CBS Evening News - 1992-03-12
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[0:02] An outspoken critic of South American
[0:05] drug cartels is gunned down execution
[0:08] style in New York. Was it an act of
[0:11] international terrorism? Ethnic violence
[0:14] explodes in a former Soviet Republic.
[0:16] Will it spread outside the former Soviet
[0:18] Union? And Eye on America tonight, the
[0:22] quest for thinness and beauty. What is
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[0:29] Evening News.
[0:35] Good evening, Dan Rather reporting. A
[0:38] crusading American journalist who had
[0:40] angered international drug lords has
[0:42] been murdered. He was shot in the head
[0:44] point blank range in a New York City
[0:46] restaurant. Is it another indication of
[0:49] just how pervasively the underworld of
[0:51] drug terror has spread in the United
[0:53] States? or is it connected with some
[0:55] other form of international terrorism?
[0:58] Or what was the motive? Jazelle
[1:00] Fernandez has been investigating.
[1:03] >> It's being called an unprecedented hit
[1:05] more likely to happen on the streets of
[1:07] Colombia than in the United States. But
[1:09] last night in a bar in Queens, New York,
[1:11] well-known Hispanic journalist Manuel
[1:13] Deios became one of the first reporters
[1:16] to be shot dead execution style in this
[1:18] country. Deios, a crusader against the
[1:20] Colombian drug cartel, was shot at point
[1:23] blank range.
[1:24] >> Based upon his uh his activities and his
[1:27] work, it wouldn't be farfetched to
[1:31] assume somebody had threatened him.
[1:33] >> Dios was editor at one of America's
[1:35] leading Latin dailies and was a
[1:37] journalist known for taking risks. His
[1:39] relentless probes into the international
[1:41] drug trade elicited countless threats
[1:43] against his life.
[1:45] >> He kept uh getting threats. He kept uh
[1:48] naming names and he kept doing the same
[1:50] thing for years and years and years.
[1:52] >> Colleagues here say that Manuel Deios
[1:53] had a long list of enemies. Prominent
[1:55] among them the Colombian drug cartels.
[1:58] But two weeks before his death, they
[1:59] also say he was working on new leads
[2:01] into a highly charged investigation of
[2:03] Puerto Rican death squads and a possible
[2:05] link to the US government. Just last
[2:08] month, the Dios was in Puerto Rico
[2:10] testifying at a Senate committee on that
[2:12] case. But police sources say his latest
[2:15] venture, a new magazine naming drug
[2:17] dealers in his own backyard, might also
[2:19] have done him in.
[2:21] >> Obviously, it's a message. This is New
[2:22] York has become their territory as well.
[2:24] It wasn't Colombia or Bolivia or Peru.
[2:27] Now it's New York City as well.
[2:29] >> In the past 6 years, as many as 70
[2:31] journalists have been killed in Colombia
[2:33] for exposing the drug lords in their
[2:35] country. But never before have American
[2:37] journalists felt threatened at home.
[2:39] They don't uh engage in retribution
[2:42] against our institutions, our
[2:45] journalists, our judges. So this would
[2:46] be precedent breaking.
[2:48] >> Maria Jimenez worked at Colombia's
[2:50] Elador newspaper and survived a
[2:52] terrorist bombing in 1989. She says the
[2:55] assassination of the Dios sends a clear
[2:58] message.
[2:59] >> This is a call for the American society
[3:01] to to you know to understand that the
[3:05] drug war has never end. The drug war is
[3:08] a reality.
[3:10] >> Police say who the assassins are is
[3:12] still open for speculation. But if it
[3:14] was the cartel, the Dios's murder has
[3:16] opened a whole new chapter in the war on
[3:19] drugs. Jazelle Fernandez, CBS News, New
[3:22] York.
[3:23] >> The streets of New York and Los Angeles
[3:25] are a long way from the mountains and
[3:27] jungles of Latin America, but there is
[3:29] connection. In South America's cocaine
[3:31] country, drugs go handin hand with
[3:33] violence and revolution. Nowhere is the
[3:35] combination more deadly than in the high
[3:38] country of Peru, where a fanatical
[3:40] communist movement is taking up arms
[3:42] against the government and against the
[3:44] USbacked war on drugs. CBS News
[3:47] correspondent Juan Vasquez reports from
[3:49] inside Peru.
[3:57] It looks, sounds, and feels like a
[3:59] communist indoctrination center, a
[4:01] training camp for the Shining Path
[4:03] gorillas of Peru.
[4:09] But it's a maximum security prison where
[4:12] the government holds hundreds of
[4:13] guerillas accused of everything from
[4:15] political crimes to murder. The Peruvian
[4:17] government is so intimidated that it
[4:20] allows the Shining Path to control its
[4:21] own wing of the prison. CBS News was the
[4:24] first American television crew had
[4:26] inside.
[4:31] >> The prison yard is a stage for political
[4:33] theater. The prison walls, an art
[4:35] gallery honoring the party founder who
[4:38] calls himself President Gonzalo.
[4:40] >> They see themselves now as the remaining
[4:43] beacon of communism purity in the world.
[4:48] >> The strategy is straight out of Mount
[4:50] Saiton. capture the countryside,
[4:52] strangle the cities. After 12 years of
[4:55] war and 25,000 deaths, they've moved
[4:57] into the shanty towns of the capital
[4:59] with foray into the main streets. Now,
[5:02] as the US becomes more involved in drug
[5:04] interdiction, they're targeting
[5:06] Americans, downing a helicopter in which
[5:09] three US citizens were killed, placing a
[5:11] huge car bomb near the home of the US
[5:14] ambassador. For the United States to
[5:17] face a Peru in which a Cime Rouge kind
[5:20] of government came to power would be
[5:22] intrinsically destabilizing to Latin
[5:25] America.
[5:25] >> The Shining Path isn't trying to win the
[5:27] hearts and minds of the people. They
[5:28] want to gain control through fear and
[5:30] violence. Their methods are swift and
[5:32] often extremely brutal.
[5:36] >> This woman was the deputy mayor of a
[5:38] Shanny Town. Her crime was to promote
[5:40] soup kitchens to criticize the violence
[5:43] of The Shining Path. One day after these
[5:45] pictures were taken, she was shot to
[5:47] death. The killers placed 10 pounds of
[5:50] dynamite under her body and blew her up.
[5:56] Experts didn't foresee an imminent
[5:58] victory for the Shining Path, but they
[6:00] note that President Gonzalo called the
[6:02] 80s the decade of struggle and called
[6:04] the '90s the decade of triumph. Juan
[6:08] Vasquez, CBS News, Lima.
[6:11] An ominous development today in the
[6:13] former Soviet Union. Independent Ukraine
[6:15] said it is halting the return of its
[6:17] tactical nuclear weapons to Russia. The
[6:20] Ukrainian president said he wants
[6:22] guarantees that the missiles will
[6:24] actually be destroyed, not redeployed in
[6:26] Russia or moved elsewhere. A senior
[6:29] official in Moscow is warning that
[6:31] nuclear weapons could soon wind up in
[6:33] places like Muslim dominated Azer Bjan.
[6:36] Anthony Mason has a report.
[6:41] The battle from Gorno Carabach came to
[6:44] Agdam today.
[6:48] >> For half an hour this morning, this
[6:50] Azarbajani village endured a relentless
[6:52] pounding from Armenian rocket fire. In
[6:55] the chaos, at least seven were killed
[6:56] and 27 injured. But Agdam was only the
[6:59] latest victim in a dispute that has
[7:01] defied all ceasefire efforts and
[7:04] ominously threatens to escalate. It's
[7:06] very important that this area which lies
[7:08] between three important powers Iran,
[7:12] Russia and Turkey be settled so that
[7:14] there is no international warfare
[7:17] arising from this this struggle
[7:20] >> in Brussels this week. NATO foreign
[7:22] ministers appealed for a political
[7:24] compromise and dispatched observers. An
[7:27] obscure region in the very south of the
[7:29] old Soviet Union, Negorno Carabach is an
[7:31] enclave of Christian Armenians inside
[7:34] Muslim Azerbahan. The Soviet army used
[7:37] to keep the lid on this ethnic powder
[7:39] keg. But now Moscow wants no part of the
[7:42] problem. Armenia and Azarbahan are both
[7:45] members of the Commonwealth, but the
[7:46] Commonwealth military commanders insist
[7:48] this isn't their fight.
[7:52] It's time to pull out, Russia's vice
[7:54] president declared today after winning
[7:56] the release of 10 bruised officers held
[7:59] hostage by Armenian militants demanding
[8:01] weapons. Stolen Soviet hardware has
[8:04] become the main ammunition for both
[8:05] guerilla armies. In Ogdam today,
[8:08] hundreds tried to escape the advancing
[8:10] Armenian fighters and a village in
[8:12] complete ruin. Still, no political
[8:14] solution is in sight to put out the
[8:16] spreading fire. Anthony Mason, CBS News,
[8:19] Moscow.
[8:21] And still ahead on tonight's CBS Evening
[8:23] News, some of America's top business
[8:25] leaders look at the economy. They don't
[8:27] like what they see. And in the wake of
[8:30] the House check bouncing scandal,
[8:32] members begin to step up and fess up.
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[9:43] An official government report says
[9:45] business was better for America's
[9:46] retailers last month. This report says
[9:48] sales shot up 1.3%. That's the second
[9:51] strong increase this year. A sign the
[9:54] country could be pulling out of the
[9:55] recession. America's top corporate
[9:58] executives see better times ahead to the
[9:59] economy. But in what will be a surprise
[10:01] to some, these corporate executives say
[10:04] it's no thanks to the chief executives.
[10:06] CBS News money correspondent Ray Brody
[10:08] has the results of an exclusive new
[10:10] survey of the men and women who hire and
[10:13] fire.
[10:16] There's a real surprise in this CBS News
[10:18] New York Times poll of business leaders.
[10:21] 60% of those surveyed describe
[10:24] themselves as Republican, but more than
[10:26] half of those we talked to disapprove of
[10:29] the way President Bush has handled the
[10:31] economy. Almost 500 corporate executives
[10:34] were interviewed over the last few
[10:36] weeks. When asked to analyze the
[10:38] economy, 71% called it bad. Yet, when
[10:43] asked about the outlook, nearly half of
[10:45] those surveyed say they are hopeful
[10:47] about the future. How hopeful? More than
[10:50] half say the economy will grow a week,
[10:53] 2% a year or less.
[10:55] >> Think the economy will be stagnant for
[10:58] at least till the middle of 1993.
[11:01] We've been holding back on some
[11:02] investments. We've been holding back on
[11:03] on bringing people back until we see
[11:05] where the direction of the economy in
[11:07] '92.
[11:08] >> And what about jobs? Talking about the
[11:10] workforce at their own companies, more
[11:13] than half expected to remain steady. Not
[11:16] much firing maybe, but only a little
[11:18] more than a third of the executives
[11:20] expect to be hiring. Further indication
[11:23] of a weak recovery.
[11:24] >> In the short term, we will probably be
[11:26] holding steady. I don't see any boom
[11:29] coming. on how to stimulate recovery.
[11:32] 62% of the business people have one
[11:35] suggestion, cut taxes. In an earlier
[11:38] survey of the general public, however,
[11:41] more than half the people said the way
[11:42] to bring on recovery is to create jobs,
[11:46] but say business leaders, we can't do it
[11:48] alone. I
[11:49] >> think the government has to give
[11:50] incentives to business to create jobs.
[11:53] The views of these business leaders
[11:55] could be the key to the future because
[11:57] few other groups have their power to
[11:59] influence change. When they're
[12:01] optimistic, they expand their companies
[12:03] and jobs are created. When they're
[12:05] cautious, they cut back and the economy
[12:08] simply muddles along. Ray Brady, CBS
[12:11] News, New York.
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[14:03] >> Ed Bradley. Street stories tonight.
[14:07] >> It looks like you may find out one of
[14:09] the government's biggest election year
[14:10] secrets. After all, the names of
[14:12] hundreds of current and former members
[14:14] of Congress who used the House Bank to
[14:16] write bad checks. Correspondent Mark
[14:18] Phillips is following the bouncing check
[14:20] story on Capitol Hill. Mark,
[14:23] >> Dan, there's been much talk here today
[14:24] about a so-called smell test that there
[14:26] was so much of an odor around recent
[14:28] congressional efforts to release only
[14:30] the names of the worst check bounce
[14:31] offenders that even Congress couldn't
[14:33] stand it. Well, today, Congress changed
[14:35] its mind. Now, all of the recent
[14:37] offenders will be named. The House will
[14:40] be in order.
[14:42] >> As the House opened its session today,
[14:44] more than 60 members, including House
[14:45] Leader Tom Foley, had already admitted
[14:48] that they had indeed bounced checks at
[14:49] the now closed House Bank. More names
[14:52] will likely follow.
[14:53] >> If my constituents didn't forgive
[14:54] sloppiness, then a certain amount of
[14:56] eccentricity, I wouldn't have been here
[14:58] in the first place.
[14:58] >> And I told him that I was an industrial
[15:00] strength overdraft protection user.
[15:02] California Republican Duncan Hunter not
[15:05] only admitting he was a bouncer, but
[15:07] justifying the practice and criticizing
[15:09] the retroactive morality now in vogue.
[15:12] >> And this was a practice, a policy
[15:14] practice for decades to retroactively
[15:17] withdraw that and post those checks and
[15:20] somehow stigmatize the checks.
[15:21] >> That's what bothered some check
[15:23] bouncers. But the dominant smell here
[15:25] today was fear. Fear of voter reaction
[15:28] from an electorate which had a low
[15:29] opinion of Congress even before this
[15:31] mess. There will be many many members uh
[15:34] who uh will be taken out, will lose
[15:37] their reelection uh because of their
[15:40] record of uh of bounce checks,
[15:42] >> which is why both parties today and
[15:44] particularly the Democratic House
[15:46] leadership decided to try to cut their
[15:48] losses and come clean. The plan now is
[15:50] for all 355 current and former members
[15:53] who have written rubber checks to be
[15:55] named. a requirement in order to uh make
[15:58] it clear that we are not keeping any
[16:01] information back.
[16:02] >> And it's little visual aids like this
[16:04] one that make a concentrated minds here.
[16:06] It's an actual rubber check, a piece of
[16:08] campaign literature issued by a
[16:10] candidate who would like to have two
[16:12] sitting members of the house bounced.
[16:14] Just another reminder that this check
[16:16] bounce issue will be bouncing through
[16:17] this campaign in the coming months. Dan
[16:20] >> Mark Phillips on Capitol Hill. Thanks.
[16:23] The Bush Quail re-election campaign is
[16:25] trying to stop talk that the campaign is
[16:27] so far ineffectual. Now, there's talk
[16:30] that President Bush would like to reach
[16:32] out to the man who ran his most
[16:33] effective attack ads, his negative ad
[16:36] campaign in 1988. Susan Spencer has more
[16:39] about the latest Bush Quail strategy.
[16:42] >> Mr. Bush was back to being presidential
[16:44] today, doing what presidents can do and
[16:47] candidates can't. Speaking in the Rose
[16:49] Garden, hobnobbing with the powerful.
[16:51] I'm just delighted
[16:53] uh to see his majesty again.
[16:56] >> With the big primary victories behind
[16:58] him, supporters are relieved that the
[16:59] president has suspended his frantic road
[17:01] trips, but distressed at the ever
[17:04] plummeting approval ratings. Some blame
[17:06] a campaign still reeling from Pat
[17:08] Buchanan and one without a consistent
[17:11] coherent message.
[17:12] >> Sooner or later, you got to remind
[17:14] people of of what it is that you're
[17:16] proud of that you've done as president
[17:17] and what you're going to do in the
[17:18] future. and I and I just don't know that
[17:21] that's coming across right now.
[17:23] >> The White House response has been to
[17:24] shake up the speech office, adding
[17:26] writers, as is the campaign. The
[17:28] campaign also plans to expand its ad
[17:31] team, described by one aid as without a
[17:33] strategy. Their efforts came in
[17:35] comparison to the 1988 attack spot ad
[17:38] whiz Roger Als produced.
[17:40] >> His revolving door prison policy gave
[17:42] weekend furlows to first-degree
[17:44] murderers not eligible for parole. Both
[17:46] Als and the campaign deny emphatically
[17:49] that he's coming back to help. Though he
[17:51] does serve as an informal adviser,
[17:53] officials talk to him frequently about
[17:55] strategy and say he would sure be
[17:56] welcome. For some Republicans, though,
[17:59] that's not the point.
[18:00] >> The problem has not been with getting
[18:03] his message out. The problem has been
[18:05] with the message. And it's and
[18:07] essentially it's been that the
[18:08] perception is that there's not much in
[18:10] the way of a message.
[18:12] >> The president's message in coming weeks
[18:13] will be his economic plan. His next
[18:16] opportunity to score big a week from
[18:18] Friday. His line in the sand deadline
[18:21] for Congress. The hottest debate around
[18:23] here these days. Okay. The deadline
[18:25] passes. Then what? Susan Spencer, CBS
[18:28] News. The White House.
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[20:26] >> The vice president of North Korea denied
[20:28] today that a Korean ship carried Scud
[20:30] missiles to Iran. The ship docked in
[20:32] Iran this week after completely eluding
[20:34] a US military drag net in the Indian
[20:36] Ocean. Iran and Syria both blasted the
[20:39] United States today for even trying to
[20:41] interfere with the ship. Syrian
[20:43] President Assad accused the US of acting
[20:45] like a pirate
[20:48] from around the world. Now, more CBS
[20:50] news. At the United Nations, Saddam
[20:52] Hussein's chief envoy complained about
[20:54] the terms of the Gulf War ceasefire. The
[20:57] UN Security Council rejected his
[20:59] argument and the US and British
[21:01] delegates raised the threat of election
[21:04] year force to make Iraq reveal its
[21:06] secret arms facilities. Upstate New York
[21:09] got one of the heaviest March snowfalls
[21:11] ever, up to 4 in an hour, more than 2
[21:14] feet in all.
[21:16] Jim and Tammy Fay Baker are splitting
[21:18] up. Tammy Fay announced today she is
[21:20] divorcing the former TV preacher who is
[21:23] now serving 18 years in prisons for
[21:25] defrauding his flock. Tammy says she and
[21:27] Jim remain good friends. And Warren
[21:30] Batty, Hollywood's longest running
[21:32] bachelor, has married Annette Benning,
[21:34] his co-star in the film Bugsy. Batty
[21:36] turns 55 this month. They have a
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[23:52] Here's an experiment you can try. Next
[23:55] time you're in a group of people, look
[23:57] around. Chances are the average person
[23:59] is well average looking. Now compare
[24:03] them with the people in say soap opers
[24:05] or advertisements. Notice any
[24:08] difference? There's an unspoken message
[24:11] out there and it's getting through loud
[24:13] and clear as Meredith Fier reports in
[24:15] tonight's Eye on America.
[24:19] Anyone here ever been on a diet?
[24:20] >> I know a friend who's had and she was
[24:23] only in second grade and we were in
[24:24] second grade together and I thought it
[24:26] was the stupidest thing because she was
[24:28] already so skinny and she was going on a
[24:31] diet for nothing. Eda may be right, but
[24:33] she's growing up in a society where
[24:35] females are more obsessed with their
[24:37] bodies than ever before and more unhappy
[24:39] with what they see. Those bad feelings
[24:42] start early.
[24:43] >> What do you like the least about the way
[24:45] you look?
[24:47] >> My thighs.
[24:48] >> Your thighs.
[24:49] >> They're fat.
[24:50] >> A recent study of little girls in San
[24:52] Francisco found that 80% of them had
[24:55] gone on a diet before the age of 10. By
[24:58] the time they're dawn of age, 30 to 40%
[25:00] will consider themselves overweight,
[25:03] even though they're not.
[25:04] >> Is there a day that goes by when you
[25:06] don't think about food?
[25:08] >> No.
[25:10] >> There are days that go by that I don't
[25:12] think about food as much.
[25:13] >> Girls picked this up at a very young age
[25:15] from their mothers, from their teachers,
[25:18] from their older sisters. Um, it's
[25:21] everywhere.
[25:29] You know, enough is enough. Sometimes
[25:30] I'll leaf through and after the the, you
[25:33] know, 100th page of beautiful thin women
[25:36] who are perfect in every way or quote
[25:38] perfect in every way. It it gets a
[25:41] little bit much.
[25:41] >> Donna and her classmates at Yale believe
[25:43] they're too smart to fall into the
[25:45] beautiful body trap. But they may be its
[25:48] most likely victims simply because they
[25:50] are so smart. Everywhere they look,
[25:53] society tells them true success is
[25:55] measured in dress size. With enough
[25:57] makeup and exercise and cosmetic
[25:59] surgery, you too can be perfect.
[26:02] Genetics alone guarantee it's an
[26:04] impossible ideal. Yet millions of women
[26:07] keep chasing after it. People really do
[26:09] feel now if they're not perfect that
[26:13] somehow it's their own fault. There's a
[26:15] great deal of shame that women in
[26:17] particular experience between what they
[26:19] feel is their self and what society sets
[26:23] up as the ideal. The gap between real
[26:25] women's bodies and the body ideal has
[26:27] grown ever larger since the 50s. Back
[26:30] then, even beauty queens had bulges and
[26:32] buttocks. Today, the average model
[26:35] weighs 23% less than the average 144 lb
[26:39] woman who wants to look like her. Yet we
[26:41] still buy this notion that Finn is
[26:44] normal.
[26:44] >> This ideal sort of replaced the blissed
[26:47] out, happy housewife of the 50s uh as
[26:49] sort of the the dominant um image that
[26:51] we were all supposed to live up to.
[26:53] >> Author Naomi Wolf believes this emphasis
[26:55] on beauty is really a deliberate attempt
[26:57] to keep women down, part of a backlash
[27:00] against feminism. So, it's a way to keep
[27:02] an Achilles heel of vulnerability always
[27:05] uh available for manipulation in women
[27:07] who are otherwise reaching further and
[27:09] further and beginning to feel better and
[27:11] better about themselves. There are many
[27:13] women who really just obsess. It drains
[27:16] energy from their life. They never feel
[27:18] good enough. So, lots of women have less
[27:22] fulfilled lives than they ought to.
[27:25] There is something wrong with a society
[27:27] that spends more on cosmetics and
[27:29] exercise and plastic surgery than it
[27:31] does on social services or education.
[27:34] And there's something reassuring about
[27:37] little girls who still think being made
[27:39] of sugar and spice is nice.
[27:41] >> Even if you have, I don't know, three
[27:43] surgeries, you're still going to get
[27:45] old. I mean, I don't think I'm going to
[27:47] like have a surgery, plastic surgery or
[27:49] anything when I grow up cuz there's
[27:50] really no point of it. If you look that
[27:52] way, you look that way. And that's it.
[27:55] >> The girls may have a point, but cosmetic
[27:57] surgery is still up 69% over the past
[28:00] decade. The diet industry will rake in
[28:03] 33 billion this year. And every minute,
[28:06] we buy another 1,400 tubes of lipstick.
[28:09] In New York, Merida Fierra for Eye on
[28:12] America.
[28:14] >> And that's part of our world tonight.
[28:18] Thank you to all of those of you who
[28:19] have called in. You're very appreciated.
[28:22] Now, stay tuned for the McNeel Lair
[28:24] NewsHour.
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