CBS Evening News - 1984-04-08

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[0:00] nights on channel 5

[0:02] >> is

[0:02] >> the CBS Evening News. I'm Bill Curtis

[0:04] sitting in for Morton Dean. Just a look

[0:06] at it. It seems like it should be easy

[0:08] to repair a spinning solar observatory

[0:10] in space. Just reach out and stop it.

[0:12] But the space shuttle astronauts have

[0:14] used that idea and a few others to find

[0:16] out it isn't that easy. Morton Dean

[0:19] reports from Johnson Space Center in

[0:20] Houston.

[0:22] >> I did get the chattering. It was a

[0:24] daring, dramatic, novel, and thoroughly

[0:28] frustrating experience. It began with a

[0:30] heightened promise of success. Right on

[0:33] schedule.

[0:34] >> One potato. Two potatoes.

[0:36] >> Astronaut Pinky Nelson spaceuit working

[0:38] perfectly.

[0:40] >> Okay, looking good.

[0:41] >> His jet backpack functioning without

[0:44] error.

[0:46] >> He had smooth sailing during his 200 ft

[0:49] trip from the shuttle to NASA's

[0:50] partially disabled SolarMax satellite.

[0:53] The reason he was out there 310 mi above

[0:56] the Earth was to latch on to the Solar

[0:58] Max to stop its slow wobble and spin so

[1:02] that it could be captured by the

[1:04] shuttle's robot arm and placed into the

[1:06] Challenger's cargo bay for repairs. When

[1:09] Nelson, wearing a mating device, tried

[1:11] to lock onto a pin connected to the

[1:13] satellite, it just wouldn't lock into

[1:15] place. Later, during an airto ground

[1:18] debriefing, Nelson talked about the

[1:20] problem.

[1:21] >> I hit the thing square on. and I bounced

[1:23] out and I went back in and hit it again

[1:25] and it didn't didn't snap either time.

[1:27] >> Nelson then grabbed onto a wing and

[1:29] tried to bring the Solar Max under

[1:31] control that way.

[1:32] >> You're going to have to hold on to it

[1:33] both hands, I imagine,

[1:34] >> but it became more unstable. The

[1:37] astronaut's fuel supply was running

[1:39] down, so he was ordered back to the

[1:41] ship. Commander Bob Krippen then

[1:44] maneuvered the shuttle closer and tried

[1:46] to snatch the gyrating satellite with

[1:48] the robot arm, but that failed.

[1:52] There's a lot of money at stake there.

[1:53] The repair is 80% less expensive than a

[1:56] new satellite. So NASA is trying to

[1:59] determine what if anything can be done

[2:00] now. If some signals from the ground can

[2:04] somehow tame the bucking satellite, then

[2:06] another attempt to rescue it will be

[2:08] made probably tomorrow and said NASA

[2:11] probably by using the robot arm and not

[2:14] by sending astronaut Nelson out on

[2:16] another long-distance service call.

[2:18] Morton Dean, CBS News, Johnson Space

[2:21] Center, Houston.

[2:23] >> NASA said late today that attempts to

[2:24] stabilize the tumbling satellite

[2:26] apparently are not going well. A

[2:28] spokesman said, "We're going to need a

[2:30] lot of luck.

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[3:42] The three Democratic presidential

[3:44] contenders intensified their battle for

[3:46] Pennsylvania's 172 convention delegates

[3:49] today as polls and most experts called

[3:51] Tuesday's critical primary too close to

[3:53] call. Walter Montdale traveled to

[3:55] Three-Mile Island, sight of the

[3:57] country's worst nuclear disaster, where

[3:59] he made a campaign promise to keep the

[4:01] plant shut. Susan Spencer has more on

[4:03] that story.

[4:04] >> Three Mile Island sits still and

[4:06] foreboing, waiting for what else? the

[4:09] next politician campaigning in the

[4:11] Pennsylvania primary.

[4:13] >> If I am president of the United States,

[4:15] I'll guarantee you it won't open.

[4:17] >> Manddale has expressed doubts about TMI

[4:19] before. The point was to do it here for

[4:22] these people and especially for these

[4:24] people. He claims that Gary Hart will

[4:26] outspend him three or four to one on

[4:28] paid TV here. So Manddale's answer is to

[4:31] go hard for the free stuff with visual

[4:34] events in both Philadelphia and way

[4:36] across the state in Pittsburgh. every

[4:38] day for the last five.

[4:40] >> Wait a minute. Wait, did I do a job on

[4:42] that baby?

[4:45] >> The backdrops may vary from day to day,

[4:47] but the message has not. Here in

[4:49] Pennsylvania, Montdale has focused

[4:50] almost exclusively on economic issues

[4:53] and how to help Pennsylvania's ailing

[4:55] smoke stack industries. Aware that Gary

[4:58] Hart portrays him as as outdated as

[5:00] those smoke stacks, Manddale has talked

[5:02] a lot about the future, offering a plan

[5:04] he says would rescue the steel industry.

[5:07] steel workers and unemployed miners like

[5:09] that.

[5:10] >> We need a president who understands that

[5:13] this country cannot do without a strong

[5:16] industrial base. That's our muscle.

[5:19] That's our strength. That's much of our

[5:21] future. And I want to be president to be

[5:24] on your side as president of the United

[5:28] States.

[5:29] To workers, Montdale implies Gary Hart

[5:32] is not on your side. His proof Hart's

[5:34] vote against the Chrysler bailout

[5:36] against a similar plan that saved one

[5:38] steel plant here.

[5:40] >> We're having a little fight over whether

[5:42] wheeling Pittsburgh steel should have

[5:44] been saved or not. Whether your jobs

[5:47] were important or not, my answer is yes.

[5:51] Gary Hart's answer is no.

[5:54] >> Will Manddale's campaign as the people's

[5:56] democrat play on Tuesday? If it does, it

[5:59] will be very hard for him to continue to

[6:01] avoid that dread political label of

[6:04] frontr runner. Susan Spencer, CBS News,

[6:07] Philadelphia.

[6:08] >> Senator Gary Hart reached out to

[6:10] unemployed steel workers in Pennsylvania

[6:12] today for their support in Tuesday's

[6:14] primary. He needs a victory in the state

[6:16] to regain momentum. He had after a

[6:18] string of victories in New England. We

[6:20] have this report from Bruce Hall.

[6:23] In an attempt to reignite his candidacy,

[6:26] Gary Hart is stressing economic issues

[6:28] almost to the exclusion of everything

[6:30] else in the state where unemployment is

[6:31] high. In Johntown, Pennsylvania, where

[6:34] nearly 15,000 steel workers have lost

[6:36] their jobs over the past 10 years, the

[6:38] Colorado senator told a group of

[6:40] unemployed workers that nothing was more

[6:42] important than putting them back to

[6:44] work. The national interest is to put

[6:46] the American steel industry back on its

[6:48] feet and to put people trained workers

[6:51] into those modern plants and nothing

[6:53] else is going to solve this country's

[6:55] problems. Not a bailout here or a

[6:57] handout there or a band-aid there or the

[6:59] old special interest politics. That's

[7:01] what this campaign's all about. Hart

[7:03] left the area to shouts of give us a job

[7:05] and we'll give you our votes. But votes

[7:08] have been hard to come by recently for

[7:09] Gary Hart. Hart complained that even

[7:11] though he won the popular vote in

[7:13] Wisconsin last Tuesday, the oldline

[7:15] political establishment and power

[7:17] brokers solidly defeated him in the

[7:19] separate delegate selection yesterday.

[7:21] On Face the Nation today, he was asked

[7:23] about the status of his suddenly shaky

[7:25] campaign.

[7:26] >> Are you slipping?

[7:27] >> No, no, no, no, not at all. In fact, I

[7:29] think you're going to see um this

[7:31] campaign take off very, very quickly.

[7:33] >> How are you going to do in Pennsylvania?

[7:35] It's going to be close. If we're able to

[7:36] get across the message of of new ideas

[7:39] and new approaches and understanding

[7:41] that that that that state's only hope is

[7:43] with new leadership, then I think we're

[7:44] going to do very well.

[7:45] >> But with organizational problems and

[7:47] limited delegate slates on the ballot,

[7:49] most observers see Hart coming in second

[7:51] in Pennsylvania. However, if he is to

[7:53] remain a viable candidate, the campaign

[7:56] must avoid another devastating loss like

[7:58] they had in New York. Bruce Hall, CBS

[8:00] News, Johntown, Pennsylvania. While his

[8:03] rivals crisscrossed the state in search

[8:05] for votes, the Reverend Jesse Jackson

[8:07] focused his campaign today on

[8:09] Philadelphia, where blacks constitute

[8:11] some 43% of the city's registered

[8:13] Democrats. David Da reports that Jackson

[8:15] reiterated his call for large cuts in

[8:17] the defense budget.

[8:20] >> Jesse Jackson spent the night with a

[8:22] poor black family in a Philadelphia

[8:24] housing project and set out today to

[8:26] broaden his rainbow coalition.

[8:28] >> This is not a black movement.

[8:31] This is a great moral movement inspired

[8:34] by the black experience.

[8:36] >> Jackson wants to convince voters of that

[8:38] to keep his momentum going. In New York

[8:41] last week, Jackson came within a point

[8:42] of edging Gary Hart for second place

[8:45] largely on the strength of nearly 90% of

[8:47] the black vote. Here, the black mayor of

[8:50] Philadelphia, Wilson Good, supports

[8:52] Montdale. And though dozens of other

[8:54] prominent blacks have endorsed Jackson,

[8:56] he has actively courted a whiter

[8:58] constituency in the state's hard-hit

[9:00] industrial belt.

[9:02] >> The working people, the poor, the peace

[9:05] activist no longer have to stand on the

[9:07] outside with a picket line. They got

[9:10] somebody at the table.

[9:11] >> Here, as elsewhere, Jackson backs up his

[9:13] economic promises with one basic

[9:15] specific. Cut the defense budget at

[9:17] least 20%, he says, and all else will be

[9:20] possible. Though rated a distant third

[9:22] in early polls here, Jackson has

[9:24] continued to pick up potential

[9:26] bargaining power. Today, more directly

[9:28] than ever, he indicated Manddale would

[9:30] not get his support without opposing the

[9:33] southern primary system.

[9:35] >> Anybody who would not support the Voting

[9:38] Rights Act to be enforced fully

[9:40] certainly cannot expect my support. I do

[9:42] not know why Mr. Mandelle would

[9:43] equivocate and drag out a very basic

[9:46] thing. A president must enforce the law.

[9:49] Voting rights is the law.

[9:51] >> Consistently, Jackson has performed

[9:53] ahead of the polls. Whether he does so

[9:55] Tuesday may depend on labor. Whether

[9:57] he's perceived as an alternative who's

[9:59] attractive or divisive. David D, CBS

[10:03] News, Philadelphia. There was another

[10:05] arrest at the White House today, the

[10:07] latest in a series of recent security

[10:09] incidents at the executive mansion.

[10:11] Security guards say they arrested

[10:12] 25-year-old James Storm after he walked

[10:15] up to the northwest gate and verbally

[10:17] threatened the president. Storm faces a

[10:19] federal charge of threatening the

[10:21] president's life. He was armed with a

[10:23] knife and also faces a weapons

[10:25] possession charge.

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[12:03] parts.

[12:06] >> Chances of resumed nuclear arms talks

[12:08] look bleeer than ever tonight. Soviet

[12:10] leader Constantine Chernenko said today

[12:12] that Moscow will continue to insist that

[12:14] talks cannot resume until the US

[12:16] dismantles its newly deployed missiles

[12:18] in Europe. Shernenko said he sees no

[12:20] signs of a breakthrough despite what he

[12:22] called contacts with the American side.

[12:24] What these contacts were, he didn't say.

[12:27] In Paris, Assistant US Defense Secretary

[12:29] Richard Pearl said the US is not willing

[12:32] to make concessions just to entice

[12:33] Moscow back to the table. The Pentagon

[12:36] has not commented on reports that four

[12:38] Americans were killed in an air crash

[12:40] last week in Costa Rica near the border

[12:42] with Nicaragua. News reports in both

[12:44] countries claimed the DC3 was carrying

[12:46] arms to anti-sandinista rebels. In

[12:48] Washington, word that the US is involved

[12:50] in the mining of Nicaraguan harbors is

[12:53] causing concern that a direct combat

[12:55] role lies ahead. Robert Chakney has the

[12:57] story.

[12:59] >> Direct United States involvement in the

[13:00] armed conflict in Central America is now

[13:03] becoming more apparent. US officials

[13:05] confirm that the CIA directly controls

[13:08] the mine laying operation against

[13:10] Nicaragua's two principal seapports,

[13:12] Corinto and Puerto Sandino. The CIA has

[13:15] stationed a small freighter off

[13:17] Nicaragua's Pacific coast. Americans are

[13:20] in charge aboard the freighter,

[13:21] dispatching small boats with Latin

[13:23] American crews to carry the mines to the

[13:25] seapports. At least five foreign cargo

[13:28] ships have been damaged by the mines.

[13:30] France and England have protested. And

[13:32] on Capitol Hill, some who support covert

[13:35] operations against Nicaragua say this

[13:37] new tactic is going too far. It's a

[13:39] widening of the conflict to involve

[13:42] other nations, many of which are allies,

[13:45] most of which are friends. That was

[13:48] wrong and in my judgment illegal and has

[13:53] to be stopped. The American role in

[13:56] building and using combat bases in

[13:58] Honduras is also growing. US Army

[14:01] reconnaissance planes now fly from

[14:03] Honduras to keep track of left-wing

[14:05] rebels for the Salvadoran Army. And the

[14:07] Pentagon has proposed building two

[14:09] contingency bases in Honduras for use by

[14:12] US Army and Air Force combat units if

[14:14] they're needed. But Defense Secretary

[14:16] Weineberger denies the administration

[14:18] plans to intervene with combat forces.

[14:21] You plan for the kinds of things that

[14:23] you may have to do and for the things

[14:25] that are part of the strategy of the

[14:28] United States and our strategic

[14:29] priorities and objectives and this is

[14:31] not one of them.

[14:32] >> They are

[14:34] planning in a contingency

[14:38] basis an American involvement.

[14:42] I'm sure they will understand that they

[14:45] could not sustain it will not be

[14:47] approved by the Congress. it will be

[14:49] defeated by the Congress.

[14:50] >> The arguments about the mining and the

[14:52] contingency planning come at an

[14:54] absolutely terrible time politically for

[14:56] the administration because a Central

[14:58] American military aid package is still

[15:00] before Congress. Unless Congress acts

[15:03] very quickly, money to keep some of

[15:04] these Central American operations going

[15:06] will start to run out as early as next

[15:09] month. Robert Shaky, CBS News, Capitol

[15:12] Hill. US Marines went ashore again today

[15:15] in Beirut, but this time their arrival

[15:18] was virtually ignored. As we hear from

[15:19] Larry Pintac,

[15:22] >> they hit the beach this morning in the

[15:24] best marine style. It's part of a

[15:26] routine rotation. These men are

[15:28] replacing the residual force of about

[15:31] 100 Marines still ashore. Their job,

[15:34] guard the fortified embassy compound.

[15:37] 1,700 more Marines are out on the ships.

[15:39] They've come to replace the men pulled

[15:41] out of Lebanon last month and let them

[15:44] head home. The new men will stay

[15:46] offshore. The rotation provided a little

[15:49] entertainment for Sunday morning

[15:51] strollers,

[15:53] but most Lebanese didn't notice and

[15:56] didn't care. What the Marines do no

[15:59] longer affects them. The Lebanese

[16:01] government today was busy trying yet

[16:03] again to pick up the pieces. Army units

[16:06] were back out on the streets of West

[16:08] Beirut in another effort to restore some

[16:10] semblance of order. The move coincided

[16:13] with a small step forward on the

[16:15] political front. The waring factions

[16:17] gave tentative approval to another try

[16:20] at another disengagement plan. But with

[16:23] ceasefires crumbling daily, no one is

[16:26] holding his breath the plan will work.

[16:28] President Jal's decision to scrap the

[16:31] May 17th agreement with Israel has not

[16:33] stopped the process of collapse. He's

[16:35] going to Damascus this week looking for

[16:37] more help, but the only thing he has

[16:39] left to trade is the political

[16:41] complexion of his government. Larry

[16:44] Pentac, CBS News, West Beirut. Vietnam

[16:47] claimed today that it has repulsed

[16:49] several thousand Chinese troops who

[16:51] attacked across the border two days ago,

[16:53] inflicting heavy losses. China denies

[16:55] the claim and says its troops never went

[16:57] into Vietnam. The recent escalating

[17:00] fighting has been the worst since the

[17:01] border war 5 years ago. What began as a

[17:04] day of fun and thrills at the Tenneref

[17:06] airport in the Canary Islands ended in

[17:08] sudden tragedy. During an air show,

[17:10] Spain's top stunt pilot had just taken

[17:12] off and gained altitude when he

[17:14] apparently lost control of the plane. It

[17:16] plunged to Earth, crashed, caught fire,

[17:18] and skidded right into a packed crowd of

[17:20] spectators. Four of them were killed, as

[17:22] was the pilots. At least 14 others were

[17:25] injured.

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[18:38] The bodies of two elderly

[18:39] sisters-in-law, the first reported

[18:41] casualties of floods in northern New

[18:43] Jersey were discovered today in their

[18:44] home in Wayne. Neighbors found the

[18:46] women's bodies after a search for them

[18:48] at an area public shelter proved

[18:50] fruitless. Meanwhile, as flood water

[18:52] suddenly receded receded, residents

[18:55] returned to their homes to begin the big

[18:57] task of cleaning up. Police in Las Vegas

[19:00] today fatally shot a man after he

[19:02] wounded two unarmed security guards at

[19:04] McCarron International Airport. The man

[19:06] was not immediately identified, shoved

[19:09] his way through a metal detector, and

[19:10] tried to enter a boarding area. A police

[19:13] spokesman said he did not know if the

[19:14] suspect had been attempting to hijack a

[19:17] flight. Stars of Hollywood, past and

[19:20] present, are gathering for tomorrow

[19:21] night's presentation of the Academy

[19:23] Awards. Though movies and movie stars

[19:25] retain their appeal, movie theaters are

[19:28] facing hard times. Theater owners are in

[19:31] Las Vegas trying to find new ways to

[19:33] recreate the magic of the silver screen

[19:36] and the golden movie palaces. Andrea

[19:38] Everson reports on their efforts.

[19:41] You know my Desmond used to be in Silent

[19:44] Pictures. Used to be big.

[19:47] >> I am big.

[19:49] >> It's the picture that got small.

[19:51] >> And she might have added, so did the

[19:53] theaters. People used to go to the

[19:55] movies as much for the surroundings as

[19:57] for the stars. The movie palace was a

[20:00] glittering world of magic and

[20:02] makeelieve. Once upon a time, they sold

[20:04] tickets to theaters, not just movies.

[20:08] But few of the picture palaces stand

[20:10] today. And of those that survive, fewer

[20:13] still are showing movies. They've been

[20:15] converted to restaurants, bowling

[20:17] alleys, boutiques.

[20:19] The big screen gave way to small

[20:21] multiple screens, and movie theaters the

[20:23] size of matchboxes.

[20:28] But at this Las Vegas trade show,

[20:30] theater owners once again were talking

[20:32] big about building a thousand new movie

[20:34] houses this year. larger and more

[20:37] luxurious like this one which just

[20:39] opened in San Francisco. It has spacious

[20:42] auditoriums, wider screens, fancy

[20:45] concessions, and a touch of class.

[20:48] >> You need a place where you can leave

[20:50] your house. You need a magical place.

[20:53] Movies are magic.

[20:54] >> What we're doing now is trying to

[20:56] restore our place in the scheme of

[20:59] things of entertainment. uh to develop

[21:01] movie going back into what we call an

[21:04] event restoring the glamour and the

[21:06] illusion.

[21:07] >> So coming soon perhaps to a theater near

[21:10] you, space age seats, state-of-the-art

[21:12] sight and sound, self-service ticket

[21:15] booths, a faster, more efficient way to

[21:17] take in the box office dollars, a record

[21:20] 3.6 billion last year. And along with

[21:23] the old standbys, popcorn, hot dogs, and

[21:26] 3D glasses, movie goers will find coming

[21:29] attractions on lobby video monitors,

[21:31] even computerized marquees. The message

[21:34] is clear. To compete, the movie house

[21:37] has to offer something you can't find on

[21:39] your video cassettes and cable TV.

[21:42] >> The smart and farseeing theater owner is

[21:46] going to get himself ready for a new

[21:49] time and fresher competition. You dress

[21:52] up your theater.

[21:53] >> And as theaters dress up, they're asking

[21:56] customers not to mess up.

[22:01] >> Still, modern movie houses may be

[22:03] missing something. Just like the old

[22:05] stars, the glamour of the old movie

[22:08] palaces might be lost forever.

[22:11] Andrea, CBS News, Hollywood.

[22:16] >> Our time has come.

[22:18] >> Future versus our past. Mature,

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[24:02] >> The Olympics are still a few months off,

[24:04] but no race is likely to compare with

[24:06] the long distance run between the real

[24:08] contenders, Mandale Hart and Jackson. As

[24:11] Bob Schiffer notes, every day they

[24:13] experience the thrill of victory and the

[24:15] agony of finding something to eat.

[24:19] >> This may be the last I get to eat all

[24:21] day.

[24:22] >> Missing meals is only a part of it. What

[24:24] with the grueling schedules? And

[24:26] consider we still have 2/3 of the

[24:28] primary season to go and what with the

[24:30] enormous costs. Consider that Gary Hart,

[24:32] Walter Montdale, and Jesse Jackson

[24:34] together will spend about $55 million

[24:37] just trying to get nominated. It's

[24:39] enough to give everyone, including the

[24:41] voters, indigestion. The people who make

[24:43] a business of upset stomachs, have

[24:45] already picked up on that. for these

[24:47] symptoms of stress that can come from

[24:50] New Hampshire's success.

[24:52] >> And if it's wearing you out, consider

[24:54] the candidates have already been at it

[24:56] for more than a year.

[24:58] >> I've been in this state so often that

[25:00] Blanchard wants me to start paying

[25:01] taxes.

[25:03] >> It has become a bipartisan frustration.

[25:06] I mean, this running back and forth from

[25:08] Florida to California to New Hampshire,

[25:10] that that is not the test for being

[25:11] president. That's the test for the

[25:13] Olympics. And unfortunately, the race to

[25:15] cover lots of ground has not broken much

[25:18] new ground. Listen,

[25:20] >> our time has come. Future versus our

[25:22] past.

[25:23] >> Mature, experienced way.

[25:25] >> Future and its past. Experienced and

[25:28] mature.

[25:29] >> Your time has come.

[25:31] >> Sounding like a broken record is not

[25:33] what really bothers some Democrats now

[25:35] on the sidelines. What they worry about

[25:37] is that the longer it drags on, the more

[25:39] destructive it becomes to candidates and

[25:41] the party. Several times in recent

[25:44] memory, we've had nominees who were so

[25:47] damaged by the infighting before they

[25:49] got the nomination that it was largely

[25:51] worthless. The problem is that while

[25:53] everyone agrees the current system of

[25:55] picking nominees has flaws, party

[25:57] officials and politicians can't agree on

[25:59] a better way. For example, some have

[26:02] proposed a national primary, getting it

[26:04] over in one day. Everyone agrees that

[26:06] would be quick, but

[26:08] >> then we're not talking politics anymore.

[26:09] Then we got the battle of the network

[26:11] stars. All it's about is who raises the

[26:13] most money to get on television.

[26:15] >> Over the years, other reforms have been

[26:17] proposed, ranging from holding primaries

[26:19] by time zones, holding caucuses and

[26:22] primaries by regions, or just picking

[26:24] three days and ordering the states to

[26:26] make their selections on one of them.

[26:29] But whatever the plan, the experts say

[26:30] the states that go first will still get

[26:32] undue attention. littleknown under

[26:35] financed candidates will still be at a

[26:36] disadvantage and the campaigns will

[26:38] still drag on just as long simply

[26:41] because there's no way to stop

[26:43] candidates from trying to get an early

[26:44] start.

[26:45] >> How you going to prevent a potential

[26:47] candidate from saying, "Well, I just I'm

[26:49] just out here in St. Louis today looking

[26:50] at the river or I'm visiting my

[26:53] grandmother in Wisconsin."

[26:55] >> Since we're apparently stuck with the

[26:57] current system, some political

[26:58] scientists have begun to say, "Stop

[27:00] fighting it and learn to love it." After

[27:02] all, they argue it does have some good

[27:04] points.

[27:04] >> In the long run, you're probably going

[27:06] to emerge with a stronger nominee if he

[27:08] goes through the attacks and the

[27:10] pressure and uh is able to handle them.

[27:13] >> That may be just as well. In this case,

[27:15] there's apparently no way to spell

[27:17] relief. Bob Sheer, CBS News, Washington.

[27:21] >> But one way is to say good night. for

[27:24] Morton Dean in Houston. I'm Bill Curtis,

[27:26] CBS News, New York.

[27:31] >> They say a tire is a tire.

[27:34] >> You can't tell one tire from another,

[27:36] >> but Goodyear said baloney

[27:38] >> and spent a billion dollars to design

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[27:43] tires. Did anybody notice? Drivers did.

[27:46] They're buying more Goodyear radials

[27:48] than any other brand. More than all

[27:50] foreign radials combined.

[27:52] >> Wow.

[27:54] Sometimes it really pays not to listen

[27:56] to what they say.

[27:59] >> Good year.

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[28:35] >> Nelson on his way in 1 hour and 2

[28:37] minutes.

[28:42] >> You're doing okay.

[28:42] >> One potato, two potato.

[28:44] >> I'm Diane Sawyer. Tomorrow we'll talk

[28:46] with America's first astronauts and at

[28:48] our 8:30 half hour, the director of

[28:50] terms of endearment. Wake up to what's

[28:52] happening on the CBS Morning News.

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