CBS Evening News - 1992-04-09
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[0:02] The jury's verdict is in. Panama's
[0:04] Manuel Noriega, guilty of drug and
[0:07] racketeering charges.
[0:09] On the money front, by economic trouble
[0:11] in Japan could mean lower interest rates
[0:14] for you.
[0:16] And America's favorite mouse invade
[0:19] Europe. There's a lot more than
[0:21] amusement at stake.
[0:23] This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:26] >> [music]
[0:31] >> Good evening. Dan Rather reporting. It's
[0:33] been more than 2 years since President
[0:35] Bush sent US troops into Panama to
[0:37] arrest Manuel Noriega and force him to
[0:39] stand trial in the United States on US
[0:42] drug and racketeering charges. Today,
[0:44] the jury returned the verdict. CBS News
[0:47] correspondent Juan Vasquez covered the
[0:48] trial in Miami.
[0:51] >> The 56-year-old former Panamanian leader
[0:53] showed not a trace of emotion as the
[0:55] foreman handed the jury's verdict to the
[0:56] court. One count of racketeering,
[0:58] guilty. One count of conspiracy to
[1:00] engage in racketeering, guilty. One
[1:02] count of money laundering, guilty. Five
[1:05] counts of manufacturing, smuggling, and
[1:07] distributing cocaine, guilty. Noriega
[1:09] never blinked as Judge William P.
[1:11] Hoeveler read the formal verdict.
[1:13] Conviction on eight counts, acquittal on
[1:15] two. President Bush, who ordered the
[1:17] invasion of Panama in 1989 to get
[1:20] Noriega, was pleased.
[1:22] >> But I think it's a good thing and I
[1:23] think the main thing is it sends a
[1:25] message to the
[1:27] drug lords
[1:28] that they're going to be brought to
[1:30] justice.
[1:31] >> Noriega's attorney said the general
[1:33] refused to say a word about the verdict,
[1:35] but they are bitter.
[1:36] >> Unless leaders of foreign governments
[1:39] are willing to kneel once a day and face
[1:41] Washington and give praise to George
[1:44] Bush, they too may be in the same
[1:46] posture as General Noriega.
[1:50] >> The unprecedented trial of the de facto
[1:52] leader of another country was the result
[1:53] of the US invasion of Panama that cost
[1:56] the lives of 24 American soldiers and
[1:59] more than 500 Panamanians. After
[2:01] surrendering to American soldiers,
[2:03] General Noriega was turned over to US
[2:05] drug agents and brought to this country
[2:07] in handcuffs like a common criminal.
[2:10] >> I think it's a case of historic
[2:11] significance because of who it is and
[2:14] the manner in which he was brought here.
[2:18] >> In Panama, Noriega wielded enormous
[2:19] power, but during the 6-month trial, he
[2:22] watched his former friends and
[2:23] associates testify that he demanded huge
[2:26] bribes to facilitate drug shipments from
[2:28] Panama to the United States. Noriega's
[2:31] attorney told the jury that much of the
[2:33] vital testimony had been bought and paid
[2:35] for by the government in the form of
[2:37] deals and plea bargains with convicted
[2:40] felons.
[2:41] Prosecutors, obviously pleased and
[2:43] relieved at the outcome, defended the
[2:45] plea bargain process saying, "That's the
[2:47] way many of the biggest drug cases are
[2:49] made."
[2:50] Noriega faces a maximum sentence of 120
[2:53] years in this case, but that's not the
[2:55] end of his trouble. He's also been
[2:57] charged with marijuana smuggling in
[2:58] Tampa, and back in Panama, the
[3:00] government wants him to stand trial for
[3:02] murder.
[3:03] Juan Vasquez, CBS News, Miami.
[3:06] >> The Federal Reserve made another effort
[3:08] today to give the US economy an election
[3:11] year shot in the arm.
[3:12] This time, it's also hoped that it will
[3:14] be a kind of vaccination against
[3:16] whatever it is that's ailing Japan's
[3:19] economy. Wall Street is already feeling
[3:21] better as money correspondent Ray Brady
[3:23] reports.
[3:27] >> After days of falling, it took right
[3:29] off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average
[3:31] soaring more than 43 points after the
[3:34] Federal Reserve pumped more money into
[3:36] the economy, a move that's expected to
[3:39] lower interest rates.
[3:41] >> I think the lowering of the rate by the
[3:42] Fed is a good thing, and I hope that it
[3:45] will guarantee that this fledgling
[3:47] recovery that we're seeing will now be a
[3:50] a more robust.
[3:51] >> While the Federal Reserve denied it.
[3:53] Wall Streeters say events abroad caused
[3:55] its action.
[3:56] >> The Federal Reserve is quite concerned
[3:58] about the impact on the American economy
[4:00] of what's going on in Tokyo.
[4:02] >> What's going on in Tokyo is an economic
[4:04] slowdown, one that sent the Japanese
[4:07] stock market into a kamikaze dive. Not
[4:10] only today, but since the end of 1989,
[4:13] down 57%.
[4:15] Japanese business leaders are so
[4:17] worried, last week they flocked to this
[4:19] Shinto ceremony, praying to send stocks
[4:22] up again. They're not the only ones
[4:24] worried.
[4:25] >> That is a possibility that Japanese
[4:28] institutions, at some point, would have
[4:30] to pull out of overseas markets.
[4:33] >> Tokyo banks are the sumo wrestlers of
[4:35] world banking, giants whose loans have
[4:37] fueled many of the huge purchases of US
[4:40] companies, resorts, and property.
[4:42] If Japanese banks have to sell, that
[4:45] could affect real estate values here.
[4:47] And what if they have to slow up
[4:49] lending? In California, Japanese banks
[4:52] make 1/4 of all that state's business
[4:55] loans.
[4:56] All this could make itself felt in
[4:58] November.
[4:59] >> If the the Japanese economy does
[5:02] unravel, as opposed to being just
[5:04] troublesome, then I think the prospects
[5:06] for a further downturn in the United
[5:08] States become very substantial, and the
[5:10] prospects for George Bush losing become
[5:13] very substantial.
[5:14] >> All of which explains today's move by
[5:16] the Federal Reserve. And as some
[5:18] analysts remind us,
[5:20] this is an election year, and the
[5:21] relationship between the two countries
[5:23] is so close, this could be perilous for
[5:26] the US and its president. Ray Brady, CBS
[5:30] News, New York.
[5:32] >> Congress heard charges today that
[5:33] foreign companies, especially the
[5:35] Japanese, are using the United States as
[5:37] a tax haven. They are shifting their
[5:40] profits back home, so that many foreign
[5:42] companies pay no US income tax at all.
[5:45] Eric Engberg has that story.
[5:49] >> Congressional investigators today claim
[5:51] that foreign-owned companies operating
[5:53] in America are dodging billions of
[5:55] dollars worth of US taxes.
[5:57] The House Ways and Means Committee was
[5:59] told that Japan is exhibit A.
[6:02] In order to avoid taxes, the committee
[6:04] heard, Japanese companies said in 1989
[6:07] that they lost money in America, $76
[6:10] million in all.
[6:12] Now, does anybody really believe that
[6:14] after all those cars, all those trucks,
[6:15] all those TVs and stereos and microwave
[6:18] ovens and semiconductors were sold here
[6:20] that they lost money in the American
[6:22] market? Some [snorts] in Congress are
[6:24] now pushing new minimum taxes on the
[6:26] foreigners as a way to close loopholes.
[6:28] >> But we've got to stop chasing our tails
[6:31] around the block and we have to say to
[6:32] these people, "This isn't a loophole.
[6:35] This is outright tax evasion and we're
[6:37] not going to stand it anymore."
[6:39] >> One complicated analysis claimed that
[6:41] foreign companies have increased their
[6:43] tax dodging each year and are now
[6:46] cheating the Treasury out of $38 billion
[6:48] annually.
[6:49] >> Do you think foreign corporations are
[6:51] paying their fair share of taxes
[6:54] in the United States?
[6:56] >> My answer would be, Mr. Chairman, that
[6:59] we simply don't know.
[7:01] >> The administration opposes any new taxes
[7:03] on foreigners for the present and the
[7:05] foreign interests argue evidence of
[7:07] cheating is thin.
[7:09] >> Foreign-owned companies can be
[7:11] uh an easy target. And perhaps in an
[7:14] election year, there are some who feel
[7:16] uh that it would be popular to uh to
[7:19] bash foreigners.
[7:21] >> Slapping taxes on foreigners sounds like
[7:23] an easy way to attack the deficit, but
[7:25] the administration warns it would lead
[7:27] to retaliation against American firms,
[7:29] hurt exports, and ultimately cost jobs.
[7:32] Eric Engberg, CBS News, Washington.
[7:35] >> Still ahead on tonight's CBS Evening
[7:37] News, health care. More Americans say,
[7:40] "I can't afford it." And daycare, more
[7:43] workers say I can't afford to mind your
[7:46] kids.
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[8:56] >> Former Massachusetts Senator Paul
[8:57] Tsongas announced his decision today,
[9:00] again, at a news conference in Boston.
[9:02] Tsongas said he will not reenter the
[9:05] race for the Democratic presidential
[9:06] nomination.
[9:09] >> We did very well.
[9:11] But so did Bill Clinton.
[9:13] He won those states.
[9:16] That winning removed the argument that
[9:18] my reentering would rescue this party.
[9:21] Indeed, his winning took me back to the
[9:23] option that I rejected three weeks ago.
[9:27] The role of spoiler.
[9:29] I reject that role.
[9:32] All of us here have created a message of
[9:34] value.
[9:36] The That message and the principles that
[9:38] sustain it must not be compromised to a
[9:41] purpose
[9:43] that is less than worthy.
[9:45] >> Despite his decisions, Sanders did file
[9:47] today for the New Jersey primary, a bid
[9:49] for more convention delegates and
[9:51] influence in the possible shot at the
[9:53] vice presidential nomination. By the
[9:54] way, if there's any truth to the stories
[9:56] that Sanders is on Bill Clinton's short
[9:58] list for running mate, Clinton wasn't
[10:00] talking today about anything.
[10:03] He couldn't. The Arkansas governor has
[10:05] laryngitis and he's under doctor's
[10:07] orders to rest his voice for a few days
[10:09] or risk possible permanent damage to his
[10:12] vocal cords.
[10:13] One thing everybody's talking about this
[10:15] election year is the lack of affordable
[10:18] health care.
[10:19] CBS News health correspondent Edie
[10:21] Magnus is here to tell us it's a
[10:22] make-or-break issue now for people who
[10:24] thought they'd never have to worry,
[10:26] Edie.
[10:26] >> That's right, Dan. Health care was once
[10:28] seen just as a problem for the
[10:29] uninsured, the disadvantaged. Those are
[10:32] the people who tend not to vote, so the
[10:33] politicians didn't have to pay too much
[10:35] attention to them or the issue.
[10:37] Not anymore. Now there is evidence that
[10:39] huge numbers of Americans are fearful
[10:42] about holding onto their benefits and
[10:44] paying their bills.
[10:46] For the first time, say researchers,
[10:48] Americans are realizing that health care
[10:50] is not just somebody else's problem.
[10:53] >> It's hitting mainstream insured America.
[10:55] The 80% of America's Americans who have
[10:58] insurance are now worried about their
[11:00] own situation.
[11:01] >> Any kind of sickness, be it minor or
[11:03] major, can pretty much wipe you out
[11:05] financially.
[11:07] >> They're worried that they're going to
[11:08] lose their insurance. They're worried
[11:10] they're not going to be able to afford
[11:11] their premiums.
[11:12] >> I'm a student and I haven't been able to
[11:14] afford health care
[11:15] ever
[11:17] since I went off my parents' plan.
[11:19] >> They're worried they're going to get
[11:20] sick and their coverage isn't going to
[11:21] is going to be full of holes.
[11:22] >> We can get sick and we can't afford to
[11:24] pay for it right now.
[11:26] >> Open your mouth, you're alive.
[11:27] >> And a majority of Americans are looking
[11:29] to government, the federal government,
[11:31] to make health care affordable and
[11:33] accessible. So, how do they view this
[11:36] year's crop of presidential candidates?
[11:38] >> If I had to choose any of them, it'd be
[11:40] none above.
[11:42] >> He's not alone. When asked, is there any
[11:44] presidential candidate whose health care
[11:46] reform proposals you can support, 80% of
[11:49] Americans surveyed recently said,
[11:51] "None."
[11:52] And asked if they see any real
[11:54] difference between Republicans and
[11:56] Democrats on health care, 68% said,
[11:59] "No."
[12:00] >> I think they've spent more time talking
[12:02] about each other than they have trying
[12:04] to do on health or things that would
[12:06] help us.
[12:06] >> They all just want to please the public
[12:07] right now, and I don't think that anyone
[12:09] really has a set agenda for the health
[12:11] care issues.
[12:13] >> Those surveyed ranked health second only
[12:16] to the economy in importance this
[12:18] election year. So, while health care
[12:20] could be a blockbuster issue for a
[12:22] presidential candidate, so far no one
[12:24] stands to gain any votes from it. Dan?
[12:27] >> So, Amy, what do Americans want in the
[12:28] way of health care?
[12:29] >> Actually, they are not sure what they
[12:31] want. The survey showed that they are
[12:33] confused about all the various health
[12:34] care plans that are out there. They
[12:36] would like the government to put a lid
[12:37] on doctor fees, on hospital fees, on
[12:40] drug prices, but they don't want the
[12:41] government to run the system entirely.
[12:43] They are more certain about the problems
[12:45] at this point than they are the
[12:47] solutions.
[12:48] >> Amy Magnus, thanks.
[12:50] Stay here with us now for more CBS News,
[12:52] including the story about day care and
[12:53] what's going down with airline ticket
[12:55] prices.
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[14:35] >> Plot line, nothing.
[14:35] >> He's being frozen in a state of
[14:37] suspended animation, but once this
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[14:42] tonight.
[14:44] >> A follow tonight to a story CBS News
[14:46] correspondent Eric Engberg broke on this
[14:48] broadcast a year ago. Congressional
[14:50] investigators now have confirmed that
[14:53] Vice President Quayle repeatedly took
[14:55] golfing trips on military aircraft at
[14:58] taxpayer expense. Sometimes, Quayle took
[15:01] Sam Skinner along. At the time, Skinner
[15:03] was Transportation Secretary. Now, he's
[15:05] President Bush's Chief of White House
[15:07] staff. White House officials now
[15:09] acknowledge that the government was
[15:11] reimbursed for only a fraction of the
[15:13] travel costs. Today,
[15:16] Quayle told reporters he did nothing
[15:17] wrong.
[15:20] >> Do you feel guilty about using military
[15:21] planes to go play golf?
[15:23] >> Let me just try to clear it up for you
[15:25] once again.
[15:27] We have complied with all the rules,
[15:28] regulations, and the laws.
[15:30] >> Whatever the Vice President's plane cost
[15:32] you, there could be big changes in what
[15:34] you pay for your own air travel on
[15:37] non-US military aircraft. James Hattori
[15:40] has our report about that.
[15:43] >> Facing some of the most severe economic
[15:44] turbulence in the history of US
[15:46] aviation, American Airlines today put
[15:49] something special in the air, lower
[15:51] prices. It's a sign of how desperate
[15:53] things have become when one of the
[15:54] nation's biggest airlines revamping its
[15:56] entire fare structure, slashing across
[15:59] the board, and admitting it will at
[16:01] first lose money.
[16:03] >> The system, quite simply, is broken.
[16:06] Now, to have the future that we want for
[16:08] our customers, for our shareholders, for
[16:10] our employees,
[16:12] we must fix it.
[16:13] >> American has cut unrestricted coach
[16:15] fares by at least 38% at all its routes.
[16:18] First-class tickets are 20 to 50%
[16:21] cheaper. Most advanced purchase fares
[16:23] are going down, too. They're still
[16:24] non-refundable, but the flights can now
[16:26] be changed for a fee. American is
[16:29] responding in part to a revolt among the
[16:31] passengers it wants most, business
[16:32] flyers. Many of them can't plan far
[16:34] enough ahead to buy the cheaper seats
[16:36] and are choosing to stay home or use
[16:38] gimmicks to get discounts rather than
[16:40] pay the highest fares.
[16:42] >> If you've got a week, you get a a pretty
[16:44] good rate. If you've got to travel
[16:45] pretty quickly, then the prices are
[16:47] high.
[16:48] >> If you travel at the last minute,
[16:50] >> what happens?
[16:51] >> You pay through the nose.
[16:52] >> American says it's also responding to
[16:54] the new economic order sweeping through
[16:56] so many industries, and it's looking
[16:58] over its shoulder at another Texas-based
[17:01] airline, Southwest, a no-frills carrier
[17:04] which has continued to make money while
[17:06] the big boys are awash in red ink.
[17:09] >> The Americans, Uniteds, and Deltas of
[17:11] the world have sort of become the
[17:13] General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler.
[17:16] And Southwest Airlines has been the
[17:17] Japanese. I think this is a reflection
[17:20] of something that
[17:22] American companies across the board got
[17:24] to pay attention to. Got to give our
[17:26] customers good value.
[17:28] American hopes the volume of customers
[17:30] it wins back with lower prices will
[17:32] eventually offset the cheaper fares, a
[17:34] strategy most other airlines are still
[17:36] studying before announcing whether
[17:38] they'll match it. James Hattori, CBS
[17:41] News, Dallas.
[17:43] The government says 155,000
[17:45] beds made for toddlers are being
[17:47] recalled. The recall involves certain
[17:49] models made by Cosco Incorporated,
[17:52] that's c o s c o. 50 children got their
[17:55] heads stuck under metal arches on these
[17:58] Cosco beds.
[17:59] One died.
[18:02] From around the world, Al More, CBS
[18:04] News. In Libya, Yasser Arafat got out of
[18:06] the hospital today. Doctors say the PLO
[18:08] chairman suffered only minor injuries
[18:11] when his plane crash-landed Tuesday
[18:12] night. Arafat says he spent the night
[18:15] walking around the wreckage with pistol
[18:17] in hand to fend off desert beasts.
[18:20] Russia and Ukraine backed away today
[18:22] from a clash over control of the Black
[18:24] Sea Fleet. The two former Soviet
[18:26] republics agreed to name a joint
[18:28] commission to try to settle the dispute.
[18:31] Britons voted today in national
[18:32] elections rated too close to call. Prime
[18:35] Minister Major's Conservatives are
[18:37] trying to hold off the strongest
[18:39] challenge in years from the Labour
[18:40] Party.
[18:42] In Michigan, dozens of black students
[18:44] packed up and left the campus of Olivet
[18:46] College. They say they don't feel safe
[18:48] because the school has taken no action
[18:51] against white fraternity members
[18:53] involved in a racial brawl.
[18:55] And in San Francisco, 500 Filipino
[18:57] veterans of World War II became US
[18:59] citizens at last.
[19:01] Filipinos who fought with the US Army
[19:03] had been promised citizenship, but
[19:05] Congress didn't fulfill the promise
[19:07] until 1990. The ceremony today came on
[19:10] the 50th anniversary of the Bataan Death
[19:13] March.
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[20:24] >> On the third Sunday in August, this
[20:25] place turns [music] from a hard working
[20:27] ranch town into a hard riding rodeo
[20:29] town.
[20:30] Folks like us take it on the chin,
[20:32] in [music] our backs,
[20:34] and
[20:34] about everywhere else.
[20:37] That's why most of us here rely on
[20:38] Tylenol. It's only the two of who Doc
[20:40] Hall has. He gives us the same thing he
[20:42] takes himself.
[20:43] >> From small [music] town doctors to big
[20:45] city hospitals, Tylenol's the pain
[20:46] reliever America counts on.
[20:49] >> [music]
[20:50] >> It's the one hospitals use most.
[20:53] >> Why are we watching CBS this morning?
[20:55] >> Oh, cuz they say it's best for your head
[20:56] and it sounds neat.
[20:57] >> No, cuz it's where Michael J. Fox will
[20:59] be talking about directing us.
[21:01] Monday.
[21:06] >> Yet more and more American families,
[21:08] both parents or the only parent works
[21:11] outside the home.
[21:13] Finding safe and affordable daycare
[21:15] isn't easy. So, who's minding the kids?
[21:18] And can they afford to do it?
[21:20] Jacqueline Adams shows you in tonight's
[21:22] Eye on America.
[21:24] >> Oh, I can't find Sam. I can't find Cali.
[21:28] >> There's a joke going around daycare
[21:29] circles. Why did the child care worker
[21:32] cross the road? To get to her second
[21:34] job.
[21:35] >> They earn less than parking lot
[21:36] attendants, garbage collectors, pet
[21:39] groomers, people working flipping
[21:40] hamburgers.
[21:42] Um, it's about as low as you can get.
[21:44] >> At 11:00
[21:45] >> Amy Steinmetz has a second job, as well
[21:47] as the college degree needed to be a
[21:49] lead teacher at a licensed Pennsylvania
[21:51] daycare center. What she doesn't have is
[21:54] health insurance or retirement benefits.
[21:57] >> I'm not asking to be a millionaire. I'm
[21:58] not asking to make $50,000 a year. I'm
[22:00] just asking to make a livable wage, and
[22:03] I don't have that right now.
[22:04] >> On average, women and the few men who
[22:06] teach the majority of the nation's
[22:08] preschoolers earn just $5 to $6 an hour.
[22:11] With some college, that's less than
[22:12] $9,000 a year. With a BA or BS, less
[22:15] than $12,000 a year. Not surprisingly,
[22:18] almost half of them quit every year. Yet
[22:21] experts say it's the kids who pay the
[22:23] price.
[22:28] >> We found that children in centers where
[22:30] our own programs, where there is a high
[22:31] amount of turnover, are less competent
[22:34] in their language and social
[22:35] development.
[22:36] >> We're here with them during the day, and
[22:37] and we're here to nurture them and to
[22:39] guide them, and part of that is being
[22:41] stable for them.
[22:45] >> Parents share the agony.
[22:46] >> I'm willing to pay as much as I can
[22:48] afford. Um, I can't afford what I think
[22:51] uh people are worth.
[22:53] >> That's why parents, teachers, and their
[22:54] children staged protests today all
[22:56] across the country, from Albany, New
[22:59] York to Oakland, California.
[23:01] >> Child care pay is very low.
[23:02] >> To Philadelphia, the message was the
[23:05] same.
[23:07] >> No one else is going to speak up for
[23:08] those children unless we do. We have
[23:11] every right to demand quality child
[23:12] care.
[23:13] >> Oh, yeah.
[23:14] >> So, what's the solution to the daycare
[23:16] financial crisis? Experts think
[23:18] corporations could pick up more of the
[23:20] tab and bureaucrats could better manage
[23:22] the state and federal dollars already in
[23:24] the pipeline. Spending more on salaries,
[23:26] for example, to improve the caliber of
[23:29] teacher.
[23:30] >> We shouldn't just warehouse children up
[23:31] until the age of seven and hope that
[23:33] they haven't lost their love of learning
[23:35] and hope that they haven't been damaged.
[23:40] >> Currently, there are more than 6 million
[23:41] preschoolers enrolled in daycare and
[23:43] that number is sure to swell. With more
[23:46] and more mothers out of the home and in
[23:48] the workforce, educators say their work
[23:50] begins at birth, long before first
[23:53] grade.
[23:54] In Philadelphia, this is Jacqueline
[23:56] Adams for Eye on America.
[23:59] >> Coming right up next, An American in
[24:01] Paris.
[24:02] It's a wee world after all.
[24:06] >> [music]
[24:15] >> If planet is in trouble,
[24:17] maybe so are you.
[24:22] >> [music]
[24:23] >> Because what will you do
[24:26] and how will you do it?
[24:28] >> [music]
[24:32] >> With the one who guides you every step
[24:35] of the way.
[24:36] >> [music]
[24:36] >> Ortega.
[24:38] It's our nature to help.
[24:42] >> Good morning.
[24:44] I hope they like me. [music]
[24:45] >> Get ready. A teacher's best has got to
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[24:57] >> Don't worry. Don't love you.
[24:59] >> It's not how you make the coffee, but
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[25:42] >> How bad are your allergies?
[25:44] >> Terrible.
[25:44] >> Terrible allergy attack?
[25:45] >> I feel like I just want to unscrew my
[25:47] head, take it off.
[25:48] >> Suppose I took your Benadryl away.
[25:50] >> I'd be home in bed.
[25:51] >> Would you try this new allergy medicine?
[25:53] >> Does it work the same?
[25:54] >> Dristan allergy has a decongestant and
[25:56] this Benadryl doesn't. So, it relieves
[25:58] nasal congestion and pressure Benadryl
[26:00] can't. Let's try it.
[26:01] >> Okay. I feel fantastic.
[26:04] >> Why?
[26:04] >> I can breathe through my nose. I don't
[26:06] need a tissue anymore.
[26:08] >> New Dristan allergy. Dristan, the face
[26:10] of relief today.
[26:13] >> United States and France have had close
[26:15] ties ever since Lafayette helped fight
[26:17] the American Revolution.
[26:19] Now, the relationship is entering,
[26:21] well, a goofy phase.
[26:23] It opens this weekend as Bill Blakemore
[26:25] reports.
[26:29] >> American troops leaving Europe, marching
[26:31] back home, where politicians are telling
[26:33] voters it's time to turn their backs on
[26:35] the world. But the country's best-loved
[26:37] ambassador is marching to a different
[26:39] drummer. Mickey is leading Disney into a
[26:42] high-stakes gamble that America's future
[26:44] is global. Introducing Euro Disneyland.
[26:48] Six years of sweat and almost $5 billion
[26:51] have transformed farmland outside Paris
[26:53] into a monument to American pop culture.
[26:56] From Main Street to Star Wars, the
[26:58] American dream has landed in Europe.
[27:01] >> We have been maniacal in our sense of
[27:03] quality. And it's nice to be a company
[27:06] that
[27:07] when it says made in the USA,
[27:10] it still means something.
[27:12] >> That label slapped across France has
[27:13] divided Paris's left bank intellectuals.
[27:16] >> If you make that stroke, we
[27:17] >> Putting it in the heart of France, he
[27:19] says, is a worse insult than putting
[27:20] McDonald's on the Champs-Élysées. It's a
[27:22] catastrophe.
[27:24] That's a bit much, say others.
[27:26] >> I was frightened by communism. I was
[27:28] frightened by Nazism. I'm frightened
[27:31] frightened by many silly people and
[27:34] silly things, but I'm not frightened by
[27:37] mice. Mice, how do you say mice?
[27:40] >> Disney is counting on its European
[27:41] connection to win over the critics.
[27:43] Donald, Mickey, and Goofy are
[27:45] all-American boys, but many of Disney's
[27:47] favorite stories were conceived in
[27:49] Europe. Disney may have created
[27:51] something more than just a theme park.
[27:53] Once it opens, Euro Disneyland could
[27:55] turn out to be the unofficial capital of
[27:57] a newly united Europe.
[28:00] Paris is also a big draw for a marriage
[28:02] made in Hollywood. At its best, Disney's
[28:05] always been about love, and so has the
[28:07] French capital.
[28:09] >> What about us?
[28:10] >> [music]
[28:11] >> You'll always have Paris.
[28:12] >> We didn't
[28:13] >> And now, so will Mickey Mouse.
[28:15] Bill McLaughlin, CBS News, Euro
[28:18] Disneyland.
[28:21] >> Part of our world tonight.
[28:23] Don't forget Street Stories coming up on
[28:24] this CBS station at 9:00, 8:00 Central
[28:26] time. Dan Rather for the CBS Evening
[28:28] News. See you tomorrow.
[28:29] Good night.
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