CBS Evening News - 1982-08-13

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[0:01] Good evening. This is the CBS Evening

[0:02] News. Dan Rather reporting. President

[0:05] Reagan punched harder and deeper today

[0:06] for passage of his $99 billion tax bill.

[0:09] He said passage would do more of what he

[0:12] says he has already done. Bring down

[0:14] interest rates and speed up economic

[0:16] recovery. Mr. Reagan got some help on

[0:18] that score today, not from Congress, but

[0:20] from the Federal Reserve Board and some

[0:22] of the nation's banks. Late today, the

[0:24] Fed cut its principal lending rate to

[0:25] member banks for the third time in less

[0:27] than a month. this time from 11% to 10

[0:31] and a half. Then several banks said they

[0:33] would cut their prime lending rates by

[0:35] half a point from 15 to 14 12%. The

[0:39] upshot, good news for business, no

[0:42] immediate impact on consumer loan

[0:44] interest rates. Bill Plant reports the

[0:46] battle of the tax bill is close and

[0:48] fierce.

[0:50] The lobbyists were stacked up in the

[0:51] corridors of the capital today. a line

[0:54] of eager supplicants waiting to plead

[0:56] their cases with members of the House

[0:57] Senate Conference Committee for saving

[0:59] or scuttling parts of the

[1:01] administration's tax bill. The

[1:03] congressman and senators were also being

[1:05] lobbied by such administration heavies

[1:07] as Treasury Secretary Donald Rean. The

[1:10] president didn't even have to leave the

[1:11] House to do his lobbying. Instead, he

[1:14] made one of his rare appearances in the

[1:16] White House press room to push for the

[1:18] tax bill. Well, this tax bill is not, as

[1:21] it has so often been mislabeled, the

[1:23] biggest tax increase in history. That's

[1:26] plain hogwash. The goal is simple and

[1:29] just, to see to it, that everyone pays

[1:31] his fair share, no more, no less. In

[1:34] other words, this bill is 80% tax

[1:37] reform, not tax increase.

[1:39] >> Insisting that his economic program is

[1:41] already working, the president cited

[1:43] falling interest rates as evidence the

[1:45] recession is ending. Keeping the

[1:47] pressure on Congress, the White House

[1:49] brought more Republican House members in

[1:51] for a personal chat with Mr. Reagan and

[1:53] announced that he would make his final

[1:55] pitch for the tax bill in a nationally

[1:57] televised speech Monday evening.

[1:59] >> Once the public fully understands uh or

[2:02] better understands uh the tax reform

[2:05] proposal, as only the president can

[2:08] communicate it, uh then I think we'll

[2:11] see a lot of support for it.

[2:14] To further push the point, the

[2:15] Republican National Committee has

[2:16] produced radio and television

[2:18] commercials featuring the president in

[2:20] which he urges passage of the bill

[2:22] without ever mentioning that it is a tax

[2:24] measure happen. You can help by urging

[2:26] your representative in the Congress to

[2:28] support this important legislation.

[2:31] >> As Mr. Reagan left for Camp David this

[2:33] afternoon, his aids conceded that he

[2:34] does not yet have the votes to pass the

[2:36] tax bill. So, he'll keep up the pitch,

[2:39] inviting some members of Congress to

[2:40] visit him at Camp David Sunday. A reward

[2:43] rarely used in this administration. With

[2:46] organized conservative and other

[2:47] opposition still very strong, Mr.

[2:50] Reagan's only hope lies in convincing

[2:52] the public that his $ 999 billion

[2:54] package is more tax reform than tax

[2:57] increase and getting the public to

[2:59] convince Congress. It will be very

[3:01] close. Bill Plant, CBS News, the White

[3:04] House.

[3:05] >> Three big groups that supported

[3:06] President Reagan's run for the

[3:07] presidency said today they will run

[3:09] against his big new tax increases. The

[3:11] US Chamber of Commerce, the American

[3:13] Farm Bureau Federation, and the National

[3:15] Federation of Independent Businesses say

[3:17] they will marshall their combined

[3:18] membership of 4 million people and try

[3:20] to defeat the tax bill. They say the

[3:22] answer is less federal spending, not

[3:24] higher taxes. Word from the government

[3:26] today that as far as money is concerned,

[3:28] you can eat about as much as you want,

[3:30] but when it comes to driving, ask

[3:32] yourself the old wartime question, is

[3:34] this trip necessary? The Labor

[3:36] Department says wholesale prices in July

[3:38] rose at a moderate annual rate of 7.1%.

[3:42] Gasoline prices took their sharpest jump

[3:44] in 8 years, but the report said food

[3:46] prices fell at the steepest rate since

[3:48] 1976.

[3:50] Among the reasons for last month's food

[3:52] price decline at the wholesale level

[3:53] were sharp drops in prices for beef and

[3:56] ve. But today, Ned Butter reports prices

[3:58] for another kind of meat ran hog wild.

[4:02] Watch the supermarkets, say the

[4:03] analysts. The jump will probably come

[4:05] within 2 weeks.

[4:07] >> We could be seeing something like uh 15

[4:11] to 20% increase in the retail price of

[4:14] let's say for instance bacon.

[4:16] >> Mhm.

[4:16] >> New high prices for live hogs were set

[4:18] today in the stockyards of Omaha,

[4:20] Peoria, Kansas City, and St. Joseph. Up

[4:23] to $67 per 100 pounds of hog, breaking a

[4:27] 1975 record. on the Chicago Merkantile

[4:31] Exchange where they trade in hog

[4:32] futures. The price was not a record, but

[4:35] the experts say there will be one soon.

[4:38] Part of the reason prices are now so

[4:40] high is that they've been so low for so

[4:42] long. Two years ago, those prices were a

[4:45] little more than a third of what they

[4:46] are now. Farmers agree that $50 per

[4:50] hundred weight is the break even point.

[4:52] So many of them were getting out of the

[4:54] business. The national hog herd is 13%

[4:57] lower than it was a year ago.

[4:59] >> A lot of farmers were forced out of

[5:01] production because of the high interest

[5:03] rates.

[5:04] >> Prices will likely drop again in early

[5:06] 1983, say brokers. This is all part of a

[5:09] giant fairly regular cycle. But the

[5:12] current state of the economy has made it

[5:14] all the more extreme. Ned Potter, CBS

[5:17] News, Chicago.

[5:19] >> One prominent banker in Mexico City

[5:20] today called the situation the most

[5:22] difficult moment since the revolution.

[5:23] more than 70 years ago. He was referring

[5:26] to a Mexican government freeze on dollar

[5:28] accounts in Mexican banks and the

[5:30] suspension of trading in foreign

[5:31] currency. These moves were ordered to

[5:33] save Mexico's dwindling dollar reserves.

[5:44] Make it comfortable. Good.

[5:46] >> That was comfortable.

[5:48] >> I've been giving my daughter tips on

[5:49] driving. And here's another important

[5:51] one. If you drive a car, you need

[5:53] premium performance tires. So, I put

[5:55] Bridgestone Superfiller radios on

[5:57] Leslie's car. The hard rubber

[5:59] superfiller here lets the sidewall flex

[6:01] so you get a big footprint of rubber for

[6:03] cornering, braking, paneling, and

[6:04] comfort, too.

[6:05] >> They're comfortable, Bob. And they're

[6:06] performers.

[6:07] >> That's right. You can feel it when you

[6:09] drive. Bridgestone Super Filler steel

[6:10] belted radials. See the yellow pages for

[6:12] a Bridgestone dealer near you.

[6:16] >> General Bonapart, you say an army

[6:17] travels on its stomach

[6:19] >> and gets wallet. Carry lots of cash,

[6:21] huh?

[6:21] >> Oh, madness. We carry Bank America

[6:23] travelers check.

[6:24] >> Bank America travelers checks.

[6:26] >> Bank America accepted in 160 countries.

[6:30] Sure beats charging all the time.

[6:32] >> And if you lose them,

[6:33] >> we never lose. Besides, they are

[6:35] refundable in 40,000 places worldwide in

[6:38] case you get caught

[6:40] short.

[6:43] >> Bank America travelers checks.

[6:47] Poland's reform movement, Solidarity, is

[6:49] in a shambles now, crushed last December

[6:51] by martial law. But it is by no means

[6:53] forgotten. Thousands of demonstrators in

[6:55] Warsaw, Gdansk, and near Kkow today took

[6:57] to the streets on the eve of the second

[6:59] anniversary of that movement's

[7:00] beginning. But their observance turned

[7:02] violent as riot police moved in. Bert

[7:04] Quint is in Warsaw.

[7:07] month in Gdans, perhaps 3,000 people,

[7:10] many of them shipyards workers who

[7:11] formed the nucleus of the union in

[7:13] August of 1980, tried to lay wreaths at

[7:15] a monument to the dead of the

[7:17] disturbances of another era, those of

[7:19] 1970. Armored vehicles moved against

[7:22] them. The workers then tried to march

[7:24] toward Gdans's Communist Party

[7:26] headquarters, shouting anti-regime

[7:28] pro-UN slogans. More people joined them,

[7:30] forming a crowd of about 10,000.

[7:33] A CBS news team took pictures of police

[7:36] using water cannons, batons, and tear

[7:38] gas against them. Those pictures along

[7:40] with CBS personnel were taken to a Gdans

[7:42] police station and held until it was too

[7:44] late to get the tapes back to Warsaw for

[7:46] tonight's broadcast. Brett Quinn, CBS

[7:49] News, Warsaw. At his White House meeting

[7:51] with reporters today, President Reagan

[7:53] said he is reasonably optimistic that

[7:55] the evacuation of the PLO from Beirut

[7:57] will begin next week. In Beirut, US

[8:00] Envoy Philip Habib resumed his

[8:01] negotiations aimed at achieving just

[8:03] that. But sources close to the talks

[8:05] said that Israel has upped the ante.

[8:07] Israel reported he now is insisting that

[8:09] 13,000 Palestinian fighters, not 6 to

[8:13] 9,000 as had been believed, must be

[8:15] withdrawn from Beirut. Elsewhere in the

[8:17] Lebanese capital, a ceasefire between

[8:19] Israel and the PLO was holding. And this

[8:21] break in the violence allowed Beirut's

[8:23] civilians to recover from yesterday's

[8:25] allday massive Israeli air attack. Bob

[8:27] Simon is in West Beirut with that story.

[8:30] >> Much of yesterday's devastation occurred

[8:32] in Bourja Barajni, where the Israelis

[8:35] have insisted there are virtually no

[8:37] civilians, only fighters. Women,

[8:40] children, old people who lived there put

[8:42] white flags on top of their buildings to

[8:45] let Israeli pilots know these were not

[8:47] military targets. That didn't work. They

[8:50] spent all day yesterday in shelters

[8:52] underneath the buildings. In many cases,

[8:54] that didn't work either. In this

[8:56] shelter, survivors say 40 people were

[8:59] killed, 50 wounded, all Lebanese. There

[9:02] was a cemetery just across the street. A

[9:05] grave was being prepared today for a

[9:07] family of six, mother, father, four

[9:10] children. Beirut's makeshift hospitals,

[9:13] overwhelmed by the new influx of

[9:15] casualties, have been turning back all

[9:17] but the most serious cases. This ward in

[9:20] the basement of a school, accepted 30

[9:22] patients yesterday, almost all burn

[9:25] victims. When the bombing began,

[9:27] 23-year-old Muna Ramadan, a business

[9:29] student at the American University here,

[9:32] ran from her apartment to the basement.

[9:34] That's where she was hit.

[9:35] >> We were in the shelter when the

[9:38] airplanes came hit us. It was uh I think

[9:42] somebody gave uh because there's no

[9:45] soldier there or anybody. We are just

[9:47] civil people living there. There's no

[9:50] soldier near us. People believed in this

[9:53] ceasefire enough to crawl out of their

[9:55] holes without looking to the skies for

[9:57] Israeli warplanes, but they did not

[9:59] believe it would last. Bob Simon, CBS

[10:02] News, Beirut. Across the city's dividing

[10:05] line in East Beirut, Nobel Peace Prize

[10:07] winner Mother Teresa said she is there

[10:09] to help victims of the fighting. She

[10:10] added, quote, "I still don't know

[10:12] exactly what the situation is, and I am

[10:14] not interested at all in politics." She

[10:16] was sent to Beirut by Pope John Paul II.

[10:27] How do the vitamins in these cereals

[10:29] compare with totals?

[10:30] >> I don't know.

[10:31] >> This shield shows total has 100% of a

[10:33] day's allowance of nine vitamins and

[10:35] iron.

[10:36] >> Okay.

[10:37] >> Put total shield on your cereal to

[10:39] compare vitamins.

[10:40] >> I eat grape nuts.

[10:43] >> 25%. Total's a lot higher. But how's it

[10:46] taste? Crisp flakes of whole grain wheat

[10:51] and

[10:53] 100% of nine vitamins. That's the total

[10:56] difference.

[10:57] >> Big jeans, small jeans, little jeans,

[10:59] too. Kmart's got the jeans for you.

[11:01] Style, fashion, and good taste. Kmart is

[11:03] your saving place. Challenger jeans.

[11:06] Premium brand. Quill and brush at a

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[11:28] It's no secret that something went wrong

[11:30] last month when the space shuttle's

[11:32] secret military experiment was up.

[11:33] Tonight, an account of what the main

[11:35] package was and what went wrong. Sources

[11:37] say it was an infrared telescope and

[11:39] that the telescope cover wouldn't come

[11:41] off. The purpose of the scope, data

[11:43] gathering for future spacecraft to

[11:45] detect enemy missiles. There are 150,000

[11:48] cases of heart surgery in this country

[11:50] every year. Often it's the difference

[11:52] between life and death. But what to do

[11:54] after the operation when, as Linda

[11:56] Douglas reports, the sickness is the

[11:58] soul.

[12:00] >> 6 months ago, television reporter Jim

[12:02] Mitchell was living on the edge of

[12:03] death. He was a compulsive smoker,

[12:06] drinker, and worker, and doctors told

[12:08] him he was about to have a heart attack.

[12:10] Mitchell underwent what is now a common

[12:12] procedure, a coronary bypass operation

[12:15] to replace clogged arteries in his

[12:17] heart. The surgery probably saved his

[12:20] life. He should have been overjoyed

[12:22] immediately.

[12:23] >> A few days after I got out of the

[12:25] hospital, I was just overwhelmed by this

[12:29] this terrible sense of depression and a

[12:33] a feeling that that my whole life was

[12:37] just coming apart at the seams. I

[12:39] started crying. I couldn't stop crying.

[12:41] I started calling friends and crying to

[12:43] them. And

[12:44] >> what happened to Mitchell is common and

[12:46] a cause of growing concern. More and

[12:48] more doctors are realizing that surgery

[12:50] is traumatic even when it's successful.

[12:53] Often it takes the mind longer to heal

[12:55] than the body. That's especially true

[12:57] for heart patients. New studies show 40%

[13:01] become depressed, anxious, or angry

[13:03] right after surgery. 20% stay that way.

[13:06] Some patients develop marital problems

[13:08] and others go through wild mood changes.

[13:12] >> I think it's a disappointment over not

[13:13] being as good as new and an expectation

[13:16] that is perhaps a little too high.

[13:18] >> Your illusion of safety has been torn to

[13:20] shreds. You're suddenly exposed in a

[13:24] sudden very disruptive way to what all

[13:28] of us are so afraid of most of the time.

[13:32] Many surgery patients find it hard to

[13:34] shake what they believe was a brush with

[13:36] death. Like Joanne Gully, 6 months ago,

[13:40] her heart was fitted with a plastic

[13:41] valve. Right away, she noticed a faint

[13:44] ticking sound when her heartbeat.

[13:46] >> It just seemed like I was listening for

[13:47] it to stop. It's still there. The

[13:50] feeling that, you know, something could

[13:51] happen, that uh I could die.

[13:56] Doctors and psychologists alarmed by the

[13:58] high incidence of postsurgical emotional

[14:00] problems have formed an international

[14:02] panel to look for causes and solutions.

[14:05] And though it's still a controversial

[14:06] idea, some psychologists believe

[14:08] patients should be warned before surgery

[14:11] about possible depression. Jim Mitchell

[14:13] wishes he'd been prepared.

[14:15] >> The attitudes seem to be, well, if we

[14:17] tell him he might be depressed, then

[14:19] it'll become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[14:21] Jim Mitchell and Joanne Gully say their

[14:23] depression is gradually going away as

[14:26] they learn to accept the life surgery

[14:28] has made possible. Linda Douglas, CBS

[14:31] News, Los Angeles.

[14:32] >> As a baseball team's mascot, the San

[14:34] Diego chicken attracted a lot of

[14:36] attention. But it was a San Diego chick

[14:38] that drew notice today. The symbol of a

[14:40] bird that once ruled the roost. Jerry

[14:43] Bowen tells why.

[14:46] There was a day when the sight of

[14:48] California condors soaring overhead was

[14:50] not so rare. But now, due to encroaching

[14:52] civilization, it's estimated that only

[14:54] 20 to 30 of the species exist. That's

[14:57] why this 3-month-old chick is so

[14:59] important. Removed just after sunrise

[15:01] this morning from its nest in a mountain

[15:03] cave 60 mi north of Los Angeles. Because

[15:05] its parents were neglecting to feed it,

[15:07] wildlife officials feared it would die.

[15:10] >> Perhaps they had trouble finding food.

[15:12] Perhaps uh they went through a poisoning

[15:16] episode and took them a while to

[15:18] recover.

[15:19] >> The chick's new home is a condorinium.

[15:21] What else? At San Diego's Wild Animal

[15:24] Park. Here the young bird will be raised

[15:26] and when mature in 7 to 8 years will be

[15:29] part of a captive breeding program. the

[15:31] rate of decline is so fast that uh

[15:34] unless we establish a captive breeding

[15:36] pro uh population at this point uh it's

[15:39] very likely that we can't learn enough

[15:41] about the wild population time to

[15:43] correct the problems out there. The

[15:45] chick will be monitored closely over the

[15:47] next several days to see if it will feed

[15:49] voluntarily or must be encouraged by

[15:51] condor puppets, surrogate parents that

[15:53] have worked in the past with and

[15:54] condors. Officials hope to learn too

[15:57] exactly what is feathering this nest.

[15:59] The chick has already been named

[16:00] Napoleon, but that could change after

[16:02] the sex is determined. It might just be

[16:05] Josephine. Jerry Bowen, CBS News, San

[16:08] Diego.

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[16:19] >> Wait a minute, doctor.

[16:20] >> What's wrong, Joan?

[16:21] >> You need the breath deodorant.

[16:24] >> Sorry. Must have been the onion salad

[16:26] dressing.

[16:26] >> Clarettes will take care of that.

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[16:56] Home to good fresh country flavors like

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[17:00] Tastes dairy fresh cuz it's made with

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[17:18] Auction house officials say that until

[17:20] today, the record price paid for a 20th

[17:22] century photograph was $3,200 for a

[17:26] signed picture of three presidents,

[17:27] Nixon, Ford, and Carter. Today, that

[17:29] record was broken at New York's Hamilton

[17:31] Galleries. A Boston collector paid

[17:33] $4,250.

[17:35] The prize, a signed photograph of

[17:38] Chicago gangster Al Capone.

[17:41] Most members of Congress are getting

[17:42] ready for the homestretch run for

[17:44] re-election in November. Some or not,

[17:46] more than 20. Some of them say they are

[17:48] too old or too ill, but a few say

[17:50] they're just plain sick and tired. No

[17:53] time, no money, no fun, so no more.

[17:56] They've decided the house is no longer

[17:58] the place to call home. Susan Spencer

[18:00] takes a look tonight at how times have

[18:02] changed since Mr. Smith went to

[18:04] Washington.

[18:08] There's a lot to be said for being in

[18:10] Congress. Prestige, perks, attention,

[18:13] power, a chance to serve.

[18:17] The movies told us about that a long

[18:19] time ago.

[18:20] >> I want to make that come to life for

[18:22] every boy in this land. Yes. On all the

[18:23] light up.

[18:24] >> Mr. Smith took his ideals and his

[18:26] courage and had to fight like a tiger to

[18:28] stay in Congress.

[18:29] >> I've got a piece and blow hard. I'm

[18:32] going to take

[18:34] >> all the drama, all the excitement. Why

[18:36] would a modern-day Mr. Smith decide that

[18:38] not only is he through speaking his

[18:40] peace, he wants out?

[18:43] >> It's hard to break away from. Uh it's

[18:46] like you're mainlining some some drug

[18:48] here. I mean the drug is politics and

[18:50] you're mainlining it and it's wonderful.

[18:53] But all of a sudden I woke up and

[18:54] realized I had no other life other than

[18:56] politics, other than being a

[18:58] congressman. I had no personal life. I

[19:00] mean family life was uh going haywire

[19:03] and I had no friends. I had no leisure

[19:05] time. Uh it was just crazy.

[19:08] >> I'm a very popular woman but a very

[19:10] lonely woman. I have no private life at

[19:14] all.

[19:15] I go home on weekends and sometimes I

[19:17] return to Washington DC on Mondays more

[19:19] tired than ever.

[19:21] >> I have the kind of volatile constituency

[19:24] that demands need so much no time to

[19:29] breathe.

[19:30] >> The departing Mr. Smiths, who are not

[19:32] old, sick, or otherwise unelectable,

[19:34] almost always cite personal

[19:36] considerations as their main reason for

[19:37] moving on. Next comes the frustration of

[19:40] a basically unwieldy Congress. a sense

[19:42] that everything is just too cumbersome

[19:44] around here and there's no time for

[19:46] anything.

[19:47] >> Late Thursday, late night and chairman's

[19:50] holding the possibility might be no

[19:52] Saturday.

[19:55] >> Saturday.

[19:56] >> Ken Holland of South Carolina says even

[19:58] if it were worth it personally, at

[20:00] 60,000 a year with four kids and two

[20:03] homes to keep, he just can't hack it

[20:05] financially anymore. Don Mitchell of New

[20:08] York agrees and says he only hopes he's

[20:10] leaving in time to salvage his faltering

[20:12] optometry practice before he has nothing

[20:15] left to go back to. And Jim Jeff of

[20:18] Kansas says he's tired of explaining

[20:20] that no, 60 grand a year for a

[20:22] congressman is not enough.

[20:25] >> Anybody that says that you can come up

[20:26] here and make money, in my estimation

[20:28] are full of prunes because it's been

[20:30] nothing but a loss to me. Mark Marx of

[20:33] Pennsylvania says he looks forward not

[20:35] only to having more money, but also to

[20:37] getting away from lobbyists and special

[20:39] interest groups trying to influence

[20:41] congressmen they know are strapped for

[20:43] funds. And Bill Broadhead couldn't agree

[20:46] more.

[20:47] >> Ethically, it's it's awful. I mean,

[20:49] people are, you know, some of the

[20:50] brightest people in the country are

[20:52] actively trying to corrupt you uh every

[20:54] day of the week. And you get damn tired

[20:57] of that. You know, every time you punch

[20:58] one of those three buttons, you're

[21:00] looking behind you to see who back there

[21:02] is going to get antagonized by what you

[21:05] do.

[21:06] >> It's like a octopus that had all of his

[21:08] tentacles and each one of those

[21:11] tentacles. He's got his claw in your

[21:15] body and you can't get away.

[21:18] >> So, naturally, a certain sense of

[21:20] freedom comes from knowing you're not

[21:22] going to be around next year. Take the

[21:24] case of Congressman Markx answering a

[21:27] man who kept sending complaining

[21:28] letters.

[21:29] >> Well, I just couldn't take anymore. So,

[21:31] I wrote him back and I said, "Dear,

[21:32] whatever your name is, screw you." And I

[21:34] signed it respectfully.

[21:37] Of course, I felt very

[21:39] >> This has been a liberating experience.

[21:40] >> Oh, it's been I'm telling you free at

[21:42] last.

[21:43] >> What would Mr. Smith say to that? Susan

[21:46] Spencer, CBS News, Capitol Hill.

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[23:31] >> Show me a hero, wrote F. Scott

[23:32] Fitzgerald. And I will write you a

[23:34] tragedy. But a hero emerged from the

[23:36] tragedy of that Air Florida crash which

[23:38] claimed 78 lives in Washington last

[23:40] January. After a life of anonymity, he

[23:43] spent one brief unforgettable moment in

[23:45] the spotlight. Now, Bob Schiffer looks

[23:47] at the hero after the spotlights moved

[23:49] on.

[23:52] >> When Lenny Scutnik, the self-described

[23:54] ordinary guy who said he had never had a

[23:56] life-saving lesson and had never really

[23:58] done anything special, dived into the

[24:00] icy Ptoac River that day, made that

[24:02] dramatic rescue of one of the women who

[24:04] had been aboard the doomed plane. And

[24:07] when it was seen by millions on

[24:08] television, it became a scene that

[24:10] electrified the nation and made Lenny

[24:12] Scutnik a national hero, an instant

[24:15] celebrity. Today, looking back on it

[24:17] from the riverbank where it all

[24:19] happened, Scutnik says the hoopla, not

[24:21] the rescue, was the hard part for him.

[24:23] It used to be real hard for me just to

[24:25] get in front of the classroom and read

[24:27] an oral report and then being pushed in

[24:29] front of, you know, huge crowds of

[24:32] people, you know, at these awards,

[24:34] >> ceremonies, you know, just

[24:37] it's it's nerve-wracking. After the

[24:39] rescue, Scutnik was cheered at the

[24:41] government office where he worked.

[24:43] Letters and awards poured in from all

[24:44] over the world, and he was honored all

[24:46] over the country. He was even saluted by

[24:48] the president and given a standing

[24:50] ovation by Congress.

[24:53] Now that the cheering has stopped, he's

[24:55] back prowling the halls of the huge

[24:57] government office where he works as a

[24:59] messenger, and he still keeps busy

[25:01] operating the office copying machine.

[25:03] History may be filled with sad tales of

[25:06] those who became instant celebrities,

[25:08] couldn't handle it, and were broken by

[25:09] it. But here or in the Virginia suburb

[25:12] where he lives with his wife and sons,

[25:14] where the community center has been

[25:16] renamed the Lenny Scutnik Center for

[25:18] Heroism, they say the news about Lenny

[25:20] Scutnik is he hasn't changed at all.

[25:23] >> He's the same Lenny Scutnick he always

[25:25] was.

[25:25] >> As he pours over the thousands of

[25:27] letters he's received and as he sits

[25:29] amid the dozens of awards that fill his

[25:31] tiny living room, Scutnik still seems

[25:33] genuinely puzzled that such a fuss was

[25:35] made over what seemed to him a natural

[25:37] thing to do. And he says the letters

[25:40] bear out that most people would do the

[25:42] same thing.

[25:42] >> It's in black and white. I mean, if the

[25:44] the feelings there, people wrote it. I

[25:47] mean,

[25:48] >> it sounds like they

[25:51] would help.

[25:51] >> And in Lenny Scutnik's neighborhood, no

[25:53] matter who you ask, they'll tell you he

[25:55] really means it. He

[25:56] >> He's He didn't show off and he he's not

[25:59] mean he doesn't he's not mean to the

[26:01] kids like certain people around here.

[26:03] >> Be a good guy.

[26:04] >> Bob Schiffer, CBS News, Washington. And

[26:07] that's the CBS Evening News for this

[26:09] Friday. Bob will be here tomorrow. Dan

[26:10] Rather reporting from New York and

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