NBC Nightly News - 1993-04-03

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[0:03] In Vancouver, Canada, Clinton and

[0:05] Yeltsin meet at the summit.

[0:08] This is NBC Nightly News [music]

[0:10] reported by Garrick Utley in New York

[0:12] with Tom Brokaw in Vancouver, Canada.

[0:16] Good evening. For Bill Clinton, the goal

[0:18] is clear to keep Boris Yeltsin in power

[0:20] and Russia's reforms on track. Whether

[0:22] that can be done is not clear. And Tom,

[0:25] you've been following their first

[0:26] meeting today. We have indeed, Garrick.

[0:29] The overriding concern of the summit, of

[0:30] course, for both sides is to make sure

[0:32] that the United States and Russia don't

[0:34] return to the bad old days when they

[0:36] were such enemies that the world was

[0:38] constantly in danger of nuclear war. And

[0:40] to keep that from happening, the West

[0:41] now is determined to do what it can to

[0:44] keep democratic reforms on track in

[0:46] Russia. And that means a huge political

[0:48] and financial investment in Boris

[0:50] Yeltsin. By the time Yeltsin arrived

[0:52] here, he knew that President Clinton

[0:54] would offer a billion dollars in aid.

[0:56] And Canadian Prime Minister Mulroney had

[0:58] already announced 200 million dollars

[0:59] from his country. That's part of an

[1:01] overall package of an estimated 30

[1:03] billion dollars from the West.

[1:06] Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin are two

[1:07] natural, world-class politicians.

[1:11] They know how to work any kind of crowd,

[1:12] including kids from a local school.

[1:15] And they each have a lot riding on this

[1:17] meeting.

[1:18] NBC's White House correspondent Andrea

[1:19] Mitchell is with us as well here in

[1:21] Vancouver. Andrea, these are the kinds

[1:23] of events that remind Bill Clinton that

[1:25] he's no longer in Arkansas.

[1:27] Tom, the stakes are high for Boris

[1:28] Yeltsin, but this is Bill Clinton's

[1:30] first chance to prove that he can be a

[1:32] leader on the world stage.

[1:35] Untested in foreign policy, Clinton is

[1:37] trying to rally Western support for

[1:39] Russian reform. This summit is only the

[1:41] first step in a major international

[1:43] effort to keep reform alive.

[1:46] We can control

[1:48] Well, you see that we we spend the week

[1:51] on here. Clinton's first priority was to

[1:53] establish a strong personal

[1:54] relationship. He sees Yeltsin's survival

[1:57] as a key to his own domestic program and

[1:59] how history will judge his leadership.

[2:02] Today, Yeltsin left no doubt about the

[2:04] risks he faces.

[2:05] The communists want to take revenge, to

[2:08] take us back

[2:10] to the past. The US aid package creates

[2:12] political problems for both leaders.

[2:15] Clinton must persuade Americans that

[2:16] he's not throwing good money after bad.

[2:19] You know, I don't view this as a This is

[2:20] not a talk about aid. This is a talk

[2:22] about

[2:23] a long-term partnership.

[2:25] >> Yeltsin must worry about a backlash from

[2:27] nationalists if the package looks like

[2:28] charity or is too large. Too much can be

[2:32] bad because it would be used by the

[2:35] communists

[2:39] target us.

[2:40] The opposition is going to say in that

[2:43] case that we are going to be

[2:48] unshackled

[2:49] by

[2:50] the West.

[2:52] The president has proposed a billion

[2:53] dollars of US aid, including grain

[2:55] credits, housing loans for homeless

[2:57] soldiers, funds to repair oil and gas

[3:00] pipelines, modernize farms, create new

[3:02] businesses and factories. A top priority

[3:05] is getting Yeltsin to control runaway

[3:07] inflation. But everything depends on

[3:09] Yeltsin surviving. He told Clinton today

[3:11] that he's confident about the outcome of

[3:13] the April 25th referendum. The unspoken

[3:16] American fear is that the odds are

[3:18] against him. And these are very

[3:20] difficult and

[3:21] unsettling times, but I think that the

[3:24] direction

[3:25] is clear, the direction that they ought

[3:27] to take.

[3:28] In Yeltsin's favor, his skills as a

[3:30] politician, a trait he shares with

[3:32] Clinton. Both are spontaneous, natural

[3:34] politicians, something that was apparent

[3:36] today.

[3:38] For Clinton and Yeltsin, the symbolism

[3:39] of the substance is almost as important

[3:41] as the summit. And the first meeting

[3:44] went longer than scheduled, so it

[3:45] appears as though they've gotten off to

[3:46] a very strong start.

[3:49] Tom? Andrea, it's It's likely that these

[3:50] two guys with their similar styles will

[3:52] get along, but are there any

[3:54] reservations within the White House

[3:55] about investing so much in Boris

[3:56] Yeltsin?

[3:57] They are worried. Behind the scenes,

[3:59] they say privately that they're very

[4:00] worried about his future, but it was

[4:02] clear last night when Bill Clinton went

[4:04] for his final briefing, what he wanted

[4:05] to know from the Russian experts in the

[4:07] White House and also imported from our

[4:09] embassy in Moscow is what kind of man is

[4:11] he, what kind of politician is he, how

[4:13] can I establish a personal relationship?

[4:15] They think this is very, very important.

[4:17] This $1 billion in aid that he's

[4:19] offering this weekend, most of that

[4:20] money already has been appropriated.

[4:22] What other plans does the president have

[4:24] for helping Russia?

[4:25] He will, I believe, go back to Congress

[4:27] and ask for more, but he knows it's

[4:28] going to be very hard to sell to the

[4:30] American people. So, that he's going to

[4:31] try to sell it as people-to-people

[4:34] exchanges, things that are

[4:35] non-governmental outside of Moscow. And

[4:37] if it doesn't go over well, they're

[4:38] going to try to sell it as a

[4:41] one of their Hollywood productions.

[4:42] They're very aware that this is a

[4:43] political campaign. They brought a

[4:44] Hollywood producer here, the man who

[4:46] helped stage the bus trips, to try to

[4:48] get all the right camera angles and make

[4:50] it look good, Tom. Hey, thanks very

[4:52] much, Andrea Mitchell. However, even

[4:54] with the best plans of the Russian

[4:55] government and the best intentions of

[4:57] American volunteers,

[4:58] making it work is a constant struggle.

[5:01] NBC's Bob Abernethy went to a Russian

[5:03] city that's trying hard.

[5:06] Before the communists, Nizhny Novgorod

[5:08] on the Volga River was Russia's main

[5:11] center for trade.

[5:13] Can you sell more of those than you can

[5:15] make?

[5:15] Now, Nizhny is trying to develop private

[5:18] industry and become a business center

[5:20] again with the help of American

[5:22] volunteers.

[5:23] At a television plant that once made air

[5:26] defense radars, retired American

[5:28] businessmen are teaching marketing. In

[5:31] the past, you didn't have to market your

[5:33] product. You were told what to make and

[5:34] where to ship it, and that was it. Now,

[5:36] they have to find the customer.

[5:38] The plant director welcomes help.

[5:42] First of all, we need education.

[5:45] Education, especially in the techniques

[5:48] necessary to attract foreign private

[5:50] investment. They need investment

[5:52] desperately. Private sector to the

[5:54] private sector and in is is the only way

[5:57] this machine is going to move forward.

[6:00] Nizhny Novgorod has led Russia in

[6:02] auctioning off state stores to private

[6:04] owners. Now, Peace Corps volunteers with

[6:07] business experience are teaching how to

[6:09] run the new ventures.

[6:11] They're going to need support in the

[6:12] areas of business planning, of

[6:14] marketing,

[6:16] of understanding what words like quality

[6:17] and customer satisfaction They don't

[6:19] understand the basic tenants behind

[6:22] competition.

[6:24] Nizhny, like all Russia, cries out for

[6:27] development, for private capital. The

[6:29] problem is that politics and laws here

[6:32] are so uncertain, few investors want to

[6:34] take the risks. We need to get some

[6:36] really serious money. And until there's

[6:38] some stabilization in the government, uh

[6:40] that money is not going to be

[6:41] forthcoming. What products are being

[6:43] produced? Once the Russians themselves

[6:45] create stability, say Americans here, it

[6:48] will be private investment that will

[6:50] make Russia thrive.

[6:51] With all Russia's needs, individual

[6:54] Americans talking to individual Russians

[6:56] may seem a small beginning, but many

[6:58] experts say in the long run, there's

[7:00] hardly anything more important.

[7:02] Bob Abernethy, NBC News, Nizhny

[7:04] Novgorod.

[7:07] Hard to believe a small seaplane could

[7:08] have such a loud motor, but it does here

[7:10] in Vancouver. The Russians, of course,

[7:12] have a lot to learn. Farmers, for

[7:13] example, Russia grows more potatoes than

[7:16] any country in the world, but each year

[7:19] half the crop rots because of poor

[7:21] storage and poor quality. And today the

[7:23] price of potatoes, a staple in the

[7:25] Russian diet, is 10 times higher than it

[7:27] was just a year ago. Eric. And Tom, of

[7:30] all the problems Boris Yeltsin and

[7:32] Russia face today, the most immediate is

[7:34] inflation. How bad is it? Here's an

[7:36] example. In Russia, the prices of basic

[7:38] food products have gone up 70% since the

[7:41] first of this year. How do people

[7:43] survive? In Moscow, we've asked Veronica

[7:45] Khilchevskaya, a Russian journalist who

[7:47] works for NBC News, to show us. Good

[7:49] evening, Veronica.

[7:51] Good evening, Garrick. Rising prices

[7:53] have created a crisis here. We spent a

[7:56] day with one family trying to cope.

[7:59] The Yeromin family struggles each day

[8:02] just to get by. Yuri is a metal worker.

[8:05] His wife, Galya, is a decorator who was

[8:08] laid off 6 months ago, another victim of

[8:10] Yeltsin's economic reforms.

[8:14] For the past 3 years, the Yeromins have

[8:16] raised chickens on their balcony.

[8:18] Store-bought eggs are too expensive.

[8:22] They grow and preserve their own

[8:24] vegetables. Galya grows them from

[8:26] seedlings, then plants them in the

[8:28] fields near their country house.

[8:32] They bought the house 4 years ago to be

[8:34] a place to get away from the city on

[8:36] weekends. Now, Yuri says they need it

[8:39] for their very survival.

[8:42] Galya even raises her own geese. After

[8:45] all, her family has to eat meat

[8:47] sometimes.

[8:49] 4 years ago, they could afford just

[8:51] about anything they wanted: theaters,

[8:53] movies, and family vacations.

[8:56] They both agree that life was simpler

[8:58] and easier under communism.

[9:02] The Yeromins say they want Russia to

[9:04] have a free market economy, but they're

[9:07] angry that change is so painful.

[9:11] "We don't live now," complains Galya,

[9:13] "we merely exist."

[9:15] During the coup, the half family spent 3

[9:18] days at the White House supporting

[9:20] Yeltsin. Now, Yuri says, "I would not

[9:22] go. I have more important things to do.

[9:25] I have to take care of my family."

[9:30] The Yeromin family is hoping that

[9:32] President Clinton and the West will help

[9:34] Yeltsin succeed. Garrick? Thank you,

[9:36] Veronica. We'll have more from Tom

[9:39] Brokaw at the summit meeting later in

[9:40] the program, and we'll have more news as

[9:42] we continue.

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[10:47] While President Clinton was meeting with

[10:49] Boris Yeltsin in Vancouver today, back

[10:51] in Washington, Republicans in the Senate

[10:52] continued to block his spending plan to

[10:55] stimulate the economy. And there were

[10:56] some signs the Republicans may be making

[10:58] headway. Lisa Myers at the Capitol

[11:00] tonight. Good evening, Lisa.

[11:02] Good evening, Garrick. To break the

[11:04] stalemate, President Clinton signaled

[11:05] today that he is willing to compromise.

[11:11] When senators arrived for a rare

[11:13] Saturday session, both sides were dug

[11:15] in. Republicans yelled about pork. Get

[11:18] the bacon out, the sausage out, the hams

[11:20] out.

[11:21] Right? All right, Senator. Hold on to

[11:23] your wallet, guys.

[11:25] Democrats screamed gridlock. They want

[11:27] to wound this president. They want to

[11:29] keep him from being able to fulfill his

[11:32] promise of change in economic policy and

[11:34] job creation. For the second time,

[11:36] Democrats fell short of the 60 votes

[11:38] needed to force the jobs bill to a vote,

[11:40] and Republicans made it clear they were

[11:42] so unified they could block a vote

[11:44] indefinitely. One reason for their

[11:46] unity, anger at being steamrolled. is

[11:49] that if you want us to be bipartisan on

[11:51] any of these matters, let us be at the

[11:53] launch and not just hand us a package

[11:55] and say, "You've got to support the

[11:57] president." But Republican leader Robert

[12:00] Dole said this primarily is a fight over

[12:02] ideology. If we can't cut spending, at

[12:04] least we ought to pay for it not add it

[12:06] to the deficit. This afternoon, with the

[12:08] Senate gone until Monday, Dole and

[12:10] Majority Leader George Mitchell began

[12:12] discussing a possible compromise.

[12:14] Republican demands that the $16 billion

[12:16] package be cut substantially and that

[12:18] part of the spending be paid for with

[12:20] cuts elsewhere. Dole met later with

[12:22] Clinton's budget director Leon Panetta.

[12:25] Moderate Democrats, who warned the

[12:26] president weeks ago he would have to

[12:28] compromise, today said the time had

[12:30] come. It's more important for us to come

[12:32] up with a package that gives us

[12:35] uh at least 3/4 of the whole loaf

[12:37] instead of none. I think it's less

[12:39] important who wins.

[12:42] But if you're a Republican these days,

[12:43] winning at least once in a while

[12:45] matters. And it looks now as though

[12:47] Republicans are poised for their first

[12:49] small victory over this president.

[12:50] Garrick? Thanks, Lisa. Another political

[12:53] stalemate, this one overseas in Bosnia.

[12:55] Today, Serbs in Bosnia rejected the UN

[12:58] peace plan that Bosnia's Croats and

[13:00] Muslims already approved. Their hardline

[13:02] stance brought more condemnation from

[13:04] the UN Security Council and the promise

[13:05] of tougher sanctions. 23 more people

[13:08] died in fighting there today despite the

[13:10] ceasefire that's supposedly in effect.

[13:13] This from Great Britain today. In a

[13:14] hospital in Edinburgh, a woman was

[13:17] waiting for a liver transplant, waiting

[13:18] for a donor organ to be flown from

[13:20] another city. Early this morning, the

[13:22] plane carrying it developed engine

[13:23] trouble and crash-landed in a river near

[13:25] Edinburgh. The crew escaped, but the

[13:27] liver in a container was left 20 ft

[13:30] underwater. While surgeons waited, and

[13:32] so did the patient, navy divers searched

[13:34] for it, and they found it. The liver was

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[15:15] On focus this evening, an emotional

[15:17] issue in our society, child molestation.

[15:20] It happens, it's now talked about, and

[15:22] people are prosecuted for doing it. But,

[15:24] in a trial, it's difficult to protect

[15:26] the rights and well-being of the

[15:27] children, as well as those of the

[15:28] defendant. A good example is a case in

[15:30] New Jersey where a woman was convicted

[15:32] of child abuse, went to prison, and this

[15:35] week was set free.

[15:37] Her name is Kelly Michaels. She is 31,

[15:40] and when she walked out of a New Jersey

[15:42] courtroom this week, she was a free

[15:44] woman in a case which has attracted

[15:46] attention and raised emotions.

[15:49] relieved, um and I just thank God that

[15:52] um it's almost over. Um

[15:55] I am innocent,

[15:57] and I stand by uh the record that bears

[16:00] that out.

[16:00] >> But, the parents of the children in the

[16:02] case remain convinced that Kelly

[16:04] Michaels is guilty. Because of their

[16:06] children, they did not want to be

[16:08] identified. Her only line is nothing

[16:11] happened, that we're all a bunch of

[16:13] hysterical people. We know what we know.

[16:16] Our children were abused by Kelly

[16:18] Michaels. For 5 years, Kelly Michaels

[16:21] was in this maximum-security prison for

[16:23] women.

[16:24] The case started here in Maplewood, New

[16:26] Jersey, where she worked at a daycare

[16:28] center. One child's report of abuse led

[16:31] to an investigation and the trial.

[16:34] And for Michaels, it led to a sentence

[16:36] of 47 years and 115 counts of child

[16:40] abuse. I talked with her in prison 3

[16:42] years ago.

[16:44] When it first

[16:45] we knew that it was going to go to

[16:46] trial, I couldn't believe anyone could

[16:48] give credence to such

[16:50] absurd and and um impossible charges.

[16:53] Just to be accused is to be is just sort

[16:56] of become some sort of a monster and a

[16:57] pariah. At the trial, children 5 and 6

[17:00] years old testified on closed-circuit

[17:02] television to shield them from the

[17:04] courtroom atmosphere.

[17:06] Prior to the trial, the children had

[17:08] been questioned by investigators. So,

[17:10] Kelly was playing the piano with no

[17:11] clothes on? Yeah.

[17:13] Do you remember the song she Who

[17:15] playing?

[17:16] Jingle Bells.

[17:18] The trial, the ordeal for everyone,

[17:20] lasted 10 months. Kelly Michaels

[17:23] appealed, and 8 days ago the verdict was

[17:25] overturned. The appeals court said that

[17:27] investigators had used extremely leading

[17:30] questions to shape the children's

[17:32] statements. It also said that the

[17:34] prosecution and judge had made

[17:36] prejudicial errors in the trial, that

[17:38] expert testimony linking a change in a

[17:41] child's behavior to sexual abuse should

[17:44] not have been allowed as evidence.

[17:46] On Tuesday at a hearing, Kelly Michaels

[17:49] was freed on bail. Attorney Robert

[17:51] Rosenthal handled her appeal. You not be

[17:53] able to use the hearsay statements

[17:54] reported by the parents. You not be able

[17:56] to use What influence will this have on

[17:59] child abuse trials in the future? The

[18:01] child sex abuse syndrome will not be

[18:03] used as a diagnostic tool. It will be

[18:05] limited to its proper role, an accepted

[18:07] role. For the parents of the children,

[18:09] the Kelly Michaels case is not closed.

[18:12] They say they would be prepared to go

[18:14] through another trial. I think it's

[18:16] important for the children who feel who

[18:18] many feel at this point um outraged that

[18:22] that they were not completely believed.

[18:25] It tells the children and parents who

[18:27] have been victims

[18:29] that the system really didn't work for

[18:32] you.

[18:33] After 5 years in prison, Kelly Michaels

[18:35] is now free and presumed innocent. She

[18:38] blames the prosecutors and says the

[18:40] children and parents who are upset

[18:42] should too. They should be angry the

[18:44] prosecutors office and see what they do

[18:45] to bring a fraudulent case was

[18:47] fraudulent from the very beginning.

[18:49] They've been manipulated by the

[18:50] prosecutors.

[18:52] So have I.

[18:54] The prosecutor in the Kelly Michaels

[18:55] case has now filed an appeal in the New

[18:57] Jersey Supreme Court. And then there was

[19:00] the trial of Daniel Driver for child

[19:02] abuse. The former church camp worker was

[19:04] in a courtroom in Jamestown, California

[19:06] yesterday. So was the mother of one of

[19:08] the boys said to have been abused by

[19:09] him. She walked up behind Driver, pulled

[19:12] out a gun, shot him in the back of the

[19:13] head. He died.

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[20:11] >> His gates actually swelled shut.

[20:14] Thompson's has no match. Sincerely,

[20:16] Lowell Salzer.

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[21:20] Time now to look at some of the stories

[21:21] that made news this past week. A close

[21:23] call underwater. Last month, US and

[21:26] Russian submarines collided. This week,

[21:28] a Russian admiral said the American sub

[21:30] struck the Russian sub just 65 ft from

[21:33] its nuclear reactor. Mere luck saved the

[21:36] vessels, according to the Russian.

[21:38] Disputed justice in El Salvador. Four

[21:41] years ago, six Jesuit priests and their

[21:43] housekeeper and her child were dragged

[21:44] from their beds and shot to death by

[21:46] government army troops. A little over a

[21:48] year ago, two officers were finally sent

[21:50] to prison for 30 years. On Thursday,

[21:53] they walked free, part of a general

[21:55] amnesty for war criminals there. And

[21:57] this too happened this week.

[22:00] Across Europe, more than 1 million

[22:02] workers marched and went on one day

[22:04] strikes to protest [music] rising

[22:05] unemployment. Unlike the United States,

[22:08] European unions take to the streets when

[22:10] they are unhappy. But there's no end in

[22:12] sight to the economic slowdown there.

[22:15] In this country, a break for cable TV

[22:17] subscribers. The government ordered a

[22:19] cut in the rates and made clear it will

[22:22] closely control any future increases

[22:24] consumers are asked to pay.

[22:26] A bad week for US Senator David

[22:28] Durenberger of Minnesota. He was

[22:30] indicted by a federal grand jury for

[22:32] falsifying his expenses. Durenberger

[22:35] says he is innocent and will not resign.

[22:39] A big night for actor-director Clint

[22:41] Eastwood. He won his first Oscar

[22:44] and then his second for director and

[22:46] best movie, Unforgiven.

[22:49] Health news. A report this week said

[22:51] that one out of every five Americans has

[22:53] some kind of sexually transmitted

[22:55] disease caused by a virus. At greatest

[22:58] risk are women and people under 25.

[23:02] And in Tokyo this week a lawsuit was

[23:04] filed accusing the Japanese government

[23:06] of forcing hundreds of thousands of

[23:08] women into prostitution during the

[23:10] Second World War. In Tokyo, NBC's Kiko

[23:13] Itasaka describes what happened.

[23:16] After nearly 50 years of being ashamed,

[23:19] these Filipino women are speaking out

[23:21] and demanding an apology and

[23:23] compensation.

[23:26] We demand justice for what the Japanese

[23:28] soldiers did to us 50 years ago for

[23:31] destroying our lives.

[23:32] During the 1930s and 40s, as many as

[23:35] 200,000 women from Korea, China, and the

[23:38] Philippines were abducted from their

[23:40] villages and taken to government-run

[23:42] brothels throughout Asia. They were

[23:45] forced to serve as prostitutes for

[23:47] soldiers in the Japanese Imperial Army,

[23:49] sexual slaves for as many as 30 men a

[23:52] day.

[23:54] After decades of denial, the Japanese

[23:56] government now admits its involvement

[23:58] and has apologized to the women. But it

[24:00] has refused to pay compensation to

[24:02] individuals and does not concede that

[24:05] the women were forced. A government

[24:07] investigation is underway. Very serious

[24:11] sort of efforts of fact-findings

[24:14] are being undertaken.

[24:16] But officials have not accepted

[24:18] testimony from Seiji Yoshida, a man who

[24:21] has first-hand knowledge.

[24:25] I went to villages and seized women,

[24:27] about 1,000 in all, and sent them to the

[24:29] front to serve as sex slaves.

[24:32] For many women, the suffering did not

[24:34] end with the war. Gertrude Balisalisa

[24:37] was 24 years old, married, and with two

[24:40] small children when she was abducted.

[24:43] When she returned home after the war,

[24:45] her husband and children moved away. He

[24:47] told me frankly, as he had told me time

[24:49] and again, that he could not stomach my

[24:52] having been a left over of the Japanese.

[24:56] Today, 73-year-old Gertrude still lives

[24:59] alone in Manila, disowned by her family.

[25:03] She wants the Japanese government to

[25:05] pay. If they will realize what we lost,

[25:07] we comfort women lost, we lost our

[25:10] dignity.

[25:12] We lost our honor. Chikako Itoh Ozaki,

[25:15] NBC News, Tokyo.

[25:18] And in a moment, we'll go back to Tom

[25:19] Brokaw in Vancouver for more on the

[25:21] Clinton-Yeltsin summit conference.

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[26:15] Day five, my private island.

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[27:26] Let's go back now to Tom Brokaw in

[27:27] Vancouver at the summit conference. Tom,

[27:29] it struck me today that President

[27:30] Clinton is emphasizing the uncertainty

[27:32] in all of this, the uncertainty as to

[27:33] whether Yeltsin will stay in office and

[27:35] power, whether aid is going to work. No

[27:36] one simply knows.

[27:38] No, but they have no other choice at

[27:40] this point because without the

[27:41] democratic reforms going forward, then

[27:42] they could revert to civil war or the

[27:45] possibility of, if not the military

[27:47] taking it over because it's in disarray

[27:49] now, hard right-wingers taking over the

[27:51] political structure of the government

[27:53] and going back to the bad old days of

[27:55] the Cold War, Garrick. So, it's slightly

[27:56] different now than it was just 2 years

[27:58] ago with Gorbachev and President Bush.

[27:59] >> But, does anybody really think in

[28:00] Washington that Russia would become a

[28:02] military threat even if they were to go

[28:03] back to those bad old days? They still

[28:05] have the missiles, but do they have the

[28:06] interest in being aggressive? I don't

[28:08] think so. I think that most of the

[28:09] experts on the Soviet military will tell

[28:11] you that the federal army now is

[28:12] scattered clear across the country. It's

[28:15] demoralized, and the people who are now

[28:17] in the army have no interest whatsoever

[28:19] in turning their guns on their own

[28:20] people because they too like the idea of

[28:23] democracy in their country. And I I do

[28:25] wonder about Boris Yeltsin coming to a

[28:26] beautiful city like Vancouver and seeing

[28:28] all the prosperity and wondering, "Why

[28:30] do I have to go home?"

[28:32] You will have to go home. Thanks, Tom.

[28:34] Our summit coverage continues tomorrow

[28:35] with the Meet the Press program. And a

[28:37] reminder to all of you to set your

[28:38] clocks ahead 1 hour tonight for daylight

[28:41] saving time. It's that time of the year.

[28:42] I'm Garrick Utley. Good night for NBC

[28:45] News.

[28:47] These senators [music] say they want to

[28:48] save you money. Sounds good, right? But

[28:50] look where they've been spending it in

[28:52] their home state, and you're paying.

[28:54] Monday on NBC [music] Nightly News with

[28:56] Tom Brokaw.