CBS Evening News - 1992-04-08
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[0:00] part of the postal services.
[0:01] >> I think it is kind of a conspiracy, but
[0:03] good salesmanship, I guess.
[0:05] >> Thanks for joining us. We'll all be back
[0:07] at 11.
[0:07] >> See you then.
[0:13] [music]
[0:17] >> Another sports legend announces that he
[0:20] has a shocking news about radioactive
[0:23] pollution. Tens of thousands of
[0:25] contaminated sites in almost every state
[0:28] in the country.
[0:29] Also, Eye on America. Tonight, how you
[0:32] can cash in on the tax code just like
[0:35] the rich and famous.
[0:38] This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:43] [music]
[0:45] Good evening, Dan Rather reporting. The
[0:47] news today came as a shock. Tennis Hall
[0:50] of Famer Arthur Ash revealed that he has
[0:52] AIDS. It was something Arthur Ash wanted
[0:55] to keep private, but he says he was
[0:57] finally forced to go public. CBS News
[0:59] health correspondent Edie Magnus reports
[1:01] on Arthur Ash and AIDS.
[1:05] >> Arthur Ash was the first black man to
[1:08] win one of tennis's grand slam
[1:09] tournaments, defeating Jimmy Connors at
[1:11] Wimbledon in 1975.
[1:14] He ranked among America's top 10 tennis
[1:16] players for 15 years until he suffered a
[1:19] heart attack in 1979 which forced him
[1:21] suddenly to retire. Why me? Ash asked
[1:24] Ben. He could be asking that question
[1:27] now. I have known since the time of my
[1:29] brain operation in September 1988
[1:33] that I have AIDS.
[1:34] >> Test showed Ash had a brain infection
[1:37] and more tests confirmed the cause was
[1:39] AIDS. Acquired, he says, from a blood
[1:41] transfusion during one of two bypass
[1:44] operations on his heart.
[1:45] >> I am not sick
[1:48] and I can function very well and all
[1:50] that I have been involved in for the
[1:52] past several years.
[1:56] As for my