, boys are more apt to react in a

[19:18] hostile and uh angry way, whereas girls

[19:21] more a sense of worthlessness and

[19:23] sadness.

[19:24] >> And what uh what can parents do?

[19:26] >> Well, they can do a lot. And the most

[19:28] important thing is to encourage

[19:30] expression and listen to your children

[19:32] without being too judgmental. Not always

[19:35] an easy thing to do with teens.

[19:37] Connectedness to a caring adult is

[19:39] critical. Uh and secondly, of course, if

[19:41] you detect something or the school

[19:43] detects something, you must get help.

[19:46] Dr. Haley, thank you very much. And our

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[22:15] Near the peak of Mount Everest, a team

[22:17] of American climbers is claiming an

[22:19] amazing discovery. The body of a British

[22:21] adventurer who may have been the first

[22:24] to reach the summit of the world's

[22:26] highest mountain. Sandra Hughes reports.

[22:30] >> It's a mystery that's been frozen in the

[22:32] treacherous terrain of Mount Everest for

[22:34] 75 years. Did British explorer George

[22:36] Mallerie and his partner reach the peak

[22:38] first? History gives the honor to Sir

[22:40] Edmund Hillary in 1953. But 29 years

[22:44] earlier, the two explorers disappeared

[22:46] on their way to the top. This weekend,

[22:48] an American expedition found the body of

[22:51] George Mallerie just 2,000 ft from the

[22:53] peak.

[22:54] >> Mallerie really epitomizes

[22:57] Mount Everest and mountaineering.

[23:02] And

[23:04] finding his body really puts closure on

[23:07] a mystery that has existed for 75 years.

[23:12] By cell phone from Mount Everest,

[23:14] expedition leader Eric Simson told us

[23:16] Mallalerie carried a camera and if they

[23:18] don't find it, they won't know if he

[23:20] made it. What did you do with George

[23:23] Mallerie's body?

[23:24] >> George Mallerie remains a part of Mount

[23:27] Everest. He buried his body underneath

[23:30] stones and rocks. Sir Edmund Hillary

[23:32] says he isn't worried about the

[23:34] discovery.

[23:35] >> For 45 years, people have regarded me as

[23:39] the as the hero of Everest. So, I've

[23:42] done pretty well. Anyway,

[23:43] >> the world may never know if he got there

[23:45] first. But Mallerie still holds a place

[23:47] in history for his famous answer to the

[23:49] question, why do you climb Mount

[23:51] Everest? Because it's there. Sandra

[23:54] Hughes, CBS News, Los Angeles.

[23:57] And another longlost piece of history

[23:59] has turned up. At the bottom of the

[24:01] Atlantic is the just found Mercury

[24:03] mission capsule lost during Gus Gryom's

[24:06] 1961 splashdown after his trip into

[24:09] space. The capsule is so well preserved

[24:12] you can still read the Liberty Bell 7

[24:15] inscribed on it. Well, Dan Rather will

[24:18] have more from Bgrade when the CBS

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[26:36] power and is a political power in her

[26:38] own right. Mera Marov, professor and

[26:42] wife of the Yugoslav president. She said

[26:44] it was her first television interview

[26:46] ever.

[26:48] >> How does this end?

[26:51] >> The decision is not in our hands, but in

[26:53] yours. We must defend our country the

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[27:01] country which would not protect its own

[27:03] territory.

[27:04] >> What about the argument, Madam

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[27:09] when you, the Serbs, stop killing

[27:14] Kosvar Albanians in Kosovo and stop

[27:17] running them out of their homes, stop

[27:20] killing them.

[27:22] >> But they are not killing them. They are

[27:25] not expelling them.

[27:27] You say that the west and America does

[27:30] not understand what's happening in

[27:32] Kosovo.

[27:34] Is there no ethnic cleansing in Kosovo?

[27:38] >> No.

[27:38] >> No.

[27:39] >> None.

[27:41] >> There are no atrocities committed by

[27:43] Serbs in Kosovo?

[27:46] >> No.

[27:46] >> No. The Serbs are defending their

[27:48] territory.

[27:50] You cannot be here in Yugoslavia and be

[27:52] among his people without being struck

[27:55] with how dangerous and complicated this

[27:57] situation is. But the message from the

[27:59] wife of the Yugoslav president is

[28:01] simple. It is neither she nor he is

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[28:09] Serbian people as a whole. And they

[28:11] still believe that they will win. For

[28:14] Slovan Mallovich, winning is staying in

[28:16] power and keeping Kosovo a part of

[28:18] Yugoslavia.

[28:20] How and when this may end, no one can

[28:22] say as another night of bombing gets

[28:25] underway.

[28:26] For the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather

[28:28] reporting from Belgrade. Good night.

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