CBS Evening News - 1992-07-20

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[0:03] A troubling report about AIDS. It's

[0:05] spreading faster than ever. And more of

[0:08] the victims are women. The faces of war.

[0:12] They've lost their country, their homes,

[0:14] and now their families. And Eye on

[0:18] America. Tonight, commuter airline

[0:20] pilots. They have your life in their

[0:22] hands. But have they had enough sleep?

[0:25] >> Occasionally, of course, we did not

[0:27] realize it.

[0:30] This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:36] Good evening, Dan Rather reporting. The

[0:38] AIDS epidemic is spreading and spreading

[0:40] fast. And in many countries, more and

[0:43] more of the victims are women and

[0:45] children. These are just some of the

[0:47] hard facts emerging at the World AIDS

[0:49] Conference in Amsterdam. CBS News health

[0:52] correspondent Edie Magnus is there.

[0:55] >> The AIDS Conference is sounding the

[0:57] alarm. The epidemic is spreading farther

[0:59] and faster than anyone imagined when it

[1:02] began. Today's troubling news, the huge

[1:04] AIDS gender gap is slamming shut. In the

[1:07] past 6 months alone, 500,000 women

[1:10] infected worldwide, most in developing

[1:13] countries. And their children,

[1:15] >> one out of every three children born to

[1:17] an HIV infected woman gets AIDS from

[1:20] their mother, gets the virus. The other

[1:21] two become orphans.

[1:23] >> The numbers are so large they're

[1:24] numbing. Worldwide, 12 million have the

[1:27] virus. 2 million with full-blown AIDS.

[1:29] In the US, a million are believed

[1:31] infected. Nearly a quarter of a million

[1:33] sick with AIDS. And by year's end, as

[1:35] many as 57,000 will have died. The

[1:38] movement's most celebrated fundraiser

[1:40] made an appearance at the conference

[1:42] today to call attention to the crisis.

[1:44] If you do your bit with all of your

[1:46] heart, and I do my bit with all of my

[1:48] heart, and everybody out there does the

[1:50] same thing, we will make a goddamn

[1:53] difference. But what's clear at session

[1:55] after scientific session is that making

[1:57] a difference is a painfully slow

[1:59] process. There are still only three

[2:01] drugs that attack the virus and doctors

[2:03] still are not sure how to use them, when

[2:05] to start, how much to give, in what

[2:07] combinations, and to whom.

[2:09] >> You're literally making it up as you're

[2:11] going along.

[2:11] >> San Francisco doctor Marcus Conan has

[2:13] treated some 5,000 AIDS patients since

[2:16] the epidemic began.

[2:17] >> Trouble is that we can't wait until we

[2:20] know all about the drug before we can

[2:21] use it. We have a group of desperately

[2:23] ill patients. The moment that a drug

[2:25] shows benefit, we're compelled to use

[2:27] it.

[2:27] >> For patients, that means treatment is

[2:29] often a crapshoot.

[2:31] >> I feel like a guinea pig and a pioneer,

[2:34] but uh I'm just happy that they've made

[2:36] as much progress as they have.

[2:38] >> There you go. Good.

[2:38] >> But the painful progress of AIDS

[2:40] research also means trying drug after

[2:42] drug that just doesn't work. There were

[2:44] several examples of that here today. we

[2:47] find out that we've reached a dead end,

[2:48] then I think it's good because hopefully

[2:50] then we can move on.

[2:51] >> Researchers here say they're not worried

[2:53] yet about published reports of a

[2:55] possible new and unidentified strain of

[2:57] the AIDS virus in the US. They say the

[3:00] incidence is too small and requires

[3:02] further study. Experts are intrigued by

[3:05] two promising drugs being discussed this

[3:06] week called TAT and protease. They seem

[3:09] to offer another way to attack the virus

[3:11] in the body before it spreads. Maybe

[3:14] they'll work and can be added to the

[3:15] mix. And then again, maybe they won't.

[3:18] Edie Magnus, CBS News, Amsterdam.

[3:21] >> In the presidential campaign here at

[3:23] home, Democrat Bill Clinton said today

[3:24] that if elected, he would submit a

[3:27] national healthc care plan in his first

[3:29] 100 days in office. Clinton made the

[3:31] statement on his cross-country campaign

[3:33] bus tour. Richard Thrill interviewed the

[3:36] candidate.

[3:40] This was Monday on the Clinton bus tour,

[3:42] so this must be Clinton County, Ohio.

[3:44] The theme for today, taking government

[3:47] back from special interests and

[3:48] reforming healthcare. The only blemish

[3:51] on this trip has been the anti-abortion

[3:53] protesters. Today in Columbus, Clinton

[3:55] was hustled away from a spectator who

[3:57] pushed too close. Clinton's gratified,

[3:59] even relieved by the big turnouts and

[4:01] his big lead in the polls. But in an

[4:03] interview with CBS News today, he was

[4:05] cautious. It's a long way till November

[4:09] and I know that our opponents will raise

[4:11] a lot of questions about Senator Gore

[4:13] and me and and it will become a race

[4:15] between hope and fear between the future

[4:17] and yesterday between what you know and

[4:20] what you don't.

[4:21] >> Are you concerned um or prepared for

[4:24] negative campaigning? The Republicans

[4:25] yesterday conceded that's what they're

[4:27] going to do. They call it contrast

[4:28] campaigning. If you run a campaign

[4:31] against a a Republican today that's

[4:33] involved in national politics, you have

[4:35] to be prepared for that. That's that's

[4:37] their staple. That's their bread and

[4:39] butter, the negative campaign.

[4:40] >> If watching Bill Clinton begins to

[4:42] remind you of somebody, you're not

[4:44] alone.

[4:44] >> He doesn't hide anything and he looks

[4:47] like the Kennedys.

[4:48] >> Well, John Kennedy was young and a good

[4:51] campaigner and talked a lot about

[4:52] change. And Clinton has capitalized on

[4:55] that. Like Kennedy, he put in a surprise

[4:57] appearance last week at the Democratic

[4:59] convention after he was nominated. He

[5:01] even went out and tossed a football the

[5:03] other day, the Kennedy family's favorite

[5:05] sport. And he never misses a photo

[5:07] opportunity if there's some JFK

[5:09] memorabilia around. Although Clinton

[5:11] insists he'd rather be known as just

[5:13] plain Bill. He plainly doesn't mind if

[5:15] people call him another John Kennedy.

[5:17] Better that than the nickname he's got

[5:19] now, Elvis. Richard Thrrell, CBS News,

[5:22] Wilmington, Ohio.

[5:24] For his part, President Bush criticized

[5:26] Clinton's overall economic proposals.

[5:28] The president said during his

[5:29] campaigning today that Clinton's plans

[5:32] would do nothing to knock back the huge

[5:34] federal budget deficit.

[5:37] What I see is a program that does not

[5:39] address itself to the deficit. And I'll

[5:41] have a lot more to say about that later

[5:42] on. We I think we've got to get the

[5:44] deficit down. I don't think you need to

[5:47] go raise taxes on people right now. I

[5:49] think that's a big mistake. I think it's

[5:51] counterproductive. And when you analyze

[5:54] the program, they have this expression

[5:56] around here, smoke and mirrors. Going to

[5:58] save it all by eliminating overhead,

[6:00] eliminating waste. And there's billions

[6:02] of dollars that is earmarked to do that.

[6:04] And I just don't think that's practical.

[6:06] So, it's going to it's going to take

[6:07] when the campaign comes on, there's

[6:09] going to be a very serious comparative

[6:11] analysis on our part.

[6:14] Speculation is growing that President

[6:16] Bush's old friend, Secretary of State

[6:17] Jim Baker, is being recruited to take

[6:19] over the Bush Quail re-election

[6:21] campaign. United Press International's

[6:23] White House correspondent Helen Thomas

[6:25] reported today that Baker has been asked

[6:27] to take the job. But tonight, officials

[6:29] at the White House and the Bush Quail

[6:31] campaign said that if the report is

[6:33] true, nobody's told them. Today, Baker

[6:36] was in Jerusalem meeting with the new

[6:38] prime minister of Israel. More about

[6:40] that now from correspondent Bob Simon.

[6:43] Secretary of State James Baker and Prime

[6:45] Minister Itsak Rabbin paved the way

[6:47] today for the granting of $10 billion

[6:50] worth of loan guarantees to Israel for

[6:52] the absorption of Soviet immigrants. The

[6:55] guarantees have been held up until now

[6:57] because of the Shamir government's

[6:59] refusal to stop building Jewish

[7:01] settlements in the occupied territories.

[7:03] Rabin's pledge to build no new

[7:05] settlements removes that obstacle. There

[7:07] are still technical problems to be

[7:09] worked out, but officials were confident

[7:11] they will be resolved before Rabin

[7:14] visits President Bush and Kenny Bunkport

[7:16] next month. President Bush and this

[7:18] administration in the United States

[7:20] attach a very high priority to the

[7:23] absorption of immigrants to Israel.

[7:26] >> There was fresh orange juice diplomacy

[7:28] in Jerusalem today. The smiles were not

[7:31] nervous. The atmosphere was not

[7:32] confrontational. The Americans were

[7:35] talking to an Israeli government which

[7:37] had shifted priorities away from

[7:39] settling the West Bank towards providing

[7:41] a better life for people inside Israel.

[7:44] The Israelis were talking to the man who

[7:46] may manage the Bush campaign, a man

[7:48] hungry for Jewish votes and good

[7:50] relations with Israel, which are often

[7:52] the same thing.

[7:54] >> I think we all the time progressing. We

[7:56] don't stop the progress.

[7:58] >> The new mood extended to the Palestinian

[8:00] camp. leaders demanded concrete steps

[8:02] from the Israelis but admitted that

[8:04] there seemed to be a change in the air.

[8:07] >> We do acknowledge that there is a shift

[8:09] in tone and the new Israeli government.

[8:12] >> Rabbine goes to Cairo tomorrow, the

[8:14] first Israeli prime minister to do so in

[8:16] 6 years. He'll want to convince the

[8:18] Egyptians that Israel's new government

[8:20] is serious about the peace process, that

[8:22] Egypt can serve as a bridge to the rest

[8:25] of the Arab world. Bob Simon, CBS News,

[8:28] Jerusalem. Still ahead on the CBS

[8:30] Evening News, the cruel fate of hundreds

[8:33] of Bosnian war refugees and eye on

[8:36] America. Tonight, planes are checked out

[8:38] before takeoff, but who checks out the

[8:40] pilots.

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[9:18] >> Suddenly vitamins are all over the news.

[9:21] >> Fact is, two out of three adults don't

[9:23] get all that's recommended in their

[9:24] diets. Two out of three. Wonder if I'm

[9:27] getting the vitamins I should.

[9:29] >> There is a cereal though that has 100%

[9:32] of 10 essential vitamins. Whole grain

[9:35] total.

[9:36] >> Of course,

[9:37] >> just one bowl gives you a full day's

[9:39] allowance of these vitamins.

[9:42] Total. One bowl 100%.

[9:44] >> With all the vitamin News, I'm eating

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[9:47] >> Of course,

[9:50] it's supposed to take off and land like

[9:51] a helicopter, but fly like a plane. It's

[9:54] made by Boeing and Bell. Today, a

[9:55] prototype of the expensive and

[9:57] controversial V22 Osprey crashed into

[10:00] the Ptoic River on approach for landing

[10:02] at Quantico, Virginia. There were seven

[10:04] people on board the Osprey. No known

[10:07] survivors. The cause of the crash not

[10:08] known. Another Osprey prototype crashed

[10:11] on its first flight a year ago.

[10:14] Overseas, this was day two of what's

[10:16] supposed to be a truce in Bosnia. It was

[10:18] marked by what one official called the

[10:20] worst fighting in Sievo in the last two

[10:23] weeks. UN peacekeepers were forced to

[10:25] cancel plans for more than 20 mercy

[10:27] flights into the Bosnian capital. As

[10:29] many as 23 people were reported killed

[10:31] and 31 wounded in the Sievo area.

[10:35] Hundreds of refugees from the fighting

[10:37] set off looking for sanctuary. Instead,

[10:39] many found only new anguish. They began

[10:42] their journey in Bosnia, traveled

[10:44] through the Croatian capital of Zagreb,

[10:46] reached one port city, and then were fed

[10:49] to another, the port of Split. Alan

[10:52] Pizzy picks up the story there.

[10:55] >> War left them homeless. Now their

[10:57] families are being forced apart. These

[11:00] refugees from Bosnia Herzuggavana

[11:02] thought this ship would take them to

[11:03] Italy. They ended up in Croatia.

[11:07] Women and children can stay here. The

[11:09] men were herded into lines by military

[11:12] police to be sent back to Bosnia to

[11:14] fight. All Bosnian men between the ages

[11:17] of 18 and 50 have been drafted, which

[11:19] makes these men deserters.

[11:23] The 800 unwilling conscripts tried hard

[11:25] to look strong, but the despair of the

[11:27] women and children made clear that they

[11:29] knew this could be their final goodbye.

[11:35] Beyond getting the men off to war, there

[11:38] seemed to be no concrete plans for these

[11:40] people, some of whom have been seeking

[11:42] sanctuary for months. Before their

[11:44] 15-hour voyage, they were trapped on

[11:46] trains. Before that, they were just on

[11:49] the run.

[11:53] >> They ended up at a refugee center where

[11:55] only women, children, and the old are

[11:58] welcome. And only then if the Croatian

[12:00] government can't send them someplace

[12:02] else.

[12:03] The Croats argue that they have no

[12:05] choice but to do this, that they can no

[12:07] longer cope with the growing flood of

[12:09] refugees that no one else seems to want

[12:11] either.

[12:15] >> All we wanted to do was save our family,

[12:17] Hzina Gusuch says, to go anywhere, just

[12:20] disappear without a trace. She is

[12:22] convinced her husband has been sent off

[12:24] to die.

[12:27] >> And even if they all survive, how will

[12:30] they find each other again when it is

[12:31] over? Many of these people have nothing

[12:34] left of their former lives except

[12:36] pictures of what used to be there.

[12:39] Unwilling to accept that this was the

[12:41] best they could hope for, scorers simply

[12:43] picked up their bags and headed for a

[12:45] bus station. A quest for safety that has

[12:48] become a treadmill. Others were too

[12:51] exhausted to go, too battered by

[12:53] circumstance to do more than wait. Their

[12:55] despair and eloquent plea for

[12:58] compassion. Alan Pizzy, CBS News, Split.

[13:03] Stay here with us now for more of the

[13:04] CBS Evening News, including the tiny bug

[13:06] that's incurring the wrath of grape

[13:08] growers.

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[14:58] >> Add yet another woe to California's

[15:00] troubled economy this year. This is a

[15:02] problem that's been growing for several

[15:04] years. John Blackstone tells you about

[15:06] the root of the problem in prime wine

[15:08] country.

[15:13] >> For those who tend the vines in the Napa

[15:16] Valley, this is a summer of sadness.

[15:18] >> These grapes are not worth picking.

[15:21] Uh last year we threw them. We didn't

[15:23] even bother to pick them either.

[15:25] >> There is a plague beneath the ground

[15:27] causing growers to rip up whole

[15:29] vineyards on which the billiondoll

[15:31] Northern California wine industry

[15:33] depends.

[15:35] >> This is a block of Savon Blanc.

[15:37] >> Some 50,000 acres of prime vineyards are

[15:41] likely to die. And you know it's going

[15:43] to spread from here.

[15:45] >> It's a matter of time. It's not if we're

[15:47] going to have a problem, but it's when.

[15:49] Moving relentlessly from vineyard to

[15:51] vineyard. A tiny bug called fuoxera is

[15:54] voraciously devouring roots.

[15:56] >> Everything's going to go very quickly.

[15:58] >> The fuera are microscopic, but they are

[16:00] reproducing by the billions, attacking

[16:02] new vines as their numbers swell.

[16:05] Sometimes I feel like the grim reaper.

[16:07] You know, I go out and and I'll be with

[16:09] growers and venters and we'll we'll

[16:11] we'll dig up some roots and I'll I'll

[16:13] show them the fuoxer on there and it's

[16:15] it's kind of like a death nail for their

[16:18] vineyard. American wine makers never

[16:20] worried much about fuera even though the

[16:23] little bug wiped out most of the

[16:24] vineyards of Europe a century ago.

[16:26] American grape varieties were thought to

[16:28] be immune until now. Not since

[16:31] prohibition of so many vineyards been

[16:33] abandoned here. The only solution is to

[16:35] replant every vine on new roots

[16:38] resistant to fuoxera.

[16:39] >> We think there there'll be close to $30

[16:41] million that we'll have to spend in the

[16:43] next five, six, seven years.

[16:45] >> The expensive replanting could mean

[16:47] higher prices, but competition is likely

[16:49] to keep increases to a minimum.

[16:51] >> This has a lovely flowery aroma,

[16:54] >> and the wine makers insist their newly

[16:56] planted vineyards will eventually be

[16:58] making even better wine. So while

[17:00] felxera may seem to be a crushing blow,

[17:03] people in the Napa Valley have learned

[17:04] that good things can come from being

[17:07] crushed. John Blackstone, CBS News,

[17:10] Oakville, California.

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[19:04] Ever show up for work with only a few

[19:05] hours sleep? You're not nearly as sharp

[19:07] as you should be. Might even make some

[19:09] mistakes. Well, as Robera Baskin reports

[19:12] in tonight's Eye on America, that is the

[19:14] condition of a lot of commuter airline

[19:16] pilots. And when they make a mistake, it

[19:19] could be fatal.

[19:22] >> 7359,

[19:23] South Carolina,

[19:26] Georgia 720 from Huntsville, Alabama.

[19:30] In commuter airplane crashes, weather,

[19:33] mechanical failure, even metal fatigue

[19:35] are sometimes blamed. But what about

[19:38] pilot fatigue? What about pilots who

[19:40] just don't get enough sleep?

[19:42] >> I think we probably tend to

[19:44] underestimate the the true involvement

[19:46] of fatigue in accidents just because

[19:47] it's so very difficult to investigate.

[19:50] >> CL midair and came down big fireball.

[19:52] >> On April 4th last year, Senator John

[19:55] Hines was killed when a small plane

[19:57] collided with a helicopter.

[20:00] The very next day, former Senator John

[20:02] Tower and 22 others died in a commuter

[20:05] plane crash. While not listed as a cause

[20:08] of the accidents, in both instances,

[20:10] investigators noted pilot fatigue. The

[20:13] co-pilot in the Hines plane had only 2

[20:16] and 1/2 hours sleep. The Tower crew only

[20:19] 5 to 6 hours.

[20:22] Senator Tower was flying with Atlantic

[20:24] Southeast Airlines. ASA regularly runs

[20:27] its crews on very little sleep. The

[20:30] Federal Aviation Administration allows

[20:32] those kinds of schedules only under

[20:34] extreme conditions, but we've obtained

[20:36] pilot schedules that show more than half

[20:39] the time crews are routinely scheduled

[20:41] for what's called reduced rest. In some

[20:44] cases, they're getting hardly any

[20:46] downtime or any sleep at all.

[20:48] >> Thanks for using ASA. Have a pleasant

[20:49] pleasure. Welcome aboard.

[20:51] >> It's 9:45 and this ASA crew is heading

[20:54] to Dothan, Alabama. It's their third

[20:56] flight of the evening.

[20:59] At 10:43, Captain Bill Quiry secures the

[21:02] aircraft. The crew heads for the hotel.

[21:08] >> They check in, ask for a wakeup call.

[21:11] >> 4:30, 4:30. 4:30.

[21:15] >> It's after 11 when Captain Quiry and his

[21:17] co-pilot head next door, hoping for a

[21:19] quick bite to eat.

[21:21] >> Sorry.

[21:24] Too late to eat?

[21:26] >> What do you do?

[21:27] >> Go to bed.

[21:28] >> How How much sleep do you think you'll

[21:30] get tonight?

[21:32] >> 4 and 1 half to 5 hours.

[21:34] >> And is that enough?

[21:35] >> I'd like to have more.

[21:36] >> Good morning. This is your 4:30 wake up

[21:38] call.

[21:38] >> It's nearly dawn. The crew is about to

[21:41] finish its second 14-hour day.

[21:43] >> Do you ever find that you fall asleep in

[21:46] the cockpit?

[21:49] Not that you actively think about it,

[21:51] but occasionally would not realize it

[21:53] and for very short periods, few seconds

[21:56] maybe. Commuter airlines make their

[21:59] money packing the day with short hops

[22:01] between cities and can legally stretch

[22:03] their pilot schedules to six 15-hour

[22:06] days in a row. That's helped make them

[22:09] more profitable than the major carriers.

[22:11] Commuter Airlines also suffered a record

[22:14] number of fatalities last year, but the

[22:16] people who operate the airlines deny

[22:18] fatigue is a factor.

[22:20] >> Where's the beef? I guess that's our

[22:21] answer. Let's see the empirical evidence

[22:23] that there is any safety problem out

[22:25] there.

[22:25] >> But CBS News has obtained hundreds of

[22:28] confidential incident reports filed

[22:30] anonymously by pilots, all complaining

[22:33] fatigue contributed to mistakes. Among

[22:36] them, landing at the wrong airport,

[22:38] landing on the wrong runway, and more

[22:41] than 30 cases of flying at the wrong

[22:43] altitude. Some pilots report falling

[22:45] asleep in the cockpit, one for as long

[22:48] as 30 minutes.

[22:50] >> Do you feel safe flying in an airplane

[22:52] at 300 mph with a flight crew that's

[22:54] exhausted? I don't believe the public

[22:56] knows that that's going on. And it's

[22:58] going on every day all over the United

[23:00] States. These schedules are not safe.

[23:04] Dozens of pilots we talked to around the

[23:06] country tell us fatigue is a safety

[23:08] issue. Most are afraid to complain for

[23:11] fear that they'll jeopardize their jobs.

[23:13] Flying may seem glamorous, but commuter

[23:16] pilots are like the minor leagues of

[23:18] commercial aviation. They can be

[23:20] scheduled to work 16-hour days, making

[23:22] as many as 20 takeoffs and landings for

[23:25] less money than you'd think. The average

[23:28] starting salary for a regional pilot is

[23:30] less than $12,000 a year. Dan,

[23:34] >> what is fatigue a problem with the major

[23:36] airlines?

[23:37] >> It is. It's not as much of a problem as

[23:39] it is with the with the commuter pilots.

[23:42] In a in a way, you could say that the

[23:44] majors enjoy some advantages. They have

[23:47] autopilot, for instance. They have union

[23:49] contracts that are better than the than

[23:51] the smaller commuter aviation pilots.

[23:54] And they have fewer takeoffs and

[23:55] landings. that kind of thing. So, in a

[23:57] way, you could say it's a problem at the

[23:58] majors, but it's much bigger for

[24:00] commuter pilots.

[24:01] >> Roberto Baskin, thanks. Stay here with

[24:04] us now. Coming up next, memories of the

[24:07] man who quit. Perau's volunteers without

[24:10] Perauition.

[24:13] There was a big petition, a rally, and

[24:19] >> taster, grandpa.

[24:21] >> He never would have tried this with his

[24:22] old adhesive. Fixed holds stronger than

[24:25] any other adhesive. It even stands up to

[24:27] the hottest liquids

[24:29] for the strongest hold you can get.

[24:31] Fixed and forget it. At the first

[24:36] foot

[24:38] killing those grungy fungy before they

[24:40] get racket and burned.

[24:43] Go get that can now or else. Don't blame

[24:47] Desan X. Never seen nothing like it. I

[24:50] mean Rusty Slade was an orary sword.

[24:52] always ate his old brand flakes just for

[24:55] fiber. But one morning, I gave him

[24:57] Kellogg's new complete brand flakes

[24:59] weren't the same. More than fiber, they

[25:01] had whole grain wheat. Flakes were new,

[25:03] too. Crispy, crunchy. Why, that

[25:05] Kellogg's complete brand flakes even had

[25:07] a better nutty taste. It was all so

[25:10] good. Made Rusty smile almost. New

[25:14] Kellogg's complete brand flakes. Fiber

[25:17] and then some.

[25:18] >> Hi, honey. How did your checkup go

[25:20] today? Oh, the vet said, "I'm fine." And

[25:23] he had some advice about our pet odor

[25:25] problem. He recommended Arman Hammer Pet

[25:27] Fresh. It absorbs carpet odors naturally

[25:30] with baking soda. And veterinarians

[25:32] tested Pet Fresh to be sure it won't

[25:34] irritate our pets.

[25:35] >> Why the house smells so fresh? You'd

[25:37] never know we had pets.

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[25:44] deodorizer. Safe around pets.

[25:46] Recommended by vets.

[25:49] >> Every night during trout season, Ed

[25:51] Russell ties some of the best flies ever

[25:53] seen on Pinerest Lake. But sometimes his

[25:57] arthritis pain can make it tough to

[25:58] sleep. And that's when his wife Anne

[26:00] gives him Tylenol PM. Unlike ordinary

[26:03] pain relievers, it has extra strength

[26:05] Tylenol pain reliever, plus a gentle

[26:08] ingredient to help him sleep, which is

[26:10] good news for Ed, but not for the trout

[26:12] population of Pinerest Lake. Tylenol PM.

[26:16] It puts arthritis pain to rest.

[26:20] >> One Ross Perau volunteer in Florida

[26:22] today filed a federal lawsuit. It ask

[26:25] that Perau be forced to keep his promise

[26:27] to run if he is placed on the ballot in

[26:29] all 50 states. Other Perau volunteers

[26:32] are taking a different approach. Bill

[26:33] Lagatuda has a case in point.

[26:37] >> From the very start, Howard Man was a

[26:39] good soldier in Ross Perau's army. I

[26:42] wish I could go back to that day because

[26:45] I would like to start it all over again.

[26:48] >> Back to the days when as a volunteer he

[26:50] picked up his video camera and recorded

[26:52] everything from the earliest giddy

[26:54] moments of the revolution to the teary

[26:57] end.

[26:57] >> I put my life on hold

[27:00] my family's life on hold.

[27:01] >> I felt like a 12-year-old whose father

[27:04] said, "Uh, I'm leaving. I'm leaving

[27:07] you."

[27:09] I thought I was losing my uh a parent, a

[27:13] best friend.

[27:14] >> For the last of the believers in Perau,

[27:17] it was a roller coaster of a weekend.

[27:19] First, Perau hinting he might get back

[27:21] in the race, then not. If they ask you

[27:23] to run again, will you run, sir?

[27:24] >> No. No, that's not where we're headed.

[27:26] Then, as the state coordinators met to

[27:28] beg him to stay and head up a glorious

[27:31] new people's party, Perau seemed to toy

[27:33] with them even more, saying he'd be

[27:35] involved in some way, but not telling

[27:37] them how, robbing them of what little

[27:40] political might they had as a group.

[27:42] >> It's very difficult to have a third

[27:44] party candidacy without a third party

[27:47] candidate. And I think for all intents

[27:49] and purposes, Ross Perau's supporters,

[27:52] no matter how dedicated, are going to

[27:53] have to find some new homes. I just feel

[27:56] deserted like a bride at the altar.

[27:58] >> Howard man is tired of all the promises

[28:01] and says the only good from this is the

[28:03] sense of power he got from being

[28:05] involved in something.

[28:07] >> It would be a shame to see all this go

[28:08] down the tubes from here on in. I'm

[28:10] going to be involved. If Mr. Clinton

[28:12] wants to call me, I'd be happy to hear

[28:13] from him.

[28:14] >> Happy also he was to have been a part of

[28:16] history, even if history does record the

[28:19] Perau revolution as one that died for

[28:22] want of a leader. Bill Agatuda, CBS News

[28:25] Dallas.

[28:27] >> And that's part of our world tonight.

[28:28] Dan Rather for the CBS Evening News. See

[28:31] you tomorrow. Good night.

[28:47] Experience CBS News.

[28:52] This is CBS.

[28:57] >> Next on Hard Copy, for the first time,

[28:59] inside Michael Jackson's Secret

[29:01] Fortress, the real story about his

[29:02] little friends and big time buddies.

[29:05] >> If you've looked at the high prices of

[29:06] luxury sports sedans, you're no doubt

[29:08] thinking maybe I should lower my

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[29:22] Maybe you should keep your expectations

[29:24] high and just lower your payments. See

[29:27] your Nissan dealer for details because

[29:29] right now you can lease a Maxima for as

[29:31] little as $279 a month.

[29:34] We're talking famous psychics on

[29:37] Christina

[29:47] tonight on Hard Copy.

[29:50] They lived on the inside behind the

[29:53] mansion gates with the private Michael

[29:55] Jackson. Some friends and people have

[29:57] asked me whether it was true that

[30:00] Michael's nose was falling