NBC Nightly News - 1996-03-11

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[0:01] China and Taiwan. Now the United States

[0:03] is sending more American ships, hoping

[0:05] to cool off the tensions between the

[0:07] two.

[0:09] Steve Forb says no way he'll get out of

[0:11] the presidential race, even if he gets

[0:13] hammered on Super Tuesday. NBC News in

[0:16] depth tonight, the Everglades, the fight

[0:17] to restore this national treasure to its

[0:20] natural state. And talk about an

[0:22] unscheduled landing. Worries tonight

[0:24] that a huge satellite could come

[0:26] crashing to Earth. From NBC News, this

[0:30] is NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokoff.

[0:34] >> Good evening. Is China serious? Is it

[0:37] really ready to invade Taiwan to

[0:39] discourage any move toward independence

[0:40] on the island nation it considers to be

[0:43] one of its provinces? Or are all these

[0:45] missile tests and tough talk just off

[0:47] the shores of Taiwan part of the macho

[0:50] struggle within China for leadership of

[0:52] the world's most populous country and

[0:54] most powerful communist regime? China is

[0:57] maintaining a major military presence in

[0:59] the waters of Taiwan. So now the United

[1:01] States is moving additional carrier

[1:03] groups led by the USS Independence just

[1:06] east of Taiwan. We have two reports

[1:08] tonight. We'll begin with NBC's Andre

[1:10] Mitchell who's in Taiwan.

[1:15] >> Taiwan is armed and ready. 16year-olds

[1:18] today at Sherah High School in Taipei

[1:21] drilling with M16s.

[1:23] everywhere. More than 300,000 troops are

[1:26] on the move, arming their weapons,

[1:28] guarding the coast.

[1:32] Air traffic rerouted to avoid being hit.

[1:34] Hundreds of commercial flights delayed.

[1:37] Ships detourred. The government

[1:39] mobilized, but hoping China will back

[1:41] down from its live ammunition exercises

[1:43] because of America's new show of force.

[1:46] I think the US decision to send task

[1:48] force in the area is helpful,

[1:50] stabilizing, and hopefully also

[1:53] persuasive.

[1:54] >> But in Beijing today, China's foreign

[1:56] minister issued a strong warning, told

[1:58] the US not to intervene. Why now? What

[2:02] started this military showdown? China

[2:04] says Taiwan's decision to hold its first

[2:06] direct elections 12 days from now. And

[2:09] President Lee Dangi's pushed for Taiwan

[2:11] to be treated more like an independent

[2:13] country. for instance, admitted to the

[2:15] United Nations instead of being what

[2:17] China calls a renegade province.

[2:21] >> Most people think China's immediate goal

[2:23] is not to conquer Taiwan, but scare it.

[2:26] This is psychological warfare aimed at

[2:28] Taiwan's independence movement and its

[2:30] booming economy. Here in Taipei, so far,

[2:34] there is more anger than fear at the

[2:36] noodle bar in the Bang Jang market. Hong

[2:38] Chong thinks what China is doing is a

[2:40] savage act. These off-duty soldiers

[2:43] think Taiwan can fight for a while, but

[2:45] cannot win a long war against China's

[2:48] overwhelming forces. Especially not on

[2:50] the small Taiwanese islands less than a

[2:52] mile from the mainland where 150,000

[2:55] Chinese troops are massing like Kimoy

[2:58] near the live fire zone and the island

[3:01] of Matsu. It looks peaceful, but look

[3:03] again. It's a rabbit warn of tunnels,

[3:06] bunkers, bomb shelters.

[3:09] The local fishermen have been grounded

[3:11] until the war games are over.

[3:13] >> This is no good for both sides.

[3:14] >> If the war games become war, China would

[3:17] lose billions in foreign investment.

[3:19] Still, no one knows how far Beijing will

[3:22] push this crisis. Andrea Mitchell, NBC

[3:25] News, Taipei.

[3:27] >> This is Ed Rael at the Pentagon.

[3:30] Tonight, the US is assembling a massive

[3:32] naval task force near Taiwan. More than

[3:35] a hundred war plananes from two aircraft

[3:37] carriers. The Nemits suddenly ordered

[3:40] from the Persian Gulf headed at full

[3:42] speed for arrival next week. The

[3:44] Independence already on station just

[3:46] east of the island. Plans call for at

[3:49] least a dozen US warships patrolling off

[3:52] Taiwan with immense firepower, including

[3:55] several hundred Tomahawk cruise missiles

[3:57] known for their deadly accuracy. All

[4:00] this as China begins its large-scale war

[4:02] games. And we believe it this represents

[4:06] an attempt to intimidate Taiwan, an act

[4:09] of coercion.

[4:13] We find that deplorable.

[4:14] >> What could trigger a confrontation?

[4:16] Nobody predicts a shooting war, but

[4:18] officials warned that if Taiwan is

[4:20] attacked, there could be grave

[4:22] consequences. Here in Washington,

[4:24] high-ranking Chinese were quick to react

[4:26] to the US buildup. At a hastily called

[4:28] meeting with senators,

[4:30] >> there were two messages. one of

[4:31] reassurance that the United States

[4:33] should not worry, but secondly that they

[4:36] are very strong in their view that

[4:39] Taiwan may not be an independent state.

[4:42] But tonight, both the Senate and the

[4:44] House were talking tough. Both houses

[4:46] preparing resolutions criticizing the

[4:48] Chinese and promising to give Taiwan new

[4:52] and improved weapons for its defense. Ed

[4:54] Rael, NBC News, the Pentagon. The

[4:57] Clinton administration's point man for

[4:59] China is Assistant Secretary of State

[5:01] Winston Lord, the former ambassador to

[5:03] China. He joins us now. Last week, Mr.

[5:05] Ambassador, you said that China was

[5:07] engaged in psychological warfare. Has it

[5:09] gone beyond that over the weekend?

[5:11] >> I wouldn't say it's gone beyond it, but

[5:13] they've continued reckless and

[5:14] provocative actions that are designed to

[5:16] intimidate Taiwan, and we've responded

[5:19] both in our public and private

[5:20] statements and the moving of some naval

[5:22] assets. So, uh, I think we're making

[5:24] clear to Beijing that we think the

[5:26] tensions ought to be reduced and they

[5:27] ought to get back to talking to Taiwan.

[5:29] >> Have you seen any encouraging word from

[5:31] Beijing that they'll respond to the

[5:32] United States in this regard?

[5:34] >> Uh, not yet. I think they've gotten our

[5:36] message. We've been very clear about

[5:37] that and we'll just have to see how

[5:39] things unfold in the coming uh days and

[5:41] weeks.

[5:42] >> Are we prepared to make some tradeoffs

[5:43] for China if they'll back away now?

[5:46] >> No, I wouldn't put it that way. We think

[5:47] it's in China's own self-interest to

[5:49] reduce tensions. What they're doing is

[5:52] raising concerns throughout the region.

[5:54] They're raising concerns, for example,

[5:55] in Hong Kong, which they take over in

[5:57] 500 days. They're raising concerns in

[5:59] this country. They're complicating our

[6:01] efforts to have a constructive

[6:03] relationship.

[6:03] >> Are we putting any deadline on a

[6:06] response from China?

[6:08] >> We don't like to engage certainly in

[6:09] public deadlines. We have underlined the

[6:11] urgency of this situation and I think

[6:14] they've clearly gotten our message, but

[6:15] we'll have to see what unfolds in the

[6:17] coming days.

[6:18] >> Mr. Ambassador, thank you very much.

[6:19] >> Thank you.

[6:20] When NBC Night News continues,

[6:22] presidential politics tonight, Bob Dole

[6:25] poised for a Super Tuesday sweep. The

[6:27] pressure is now on his rivals to drop

[6:29] out. Still ahead here on NBC News, NBC

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[8:28] >> Presidential politics on this Super

[8:30] Tuesday Eve. The man who has not even

[8:32] announced that he's running for

[8:33] reelection yet was campaigning and

[8:35] raising money in New York City tonight.

[8:36] Here's the scene inside the Plaza Hotel

[8:39] where President Clinton was accepting

[8:40] the award as Irish American of the Year.

[8:43] Meanwhile, his main Republican rival,

[8:45] Bob Dole, is predicting he'll sweep all

[8:48] seven primaries tomorrow while in the

[8:50] Forbes camp. The pressure is building

[8:52] and so is the controversy. NBC's David

[8:55] Bloom on the campaign trail tonight.

[8:59] >> With friends like Jack Kemp, Steve

[9:01] Forbes might not need any enemies.

[9:03] Today, an angry Forbes denied rumors

[9:05] he's about to drop out of the

[9:07] presidential race. Rumors spawned by

[9:09] Forb's friend Jack Kemp. Kemp endorsed

[9:12] Forbes just last week, but Sunday,

[9:14] campaigning with Forbes in Florida, the

[9:16] former housing secretary talked about

[9:18] the possibility of brokering a deal with

[9:20] Bob Dole to get Forbes to quit. Forbes

[9:24] was furious. When the two men sat down

[9:26] to dinner, said a top aid, it's a good

[9:28] thing there were only blunt knives at

[9:30] the table. Today, Forbes told reporters,

[9:32] "There is no deal to broker. There are

[9:34] no emissaries. I'm running this

[9:37] campaign.

[9:37] >> I'm in for the duration."

[9:38] >> And that means through California.

[9:40] >> Well, obviously that's only two weeks

[9:42] away. It's not that far away.

[9:44] >> So, yes,

[9:45] >> it's not exactly a yes or a no.

[9:46] >> The answer is yes, obviously.

[9:48] >> Yes, you're in through California.

[9:50] >> Yeah.

[9:50] >> But the Forbes campaign has put off

[9:53] advertising buys in California. And

[9:55] instead of campaigning with Forbes

[9:57] today, Kemp was in Washington saying he

[9:59] could be a bridge between Dole and

[10:01] Forbes, but not yet.

[10:03] >> And I was not doing anything either

[10:05] behind the scenes or in front of the

[10:07] scenes. But if hypothetically it came to

[10:10] that, I'd be glad to play that role.

[10:12] >> Both Forbes and Dole deny there's been

[10:15] any contact between the two camps so

[10:17] far. We'll be looking for signals that

[10:20] uh might indicate a willingness to uh

[10:24] come on board.

[10:25] >> Dole hinted that if as expected he

[10:27] sweeps Florida, Texas, and the five

[10:29] other Super Tuesday states tomorrow,

[10:32] then a dialogue to try to get Forbes out

[10:35] could begin soon. David Bloom, NBC News,

[10:38] Tampa. From politics to the American

[10:41] economy, General Motors closed four more

[10:43] of its plants today because of a

[10:44] week-long strike at two Ohio brake

[10:47] factories. Almost 50,000 GM employees

[10:50] now are out of work. No negotiation so

[10:53] far. The strike has shut 13 of the giant

[10:55] automakers 29 North American plants in

[10:58] seven states and two Canadian cities. On

[11:01] Wall Street, the Dow shook off last

[11:03] week's jitters about interest rates,

[11:05] gaining back more than half of what it

[11:07] lost on Friday. It was up 110 points in

[11:11] very heavy trading today. So much for

[11:13] doomsday. The NASDAQ was up as well.

[11:15] When we come back, NBC News in depth

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[13:01] Florida Everglades, one of this

[13:02] country's most precious natural

[13:04] resources. A worthy goal, but at what

[13:06] cost? The environment was brought into

[13:09] sharp focus earlier again today by

[13:11] President Clinton and Vice President

[13:12] Gore campaigning at an industrial waste

[13:15] site in New Jersey with a proposal for

[13:18] $2 billion in tax breaks to encourage

[13:21] businesses to clean up polluted areas in

[13:23] their region. This follows the

[13:25] administration's plan to help restore

[13:26] the Everglades. And that plan has set

[13:29] off a bitter battle. We begin our

[13:31] in-depth reporting from Florida with

[13:33] NBC's Bob Dodson.

[13:35] Out here, the alligators look like

[13:37] they're sighting down a gun barrel.

[13:42] Survival goes to the swift.

[13:45] But even the fastest cannot run from the

[13:48] pollution that is seeping from these

[13:49] sugarcane fields

[13:51] in South Florida. Over the years, the

[13:53] federal government drained the heart of

[13:55] the Everglades. 700,000 acres turned

[13:59] into some of the richest farmland in

[14:01] America. Now environmentalists are

[14:04] battling to cleanse the deadly

[14:05] phosphorus that the draining unleashed.

[14:08] >> The time has come.

[14:10] >> Vice President Al Gore has a new plan to

[14:12] save the swamp in 7 years.

[14:15] >> The money is in the budget.

[14:17] >> $1.5 billion.

[14:19] The largest, most costly ecological

[14:22] repair effort ever proposed in the

[14:24] United States. 100,000 acres in Central

[14:27] Florida would be returned to marsh.

[14:30] That's nearly 1if of the state's highly

[14:32] profitable sugar farmland and a big

[14:35] reason growers are outraged.

[14:37] >> Save our job. SAVE OUR JOB.

[14:40] >> They fear the plan would cost them

[14:42] 40,000 jobs.

[14:44] >> How are we supposed to live and make a

[14:46] living raising our families, putting

[14:49] kids in school and college? What are we

[14:51] supposed to do?

[14:52] >> Give something back, the administration

[14:54] says, for all the tax money that helped

[14:56] create those farms.

[15:00] The plan proposes a penny tax on each

[15:03] pound of sugar Florida produces. COME

[15:05] ON.

[15:07] >> To some, that doesn't sound like much.

[15:09] >> This 1 cent a pound represents probably

[15:11] half of the profit that's made on a farm

[15:14] each year.

[15:15] >> A penny a pound tax means annihilation.

[15:17] >> Well, not quite. The federal government

[15:20] subsidizes the sugar growers,

[15:22] guaranteeing a profit.

[15:24] >> They're going to be rich as ever. The

[15:26] subsidy is colossal. Most of that money

[15:29] goes to Florida. No state produces more

[15:31] cane sugar, one pound out of every five.

[15:35] So the tax could raise $245 million to

[15:39] help clean up the pollution.

[15:41] >> We're already paying $300 million, more

[15:43] than any American farmers anywhere in

[15:45] the country, in environmental taxes.

[15:49] >> The real question is, will Congress go

[15:51] along with this plan? Just a while back,

[15:53] it was trying to sell off federal land.

[15:56] Or is this just a bid for votes during

[15:58] this presidential campaign?

[16:00] >> What we're involved in is some politics,

[16:03] political science rather than the

[16:04] science that would would uh do the best

[16:06] for the Everglades.

[16:08] >> What's best for the Everglades may not

[16:10] be what's best for sugar growers who,

[16:12] like everything else in this vast and

[16:15] beautiful place, must struggle to

[16:17] survive.

[16:18] But for the first time in 50 years, the

[16:21] struggle to clean up the Everglades is

[16:24] now a national priority.

[16:26] Bob Dudson, NBC News, in the Everglades.

[16:31] The administration cleanup plan still

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[19:32] On Healthwatch tonight, a promising

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[19:35] and often fatal heart disease and the

[19:38] simple blood test that can tell you if

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[19:42] correspondent Robert Bazelle explains.

[19:45] >> After Hank gathers, a basketball star at

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[20:36] >> There are four genes that have been

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[20:46] >> We don't yet have the opportunity to

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[20:49] >> But the doctors do have the opportunity

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[20:58] Plaster's father died at 34 of the heart

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[21:06] >> If you have the disease, you have a

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[21:10] offspring.

[21:10] >> Poly Plaster wears a heart pacemaker to

[21:12] prevent irregular heartbeats. And so

[21:14] far, that has been all she needs. By

[21:17] contrast, Pauliey's uncle Keith's heart

[21:19] got so bad he needed a transplant. Had

[21:22] the blood test been available when he

[21:24] was a child, doctors probably could have

[21:26] treated him with drugs and avoided the

[21:28] need for a transplant.

[21:29] >> It got to the point where my heart had

[21:31] deteriorated enough, it wasn't pumping

[21:34] enough blood that the transplant was my

[21:36] only option.

[21:37] >> One of the most important goals of the

[21:39] genetic testing is to not just identify

[21:42] people with the inherited disorder, but

[21:43] to find out which people are at greatest

[21:45] risk for sudden death at a young age.

[21:47] >> Monty Williams on the low block. Great

[21:49] ball. Monty Williams, who plays for the

[21:51] San Antonio Spurs, tested positive for

[21:54] the disease. But his doctors decided he

[21:56] could continue playing as long as there

[21:58] is a doctor and resuscitation equipment

[22:00] nearby. The researchers believe genetic

[22:03] testing could eventually prevent

[22:05] thousands of premature deaths a year.

[22:08] Robert Bazelle, NBC News, New York.

[22:12] >> Now to NBC News online that goes beyond

[22:14] the day's headlines. America's love

[22:16] affair continues with the late

[22:18] Jacqueline Kennedy Onasses. An auction

[22:20] of the former first lady's belongings is

[22:22] drawing so much attention even the

[22:24] catalog is a hot seller at a hundred

[22:27] bucks a copy. The April auction is

[22:29] expected to bring in at least $4

[22:31] million.

[22:33] If you're not a sports fan, any game

[22:35] might seem long, but not as long as last

[22:37] night's game between the University of

[22:39] New Hampshire Wildcats and the

[22:41] Providence Friars. A showdown for the

[22:43] championship. five overtimes. Finally,

[22:47] New Hampshire broke the tie, winning

[22:49] after a game that lasted 5 hours and 35

[22:51] minutes. And that is a record.

[22:56] We have a footnote from a story that we

[22:57] brought you last week. Norman

[22:59] Schwarzoff's hero, basketball coach,

[23:01] Tommy Blackshire, who teaches his kids

[23:03] about winning in basketball and winning

[23:06] in life. Saturday night in Atlanta,

[23:08] Tommy Blacker's Tip County Blue Devils

[23:11] went all the way, defeating Beach High

[23:14] 69 to 40 to win the Georgia State

[23:17] Championship.

[23:20] And George Burns, who died at the age of

[23:22] 100 over the weekend, will be buried in

[23:24] private ceremonies tomorrow. The lovable

[23:27] and very durable comedian will be buried

[23:29] in a crypt right beneath his late wife,

[23:31] Gracie.

[23:33] He made those arrangements before he

[23:34] died. He said so she could always have

[23:38] top bill going.

[23:41] >> When we come back, what weighs about a

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[25:49] >> dine. He made it all the way to Yale Law

[25:52] School. Yet he can barely read. How a

[25:54] mother's devotion worked a miracle for

[25:56] her disabled son. Dine, NBC, Tuesday.

[26:01] >> Here in New York City, we're used to

[26:02] what New Yorkers call the unscheduled

[26:05] 11:00 explosion or 2 a.m. explosion or

[26:08] whenever. a terrible bang. Then we all

[26:11] go back to sleep without even going to

[26:12] the window because it is so routine and

[26:15] the mystery explosion is forgotten by

[26:17] morning. Well, if there's a loud crash

[26:20] tonight here or just about anywhere

[26:22] else, it might be worth investigating.

[26:24] NBC's Robert Hager.

[26:27] They're watching and waiting tonight at

[26:29] the super secret Defense Research Agency

[26:31] in Britain. Watching too in the US deep

[26:34] inside a Colorado mountain at the US

[26:36] Space Command. And up there somewhere,

[26:38] more than 75 mi high in the night sky,

[26:41] is an outofcrol Chinese spy satellite

[26:44] expected to plunge to Earth and crash

[26:46] sometime later tonight. But no one can

[26:48] calculate where or when. The Chinese

[26:51] launched it at top a rocket like this

[26:52] back in 1993, but lost control of it two

[26:55] weeks later. It's about the size of a

[26:57] small car, like a Volkswagen Beetle, and

[27:00] weighs more than two tons.

[27:02] >> Big enough to spoil your day if you were

[27:04] standing underneath. If it hits on

[27:06] ground, it could dig a crater as big as

[27:08] a tennis court. And to add to the

[27:10] excitement, there's treasure aboard.

[27:12] >> Chinese had placed a diamond encrusted

[27:14] metal of Mao on the satellite. Also, a

[27:17] chunk of 24 karat gold. When previous

[27:20] satellites fell to Earth, Skyab over

[27:22] Australia in 1979 and a radioactive

[27:25] Soviet satellite a year earlier, both

[27:27] fell harmlessly in remote areas. When

[27:29] the Chinese satellite,

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