CBS Sunday Night News - 1992-03-08 (partial)

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[0:01] held their precinct caucuses with more

[0:03] than threequarters of the precincts

[0:05] reporting Jerry Brown is the winner

[0:07] trailed by Bill Clinton, Paul Sonis, and

[0:10] Uncommitted. Meanwhile, Iowa Senator Tom

[0:13] Harkin is about to give it up. Scott Ple

[0:16] reports.

[0:20] He was the campaign's first winner with

[0:22] the caucus in his home state of Iowa,

[0:25] but Tom Harkin never caught on in the

[0:27] later primaries. The New Deal Democrat

[0:29] ran out of money and faced a hostile

[0:31] Super Tuesday with no prospects.

[0:34] Tomorrow, he will call it quits. Today,

[0:37] front runner Bill Clinton found himself

[0:39] defending his past again. The New York

[0:41] Times raised questions about his

[0:43] business partnership with an Arkansas

[0:45] savings and loan executive. The

[0:46] implication being that a governor should

[0:48] not have personal financial dealings

[0:50] with a business regulated by his own

[0:52] administration. Um, I think you can

[0:55] argue that maybe I should have gotten

[0:56] out of it, but frankly at the time it

[0:58] never crossed my mind because we were

[0:59] losing money.

[1:00] >> It was another chance for the others to

[1:02] pile on.

[1:04] >> Bill Clinton thinks he's above the law.

[1:07] He shows a certain contempt for the

[1:09] rules all the rest of us have to live

[1:11] with.

[1:11] >> The idea that you're in a business

[1:13] relationship with a someone you

[1:15] regulate, I think um is an error in

[1:18] judgment. Today, Paul Sunis concentrated

[1:21] on Florida, hoping to prevent a Clinton

[1:23] sweep of the South. With its large

[1:25] number of immigrants from the Northeast,

[1:27] Florida's electorate votes more like the

[1:29] nation as a whole than a deep south

[1:31] state. Super Tuesday has something for

[1:34] each of the leading candidates.

[1:35] Massachusetts and Rhode Island for

[1:37] songus Clinton throughout the South. But

[1:40] Florida, many analysts believe, is still

[1:42] too close to call. Scott Py, CBS News,

[1:46] Miami. For the Republicans, Super

[1:48] Tuesday looks like more of the same.

[1:50] Victories for President Bush, but with a

[1:53] big chunk of votes for Pat Buchanan, the

[1:55] challenger who won't go away. White

[1:58] House correspondent Randall Kingston

[2:00] reports.

[2:02] >> Pat Buchanan refuses to surrender even

[2:04] though he's losing every primary battle

[2:06] to President Bush. His strategy trying

[2:09] to snatch rhetorical victory from the

[2:11] jaws of solid political defeats. Pat

[2:14] Buchanan is driving the national debate

[2:16] and moving the administration in our

[2:17] direction. In that sense, we are winning

[2:19] the campaign.

[2:20] >> But Buchanan fears he's losing some of

[2:22] his support base to former clansman

[2:24] David Duke, who is also on the

[2:26] Republican ballot in several southern

[2:28] states.

[2:29] >> We could get this third candidate out of

[2:30] the race down here in Louisiana. I think

[2:32] we could do well.

[2:33] >> Republican party chairman Rich Bond is

[2:35] hoping Buchanan takes his own advice.

[2:38] >> I.e. respect Pat's right to run, but I

[2:40] think when you come to the point in time

[2:42] when you're mathematically eliminated,

[2:44] which will take place sometime in May, I

[2:46] think sometime in May, that he ought to

[2:47] drop this uh drop this quest.

[2:49] >> Buchanan vows to stay in the race all

[2:51] the way, even as it becomes clear he

[2:53] can't win the nomination. He is

[2:55] apparently gearing up for a run in 1996

[2:58] as the conservative standard bearer,

[3:00] showing little concern that his

[3:02] challenge this year will likely weaken

[3:04] President Bush against the Democrats in

[3:07] November. Randall Kingston, CBS News,

[3:09] the White House.

[3:11] >> And still ahead on the CBS Sunday Night,

[3:13] a step toward breaking the genetic code

[3:15] of asthma.

[3:25] >> Everyone has a dream.

[3:28] >> They are closing in on a gene that

[3:30] triggers the disease. Health

[3:32] correspondent Edie Magnus has a report.

[3:35] >> Big deep breath. It's a chronic disease

[3:39] where the airways become inflamed,

[3:40] making breathing difficult.

[3:42] >> It's time for your treatment.

[3:43] >> For the Cone family, coping with the

[3:45] debilitating symptoms of asthma is a

[3:47] daily part of life. All three children

[3:49] suffer it. So do their father and their

[3:51] grandmother.

[3:52] >> We can't go anywhere without

[3:53] medications.

[3:54] >> Scientists in Britain say they've

[3:56] discovered that what predisposes people

[3:58] to develop the symptoms of asthma is a

[4:00] defect in a single gene. A gene passed

[4:03] from one generation to the next. They've

[4:05] narrowed the search to a particular

[4:07] region of a particular chromosome and

[4:09] they claim to be close to identifying

[4:11] the culprit gene itself.

[4:13] >> I think the message is that there's real

[4:15] hope uh that more effective treatment

[4:17] will ultimately become available because

[4:19] I think we're identifying one single

[4:22] important defect that underlies their

[4:23] problems.

[4:24] >> Blow, blow, blow, blow, keep blowing,

[4:26] keep blowing harder, harder.

[4:27] >> American asthma experts meeting in

[4:29] Florida say such a discovery would be a

[4:31] major breakthrough. But

[4:32] >> I think the question is, can it be

[4:34] reproduced? And is this a real finding?

[4:36] And this will have to wait to see for

[4:38] other people to study it and try to

[4:40] confirm or refute their findings.

[4:42] >> Prospects for more effective asthma

[4:44] treatment are still years away. Still,

[4:46] the Cone family is encouraged.

[4:48] >> Anything that would help them makes us

[4:50] feel better that at least, you know,

[4:52] there's some hope that maybe it won't

[4:53] always be like that, that we always have

[4:55] to walk around with medication. That's a

[4:57] hope they share with more than 11

[4:59] million Americans who currently suffer

[5:01] this disease.

[5:03] >> Edy Magnus, CBS News, New York.

[5:06] >> Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister, Tariq

[5:08] Aziz, goes before the UN Security

[5:10] Council this week to answer charges that

[5:12] Iraq has been cheating on its pledge to

[5:14] dismantle weapons of mass destruction.

[5:17] Aziz will try to get the UN to lift

[5:19] economic sanctions against Iraq. And

[5:21] while the Iraqis attempt to cope with

[5:23] the consequences of defeat at the UN,

[5:25] Secretary of State Baker will be in

[5:27] Brussels trying to cope with the

[5:28] consequences of victory as NATO, the US

[5:32] European Military Alliance, welcomes

[5:34] almost all of the new nations of the

[5:36] former Soviet Union into something

[5:38] called the North Atlantic Cooperation

[5:40] Council. In effect, it's a kind of

[5:43] junior partnership in NATO.

[5:46] What's forming here is I I believe a

[5:49] cooperative arrangement

[5:51] uh for conducting security on a

[5:53] different basis.

[5:54] >> Without the standoff between the tanks

[5:56] of NATO and those of the old Warsaw

[5:58] Pact, the old rules don't apply anymore.

[6:00] The reason for NATO's existence has

[6:02] collapsed and it is fighting to remain

[6:04] relevant in the face of new problems.

[6:06] for instance,

[6:07] >> economic and political turbulence in in

[6:10] Eastern Europe and and parts of the

[6:12] former Soviet Union and the potential

[6:14] disintegration of the Soviet military

[6:16] establishment.

[6:17] >> So NATO will welcome its former enemy

[6:19] with all of its economic and internal

[6:21] military problems into the fold sort of

[6:24] but it may not be long before the former

[6:26] enemy is a full partner. NATO uh will

[6:30] have to become uh the initiating

[6:34] uh organization for a global arrangement

[6:36] or NATO will have to disappear. I mean

[6:38] there's there's not any anything in

[6:41] between is bogggy ground.

[6:43] >> Also on the agenda for this week's

[6:44] meeting, what to do about the former

[6:46] Soviet Union's nuclear scientists.

[6:48] >> There's such a demand for that kind of

[6:50] capability out around the world that

[6:52] they'll pay any price in Libya or Tehran

[6:54] or elsewhere. We need to do everything

[6:55] we can to try to prevent it.

[6:57] >> And so at next week's meeting, the US

[6:59] and Russia will announce the details of

[7:01] a scientific institute funded by the

[7:03] West to keep Russia's nuclear

[7:05] specialists working on peaceime

[7:08] projects. In Miami, defense attorneys

[7:11] are expected to wrap up their case this

[7:12] week in the drug trafficking trial of

[7:14] former Panameanian dictator Manuel

[7:16] Noriega. His lawyers have not yet

[7:18] decided if Noriega will take the stand

[7:21] in his own defense.

[7:27] Salam forever.

[7:29] >> But peace was not to be his future. In

[7:32] June 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon.

[7:36] Israel for the first time was laying

[7:38] siege to an Arab city, Beirut. Vegan was

[7:41] widely blamed for the Sabra Shhatila

[7:44] massacre for mounting Israeli

[7:46] casualties. On the 15th of September

[7:48] 1983, he resigned saying, "I cannot go

[7:52] on." Those were the last words Bean

[7:54] spoke in public. The rest was silence. A

[7:57] tragic end for a man whose obsession had

[7:59] been the tragedy of the Jewish people

[8:01] and his determination that Israel would

[8:04] be the instrument to prevent that

[8:06] tragedy from recurring ever again.

[8:14] That's the CBS Sunday night news. I'm

[8:16] Bill Plant in New York. Good night and

[8:19] have a good week.