NBC Nightly News - 1982-08-27

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[0:00] Ashwell.

[0:01] >> [music]

[0:02] >> This is NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw

[0:05] in New York, Roger Mudd in Washington,

[0:08] and commentary by John Chancellor.

[0:11] >> Good evening. If President Reagan and

[0:12] his new Secretary of State had any hopes

[0:14] of creating a Palestinian homeland, the

[0:17] hopes were broken today. Israel's

[0:19] Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, visiting

[0:21] here in Washington, said there already

[0:23] is a Palestinian state, Jordan he called

[0:25] it, and that Israel will never agree to

[0:27] a second one. Fred Francis reports.

[0:31] >> Israel's boisterous defense chief, not

[0:33] known for his diplomatic charm, was

[0:35] blunt today about telling the Reagan

[0:37] administration that Israel would not

[0:39] budge from the occupied territories of

[0:41] the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

[0:43] Sharon met with Defense Secretary Caspar

[0:46] Weinberger first, but it was during his

[0:48] 85-minute session with Secretary of

[0:50] State George Shultz that he talked the

[0:52] toughest.

[0:53] Shultz, who is trying to formulate a

[0:55] broader plan for a Middle East peace

[0:57] which would solve the Palestinian

[0:59] problem, needs Israel's cooperation.

[1:02] But Sharon said flatly that while Israel

[1:04] would negotiate autonomy for the

[1:06] Palestinians in the occupied

[1:08] territories, that autonomy would never

[1:10] mean a Palestinian homeland on the West

[1:13] Bank.

[1:14] >> There is the Palestinian state. Jordan

[1:16] is the Palestinian state.

[1:18] Israel never agreed and will never agree

[1:21] to a second Palestinian state, and I

[1:23] made it very clear again today.

[1:26] >> That is interpreted by many to mean that

[1:28] the Israelis plan to hold on to the West

[1:30] Bank and the Gaza Strip.

[1:32] Sharon's intransigence has given

[1:34] Secretary Shultz a reference point if he

[1:36] ever needed one on future Israeli

[1:38] policy. Shultz has made the Israelis

[1:40] nervous in recent weeks because he has

[1:42] said he believes the Camp David Accords

[1:44] are {quote} flexible and open to

[1:46] interpretation.

[1:48] The Israelis have interpreted those

[1:49] remarks to mean that Secretary Shultz is

[1:51] pushing for a Palestinian state. He

[1:54] hasn't said that, but he has the

[1:55] Israelis on the defensive, and according

[1:58] to one source here, that's where he

[1:59] wants them.

[2:00] Fred Francis, NBC News, the State

[2:03] Department.

[2:04] >> Israel's ambassador to the United

[2:06] States, Moshe Arens, said today in

[2:07] Washington that his government's defeat

[2:09] of the PLO dealt a blow to the solar

[2:12] plexus of the communist world. He said

[2:14] the stock of the Soviet Union in the

[2:16] Middle East is down to zero and that the

[2:18] only power of any consequence in the

[2:19] region is now the United States. Defense

[2:22] Defense Secretary Weinberger will see

[2:24] for himself next week. He is leaving

[2:25] Tuesday for Beirut to meet the 800 US

[2:28] Marines there and then visit Lebanon,

[2:30] Egypt, and Israel. Tom?

[2:32] >> In the Middle East today, the first

[2:33] overland withdrawal of Palestinians left

[2:36] Beirut for Syria. These were members of

[2:38] the Palestine Liberation Army, which is

[2:40] commanded by Syrians. More now from

[2:42] Keith Miller.

[2:45] For 2 days, the highway has been too

[2:47] dangerous to travel.

[2:48] Today, Italian peacekeeping [music]

[2:50] forces led the way for the first

[2:52] overland withdrawal of Palestinian

[2:54] fighters.

[2:55] There was no ritual shooting, no

[2:57] chanting of victory as the convoy passed

[2:59] Israeli checkpoints.

[3:01] Christian civilians stared silently. The

[3:04] Palestinians remained defiant.

[3:07] The quiet as they left from Israeli-held

[3:09] territory did not last long.

[3:18] Thousands of Palestinians and their

[3:20] supporters welcomed the fighters at the

[3:22] Syrian-Lebanese border.

[3:25] Some 1,500 fighters from the Palestine

[3:27] Liberation Army were welcomed home as

[3:29] heroes.

[3:31] The PLA was created by the Syrian army

[3:33] to fight in Lebanon. Many of its

[3:35] officers are Syrian.

[3:38] They were coming home.

[3:41] From the border, the convoy stretched

[3:43] for miles as it wound its way to the

[3:45] rugged hills near Damascus.

[3:47] The convoy stopped at the village of

[3:49] Katana near the PLA military base.

[3:52] Families were bused here to greet the

[3:54] fighters.

[3:55] >> Palestinian army might have

[3:57] >> Mustafa Hamadi boasted that he killed

[4:00] many Israelis.

[4:01] Some of the fighters said first they

[4:03] would rest,

[4:05] then they would return to Lebanon to

[4:07] fight.

[4:08] Keith Miller, NBC News, Damascus.

[4:13] >> PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat is expected

[4:15] to be among the last to leave Beirut,

[4:17] and his final destination still has not

[4:18] been confirmed, nor will PLO spokesman

[4:21] talk about the way that he'll go out for

[4:23] security reasons.

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[6:04] >> On Wall Street today, trading was

[6:06] lighter and the Dow Jones was down, but

[6:08] it was still enough to push the trading

[6:09] volume for the past 9 days to over 1

[6:13] billion shares. 74 million shares were

[6:15] traded today and the Dow was off nearly

[6:17] 9 points, but for many, it's been a

[6:19] glorious run. Here's Mike Jensen.

[6:23] >> The great bull market rally that began 2

[6:25] weeks ago ran out of steam today, but in

[6:27] the meantime, history has been made and

[6:29] quite a few fortunes as well. 2 weeks of

[6:32] frenzy trading. The Dow Jones average up

[6:34] almost 100 points. Small investors loved

[6:38] it.

[6:38] >> You clear 4 or 500 dollars or 600

[6:41] dollars, something like that.

[6:43] You go home smiling and feeling happy

[6:44] about it.

[6:45] >> Well, I would say that I

[6:47] made a gain of about 10 to 50% on my

[6:49] portfolio in utility and bank stocks. I

[6:53] bought some stock last week and sold it

[6:54] this week. So, I made a few hundred

[6:56] dollars.

[6:57] >> Many stocks went up 10 or 20% in 2

[7:00] weeks, some even more. Zapata

[7:02] Corporation up from $12 to $15.

[7:05] IBM from $63 to $69.

[7:09] Digital Equipment $62 to $79.

[7:12] Pension funds covering people like New

[7:14] York City's police showed enormous gains

[7:17] in their stock and bond portfolios.

[7:19] >> The New York City pension funds have got

[7:21] to rank among the very biggest in

[7:22] America. They're worth $16 today and as

[7:25] the result of the bull market of the

[7:27] last 2 weeks, we've made a billion and a

[7:29] half dollars.

[7:31] >> Some of the biggest profits on Wall

[7:33] Street have gone to the brokers. They

[7:34] get paid a commission on every share of

[7:36] stock that's bought or sold. And in the

[7:38] last 2 weeks, the volume of trading has

[7:40] just about doubled.

[7:42] At Shearson American Express, they've

[7:44] been working around the clock.

[7:46] >> I've been on Wall Street now for 23

[7:48] years.

[7:49] Um you know, this is something that we

[7:51] have never seen before, but we hope we

[7:53] see it again and continue to see it.

[7:55] >> Analysts say Shearson's commissions from

[7:57] selling stocks have leaped from [music]

[7:58] $5 million a week to $10 million a week.

[8:03] All over Wall Street, brokers and

[8:04] traders have been anchored to their

[8:06] desks riding the tidal wave. They're

[8:08] hoping that today's lull does not mean

[8:10] the rally is over.

[8:12] Mike Jensen, NBC News, New York.

[8:16] >> Gold, which has been going up with the

[8:18] stock market, today went down. It closed

[8:20] at $403.10.

[8:22] That's a drop of $24.20.

[8:25] Roger.

[8:26] >> The recent economic news has created a

[8:28] feeling of movement and upswing, which

[8:30] in turn has generated a sense of

[8:31] optimism. But the National Association

[8:33] of Business Economists took a cold

[8:36] analytical look at the economy and saw a

[8:38] long road out of the current recession.

[8:40] Economics correspondent Irving R. Levine

[8:42] reports.

[8:44] >> Higher unemployment than projected by

[8:46] the Reagan administration, slower

[8:48] economic growth. Those are some of the

[8:50] forecasts by economists like these who

[8:53] advise American corporations.

[8:55] >> We haven't reached the recovery stage.

[8:57] We may be

[8:58] uh moving along the bottom toward

[9:00] recovery.

[9:02] >> Falling profits for their industries

[9:04] this year were forecast by 66% of the

[9:07] 200 economists surveyed by the National

[9:10] Association of Business Economists.

[9:12] Where the Reagan administration predicts

[9:14] the economy will grow 5.2% the second

[9:17] half of this year, the economists

[9:20] foresee less growth, only 2.7%.

[9:23] The Reagan forecast an unemployment rate

[9:26] of 8% the end of this year. The

[9:28] economists predict 8.7%.

[9:32] The president of the economists

[9:33] association believes a full recovery

[9:36] will not until 1984.

[9:39] >> I guess I would call it a nick of time

[9:41] recovery. That is to say that things

[9:43] look a lot better just in the nick of

[9:45] time before the November 1984 elections.

[9:48] In other words, the real momentum gets

[9:50] underway in late 1983 and by the middle

[9:54] of '84, it's clear to everyone that

[9:56] things are looking much better.

[9:58] >> The survey is important because it

[10:00] reflects the views of the economists who

[10:02] advise corporations on investment and

[10:04] hiring. Their pessimism affects business

[10:07] decisions and thus could slow the

[10:09] recovery.

[10:11] Irving R. Levine, NBC News, Washington.

[10:15] >> President Reagan will veto tomorrow a

[10:17] $14.2 billion supplemental

[10:19] appropriations bill. Judy Woodruff says

[10:21] the president plans to denounce the

[10:23] measure as budget busting during his

[10:25] weekly radio broadcast from his ranch in

[10:27] California. The bill contains money for

[10:29] military and civilian pay as well as

[10:31] $350 million the president wants for aid

[10:34] to the Caribbean.

[10:35] But White House aides say privately its

[10:37] priorities are wrong. It cuts almost two

[10:39] billion from defense and adds almost a

[10:42] billion for domestic programs.

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[12:19] >> Leroy Williams, the former congressional

[12:21] page whose allegations about sex and

[12:23] drugs on Capitol Hill turned Washington

[12:25] upside down this summer, said today, "I

[12:28] lied." Here's Robert Hager.

[12:31] >> Williams' sensational allegations of

[12:33] sexual encounters with three congressmen

[12:36] drew national attention last July and

[12:38] touched off investigations by the

[12:40] Justice Department and two House

[12:42] committees. Williams promised he'd tell

[12:44] investigators the truth.

[12:46] >> I will tell them my story. I will tell

[12:48] them the truth.

[12:50] As I have told all along that I was a

[12:53] sexually involved with three

[12:54] congressmen.

[12:55] >> But the House doorkeeper who remembered

[12:57] Williams as a page said he'd been a

[12:59] pathological liar. And when Williams

[13:01] took a lie detector test, he failed

[13:03] parts of it. Today at a news conference

[13:06] in Little Rock, Arkansas, accompanied by

[13:08] his attorney, Leroy Williams said

[13:10] everything had been a lie.

[13:12] >> In the past few months I've made some

[13:13] very serious accusations against three

[13:16] congressmen,

[13:18] a legislative assistant, a United States

[13:20] Senator, and an employee of the

[13:22] Government Printing Office.

[13:27] These accusations are not true.

[13:30] I have lied.

[13:31] I regret that I have lied.

[13:34] Words can never express

[13:37] the remorse that I feel

[13:39] for the pain and the trauma that I

[13:41] caused for

[13:42] both the families involved in those

[13:44] accusations

[13:46] and

[13:47] my family.

[13:48] >> The Justice Department and one House

[13:49] Committee had already dropped their

[13:51] investigations of sexual misconduct.

[13:53] Only the House Ethics Committee is still

[13:55] investigating. Its chairman will

[13:57] interview Williams tomorrow. Robert

[13:59] Hager, NBC News, Washington.

[14:01] >> A federal grand jury in Brooklyn today

[14:03] reopened its investigation of Labor

[14:05] Secretary Raymond Donovan's alleged ties

[14:08] to organized crime. NBC correspondent

[14:10] James Polk reports that one of the

[14:12] witnesses called was Mafia figure

[14:14] William Masselli, whose son was killed

[14:16] Wednesday in a gangland-style murder.

[14:18] The elder Masselli, now in federal

[14:20] prison, was president of a construction

[14:22] firm that was a subcontractor for

[14:24] Schiavone Construction, which is the

[14:26] firm Donovan ran before he was appointed

[14:28] by President Reagan. Tom?

[14:30] >> The Mexican government announced today

[14:32] that it's going to try to limit the

[14:33] basic goods that a United States citizen

[14:35] can buy in stores just south of the

[14:38] border. Since the peso was devalued

[14:40] early this month, the worth of the

[14:41] dollar has doubled against the peso.

[14:44] That means bargain a bargains for people

[14:45] with dollars. Dan Molina reports tonight

[14:48] the peso problem also has increased

[14:50] northbound traffic.

[14:52] >> Along the Rio Grande near El Paso at

[14:54] dawn.

[14:56] This month, while the peso has been

[14:57] plunging in value, the number of workers

[15:00] crossing the border illegally has

[15:01] increased dramatically. On Tuesday of

[15:04] this week, the Border Patrol arrested

[15:06] 1,205

[15:08] Mexicans just in the El Paso region, and

[15:11] that's a one-day record. It's estimated

[15:13] the total arrests for the month will be

[15:15] 30% over those for the same period last

[15:17] year. For every Mexican that's caught,

[15:20] however, officials say as many as four

[15:22] others may be getting across

[15:24] successfully. What sort of work did you

[15:26] do in Mexico?

[15:27] >> I work a long time in the work in

[15:29] Mexico.

[15:30] >> For a long time you haven't worked?

[15:32] >> No.

[15:33] >> No work in Mexico is the story of most

[15:35] of these people. The country's

[15:37] unemployment rate is 40% and climbing.

[15:40] Most of the workers crossing illegally

[15:42] expect to get jobs as laborers on nearby

[15:44] farms. They can earn about $20 for a

[15:47] day's work.

[15:48] Going into the United States illegally

[15:50] becomes worth the trouble and the risk

[15:52] the minute a Mexican gets back here

[15:54] across the border. For these Mexicans,

[15:57] dollars will now buy more than twice

[15:58] what they would just a month ago.

[16:01] It now takes border patrolmen only two

[16:04] or three hours to process Mexicans

[16:06] they've caught crossing illegally and

[16:07] bust them back.

[16:08] >> United

[16:09] >> Most of these people say they'll be

[16:10] heading for the river again tomorrow.

[16:13] Dan Molina, NBC News, on the border near

[16:15] El Paso.

[16:17] >> The military attache at the Turkish

[16:18] Embassy in Canada was assassinated today

[16:21] in Ottawa. Atilla Altikat was shot at

[16:24] least 13 times as he sat in his car at a

[16:27] stoplight on Ottawa's Embassy Row.

[16:30] Anonymous callers said an Armenian

[16:32] terrorist group, which has attacked a

[16:33] number of other Turkish diplomats, was

[16:35] responsible.

[16:37] Altikat's daughter said the family has a

[16:39] bodyguard, but her father rarely rode

[16:41] with one.

[16:43] Spain's Juan Carlos today interrupted

[16:45] his vacation to authorize the call for

[16:47] new elections in that country, a

[16:49] development that is expected to give

[16:51] Spain its first leftist government since

[16:53] the civil war there in the 1930s. Spain

[16:56] has severe economic problems these days,

[16:58] 14% unemployment, 15% inflation.

[17:08] >> [music]

[17:11] >> Bon appetit.

[17:12] >> It's a wrap.

[17:13] >> Liz, our show's been rated number one.

[17:16] >> We did it. Let's have some coffee.

[17:18] >> Sure. Whoa.

[17:20] >> Only half a cup? I thought you loved

[17:22] coffee.

[17:22] >> Mhm. Love the rich taste. It's the

[17:25] caffeine I can do without.

[17:26] >> But this is Brim decaffeinated coffee.

[17:28] >> Oh, this is Brim?

[17:29] >> This is Brim, and it's decaffeinated so

[17:31] you don't have to stop at half a cup.

[17:32] >> If it tastes this rich, I don't want to

[17:33] stop. Fill it to the rim.

[17:35] >> With Brim?

[17:37] >> Fill your cup to the rim with the

[17:38] richness of Brim.

[17:40] >> How do the vitamins in these cereals

[17:42] compare with Total's?

[17:43] >> I don't know.

[17:44] >> This shield shows Total has 100% of a

[17:46] day's allowance of nine vitamins and

[17:48] iron.

[17:49] >> Okay.

[17:50] >> Put Total shield on your cereal to

[17:52] compare vitamins.

[17:53] >> I eat Grape-Nuts.

[17:56] >> 25%. Total's a lot higher. But how's it

[17:59] taste? Crisp flakes of whole grain

[18:02] wheat.

[18:03] MHM. AND

[18:06] 100% OF nine vitamins. That's the Total

[18:09] difference.

[18:11] >> Place won't [music] be the same without

[18:12] you, Helen.

[18:13] >> I could stay on a few more years.

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[18:41] >> Hundreds of tourists returning to Miami

[18:43] from a cruise got a few extra hours of

[18:45] vacation today. Their liner, the

[18:47] Dolphin, ran aground on a sandbar when

[18:50] its steering temporarily failed. It was

[18:53] a mile from the dock at the time.

[18:56] Well, we don't have that for you right

[18:57] now. We'll try to get it repaired if we

[18:59] can later in the program. Meanwhile, a

[19:01] swarm of Italian honeybees attacked an

[19:03] apartment complex in Gloucester Township

[19:05] in New Jersey today. There was

[19:07] pandemonium, as you might expect. Dozens

[19:10] of people were stung, a few as many as

[19:12] 40 times. That story now from Norma

[19:15] Quarles.

[19:16] >> Beekeepers using queen bees as bait were

[19:19] called into a New Jersey community today

[19:21] to lure the bees away from the housing

[19:23] complex. The bees had fallen from a

[19:25] truck and were terrorizing frightened

[19:27] residents. When the bees swarmed through

[19:29] the area, people dropped everything and

[19:31] ran. Other frightened tenants stayed

[19:33] inside. Joe Medda was attacked in his

[19:36] truck and had to be rescued by firemen.

[19:39] >> The windows wouldn't go up on the truck

[19:40] and they started flying in to where I

[19:42] was.

[19:43] So, I knew I had to get out and then

[19:44] when I got out they just kept coming.

[19:46] Then I tried running, I tried staying in

[19:48] still, I tried rolling.

[19:50] And it just kept coming until finally

[19:52] some people started I was yelling people

[19:54] throw water and finally somebody started

[19:55] throwing water.

[19:57] And then they left.

[19:59] >> It took 5 hours to lure the honeybees

[20:01] from the area. At least 33 people were

[20:03] stung, 27 required hospital treatment.

[20:06] Norma Quarles, NBC News.

[20:10] >> And as I was saying a few moments ago,

[20:11] hundreds of tourists returning to Miami

[20:13] from a cruise got a few extra hours of

[20:15] vacation today. Their liner, the

[20:17] Dolphin, ran aground on a sandbar when

[20:19] its steering temporarily failed. It was

[20:22] a mile from the dock at the time.

[20:23] Passengers continued to eat, drink, and

[20:25] swim.

[20:30] The rising tide finally came to the aid

[20:32] of the tugs and the Dolphin made it to

[20:33] port this afternoon.

[20:35] It's expected to go out on still another

[20:37] cruise tonight.

[20:40] Forbes magazine is coming out with its

[20:41] periodic list of American billionaires.

[20:44] And not much has changed. Most of them

[20:46] have earned their fortunes in oil and

[20:48] real estate. But as John Chancellor

[20:50] points out in his commentary tonight,

[20:52] future lists of billionaires could very

[20:54] likely contain the names of some whiz

[20:57] kids that he's been watching.

[21:00] Can you get rich, really rich in America

[21:02] these days? You can, despite all the

[21:04] economic troubles. When we looked into

[21:06] this, we found, not surprisingly, that a

[21:08] lot of the people who have made it big

[21:10] in the past 10 years are people who

[21:11] understand the technology of our time,

[21:13] high-tech, computers, and related

[21:15] products. Venture magazine this year

[21:17] published a list of successful new

[21:19] companies, and we have chosen five for

[21:21] you to examine.

[21:22] Apple Computers was started 6 years ago.

[21:25] Last year it had sales of $400 million,

[21:27] net income of $40 million. Steven Jobs,

[21:30] who helped start it, is 27 years old.

[21:33] His partner, Steven Wozniak, is 32.

[21:36] William Millard started ComputerLand in

[21:38] 1976 and made 18 million last year on

[21:41] sales of 151 million. Tandem Computers,

[21:45] founded by James Treybig in 1974,

[21:48] had net sales of $242 million in 1981.

[21:52] Treybig is 41 years old. Dysan,

[21:55] established in 1972,

[21:57] sold $104 million worth of magnetic

[22:00] memory disks last year. C. Norman Dion

[22:03] is a relatively ancient 51. His partner,

[22:05] Dennis Maruyama, is 42.

[22:08] Seymour Cray is an R&D man, research and

[22:10] development, whose company sells and

[22:12] leases big computers. This 10-year-old

[22:15] company had net income last year of $18

[22:17] million. There's

[22:18] more to this than just profits. The

[22:20] future of the United States depends on

[22:22] how well it does in high-tech industry.

[22:24] Education and research are more

[22:26] important today than ever before. The

[22:28] 21st century is a bit more than 17 years

[22:31] away. The people who count in the United

[22:33] States understand that. They also happen

[22:35] to be the ones who are getting rich.

[22:37] That's it for me this August. I'm off on

[22:39] a vacation, and I'll see you in

[22:41] September.

[22:42] Tom?

[22:43] >> Thanks, John.

[22:44] A group of MIT engineering students is

[22:46] involved in a high-tech project that

[22:48] won't make them rich, but it could put

[22:50] them in the record books for the world's

[22:52] fastest and strangest bicycle.

[22:55] The bike is 40 ft long, and all five

[22:57] riders work very hard. The object to set

[23:00] a new world speed record for human

[23:02] powered vehicles.

[23:04] That record is now 62.93 miles an hour

[23:07] and this centipede with wheels already

[23:09] has hit 45 in early trials.

[23:12] More than 100 volunteers have spent a

[23:13] year on the project.

[23:26] >> It's Sears Great American Labor Day

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[24:26] >> Dawn, a few miles from Stuttgart.

[24:30] This Mercedes-Benz test driver is

[24:32] enjoying his work, demonstrating the

[24:34] latest high-performance Mercedes-Benz

[24:36] turbo diesel, the 300D turbo diesel,

[24:40] demonstrating its 45% boost in power,

[24:44] its smooth, vivid response,

[24:46] and demonstrating, here on the roads

[24:48] near Stuttgart, that there is no better

[24:50] performing diesel sedan in America than

[24:53] the 300D turbo diesel.

[24:56] >> Ricky Henderson of the Oakland A's is

[24:58] going for 119 tonight. The young

[25:00] outfielder steals bases so methodically

[25:03] and effortlessly that stealing his 118th

[25:05] in Milwaukee last night came in the

[25:07] first inning and took only 3 seconds.

[25:09] Hey, let's go to the videotape.

[25:11] Henderson led off with a single and then

[25:13] streaked for second on a pickoff play by

[25:15] Brewer pitcher Mike Caldwell.

[25:17] That steal ties Lou Brock's record from

[25:19] 1974. Henderson still has 30 more games

[25:23] this season. His nearest American League

[25:25] competitor, Garcia of Toronto, has

[25:27] stolen only 47 bases.

[25:30] What every high school football coach

[25:32] dreams of is a big strapping 180-190 lb

[25:35] 10th grader who can play guard or

[25:37] tackle. At the Juneau High School in

[25:39] Milwaukee, the coach has found one.

[25:41] Here's Emery King.

[25:44] The Juneau High School varsity football

[25:46] team suiting up for morning practice in

[25:47] Milwaukee. Or at least most of them.

[25:50] Meet starting tackle guard Judy Jackson,

[25:53] who gets a dressing room all her own, a

[25:55] baseball catcher's pad for the front,

[25:56] and a rubber band for the hair. Meet 5

[25:59] ft 9 in 185 lb of determination and the

[26:03] first female to play varsity football in

[26:05] the state of Wisconsin.

[26:07] But the special treatment stops outside.

[26:10] Once on the field, Judy becomes JJ and

[26:12] she's treated just like any other

[26:13] player.

[26:14] >> It's right here. It's right here.

[26:18] >> I don't want to see anybody helping her

[26:20] off the ground. Nobody gives her hand.

[26:22] She has to carry her own weight.

[26:25] >> She does, although her teammates are

[26:27] sometimes a bit reluctant to give her a

[26:28] chance.

[26:30] >> It's kind of hard to just run up and hit

[26:31] a girl with all I can with all I can hit

[26:33] her with like I hit the fellas here.

[26:34] It's kind of hard to hit her like that.

[26:35] I just can't do it.

[26:36] >> But most of the players agree that she's

[26:38] trying hard. The question is, will she

[26:40] stick it out?

[26:41] >> After this scrimmage game, she'll

[26:42] realize what what football is all about.

[26:44] I'd say no. Yeah, her odds are against

[26:47] her.

[26:47] >> But numbers are in her favor. The school

[26:50] is so small that the coach took just

[26:51] about everyone who came out this year.

[26:53] >> I'm happy we have a team.

[26:56] Uh and that added plus for a 185-lb

[26:58] lineman, I love it.

[27:00] >> These first days are tough for JJ

[27:01] because she didn't follow an off-season

[27:03] training program. Now she's paying for

[27:05] it. She believes any other girls

[27:07] interested in football should be in good

[27:09] shape and be determined.

[27:11] >> [panting]

[27:13] >> They said that they they were going to

[27:15] hit me hard and

[27:16] stuff like that. That made me mad.

[27:19] I figured if they hit me hard, I'd just

[27:21] hit them hard right back.

[27:22] >> JJ Jackson says she's going to stick it

[27:24] out despite the skeptics.

[27:27] >> They can think whatever they want. I

[27:28] don't care, but

[27:30] I won't give up.

[27:33] Never. Not even if I get broken legs or

[27:35] something, I won't give up.

[27:37] >> Emery King, NBC News, Milwaukee.

[27:41] >> That's Nightly News for Friday. I'm

[27:43] Roger Mudd in Washington.

[27:45] >> I don't know what to say either, Roger.

[27:46] I'm Tom Brokaw in New York. From all of

[27:48] us at NBC News, have a nice weekend.

[28:02] >> [music]

[28:06] >> More of today's news, tonight's news,

[28:08] and late news later on NBC News

[28:11] Overnight.

[28:15] >> [music]

[28:22] >> She won your hearts [music] in Shogun.

[28:23] Now Yoko Shimada returns in a powerful

[28:25] 3-hour Chicago story. A frightened

[28:28] immigrant [music] caught in a whirlpool

[28:29] of drugs and black market babies.

[28:30] >> THIS IS MY BABY.

[28:32] >> AND MURDER.

[28:33] >> I only wanted to take my baby. [music]

[28:35] >> She's guilty.

[28:36] >> What? You get pleasure out of separating

[28:37] mothers and babies? Is that it?

[28:39] >> Friday at 7:00, settle them up.

[28:45] >> Coming up in just a minute on the scene

[28:46] at 6:00, a local judge says Tennessee's

[28:49] DUI law is unconstitutional. And a flood

[28:52] assistance center opens in Smith County,

[28:54] even though it may be next week before

[28:55] victims know whether they will get

[28:57] federal aid.

[28:58] >> Also in the news tonight, the Grand Ole

[29:00] Opry loses a court fight over its name.

[29:03] And Terry Merman reports on a different

[29:05] type of accommodation being offered to

[29:07] tourists who visit Nashville.

[29:10] >> These stories and more news coming up on

[29:12] the scene at 6:00.

[29:16] >> I used to say Datsun, but I wanted

[29:18] better gas mileage. Now I say S to Chevy

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[29:22] >> I used to say Toyota, but I wanted more

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[29:27] >> I thought about Ford's [music] small

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[29:31] S.