CBS Evening News - 2002-01-18
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[0:01] Good and bad diets, [music] plus
[0:02] celebrity wedding news. Next CC.
[0:08] >> What he said, what he did, and who paid
[0:10] the price. How Enron's politically
[0:13] connected CEO advised employees to buy
[0:17] company stock while he was selling big.
[0:21] The head hunter of Osama bin Laden
[0:23] declares the whole world isn't big
[0:25] enough to hide him.
[0:27] A CBS News exclusive. Is Saddam Hussein
[0:31] back to making chemical, germ, even
[0:34] nuclear weapons and mass destruction
[0:38] nature's way. Hundreds of thousands flee
[0:41] a volcano's fiery fury.
[0:46] >> [music]
[0:49] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:52] Rather reporting from CBS [music] News
[0:54] headquarters in New York.
[0:57] >> Good evening. The government pressed its
[0:58] investigation of the collapse of the
[1:00] Enron company on multiple fronts today.
[1:03] There is growing evidence suggesting
[1:05] that a few top, politically
[1:07] well-connected Enron executives lined
[1:09] their own pockets while keeping workers
[1:12] in the dark about the threat to the
[1:14] company and their own futures. A new CBS
[1:17] News poll shows that among Americans who
[1:19] have been paying attention to the Enron
[1:21] story, an overwhelming 78% believe Enron
[1:24] executives did wrong. And nearly as
[1:27] many, 77% think the executives should
[1:30] not have been allowed to sell their
[1:31] stock while preventing workers from
[1:33] selling theirs. CBS's Cheryl Atkinson
[1:36] has more now in our ongoing CBS News
[1:39] independent investigation of the Enron
[1:41] debacle.
[1:43] >> Glad you're all here.
[1:44] >> More bad news for Enron CEO Kenneth Lay
[1:47] over whether he intentionally concealed
[1:49] the company's dire straits from
[1:51] investors and his ow