World News Tonight (ABC) - 1992-03-14
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[0:03] From ABC News World News Saturday,
[0:07] here's Carol Simpson. [music]
[0:08] >> Good evening. Trade and jobs took center
[0:11] stage today as the presidential campaign
[0:13] heated up in America's industrial
[0:15] heartland. All three surviving Democrats
[0:18] were stumping for support in Michigan
[0:20] and Illinois, where unions are strong
[0:23] and the employment picture is weak.
[0:25] ABC's Jim Wooten looks ahead to next
[0:28] week's primaries.
[0:34] >> [music]
[0:35] >> Chicago's mayor Daly asked the
[0:37] Democratic candidates not to march in
[0:39] the city's big St. Patrick's Day parade
[0:42] so as to keep the spotlight on local
[0:44] politicians. So Paul Sanis was in
[0:47] Michigan and in Flint, he had to defend
[0:49] his vote in the Senate against making
[0:51] non-UN scab workers illegal. You know, I
[0:54] understand that my position on striker
[0:57] replacement hurts me, but it's better
[0:58] [music] policy. I'm going to give the
[1:00] American people a choice. I'm going to
[1:02] tell them the hard truth and make the
[1:03] hard choices.
[1:05] >> It was a hard cell in the heart of union
[1:07] country. And Sonis, who wasn't expecting
[1:10] a great show of labor support, didn't
[1:12] get one.
[1:13] >> But he did launch a tough new television
[1:16] ad this weekend.
[1:17] >> Heard the latest. What? What has Bill
[1:18] Clinton got to hide? That's really bad.
[1:20] >> What now? The commercial not only
[1:23] attacks Clinton's record in Arkansas,
[1:25] but his credibility as well.
[1:27] >> Nevertheless, it was still a pretty good
[1:29] Saturday for the southern governor.
[1:31] >> Here, I have had a wonderful campaign in
[1:34] the southern part of Illinois.
[1:36] >> With Senator Harkin out of the race,
[1:38] some of the state's largest labor groups
[1:40] endorsed Clinton today, including the
[1:42] Chicago Teachers Union and the Illinois
[1:44] Federation of Teachers. Jerry Brown. And
[1:48] for Jerry Brown, a similarly successful
[1:51] day in Detroit. The leaders of one of
[1:53] the country's largest United Auto
[1:55] Workers locals who would have backed
[1:57] Harkin enthusiastically endorsed him.
[2:00] Brown was sufficiently exhilarated to
[2:03] break into song.
[2:07] [singing]
[2:11] >> What all this amounts to is this.
[2:13] Clinton seems fairly comfortable in
[2:14] Illinois. Brown seems to be coming on
[2:16] strong in Michigan. and Sonis could be
[2:19] in trouble in both states. And if he is,
[2:22] the wheels may be coming off his
[2:24] campaign. Jim Wooten, ABC News, Chicago.
[2:28] >> GOP challenger Pat Buchanan is
[2:30] campaigning in Michigan as well, but
[2:32] President Bush is not. He's resting up
[2:35] this weekend at Camp David. As White
[2:37] House correspondent Kathleen Gillesi
[2:39] reports, the president's campaign style
[2:41] has taken on a predictable pattern.
[2:44] Reporters are starting to call Air Force
[2:47] One Santa sleigh because at almost every
[2:50] campaign stop, President Bush hands out
[2:52] presents. Yesterday in Detroit, it was
[2:54] goodies for ailing car makers. The
[2:56] president killed a plan that would have
[2:58] required new cars to have new emission
[3:00] devices.
[3:01] >> As a result of our regulatory review, we
[3:04] have decided against such a rule.
[3:07] >> Before the Florida primary, the
[3:08] candidate rode in with millions to
[3:10] restore the state's wetlands. In
[3:12] Oklahoma, it was help for the natural
[3:14] gas industry. And before that important
[3:16] first primary, New Hampshire, the Bush
[3:19] administration quickly organized a pilot
[3:21] program for small business. That one
[3:23] really made the Democrats angry.
[3:25] >> A number of the senators from New
[3:27] England complained and the governor from
[3:30] New Hampshire all but told them, "You're
[3:32] just not in the right party."
[3:34] >> Democrats call this presidential pork
[3:36] and say it's ironic that George Bush is
[3:38] on the campaign trail accusing them of
[3:40] the same thing. Last week he said they
[3:42] are sacrificing national security for
[3:45] political security.
[3:46] >> Some of these armchair strategists on
[3:48] Capitol Hill, folks who wouldn't know a
[3:50] tomat from a tomahawk are getting ready
[3:52] to right now to open the battle of the
[3:55] pork barrel.
[3:56] >> The president's campaign advisers say
[3:57] what he's doing is not pork. Even so,
[4:00] some analysts call it unsemly. It at
[4:02] least looks as if the president is
[4:04] pandering to localities just the way he
[4:07] complains that individual congressmen
[4:09] are pandering to their constituencies by
[4:11] spending money. Presidents have been
[4:13] pulling out the goodie bag at
[4:14] re-election time for years. George Bush
[4:16] just seemed to do it sooner and more
[4:18] often than most. Now that he perceives
[4:20] the Buchanan threat behind him, he's
[4:22] expected to leave Santa's sleigh at home
[4:24] until the fall campaign. Kathleen
[4:26] Dilleski, ABC News. The White House. The
[4:29] American public's disapproval of
[4:31] Congress is at an all-time high.
[4:33] According to a Newsweek poll, 78%
[4:36] disapprove of the way Congress is
[4:38] handling its job. People are
[4:40] particularly upset about the
[4:41] congressional check bouncing scandal.
[4:44] Eight in 10 of those polls say they are
[4:46] not likely to vote to reelect their
[4:49] representative if they show up on the
[4:51] list of worst offenders. The poll
[4:54] clearly suggests that a lot of
[4:55] incumbents may be in trouble. We sent
[4:58] Tom Foreman to Boulder, Colorado to find
[5:00] out how much trouble one congressman is
[5:02] in for his check writing practices.
[5:07] [music]
[5:08] >> Far from the Washington Beltway,
[5:10] Boulder, Colorado is pretty liberal in
[5:12] its lifestyle and its politics. [music]
[5:18] >> But this weekend, few here are feeling
[5:20] liberal about the rubber check scandal.
[5:23] >> I think it's it's pathetic and annoying.
[5:26] At McGucken Hardware, the names of bad
[5:28] check writers are posted right on the
[5:30] counter, and people are offended that
[5:32] Congress even considered not releasing
[5:34] the names of its check bouncers.
[5:36] >> People do write bad checks and they pay
[5:38] the price, but trying to cover it up,
[5:40] that just makes it that much worse.
[5:41] >> They should be the examples and they're
[5:44] going to be examples of what not to do.
[5:46] You know,
[5:46] >> at a local bank, much the same
[5:48] sentiment.
[5:49] >> The thing that I don't like is that if
[5:50] they if they're going to overdraw their
[5:51] account, it sort of implies to me that
[5:53] that's what they're doing with the
[5:54] national budget. This district's
[5:55] representative, Democrat David Skaggs,
[5:58] has admitted writing bad checks. But if
[6:00] national Republicans think this is a
[6:02] Democratic scandal alone, here the
[6:04] Republican county chairman says not a
[6:06] chance.
[6:08] >> This is a national government problem.
[6:10] Uh it's simply another example of a
[6:13] Congress which chooses not to live by
[6:16] the same rules that you and I have to
[6:17] live by. So, as congressmen head back to
[6:20] their districts across the nation in the
[6:22] next few days, hoping to explain away
[6:24] their role in the banking scandal, they
[6:26] may find voters a lot less receptive
[6:28] than they would hope. Because too many
[6:30] are angry, like Carol Greer, a single
[6:33] mother of three.
[6:34] >> I think they should go to jail just like
[6:36] we have to. I mean, they make more money
[6:39] than we do, and we get in trouble for
[6:41] it, so I think they should, too. She
[6:44] should know she is doing 90 days in the
[6:46] county jail for writing bad checks. Tom
[6:50] Foreman, ABC News, Boulder, Colorado.
[6:53] >> The check scandal will be the topic
[6:55] tomorrow on This Week with David
[6:57] Brinkley. House Speaker Tom Foley and
[6:59] Minority Whip N. Gingrich are among the
[7:02] guests. Coming up, the search continues
[7:04] for survivors of the earthquake in
[7:06] Turkey that's killed hundreds, perhaps
[7:09] thousands. And after four decades of
[7:11] publishing propaganda, Pravda prints its
[7:14] own obituary. And later in this
[7:17] broadcast, a new scientific study any
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[8:35] American
[8:36] Red Cross officials say as many as 4,000
[8:39] people may have been killed across
[8:41] eastern Turkey by a 32nd earthquake that
[8:44] hit the city of Erzenzan last night.
[8:47] Today, rescue workers recovered hundreds
[8:49] of bodies from the rubble. US military
[8:52] personnel stationed in southern Turkey
[8:54] have joined the rescue effort with
[8:56] relief teams and helicopters. In Ankura,
[8:59] Turkeykey's government declared a state
[9:01] of emergency.
[9:03] Barely 36 hours after it started, the
[9:06] ceasefire in the disputed East Asian
[9:08] enclave of Ingorno Carabach was
[9:11] shattered today. Azerbaijani forces
[9:13] fired missiles and shells on the
[9:15] capital, killing at least one Armenian
[9:18] militia.
[9:20] And in Moscow, one of the longest lived
[9:22] symbols of Soviet communism fell victim
[9:25] to the free market today. The once
[9:27] mighty party newspaper Pravda published
[9:30] its last issue unless it can make a
[9:32] highly unlikely deal with a longtime
[9:35] enemy. More from ABC's David Ensor.
[9:39] >> It was once required reading for
[9:41] communist oparachics and Kremlin
[9:42] watchers, selling 13 million copies a
[9:45] day. One lady told us she will miss it,
[9:47] but most said they couldn't care less.
[9:50] Today's issue bitterly blamed the end of
[9:52] socialist subsidies. Market prices it
[9:54] said for ink for paper are killing
[9:57] Pravda. Founded by Lenin in 1912, Pravda
[10:00] was the preeminent voice of world
[10:02] communism telling Soviets when Lenin
[10:05] died, when Stalin died, when Yuri
[10:08] Gagarin was the first man in space.
[10:12] Pravda means truth in Russian. But
[10:14] Russians used to joke that there was no
[10:16] truth in Pravda. They and western
[10:19] Kremlinologists had to wade through
[10:21] reams of turgid propaganda and outright
[10:24] lies to find real news. So what the
[10:27] Soviet population learned to do was to
[10:30] read between the lines, pick up the
[10:33] scraps of information that it could
[10:36] perceive between the lines and piece
[10:39] together some portrait of reality from
[10:41] Pravda. Columnist Thomas Klesnenko
[10:44] remembers when a friend of his once
[10:46] picked up the phone in the editor's
[10:48] office and got a nasty surprise.
[10:50] >> No, this is Stalin. What is your name?
[10:54] He was near to say is my name. If you
[10:58] will not bring me newspaper in 30
[11:01] minutes, you will be underest.
[11:04] >> The current editor of now independent
[11:06] Pravda hopes to find the money to get
[11:08] the paper back on the street soon. It
[11:11] won't be easy in the economic chaos of
[11:13] Russia.
[11:14] >> This newspaper fought capitalism for
[11:16] almost 80 years, but now its editor says
[11:19] only western capital can save Pravda.
[11:22] David Ensor, ABC News, Moscow.
[11:26] >> North Korea for the first time today
[11:28] agreed with South Korea to set up a
[11:30] timetable allowing inspections of
[11:32] suspected nuclear arms facilities. The
[11:35] agreement to hold mutual inspections on
[11:37] June 10th is viewed as a major step
[11:40] forward in the reconciliation of the two
[11:42] Koreas. When we come back, what really
[11:45] happens to people who shop till they
[11:48] drop
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[13:53] Steven Brian Panel this morning became
[13:55] the first person to be executed in the
[13:57] state of Delaware in more than 45 years.
[14:00] The 34year-old panel convicted of
[14:03] torturing and murdering two women
[14:05] hitchhikers had asked courts to expedite
[14:08] his execution to spare his family
[14:10] further anguish. He died by lethal
[14:12] injection.
[14:14] Nearly 50,000 people turned out in
[14:16] Irving, Texas today to hear Willie
[14:18] Nelson and 50 other music stars in the
[14:21] fifth Farm Aid benefit. The concert is
[14:24] expected to raise more than a million
[14:26] dollars for food banks, assistance
[14:29] hotlines, and other service
[14:30] organizations in rural areas.
[14:34] For years, people have been kitted by
[14:35] others who say they were born to shop.
[14:38] Tammy Feay Baker said she used to go
[14:39] shopping to fight stress and help her
[14:41] nerves. Retail therapy, it's jokingly
[14:44] called. But as Ken Kashawara reports,
[14:47] for some people shopping is no joking
[14:50] matter.
[14:52] >> Maryanne Semery suffers from an
[14:54] addiction and is getting a fix. She is a
[14:56] compulsive shopper who buys things she
[14:58] doesn't need, doesn't use, and can't
[15:00] afford.
[15:01] >> I just re recently purchased these boots
[15:05] for over $100, and I can't even wear
[15:07] them yet because my legs are too fat.
[15:11] Her house is littered with unused
[15:13] merchandise. Not just one, but several
[15:16] of each item, most with a price tag
[15:18] still attached. She is several thousand
[15:20] in debt, but continues spending, she
[15:22] says, because it reduces depression. I'm
[15:25] overweight, so I buy because and I
[15:29] think, well, the next person, they're
[15:32] thin and they're pretty and they can
[15:33] wear this, but I've got every color that
[15:37] this comes in, you know, and so it kind
[15:39] of makes up for my deficiencies.
[15:42] >> Psychiatrists call it
[15:43] obsessivecompulsive disorder.
[15:45] accumulating or owning things provides a
[15:49] sense of of security and increases their
[15:52] self-esteem that they have something
[15:53] maybe that someone else doesn't have.
[15:56] >> I'm Bob and I'm a compulsive debtor.
[15:58] >> The problem is growing across the
[16:00] country. Debtors Anonymous, whose
[16:02] members do not want to be identified,
[16:04] says its membership has doubled in the
[16:06] past 5 years.
[16:08] >> I was about $80,000 in debt. I became
[16:11] totally terrified that I was going to be
[16:13] put in jail because I couldn't pay my
[16:15] bills.
[16:16] >> Like Alcoholics Anonymous, these addicts
[16:18] meet regularly to support each other,
[16:20] learning that self-esteem does not have
[16:22] to be measured by how much they spend.
[16:24] >> I do not use credit cards, period.
[16:28] >> The recession prompted this woman to
[16:30] join Debtors Anonymous. She says the
[16:32] breaking point came when her business
[16:34] suffered, her income declined, and her
[16:36] credit card debt kept rising. I couldn't
[16:38] take the stress. I was trying to juggle
[16:40] it myself. And I said, "This isn't
[16:42] working. You need to just tell the truth
[16:44] to yourself and say, "Get some help."
[16:47] >> Maryanne Semery knows she needs help,
[16:49] too, and plans to join a support group,
[16:51] hoping that by talking to others with
[16:53] the same problem, she too can learn to
[16:56] control her addiction and still feel
[16:58] good about herself. Ken Kosuara, ABC
[17:01] News, San Francisco.
[17:04] Senator Edward Kennedy announced this
[17:06] evening that he will marry Washington
[17:08] attorney Victoria Reggie later this
[17:10] year. Reggie is 38 years old, has two
[17:13] children by a previous marriage and is a
[17:16] longtime friend of the Kennedy family.
[17:18] Kennedy, who is 60, divorced his first
[17:21] wife, Joan, 10 years ago.
[17:24] In a moment, the Atlanta Braves basking
[17:27] in the glory of what almost was.
[17:29] [cheering]
[17:34] Can't believe he broke it at the company
[17:36] picnic.
[17:37] >> Incredible. Our employee health plan
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[19:35] >> Now, let's go to Ray Gandalf in New York
[19:37] for a look at the Braves New World along
[19:40] with today's sports highlights. Ray,
[19:43] >> thank you, Carol. Well, the first big
[19:45] prep race for the Kentucky Derby was won
[19:47] today by a horse not yet entered in
[19:49] Kentucky. In the Florida Derby,
[19:52] technology, making only the fifth start
[19:54] of his career, ran away under a good
[19:57] ride by Jerry Bailey, leaving the odds
[19:59] on favorite dance floor well behind. In
[20:03] some college basketball semifinals in
[20:05] the ACC, Duke had five men in double
[20:08] figures. One of them was Grant Hill here
[20:11] in a romp over Georgia Tech. In the Big
[20:14] Eight, third ranked Kansas blew out
[20:16] Oklahoma by 18 points. Rex Walters had
[20:20] 21 for the Jay-Hawks.
[20:22] In the Big East, Syracuse, trailing all
[20:25] the way, beat Satan Hall in the final
[20:27] minute. The Miami Herald today revealed
[20:31] the names of three New York Mets accused
[20:34] of raping a woman a year ago in Florida.
[20:37] They are Dwight Gooden, Vince Coleman,
[20:39] and Daryl Boston. No charges have been
[20:42] filed. A police investigation continues.
[20:46] Success, they say, has many fathers.
[20:48] Well, failure is an orphan. Well, after
[20:51] years of failure, the Atlanta Braves had
[20:53] amazing success last year, and they are
[20:56] no longer orphans in their training
[20:58] camp.
[21:02] West Palm Beach, Florida, where for
[21:04] years the Atlanta Braves were as popular
[21:07] as the flu. figuring out a way to finish
[21:09] last in their division. Not this spring.
[21:13] The Braves are defending National League
[21:15] champions. They are selling out their
[21:18] exhibition games and they have to tiptoe
[21:21] through the media.
[21:23] >> There's a lot more people around the
[21:24] ballpark and a lot more cameras and
[21:26] everything, but uh you know that comes
[21:28] along with winning and uh as long as you
[21:30] guys are around, we know we're winning.
[21:31] So, we we love to see you. to be honest
[21:34] with you, you look at Atlanta the last
[21:35] couple years and they didn't have
[21:36] anybody in the ballpark and to look up
[21:37] one day and and can't find an empty
[21:39] seat. Uh that was definitely a great
[21:41] turnaround for the city
[21:43] >> and to the first base on and that's it
[21:46] for Atlanta. and how sweet it almost
[21:49] was. After beating Pittsburgh in the
[21:51] championship series, shutting out the
[21:53] Pirates three times, the Braves took the
[21:56] Minnesota Twins to the seventh game of
[21:59] the World Series before surrendering one
[22:02] to nothing in 10 innings. [cheering]
[22:04] >> The Twins are going to win the World
[22:06] Series. THE TWINS HAVE WON IT.
[22:09] >> That was hard to swallow.
[22:11] >> It was disappointing. Uh a little bit of
[22:14] a bitter taste, that type of thing. Uh
[22:17] it was almost as if uh the whole season
[22:19] was a waste of time where we didn't win
[22:21] that. You know,
[22:21] >> it it hurt a little bit to lose that
[22:23] last ball game and you know, we were
[22:25] going after it pretty darn hard.
[22:29] >> But Atlanta threw a nice parade for the
[22:31] Atlanta Braves and u they expected about
[22:33] 200,000 people and they got 3/4 of a
[22:36] million and made us feel like winners
[22:38] and that took a little bit of the sting
[22:40] out of it.
[22:41] >> The sting is long gone now. The good
[22:44] memories remain. Ron Gant who hit 32
[22:48] homers and drove in 105 runs. Tom Glavin
[22:52] who won 20 games and the Sai Young
[22:55] award. Terry Pendleton who won the
[22:58] batting title and was the most valuable
[23:00] player in the National League and who
[23:02] kept the young guys on course.
[23:04] >> This team surprised me last year because
[23:06] of the the way they acted down the
[23:08] stretch. I mean, they were like a
[23:09] veteran club down the stretch. You
[23:10] didn't have to tell them much. You just
[23:11] turned them loose and told them to go
[23:12] get them.
[23:14] They got the fans anyway. Season ticket
[23:16] sales are double last year's, and last
[23:19] year's attendance was more than double
[23:21] the year before.
[23:23] Going from the basement to the penthouse
[23:25] in one year has made happy campers of
[23:28] the Atlanta Braves. They even put up
[23:31] with us. Long as we can get in our work,
[23:33] we uh can accommodate anybody. It's more
[23:36] fun to have the press here. Believe it.
[23:40] The Braves are having trouble playing
[23:41] 500 ball this spring. Maybe we should
[23:44] let them go about their business in
[23:45] peace. Carol
[23:47] >> Ray, thanks. When we come back, why
[23:50] research scientists are starting to
[23:52] sound like most parents at the dinner
[23:54] table.
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[25:02] scandal. Members of Congress bouncing
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[25:11] >> It was almost two years ago to the day
[25:13] that President Bush outlawed broccoli
[25:15] aboard Air Force One, angering farmers
[25:18] and nutritionists and parents everywhere
[25:20] when he explained why.
[25:24] >> I do not like broccoli. [laughter] And I
[25:27] haven't liked it since I was a little
[25:29] kid. And my mother made me eat it. and
[25:31] I'm president of the United States and
[25:34] I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
[25:37] >> A new study out today indicates Mr. Bush
[25:39] is making a big mistake. ABC medical
[25:42] correspondent George Strait explains
[25:44] why.
[25:47] >> Within this whirling mixture of green
[25:49] fluid may lie the answer to a question
[25:51] children have asked for years.
[25:53] >> Do I really have to eat my broccoli?
[25:56] >> Dr. Paul Talle and his assistants at
[25:58] Johns Hopkins University say yes.
[26:01] Because after more than 20 years of toil
[26:03] in this small laboratory, they think
[26:05] they have uncovered the secret to this
[26:07] malign vegetable, sulforophane. [snorts]
[26:10] It's a natural chemical found in
[26:11] broccoli that seems to protect cells
[26:14] from getting cancer. We have found a
[26:17] very potent
[26:21] and highly selective compound that
[26:26] behaves [snorts]
[26:28] as if it should be an anti-carcinogen.
[26:31] >> Repeated studies have shown that people
[26:33] who eat green vegetables like broccoli
[26:35] get fewer cancers. The newly discovered
[26:38] chemical seems to be the reason why.
[26:40] >> The discovery has been published today
[26:42] in one of the nation's most prestigious
[26:43] scientific journals. So it is serious
[26:45] work, not some political gambit designed
[26:48] to embarrass the president who still
[26:50] abhors broccoli. Although Dr. Talle
[26:52] seems to think that broccoli could
[26:54] become an issue in this year's election.
[26:56] >> The Democrats of course have not come
[26:58] out on this issue yet. Um I Congress,
[27:02] for whom I voted, looks like a uh a
[27:05] broccoli man to me. While touring a
[27:07] medical devices factory in Michigan, the
[27:09] president brushed off suggestions that
[27:11] he should now change his position on
[27:13] broccoli.
[27:14] >> President, any reaction to the new
[27:16] John's Hopkins study about broccoli?
[27:21] >> But challenger Pat Buchanan seeing a
[27:23] potential opening lashed out at the
[27:26] president's intransigence on broccoli.
[27:28] >> Well, I think that should probably be
[27:29] about article four in the impeachment of
[27:31] George Bush.
[27:33] So, do we really have to eat our
[27:35] broccoli? Probably yes. Unless you are
[27:38] in a position where it is difficult for
[27:40] people to tell you what to do. George
[27:44] Strait, ABC News, Washington.
[27:47] >> I like broccoli. That's World News
[27:49] Saturday. I'm Carol [music] Simpson.
[27:51] Good night
[27:52] >> from Washington. This has been World
[27:54] News Saturday.