CBS Evening News - 1985-12-10

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[0:02] Good evening. This is the CBS Evening

[0:04] News. Dan Rather reporting. The mad rush

[0:06] to judgment and adjournment by Congress

[0:08] for Christmas is producing a tree full

[0:10] of legislation. It could affect the US

[0:12] Treasury and your pocketbook for years

[0:15] to come. Tonight, House and Senate

[0:17] negotiators formally approved a bill

[0:19] that's supposed to whittle down the huge

[0:22] federal budget deficit to nothing by the

[0:24] end of the decade. It will mean cuts in

[0:26] government spending, in domestic

[0:28] programs, and for defense. A lastminute

[0:31] hitch. President Reagan insisted on more

[0:33] flexibility about where and when to cut

[0:36] Pentagon spending, and he got it. Phil

[0:38] Jones reports. This is only one of

[0:40] several major lifeblood issues flowing

[0:43] through Congress, including toptobottom

[0:45] borderto- border tax overhaul affecting

[0:48] every paycheck in America.

[0:51] House Republican leaders remain on a

[0:52] collision course with their president

[0:54] over tax reform. Not even a trip to the

[0:57] White House for some arm twisting by Mr.

[0:59] Reagan would convince GOP leaders to

[1:01] vote for a tax reform package crafted by

[1:04] Democrats if a Republican plan fails on

[1:06] the House floor.

[1:08] >> I cannot just take uh you know direction

[1:10] from the president when I am convinced

[1:12] in my heart and in my mind that this

[1:15] bill is now not in the best interest of

[1:17] the economic growth.

[1:18] >> I don't like it a bit. I'm just very

[1:20] uncomfortable even talking to you under

[1:22] these circumstances.

[1:23] >> Up at the capital, the administration

[1:25] was pouring on the pressure. Treasury

[1:27] Secretary Baker came to lobby moderate

[1:30] Republicans.

[1:30] >> What are you going to tell the

[1:32] Republicans?

[1:34] >> Tell them they got a great opportunity

[1:36] here.

[1:36] >> There were indeed some Republicans ready

[1:39] to vote for the Democratic plan if it's

[1:41] the only way to keep tax reform alive.

[1:43] But if a bill fails to pass the House,

[1:46] uh, in spite of, let's assume, a

[1:48] majority of Democrats supporting it and

[1:49] a majority, a vast majority of

[1:51] Republicans opposing it, I think it's

[1:53] bad politics.

[1:54] >> The House Republicans claim the proposal

[1:56] by the Ways and Means Committee would

[1:58] hit corporations harder than individuals

[2:00] so hard the economy would slow down.

[2:04] So, some Democrats intend to vote

[2:06] against their leadership, so it will

[2:07] take Republican votes if tax reform is

[2:10] to survive the House and make it to the

[2:11] Senate next year. The feeling here

[2:14] tonight is that this will probably

[2:15] happen. Dan,

[2:17] >> Phil, we talked about two things here.

[2:19] One is the tax reform, which you

[2:20] concentrated on your report, and the

[2:21] other is the so-called budget balancing

[2:24] Graham Rdman bill. Uh, let's go back to

[2:26] that for a moment. How is that going to

[2:28] affect my pocketbook and the pocketbook

[2:30] of other Americans?

[2:31] >> Well, what's going to happen is it's

[2:33] going to mandate spending cuts in

[2:35] several domestic programs and in

[2:37] military spending. Only nine social

[2:39] programs are really protected under this

[2:41] plan. And uh the feeling here is

[2:44] prediction is that as many as 50

[2:46] programs would have to be terminated or

[2:49] could be terminated unless a tax

[2:51] increase is passed. Really only social

[2:53] security and Medicaid are among those

[2:54] things that are protected. If it works

[2:57] well, it could mean that it would help

[2:58] keep inflation down even lower than it

[3:01] is now. And it might even lower interest

[3:03] rates.

[3:04] >> Bill, thank you very much. Japan's trade

[3:07] superiority with the United States just

[3:08] keeps booming along. So much so that

[3:10] Japan's largest automaker announced last

[3:13] summer that it would set up a wholly

[3:15] Japanese-owned plant in the USA.

[3:17] Location of the plant was revealed

[3:19] today. And Bruce Hall reports it

[3:21] confirms a radical departure in American

[3:23] car making.

[3:24] >> Toyota will make a formal announcement

[3:26] tomorrow that it will make this rolling

[3:28] Kentucky farmland the home of a giant

[3:30] new US auto assembly plant.

[3:32] >> Everybody likes to bring good news and I

[3:35] think it's exciting for Kentucky. uh you

[3:37] know the feeling and the response the

[3:38] phones have been ringing uh uh it's

[3:41] great.

[3:41] >> This means all five of Japan's major

[3:43] auto companies have or will establish a

[3:46] production foothold in the United

[3:47] States, their largest and most

[3:49] profitable overseas market.

[3:52] Toyota's selection gives Japanese auto

[3:54] firms manufacturing sites in five

[3:55] states. Some see a political strategy in

[3:58] the decision to spread them out.

[4:00] >> They'll be gaining more friends. They've

[4:02] been getting more senators that will

[4:04] support them in Congress as Congress

[4:06] starts to debate the trade laws.

[4:09] >> The effect of the Japanese invasion has

[4:11] also been to diversify the US auto

[4:13] industry and create a new industrial

[4:15] belt extending away from traditional

[4:17] automaking centers and towards the

[4:20] Midsouth and Sunb Belt. The strength of

[4:22] the trend was made clear by GM's recent

[4:24] decision to build its new Saturn plant

[4:26] in Tennessee.

[4:27] >> Right in the middle of the country with

[4:29] close access to both the eastern and the

[4:32] growing southern market is important for

[4:34] them.

[4:35] >> All of the sites are similar. Rural

[4:37] areas near major interstate crossroads

[4:39] and rail service. All have cheap

[4:41] electricity, cheap water, and

[4:43] potentially cheap labor.

[4:45] >> We have a lot of people here in Scott

[4:47] County and the surrounding counties that

[4:49] are out of a job. And I think this is a

[4:51] shot in the arm that we need.

[4:53] >> An added attraction for Toyota and the

[4:55] other Japanese companies. The large

[4:57] young labor pool is non-union. Bruce

[5:00] Hall, CBS News, Georgetown, Kentucky.

[5:03] The House today passed an emergency

[5:05] rescue package for the troubled farm

[5:07] credit system and sent it to conference

[5:09] with the Senate. While that lending

[5:11] network has nothing directly to do with

[5:13] commercial banks, one congressman

[5:15] referred to a debtridden farmer who

[5:18] yesterday killed himself and three

[5:19] others. The congressman pleaded and I

[5:21] quote, "Let there be no others who are

[5:23] brought to the brink." Ned Potter looks

[5:25] at the desperate contradiction of

[5:27] American farmers on the thin edge in a

[5:30] land of plenty.

[5:32] "What happened here, people said, was

[5:34] the kind of tragedy that was waiting to

[5:36] happen. A tragedy that could have

[5:37] happened elsewhere in America's troubled

[5:39] farm belt. When Dale Burr killed his

[5:42] wife of 40 years, his neighbor, his

[5:44] banker, and himself, he apparently

[5:45] snapped under a strain that many other

[5:47] farmers can understand. The load was too

[5:50] much for Dale and it's just like

[5:52] everything closed in.

[5:54] >> 10 days before yesterday's killings,

[5:56] Burr came to the home of his sister and

[5:58] brother-in-law.

[5:59] >> He didn't have anything left. They had

[6:00] possessed everything and he didn't have

[6:01] anything he could sell. And when this

[6:03] hit, it hurt his pride that he didn't

[6:05] have the money to pay that bill. And I

[6:08] think this is what really got to him.

[6:10] >> Dale Burr was several hundred,000 in

[6:13] debt to the Hills Bank. and it's been

[6:15] estimated that 40% of Iowa's farmers are

[6:18] in some financial trouble.

[6:19] >> Bill Ellison has been one of them. He

[6:21] says he's lost three different farms in

[6:23] 11 years.

[6:25] >> You feel that things are being taken

[6:26] away from you in many cases unfairly.

[6:30] Uh it's like uh many people have talked

[6:33] about it's like a death.

[6:34] >> For farmers in financial trouble, shoot

[6:36] the banker has sometimes been a joke.

[6:39] Until now, just a joke.

[6:41] >> The frustration consumes a person. uh

[6:44] your thinking isn't straight. You can't

[6:46] think clear anymore. You've tried to

[6:48] sort things out and nothing makes sense.

[6:51] >> Counseling organizations have been

[6:52] holding meetings like this one to teach

[6:54] farmers how to handle stress. There was

[6:56] one in the town of Hills just 3 weeks

[6:58] ago.

[6:59] >> My concern is that farmers are basing

[7:02] their self-worth on their net worth.

[7:05] >> But only in a couple of isolated cases

[7:07] has anybody reacted the way Burr did. I

[7:10] hope that it does not go on from here.

[7:13] That's what scares me. That this has

[7:16] started something. Let's hope not.

[7:19] >> Something in Dale Burr snapped yesterday

[7:21] and thousands of other farmers

[7:23] understand what it was. Ned Potter, CBS

[7:25] News, Hills, Iowa.

[7:27] >> A House vote tonight on one of the most

[7:29] heavily lobbyed, heavy money, heavy

[7:31] pressured issues up in Congress. The

[7:33] issue, who has to kick in how much, to

[7:36] finance the expanded10 billion

[7:38] Environmental Protection Agency program,

[7:40] the one that's supposed to clean up the

[7:42] country's worst toxic waste sites. By a

[7:44] close 220 to 206 vote, the House

[7:48] balloted to make the oil and chemical

[7:50] companies pick up most of the tab. In

[7:53] Houston late today, a judge upheld a

[7:55] jury's 11 billion, that's with a B, 11

[7:59] billion award to Pens Oil for Texico's

[8:02] interference in a merger with Getty Oil.

[8:04] The wire services say that's the largest

[8:06] civil damage award in US history.

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[9:20] >> See your GM dealer for details, then

[9:22] buckle your life belt.

[9:26] The 1985 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded

[9:28] today in an atmosphere charged with

[9:30] cries of hypocrisy and with the threat

[9:33] of violence. Tom Fenton is in Oslo.

[9:37] In frozen December, when the days

[9:39] dwindle down to a few hours, Norwegians

[9:42] are dreaming of a spring thaw. In the

[9:45] heat of a human rights controversy, an

[9:47] American and a Russian dreamed of a

[9:48] nuclear freeze. Dr. Bernard L of Harvard

[9:51] and Dr. of Genny Chazov, a member of the

[9:54] Soviet Central Committee, were awarded

[9:56] the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts

[9:58] to promote nuclear disarmament. We

[10:01] physicians protest against the outrage

[10:03] of holding the entire world hostage.

[10:06] >> Outside, people were protesting the

[10:08] Nobel Committee's award to an

[10:10] organization that includes Soviet

[10:12] doctors they say violate human rights.

[10:15] The former head of the Nobel Prize

[10:17] Committee said Dr. Chaz was involved in

[10:19] the Soviet campaign against dissident

[10:21] Andre Sakurov.

[10:23] >> This is against humanity.

[10:25] >> 10 years ago. She presented the peace

[10:27] prize to Sakurov's wife, Yolennena

[10:29] Bonner, after the Soviet government

[10:31] barred him from coming to Oslo. Chaz is

[10:34] the only other Soviet ever to win the

[10:36] prize. This time with the blessing of

[10:38] the Kremlin. 5 years ago, Chaz and L

[10:41] helped found an organization to mobilize

[10:43] doctors around the world against nuclear

[10:45] weapons. After the ceremony, L and Chaz

[10:48] announced they have asked President

[10:50] Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachoff for

[10:52] a meeting.

[10:53] >> And we have to persuade the political

[10:55] leaders that it's not merely physicians,

[10:57] but it's an enormous movement of

[10:59] millions of people who are behind us.

[11:01] >> As they left, there were more protests.

[11:07] Tonight, Oslo honored the two doctors in

[11:10] a traditional Norwegian manner. And the

[11:12] Nobel Committee insisted there's nothing

[11:14] to apologize for, that this year's prize

[11:17] honors the most fundamental human right,

[11:19] the right to live. Tom Fenton, CBS News,

[11:22] Oslo. The peace prize ceremony happened

[11:25] to come on the annual United Nations

[11:27] human rights day. The Soviet newspaper

[11:29] Pravda praised quote the guaranteed

[11:32] political liberties and extensive social

[11:34] rights of the Soviet people. Mark

[11:36] Phillips in Moscow tells us that while

[11:38] some of those Soviet people tried to

[11:41] exercise their quote guaranteed

[11:43] liberties, visiting Americans attending

[11:45] a so-called business summit were trying

[11:48] to drum up business.

[11:51] At Pushkin Square in Moscow, a crowd

[11:53] gathered tonight in anticipation of an

[11:55] annual ritual here. A demonstration in

[11:58] support of human rights. A demonstration

[12:00] that never really happens.

[12:06] Tonight, large numbers of plain closed

[12:08] KGB agents were on duty to keep the

[12:10] handful of potential demonstrators from

[12:12] forming up. At about the same time in

[12:16] the Kremlin, Mika Gorbachoff was giving

[12:18] a dinner for a large group of American

[12:20] businessmen. They had come to Moscow to

[12:23] try to improve Soviet American trade

[12:25] because they said the climate after the

[12:27] Geneva summit was right and they added

[12:30] because relations in other areas

[12:32] including human rights would improve if

[12:34] economic ties were strengthened.

[12:36] Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldridge who

[12:38] met with Gorbachoff earlier in the day

[12:40] was being diplomatic about human rights.

[12:43] >> Human rights um

[12:46] usually comes up in these meetings. Uh

[12:48] it's the president's policy uh not to

[12:52] discuss that in public.

[12:54] >> If trade is to be an influence in

[12:56] getting the Soviet Union to change its

[12:58] ways, tonight's scene on Pushkin Square

[13:01] showed how far in the Western View the

[13:03] Soviet Union has to go. When a CBS

[13:06] cameraman tried to film Soviet agents

[13:08] breaking up the small demonstration, he

[13:10] was manhandled.

[13:12] A camera crew from ABC News recorded the

[13:15] scuffle.

[13:17] Soviet police made about a dozen

[13:18] arrests. The demonstrators, one

[13:20] policeman said, would be charged with

[13:23] disturbing the peace. Mark Phillips, CBS

[13:26] News, Moscow.

[13:28] >> Financially strapped South Africa

[13:29] announced today that it is extending

[13:32] until the end of March a freeze on

[13:34] repaying billions of dollars in loans to

[13:36] Western banks. The white minority

[13:38] government imposed the repayment freeze

[13:40] last September and had said that it

[13:42] would end on New Year's Day.

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[14:26] >> Uncle Harry will love this.

[14:27] >> Like the Polaroid 600 LMS camera. It has

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[14:33] rebate. What a great camera.

[14:36] Plus a $2 rebate on these Polaroid color

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[14:41] happy. Actually, Uncle Larry has always

[14:44] admired this paper weight. Yuck.

[14:55] >> As advertised, the American Medical

[14:57] Association today proposed laws banning

[14:59] all advertising of cigarettes, chewing

[15:01] tobacco, snuff, and other tobacco

[15:03] products. The AMA, as we reported at the

[15:05] time, announced its intention to do that

[15:07] last week. Delegates meeting in

[15:09] Washington turned down a proposal

[15:11] requiring AIDS tests for all couples

[15:14] planning to marry. In Flint, Michigan

[15:16] today, a man appeared in a court on a

[15:18] charge of assault with intent to commit

[15:20] murder for spitting at four policemen.

[15:22] Authorities said 28-year-old John

[15:24] Richards stopped on a traffic violation,

[15:27] began spitting on everyone, threatening

[15:29] to spread the deadly AIDS virus. Doctors

[15:32] last month diagnosed Richards as

[15:33] carrying the AIDS antibbody. That means

[15:36] he's been exposed, but so far as can be

[15:38] determined does not actually have the

[15:40] disease.

[15:40] >> If you look at just spitting

[15:43] at someone as bringing the charge of

[15:45] assault and attempt to murder, of course

[15:47] it's bizarre, but then when you add the

[15:49] AIDS, it loses its humor in a hurry.

[15:52] >> The judge ordered Richards to undergo a

[15:54] psychiatric examination. In response to

[15:56] the concern and occasional panic over

[15:59] AIDS, some employers now are asking

[16:01] workers to undergo testing for exposure

[16:03] to the disease. But Richard Slesinger

[16:05] reports the possibility of false

[16:07] positives in those tests is contributing

[16:10] to a negative reaction.

[16:12] >> Greg Duff is 27, healthy, and

[16:15] unemployed. He says he was fired from a

[16:17] local electronic store because he

[16:19] refused his boss's demand that he take a

[16:22] blood test to see if he'd been exposed

[16:24] to the AIDS virus.

[16:26] >> And he says, "I really want you to take

[16:27] this test." And I says, "Well, I already

[16:29] told you I'm not going to." and he said,

[16:30] 'Well, if you don't, he says, we have

[16:33] ways of getting rid of you.

[16:36] >> Duff is one of a small but growing

[16:38] number of people who are being asked to

[16:40] take the test. Employers are trying to

[16:42] make sure their businesses are free of

[16:44] AIDS. The test was designed to protect

[16:47] the blood supply, not the workplace. It

[16:50] detects antibodies to the AIDS virus. If

[16:53] it is positive, it does not mean a

[16:54] person has AIDS or will necessarily get

[16:57] it. Doctors say as many as 95% of the

[17:00] positive results might be false. And

[17:03] they say there is no way to know who

[17:05] will get the disease.

[17:07] >> There is no guarantee that even if you

[17:09] have the best confirmatory test we have

[17:11] that you will in fact contract AIDS.

[17:14] >> Johnny Warner's blood was routinely

[17:16] tested when he took part in a blood

[17:18] drive at the hospital where he worked.

[17:20] It had the antibbody and rumors started

[17:22] circulating that he had AIDS. to prove

[17:25] he didn't. He had a lymph node

[17:27] surgically removed and tested. His

[17:29] doctor said he was healthy. He was fired

[17:31] that week.

[17:32] >> It just really hurt cuz I was so proud

[17:34] and all my results came back, you know,

[17:36] and everything was negative and the

[17:37] whole nine yards. And that was that

[17:38] Wednesday that I got laid off.

[17:41] >> Some medical experts worry about how the

[17:44] test is being used. They say it is an

[17:46] imprecise tool being used to make

[17:48] important decisions about people's

[17:50] futures.

[17:51] >> I think it's a waste of money. It's not

[17:53] necessary. It will generate fear. Uh

[17:56] it'll generate panic. It'll generate

[17:58] discrimination.

[17:59] >> Several states already restrict the use

[18:02] of the AIDS antibbody test and more are

[18:04] expected to follow suit to prevent panic

[18:07] about AIDS from affecting as many lives

[18:09] as the disease itself. Richard

[18:12] Slesinger, CBS News, Miami.

[18:14] >> San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock,

[18:16] convicted of conspiracy and perjury

[18:18] tonight was denied a new trial ending

[18:20] Hedgecock's bid to stay in office.

[18:23] Harvard University tonight announced

[18:25] receiving a $5 million gift for a center

[18:27] to study the press, politics, and public

[18:29] policy. The money comes from Walter H.

[18:32] and Phyllis J. Shornstein of San

[18:33] Francisco. The Harvard Center is to be

[18:35] named for their daughter, the late Joan

[18:37] Shornstein Baron, who when she died was

[18:40] a producer for the CBS Evening News.

[18:51] They gave it a four cylinder 16 valve

[18:54] jewel of an engine and the most

[18:56] sophisticated suspension outside the

[18:58] racing world and even a rear aerodynamic

[19:01] wing. Then they gave it a name, the

[19:04] MercedesBenz 2.316.

[19:08] And the rest is performance history or

[19:11] soon will be.

[19:13] For 1986, MercedesBenz

[19:16] widens the gap.

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[19:52] In the search for a way to keep school

[19:54] children off drugs and drugs out of the

[19:56] schools, one New Jersey school board

[19:58] came up with a policy that stirred

[19:59] interest and controversy nationwide.

[20:01] Beckton Region High School was going to

[20:04] be the first in the nation to implement

[20:06] testing of all students for drug use.

[20:08] Today, a superior court judge said, "No,

[20:11] such blanket testing has no valid

[20:14] medical reason and thus violates the

[20:16] constitutional rights of the students."

[20:19] There was a fatal helicopter crash today

[20:21] in Michigan. And this time, special

[20:23] notice must be taken because heroes are

[20:25] involved. And because, as Frank Courier

[20:27] reports, this time it wasn't just

[20:29] another flight. It was a mission.

[20:32] It was foggy and drizzly when the

[20:34] hospital helicopter lost its way in the

[20:36] night and crashed in the trees while

[20:38] rushing to pick up an auto accident

[20:40] victim. For pilot John Harrison and Dr.

[20:43] Gene Hollister, who died in the chopper

[20:45] crash, and nurse Julie Miller, who was

[20:47] injured, it is the tragic irony of

[20:49] risking lives unnoticed to save others.

[20:52] >> I think for the immediate future, uh,

[20:55] we're all going to be u very much aware

[20:57] and a little bit hesitant about things

[20:59] like this.

[21:02] Pilot Harrison and the rest of the team

[21:04] at Toledo St. Vincent Medical Center had

[21:06] drawn national attention with their

[21:07] flights for life of rushing emergency

[21:09] care to remote areas by helicopter and

[21:12] always the hazards of flying those

[21:14] middle of the night missions.

[21:16] >> You're flying into unprepared landing

[21:18] areas and uh with wires and obstacles,

[21:22] you never know what you're going to

[21:23] face. And the only illumination that you

[21:24] have is what you have on board the

[21:26] aircraft.

[21:27] >> This guy was in the back seat. Annie,

[21:28] where was the other guy? Like so many

[21:30] other hospital flight for life programs,

[21:32] the team at S. Vincent was mindful of

[21:34] safety and had flown more than 5,000

[21:37] missions without an accident until

[21:39] today.

[21:40] >> What Jeie would want, what John would

[21:43] want would certainly be for us to

[21:44] continue that mission that they were on.

[21:46] >> We'll show you right over here where

[21:49] >> John Harrison had recently taken time

[21:51] out to show one of his little patients

[21:53] the helicopter that saved his life. A

[21:55] flight which today, instead of giving

[21:57] life, took it away. Frank Courier, CBS

[22:00] News, Detroit.

[22:12] I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV.

[22:14] And when many adults get a cough, they

[22:16] play doctor at home. They treat their

[22:18] cough with the same medicine they

[22:20] originally bought for their children.

[22:21] They need one of the adult formulas from

[22:23] Vicks for the coughs adults get with the

[22:25] strength adults need. Formula 44 for

[22:28] coughs, 44D for coughs with congestion,

[22:31] and formula 44M for coughs with

[22:33] congestion and a raw, irritated throat.

[22:35] The adult formulas. You can't buy

[22:37] anything more effective.

[22:39] >> The adult formulas from Vicks, of

[22:41] course.

[22:43] >> Before you buy insurance, you should

[22:45] examine the evidence. An agent who works

[22:47] for one company can only offer you the

[22:49] policies his company sells. But an

[22:51] independent agent represents several

[22:53] companies. Check the yellow pages for

[22:55] your independent insurance agent.

[22:59] >> Need help?

[23:00] >> Yeah. And I've got 10 minutes to get to

[23:01] the radio station.

[23:02] >> Ah, here's a problem.

[23:04] >> Stson cologne. Easy to wear, hard to

[23:07] resist.

[23:08] >> And for that great smelling guy who

[23:10] started my car, I get off at 6.

[23:13] >> With a box of Jello brand gelatin and a

[23:15] little this and that, you can give them

[23:17] a good old time. Grab a melon, turn it

[23:20] round, turn an apple upside down. A

[23:22] sun-kissed orange goes great with jello.

[23:24] Make it red, green, or yellow. Add a

[23:26] strawberry. Beat your pear and watch

[23:28] them leap up in the air. Just look in

[23:30] these and you'll find those

[23:34] with jello gelatin.

[23:37] Any fruit goes

[23:39] jello gelatin. We're up to something

[23:42] good. What? With all the special

[23:44] interest high-powered big bucks lobbying

[23:46] over everything from tax overhaul to the

[23:49] budget deficit to toxic waste cleanup,

[23:51] you may not have noticed one of the

[23:53] biggest shell games in Congress ever.

[23:56] Bob Simon looks at a lobbying effort

[23:58] that has everybody scrambling, complete

[24:00] with hard-boiled bureaucrats, nasty

[24:03] cracks, and a whole industry walking on

[24:05] eggshells.

[24:08] It is an issue facing the nation, the

[24:11] kind that cuts to the quick of our

[24:13] democratic system.

[24:14] >> You have to stand up and be counted. And

[24:16] we're standing up and being counted. We

[24:17] will prevail.

[24:18] >> That question has to be answered, and

[24:20] we're going to answer it.

[24:21] >> What are they talking about?

[24:27] A machine called the A King put together

[24:30] in a shed in Southern California. What's

[24:32] the question? Should it be outlawed?

[24:34] What does it do?

[24:38] It takes the shells off eggs quickly.

[24:40] That's all. It's brought by restaurant

[24:42] owners and bakers who say it makes their

[24:44] buns better. Look better, taste better,

[24:48] much better. That the products, they

[24:50] look at you, they stand out, far

[24:52] superior, more bounce in the oven.

[24:54] Terrific. But when bakers start cracking

[24:56] their own eggs, they stop buying liquid

[24:58] eggs from egg crackers. Egg crackers are

[25:01] big businessmen with lobbyists in

[25:03] Washington. They've tried to get the egg

[25:04] king banned. They say it could make

[25:06] people sick.

[25:07] >> We're standing up trying to speak out

[25:09] for what we believe in. And it does pose

[25:12] a health hazard.

[25:13] >> The health hazard, a security threat.

[25:15] The gizmo is used in the Pentagon dining

[25:18] room. It is used to prepare airplane

[25:20] meals. It is used in the Watergate.

[25:23] Bakers and backers claim the dispute is

[25:25] not about eggs. It's about bread.

[25:27] >> It's not a health issue at all. It's an

[25:29] economic issue.

[25:30] to blame it on health where no health

[25:32] hazard exists. I think that's that's one

[25:34] of the things that got me going in this.

[25:36] >> The other thing that got the congressman

[25:37] going was the a king maker is his

[25:40] constituent.

[25:41] >> We've had machines out for almost 5

[25:43] years. Now we have over 800. We're

[25:46] breaking a million eggs a day and

[25:48] there's never been one case of any type

[25:50] of food poisoning. The only complaints

[25:52] come from the United egg producers. It's

[25:54] amazing.

[25:57] The egg producers tried to get Congress

[25:59] to ban the machine. When that failed,

[26:01] they tried to get the bureaucracy to

[26:02] take action. Lots of luck.

[26:05] The Department of Agriculture says the

[26:07] machine cannot be used by the a cracking

[26:09] industry. But as soon as you get to a

[26:11] bakery or a restaurant, agriculture

[26:13] says, "Not our turf. Talk to the FDA."

[26:17] That's the Food and Drug Administration,

[26:18] another Washington bureaucracy. But the

[26:21] FDA says we deal with ingredients and

[26:24] products. Don't talk to us about

[26:26] machines.

[26:27] >> The bureaucracy is at its best on this

[26:30] issue. It is just throwing up its arms

[26:33] and saying, "Well, I don't know. Joe has

[26:35] it. I don't know. Sam has it. I don't.

[26:37] It's the most ludicrous thing I've been

[26:39] involved with in the 21 years I've been

[26:41] around this Congress."

[26:42] >> So, build a better mousetrap and create

[26:44] a capital crisis.

[26:47] Move over tax reform, deficit, and

[26:49] military spending. Here's another that

[26:52] could be here forever. The quandry of

[26:54] the egg king. Bob Simon, CBS News,

[26:58] Washington.

[27:00] >> And that's the CBS Evening News for this

[27:02] Tuesday. Dan Rather reporting from New

[27:04] York. Thank you for joining us. Good

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[28:46] saxophone player Clarence Clemens, plus

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[28:50] Peter Martins. Tomorrow on the CBS

[28:52] Morning News.

[28:54] >> This is CBS.

[28:58] >> In our news tonight, the fight to keep

[29:00] two Nashville high schools open. Bill

[29:03] Boner's efforts to fend off any

[29:04] congressional challengers. And a

[29:06] cigarette smokers lawsuit blaming a

[29:08] tobacco company for his health problems.

[29:10] Details on these stories and more next

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