CBS Evening News - 1992-07-14
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[0:03] In New York, marchers a runner
[0:07] and a runner up. Conventioneers having a
[0:10] hot time in the old town tonight. In
[0:13] Dallas, fits and starts for Ross Barau
[0:15] along a suddenly bumpy campaign trail.
[0:18] And our all-star night profile of a
[0:21] stellar human being for once an umpire
[0:24] everybody loves.
[0:27] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:34] from Madison Square Garden in New York,
[0:36] site of the Democratic National
[0:38] Convention. Dan Rattle reporting. Good
[0:40] evening. There has been an angry
[0:41] reaction here to our exclusive report
[0:43] last night about a new attempt to
[0:45] sabotage the Clinton campaign. We
[0:48] reported to you about a dirty tricks
[0:50] operation run by the same people who
[0:52] were behind the Willie Horton ads four
[0:54] years ago. Spokesman for President Bush
[0:56] now say that he is renewing his efforts
[0:59] to put a stop to this operation. Eric
[1:01] Ingberg has worked on this story for
[1:03] three months and tonight has a follow-up
[1:04] report.
[1:07] President Bush, who went today to
[1:08] California, was reported by aids to be
[1:11] very upset at the CBS News report
[1:13] detailing harassment of a family by
[1:16] political sleas operatives working
[1:18] independently for his reelection. The
[1:20] presidential victory committee headed by
[1:22] Floyd Brown had dredged up the 1977
[1:25] suicide of Susan Coleman and questioned
[1:28] her family and friends in an
[1:30] unsuccessful attempt to tired to Bill
[1:32] Clinton. Chief of Staff Sam Skinner said
[1:35] the president directed we take all
[1:37] action, including the possibility of
[1:39] filing a lawsuit against Brown's group.
[1:43] Clinton talking to Arkansas reporters
[1:45] said the Bush campaign has tried to have
[1:47] it both ways with Brown's notorious
[1:50] gutter tactics.
[1:51] >> The most important uh point that was
[1:53] made by the CBS story, I thought, was
[1:55] that while the Bush administration
[1:58] disclaimed any connection with it, they
[2:01] declined to do the one thing they could
[2:02] do that would shut it up, which is to
[2:03] file a complaint with the FEC,
[2:06] this guy is raising money under the
[2:08] guise of trying to reelect George Bush.
[2:11] And uh so they they they could have a
[2:15] major deterrent effect on that kind of
[2:18] politics if they had done it. And of
[2:19] course they haven't done it.
[2:21] >> Susan's sister, who asked us for
[2:22] anonymity, said before today's White
[2:24] House statement that Bush campaigned
[2:27] disavowels of any ties to Brown were
[2:29] unconvincing. G
[2:31] >> give me a break. We're talking the
[2:33] president of the United States here.
[2:36] He can't control him. Come on. Faced
[2:40] with such criticism, the Bush campaign
[2:42] late today filed a formal complaint
[2:44] against Floyd Brown's group with the
[2:46] Federal Election Commission. The
[2:48] complaint charges he has been tricking
[2:50] contributors by calling his committee
[2:51] presidential and seeks a full
[2:53] investigation. Eric Angberg, CBS News,
[2:56] Washington. Here at the convention, the
[2:59] delegates are moving quickly tonight to
[3:01] rally around the middle of the road
[3:02] platform of the Clinton Gore ticket. And
[3:05] the friction with Jerry Brown's people
[3:07] is apparently being smoothed over. It's
[3:09] all part of the effort to push the
[3:11] Democratic party to the center, keep it
[3:13] there, unite, and come out running with
[3:15] some momentum. Richard Thrkeel is down
[3:17] on the floor with all the latest.
[3:19] Richard, good evening.
[3:19] >> Good evening. It's a done deal, Dan.
[3:21] After a full day of negotiations with
[3:23] party chairman Ron Brown, Jerry Brown
[3:25] will address this convention tomorrow
[3:27] night. It's not clear that yet that he's
[3:30] agreed to uh or will agree to uh uh go
[3:34] ahead along and and
[3:37] take the nomination and uh agree to uh
[3:40] concede that. But uh he has told his
[3:42] delegates uh that no further protest
[3:45] demonstrations will be necessary. So
[3:47] it's likely to be a lot quieter around
[3:48] here tonight than it was last night.
[3:55] Last night's chanting by the 600 Brown
[3:57] delegates may turn out to be the last
[3:59] unauthorized demonstration at this
[4:01] convention. Brown has wanted the
[4:03] convention to consider his alternate
[4:05] platform. And he's been vocal about it.
[4:07] >> In a democracy debate, vigorous, robust
[4:11] difference is healthy. And what we want
[4:14] is not conformity, not uniformity, but
[4:17] unity based on the spirit of this party.
[4:21] Outside the convention hall today, there
[4:23] were reminders of what are likely to be
[4:24] two difficult, divisive issues in the
[4:27] fall campaign, AIDS and abortion. 13,000
[4:30] demonstrators marched to Time Square to
[4:33] demand more action to help AIDS victims
[4:35] and to find a cure for AIDS. There were
[4:37] scuffles with police and there were some
[4:39] arrests. And the designated nominee,
[4:42] Bill Clinton, couldn't even get a
[4:43] peaceful jog in this morning without
[4:45] encountering the abortion issue. An
[4:48] anti-abortion protester posing as an
[4:50] autograph seeker tried to hand Clinton a
[4:52] plastic wrapped fetus before Clinton
[4:54] drove away in his car. Later, in an
[4:57] address to a women's group, Clinton, who
[4:59] supports women's rights to abortion, got
[5:01] a standing ovation.
[5:04] And elsewhere in Manhattan, advocates of
[5:07] both sides of the abortion issue spent
[5:09] the afternoon shouting at each other.
[5:11] >> You're the DEVIL'S PEOPLE AND YOU'LL END
[5:14] UP IN A HELL.
[5:16] YOU'RE NEEDED. YOUR CAUSE HAS BEEN
[5:18] DEFEATED.
[5:20] >> Here here at the convention though, Dan,
[5:22] it's business as usual. What I meant to
[5:23] say before is Jerry Brown has not yet
[5:25] agreed to endorse the ticket. On
[5:27] tonight's agenda, a speech by Jesse
[5:28] Jackson and adoption of the party
[5:30] platform. Dan,
[5:31] >> thanks, Richard. And we all recognize it
[5:33] was somebody pulling his microphone cord
[5:34] down there. It's hard to keep your focus
[5:36] and concentration. A not very strenuous
[5:39] debate over the Clinton Gore platform is
[5:41] underway behind me up there on the
[5:43] podium right at this hour. a platform
[5:46] designed to move the party closer to the
[5:48] middle. As a result, some issues aren't
[5:50] being talked about much at all this
[5:51] year. Take the drug problem. Jacqueline
[5:54] Adams has more about that.
[6:01] 130 blocks north of the Democrat
[6:03] celebration in Madison Square Garden is
[6:05] a world most delegates won't see.
[6:13] Washington Heights drug bazaar is
[6:15] flourishing even after police invaded
[6:17] the area last week to stop a night of
[6:19] rioting. A just released survey found
[6:22] there's so much heroin on the streets of
[6:24] New York. Prices have been slashed in
[6:26] half. $5 bags of heroin are usually 55%
[6:30] pure and crack cocaine can be found for
[6:33] 75 cents a dose. He doesn't say nothing.
[6:36] Clinton, he doesn't say nothing. He says
[6:38] little things here and there, but
[6:39] nobody's listening.
[6:40] >> With three major candidates, the only
[6:43] mention I have heard of drugs in the
[6:45] entire presidential campaign is diddy or
[6:48] didn't he inhale.
[6:49] >> Rioting here and in LA underscored the
[6:52] needs. Yet, strangely, the Democratic
[6:54] platform is vague about expanding drug
[6:57] treatment, increasing drug counseling,
[6:59] even getting more cops on the streets.
[7:02] Despite the emphasis on unity, some
[7:04] Democrats are outraged. Most of the
[7:06] problems that identify with minorities
[7:09] have been thorny problems that they just
[7:12] don't want to wrestle with. I told
[7:14] Governor Clinton that this isn't a black
[7:16] problem. It's a national problem.
[7:18] >> But the experts say the middle class
[7:20] voters the Clinton Gore ticket is wooing
[7:22] are angry at drug abusers. Angry that
[7:25] after 5 years and 61 billion, the
[7:28] problem is worse than ever. Politicians
[7:31] have felt that this is an unwinable war
[7:34] and have been backing away from it
[7:35] instead of standing up to it.
[7:38] >> The irony is, however, that drug abuse
[7:40] is driving every significant social
[7:42] problem America faces. From education to
[7:45] joblessness, homelessness to AIDS.
[7:47] Without an effective war on drugs, the
[7:50] experts fear, neighborhoods like
[7:52] Washington Heights will never be
[7:53] reclaimed, no matter who is in the White
[7:56] House.
[7:58] Jacqueline Adams, CBS News, New York.
[8:01] >> Still ahead on the CBS Evening News live
[8:03] tonight from Madison Square Garden,
[8:05] what's happened to the Perau campaign.
[8:07] We'll tell you about dissension in the
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[9:27] Back now live at the Democratic
[9:29] convention where Governor Douglas Wilder
[9:31] of Virginia officially endorsed the
[9:33] Clinton Gore ticket today. That ends
[9:35] speculation that Wilder might defect to
[9:37] become Ross Perau's running mate. All is
[9:40] not sweetness and light, much less
[9:42] efficient organization inside the Perau
[9:44] campaign. Correspondent Bill Lagatuda
[9:47] has been looking into that. Ross Perau
[9:50] didn't want any publicity this week,
[9:52] just the lingering memories of the
[9:54] triumphant petition rallies he's been
[9:56] holding around the country. But there's
[9:58] trouble deep in the heart of Texas,
[10:00] where the view from inside campaign
[10:02] headquarters is that of a candidate too
[10:04] headstrong to take the advice of his
[10:06] managers.
[10:09] Ed Rollins and Hamilton Jordan, both
[10:11] seasoned, expensive professionals
[10:13] brought on board in June, are reportedly
[10:16] exasperated. Jordan is rumored ready to
[10:18] quit and is said to have told friends
[10:21] Perau is ignoring him. Rollins denied
[10:24] the Jordan rumors today, but admitted
[10:26] there is some disarray at the top.
[10:28] >> You have a very strong man and in Mr.
[10:30] Perau, it's it's uh we we don't get the
[10:33] $50 million check from the federal
[10:34] government that the other the Democrats
[10:36] and Republicans we have to argue with
[10:38] him for each each item that we're going
[10:40] to spend justifiably. And and I think
[10:42] there's been some frustration. For
[10:43] example, Rollins desperately wants to
[10:45] begin running TV ads and hired veteran
[10:48] producer Hal Riny to film them. But
[10:50] halfway into the job, Perau overruled
[10:52] Rollins and fired Riney because he
[10:55] didn't like the spots.
[10:57] Other advisers were furious this weekend
[11:00] when Perau inadvertently insulted many
[11:02] blacks at the NAACP.
[11:04] No one in the campaign knew what he was
[11:06] going to say. Tom Loose, the campaign
[11:09] chairman, is spending more time than
[11:11] he'd care to trying to put a positive
[11:13] spin on all this. The important thing to
[11:16] Ross is is that Ross wants the message
[11:19] to be Ross's message, not somebody
[11:21] else's, not a committee of speech
[11:23] writers, not political professionals.
[11:26] Loose says the disagreements among the
[11:27] staff are being blown way out of
[11:29] proportion, but analysts say bickering
[11:32] at such a high level can bleed a
[11:34] campaign to death quickly.
[11:36] >> The untraditional candidate is in some
[11:38] very traditional trouble right now. And
[11:40] so for Perau, he better recognize that
[11:43] he's got to stem this tide very, very
[11:44] quickly.
[11:45] >> Late today, Ross Perau himself told CBS
[11:48] News the rumors about Hamilton Churan
[11:50] leaving are not true and that he Perau
[11:52] plan to track them down personally.
[11:54] Oddly enough, all this backbiting at the
[11:56] highest level has delighted some of
[11:58] Perau's volunteers who don't think he
[11:59] should be handled by professionals of
[12:01] any kind. So, there is some dissension
[12:03] in the ranks of the supporters as well,
[12:05] Dan. And that's exactly what Perau does
[12:07] not need right now. Dan, thanks, Bill.
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[14:01] >> In the most unusual presidential
[14:02] campaign in recent history, the
[14:04] Democratic convention continues. Join
[14:06] Dan Rather and the CBS News team with
[14:08] updates during the All-Star game
[14:10] tonight.
[14:13] News today beyond the Democratic
[14:14] Convention. Pope John Paul reportedly
[14:16] will have surgery tomorrow to remove an
[14:18] intestinal tumor. Italian news reports
[14:21] say the tumor is believed to be
[14:23] non-cancerous.
[14:25] Hospitals of course sometimes can be
[14:26] dangerous to your health, a lot more
[14:28] dangerous than they need to be. That is
[14:31] the conclusion of a new study on
[14:33] hospital care and hygiene in America.
[14:35] CBS News health correspondent Edie
[14:37] Magnus has the story.
[14:40] The hospital intensive care unit, a
[14:42] high-tech place to heal the critically
[14:44] ill. But it's also a breeding ground for
[14:47] common infections that can make the sick
[14:49] even sicker.
[14:50] >> There is no question that a certain
[14:53] number of people that get get admitted
[14:54] to the hospital will develop infections
[14:57] as a complication of their
[14:59] hospitalization.
[15:00] >> It is estimated that 2 million hospital
[15:02] patients contract infections every year,
[15:05] which cost between 5 and 10 billion
[15:07] dollars to treat. There is evidence
[15:10] tonight that a popular hospital device
[15:12] may be to blame for some infections. A
[15:15] new study found nine patients in one
[15:17] Pennsylvania hospital ICU contracted the
[15:20] same illness from an electronic rectal
[15:23] thermometer.
[15:24] >> This is the first time that an
[15:25] electronic thermometer has been
[15:27] recognized as a a means of dissemination
[15:31] of an organism within a hospital.
[15:33] >> The plastic casing over the thermometer
[15:35] is discarded by healthcare workers after
[15:37] each use. But bacteria may remain on the
[15:40] permanent metal container which houses
[15:42] it. Government scientists emphasize this
[15:44] outbreak may be an isolated incident.
[15:46] Yet it underscores the constant threat
[15:49] to patients from infections that are
[15:51] avoidable.
[15:52] >> The major mode of transmission of
[15:55] hospitalacquired infections is through
[15:58] person-toperson transmission on the
[15:59] hands of healthare workers.
[16:01] >> The most important practice is good
[16:03] handwashing. It's the most effective
[16:06] infection control procedure that we
[16:08] have.
[16:09] >> The problem is healthare workers don't
[16:11] do it enough. Despite government
[16:13] guidelines and routine hospital hygiene
[16:15] classes, another new study found less
[16:18] than half of doctors and nurses in one
[16:20] hospital wash their hands before
[16:22] treating patients. The government
[16:24] estimates nearly 1 million infections
[16:26] could be avoided simply through
[16:28] handwashing and sterilization of medical
[16:30] equipment. But healthcare workers say
[16:32] solving that problem may necessitate
[16:33] solving another one, too. They're often
[16:35] so understaffed, they're just too busy
[16:37] to comply. Edie Magnus, CBS News, New
[16:40] York.
[16:42] >> A late development. A federal appeals
[16:44] court this evening overturned a federal
[16:46] judge's order earlier in the day that
[16:49] would have given a woman the right to
[16:50] use the controversial French abortion
[16:52] pill RU486.
[16:55] The judge earlier in the day had ordered
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[17:03] ago. But late in the day, the Food and
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[17:07] and won the later appeal. Still to come
[17:10] on the CBS Evening News, women in the in
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[19:11] One of the running stories of campaign
[19:13] 92 is that this is the year of the
[19:15] woman. Galvanized by the issues of
[19:17] sexual harassment and abortion rights,
[19:19] the whole Clarence Thomas hearing and so
[19:21] on. More and more women are testing
[19:23] their political power and promising
[19:25] change. The point was driven home right
[19:27] down there last night by former
[19:29] Congresswoman Barbara Jordan.
[19:32] That horizon,
[19:35] that horizon of gender equity is
[19:38] limitless for us.
[19:40] And what we see today is simply a dress
[19:44] rehearsal for the day and time we meet
[19:46] in convention to nominate Madame
[19:49] President.
[19:56] I deny each and every single allegation
[20:00] against me today. It was outrage over
[20:02] Clarence Thomas and William Kennedy
[20:04] Smith and Mike Tyson.
[20:07] >> It was the danger of losing the right to
[20:09] CHOOSE ABORTION.
[20:11] >> IT was the shift from war in the Gulf to
[20:14] domestic issues, education, healthcare,
[20:16] child care.
[20:18] It was anger at male politicians and the
[20:20] departure of many male incumbents from
[20:22] Congress. All of that and more is giving
[20:25] rise to what's being called a new
[20:27] feminist revolution. The year that women
[20:30] might finally seize political power.
[20:33] >> IN NOVEMBER,
[20:34] >> MORE women are running for Congress than
[20:36] ever before. From Diane Feinstein and
[20:38] Barbara Boxer in California to Carol
[20:40] Mosley Brawn in Illinois to Lynn Yel in
[20:43] Pennsylvania and Geraldine Ferraro in
[20:45] New York, women are looking to score big
[20:47] gains in the House and Senate. Will they
[20:50] will this be the year of the woman? Or
[20:53] are feminists once again about to be
[20:54] disappointed? We spoke with three
[20:56] prominent Democratic women. Kathleen
[20:58] Brown, state treasur of California,
[21:00] Geraldine Ferraro, former vice
[21:01] presidential candidate now running for
[21:03] the Senate in New York. and Lin Aguero,
[21:05] chairman of the Texas Railroad
[21:07] Commission.
[21:07] >> Let's talk about differences in running
[21:10] when you're a woman.
[21:11] >> This time around, I'm terribly delighted
[21:13] I am a woman running because this time
[21:16] people are looking for the positive
[21:17] aspects that we bring to a campaign.
[21:20] Honesty, integrity, the outsider image,
[21:23] the person who can bring change. Also,
[21:26] women all have other lives than our jobs
[21:29] in politics. We're all mothers. I'm a
[21:31] grandmother. And those other lives drive
[21:35] our passion. I mean, I I think I can
[21:38] speak from us. We don't get into this to
[21:40] change our lives. We get into it because
[21:43] we want to change other people's lives.
[21:45] >> We're not afraid of coalition building,
[21:48] compromising. You know, we've settled a
[21:50] lot of disputes between two screaming
[21:51] kids who want to play with the same toy.
[21:53] >> Let me turn that around. I I hear some
[21:55] men, I'm not proud of it. This is not
[21:57] something Joy say that's precisely the
[21:59] problem. Women tend to be good
[22:02] compromisers, but they're it's difficult
[22:04] when the crunch is on. When you when it
[22:06] takes spine, when it takes a
[22:08] confrontational approach, when it takes
[22:10] a time to be tough, women may not have
[22:13] it.
[22:13] >> It's not just toughness. If you define
[22:16] it as tough, then you set it up to be a
[22:20] different kind of equation. There's
[22:22] strength, and I think what people want
[22:24] are leaders who are strong. The reason
[22:27] it's a good year for women running for
[22:29] office is because now we're talking
[22:31] about the kinds of things that people
[22:33] think that women can do.
[22:35] >> The children, families, tonight I'll get
[22:38] to speak about um the most fundamental
[22:41] family value in America, a job.
[22:44] >> How long before we have a woman
[22:46] president of the United States?
[22:47] >> Well, I think since we're going to elect
[22:49] a Democratic team in uh in '92, we run
[22:52] for reelection in 96. I would say by the
[22:54] year 2000 we're going to have a woman
[22:56] candidate for president at the very
[22:57] least. You really believe that?
[22:58] >> Yeah.
[22:59] >> Men are as hungry for change as women
[23:02] are. And we're the faces of change
[23:04] because we've been outside, not inside.
[23:07] And I think uh now is our time.
[23:10] >> And coming up next on the CBS Evening
[23:12] News, the umpire fights back
[23:22] >> over here. Miss Lansbury. Yes, please.
[23:24] Wow, if I lifted that, I need extra
[23:26] strength bufferin for the aches and
[23:27] pains.
[23:28] >> It's strong, huh?
[23:29] >> Oh, yeah. Strongest dosage of aspirin
[23:31] you can buy.
[23:32] >> You really believe in buffering?
[23:33] >> I certainly do.
[23:34] >> Shouldn't you discover the strength of
[23:36] buffering?
[23:37] >> M. A late night snack and no bag keeps
[23:40] it fresher than Ziplock brand storage
[23:42] bags with the Gripper Zipper. Tough tiny
[23:44] teeth you can feel gripping. So you know
[23:46] freshness is locked in.
[23:47] >> Honey, caught red-handed. There's only
[23:50] one Ziploc.
[23:54] >> Draw from the facts.
[23:57] There's a way to maintain regularity
[24:00] without drugs.
[24:02] It starts here. A high-fiber diet, which
[24:05] can include Kellogg's O brand, an
[24:07] excellent source of wheat brand fiber,
[24:10] may help you stay regular, drug-free,
[24:12] and there's a lot to be said for that.
[24:15] Naturally,
[24:17] a high-fiber diet and Kellogg's all
[24:19] brand for drug-free regularity.
[24:52] This castle once had 26 bathrooms.
[24:55] >> Be nice if one of them still worked.
[24:56] >> What?
[24:57] >> What if my diarrhea comes back?
[24:59] >> Relax. You took my Emodium AD caplets.
[25:02] >> Just once. I usually take the pink stuff
[25:03] two or three times.
[25:04] >> Emodium AD is much better.
[25:06] >> Emodium AD caplets are so effective they
[25:09] often work in one dose. Instead of dose
[25:12] after dose after dose like the pink
[25:14] stuff
[25:14] >> ready to go
[25:15] >> before the sunset.
[25:18] >> Emodium AD for diarrhea. The choice for
[25:21] one dose relief.
[25:24] >> And finally tonight, the story of a
[25:26] great comeback. It's about a 42-year-old
[25:28] man who has drawn more than his share of
[25:30] booze and heckles over the years, but
[25:32] now everyone is rooting for him. John
[25:35] Blackstone tells you why.
[25:38] >> They are the keepers of America's game.
[25:40] Major League umpires
[25:43] unloved. Every one of them.
[25:45] >> Every call that goes against the home
[25:47] team, they get booed.
[25:49] >> I wouldn't want to live like that, would
[25:50] you?
[25:52] >> That's how we teach our kids in America.
[25:54] Boo. Let's boo the umpire. Let's kill
[25:56] the umpire.
[25:57] >> Right at the scene.
[25:58] >> Just 60 men in America suit up to do
[26:01] this job.
[26:02] >> This season, one has been absent.
[26:05] >> Ladies and gentlemen, Mr.
[26:10] Nobody boos Steve Polalmo these days.
[26:13] The man often called the best umpire in
[26:15] baseball is now breaking the rules. A
[26:18] year ago, doctors told him he would
[26:20] never walk again.
[26:23] >> Um, this wasn't a trick that I just
[26:24] pulled to get up here from the seat to
[26:26] the to the podium. There's no magic
[26:28] about it. It's been a year in coming.
[26:31] It's been a year of hard work. Polarmo
[26:33] was shot and paralyzed when he tried to
[26:35] stop a robbery. Now with his wife Debbie
[26:38] at his side, his job is recovery. Of all
[26:41] the people in a baseball game, only the
[26:43] umpires wish to go unnoticed. Steve
[26:45] Polarmo would be happy to go back to the
[26:47] days when his biggest recognition was a
[26:50] chorus of booze.
[26:51] >> Push. Push make me work.
[26:53] >> Umpires dream of making it to the big
[26:55] leagues, too. Palmo made it 15 seasons
[26:58] ago.
[26:59] >> Every call has to be the right call. And
[27:01] here, you know, he wants to be just as
[27:03] as perfect and have it all just, you
[27:05] know, fall into place and do it all just
[27:07] right.
[27:08] >> You strive to be number one. You want to
[27:11] be number one. That's the only place
[27:13] where you want to be.
[27:16] Never admit defeat.
[27:20] As the anniversary of the shooting
[27:21] approached this month, the umpire who
[27:23] once called himself the fastest man on
[27:25] the field finally walked alone again
[27:28] without canes or crutches.
[27:38] >> It's a trick he hasn't tried in public
[27:40] yet, but no matter. Every time Polarmo
[27:43] shows up at a ballpark, people start to
[27:46] cheer. I might settle for not being the
[27:48] fastest guy on the field. Um,
[27:52] just as long as I'm on the field.
[27:58] >> The others in the small fraternity of
[28:00] umpires are awaiting Polarmo's return
[28:03] while he works hard to make himself
[28:05] unpopular once again. John Blackstone,
[28:08] CBS News, Kansas City.
[28:12] >> We wish Steve well. His wife tells us
[28:14] they'll be watching the All-Star game
[28:15] here on CBS tonight. Throughout the
[28:18] All-Star game, we'll bring you updates
[28:19] on the action and the lack of action
[28:22] here at the Democratic National
[28:23] Convention. For now, Dan Rather calling
[28:25] them as we see them from Madison Square
[28:27] Garden. I'll see you again during the
[28:29] All-Star game.
[28:39] Experience CBS News.
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