CBS Evening News - 1992-08-18 (partial; with WCBS sports)

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[0:00] Yet, welcome shining moment for a team

[0:02] that is 22 games out of first place.

[0:05] Well, I think it's that's good for the

[0:07] team and

[0:08] and for the the whole organization for

[0:10] something like this to happen, you know,

[0:11] as low as low as it has been and

[0:13] I'm glad I was part of it, you know,

[0:15] it's fun.

[0:16] At the stadium tonight, Yankees begin a

[0:17] nine-game home stand with three against

[0:19] the West leading Oakland A's. Scott

[0:21] Sanderson takes the mound against Mike

[0:22] Moore. Last night, the Bombers ended

[0:24] their road trip on a losing note at

[0:25] Chicago. Yankees play has put skipper

[0:27] Buck Showalter in a foul mood last night

[0:29] after being ejected. Buck tried to give

[0:31] the he-ho to the umpire. Of course, the

[0:33] ump didn't pay Buck any attention.

[0:35] Showalter did miss another Yankee

[0:36] defeat. Sox led 3-2 when Frank Thomas

[0:39] singles home Ron Karkovice here in the

[0:40] eighth. 4-3 White Sox the final. The

[0:42] Bombers have now dropped 15 of their

[0:44] last 21 games.

[0:47] More bad news today for suspended Yankee

[0:49] pitcher Steve Howe in Missouri. Howe was

[0:51] suspended three years sentence that is

[0:53] to three years probation and fined

[0:55] $1,000 on a misdemeanor drug charge.

[0:57] Last December, Howe was arrested and

[0:58] charged for attempting to purchase

[1:00] cocaine as part of today's judgment.

[1:02] Howe was also ordered to attend a

[1:04] substance abuse program. Howe's still

[1:06] appealing his lifetime ban from

[1:08] baseball. NFL exhibition action last

[1:10] night, Bills battle the Lions. Defensive

[1:12] play of the game turned in by Buffalo

[1:14] cornerback Henry Jones. Tackles then

[1:16] spikes Detroit's Mike Farr. Yes, the

[1:19] boys of fall are ready to rumble. The

[1:21] run of the night turned in by none other

[1:22] than last year's touchdown champ Barry

[1:24] Sanders. Watch as the Motown Flash froze

[1:27] everybody on the play and then

[1:28] redirected himself in a long run to the

[1:30] opposite side of the field.

[1:32] Bills still still won the game 30 to 24.

[1:35] I'm Rockin, that is sports. Jim.

[1:38] That's Channel 2 News at 6. I'm Jim

[1:40] Jensen.

[1:40] >> And I'm Dana Tyler. The CBS Evening News

[1:42] with Dan Rather live in Houston is up

[1:44] next then Jim and I will be back later

[1:46] with complete coverage of the Republican

[1:48] National Convention on Channel 2 News at

[1:50] 11. Until then, have a good evening.

[2:02] President Bush gets some bad news at his

[2:04] coronation party here in Houston. The

[2:06] construction industry is taking a

[2:08] pounding and there's more trouble on the

[2:11] jobs front. In New York, a media-shy

[2:14] Woody Allen speaks out for the first

[2:16] time about his real-life Manhattan soap

[2:18] opera and one of the best decides to say

[2:21] goodbye. Tonight, Larry Bird and why he

[2:25] will be so hard to replace in the NBA.

[2:29] This is the CBS Evening News.

[2:38] From the Astrodome in Houston and the

[2:39] Republican National Convention, Dan

[2:41] Rather reporting. Good evening. A tremor

[2:44] shook the dome here today. It was in the

[2:46] form of facts, new figures about

[2:48] business, jobs, and the American

[2:51] economy. Money correspondent Ray Brady

[2:53] has the story.

[2:56] The one week he didn't need it,

[2:57] President Bush was hit today by more

[3:00] downbeat economic figures. An unexpected

[3:03] drop in the number of new homes being

[3:05] built. Housing starts fell 2.8% in July,

[3:09] the second month in a row they've been

[3:10] down, leaving builders gloomy. Since

[3:13] April, it's

[3:15] been tailing off and July was pretty

[3:17] slow and August so far has not picked up

[3:19] yet.

[3:21] It's been housing that's led the US out

[3:23] of every recession since World War II.

[3:26] This time though, Americans aren't

[3:28] buying even though mortgage rates are at

[3:30] their lowest level in nearly 20 years.

[3:33] Low interest rates is not the only game

[3:36] in town. We need more than that. Builder

[3:38] Bill Gilligan says buyers are simply

[3:40] afraid to make a long-term mortgage

[3:42] commitment. The overriding factor is job

[3:45] security.

[3:46] There aren't many industries in which

[3:49] there's a real stable environment that

[3:52] the buyers can feel comfortable that

[3:54] they're going to have a job next year or

[3:56] several years down the road. Just today,

[3:58] a jolt on the jobs front from Wang

[4:01] Laboratories. The one-time giant

[4:03] manufacturer of word processors filed

[4:06] for bankruptcy. The toll among workers,

[4:09] about 5,000 jobs lost. Economists say

[4:14] continuing corporate layoffs and today's

[4:16] housing figures are both signs time may

[4:19] be running out for President Bush, that

[4:21] it would now take a near miracle to turn

[4:23] the economy around by election day. Ray

[4:26] Brady, CBS News, New York.

[4:29] President Bush is hoping against hope to

[4:31] turn his campaign around this week right

[4:34] here in Houston. He and other Republican

[4:37] heavy hitters have come out swinging

[4:39] ever more often at Bill Clinton and Mrs.

[4:41] Clinton. Clinton is swinging right back.

[4:44] Correspondent Susan Spencer is at

[4:45] ringside.

[4:48] Mr. Bush actually donned a black belt

[4:50] this morning, courtesy tough guy actor

[4:52] Chuck Norris and some karate kids

[4:54] willing to help the president MAKE A

[4:55] POINT.

[4:59] THESE TIMES HAVE BEEN A LITTLE

[5:00] complicated as some of my friends from

[5:02] Washington know that are traveling with

[5:03] us, but you get here and you feel

[5:05] something happening. You feel something

[5:07] positive. And it wasn't just the

[5:09] political arena yesterday where we got

[5:11] off to a great start. Now he's ready to

[5:13] really kick some throughout the whole

[5:15] country.

[5:16] On the convention floor, others were

[5:18] doing it for him.

[5:20] No matter how many times

[5:23] Bill Clinton tries to tell us

[5:25] that his donkey is a thoroughbred,

[5:28] there is no way no way the American

[5:31] people will be fooled into betting on a

[5:33] jackass in the presidential Kentucky

[5:36] Derby.

[5:37] Bush spokesman declared the last 24

[5:39] hours perfect. No surprise there, but

[5:41] the convention is providing an image of

[5:44] unity. It's a very conservative image.

[5:46] Last night, a somewhat nostalgic Ronald

[5:48] Reagan rallied the troops by turning

[5:50] around a famous Democratic one-liner.

[5:53] This fellow they've nominated claims

[5:57] he's the new Thomas Jefferson.

[6:00] Well,

[6:01] let me tell you something.

[6:03] I knew Thomas Jefferson.

[6:07] And governor, you're no Thomas

[6:10] Jefferson.

[6:13] Ex-challenger Pat Buchanan, who used to

[6:14] refer to King George and Little Danny,

[6:17] endorsed them last night, blasting gay

[6:19] rights, abortion rights, and Hillary

[6:21] Clinton in the process.

[6:23] The agenda that Clinton and Clinton

[6:25] would impose on America.

[6:28] Abortion on demand,

[6:30] a litmus test for the Supreme Court,

[6:33] homosexual rights,

[6:35] discrimination against religious

[6:36] schools. The object of the ridicule

[6:39] dismissed it. It's what they know to do.

[6:41] Divide, use those wedge issues,

[6:44] personally attack. That's what they're

[6:46] good at and that's what they know to do.

[6:48] Playing mischievous, the Democrats

[6:49] released ads to run only in Houston and

[6:52] Washington during the convention. Under

[6:55] Bill Clinton, Arkansas has had the

[6:56] second lowest tax burden per person in

[6:58] the country. Those are the facts. Back

[7:00] to the show.

[7:02] The show tonight features more

[7:03] prime-time speakers from the party's

[7:05] conservative wing as Mr. Bush continues

[7:07] to try to shore up his supposed base. If

[7:10] moderate Republicans are beginning to

[7:12] feel a little bit left out of all this,

[7:14] the Bush campaign says don't worry, wait

[7:16] for Mr. Bush's speech on Thursday. Dan.

[7:19] Thanks, Susan.

[7:20] During his campaign appearance here in

[7:22] Houston today, Mr. Bush returned to an

[7:24] old theme. He appeared at a local school

[7:26] to talk up the fight against the

[7:28] nation's drug problem.

[7:30] In fact, how is that fight going?

[7:32] Jacqueline Adams looks beyond the photo

[7:34] opportunity to the bigger picture.

[7:37] We found drugs here. As vice president

[7:39] and president, George Bush made the war

[7:41] on drugs a personal crusade.

[7:43] >> This is crack cocaine.

[7:47] HE WENT AFTER DRUG DEALERS at home and

[7:49] abroad.

[7:50] From Colombia to Panama, from coast to

[7:53] coast in the last five years, spending

[7:55] almost $62 billion.

[7:57] The result?

[7:59] George Bush's legacy in terms of drug

[8:01] war is defeat. Indeed, that's what the

[8:04] administration's own drug enforcement

[8:06] agency concluded in its latest report.

[8:08] For all the money and all the

[8:09] president's personal involvement, more

[8:11] cocaine and heroin are being smuggled

[8:13] into the country than ever before. The

[8:15] drugs are purer and cheaper and the

[8:17] number of users is on the rise again.

[8:21] Even in Houston, a few miles from the

[8:23] Republican Convention, Texas drug

[8:25] enforcement officials say you can easily

[8:27] buy 90% pure crack cocaine for as little

[8:31] as $10 per rock.

[8:35] Experts say the drug war fizzled because

[8:37] the president's priorities were wrong.

[8:39] Huge budgets for law enforcement, almost

[8:42] nothing for drug treatment.

[8:46] Yet, in Trenton, New Jersey, the

[8:48] president's latest million-dollar pilot

[8:50] program, Weed and Seed, is winning

[8:52] praise. It's a lot of complaints about

[8:54] that 221 Rosemont, you know. You see

[8:56] anything down here? They usually have

[8:57] these drugs in this hole right here.

[8:59] Look. The weed part calls for more foot

[9:01] patrols and drug busts. Although critics

[9:03] complain the cops are just pushing the

[9:05] dealers from one neighborhood to

[9:07] another, from one eight-hour shift to

[9:09] another. Some of them waved to us as we

[9:11] were leaving, but

[9:12] Yeah. Yeah. As you're going off shift

[9:14] and we're going off shift because they

[9:15] know our times. The drugs that will make

[9:18] you bug, it drains out your brains like

[9:20] dirt in a rug. The seed part, however,

[9:22] reflects a major change, equal funding

[9:25] for education and social programs.

[9:30] Without Weed and Seed, for example, the

[9:32] Holland Middle School wouldn't be open

[9:34] this summer or after school come the

[9:37] fall. We're building a foundation and

[9:39] hopefully opening your eyes to a

[9:40] different view of what life is all

[9:42] about, a more positive view, and where

[9:44] they don't have to use drugs as a a

[9:47] crutch or a way of making money. You

[9:49] guys behaving yourself? Are you guys

[9:51] hanging hanging tough, man? The experts

[9:53] hope Weed and Seed is just a beginning.

[9:55] The drug war will only be won, they say,

[9:58] when the politicians put as much money

[10:00] into treating drug addicts as they do

[10:02] arresting them. Jacqueline Adams, CBS

[10:05] News, Trenton.

[10:08] Not at this convention here in Houston,

[10:10] but elsewhere in Texas, there is growing

[10:12] talk tonight about the possibility of a

[10:14] Perot campaign for president not being

[10:17] dead. A Perot book will hit the stands

[10:19] on Thursday. He will soon be on the

[10:21] ballot in all 50 states, and it is now

[10:23] known that key members of Perot's inner

[10:26] circle are urging him to get fully back

[10:28] in the race without the political pros

[10:30] who left Perot's Dallas headquarters

[10:32] last month.

[10:34] We'll be back in a moment with the rest

[10:35] of the day's news, including the world

[10:37] now trying to rush food to the starving

[10:40] people of Somalia.

[10:54] In some parts of the building, small

[10:56] fires still burn.

[10:58] Undaunted, though, the refugees were

[11:00] moving back into the basement. They

[11:02] simply have nowhere else to go.

[11:09] This woman told how her house had been

[11:11] burnt, and now the hotel, too.

[11:14] Yet another told how she had come for

[11:16] shelter after her brother was killed.

[11:19] She too is homeless and terrified.

[11:22] Most here have little doubt the Serbs

[11:24] targeted the hotel.

[11:26] I don't know. They they they attacked us

[11:28] because they they knew we are here.

[11:30] Refugees aren't the only ones being

[11:32] targeted in Sarajevo.

[11:34] Transport planes carrying aid to the

[11:36] besieged capital have come under fire.

[11:38] The planes crash-dived into the airport

[11:41] to avoid attacks from militia guns on

[11:43] the hills around the city.

[11:45] But one RAF Hercules taking off reported

[11:48] being attacked by anti-aircraft fire.

[11:51] The United Nations promptly closed the

[11:53] airport, ceasing all aid flights until

[11:55] the airport is safe again. Beyond the

[11:58] economy in this convention tonight,

[11:59] Britain and France confirmed today that

[12:01] they will join US forces in barring

[12:04] Saddam Hussein's air force from

[12:06] attacking Shiite Muslims in southern

[12:08] Iraq.

[12:10] In Bosnia, a convoy carrying nearly a

[12:12] thousand war refugees from Sarajevo was

[12:14] on the road to safety today. Most of the

[12:16] refugees are Serbs. They're being taken

[12:19] to Belgrade and other locations in

[12:21] Serbia. Also, a US military team in East

[12:24] Africa tonight. They're part of an

[12:25] international relief effort carrying

[12:28] food to the millions of starving people

[12:30] in Somalia. Barry Peterson has our

[12:32] report.

[12:34] These are the faces of famine in

[12:36] Somalia, children who are going to die.

[12:41] A million and a half people may starve.

[12:43] Aid workers distribute what food they

[12:45] have. In my heart of hearts, I have to

[12:48] believe that I can do something for

[12:50] these and that we can save most of them.

[12:52] Food is now arriving by ship. A massive

[12:54] American airlift begins in a few days,

[12:57] but it's not just getting the food here,

[12:59] it's getting it to the people. The first

[13:01] ship that came in, the people were very

[13:02] desperate for food, and we had a lot of

[13:04] losing. Uh we lost a lot of food.

[13:09] When there is food, there is still

[13:11] death. The twin evil of Somalia's

[13:13] tragedy is civil war.

[13:15] Guerrillas kill at random. Food is

[13:17] stolen by one warlord or another.

[13:20] In a remote village, Halima Rahman left

[13:23] for a few hours to hunt for

[13:30] Her only other child may soon follow.

[13:34] It will take weeks for help to reach

[13:36] these remote areas. In Somalia, they

[13:38] don't measure life in weeks anymore.

[13:41] They measure it in hours.

[13:44] Barry Peterson, CBS News, London.

[13:49] Stay here with us now for a couple of

[13:50] stories everyone here at the Astrodome

[13:52] is talking about today. Woody Allen and

[13:54] his real-life romantic triangle, and the

[13:57] great Larry Bird leaving the hardwood

[14:00] behind.

[15:54] Turns out some of the most commonly used

[15:56] tests for Lyme disease are not very good

[15:59] at detecting whether you have it. CBS

[16:01] News health correspondent Edie Magnus

[16:03] has the details. Okay. Her symptoms were

[16:05] classic, a rash, headaches, then some

[16:07] paralysis in her face, the symptoms of

[16:09] Lyme disease. But for months, none of

[16:12] Joyce Brulante's doctors believed that

[16:14] was what she had. I had asked them right

[16:16] along, is it possible this is Lyme's?

[16:19] And they said no, because the the test

[16:22] result came back negative. Finally, she

[16:24] was hospitalized, and neurologist

[16:26] confirmed what she'd suspected all

[16:28] along. I felt pretty bad because I

[16:30] figured if they would have caught it in

[16:32] the early stages, I probably could have

[16:34] taken an oral antibiotic the way

[16:36] everybody else does, and in 3 weeks felt

[16:38] better.

[16:40] Her case is not unusual. A study out

[16:42] tonight concludes lab tests for Lyme

[16:44] disease commonly used to confirm a

[16:45] diagnosis are strikingly inaccurate. In

[16:48] a survey of 45 laboratories, more than

[16:50] half failed to identify Lyme disease in

[16:53] the blood samples of patients who had

[16:55] it.

[16:56] There will be a lot of patients that are

[16:58] are misdiagnosed.

[17:00] The infectious illness spread among

[17:02] animals and humans by tiny ticks is now

[17:04] in 46 states. Experts say tests made by

[17:07] more than 30 companies who jumped into

[17:09] the business since 1988 are just not

[17:10] very good. In addition to false

[17:12] negatives, scientists also found a

[17:14] relatively high rate of false positives.

[17:17] Many patients that we see

[17:18] are told they have Lyme disease based on

[17:20] a poor laboratory test,

[17:22] treated for Lyme disease when they

[17:24] really don't have it. The government is

[17:25] now pumping money into developing a

[17:27] better blood test. A little late,

[17:29] experts say, but a recognition that what

[17:31] was once a regional problem is now a

[17:33] national one. Edie Magnus, CBS News, New

[17:35] York.

[17:37] The mud thickened today in the child

[17:39] custody battle between Woody Allen and

[17:41] actress Mia Farrow. Allen denied that he

[17:43] had abused any of their three children.

[17:46] He has confirmed that he was having an

[17:48] affair with one of Farrow's young

[17:51] daughters from a previous marriage. Bob

[17:53] Faw has more.

[17:55] Woody Allen, for whom privacy has been

[17:57] an obsession, went public today,

[17:59] summoning reporters to defend himself

[18:01] and to deny he had ever molested his

[18:03] children. This is an unconscionable and

[18:06] gruesomely damaging manipulation of

[18:09] innocent children for vindictive and

[18:12] self-serving purposes. He added that

[18:15] long-time companion Mia Farrow was so

[18:17] irate when Allen fell in love with

[18:19] Farrow's adopted college-age daughter,

[18:21] Soon-Yi, that Farrow concocted the abuse

[18:24] charges and that her lawyers tried to

[18:26] bribe him.

[18:27] They then proceeded to demand $7 million

[18:31] saying that if I submitted to their

[18:32] demands, they would not press the

[18:34] allegations. After Allen finished,

[18:37] Farrow's attorney lashed back. Mia

[18:39] Farrow is the defendant in the case. She

[18:41] is the victim. Her child is the victim.

[18:45] Ms. Farrow was interested not in money,

[18:48] but in protecting her family. I'm so

[18:50] humiliated. I don't May-September

[18:52] pairings are nothing new to Allen and

[18:54] Farrow. In 1966, she ran off with

[18:56] crooner Frank Sinatra, 29 years her

[18:58] senior. 13 years later, Allen starred in

[19:01] Manhattan, a film he made about a

[19:03] middle-aged man who falls for a

[19:05] teenager. She's got homework. I'm dating

[19:07] a girl who does homework. Now saying

[19:09] Soon-Yi has been corrupted, Farrow's

[19:11] mother, Maureen O'Sullivan, calls Allen

[19:13] a desperate and evil man, and some of

[19:15] Farrow's 11 children have already

[19:17] rallied behind their mother. She's the

[19:19] most fit mother I've ever seen, and

[19:22] that's it. And one divorce attorney for

[19:23] the stars even suggests Allen is guilty

[19:26] of symbolic incest.

[19:28] >> While he's not the technical father, you

[19:30] know, everybody's arguing about

[19:31] technicalities, he really brought up

[19:33] this child. Uh this child was a war

[19:36] orphan, and it just doesn't play well.

[19:38] You can't be in love with me. We've been

[19:40] over this. You're a kid. You don't know

[19:42] what love means. So his life doesn't

[19:45] strictly imitate his art. In Manhattan,

[19:47] love conquers all. The real world is

[19:50] more ugly.

[19:52] Bob Faw, CBS News, New York.

[19:55] And coming up next here on the CBS

[19:56] Evening News from Houston, Republican

[19:58] women in the year of the woman.

[20:17] As you look around the Astrodome, about

[20:19] two out of five Republican delegates

[20:21] this year are women. That's a lot more

[20:23] than they were at the 1988 convention.

[20:25] And in the coming election, women may

[20:27] have more voting power and longer

[20:29] coattails than ever before.

[20:34] This is the year of the woman.

[20:36] The year women could decide the

[20:38] presidential election if they choose to

[20:40] do so. They're supposed to come out and

[20:42] vote in record numbers, galvanized by

[20:45] the Senate's rough treatment of Anita

[20:46] Hill,

[20:47] by the fierce debate over abortion, by

[20:49] the predominance of quote family values

[20:52] as a campaign issue, and by the large

[20:54] number of women running for political

[20:56] office.

[20:57] But polls indicate President Bush is

[21:00] failing to catch on with women voters.

[21:02] And it may not be easy for the president

[21:04] to turn it around since most of the

[21:06] women running for office this year are

[21:07] Democrats. Still, there are many

[21:09] Republican women worth taking note of at

[21:11] this convention. There's New York

[21:13] Congresswoman Susan Molinari and

[21:15] conservative political consultant Bay

[21:17] Buchanan, just to mention two.

[21:19] For them, politics is an act of

[21:21] defiance. Molinari fights an uphill

[21:24] struggle as a pro-choice Republican in a

[21:26] party that is committed to a

[21:28] constitutional amendment to ban all

[21:30] abortion. And Buchanan, staunchly

[21:33] pro-life as she puts it, jolted the

[21:35] White House during the primaries when

[21:37] she ran her brother Pat's campaign for

[21:39] the Republican presidential nomination.

[21:41] Both Barbara Bush and Marilyn Quayle

[21:43] speaking to the convention, both of them

[21:45] are accomplished women, but what kind of

[21:48] message does this send to women?

[21:50] When you put up a Barbara Bush and a

[21:52] Marilyn Quayle who are primarily there

[21:55] because of their husbands?

[21:56] >> That message is to middle America.

[21:58] Middle America women see that a that a

[22:01] Barbara Bush is as successful as her

[22:03] husband to raise those children, to be

[22:06] there. That is equal to what her husband

[22:09] has accomplished. Likewise with Marilyn.

[22:11] And And what Barbara and Marilyn do is

[22:13] they make a real distinguishing point

[22:16] with what the Democrats are doing, which

[22:17] you know, which promotes the woman

[22:20] uh totally from a different point of

[22:21] view. You know, Hillary out there is an

[22:22] activist, which is which is terrific. Uh

[22:25] but where's the other half? Where's all

[22:27] those millions of women who haven't done

[22:29] that, who've chosen another route? Let's

[22:30] make certain she's equal with those who

[22:32] have chosen to be activists. Are you

[22:35] uncomfortable with the attacks on

[22:36] Hillary Clinton? Yes, I am. There's

[22:38] enough on Bill Clinton that for the next

[22:40] four months if we said the same thing

[22:42] every day, we still wouldn't be getting

[22:43] the message out to Americans to what he

[22:45] stands for and what we would be doing if

[22:47] we were elected him president. I think

[22:49] it's almost insulting to the American

[22:50] public to continuously harp on Hillary

[22:52] Clinton as opposed to Bill Clinton.

[22:54] >> Then why open up on Hillary Clinton?

[22:56] >> Oh no, because it's very very smart to

[22:58] open up on Hillary, good politics and

[23:00] there's very good grounds for it. She is

[23:02] out there as an activist, she makes

[23:04] these statements, she's very proud of

[23:06] the position she's taken. Her husband

[23:07] supports those positions and that in

[23:09] essence allows us as Republicans to say

[23:12] this is what Bill Clinton or Clinton and

[23:15] Clinton represent to Americans.

[23:16] >> Your opinion, which party would be the

[23:18] first to elect a woman president of the

[23:20] United States?

[23:21] >> That's probably a very tough question,

[23:22] but I would not necessarily discount the

[23:24] fact that it could be the Republican

[23:26] Party.

[23:26] >> How soon do you think it'll happen?

[23:28] >> I see it happening in the next 20 years.

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