CBS Evening News - 1992-03-31

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[0:03] that the United States may be working

[0:05] its way out of the recession. This is

[0:08] the CBS Evening New Year.

[0:16] Good evening, Dan Rather reporting. The

[0:18] US Supreme Court is slapping new limits

[0:20] on what public schools must do to

[0:22] desegregate. Civil rights groups see the

[0:24] court's 8 to zero decision today as a

[0:27] setback for longtime efforts at equal

[0:30] education. CBS News law correspondent

[0:32] Rita Braver has more about the ruling

[0:34] and the wide impact it may have.

[0:38] >> Dicap County, Georgia once ran separate

[0:41] schools for white and black children. In

[0:43] 1969, the federal courts ordered the

[0:45] county to desegregate. But today,

[0:48] Charlotte Brown, like most black

[0:49] students in the county, still goes to a

[0:52] school that's mostly black.

[0:53] >> I basically think that there is

[0:56] inequality

[0:57] in our school system.

[1:00] >> Alex Bach, like most white students in

[1:02] the county, still attends a mostly white

[1:04] school.

[1:05] >> It's really free country and we I should

[1:07] have a choice of what school I go to.

[1:09] And in a ruling that could affect

[1:11] hundreds of school districts, the US

[1:13] Supreme Court today said Dicap County

[1:15] does not have to correct the racial

[1:17] imbalance because it's a result of where

[1:19] people have chosen to live, not of

[1:21] deliberate discrimination.

[1:23] >> If it becomes a situation where no

[1:25] matter what you do, housing patterns

[1:28] done by the personal preference of

[1:30] individuals cause an imbalance in the

[1:33] school. You need not try and overcome

[1:35] that. Today's decision reversed a lower

[1:38] court ruling ordering the county to

[1:39] achieve racial balance even if it meant

[1:42] forced busing. Blacks, like Charlotte

[1:44] Brown's parents, had argued that without

[1:46] change, the mostly black schools would

[1:48] continue to get fewer resources. Black

[1:51] students continue to get inferior

[1:53] educations.

[1:54] >> When I look at the SAT scores,

[1:57] automatically all the black schools are

[1:59] at the bottom and the white schools are

[2:00] at the top. That tells me that there's

[2:02] an academic achievement quality problem

[2:05] in our schools.

[2:06] >> But today, the Supreme Court said that

[2:08] as long as the school district really

[2:10] tried to end segregation, racial balance

[2:13] was not to be achieved for its own sake.

[2:16] >> An awful lot of school districts are

[2:17] going to argue that the segregation that

[2:19] exists today is no longer their fault.

[2:21] Some of those school districts may well

[2:22] convince judges that they should be

[2:24] relieved of the responsibility to ever

[2:25] desegregate. And that could ultimately

[2:28] result in a lot more schools like the

[2:30] ones that Charlotte Brown and Alex Bach

[2:32] attend. Rita Braver, CBS News,

[2:35] Washington.

[2:36] >> In another ruling, the Supreme Court

[2:38] upheld the system used to decide how

[2:40] many seats each state gets in the US

[2:43] House of Representatives. Seats are

[2:45] gained or lost based on the national

[2:47] census. The court said today the system

[2:49] is not perfect, but it is

[2:50] constitutional. The ruling is a defeat

[2:52] for Montana, which is losing one of its

[2:55] two House seats. There's a killer on the

[2:58] road. That's the conclusion of a new

[3:00] survey about truck safety. The killer,

[3:03] trucks with bad brakes. As James

[3:06] reports, that can be a bad break for

[3:08] you.

[3:11] Big trucks and bad brakes often make a

[3:13] deadly combination. Today, the

[3:15] government said, the problem is even

[3:16] bigger than it thought. A spot check

[3:18] showed that 60% of all trucks on the

[3:20] road in five states had brake problems

[3:23] severe enough to require immediate

[3:25] action.

[3:26] >> Many carriers and drivers of commercial

[3:28] vehicles fail to understand the need for

[3:30] well-maintained and properly balanced

[3:32] brake systems.

[3:33] >> The government blames defective parts.

[3:35] Poor management indifferent drivers.

[3:38] Troopers who do the checking say the

[3:39] situation is worse among independent

[3:41] truckers.

[3:42] >> They look at this, they don't have time

[3:43] to do it. They're trying to get a load

[3:45] from one point to another point in order

[3:47] to get paid. So they won't have time to

[3:48] be under the truck jacking with the

[3:50] brakes.

[3:50] >> It would be very stupid for me to go out

[3:52] there with bad brakes, bad anything. Why

[3:55] would I want to take my life in my own

[3:57] hands?

[3:58] >> Critics blame the government for being

[4:00] slow to act on an old problem.

[4:03] >> Department of Transportation hasn't done

[4:04] its job, hasn't issued the truck brake

[4:06] standard for stopping distance it should

[4:08] have.

[4:09] >> The concern for trucking safety comes as

[4:11] big rig operators face increased

[4:13] scrutiny. Tomorrow's the deadline for

[4:15] obtaining a new federally certified

[4:17] commercial driver's license. Without

[4:19] one, drivers won't be allowed behind the

[4:21] wheel. The new licenses are designed to

[4:24] catch truck drivers who've hidden bad

[4:26] driving records by having multiple

[4:28] licenses from different states. Many

[4:30] truck drivers see it as more government

[4:32] meddling.

[4:33] >> A lot of hassle. A lot of hassle.

[4:36] >> If they're not in compliance within,

[4:38] they're placed out of service. They've

[4:39] written a ticket, been placed out of

[4:40] service until they come in compliance

[4:42] and get the driver's license.

[4:44] >> Regulators hope the new licenses and a

[4:46] crackdown on brake problems will help

[4:48] reduce truck accidents, which kill

[4:50] nearly 5,000 Americans every year. James

[4:53] Attori, CBS News, Dallas.

[4:56] >> The government says its official index

[4:58] of leading economic indicators rose in

[5:00] February. That's the second straight

[5:02] monthly increase. And the latest sign

[5:04] offered as indicating that better times

[5:07] may be ahead. As CBS News money

[5:09] correspondent Ray Bradley reports

[5:11] tonight, confidence in the economy

[5:12] appears to be building at least some.

[5:19] The worring of those saws is music to

[5:21] John Henderson. He sells a lot of lumber

[5:24] to the construction business and with

[5:26] building up so his business and possibly

[5:30] the American economy.

[5:31] >> It's more of the bulk material. It's uh

[5:34] flooring, um sheetrock, uh ceilings, and

[5:39] things are picking up. The uh the

[5:41] building industry is busy.

[5:43] >> Builders are taking out permits to put

[5:45] up more houses, and people are working

[5:47] longer hours. That helped push up

[5:50] today's index of leading economic

[5:52] indicators by 8/10 of 1%.

[5:55] Al Melo felt so good, he's taken a trip

[5:57] to Florida.

[5:58] >> I don't think we're completely out of

[5:59] it. No, but I think I think it's it's

[6:01] starting on an upswing. In another

[6:03] survey out today, consumer confidence,

[6:06] low until just recently, saw its first

[6:09] increase in nine months. But that same

[6:12] survey shows that while Americans are

[6:14] feeling better, they're still cautious

[6:17] about spending.

[6:18] >> I'm not spending more, but I feel a

[6:19] little more comfortable spending.

[6:21] >> Still, it's going to take heavy consumer

[6:24] spending to turn this from a slow to a

[6:26] strong recovery. And that worries some

[6:29] economists. We've just seen a slight

[6:31] uptick in consumer psychology from very

[6:33] depressed levels, but there's no

[6:35] guarantee that consumers are going to

[6:37] come out of the starting blocks spending

[6:39] heavily. If some economists have their

[6:41] fingers crossed, it's because they feel

[6:43] consumers won't spend money again until

[6:46] the job picture improves. But they worry

[6:48] that the next set of unemployment

[6:50] figures due out this Friday will show

[6:53] the jobless rate continuing to hang

[6:55] high. Ray Brady, CBS News, New York.

[6:59] Still ahead on tonight's CBS Evening

[7:01] News, a United Nations effort to force

[7:03] the hand of Mumar Gaddafi, and the

[7:06] consumate consumers, kids with cash,

[7:11] sanctions unless Libya surrenders a

[7:14] halfozen suspected terrorists. The Bush

[7:16] administration continues to say that

[7:18] Syria and Iran were not involved. Bill

[7:21] Plant is covering the story.

[7:24] The Security Council voted to punish

[7:26] Libya for refusing to turn over suspects

[7:28] in the bombings of Panama Flight 103 and

[7:31] a French airliner. It's only the second

[7:33] time the Security Council has imposed

[7:35] sanctions and today's like the sanctions

[7:38] on Iraq carry the threat of force. The

[7:40] Libyans see this as the prelude to a

[7:42] repeat of the US bombing raid on Tripoli

[7:45] in 1986. This attempt

[7:48] to lead international public opinion

[7:51] astray is but paving the way to another

[7:54] act of aggression against peaceful

[7:57] Libyan cities.

[7:58] >> The embargo cuts off commercial airline

[8:00] flights between Libya and UN member

[8:02] states, forbids arm sales, and calls on

[8:05] Libya to renounce terrorism. It takes

[8:07] effect April 15th if the Gaddafi

[8:09] government has not turned over the

[8:11] suspects. But critics say it's worthless

[8:13] because it doesn't embargo the one thing

[8:15] which keeps Marmar Gaddafi in business,

[8:18] oil.

[8:18] >> Unless and until we're willing to

[8:21] boycott the export of Libyan oil and

[8:23] naval blockade is necessary, uh, we will

[8:26] not get Gaddafi's attention.

[8:28] >> Critics also charge the Bush

[8:29] administration has deliberately

[8:30] overlooked evidence that Syria was also

[8:33] involved in the plot to blow up Panm

[8:34] 103, but senior officials insist both

[8:37] privately and publicly that they have no

[8:40] such information.

[8:41] We said that the evidence in this case

[8:43] had pointed to Libya and that there was

[8:45] no evidence that Syria had been involved

[8:48] in this particular attack.

[8:50] >> The State Department says it's concerned

[8:51] about reports that Westerners are now

[8:53] being refused permission to leave Libya

[8:55] and it strongly advised the estimated

[8:58] 500 to a,000 Americans who are there to

[9:00] depart immediately. That sounds like a

[9:03] further threat, but officials say that

[9:05] at the moment there are no US plans to

[9:08] use force against Libya. Bill Plant, CBS

[9:11] News. The State Department.

[9:12] >> Boris Yelson's economic shock therapy

[9:14] got a stamp of approval today from the

[9:16] International Monetary Fund. The IMF

[9:19] indicated it will grant Russia full

[9:21] membership next month. That will make

[9:22] Yelson's government eligible for

[9:24] billions of dollars in international

[9:26] loans. More news straight ahead, so

[9:29] stick here with us.

[9:42] The stranger and his trusty grill stood

[9:44] ready for the fight. Other sauces

[9:46] against Bullseye to see which tasted

[9:49] right. And as the smoke rose off his

[9:51] grill, hunch was laid to waste. The

[9:53] masterpiece and hind dropped out against

[9:56] Bullseye. Big bowl taste. Yes, the

[9:58] stranger had won the day with a sauce

[10:00] that beat the rest. The big bowl taste

[10:03] of Bullseye taste the best. And now

[10:05] there's Bullseye's bold and chunky with

[10:07] big chunks of onion and green peppers.

[10:10] >> My granny's spaghetti recipe with

[10:12] ordinary grated toppings. Oops. Some are

[10:16] 1/3 fats and fillers, but craft is 100%

[10:19] grated parmesan for 100% great taste.

[10:23] Granny would approve. Here's a sweet

[10:25] idea for breakfast. Try Sunsweet prune

[10:28] juice for a change. M naturally.

[10:30] >> CBS News New York Times poll finds many

[10:32] Republicans unsettled about the Bush

[10:34] Quail ticket and two out of three

[10:37] Democratic voters nationwide are not

[10:39] satisfied with Bill Clinton or Jerry

[10:41] Brown and wish someone else would run.

[10:44] And one week before the next big

[10:46] primary, Governor Clinton has abruptly

[10:48] changed the way he runs. More about that

[10:50] from correspondent Richard Thrill.

[10:52] registration

[10:53] >> along with Oprah and Phil and Haraldo on

[10:56] New York TV today. There were Bill and

[10:58] Jerry. There'll be an average of a

[11:00] debate a day until next Tuesday's New

[11:03] York primary. It's a switch in tactics

[11:05] by the Clinton campaign, which Brown

[11:07] claims is foundering here.

[11:09] >> Just shows you that this race is

[11:11] volatile. It's close and uh the next

[11:14] seven days will uh prove the case.

[11:17] Clinton's trying to go right to the

[11:18] voters rather than endure the mugging he

[11:21] thinks he's been getting from New York's

[11:22] tabloid media.

[11:24] >> I'm not so much interested in the combat

[11:26] with Brown as I am having a way to find

[11:28] direct access to the voters to talk

[11:30] about these issues.

[11:32] >> Mr. President,

[11:36] >> if New Yorkers haven't exactly embraced

[11:38] Bill Clinton, they're no different than

[11:39] the rest of the electorate. In the CBS

[11:42] News New York Times poll, when voters

[11:44] were asked whether Clinton has more

[11:46] honesty and integrity than most people

[11:48] in public life, more than half said no.

[11:51] >> Clinton, every time you turn around, who

[11:53] else? I don't know what else you're

[11:54] going to find out about the guy.

[11:55] >> And despite Clinton's best efforts,

[11:57] there are a lot of New Yorkers who've

[11:59] come to regard him as slick Willy.

[12:02] >> He's always got a grin on his face,

[12:03] which I think is ridiculous for a man

[12:05] running for president. I mean, there are

[12:06] very important things in this world

[12:08] going on. It can come as no comfort to

[12:11] Jerry Brown that many New Yorkers will

[12:13] be voting for him simply because he is

[12:15] not Bill Clinton. Our poll shows that

[12:18] more voters than not still view Clinton

[12:21] and Brown unfavorably. Some think maybe

[12:24] it's the system.

[12:24] >> Well, the effect is that we're not

[12:26] getting the the type of people that we

[12:27] should get to run our country.

[12:30] We're second getting second stringers.

[12:32] >> He's right. the um who who wants to go

[12:35] out there, put their name down, and have

[12:38] somebody do a witch hunt and ruin the

[12:41] man's reputation. Above all, there's a

[12:43] growing yearning for somebody else to

[12:46] choose from, and a growing disgust that

[12:48] there isn't somebody else.

[12:49] >> I'm not sure the pickings are all that

[12:51] good.

[12:51] >> I'm not happy with Bush. I'm not happy

[12:52] with Clinton.

[12:54] Don't have to talk about Brown.

[12:56] >> It's kind of harder to choose cuz

[12:58] there's not as much to choose from. Each

[13:01] of them, Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown,

[13:03] claims he has the winning message. What

[13:05] the voters seem to be saying is they

[13:07] just don't like the messengers. Either

[13:09] of them. Richard Fel, CBS News, New

[13:12] York. What if they gave a congressional

[13:14] hearing and nobody came? Well, the White

[13:16] House refused to supply witnesses for

[13:17] one panel today. Bob Schiffer explains

[13:19] why. Under constant bombardment for

[13:22] their perks, congressional Democrats

[13:24] have tried to shift the fire by

[13:26] declaring war on high living at the

[13:28] White House. From the House floor, this

[13:30] saliva,

[13:31] >> a glance into the opulence of executive

[13:33] branch staff and public servants shows

[13:36] under secretaries being fed around our

[13:39] streets by limousines, private dining

[13:41] rooms for cabinet secretaries, a White

[13:44] House with full-time florists and four

[13:47] calligraphers, and the list goes on.

[13:49] >> White House officials were called to the

[13:51] Hill for questioning about all this, but

[13:53] none showed up. So, with no one else to

[13:55] shoot at, the committee took pot shots

[13:57] at each other. They're trying to divert

[13:59] attention away from the scandals of the

[14:00] US House of Representatives down to 1600

[14:02] Pennsylvania Avenue to get this monkey

[14:04] off their back.

[14:06] >> The fact of the matter is that should

[14:07] not be tolerated.

[14:08] >> What is really intolerable, Democrats

[14:10] fired back, is how the White House hides

[14:12] the cost of its main perk,

[14:14] transportation. By the Democrats count,

[14:17] the president was up and down these

[14:18] steps on 108 days in 1990, yet listed

[14:22] travel costs of only $29,000.

[14:25] What we see here is a expenditure of

[14:30] more than likely in excess of $130

[14:33] million of taxpayers money that goes

[14:37] undisclosed to the American people.

[14:39] >> Well, so your old man responded to lead

[14:42] Republican. the chairman of the

[14:44] subcommittee took five staff members,

[14:47] five staff members to Germany uh to to

[14:51] check out the closure of some bases and

[14:53] how it would affect military personnel.

[14:55] Whoever is at fault, election year side

[14:57] shows like that have not stemed the bad

[14:59] publicity here. Word has now leaked out

[15:02] that when government auditors dropped in

[15:04] unannounced late last week at the

[15:06] scandal plagued House Bank, they found

[15:08] it was still a mess. Numerous errors in

[15:11] billing records, $75,000 in money orders

[15:14] stacked in an unlocked vault, and money

[15:17] shortages at the stamp counter. Bob

[15:19] Sheeper, CBS News at the capital.

[15:22] >> Stay here with us now for more news,

[15:24] including the story behind the videotape

[15:26] of another California police beating.

[15:40] Find out what you need to know tomorrow

[15:42] on CBS This Morning. It's breakfast for

[15:44] your head.

[15:48] The National Basketball Association says

[15:50] it will take no action against Michael

[15:51] Jordan for his gambling activities. The

[15:54] league said today an investigation has

[15:56] turned up no evidence that the Chicago

[15:58] Bulls star ever bet on NBA games. Jordan

[16:01] reportedly has written checks to cover

[16:03] big losses in poker and golf games with

[16:06] gamblers. The NBA says Jordan has

[16:08] promised to be, and I quote, "Now, more

[16:10] careful about his associations." Mike

[16:13] Tyson will stay behind bars while his

[16:15] lawyers appeal his rape conviction and

[16:17] Indiana appeals court today, turned down

[16:19] the boxer's request to be released on

[16:21] bail. Meanwhile, Tyson's lawyers

[16:23] confirmed that he is refusing prison

[16:25] meals, but they say it's not a hunger

[16:27] strike, just a crash diet. Another home

[16:31] videotape has surfaced in California

[16:33] with a now familiar scene. A police

[16:35] officer beating a suspect. Correspondent

[16:38] John Blackstone has the pictures and the

[16:40] story.

[16:42] >> I'm doing my job. Now back off. I don't

[16:44] want to hurt anybody.

[16:45] >> When the sheriff's deputy started

[16:46] yelling at George Nichols in Santa Cruz

[16:48] County, California last summer, Nicholls

[16:51] wife turned on her home video camera.

[16:57] >> The deputy had the wrong man. He was

[16:59] looking for a suspected child molester.

[17:02] Nicholls says he asked over and over,

[17:03] "What's this all about?" The sheriff's

[17:06] department describes his behavior as

[17:07] belligerent.

[17:10] >> The deputy, Todd Liberty, has the full

[17:13] support of the sheriff's department.

[17:14] >> The sheriff office believes that Deputy

[17:17] Liberty used the appropriate level of

[17:19] force with proper application in this

[17:22] situation.

[17:23] >> Get down in your face. Down. Nicholls

[17:26] was a tourist on vacation with his

[17:28] family. He was charged with felony

[17:30] assault and with resisting an officer,

[17:32] but the charges were later dropped.

[17:34] >> He already put his hands on his on his

[17:36] revolver two or three times. I knew that

[17:38] if there was any type of resistance, he

[17:40] was going to pull his gun out and shoot.

[17:41] There was no doubt in my mind about

[17:43] that.

[17:45] >> Nichols intends to sue. He believes the

[17:47] home video will make his case for $15

[17:50] million in damages.

[17:52] >> Right there. Okay. Oh my.

[17:56] >> John Blackstone, CBS News, San

[17:57] Francisco.

[17:59] >> Coming up next, Eye on America. Tonight,

[18:02] how our children are spending their teen

[18:05] years.

[18:09] Who won't spend money. We found millions

[18:11] who are spending it as fast as they get

[18:14] it. No, they're not foreigners. They're

[18:17] our children. Frank Courier reports. Eye

[18:20] on American teens. From boppers to

[18:23] shoppers. Feel

[18:27] the vibration.

[18:31] >> Stepping fast to the beat of a new

[18:32] generation. American teens are hooked on

[18:35] more than dancing. They're spending.

[18:39] >> If I see something I like, I'll buy it.

[18:43] >> Break jeans, clothes, tape.

[18:46] >> You want everything.

[18:48] >> Everything they can afford. 14-year-old

[18:50] Saurin Spees buys a $150 portable

[18:53] compact disc player with cash.

[18:56] >> 17-year-old Jessica Roachcha borrows her

[18:58] dad's Visa card to buy new spring

[19:00] clothes.

[19:00] >> Can I charge that? Definitely.

[19:02] >> Will that be all?

[19:03] >> With many working part-time jobs, they

[19:05] spend an average $50 a week. Children of

[19:07] the Baby Boomers, whose ranks this year

[19:09] are growing for the first time in two

[19:11] decades.

[19:12] >> I have a job and I have like $100 a week

[19:14] and it's gone the first day.

[19:16] >> I buy what I want. I don't listen to

[19:19] what other people say.

[19:20] >> People our age are really insecure

[19:21] about, you know, what they wear, what

[19:23] they do, everything. You know, what

[19:24] they're going to buy and, you know,

[19:26] they're out to get us.

[19:28] >> Just have fun. Okay.

[19:29] >> They are the advertisers taking fresh

[19:31] aim at teen consumers or the face of big

[19:34] city billboards to a flood of new boy

[19:36] girl magazines, even classrooms where

[19:38] channel 1 serves up TV news and

[19:40] commercials to a captive audience.

[19:42] >> I speak it on and I won't get stuck with

[19:43] pimples.

[19:44] >> Pimple.

[19:45] >> Excuse me. Who wants this?

[19:46] >> Do we got to have it? It's a way of

[19:48] life.

[19:48] >> Everybody's got to have it.

[19:50] >> You feel like you have to have it after

[19:51] you see them.

[19:52] >> No.

[19:54] >> They want to be talked to. They want

[19:56] products and advertising that is

[19:58] uniquely for them. They want to be

[19:59] separated both from mom and dad as well

[20:01] as from younger brothers and sisters.

[20:03] >> Choose change.

[20:06] >> Okay. Write down three things that you

[20:07] think work in advertising.

[20:09] >> In research focus groups, Peter Zolo

[20:11] tracks the trends among America's 27

[20:13] million teenagers.

[20:14] >> Don't try to trick people. Just be very

[20:17] blunt.

[20:18] >> You got the world that is me.

[20:20] >> Every week, new commercials are tested

[20:22] on their intended targets.

[20:23] >> Did you like that?

[20:24] >> It was so different than what you see.

[20:25] And I like that a lot. I hate those beer

[20:28] commercials with the sexy blondes and

[20:29] the bikinis.

[20:31] >> Pull my shirt.

[20:32] >> Yo.

[20:33] >> Still in an image driven world of long

[20:35] legs and short attention spans. Reality

[20:37] sex and humor experts say are magic to

[20:40] building brand loyalty with teens. The

[20:42] realness is always going to have to be

[20:44] there. As soon as you get away from

[20:46] realness, they're hip to it. They know

[20:48] better than I do that eight out of 10

[20:50] commercials are awful. More than ever,

[20:52] advertisers are targeting teenage trends

[20:54] setters by tuning out the color, turning

[20:56] up reality and what image makers call

[20:59] retail activism.

[21:01] >> Imagination. I mean, where is it?

[21:03] >> The world needs to be taken care of

[21:05] better. We have to fix the water. Stop

[21:07] animal testing.

[21:08] >> Lock it up. Camera's running. A

[21:10] sportsware maker, Aspree, turned its

[21:12] recent ad campaign into social

[21:14] commentary after asking teens through a

[21:16] mailer what they'd do if they could

[21:18] change the world. Thousands replied,

[21:20] "Help poor people. Make recycling a

[21:23] national law."

[21:24] >> Kids, they discovered care as much about

[21:26] the world as they do the prom. And they

[21:28] said so in this series of company

[21:30] magazine ads.

[21:31] >> The point was not, "Look, here's our

[21:33] coding." The point was, "Look, we're

[21:34] listening. We want to hear what you have

[21:36] to say. Talk to us. We'll talk back to

[21:38] you." 16-year-old Rachel Hirs was one

[21:41] who talked back.

[21:42] >> It's finally been recognized what a

[21:45] great potential market we teenagers are.

[21:47] And in some ways that's great. It's

[21:48] like, "Yay, someone's recognized us."

[21:50] And in other ways it's terrible. It's

[21:51] like, "Oh no, they found us." You know

[21:53] >> how much money you guys got?

[21:54] >> A lot.

[21:58] >> While critics charge that ads aimed at

[22:00] kids lead to impulse buying, teens say

[22:02] they're too smart for that. And this

[22:04] once invisible subculture invades

[22:06] America's malls, winning clout as the

[22:08] newest generation of big spenders.

[22:11] >> I like those. I love those pants.

[22:14] >> In Northbrook, Illinois, Frank Courier

[22:15] for I in America's

[22:19] Killing Fields. Next time on Front Line.

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[22:28] bizarre, is it? It's a struggle not to

[22:30] be comedic at that moment because when

[22:33] you say action

[22:38] >> Warren B talking with David Frost,

[22:41] >> it's where you belong. Tonight at 10.

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