World News Tonight (ABC) - 1985-03-01

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[0:04] From ABC, this is World News Tonight

[0:07] with Peter Jennings. Good evening. It's

[0:09] been a day of important signpost for the

[0:11] nation's economy. The stock market

[0:12] closed at an all-time high. The

[0:14] government's forecast of future economic

[0:16] activity suggests the overall economy

[0:18] should be strong in the months ahead.

[0:20] And President Reagan has decided he will

[0:22] no longer urge the Japanese to hold back

[0:24] on the number of cars they ship to this

[0:26] country. At the White House, here's

[0:28] ABC's Steve Shepard.

[0:30] >> The Reagan administration says ending

[0:32] voluntary restraints on Japanese auto

[0:34] exports to the United States will

[0:36] benefit both the American car buying

[0:38] public and the US economy as a whole.

[0:40] >> The consumers will save about $4 billion

[0:43] a year by taking off the voluntary

[0:45] restraints. There'll be that much more

[0:47] competition.

[0:48] >> But critics argue that lifting

[0:49] restraints will have a disastrous impact

[0:51] on employment in the automobile and

[0:53] related industries. We're talking about

[0:55] on the order of a upwards of a million

[0:58] people in this country that could lose

[0:59] their jobs if Japan takes full advantage

[1:02] of this invitation from President Reagan

[1:04] to flood more of their cars in here.

[1:06] >> Administration officials say that's not

[1:08] so. That job losses will be minimal.

[1:11] Whatever the job loss, President

[1:12] Reagan's decision was clearly made with

[1:14] an eye to the current health of the US

[1:16] auto industry. White House spokesman

[1:18] today pointed out that American car

[1:20] makers sold 11 a.5 million cars and

[1:23] trucks last year and earned record

[1:25] profits in both 1983 and 84. President

[1:28] Reagan says today's action is an effort

[1:30] to promote free and fair trade between

[1:32] the United States and Japan. But White

[1:34] House officials admit that in response,

[1:36] Japan has not yet promised to lift any

[1:38] of the trade barriers it maintains

[1:40] against a variety of US products. Steve

[1:43] Shepard, ABC News, the White House. The

[1:45] voluntary quotas or restraints on

[1:47] Japanese cars will expire at the end of

[1:49] the month. For what that may mean to the

[1:51] price of a car and to the American

[1:52] worker, here is our economics editor,

[1:54] Dan Courtz.

[1:56] >> Like a lot of other wouldbe car buyers,

[1:58] Greg Bartells is looking forward to the

[2:00] end of restrictions on Japanese autoimp

[2:02] imports.

[2:03] >> Hopefully, it will uh bring competition

[2:05] into uh into effect. And uh the more

[2:07] cars there are, the better deal you find

[2:10] you get.

[2:11] Since they couldn't send all the cars

[2:13] they wanted, the Japanese have been

[2:14] shipping high-priced models loaded with

[2:16] extra cost options. That meant big

[2:19] profits on each car sold. But because he

[2:21] couldn't get enough, dealer Tom Neett

[2:23] did not like the voluntary quotas.

[2:26] >> We did not have the volume to satisfy

[2:28] all our customers. For instance, right

[2:29] now in his showroom, well, we have about

[2:31] five, six Nissan cars available in

[2:33] stock. A variety of studies have

[2:35] concluded that the import limits by

[2:37] cutting the number of lowerpriced models

[2:39] and giving Detroit more room to raise

[2:41] its prices have added between $400 and

[2:43] $2,000 to the average price of all cars

[2:46] on the US market. American car makers

[2:49] dispute those figures, but warned that

[2:51] the end of restrictions will bring a

[2:52] wave of price cutting by the Japanese

[2:54] that will give them an even bigger share

[2:56] of the market.

[2:59] But to fight back, some executives say

[3:01] they'll build more cars abroad, or not

[3:03] at all.

[3:04] >> Aside from going where you can get cost

[3:06] down and and hopefully compete on

[3:09] whatever the rules are, you may have to

[3:11] cut back on some programs completely,

[3:13] not do them here or any place.

[3:15] >> All this, according to the United Auto

[3:17] Workers, will mean the loss of 200,000

[3:19] jobs in the US auto industry. I was very

[3:22] much concerned uh for several weeks now

[3:24] that the president would do exactly what

[3:26] he he did today and that's uh I think to

[3:30] to kick the uh American workers and

[3:33] America itself in the butt.

[3:35] >> Oh, we'll be out again. It'll be no time

[3:38] we'll be out on the street. It'll be

[3:40] laying off just like it did before. The

[3:42] more cars they bring in, the less cars

[3:44] we're going to sell.

[3:45] >> A big loss of jobs would generate a lot

[3:47] of congressional support for mandatory

[3:48] quotas. So even with the end of

[3:51] voluntary limits, a wideopen market may

[3:53] not last very long. Dan Courtz, ABC

[3:56] News, New York. In other money matters,

[3:59] as we said earlier, it was a big day on

[4:01] Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrials

[4:03] closed at a record high today, up more

[4:05] than 15 points in very heavy trading.

[4:08] For the week as a whole, stocks gained

[4:10] more than 23 points. Later in this

[4:13] broadcast, Secretary Schultz and

[4:15] Nicaragua's President Ortega, they're

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[5:37] news media today from North Carolina

[5:39] Senator Jesse Helms. The occasion was a

[5:41] conference of conservative political

[5:43] action groups in Washington, and ABC's

[5:45] Carol Simpson was there.

[5:48] Senator Helms escalated his campaign

[5:50] against what he calls the elite media,

[5:52] powerful national news organizations,

[5:55] which he said are not only unfair and

[5:57] untrustworthy, but also unamerican.

[6:00] >> The real threat to freedom, the real

[6:02] threat to freedom of speech and the real

[6:05] threat to our constitutional system is

[6:07] on our TV screens every evening and on

[6:09] the front pages of our newspapers every

[6:11] day.

[6:14] These newspapers and magazines and

[6:17] television programs are produced by men

[6:20] and women who, if they do not hate

[6:23] America first, they certainly have a

[6:26] smug contempt for American ideals and

[6:29] principles.

[6:30] >> Senator Helm said conservatives have a

[6:32] job to do, which includes seeking new

[6:34] laws which would force the media to be

[6:37] more responsible. That task would be the

[6:39] restoration of the right of the people

[6:41] to know both sides, to know the truth

[6:45] undiluted, uncontrived, and unbburdened

[6:48] by the biases of the elite media. That's

[6:52] all I'm asking.

[6:54] >> But Senator Helms is really asking for

[6:56] more than that. He's actively

[6:58] encouraging efforts by conservatives to

[7:00] take over CBS. Carol Simpson, ABC News,

[7:04] Washington. And it appears that Senator

[7:06] Helms is not the only person thinking

[7:08] about a takeover of CBS. There is Ted

[7:10] Turner, the owner of the cable news

[7:12] network. ABC's Lynn Sher has a report on

[7:14] that possible takeover attempt

[7:17] as he left for a weekend at his South

[7:19] Carolina plantation today. Ted Turner

[7:21] was uncharacteristically silent about

[7:23] what could be his latest business

[7:25] venture. But ever since he created the

[7:27] cable news network as part of his Turner

[7:29] Broadcasting System, Turner's made no

[7:31] secret of his desire to play in the big

[7:33] leagues. And right now, his pitch seems

[7:35] to be to CBS. Statistically, the two

[7:38] companies couldn't be further apart.

[7:40] Last year, CBS's revenues were nearly $5

[7:43] billion with profits of $212 million.

[7:46] TBS earned 280 million with profits of

[7:49] $9 million. One analyst says it's like

[7:52] the minnow trying to swallow the whale,

[7:54] but it's possible.

[7:55] >> It's not at all difficult anymore for a

[7:58] little company to buy a big company and

[7:59] in effect pay back the debt with the big

[8:01] company's resources.

[8:03] Wall Street is taking the possibility

[8:05] seriously. Based on the expectation,

[8:07] CBS's stock went up more than seven

[8:09] points in the last two days. And it

[8:11] comes on the heels of that other CBS

[8:13] takeover bid. Senator Jesse Helms of

[8:15] South Carolina has been supporting a

[8:17] group called Fairness in Media that's

[8:19] trying to buy up CBS stock to stop what

[8:21] they call the liberal bias of its news

[8:23] division. Today, Helms wouldn't say

[8:25] whether he and Turner are working

[8:27] together. Well, I'll tell you that Ted

[8:28] is a doer

[8:30] >> and uh which is a good friend of mine.

[8:33] >> CBS has rejected overtures from Turner

[8:35] in the past and today they issued a

[8:37] statement that they'd had no recent

[8:38] discussions with him about any plans he

[8:41] might have. Moreover, a takeover bid

[8:43] would also have to be reviewed by the

[8:45] Federal Communications Commission.

[8:47] >> Keep in mind, this is a very unique

[8:49] situation because you're primarily

[8:50] talking about a regulated industry.

[8:53] uh we've never had a hostile takeover of

[8:56] a uh of a network.

[8:58] >> CBS has already responded to the

[9:00] fairness in media assault by filing a

[9:02] lawsuit complaining the group has not

[9:04] disclosed its true political purpose.

[9:06] And CBS has begun putting together a

[9:08] team to fight any unfriendly takeover,

[9:10] whether from a minnow or another whale.

[9:13] Lyn Sher, ABC News, New York. Well, the

[9:16] subject of taking over a network and

[9:17] this criticism of networks and the

[9:19] national media in general is of

[9:20] considerable interest to our commentator

[9:22] George Will. George, where would you

[9:23] like to start?

[9:24] >> Peter, I think in the 19th century, an

[9:26] entrepreneur like Ted Turner would have

[9:28] wanted to buy a railroad or a steel

[9:30] company. Information systems like

[9:32] television networks are the glamour

[9:34] industries of our time. And that

[9:36] explains why there's so much resentment.

[9:37] Frankly, resentment that was visible 15

[9:40] years ago when Agnu made the famous

[9:41] speech in De Moines. Americans resent

[9:44] journalists for the same reason they

[9:45] resent lawyers and doctors. These are

[9:47] elites that Americans are dependent upon

[9:50] and no one likes to be dependent. Let's

[9:52] give Jesse Helms this for what he says.

[9:54] The elite media are different. There was

[9:56] a poll taken not too long ago that

[9:58] showed in 1972 when McGovern was losing

[10:01] everything but the District of Columbia

[10:03] and Massachusetts, he carried the elite

[10:05] media by 81%. I dare say if I can offer

[10:08] a personal remark, Peter, that I'm the

[10:10] only person on network television

[10:11] regularly who in 1964 voted for Barry

[10:13] Goldwater.

[10:14] >> Let me make a point, George. You are

[10:16] sometimes regarded as a conservative

[10:18] commentator. Uh Senator Helms appears to

[10:20] touch cords in what is sometimes called

[10:22] conservative America. Do you agree with

[10:24] him?

[10:24] >> Well, I don't for for two reasons. First

[10:26] of all, um I think the experience is

[10:28] that the conservative viewpoint can get

[10:29] out. Second, it seems to me he's talking

[10:32] about extending government regulation to

[10:34] an industry specifically protected by

[10:36] the First Amendment. But he does have

[10:37] the point that in fact there ought to be

[10:40] something in journalism that says good

[10:42] news is news. It's not satisfactory to

[10:44] say that we don't report the planes that

[10:46] land safely. In fact, the good news

[10:47] about American society is news and

[10:49] should be reported.

[10:50] >> George, thank you very much. George

[10:52] Will's commentary from Washington this

[10:54] evening. When we come back, President

[10:55] Ortega of Nicaragua and Secretary of

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[12:34] >> A meeting has now been set for tomorrow

[12:35] between Secretary of State George

[12:37] Schultz and the President of Nicaragua,

[12:38] Daniel Ortega. The site is an unusual

[12:41] one. Both Mr. Schultz and Mr. Ortega are

[12:43] in Uruguay for the inauguration of a new

[12:45] president and to mark the end of a

[12:48] decade of rule by the Uruguayan armed

[12:49] forces. As ABC's John McQuey reports,

[12:52] just setting up the meeting was a bit

[12:54] complicated.

[12:58] It was supposed to be a day to celebrate

[13:00] the inauguration of Uruguay's first

[13:02] democratically elected president in 14

[13:04] years, Julio Saninetti.

[13:08] But amidst all of the festivities, the

[13:10] United States and Nicaragua were

[13:12] involved in a dramatic sideshow with

[13:14] both nations cautiously moving to open

[13:17] up the dialogue again after weeks of

[13:19] increased tension. Representing

[13:21] Nicaragua was President Daniel Ortega,

[13:23] who ever since he arrived yesterday has

[13:25] been greeted by wildly enthusiastic

[13:27] crowds, chanting his name as though he

[13:30] were about to be named president of

[13:31] Uruguay. This country has a strong

[13:34] socialist and communist political

[13:35] tradition. Representing the US was

[13:38] Secretary of State Schultz, who kept a

[13:40] far lower profile as he moved through

[13:42] meetings and ceremonial events during

[13:43] the day. It has taken several full days

[13:46] of public posturing and private

[13:48] negotiations for Schultz and Ortega to

[13:50] agree to sit down and talk. They finally

[13:53] did agree to meet tomorrow morning, but

[13:55] both sides admit they are still miles

[13:57] apart in their thinking.

[14:00] The dismal state of relations between

[14:02] the US and Nicaragua were in sharp

[14:04] contrast to the mood in this city today.

[14:06] While Nicaragua is demanding a permanent

[14:09] end to US support for guerrillas that

[14:11] are undermining its economy, the US is

[14:13] demanding that Nicaragua remove its

[14:15] Cuban and Soviet advisers, reduce the

[14:17] size of its military, and give its

[14:19] people their basic freedoms. These are

[14:21] demands by both sides which have in the

[14:23] past been totally ignored. A fact that a

[14:26] meeting here in Monteovo tomorrow

[14:27] morning during inauguration weekend is

[14:30] not likely to dramatically change. John

[14:32] McQuet, the ABC News, with Secretary of

[14:34] State Schultz in Uruguay.

[14:37] Overseas now, the police in Northern

[14:38] Ireland have mounted an intensive search

[14:40] for the men who attacked a police

[14:42] station yesterday and killed nine

[14:43] policemen. The Irish Republican Army,

[14:46] which claims credit for the attack, says

[14:47] it demonstrates their ability to strike

[14:50] where and when they decide. As ABC's

[14:53] Mike Lee reports, the IRA knew exactly

[14:55] what time to attack. A prefabricated

[14:59] dining hall was blasted into thousands

[15:01] of splinters. A homemade mortar shell

[15:04] had scored a direct hit as 20 or so

[15:06] police officers were having their

[15:08] evening meal. Other shells landed

[15:10] throughout or near the police barracks.

[15:12] >> There are cars that are parked there.

[15:13] The police's own cars with security

[15:15] barriers. They were just blown to

[15:16] smitherings. They were all over the

[15:18] place. I saw um four bodies being taken

[15:21] away. I don't know whether they were

[15:22] living or dead. Nobody knew at that

[15:25] stage what was going on.

[15:26] >> The explosive shells were launched

[15:28] electronically from a familiar IRA

[15:30] weapon. Crudely made metal tubes mounted

[15:33] on this stolen truck from a distance of

[15:35] only 200 yd. Nine rounds were fired.

[15:39] Only one did the killing.

[15:40] >> Thoroughly indiscriminate weapon. And

[15:43] that again says something about the

[15:46] character and names of the people who

[15:48] use these weapons. Only 11 days ago,

[15:50] Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher urged

[15:52] the US Congress to help discourage

[15:54] private American donations to the IRA.

[15:57] >> Was the Nuri bombing a propaganda

[15:59] counterpunch?

[16:00] >> The IRA probably had that planned uh

[16:03] before they even knew that Mrs. Thatcher

[16:05] was visiting America. It's just that

[16:07] there's an ongoing war situation here.

[16:09] >> I don't know how they can live with

[16:10] their conscience. I don't know how they

[16:12] could go to bed last night. It's

[16:14] terrible. It's awful. I my sympathy goes

[16:18] I told our families.

[16:20] >> Mike Lee, ABC News, Nuri, Northern

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[18:35] >> It has been more than two months now

[18:36] since Bernard Gats shot four young men

[18:39] in a New York City subway. He said at

[18:41] the time he thought they were going to

[18:42] rob him. Gats received a great deal of

[18:44] public support for his action, not to

[18:46] mention publicity. Two months later,

[18:48] some new facts made public in the case

[18:50] may be influencing the way Mr. Gats is

[18:52] perceived. Here's ABC's Steven Gear.

[18:56] The so-called subway vigilante is a hero

[18:58] to many Americans, but the perception of

[19:00] Bernhard gets may be changing. Manhattan

[19:03] District Attorney Robert Morgan thou

[19:05] says he's considering a new indictment

[19:06] for attempted murder if new evidence

[19:08] becomes available for a second grand

[19:10] jury. In January, a grand jury indicted

[19:12] Gats only on weapons charges. Just made

[19:15] public is evidence that first grand jury

[19:17] did consider. A police arrest report

[19:20] quoting Gats as saying he went up to one

[19:21] of the four youths he had shot, saw no

[19:23] blood, said, "You don't look too bad.

[19:25] adheres another and shot the subject a

[19:27] second time. That reported quote has

[19:30] provoked a call for the district

[19:31] attorney's resignation from lawyers for

[19:33] the wounded youth.

[19:34] >> People now are beginning to understand

[19:36] what kind of a monster this man was who

[19:39] would go into a subway train and do the

[19:41] acts that he did.

[19:43] >> Since the shooting, New York columnist

[19:45] Jimmy Brereslin has consistently

[19:47] attacked Gats and has received

[19:48] quantities of hate mail for calling Gats

[19:50] a racist. What

[19:51] >> are we talking about here? He shot four

[19:54] guys, two of them in the back, one of

[19:55] them in the side. The only reason he hit

[19:57] him in the side was the kid hadn't fully

[19:59] turned. And the last time he bent over

[20:01] the kid and said, "Gee, you don't look

[20:02] to that bad at all. Let me fix you." And

[20:05] he fired a fifth into him. If they'd

[20:07] been white, this guy be under the jail.

[20:10] The grand jury would have tortured him.

[20:12] >> Gets his lawyer denies his client is a

[20:14] racist and has a different version of

[20:16] the shooting.

[20:17] >> They suddenly flinched and turned and

[20:18] they got a bullet in the side of the

[20:19] back. This all happened within a space

[20:21] of 3, four, 5 seconds. And so there was

[20:24] no time for him to reflect. He was

[20:27] acting as he himself has said. He

[20:29] snapped. He was acting like a cornered

[20:31] animal. So fighting for survival. And

[20:33] what he did in examining a man and then

[20:35] shooting again. He still doesn't know if

[20:37] any of the other three are going to be

[20:38] out to get him

[20:39] >> in the subways. Perceptions of Gats are

[20:42] still mixed.

[20:43] >> I feel he was right for defending

[20:45] himself. But why wasn't it, you know,

[20:47] made public that he did go back and, you

[20:49] know, shoot the guy who was lying on the

[20:51] ground again?

[20:52] >> Today, gets asked ABC News, why are so

[20:54] many people passing judgment before

[20:56] they've been exposed to all the facts?

[20:58] Steven Gear, ABC News, New York.

[21:02] >> In general terms, there is a very close

[21:04] connection between urban crime and drug

[21:06] abuse. The FBI estimates that about half

[21:08] of all street crime is drugrelated,

[21:10] often committed by young addicts seeking

[21:12] money for a fix. Most are addicted to

[21:14] drugs like heroin or cocaine. But

[21:17] lately, drug enforcement authorities

[21:18] have been concerned about a new type of

[21:20] synthetic drug produced in laboratories.

[21:22] They are known as designer drugs. And

[21:25] here's ABC's Ken Walker. There's so much

[21:28] cocaine coming in these days that

[21:30] authorities are using military tactics

[21:32] to control it. A record amount of heroin

[21:35] is flooding the country and addiction is

[21:37] at an all-time high. But now, chemists

[21:40] here are producing heroin without

[21:42] poppies. cocaine without cocoa leaves

[21:44] and a variety of other illegal drugs

[21:47] entirely from scratch. They're known as

[21:49] designer drugs. They're cheaper, more

[21:52] potent, more deadly, and they're legal

[21:54] to make and to use.

[21:56] >> The first first uh ones to try them are

[21:58] the addicts in the street. In that

[22:00] sense, they really are guinea pigs. And

[22:02] uh they're playing a form of Russian

[22:04] roulette in my opinion. Only the the

[22:06] bullets are aiming at their brains are

[22:07] chemical ones, not not lead ones. This

[22:10] woman was hit by one of those chemical

[22:11] bullets and she's dying. After only one

[22:14] experiment with the drug, MPTP, just

[22:17] over two years ago, her brain aged

[22:20] another 50 years and she's been

[22:22] paralyzed with Parkinson's disease. This

[22:25] addict uses a heroin substitute that's

[22:27] blamed for 77 deaths.

[22:30] >> I used it because it was cheaper. I got

[22:32] a more intense high out of it.

[22:34] Scientists still don't know what

[22:36] Anderson Mitchell took last year that

[22:38] left his limbs twitching uncontrollably.

[22:40] He thought it was synthetic heroin, but

[22:42] his doctors call it drug X. And state

[22:45] officials are concerned they may be on

[22:47] the verge of an outbreak of catastrophic

[22:49] ailments.

[22:51] >> Are people going to get lung cancer? Are

[22:53] they going to have brain damage? Are

[22:55] they going to be crippled? I think those

[22:57] are things that are going to happen as

[22:59] people experiment with designer. The

[23:02] government has new power to outlaw drugs

[23:04] immediately rather than the months it

[23:06] used to take. But drugs are banned by

[23:08] specific molecular signatures and an

[23:11] infinite number of legal drugs are

[23:13] possible with only minor variations.

[23:15] >> We hope with the added controls we're

[23:17] going to place on it that we can uh keep

[23:19] the uh the problem to California and

[23:21] then eliminate it from California.

[23:24] >> PCP or angel dust started in a

[23:26] California chemist lab too. It's now in

[23:29] all 50 states and of course illegal. And

[23:32] despite the government's new power,

[23:34] designer drug makers have just started

[23:35] marketing a legal variation of that.

[23:38] Kenneth Walker, ABC News, Los Angeles.

[23:42] >> When we come back, Indiana University

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[24:55] I got a question about this beer brother

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[24:58] >> This expensive brew, Meister Bro.

[25:01] >> According to the guys down to the plant,

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[25:18] >> mister Brown. It only tastes expensive.

[25:21] Tonight on Night Line, New Zealand is

[25:23] backing out of a mutual defense treaty

[25:25] by banning American nuclear ships. Ted

[25:27] Cppell examines if an ally can have it

[25:29] both ways. And Sunday on this week with

[25:31] David Brinkley, the new M East peace

[25:33] initiatives. Watch Kbble tonight,

[25:35] Brinkley Sunday.

[25:37] And finally here this evening, the

[25:39] basketball coach Bobby Knight. A great

[25:40] many of you will remember he coached the

[25:42] US Olympic basketball team to a gold

[25:44] medal in Los Angeles. Well, this winter

[25:46] night is back at his usual post coaching

[25:48] Indiana University. And as ABC's Dick

[25:50] Shap reports, it has been a long and

[25:52] controversial winter.

[25:56] >> Bob Knight.

[25:58] >> When ordinary people surrender in an

[26:00] athletic event, they throw in a towel.

[26:03] When Bobby Knight surrendered the other

[26:04] day, he threw in a chair right past one

[26:07] of the referees.

[26:09] >> That was my, I guess, ultimate

[26:13] gesture at saying, "Hey, uh, you guys

[26:17] have got me." Even Knight himself knew

[26:19] the chair throwing was dumb and

[26:21] indefensible.

[26:22] >> As I'm doing, uh, I know that it's

[26:24] wrong.

[26:26] >> And if there are two things Bobby Knight

[26:27] hates, they are stupidity and a weak

[26:29] defense. The officials ejected Knight,

[26:32] the Big 10 threatening suspension may

[26:34] place him on probation, and a state

[26:36] representative called upon the Indiana

[26:38] legislature to censure him. bitter

[26:40] punctuation to a frustrating season that

[26:42] had followed Knight's finest hour, the

[26:44] Olympic championship for the United

[26:46] States basketball team he coached. After

[26:49] 17 months of almost constant basketball,

[26:51] Knight was tired, physically ill, on the

[26:54] brink of pneumonia, and drained by a

[26:56] college season that had begun with great

[26:58] expectations followed by keen

[27:00] disappointments. He benched his regulars

[27:02] one night and kicked a top player off

[27:04] the team for not living up to academic

[27:06] standards, but nothing helped. I haven't

[27:08] done any better at getting us out of it

[27:11] than the players have. I really don't

[27:13] like to feel badly about my coaching and

[27:15] I don't feel good about my coaching.

[27:17] >> What you people have not developed is

[27:20] the idea that you want to win.

[27:21] >> It is his passion to be successful

[27:23] consistently. He has won 76% of his

[27:25] games and two national titles. That

[27:27] makes Knight fight off temptations to

[27:29] give up college coaching.

[27:31] >> You know, I'd be less than honest if I

[27:33] didn't say to myself sometimes, "What am

[27:35] I doing this for?" Last night, as

[27:37] Indiana defeated Minnesota and ended a

[27:39] three-game losing streak, Knight was, by

[27:41] his standards, a model of Dora. Even

[27:44] though he often rose off the Indiana

[27:46] bench, which was bolted to the floor, he

[27:48] threw nothing more damaging than words

[27:50] at the officials and at his players. It

[27:52] was the 566th game of Knight's college

[27:55] coaching career, and it was the 565th

[27:59] in which he did not throw a chair. Dick

[28:02] Shapp, ABC News, Minneapolis.

[28:05] That's our report on World News Tonight.

[28:06] Tomorrow, Kathleen Sullivan and World

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