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A smoky fire is burning in an east side high-rise.
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...at 10 Sherlock Holmes in the 21st century.
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Those stories and more tonight on the news at 10.
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Through a bulletproof vest, Pat Moynihan led the battle in the U.S. Senate against cop killer bullets.
He wrote the first bill in history to outlaw a particular type of ammunition.
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No sentence is complete without Vanna.
This is the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather reporting.
Good evening.
New questions raised tonight about the conduct in office of President Reagan's Attorney General Edwin Meese.
An independent special prosecutor is now reportedly looking into accusations
that Meese was aware of plans by a longtime friend to bribe a foreign official.
Meese's lawyer said today the Attorney General did nothing wrong.
Rita Braver reports on the latest problems for Meese.
Sources familiar with the independent counsel investigation of Attorney General Edwin Meese
confirmed that he received a memo mentioning a proposed illegal payoff to an Israeli official.
The memo from Meese's close friend and former attorney E. Bob Wallach
indicated that the bribe could prevent Israeli interference with an Iraqi oil pipeline
that one of Wallach's clients wanted to build near the Israeli border.
The sources say the independent counsel is focusing on whether Meese broke the law
by failing to take any action when he learned of the possibility of the illegal payoff.
Even though the bribe was apparently never paid and the pipeline was never built.
We have been investigating this matter for some time and are going to continue to investigate it
and we hope to wrap it up at least within the next three or four weeks.
Los Angeles Times, which first published the story, said that the target of the proposed bribe
may have been Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who was then Prime Minister.
The Israeli government categorically stated no money whatsoever was ever offered or given to any
Israeli official. Meese refused to comment but his attorney released a statement claiming no actual
or potential violation of law was brought to Meese's attention. The lawyer also claimed that the
story contains information that is false in important respects but refused to elaborate.
Meese's relationship with Wallach is also a focus of the Web Tech investigation. Wallach has been
indicted in that scandal. The White House today said Meese still has the full confidence of the
president but even some of Meese's appointees here at the Justice Department are becoming concerned
about his effectiveness as attorney general. One top official said when I heard about the memo story
this morning all I could think of was no no not again. Rita Braver, CBS News at the Justice Department.
President Reagan is threatening to veto a major civil rights bill. The legislation passed by the
Senate last night and sent to the House for final approval would give wider federal protection
against discrimination to minorities women the aged and handicapped. Mr. Reagan says this bill
violates state and local rights. There's been a shift of focus in the presidential campaign among
the Republican hopefuls. Our chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer reports it is not
limited just to Iowa. Open the little door and out comes the corn. It was all part of George
Bush's plan to keep today's focus on the advantages of the fuel called gas a hole a topic that plays
well in Iowa because gas a hole is made from corn. It was a day built around Washington style photo
opportunities. Plenty of pictures with reporters kept too far back to ask questions about a
rancountra. But if Bush wasn't talking about a rancountra his opponents were. He's being
hammered hard on all sides now to explain his role in the affair. As Bob Dole told it today,
Bush is hurting all Republicans by not telling what he knows. But it could keep nagging away out
there until the person involved lays it to rest and that person is George Bush. Pat Robertson says
Bush is destroying his credibility. I don't see how you can get out of those uh that dilemma that
he has been placed on and I think it'll hurt him all the way through the campaign. Nice to see.
Bush is also getting a new round of heat from editorial writers across the country.
What is George Bush hiding? As the New York Times. The Dallas Times Herald says questions about his
involvement won't go away. Answer the questions says the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. Bush's
Albatross says the Rocky Mountain News. A new nationwide poll released by Gallup today showed
a majority of those questioned 55 percent thought Bush should be more forthcoming on a rancountra.
34 percent said he had answered questions adequately. As for the CBS interview on Monday,
there was an exact split. 44 percent thought Bush had been treated fairly. The same number thought
he had not. Here in Iowa where the caucuses are now just 10 days away, it's difficult to gauge
what impact all this is having on Bush. His people say it's energizing their campaign but it may be
having the same effect on the other campaigns too. For the first time this week all the Republican
candidates began to talk about the same things and what they're talking about is George Bush
and a rancountra. Bob Schieffer, CBS News, Des Moines. More questions today about Senator Robert
Dole's finances. Dole says he knows nothing of accusations in the Kansas City Star that in his
1986 Senate campaign he may have received illegal contributions from executives of a now defunct
company. Dole said today he's asked the Federal Election Commission to look into it. This comes
as Dole is trying to distance himself from his recently resigned National Finance Chairman
David Owen. Owen left amid questions about his management of a blind trust for Mrs. Dole.
With Richard Gephart, Paul Simon, and Michael Dukakis now perceived as bunched up front tightly
in the Iowa polls, all the Democratic hopefuls are more sensitive than ever about tailoring their
messages to be surefire vote getters. That's one but not the only reason why most of the
Democratic contenders are talking up aid programs for Iowa's recuperating farmers.
Our National Affairs correspondent Leslie Stahl reports tonight how these promises made in Iowa
could come back and haunt the Democrats all the way to election day.
After years of hardship, America's heartland is recovering. This year's fine. Everything
come through in this territory, we're real good, they get crops and everything worked out.
But while the anger of the bad years is draining away in much of the Iowa farmland,
the Democrats are clinging to the farm issue. How do you feel when you're out there working
your heart out to produce this good corn and here it sits rotting in a barn?
Let me tell you something, the farm crisis isn't over. No, not over, but many farmers do say the
edge is off. It's better now and I think there's a better outlook. Jim Bush has a sheep farm. He's
getting a higher price for his livestock now and steady subsidy checks from the government
under the generous 1985 Farm Act. Since 1981, we have lost 650,000 family farmers. The Democratic
candidates are ignoring the improving conditions, but with only two of every 10 Iowans on the farm,
local politicians say it's a mistake to pander to this special interest group.
You get the metal of the man out here in terms of whether he's willing to stand up to groups if he
thinks their ideas are bogus and say, you know, bug off. But five of the seven Democrats support
elements of a radical proposal for mandatory limits on crop production and the doubling of
corn and soybean prices sponsored by candidate Gephardt. If we let the family farm die, part of
America will die with it. Not all farmers like this approach. So why all the support? Because of
farmer Dixon Terry and his coalition of activists. When Terry found that Michael Dukakis opposed the
plan, 5,000 newsletters with a negative Dukakis rating hit the mailboxes of Iowa farmers. After
a meeting, Dukakis changed his position. Thank you for joining us. What myself and others like myself
in our farm organizations did was we required Mr. Dukakis and the other candidates to stake out
a solid position. I know a lot more today about corn and soybean and hogs and everything possible.
A candidate that wants to win in Iowa better darn well pay attention to what farmers and
rural people think because they are a very significant portion of the people that do turn
out on caucus night. Going along with the activists could cost the Democrats later on.
Agricultural experts say the bill would increase food prices for consumers.
But there's a mystique, a symbolism about the family farm. It's emotional. It's about the land,
about American values. Democrats feel a political need to demonstrate they care.
Leslie Stahl, CBS News, Hebron, Iowa.
Once again a major Amtrak accident in the nation's busy northeast corridor. The mishap early today
resulted in multiple injuries and wreckage strewn over a three-block area. Once again,
authorities say human error was involved and they're seeking a railroad worker to find out
what happened. Richard Schlesinger tells us about it. Early this morning Amtrak's night owl was
speeding from Washington to Boston when the 10-car train went onto a track that was supposed to be
closed for maintenance. After slamming into some maintenance equipment, one locomotive slid down
an embankment. All the passenger cars derailed but stayed upright. 130 people were on board,
24 were injured, none seriously. People were wild. They were screaming and I think everyone
broke into spontaneous prayer and there were, I guess I wasn't really paying attention. I was
praying myself. Accident investigators are focusing on the operator in the railroad control tower who
they say switched the train to the wrong track and then disappeared. The person who was at the key
switch, at the key light, at the key signal disappears immediately after the accident before we
can get an alcohol and drug test, before we can get a statement and now we're nearly a day later
and we still haven't found him. This was the second accident in a little more than a year
along the northeast rail corridor between Philadelphia and Baltimore. Last January the
Boston-bound Colonial collided with another train. 16 people were killed and 175 were injured in that
wreck. Today passengers on the Night Owl were scared and dazed but considered themselves lucky.
Richard Schlesinger, CBS News, New York. And still to come on the Friday CBS Evening News,
Fender Bender Blues head for the ballot in California and high-kicking hoopla for Super Bowl 22.
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Anusol to relieve the hurting than all their hemorrhoid medicines can buy. Anusol is the
word to remember for relief. When I need a laxative I use Docalax. Darius Jones talks about Docalax.
I like Docalax because it's very mild and gentle and dependable. Docalax tablets and
suppositories. Docalax works every single time. At a Palestinian refugee camp on the West Bank
today, UN hospital treated more than 60 Palestinians who said they were dragged to their home at night
and beaten by Israeli police. At another camp, Israeli soldiers ordered everyone to go home
and impose a curfew after a violent protest. Martha Teichner is covering the occupied territories for us now.
Palestinian kids armed with stones and slingshots taunt Israeli soldiers armed with guns and tear gas.
It is ritualistic street theater performed daily in Israel's occupied territories. Today noblest,
tomorrow somewhere else. Young fighters close enough to see the blood on one another's faces.
Close enough to realize that their enemies are their own age. This is Israel's occupation army,
the force sent in to put down on the Palestinian resistance an army of 18 year olds.
Boy soldiers, fresh Israeli draftees have become the common denominator in this equation of unease.
They have become the wild card in a very dangerous game of chance.
It is these boy soldiers who tend to panic, who can get hysterical. Some turn mean and
interpret Israel's iron fist policy not as a way of reducing violence but as a license to bully.
Part of this anger comes out of a sense of impotence, not really knowing what to do.
Trained to fight distant enemies in a border war, they can't cope with shrieking women in crowded
shopping streets. A lot of them don't like what they're doing in the occupied territories,
a lot of them are scared. With the weeks of unrest becoming months, they are tired of a
conflict in which the abnormal has become normal, violence routine. Martha Teichner, CBS News on the
West Bank. Nicaragua's Santa Nista government and the U.S. backed Contra rebels ended their first
peace talks today in Costa Rica and agreed to meet again next month after the U.S. Congress takes
its crucial vote on new aid for the Contras. The White House announced today that President Reagan
will make a televised address to the nation to plead for Contra aid next Tuesday. That'll be the
night before the House vote. Moving against the trade deficit, President Reagan today ended special
trade privileges for four developing Asian countries. This means the so-called four tigers,
Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea will now have to pay export duties on many of
their products in the U.S. This will put them on the same thing with Japan and Western Europe
and cost them as much as five billion dollars a year. A White House spokesman insisted it is not
a punishment. Rather he said it, I quote, it's a graduation. An important message on heart attacks
from the makers of buffering buff aspirin. Just four years after we got women, I had a heart attack
and bypass surgery. My life had to change. So in my doctor's advice, I follow a regimen that
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had a heart attack, only your doctor knows what's best for you. So follow his advice. I did and now
I'm enjoying life again. Think your cereal is nutritious? Put down your spoon and listen.
Because a leading consumer magazine ranked 59 cold cereals on fiber, protein, sugar, sodium,
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Earlier this week, we reported results of a massive study in this country which found an
aspirin taken every day sharply reduces the risk of a heart attack. Well today, the British Medical
Journal says a six-year study of more than 5,000 doctors failed to discover evidence that aspirin
use will reduce heart attack risk. An American researcher says the British study was too small
really to arrive at any conclusion. Both the American and British researchers emphasize people
should consult a doctor before taking a daily aspirin. Kick off today for the great California
rate revolt. While automobile insurance rates are up an average 28 percent nationwide for the last
two and a half years, the likes have been much higher in California where American car culture
car culture hard to say that where American car culture is still king. Jerry Bowen reports
tonight on California motorists being driving mad about it mad enough to put it to a boat.
On the riverside freeway westbound there's a multi-vehicle injury accident on the San Diego
southbound north of the Santa Monica freeway three cars are banged together in the fast lane. You
can always tell an accident in southern California these days by how quickly everybody including the
victim tries to leave. By some estimates well over half the drivers don't carry the mandatory
auto insurance. You got your insurance papers? You don't have insurance? I don't have the money to
pay insurance. And more and more those who have coverage are afraid to file claims afraid their
premiums soaring an average 40 percent a year here will skyrocket. They're gonna kill me on
this one if I reported for a $2,000 claim. I'll get an estimate to see what it will cost to properly
fix my car and if I have to eat it I might just do it. Drivers are not just angry they're crazed
by a multi-billion dollar insurance system that determines rates more by zip codes than driving
records. Pat Wally pays $1,200 yearly for one car. My insurance agent said that if I lived just less
than two miles away on the other side of a major street here it would be about 50 percent less.
Comprehensive insurance today boosters have an initiative to roll back rates launched a petition
drive to place the question on the November ballot one of a half dozen plans voters may choose from
to overhaul the system. Roll back rates 20 percent the day after the election and eliminate the
current practice in California of basing your automobile insurance rates on your zip code.
How can you justify a rollback in rates when the insurance industry has lost money? Critics
dispute that claim arguing the insurance business is very healthy very fat with profits. The legal
offices of David Gray we've been able to collect millions of dollars for accident victims. California's
insurance companies insist the higher rates are simply keeping pace with the rising costs of
lawsuits, health care and repairs and the industry is pushing its own plan a form of no fault insurance
that will limit lawsuits and temporarily reduce premiums. Anything more drastic warns an industry
spokesman could backfire on the voter. It's not going to do any good for the public to shoot the
messenger. Many companies would stop writing business in the state. If the choice is buying
automobile insurance and having to sell your home what are you going to do? In southern California
most drivers will tell you there's no choice. Here a car is an accessory. If the vote were held today
the insurance companies would lose big but drivers also know that somehow they'll end up paying.
In southern California there's no such thing as a free ride. Jerry Bowen, CBS News Los Angeles.
A judge in Lexington Mississippi today declared a mistrial in a smoking liability case which pitted
the family of a man who died of lung cancer against a tobacco company. The estate of Nathan Horton,
a 50 year old man who died last January, sought 17 million dollars. The judge acted after meeting
with attorneys for both sides with the jury headlock. A lawyer for the plaintiff said he expects the
case he tried again. A disability, a mother's love, two young children, not enough money,
and a society that isn't sure how to deal with the dilemma that results. That's the problem
confronting California authorities. John Blackstone has the story. For a few hours after she gave birth
Tiffany Callow was like any other mother proudly showing off her new son Jesse.
But she knew within hours county welfare officers would take him away
because she can't care for him alone. Tiffany Callow has cerebral palsy.
It costs the state more money to keep him in foster care than it would for them to pay me
to have someone. There is no specific government program which provides funding for 24 hour caretakers.
The case not only raises difficult questions of the responsibilities of the welfare system,
but also about the rights and responsibilities of a young woman who knows she cannot raise children without outside help.
Anybody could very easily counter that it's irresponsible of a whole lot of people to be parents.
As long as our society says that adults can parent when they want to, we shouldn't automatically say
except for those people with disabilities. What the county is saying is that yes Tiffany has the right to have children,
but as soon as she does we're going to take that child away from her. But Tiffany Callow's problems go beyond disability.
She has another son David, almost a year old, who was taken from her three months ago.
She is seeking a divorce from her husband who is also disabled. She lives on $600 a month welfare.
I have a child right in my children. They're my love and my life.
But social workers say the only way children will be part of her life is if private financing can be found to pay for a full time attendant.
On CBS News San Jose, California.
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Sunday is January 31st, which is a significant date in history.
On January 31st in 1905, man first drove an automobile more than 100 miles an hour.
On that date in 1950, the Atomic Energy Commission began producing the H-bomb.
Franz Schubert, Jackie Robinson, Carol Channing and Norman Mailer all were born on January 31st.
And on Sunday, something will happen in San Diego that's never happened there before.
David Browning looks at the prehistory of Super Bowl XXII.
Programs here. Super Bowl XXII. Supernat program here. Right on, sir.
And so they arrive in sunny San Diego. Football fans from chilly Colorado and wintry Washington.
Here to thaw out, see the game and relax. Relax. Forget it.
Here it is still two days to the Super Bowl and people in San Diego are getting pooped already.
As visitors from the ice belt are discovering, this laid-back California stuff is hard work.
Consider all the mandatory stops before you even get to the stadium.
You must check out SeaWorld, home of the whales and the dolphins, the real ones, not the football kind.
You must check out the San Diego Zoo to see the pandas visiting from China.
You must go down to the sea and ships where Dennis Conner and Ted Turner are racing their yachts
and dodging helicopters and blimps and party boats.
That's a very custom-made shirt.
You must load up on souvenirs. 15 bucks will get you a nice pair of bronco or red-skin boxer shorts.
Very handsome.
This is, of course, the first time San Diego has snared a Super Bowl,
a coup that California's second-largest city hopes will bury once and for all.
Its old image is a sleepy Navy town.
Matter of fact, San Diego has put out its own feel-good music video.
And in the battle for the hearts and minds of dollars of Super Bowl tourists,
the New York City
Olympic competition from south of border.
Just down the road in Tijuana, they gathered together many of Mexico's finest chefs
and wined and dined early Super Bowl arrivals within an inch of their waistlines and livers.
My lady, what are you drinking?
The grand finale was the world's biggest Caesar salad, a Tijuana specialty.
840 heads of romaine lettuce, 840 eggs, gallons of oil, and 350 cups of croutons.
As they say in Mexico, mas grande.
And from New York, New York, let us not forget the Radio City Rockettes
practicing for a halftime Sunday.
Amid all the partying and the kicks, we assure you there will be a football game.
Somewhere.
David Browning, CBS News, San Diego.
And that's the CBS Evening News.
Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer will be here tomorrow.
I'll see you Monday. Good night.
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Politicking for laughs, Saturday night.
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