60 MINUTES {OPERATION JUST CAUSE, WAMPUM WONDERLAND, ROUTINE BLOOD TEST} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of news magazine programs. Dan Rather opens this installment by giving viewers an update on the crisis in Haiti, which, he explains, is related to tonight's episode of "60 Minutes." In the first segment, "Operation Just Cause," Morley Safer questions the intervention on the part of American troops deployed by President Clinton in politically unstable Haiti by exploring the notion that Panama was better off before American troops intervened in that country's political unrest, ousting dictator Manuel Noriega in 1989. Safer interviews a number of Panamanian politicians, who all call George Bush's "Operation Just Cause" nothing short of a disaster. "They took out Ali Baba, but they left the forty thieves!" declares one man. Safer learns that drugs, murder, and corruption have all become more widespread in Panama since the American operation. Safer interviews several citizens who cite nostalgia in the barrios for Noriega's stability. The citizens state that drugs are easier to locate than food; one man tells Safer that cocaine goes for two dollars per gram. In the second segment, "Wampum Wonderland," Steve Kroft investigates the upshot of the passing of a bill that allows American Indian businessmen to open casinos on their tribal lands. The casino Kroft chooses to visit, the Foxwood in rural Connecticut, is the largest and most successful casino in the United States. Foxwood is controversial, Kroft reveals, because it is operated on land that belongs to a tribe long thought extinct. According to U.S. law, though, a person must be only one-sixteenth Native American to take advantage of certain benefits given to Indian peoples. Kroft asks several people whether they believe that the tribe running Foxwood suddenly banded together with the express intention of capitalizing on its newfound "heritage." Real-estate tycoon Donald Trump says that he thinks so, but he also acknowledges that he resents the competition Foxwood offers to his own casinos in Atlantic City. Tribal representatives tell the reporter that they are simply taking what is fairly theirs. In the third segment, "Routine Blood Test," Lesley Stahl profiles a small group of medical professionals who believe that AIDS testing should be required as part of a standard physical examination. The group's critics include the American Civil Liberties Union, which believes that, since AIDS sufferers are often the targets of discrimination and harassment, the required test is an invasion of privacy and unconstitutional. Pro-choice activists fear that if a pregnant woman were forced to take AIDS tests for the sake of the unborn, the practice would give rights to the fetus, invoking attacks from the pro-life community. Stahl gets a variety of answers to the question of whether or not testing should be required. An HIV-positive gay man tells her he disapproves of the notion, while a suburban mother thinks the testing is a great idea. In the fourth segment, Andy Rooney laughs at the irony of "politically correct" discussion concerning sexual harassment after leafing through some women's magazines like "Cosmopolitan." Includes commercials and promos.
Cataloging of this program has been made possible by the Bell Atlantic Foundation, 2000.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: September 18, 1994 7:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:57:42
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:64295
- GENRE: News magazine
- SUBJECT HEADING: AIDS (Disease); Casinos - Connecticut; Panama - History - American Invasion, 1989; U S - Foreign relations - Haiti
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1968-
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - "Shawshank Redemption" (feature film)
- TV - Commercials - Acura automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Buick automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Federal Express delivery service
- TV - Commercials - Frosted Flakes cereal
- TV - Commercials - Good Year tires
- TV - Commercials - Isuzu automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Kellogg's Crispix cereal
- TV - Commercials - Kellogg's Low Fat Granola cereal
- TV - Commercials - Kitchen Aid appliances
- TV - Commercials - Mercedes Benz automobiles
- TV - Commercials - Network MCI internet business
- TV - Commercials - TGI Friday's restaurant
- TV - Commercials - UPS shipping service
- TV - Commercials - Wausau insurance
- TV - Promos - "Chicago Hope"
- TV - Promos - "Love and War"
- TV - Promos - "Murphy Brown"
CREDITS
- Don Hewitt … Executive Producer
- Philip Scheffler … Senior Producer
- Patti Hassler … Producer, Writer, News Writer
- L. Franklin Devine … Producer, Writer, News Writer
- Catherine Olian … Producer, Writer, News Writer
- Merri Lieberthal … Producer
- Arthur Bloom … Director
- Allen Mack … Direction (Misc.), Associate Director
- Alicia Tanz Flaum … Direction (Misc.), Associate Director
- Mike Wallace … Reporter
- Ed Bradley … Reporter
- Lesley Stahl … Reporter
- Morley Safer … Reporter
- Steve Kroft … Reporter
- Andy Rooney … Reporter
- Dan Rather … Reporter
- George Bush
- Bill Clinton
- Manuel Noriega
- Donald Trump