World News Tonight (ABC) - 1992-03-08

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[0:01] [music]

[0:03] >> From ABC News, World News Sunday. Here's

[0:08] Forrest Sawyer.

[0:09] >> Good evening. Now the campaign for the

[0:10] Democratic presidential nomination is

[0:12] down to just three candidates. Senator

[0:14] Tom Harkin is announcing his withdrawal

[0:16] from the race tomorrow. Harkin

[0:18] campaigned as an old-time liberal but

[0:21] found few people drawn to the message.

[0:22] In all but three state contests, he

[0:25] finished far behind the front-runners.

[0:28] ABC's Cokie Roberts has more.

[0:30] >> I'm Tom Harkin and I'm running for

[0:32] president.

[0:34] >> The Iowa senator got into the race as a

[0:36] prairie populist with strong labor union

[0:39] backing, claiming for himself the title

[0:41] of the one true Democrat of 1992.

[0:45] >> And I'll make this party win again in

[0:46] this country.

[0:47] >> His opponent ceded the first contest in

[0:50] his home state of Iowa to Harkin, but

[0:52] battled hard in New Hampshire, where

[0:54] high unemployment rates might have made

[0:56] his liberal message saleable. Harkin's

[0:59] weak fourth-place showing there

[1:00] effectively knocked him out of the

[1:02] running. Though he managed to hold on

[1:04] long enough to see victories in

[1:06] Minnesota and Idaho, he needed more than

[1:09] that to keep the campaign contributions

[1:11] coming.

[1:12] >> He said that old-time Democratic

[1:14] religion, uh, but it sounded to many

[1:16] voters kind of antique and out of date.

[1:19] >> Up-to-date Democrats are choosing more

[1:21] moderate candidates this year. And when

[1:23] voters see Washington is the enemy, it

[1:26] didn't help Tom Harkin to have US

[1:28] Senator in front of his name. Cokie

[1:31] Roberts, ABC News, Washington.

[1:34] >> Bill Clinton may gain the most from

[1:36] Harkin's withdrawal, drawing the support

[1:38] of labor and African Americans who may

[1:40] have been inclined to to support the

[1:41] Iowa senator. But Clinton has to

[1:43] overcome these latest allegations that

[1:45] surfaced today that he and his wife may

[1:48] have been engaged in an inappropriate

[1:50] business deal.

[1:51] Chris Bury has the tales.

[1:54] >> Governor Clinton tried to keep his eyes

[1:56] on the prize today, the Texas jackpot of

[1:58] delegates in Tuesday's primary. But once

[2:01] more, his campaign got distracted.

[2:04] Today's New York Times raises questions

[2:06] about a real estate deal involving

[2:08] Clinton, his wife Hillary, and an

[2:10] Arkansas developer James McDougal. In

[2:13] 1978, the Times says they entered a

[2:15] joint venture to develop Ozark vacation

[2:18] property.

[2:19] The deal raises questions, according to

[2:21] the Times, because it claims the

[2:23] Clintons were under little financial

[2:24] risk. And as governor, Clinton was in

[2:27] business with McDougal, who also owned a

[2:30] failing savings and loan, regulated by

[2:32] the state, and represented by Hillary

[2:35] Clinton's law firm. This afternoon,

[2:37] Clinton responded.

[2:38] >> When I entered this real estate

[2:40] development with Jim McDougal,

[2:43] he was not in the S&L business.

[2:46] >> As for the role of Clinton's wife

[2:47] Hillary,

[2:48] >> I mean, her law firm represents a lot of

[2:50] clients who have business with the

[2:51] state, but she has never

[2:54] She has never intervened in the

[2:56] substance of any matter relating to

[2:58] state regulation.

[2:59] >> In the end, Clinton said he lost more

[3:01] than $25,000

[3:03] on the venture.

[3:04] >> Turned out to be a bad investment, and

[3:05] we lost what was for us a lot of money.

[3:08] >> In the acrid political atmosphere,

[3:10] Clinton's opponents wasted no time

[3:12] making hay.

[3:13] >> The idea that you're in a business

[3:15] relationship with a

[3:16] someone [snorts] you regulate,

[3:18] I think is an error in judgment.

[3:21] >> What it shows is that Bill Clinton

[3:23] thinks he's above the law.

[3:25] >> In the critical days before Super

[3:27] Tuesday, Governor Clinton once more is

[3:29] engaged in a juggling act, struggling to

[3:32] get out his message at the same time he

[3:34] practices damage control. Chris Bury,

[3:36] ABC News, Austin.

[3:39] >> Clinton's chief rival, Paul Tsongas, has

[3:41] his work cut out for him Super Tuesday,

[3:43] trying to do well on Clinton's home

[3:45] turf, the South. Today, Tsongas was in

[3:48] Nashville, and ABC's Judy Muller was

[3:50] with him.

[3:52] >> [music]

[3:53] >> Tsongas attended a service at a

[3:54] predominantly black church in Nashville

[3:56] this morning. He picked up the

[3:57] endorsement of the pastor who said he

[3:59] had been impressed with Tsongas after

[4:01] seeing him on television.

[4:02] >> I saw someone

[4:06] who was tough but tender.

[4:08] >> And as Tsongas helped the children

[4:10] collect their offerings, he picked up

[4:11] another endorsement.

[4:12] >> What did you say, young man?

[4:14] >> He looks like the president.

[4:15] >> He looks like the president, he said.

[4:20] DID YOU HEAR THAT?

[4:21] >> TSONGAS TOUCHED a chord with the

[4:22] congregation when he talked about how

[4:24] his battle with cancer had taught him to

[4:25] have purpose in his life.

[4:27] >> If we are a spiritual

[4:30] if God is not part of us, what are we?

[4:33] We live, we eat, we breathe, we die,

[4:36] gone.

[4:39] >> [music and singing]

[4:41] >> For a candidate who concedes he got off

[4:43] to a slow start in the South, Tsongas

[4:45] feels he is finally getting into the

[4:46] swing of things. But speaking on This

[4:48] Week with David Brinkley, he also

[4:50] conceded that his conservative fiscal

[4:52] message is out of sync with his own

[4:54] party.

[4:54] >> I'm the agent of change. I'm trying to

[4:56] bring in new economics

[4:58] to the Democratic Party. And the fact

[4:59] is, if you know, it's really the machine

[5:01] against the message.

[5:03] >> Tsongas says his message is getting

[5:04] through in the South, pointing to a

[5:06] number of newspaper endorsements,

[5:07] including the Tennessean. That may not

[5:09] mean much. He also won newspaper

[5:11] endorsements in Georgia where Clinton

[5:13] won the vote. Judy Miller, ABC News,

[5:16] Nashville.

[5:17] >> As for the Republicans, advisers to

[5:19] President Bush had been hoping they

[5:21] could deliver a knockout punch to Pat

[5:22] Buchanan in the early primaries. But

[5:25] Buchanan has now made it clear no amount

[5:27] of punching will take him out of the

[5:28] race. He believes his underdog challenge

[5:31] is setting the tone of the campaign.

[5:34] ABC's Ann Compton has more.

[5:37] >> 48 hours before Super Tuesday, President

[5:40] Bush left the campaign trail for the

[5:41] seclusion of Camp David, saying he feels

[5:44] confident because he has campaigned with

[5:47] dignity.

[5:48] But all week he was dogged by indignant

[5:50] complaints about flip-flopping,

[5:52] especially when he stopped defending his

[5:54] broken read my lips pledge.

[5:56] >> Yes, a mistake.

[5:58] >> Challenger Patrick Buchanan declared

[6:00] today he now controls the election year

[6:02] agenda and said that counts more than

[6:05] convention delegates.

[6:06] >> I can lose 50 primaries or caucuses to

[6:08] George Bush, but we are winning this

[6:11] national debate and bringing him in our

[6:12] direction and we're going to fight for

[6:14] the heart and soul of the party at that

[6:15] convention.

[6:16] >> Strategists within the GOP agree the

[6:19] Buchanan challenge has robbed the Bush

[6:21] campaign of its effectiveness.

[6:23] >> When the campaign was formed, they were

[6:24] on the battlefield. They had to load up

[6:26] guns and start shooting and there was

[6:28] not a lot of time to sit down and put in

[6:29] place big strategy because you're going

[6:31] to die if you spend too long

[6:32] strategizing.

[6:33] >> Damage control, Republicans say, must

[6:35] start next week.

[6:36] >> They're going to stop this campaigning,

[6:38] this this this flopping around the

[6:40] country, charging from one spot to the

[6:42] next with nothing to say.

[6:44] And they'll go back to being what he

[6:45] ought to be and that is to be the

[6:47] president. That's his single greatest

[6:48] asset.

[6:49] >> The strategists say there's a danger in

[6:51] this scenario, too. The voters, they

[6:53] say, don't want the status quo. They're

[6:55] looking for change. In fact, they're

[6:57] demanding it.

[6:59] Ann Compton, ABC News, the White House.

[7:01] >> There is some voting today. The state of

[7:02] Nevada is holding its Democratic

[7:04] caucuses with just 11% of the vote in.

[7:07] Clinton is tied with uncommitted, each

[7:10] with 16% of the delegates to the state

[7:12] convention. Jerry Brown is next with 8%

[7:15] followed by Paul Tsongas with 6%. Now,

[7:18] with Tsongas winning the Arizona

[7:20] caucuses yesterday, the Democratic

[7:22] national delegate count looks like this.

[7:24] Clinton leads with 200

[7:26] 81, followed by Tsongas with 146.

[7:30] Harkin bows out with 113 delegates.

[7:32] Jerry Brown has 50. ABC's political

[7:35] director Hal Bruno is following the

[7:37] latest developments in campaign '92. Tom

[7:39] Harkin is folding up his tent. What does

[7:41] that do to the campaign?

[7:43] >> Well, it's been a two-man race uh for

[7:45] several weeks now and it just emphasizes

[7:47] that. Uh Harkin uh may have been a

[7:49] factor in Michigan where he had support

[7:51] of the United Auto Workers and a Mayor

[7:53] Coleman Young. And that would have

[7:55] helped Paul Tsongas because he would

[7:56] have prevented Bill Clinton from getting

[7:58] some of that black vote and some of the

[8:00] labor vote. But now with Harkin out, it

[8:02] makes it that much easier for Clinton in

[8:04] Michigan and in Illinois on the same

[8:06] day.

[8:07] >> Look ahead now to to Super Tuesday.

[8:08] That's a big day.

[8:09] >> Super Tuesday is working the way it's

[8:11] supposed to work. It was created 4 years

[8:13] ago to help a Southern candidate and 4

[8:15] years ago it backfired. It helped

[8:17] Dukakis and it helped Jesse Jackson.

[8:19] This time it's helping Bill Clinton.

[8:20] There's about 600 delegates coming out

[8:23] of those Southern states and even if he

[8:25] loses Florida to Tsongas or it's close

[8:27] there, Bill Clinton is going to get a

[8:28] majority of those delegates and that

[8:30] means the delegate count now takes over

[8:32] the campaign and Clinton's going to come

[8:34] out of Super Tuesday, if things go

[8:36] according to form, with a tremendous

[8:38] lead in delegates going into Illinois

[8:40] and Michigan.

[8:40] >> Political director Hal Bruno, thank you,

[8:42] Hal.

[8:42] >> And coming up, a look inside Moscow's

[8:45] black market. And later in the

[8:46] broadcast, how one corporation is

[8:49] opening new doors for unwed mothers.

[8:52] And the New York Mets try once more to

[8:54] become baseball's comeback kids.

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[10:08] >> International news, Israel today urged

[10:10] the US to stop hesitating and intercept

[10:13] that North Korean freighter that is

[10:15] believed to be carrying advanced Scud

[10:17] missiles to either Iran or Syria.

[10:20] That led a number of Persian Gulf

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[10:29] In Moscow this weekend, the Russian

[10:30] government lifted its remaining price

[10:32] controls on bread, milk, sugar, and

[10:35] other essential food products. Now, the

[10:36] move is supposed to strengthen the drive

[10:39] to a free market economy, but dropping

[10:41] controls has actually led to

[10:43] skyrocketing prices, which has helped

[10:45] the black market more than the free

[10:47] market. ABC's Walter Rodgers explains.

[10:51] >> Not expensive, only for you, 600 rubles.

[10:55] >> Russian entrepreneurs hawk souvenirs.

[10:58] New sidewalk shops replace Moscow's

[11:00] empty government stores. Even consumer

[11:03] goods are available, but at prices few

[11:05] here can afford. Russians call this a

[11:08] market economy, but it may have more in

[11:10] common with the third world than the

[11:12] west.

[11:15] Political instability hampers transition

[11:17] to a genuine market economy. So does the

[11:20] communist legacy of enormous corruption.

[11:22] These are the new black marketeers

[11:24] making off with European food aid.

[11:27] Police witnessing this warned us not to

[11:29] get too close or we could get hurt.

[11:31] Tatiana Korolova practices business law.

[11:34] >> Sometimes I compare Moscow with Chicago

[11:36] in

[11:37] in 1930s.

[11:40] Because of you know, corruption and all

[11:42] that stuff.

[11:43] >> These sidewalk stores illustrate some of

[11:45] the contradictions on Russia's road to a

[11:48] free market. Most of what's for sale

[11:50] here is produced in the West. Russia's

[11:52] economy remains paralyzed. No one owns

[11:55] their own business here. These shops are

[11:57] owned by commercial cartels, the Moscow

[12:00] mafia. Leather-jacketed enforcers make

[12:02] certain no one tries to undersell prices

[12:04] set by absentee bosses who quash

[12:07] competition.

[12:09] Moscow's commodities market has a wild

[12:11] west atmosphere. But unlike America's

[12:14] Vanderbilt's or Rockefellers, Russia's

[12:16] robber barons are mere speculators. The

[12:18] only thing they build is personal

[12:20] fortunes. Those at the bottom of

[12:22] Russia's economic ladder, the 95% who

[12:25] now live below the poverty line, deeply

[12:27] resent the new capitalists.

[12:30] >> These people produce nothing. They don't

[12:33] work. They get paid merely to move

[12:35] goods. And we are their victims.

[12:38] >> The second Russian revolution has given

[12:39] this country a second chance at

[12:41] capitalism. But so far, it has very

[12:44] shallow roots. It appears to be no more

[12:46] secure than Russia's fragile political

[12:48] reforms. Walter Rodgers, ABC News,

[12:51] Moscow.

[12:53] >> And when we come back, another chance

[12:55] for teenage mothers.

[13:01] >> Recently, DuPont announced that its

[13:03] energy unit Conoco would pioneer the use

[13:05] of [music] new double-hulled oil tankers

[13:06] in order to safeguard the environment.

[13:16] The response has been OVERWHELMINGLY

[13:19] POSITIVE.

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[13:31] >> I need a laxative that can work

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[13:35] >> But can it be gentle?

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[13:53] all I've worked for.

[13:55] >> We

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[13:58] >> There are [music] people who really

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[14:04] >> They lent me the money.

[14:06] Without [music] it, Debbie couldn't have

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[14:53] >> [music]

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[14:58] >> [music]

[14:59] >> see your Allstate agent.

[15:03] >> At least a million unmarried teenage

[15:05] girls get pregnant every year, and more

[15:07] than half of them carry their babies to

[15:09] term.

[15:10] For many teenagers, having a baby means

[15:12] the end of their education and the

[15:13] beginning of a life of hardship.

[15:16] But for a lucky few in Minneapolis, an

[15:18] unusual school called New New

[15:21] is helping young mothers on welfare

[15:23] create a whole new future.

[15:25] Kathleen Delaski reports.

[15:27] >> At 16, Lisa Drift has one baby and is

[15:31] expecting another, but she's at the bus

[15:33] stop each morning ready for school.

[15:36] Angela Lyons has three children. Mom and

[15:39] toddlers climb on the bus together.

[15:43] This school bus is full of unwed teenage

[15:46] mothers and their unexpected babies. At

[15:49] first glance, a busload full of

[15:51] problems.

[15:53] Until the bus arrives at the corporate

[15:55] headquarters of Honeywell. There is a

[15:57] public school on the premises of this

[15:59] private company.

[16:01] 35 babies go to one room for daycare, 32

[16:04] mothers to another room for high school.

[16:07] >> They let you have time away from your

[16:09] baby, but you still know it's in the

[16:11] next room.

[16:12] >> I'm junior.

[16:13] >> Just like me.

[16:14] >> Public school teachers run the classes

[16:16] and volunteers from Honeywell, like this

[16:18] rocket scientist, take turns tutoring.

[16:21] >> It depends on the shape of the base.

[16:26] >> And some classes on parenting include

[16:29] the children.

[16:29] >> Along came Mr. Duck.

[16:31] >> It opened only last year, but already

[16:34] it's clear that the program is opening

[16:36] eyes and doors. Of the five teenage

[16:38] mothers who graduated last spring, all

[16:41] are either in college or starting soon,

[16:44] whereas none had clear plans for college

[16:46] before coming here.

[16:47] >> Look at yourself in the mirror. Look.

[16:49] >> Sonia Lewis got pregnant during her

[16:51] junior year in high school.

[16:53] >> When I found out I was pregnant, I was

[16:54] just like, "Oh, no, my dreams,

[16:56] everything that I wanted to do is just

[16:59] gone down the drain."

[17:00] >> You can use Harlem Renaissance.

[17:01] >> But now Sonia is the first in her family

[17:04] to attend college. The teachers and

[17:06] counselors and babysitters at New Vistas

[17:09] became a family that helped her stay in

[17:11] school. How many of you would have had

[17:13] to have quit high school if it weren't

[17:14] for this program?

[17:16] >> The youngsters are motivated to succeed

[17:20] because they see light at the end of the

[17:22] tunnel.

[17:23] >> The light is the professional world. The

[17:26] mothers do internships at Honeywell, and

[17:28] some get paid summer jobs. Opportunities

[17:31] that most teenagers never hope for, with

[17:33] or without a baby.

[17:35] In the end, it is the babies that

[17:37] motivate the girls to seize

[17:38] opportunities.

[17:39] >> Before I wasn't really interested in

[17:41] school, now I like coming to school.

[17:43] I know I have to take care of him, and I

[17:44] want him to have the best, and so I know

[17:46] I have to do it.

[17:47] >> For teenage mothers, childhood ends

[17:49] suddenly. But here, unplanned babies

[17:52] become reasons to make plans and pursue

[17:54] dreams.

[18:00] >> One more

[18:00] >> Kathleen DeLaski, ABC News, Minneapolis.

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[20:18] David Brinkley, and the people of ABC

[20:20] News. Super Tuesday.

[20:22] >> [music]

[20:24] >> Our sports maven Ray Gandolf is in New

[20:27] York with a look at the New York Mets

[20:28] redemption squad, and he has today's

[20:30] news in college basketball. Ray.

[20:33] >> Thank you, Forrest. Well, the top three

[20:35] college basketball teams in the country

[20:37] all went into the arena today and one

[20:40] got punched out.

[20:42] Number one Duke was challenged almost

[20:44] all the way by North Carolina, but they

[20:46] wore down the Tar Heels at the end and

[20:49] won by 12 points.

[20:51] But, second ranked Indiana came a

[20:53] cropper at Michigan. Chris Webber had 19

[20:57] rebounds and Jimmy King 18 points for

[21:00] the Wolverines.

[21:01] Third ranked Kansas in a fight here held

[21:04] off a strong challenge from Missouri

[21:07] despite 43 points by Missouri's Anthony

[21:10] Peeler.

[21:12] >> In the month of August last year,

[21:14] baseball's New York Mets came apart like

[21:16] a cheap suit. Their clubhouse was awash

[21:19] with bickering and finger-pointing.

[21:22] The 1992 Mets have a lot of new faces, a

[21:25] new manager, and a new attitude.

[21:29] >> 2012, Mark.

[21:31] Where can I see a New York home boy play

[21:33] ball?

[21:34] >> In your face.

[21:35] >> Bobby Bonilla, already making

[21:37] commercials, is just one of a whole

[21:39] bunch of saviors the New York Mets have

[21:42] acquired to bring them back to life.

[21:45] >> Okay, give it to me again.

[21:47] >> Grounded by Johnson at [cheering] third.

[21:49] >> After finishing no worse than second in

[21:52] their division for seven straight years,

[21:54] the Mets tumbled to fifth last year,

[21:57] cleared their clubhouse of its

[21:59] malcontents and underachievers, and

[22:01] hired a new manager, Jeff Torborg, as

[22:04] head of the family.

[22:06] >> I don't know what went on here before,

[22:07] and I don't really want to know. All I

[22:08] care about is what goes on from now on.

[22:10] I just want to do what I know has been

[22:12] successful, and I know it's important to

[22:14] me, and that's the team/family

[22:17] idea philosophy of things.

[22:19] >> Besides Bobby Bonilla, Torborg's new

[22:22] family includes pitcher Bret Saberhagen.

[22:25] >> He's still young, 28 years old, two Cy

[22:27] Youngs,

[22:28] MVP in the World Series, competitor,

[22:31] gamer.

[22:34] Eddie Murray, on the way to the Hall of

[22:35] Fame. Keeps an infield alive. A

[22:37] tremendous leader, and of course in the

[22:39] clubhouse, which is something that I was

[22:40] looking for.

[22:42] >> Torborg also found Willie Randolph, the

[22:44] best double play-making second baseman

[22:47] in the game.

[22:48] >> Quiet,

[22:49] leader, winner type. You know, when

[22:51] somebody says winner, what does that

[22:52] mean? Well, this guy knows what it takes

[22:55] to win.

[22:55] >> Play good together team baseball. That's

[22:57] a key. Play together, you know, be you

[22:59] know, be a group, look out for each

[23:00] other, play hard. If we can do that with

[23:02] the talent we have, then then we got a

[23:04] good shot.

[23:05] >> Oh, that's in there.

[23:06] >> Bobby Bonilla will make over 5 million

[23:09] dollars this year, but neither that nor

[23:12] the fact that he's the product of a New

[23:13] York City ghetto makes him feel any

[23:16] pressure to succeed.

[23:17] >> I'm never going to have pressure on me,

[23:20] you know? I know

[23:22] several hundreds of thousands of kids

[23:24] that have a lot more pressure on them

[23:25] than I'll any kind of pressure that I'll

[23:28] ever have on myself.

[23:29] >> We went out not to just get talent, but

[23:31] we went out to get character and I think

[23:32] we built this club uh on both. They're

[23:34] the kind of guys that I like to play

[23:36] with, you know, they

[23:38] they all enjoy playing, you know, they

[23:39] they love the game

[23:41] and uh I think they really want to win

[23:43] and that's that's something that uh you

[23:45] know, always always gets my attention.

[23:47] >> Jeff Torborg came in the first day and

[23:48] laid the law down and said this is the

[23:50] way it's going to be. We're going to be

[23:51] a close family unit. I think at this

[23:53] point in time it's what we need.

[23:55] >> They still have to play 162 games and in

[23:58] New York where you're a king if you win,

[24:01] you're a bum if you don't.

[24:03] Still, on paper in March, the Mets look

[24:06] like the team to beat.

[24:08] >> How can you not win?

[24:11] >> Oh my gosh.

[24:13] Yeah.

[24:14] >> Win?

[24:15] That's that's all I want to do is win.

[24:17] Winning in the city of New York can be a

[24:18] very beautiful thing.

[24:21] >> And losing in the city of New York can

[24:23] be hazardous to your professional

[24:25] health. Welcome to the Big Apple gang.

[24:27] Good luck.

[24:29] Forrest?

[24:30] >> Thank you, Ray. And when we come back,

[24:31] the unexpected pleasures of going over

[24:34] the hill.

[24:39] >> We built [music] this business.

[24:41] >> He was wearing those night vision

[24:43] goggles, I mean.

[24:44] >> [music]

[24:45] >> Otherwise, he never could have seen me.

[24:47] Excuse me.

[24:48] >> Built this business.

[24:50] >> [music]

[24:52] >> They taught me computer drafting. I

[24:54] earned a degree. Now I've got a job.

[24:58] >> [music]

[24:58] >> They make the parts that connect my

[25:00] pacemaker.

[25:01] Never thought I'd be around to tell you

[25:02] that.

[25:03] >> We built this business [music] to

[25:06] BUILD YOUR DREAMS.

[25:07] >> [singing]

[25:13] >> OH MY GOD.

[25:15] >> [music]

[25:15] >> Think about your daydreams

[25:18] and what you would do

[25:20] if you won 10 million

[25:23] >> Oh.

[25:23] >> out of the blue.

[25:24] >> [music and singing]

[25:26] >> Imagine the bell rings,

[25:28] the winner

[25:29] is [music] you.

[25:31] Publishers Clearing House, the house

[25:35] of dreams come [music] true.

[25:39] >> Monday, how did an experiment change

[25:41] their minds about drinking? [music]

[25:43] >> Then has he found the secret to selling

[25:45] American cars? Plus Gina Davis on Good

[25:47] Morning America [music] Monday.

[25:50] >> For all you who've been saying you're

[25:51] too old and tired to get out and work up

[25:54] a sweat, we've got a group of people you

[25:56] should meet. Sports addicts, everyone,

[25:59] happily trying a little springtime

[26:01] skiing in the autumn of their lives.

[26:04] Here's Greg Dobbs.

[26:06] >> Retired cost accountant John Rhodes, age

[26:09] 78, reads a lot. His wife Laura, age 71,

[26:12] paints. Together, they do the sorts of

[26:15] things one expects of senior citizens.

[26:18] Sometimes.

[26:20] >> Spring dipper, let's go.

[26:22] >> Other times they ski, up to 100 days a

[26:25] season. Not with the hot doggers who

[26:27] still have strong knees, but with their

[26:30] own contemporaries.

[26:31] >> This crowd's been skiing so long we

[26:33] remember when sex was safe and skiing

[26:35] was dangerous.

[26:37] >> The crowd is part of a nationwide ski

[26:39] club called the Over the Hill Gang.

[26:41] Their motto, when you're over the hill,

[26:44] you pick up speed.

[26:45] >> Are you over the hill?

[26:47] >> I'm at the top of the hill. I'm at the

[26:49] crest.

[26:51] I've never had more fun in my whole

[26:52] life.

[26:53] >> He saw

[26:57] >> And sometimes upside down side, but

[27:00] these are not seniors who are just

[27:02] learning to ski. They are seniors who

[27:04] never saw any reason to stop.

[27:07] Tom Stein, who has come back from a

[27:09] major coronary and open heart surgery,

[27:12] was one of the founders.

[27:13] >> I don't have much patience with the the

[27:15] person who says, "Oh, I'm too old to ski

[27:17] or I can't ski."

[27:18] >> As a group, senior citizen skiers are

[27:21] growing twice as fast as any other group

[27:23] in the country. Resorts are now courting

[27:26] them.

[27:27] >> They have more time to enjoy sport like

[27:29] skiing. They have more disposable

[27:31] income. And seniors these days are are

[27:33] healthier than ever.

[27:34] >> And away we go.

[27:36] >> 3,000 people now belong to the Over the

[27:39] Hill Gang and the numbers can only grow.

[27:41] One senior watching this brood of

[27:43] beginners said, "That's our farm."

[27:46] >> All going to be served at this

[27:49] unbelievable

[27:51] price.

[27:52] Just $4.99.

[27:54] >> Announcing [music] the 25th anniversary

[27:56] Skipper's Platter, now through March

[27:57] 29th.

[27:58] >> You're going to love it.