CBS Evening News - 1992-08-03
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[0:03] The Bush campaign apologizes for a
[0:06] broken promise to avoid siege. US
[0:09] officials confirm reports of torture and
[0:11] killing in Serbian death camps. An eye
[0:14] on America. Tonight, a man putting his
[0:17] life on the line to stop gang violence.
[0:22] This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:29] Good evening. I'm Connie Chung sitting
[0:31] in tonight for Dan Rather. There is new
[0:33] evidence that the Bush reelection
[0:35] campaign is out of control. An attack
[0:37] aimed at Bill Clinton backfired and
[0:40] wound up embarrassing Mr. Bush. CBS News
[0:42] White House correspondent Susan Spencer
[0:44] is traveling with the president.
[0:48] >> Mr. Morris took his message south today
[0:50] amid a new outbreak of chaos in his own
[0:52] campaign. A firestorm over a press
[0:55] release that broke the president's
[0:56] personal promise to avoid sleas. Written
[1:00] by deputy campaign manager Mary
[1:02] Matteline, it addressed sniveling
[1:04] hypocritical Democrats, called Governor
[1:06] Clinton Slick Willie, and asked, among
[1:08] other things, whose campaign had to
[1:10] spend thousands of taxpayer dollars on
[1:12] private investigators to fend off bimbo
[1:15] eruptions. Officials insisted Mr. Bush
[1:18] had not seen the release and sensitive
[1:20] to charges that he won the White House
[1:22] with negative campaigning, he was said
[1:24] to be very upset when he did. Within a
[1:27] few hours, Meline apologized, conceding
[1:29] she might have violated orders to avoid
[1:32] references to Governor Clinton's
[1:34] personal life. While we will continue to
[1:36] define the issues that the uh that
[1:38] particular instance that Pratt were
[1:40] referring to and also that we took a
[1:42] look at uh did not match the campaign
[1:44] standards that we're trying to uphold
[1:46] here.
[1:46] >> Meanwhile, Mr. Bush's own attacks are
[1:48] growing sharper. Today in Georgia and
[1:50] Florida, he went after a certain
[1:52] southern governor.
[1:54] >> We've heard a lot of talk about change
[1:55] this year and the other side has put
[1:57] forth more heat than this Florida
[1:59] sunshine. But don't worry, let's see how
[2:02] they can take it. I am going to carry it
[2:04] back to them and take my case to you,
[2:07] the American people.
[2:13] They've had their day, six months of
[2:16] carping and griping and tearing down the
[2:19] United States and that day is over.
[2:21] We're going to take the case to the
[2:23] American people.
[2:24] >> And to the tune of $7 million, the
[2:26] president is doing just that in new
[2:28] commercials starting today. No negative
[2:31] attacks there. Well, everyone wants
[2:33] change. America must change. But change
[2:36] must be guided by principle.
[2:39] >> This flap over the press release
[2:41] reflects a frustrated campaign. One
[2:43] unsure how hard to attack, when, or even
[2:45] what difference it will make. And facing
[2:47] a convention in just two weeks that
[2:49] could feel more like a funeral than a
[2:51] festival. Susan Spencer, CBS News,
[2:54] Jacksonville, Florida.
[2:56] >> The Clinton campaign is promising to
[2:58] answer every Bush attack with a
[3:00] counterattack. Clinton made good on that
[3:02] promise today. As Richard Thrkeeld
[3:04] reports,
[3:06] >> in Little Rock today, Bill Clinton
[3:08] wasted no time hurling the president's
[3:10] charges back at him. The attacks on
[3:12] Clinton's health reform proposals in
[3:15] particular.
[3:15] >> This administration resists every single
[3:18] attempt to bring the American system in
[3:21] line with what our competitors are
[3:23] doing. The German system over the last 5
[3:26] years kept health costs under the rate
[3:28] of inflation while our cost went up by
[3:30] more than twice the rate of inflation.
[3:34] Mr. Bush does not have a plan of
[3:35] treatment. It is time to stop the
[3:37] politics of blame and fear-mongering and
[3:40] he should step aside and let an
[3:42] administration govern that will finally
[3:44] tackle this healthc care crisis in a
[3:46] serious way once and for all. Clinton's
[3:49] quick responses to President Bush are in
[3:51] sharp contrast to 1988 when, for
[3:54] example, Michael Daka's response to
[3:56] Republican attacks on his state's furlow
[3:58] program for prison inmates was too
[4:00] little too late. Not so with the Clinton
[4:03] campaign. On a separate floor, secluded
[4:06] from this bustle of campaign
[4:07] headquarters in Little Rock, is a
[4:09] special quick response team on call 24
[4:12] hours a day to parry every Republican
[4:14] thrust. So yesterday when George Bush
[4:17] said Clinton's health system would quote
[4:19] combine the efficiency of the House Post
[4:21] Office with the compassion of the KGB,
[4:24] Clinton called a news conference within
[4:26] minutes to reply that the Reagan Bush
[4:28] White Houses quote have presided over
[4:31] the biggest explosion of health care
[4:33] costs in the history of this country.
[4:35] >> Bill Clinton's campaigns in Arkansas for
[4:37] the last few years, we learned that you
[4:38] immediately respond. And so we're taking
[4:41] what he learned on the Arkansas campaign
[4:43] trail to the national campaign trail.
[4:45] >> Hi. Hello. The idea is to make sure Bill
[4:48] Clinton gives at least as good as he
[4:50] gets when the Republicans start
[4:51] punching. It's hard to tell if this
[4:53] strategy is working though since lately
[4:56] most of the Bush campaign's cuts and
[4:58] bruises have been self-inflicted.
[5:00] Richard Trell, CBS News, New York.
[5:03] US officials today condemned Serbian
[5:05] forces for operating death camps in
[5:07] Bosnia, but the officials rejected any
[5:10] talk of a US military response. David
[5:12] Martin at the Pentagon has our report.
[5:15] >> Reports of the humanitarian nightmare in
[5:18] what used to be Yugoslavia grew even
[5:20] more horrific today as the State
[5:22] Department confirmed news accounts that
[5:24] Serbian forces are operating death
[5:26] camps. uh Serbian forces are maintaining
[5:29] what they call detention centers for
[5:32] Croatians and Muslims. Um and we do have
[5:36] our own reports similar to the reports
[5:38] that you've seen in the press uh that
[5:40] there have been abuses and torture and
[5:42] killings taking place in those areas.
[5:44] The New York Paper News Day interviewed
[5:46] two survivors who said the Serbs had set
[5:48] up two concentration camps in which more
[5:50] than a thousand civilians have been
[5:52] executed or starved and thousands more
[5:55] are being held in metal cages until they
[5:57] die. The existence of concentration
[5:59] camps with all their reminders of the
[6:00] Holocaust will almost certainly put more
[6:02] pressure on the US and its allies to
[6:05] intervene in Yugoslavia's civil war. US
[6:08] transport planes continue to fly relief
[6:10] supplies into Sievo and US naval forces,
[6:13] including an aircraft carrier and an
[6:14] amphibious ship with Marines aboard, are
[6:16] operating in the Adriatic Sea. President
[6:19] Bush is prepared to use that air power
[6:20] to make sure the supplies get through,
[6:23] but that is as close as the
[6:24] administration is willing to get to the
[6:26] ethnic hatreds of Yugoslavia. We've
[6:28] refrained from uh making a commitment to
[6:31] put combat forces on the ground in
[6:33] Yugoslavia because we don't believe uh
[6:36] that would be helpful and there are all
[6:38] kinds of complicating issues involved.
[6:40] The slaughter of innocents has now
[6:42] reached the point of snipers firing on a
[6:44] busload of orphans killing two young
[6:46] children. There is no shortage of
[6:48] outrage over these atrocities, but
[6:50] apparently a complete lack of good ideas
[6:52] for how to stop them. David Martin, CBS
[6:55] News. The Pentagon. Two years ago today,
[6:58] as Iraqi troops were taking over Kuwait,
[7:00] President Bush vowed to reverse the
[7:02] invasion. Today, in the face of new
[7:04] threats from Iraq, US troops were
[7:06] heading back to Kuwait to underscore the
[7:08] US commitment to the country's
[7:10] independence. Mr. Bush is sending 2400
[7:12] US troops to Kuwait over the next 3
[7:14] weeks for maneuvers in the desert. Over
[7:17] the weekend, Saddam Hussein was again
[7:19] referring to Kuwait as Iraq's 19th
[7:21] province. Still ahead on the CBS Evening
[7:23] News, it's touch and go for TWWA as the
[7:26] airlines losses mount.
[7:29] And a new report hits food makers for
[7:31] serving children a steady diet of junk.
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[8:15] >> Handback. Everybody, I've dealt with
[8:17] this before.
[8:18] Mommy. Mommy. I'm in space.
[8:20] >> Quite a volcano. You got here, Mrs.
[8:23] >> It's
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[8:26] >> Dad. Dad. Do something.
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[8:43] TWWA confirms that boss Carl Icon held
[8:46] more talks today on a complicated deal
[8:48] to keep the airline in the sky. Jazelle
[8:50] Fernandez tells us what's involved and
[8:52] why the deal may not fly.
[8:55] >> TWWA Chairman Carl Icon now joins an
[8:58] increasing list of corporate raiders
[9:00] bailing out of the sagging airline
[9:02] industry. Sources close to negotiations
[9:05] say Icon blames the recession, high
[9:07] costs, too much capacity, and price wars
[9:10] for forcing TWWA to its knees. Industry
[9:13] analysts point in another direction.
[9:15] >> Carl Icon has never had an interest of
[9:19] running an efficient airline. He has in
[9:22] fact done financial dealings uh taken
[9:26] money out of the carrier. TWWA has been
[9:28] operating under bankruptcy protection
[9:30] since February and losing an estimated
[9:32] $1 million a day. Icon, in an effort to
[9:35] keep the carrier from folding on his
[9:37] watch, is working out a deal with
[9:39] creditors and employees. The deal would
[9:41] give the unions 45% of the company's
[9:44] stock in exchange for wage concessions.
[9:46] TWWA's creditors would get 55% of the
[9:49] stock and dismiss about $1 billion of
[9:52] the airlines $ 1.5 billion debt. Experts
[9:55] say the deal won't work. TWWA will die.
[9:58] >> Eastern Airlines goes away, nobody
[10:00] misses them. Midway goes away, nobody
[10:02] misses them. Panam goes away, nobody
[10:05] misses them. Doesn't that say something?
[10:07] There's too many planes out there.
[10:09] >> Icon hopes the deal will make TWWA
[10:11] competitive, but observers say it's just
[10:14] fancy maneuvering to encourage foreign
[10:16] investment. Our sources both in London
[10:19] and in the US are telling us that this
[10:22] is clearing the decks in anticipation of
[10:24] an offer by US Air to take over all are
[10:26] part of TWWA.
[10:28] >> TWWA sources confirm the troubled
[10:30] airline is talking with US Air. It was
[10:33] only last month that British Airways
[10:35] announced plans to buy 25% of US Air. An
[10:38] acquisition of TWWA would give the
[10:40] British company access to much wider US
[10:42] and European routes. Foreign dollars may
[10:45] seem like an attractive safety net, but
[10:47] analysts predict that troubled carriers
[10:48] like TWWA will more likely just
[10:51] disappear. And that may be good news for
[10:53] the flying public. Experts say the
[10:55] carriers that do survive will be forced
[10:57] to provide better service and lower
[10:59] fairs. Jazelle Fernandez, CBS News, New
[11:02] York. The space shuttle astronauts are
[11:04] nudging Atlantis into position for
[11:06] tomorrow's big event, deployment of a
[11:08] satellite that will dangle at the end of
[11:10] a tether 12 m long. Scientists also will
[11:13] try tomorrow to boost a European
[11:14] satellite already launched by Atlantis
[11:16] into its proper orbit. In California,
[11:20] 3,000 firefighters in the air and on the
[11:22] ground are trying to contain a fire just
[11:25] west of Yusede National Park. 5,000
[11:28] acres of forest and brush have been
[11:29] destroyed. But no one's been hurt and
[11:32] only one building destroyed. The fire
[11:34] has blocked one of four routes into
[11:36] Yoseite.
[11:37] Stay with us now for more of the CBS
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[11:42] where rebuilding efforts are running up
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[12:54] I really feel the pain. I used to take
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[13:00] Advil relieves the pain in my stiff
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[13:21] >> Who will keep Marissa? Her father, his
[13:24] aranged wife, or the surrogate mother?
[13:27] Whose baby is it? Find out on 48 hours
[13:29] Wednesday.
[13:33] The economy is sending mixed signals
[13:35] again. The people who buy raw materials
[13:37] for America's factories report
[13:39] manufacturing is continuing to grow. On
[13:41] the other hand, the government says
[13:42] spending on construction fell in June,
[13:45] the first decline this year. Officials
[13:48] in charge of rebuilding parts of Los
[13:50] Angeles burned out in last spring's
[13:51] riots are in shock. Correspondent Ron
[13:54] Allen tells us that original cost
[13:56] estimates have soared beyond
[13:58] recognition.
[14:03] It surprised no one when Hollywood got
[14:05] together and gave LA a rebuilding
[14:08] anthem. And planners offered a beautiful
[14:11] new reality using this computer
[14:13] simulation.
[14:14] But right after unveiling its snazzy new
[14:17] logo, LA's rebuilding task force got a
[14:20] dose of sobering reality. a staggering
[14:22] new estimate of how much money and how
[14:25] many more new jobs it will take for riot
[14:28] torn neighborhoods here to recover.
[14:30] >> It would would take5 to6 billion in
[14:33] order to create those 75,000 to 94,000
[14:36] jobs in Los Angeles.
[14:38] >> That's double the number of jobs and
[14:41] five times as much money as Rebuild LA
[14:43] co-chair Peter Uber first predicted. A
[14:47] bombshell dropped at the first board
[14:49] meeting. You're about to embark on a
[14:51] challenge which
[14:54] where we must we must succeed. We just
[14:57] simply cannot fail.
[14:58] >> But now after 12 weeks of work, the real
[15:01] magnitude of the problem is staring Uber
[15:03] and his committee in the face. We wanted
[15:06] to ask you about that, but he would only
[15:08] talk to us if we agreed not to ask about
[15:10] the higher projected costs. We and GM
[15:14] are announcing today our joint
[15:18] commitment to an $18 million package of
[15:22] >> Rebuild LA's plan depends on the
[15:24] generosity of private companies. But
[15:27] critics insist that government also
[15:29] needs to respond to this crisis just as
[15:31] it did in the savings and loan crisis.
[15:34] But there's no political will to bail
[15:36] out the inner cities. I think the most
[15:38] essential phenomena in American politics
[15:41] right now is the bipartisan consensus to
[15:43] serve the suburbs and only the suburbs
[15:45] in total benign neglect of the American
[15:47] city.
[15:48] >> And some question companies that have
[15:50] been fleeing the cities for decades who
[15:52] now say they want to help.
[15:54] >> The private sector is acting like all of
[15:56] a sudden it's the one who's going to
[15:58] provide jobs. The private sector will
[16:00] only come into LA to make a profit. Add
[16:03] to all of that the fact that California
[16:05] lost more than 200,000 jobs last year
[16:09] and you begin to understand the daunting
[16:11] challenge of recovering from a riot and
[16:13] why a lot of people worry it just can't
[16:16] get done. Ron Allen, CBS News, Los
[16:20] Angeles.
[16:22] >> Overseas today, more than a million
[16:24] black workers in South Africa walked off
[16:26] their jobs. It was the first day of a
[16:29] general strike called by the African
[16:30] National Congress to try to force the
[16:33] white minority government to give up
[16:34] power. In violence leading up to the
[16:37] strike, at least 36 blacks were killed,
[16:39] including three in a gun battle between
[16:41] police and ANC members in Suetto.
[16:45] There's more CBS News ahead, including
[16:47] Eye on America. Tonight, a missionary
[16:49] with a message for gang members. Thou
[16:52] shalt not kill.
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[18:40] >> The Bush administration today rejected a
[18:42] plan by Oregon to control rising
[18:44] Medicaid costs by rationing health care
[18:47] services. Health Secretary Lewis
[18:49] Sullivan said the plan would violate new
[18:51] federal laws protecting the disabled.
[18:53] But Sullivan urged Oregon officials to
[18:55] address this concern and resubmit their
[18:57] proposal. A consumer group charged today
[19:00] that food makers are putting America's
[19:02] children on a one-way street to heart
[19:04] disease by hyping an endless array of
[19:07] junk. Wyatt Andrews has the story.
[19:12] >> Thanksg
[19:14] Snacks. Parents have complained for
[19:16] years about the sugary, high-fat food
[19:19] being pushed on America's children.
[19:21] Today, a public interest group of
[19:23] scientists and nutritionists condemn the
[19:25] US food industry, not just for
[19:27] advertising, but for making so much junk
[19:30] food to begin with. While more and more
[19:32] companies are producing healthy foods
[19:34] for adults, most are producing junk for
[19:36] kids. It's very important to get kids
[19:39] eating the best kind of foods at an
[19:41] early age so that 30 or 40 years later,
[19:44] they don't have to be persuaded by a
[19:46] heart attack. The group put together
[19:48] guidelines for children's foods they
[19:51] hope the food industry will follow.
[19:53] Cereal should have no more than 4 g of
[19:55] sugar per ounce. Cocoa Puffs has more
[19:58] than three times that much. Chips and
[20:00] snacks, no more than 3 g of fat in an
[20:03] ounce. Lays has 10 g. Cookies and
[20:06] granola bars, they say, should have 2 g
[20:09] of fiber per ounce. Nature Valley
[20:11] granola bars have only one gram. In
[20:14] fact, the guidelines are so tough, not a
[20:16] single fast food meal would make the
[20:18] grade. Not a single cookie, no hot dog,
[20:21] no lunchon meat. The food industry's
[20:23] response in essence was even junk has
[20:26] its place. Our position is that all
[20:28] foods need to be included in a healthful
[20:30] diet. Even Kellogg's Honey Smacks with
[20:32] 50% sugar. Keep in mind that
[20:34] enjoyability is a part of a diet.
[20:37] >> Doctors and nutritionists say that
[20:39] parents with high cholesterol tend to
[20:41] have children with high cholesterol and
[20:43] that obese children tend to grow up in
[20:45] homes with obese parents. Guidelines on
[20:47] junk food then are aimed at educating
[20:49] not so much the children who eat it but
[20:51] the parents who buy it for them. Wyatt
[20:53] Andrews, CBS News, Washington.
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[22:38] >> State finals coming up.
[22:40] >> A lot of pressure to win. I don't eat
[22:42] right. I get a regular. So, I don't
[22:44] project a winning attitude. And the boys
[22:46] see that.
[22:47] >> I tried some natural bulk fiber, but I
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[23:00] >> You got a winning attitude, you win if
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[23:04] >> Met a mucus and you could stay regular
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[23:11] >> Think of a missionary and chances are
[23:12] you think of a clergyman bringing
[23:14] religion to far away countries. In
[23:16] tonight's Eye on America, a different
[23:18] kind of missionary. Frank Currier
[23:21] reports on a man of the cloth whose
[23:23] mission is to bring peace to some of the
[23:25] meanest streets in America.
[23:30] >> The city's homicide rate.
[23:32] >> There were 500.
[23:33] >> Another record month for violent crime
[23:35] in the city.
[23:36] >> Cont
[23:42] got to live day by day cuz anything can
[23:44] happen.
[23:45] >> They're caught in the crossfire. Kids
[23:47] killing kids.
[23:50] It's Cababrini Green where one man's
[23:52] faith stands between gang guns and their
[23:54] young targets.
[23:56] >> We try to give them one message, not to
[23:58] kill
[24:00] 11,
[24:01] >> they call him Brother Bill, clad like a
[24:03] monk in denim. For the past nine years,
[24:05] a Catholic missionary to street gangs
[24:07] who terrorize Chicago's housing
[24:09] projects.
[24:10] >> It's a shame that it takes people like
[24:12] you to do this instead of our own
[24:14] people. It took quite a while for them
[24:16] to trust us because uh in the beginning
[24:18] they thought maybe we were undercover
[24:20] police.
[24:20] >> Grab the wall.
[24:21] >> While police sweep the streets amidst a
[24:23] record violent crime wave, brother Bill
[24:25] and partner Jim Fogerty preach peace in
[24:28] backyard battlefields.
[24:31] >> Get the lights off.
[24:32] >> Bill has dodged 28 near hits.
[24:35] >> They're down there shooting this way.
[24:37] >> Speeding to the scene to intervene, he
[24:39] hopes will interrupt another random
[24:40] attack.
[24:41] >> Every time a shooting star, here come
[24:43] Bill. I I thought I heard some shots and
[24:44] stuff.
[24:45] >> Like a miracle, you know? How could a
[24:46] man actually just walk through a gunfire
[24:48] and then he come out through the smoke
[24:50] waving at everybody?
[24:51] >> The gang members from S say we saved
[24:53] hundreds of lives.
[24:54] >> You came in just in time.
[24:55] >> What do you say to them?
[24:58] >> Uh in a shooting situation, you don't
[25:00] say anything. You offer your life for
[25:02] them. Stand directly in between and uh
[25:05] uh never and never ever say don't shoot
[25:07] >> and never blink. He says while night
[25:09] patrolling this free fire zone, Bill has
[25:12] seen young kids killed for loose change.
[25:14] >> Four of the funerals I went to were
[25:16] these uh oneway was for050, one for $5,
[25:20] one for $4, one for a boy who changed
[25:23] the radio station in the car.
[25:24] >> How many times were you shot?
[25:26] >> When they survived, like Willie Patton
[25:28] shot down in a driveby gang attack,
[25:30] brother Bill comes calling. Our father.
[25:35] >> This has been called the most dangerous
[25:36] patch of blacktop in America where in
[25:38] spite of brother Bill's attempts at
[25:40] ceasefire, kids here at Cababrini Green
[25:42] still get caught in the crossfire. Last
[25:44] year in Chicago, more than 260 children
[25:46] were murdered.
[25:47] >> Miss you a lot.
[25:50] Glad we were together here when you
[25:51] died.
[25:52] >> Over the years, he has buried more than
[25:54] a hundred children.
[25:55] >> This was my best friend, little
[25:57] 5-year-old. She was raped and thrown out
[25:59] the window. Lita Crosby. She was jumping
[26:01] rope and they were shooting and Lita got
[26:03] shot by mistake. Tammy Smith Hatcher. I
[26:06] baptized him with snow. Just like might
[26:09] as well be in a war zone. That's a war
[26:11] zone.
[26:11] >> Luella Edwards should know. Three of her
[26:14] sons were shot. Now she worries every
[26:16] time they walk out the door.
[26:18] >> They go around the corner, they risk
[26:20] getting shot. So when they out, I pray a
[26:22] lot. And that helps me.
[26:23] >> Just hope that they come back alive.
[26:26] >> And when I hear them coming in, that's
[26:27] another relief.
[26:30] You got a pulse.
[26:34] >> Only 6 hours later after speaking with
[26:36] us, Letta Edwards 15year-old daughter,
[26:39] Laco, lay dead on the street.
[26:41] >> I baptize you in the name of Father and
[26:43] Son, Holy Spirit and God bless you. God.
[26:47] >> Killed instantly by a sniper bullet as
[26:49] she walked from home to the grocery for
[26:51] milk.
[26:52] >> We better go to the hospital. We're
[26:53] going to the hospital.
[26:56] >> Hard to believe that same family. Wait,
[26:58] wait, wait, wait, wait.
[27:00] >> Brothers and sisters, we're bearing a
[27:02] saint today.
[27:03] >> For all the suffering he has witnessed
[27:05] and the pain, Brother Bill is ready for
[27:07] the bullet he expects will one day steal
[27:09] his life.
[27:10] >> I certainly want that day to be a day of
[27:12] peace for gangs. That gang members from
[27:14] all over the city could attend that
[27:16] funeral.
[27:17] >> For now, he's a peacekeeper and
[27:19] protector whose faith keeps leading him
[27:21] out of the darkness into the crossfire.
[27:24] The
[27:24] >> Lord is my shepherd. in Chicago. Frank
[27:27] Courier for I in America.
[27:31] >> And that's our news. I'm Connie Chung
[27:33] for Dan Rather. I'll see you again
[27:34] tomorrow night. Thank you for joining
[27:36] us. And for all of us at CBS News, good
[27:38] night.
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