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A Look at Israel's Nuclear Missile Facility; Interview With Dr. Michael Wojtanowski

Aired April 25, 2004 - 08:00   ET

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RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR: From CNN Center in Atlanta, this is CNN SUNDAY MORNING. It is April 25.
Good morning. I'm Renay San Miguel.

CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Catherine Callaway. Thanks for being with us.

Here's a look at what we have coming up for you in this hour of CNN SUNDAY MORNING. We'll update you on the developing situation in Iraq with a live report from Baghdad.

And it has been a heavily guarded secret. We have very rare footage with a closer look at Israel's nuclear missile facility in Demona (ph).

Finally, an option more and more are taking, being plastic surgery. We'll talk about what people are having done and the latest in making sure that your voice matches the rest of you.

CALLAWAY: First, the headlines this hour: Iraq resumed exporting oil today from a southern terminal near Basra after boat bombings occurred Saturday. Now two U.S. sailors were killed and four wounded in those attacks. The soldiers were trying to board a suspicious boat near the oil terminals when they blew up. Two other boats also exploded but caused no damage. These pictures of the terminal were taken last year.

Tensions remain high in the besieged city of Fallujah. U.S. Marines say they can take that city at any time but they will not. Instead, officials say they'll give peace talks more time because military action could just hurt the rebuilding process.

And the death toll now at 161 after the devastating train explosion in North Korea last week. Nearly half of the dead were children. International aid workers who arrived at the site say they found a mess. Huge craters in the ground, buildings flattened, and thousands have been left homeless. Emergency aid from China arrived today.

SAN MIGUEL: And we go straight to Iraq this hour, where it has been another deadly day of attack as the White House decides what to do about Fallujah. For the latest from the streets, we turn to Jim Clancy in Baghdad -- Jim. JIM CLANCY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Renay, it's a day where we're really watching a situation developing that could have a lot to do with how this handover is going to go. What we're going to see in the next 60 days, we were told things were going to get worse before they got better.

Today it would appear Iraqi civilians are coming under attack, increasingly, their sense of insecurity being exploited. The U.S. death toll relentlessly going higher. The scenes from Baghdad today, a roadside bomb in the northeastern area, near what's called Martyr's Monument. In that area, a roadside bomb targeting a routine patrol.

One U.S. soldier killed, two others wounded. The Humvee burning furiously. Iraqi doctors say two schoolboys were also killed in that attack. Unclear if that was from the original explosion or return fire from the U.S. troops after the bombing.

Also a high-level visitor coming amid all of the insecurity and uncertainty in Baghdad. Prime Minister John Howard of Australia, one of two dignitaries. The prime minister here on ANZEC Day, a day that Australia mourns its war dead and salutes its members of the armed services.

John Howard had words of praise for the soldiers, the 650 of them that Australia still has in the country. His opposition would like to bring them home.

Also, today in Fallujah, that cease-fire looking increasingly like a stand-off between the two sides. The U.S. trying to sweeten the deal, if you will, a little bit. They've negotiated an extension of the cease-fire. They're offering Fallujah and nearby Ramadi tens of millions of dollars in reconstruction aid. The trick is going to be trying to get both sides now to lay down their arms, trying to get those insurgents to hand over foreign fighters, and hand in their heavy weaponry.

Also, today, as you noted briefly oil exports were halted from Iraq after Saturday night, suspected suicide boats approached the main oil terminal in Iraq. It's about 10 kilometers south of the shoreline. It's in the Arabian Gulf. One of the dows was being boarded by U.S. service members. It exploded as they were preparing to get on board.

Two U.S. servicemen killed, three others wounded in that incident. Two other explosions as other vessels tried to move into that exclusion zone around the oil terminal. Those boats were exploded by -- it's believed, by coalition fire -- Renay.

SAN MIGUEL: Jim, one quick question. Are you hearing anything about whether the coalition believes that the people in Fallujah who are negotiating with the coalition, the leaders of the city, as it were, are able to have any control over the insurgents who are taking the shots at the coalition soldiers?

CLANCY: If they have any control, it isn't being demonstrated in the streets, according to U.S. Marines on the lines opposite. They say that apparently those community and religious leaders do not hold much sway with the fighters. But they are working on it, and that is what is important here.

The situation right now is instability across many areas of Iraq. We have a shifting strategy. What the coalition has to be mindful of is that even though its troops may be protected, they may be armed, Iraqi civilians are increasingly paying the price in all of this. They want to avoid a conflict if they can.

But they also need to restore some order. They need to strike some deals here that are actually going to be kept by the other side. That's why we've been hearing those stern warnings that this could go the other way. The U.S. Marines can go back in, Renay.

SAN MIGUEL: Jim Clancy, live from Baghdad. Thank you, Jim.

New details are emerging this morning suggesting that Saudi Arabia was far more involved in the war against Iraq than previously acknowledged. The Associated Press reports that Saudi Arabia secretly allowed the U.S. to operate from several of its air bases. Permitted special forces to stage attacks from Saudi soil, and provided cheap fuel.

The AP quotes unnamed political and military officials from both countries. The assistance was reportedly kept quiet out of concern it would add to instability inside Saudi Arabia.

CALLAWAY: A close look now at something Israel has neither admitted, nor denied, for decades, the existence of a nuclear weapons facility. Here is CNN's John Vause.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JOHN VAUSE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): This is the only fleeting glimpse Israeli censors have ever allowed of their country's nuclear reactor; the cornerstone of Israel's nuclear arsenal, which Israel has never confirmed, and never denied.

Most estimates put the stockpile at more than 100 bombs ranking Israel just after Britain. Shimon Peres is seen as the father of Israel's nuclear capacity. Through the 1950s, he won French help to build the reactor. For decades it was referred to as a textile plant.

(on camera): Mr. Perez, how is the textile industry these days, at Demona (ph)?

SHIMON PERES, FMR. ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: Textile is out of business, you know, people are going for high-tech today. But the textile business achieved it's basic aim, as a deterrent.

Uzi Even was a young engineer who work at Demona.

UZI EVEN, TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY: It was kind of a pioneering atmosphere because we were really sure that we were doing something that would safeguard the future of our country.

VAUSE (voice over): The Israeli military is believed to have air, land and sea capability for launching a nuclear attack. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Essentially it's a message that Israel will never be, so to speak, eradicated, removed from the face of the Earth.

VAUSE: Israel recently took delivery of the new F-16i, a long- range fighter, which can be modified to carry a nuclear payload capable of reaching Iran, among other countries. There is the Jericho medium-range ballistic missile. Israel has three German Dolphin (ph) Class submarines.

A recent report in "The Los Angeles Times" claims the subs can launch cruise missiles modified to carry a nuclear payload. Israel denied that report. When Libya announced it was abandoning its program of weapons of mass destruction, pressure increased on Israel to do the same.

PERES: For us, it's really a matter to be, or not to be. It's not a simple story.

VAUSE: Those who want disarmament argue that Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat. There are peace treaties with Jordan and Egypt, and Israeli nuclear stockpile, they say, real or perceived, promotes an arms race among Arab nations.

JOSEPH CIRINCIONE, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR PEACE: As long as Israel has these weapons, others are going to rise up to challenge them. Maybe not next year, but certainly next decade.

VAUSE: While the nuclear version of "don't ask, don't tell" may have worked for the last 40 years, the question facing Israel now is, how much longer can it keep a bomb in the basement.

John Vause, CNN, Demona (ph), Israel.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

CALLAWAY: Israel is backing away from threats against Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. A deputy to Ariel Sharon says the prime minister has no imminent plans to take action against Arafat. Sharon earlier created an international furor when he said he was no longer bound by a promise that he made to the U.S. not to harm Arafat. Israeli officials say that Sharon's comments were meant as a deterrent.

SAN MIGUEL: A Treasury Department news release just a few days before the April 15th filing deadline has raised quite a few eyebrows. Critics say it smacks of using taxpayer time and money to trumpet the Bush administration. Sean Callebs has that.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SEAN CALLEBS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): It starts simple enough. An April 9 release from the Treasury office of public affairs, a tax day reminder.

But here is what's different: In italicized paragraph at the end that reads, "America has a choice. It can continue to grow the economy and create new jobs as the president's policies are doing, or it can raise taxes on American families and small businesses, hurting economic recovery and future job creation."

Some political observers say the language is jaw-dropping.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is not playing around in the gray area. It is not pushing the envelope. This is having a government agency, the IRS, at tax time say to the American people you have a choice, you can either support the president or end up paying higher taxes by supporting Senator Kerry.

CALLEBS: The same warning is found on the Republican National Committee web page and a White House fact sheet. Representative Charles Rangel is asking the Treasury Department's inspector general to investigate.

REP. CHARLES RANGEL (D), NEW YORK: It is not proper for the secretary of the Treasury to be promoting political policies and to be using taxpayers' money to get it out. If he wants to go to fund- raisers and do it, if he wants to go to rallies and do it, so do it.

CALLEBS: A spokesman for the Treasury Department says, it is an appropriate statement and in no way, shape or form is it unusual or political language. He says, "We are stating fiscal policy. This is standard, it predates this administration to the previous eight years."

CNN spoke with the former Treasury official who served under President Clinton who denies such messages were ever attached to news releases.

(on camera): This isn't lost on the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. A spokesman for John Kerry says, the Bush administration is abusing the public trust and at the same time campaigning on the taxpayers' dime.

Sean Callebs, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

SAN MIGUEL: So you don't like what you look like, huh? You may be able to change that and it may be easier than you think. It's becoming more and more popular on television. What about plastic surgery in real life? We'll chat with a surgeon about what options are out there.

First, a question for you. What do you think was the most popular type of plastic surgery last year? The answer when we come back.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SAN MIGUEL: You know, it took 12 innings, but with six players on the disabled list, the Red Sox still managed to send the Bronx Bombers packing. The Sox are poised to sweep the Yanks in a three- games series this afternoon. Also worth noting, and sports fans are going to get a lot of this, this year, the Yankees payroll is $183 million. Roughly double that of the Red Sox.

CALLAWAY: Is that all?

And good morning to the birth place of rock 'n' roll. Here is a live shot of Rock 'n' Roll, Memphis, Tennessee?

SAN MIGUEL: Birth place, yes.

CALLAWAY: I thought it was country music.

SAN MIGUEL: Elvis is in there somewhere, I think.

CALLAWAY: Well, the forecast with Rob in a moment. CNN SUNDAY MORNING continues. Stay with us.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

CALLAWAY: The answer now to that question that we asked you earlier? What was the most popular type of plastic surgery last year? If you said nose job, you're right. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, more than 350,000 people had that surgery done in the year 2003.

Television shows like "Extreme Makeover" and "The Swan", they have more and more people thinking about cosmetic surgery. But fixing the telltale signs of aging, or just fixing up, can go far beyond just a person's face.

You wouldn't believe the two in surgeries available for you out there. On the two things that are a dead give away on your age, your voice and your hands.

Joining us now to give us some expert advice on it is Dr. Michael Wojtanowski. A plastic surgeon at the famed Cleveland Clinic.

Thank you for being with us today.

DR. MICHAEL WOJTANOWSKI, PLASTIC SURGEON: Good morning.

CALLAWAY: First, I want to talk about these television shows for a moment and get your thoughts on how these surgeries are portrayed on television. You see these massive amounts of plastic surgery being done on one person. Have you -- or would you ever do that much surgery on one person?

WOJTANOWSKI: I think the answer to that is no. I think most patients have maybe one or two features that may be in issue. But multiple procedures like they do on some of these shows are a little bit unrealistic, I think.

CALLAWAY: Does it make people think that surgery -- because, you know, all the pain is edited out and they take a four-week process and cut it down to 15 minutes. It's a timely recovery, isn't it? WOJTANOWSKI: Absolutely.

CALLAWAY: And painful? Tell us about that.

WOJTANOWSKI: Absolutely. I think there is a little bit of misrepresentation. The shows are certainly positive in that they bring plastic surgery to the common man and let you know what's available. But there is some misrepresentation about all that goes in between the before and after in terms of the anesthesia, the risk, the healing involved, the pain involved, the bruising and the swelling. It's important for that to be discussed with patients in detail.

CALLAWAY: But come on, Doctor Wojtanowski, I know you got to love these shows. Because surely business is up for you.

WOJTANOWSKI: Absolutely. The shows are great. They've educated the public as to what we, as plastic surgeons, have available. I think people sit there and they look at these shows and say, maybe I don't want to have 10 operations, but maybe I can have one. Maybe one will help me out. That's where the shows have been beneficial.

CALLAWAY: Do you think you're going to get more people coming in saying, I just saw a lady have this, this and this done, I want it done myself. What do you say to them?

WOJTANOWSKI: Most patients, believe it or not, are very realistic. I use the analogy of patients of an apple and an orange. We're not trying to make an apple and make it an orange, we're trying to take an apple and polish and make it better apple.

CALLAWAY: Right?

WOJTANOWSKI: That is what we should do when we approach this.

CALLAWAY: OK, yeah, yeah, but I know you get some people in there with low self-esteem. Surely, you have to suggest to them that they perhaps need to get some counseling before they assume that having a face lift is going to make them suddenly beautiful.

WOJTANOWSKI: Absolutely. Our job is to be the gatekeeper. We're supposed to analyze patients properly and make sure they have realistic expectations and perform the right procedures for them. That's our duty as plastic surgeons, you bet.

CALLAWAY: All right, we're going to talk quickly about the two things that we mentioned at the beginning.

This surgery now to make your hands look younger, that's one I would have to say, I can see all the things I've done outside, having horses and playing tennis, and all that. It is terrible on your hands. What in the world can they do for that? And is that risky or painful?

WOJTANOWSKI: There are basically three things that happen to the hands. They lose the volume so you can see the veins and arteries. The skin gets pigmentation. Can you take care of the pigmentation and changes in the skin with micro-peeling procedures. CALLAWAY: Ouch!

WOJTANOWSKI: You can put some fat in the hands to cover up the veins. You can also do a little operation called a hand lift, where the skin if it's a little bit saggy can be treated a little bit better.

CALLAWAY: Can you show us on your hand where that surgery would be? Where you would do the surgery on your hand? Where would the -- how do you do a lift on your hand?

WOJTANOWSKI: There is a small incision on the top of the wrist, sort of below where the cuff comes down to a blouse or shirt. The other surgeries are done with needles and injections so there are no incisions for the fat injection processes. And certainly the chemical peeling processes don't have incisions.

CALLAWAY: We mentioned the voice. I can't believe people actually have their voice altered. I guess if your voice is kind of wobbly or coarse, it is a giveaway on your age, right?

WOJTANOWSKI: There is a relatively new procedure that is performed by Ear, Nose & Throat surgeons, where they take vocal chords which have lost their tone, their plumpness from youth and plumb them up a little bit, usually with a fat or a collagen injection to make them more youthful and transferring that into a more youthful voice.

CALLAWAY: What will they think of next?

WOJTANOWSKI: Who knows!

CALLAWAY: All right, Doctor Wojtanowski, thank you very much for being with us this morning.

WOJTANOWSKI: Thank you. You bet.

SAN MIGUEL: Well, there's been much debate about how women are portrayed in popular music. We'd like your thoughts on this topic. E-mail us at wam -- w-a-m -- @cnn.com, and we'll share some later this hour.

Also ahead is "HOUSE CALL WITH DR. SANJAY GUPTA." It's going to highlight the process of organ donation. We'll be right back.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

CALLAWAY: As we told you earlier today the death toll now from that horrible explosion -- train explosion in North Korea last week has now reached 161. Most of those apparently -- at least half of those fatalities were children.

On the phone with us now is Richard Ragan; he's with the World Food Program. Mr. Reagan went to the scene there to see what kind of aid he could bring to the region.

Richard, what can you tell us -- you're in Pyongyang now. Right? RICHARD RAGAN, WORLD FOOD PROGRAM (via telephone): Correct.

What did you find when you arrived there at the scene?

RAGAN: Well, we visited two sites. The first area we visited was the blast site itself. And the scene, quite frankly, was apocalyptic. It appeared around two-thirds of the city's center had been destroyed.

The really horrific part of the tragedy was that nearby was a primary school and a college dormitory. And apparently, those two buildings took the brunt of the blast. We left the blast scene and then were allowed to visit a hospital where the patients were, and there were 370 of them that had been hospitalized and about 60 percent of those patients were children.

CALLAWAY: Mr. Ragan, can you tell us what the scene is now? What their situation is now? What their needs are and what is being done there?

RAGAN: Well, the county officials that we met with mentioned five things that they considered a priority. They considered medicines, food, building materials, and then utensils to cook the food, cooking stoves, and other things like spoons and forks.

The hospital was clearly an area where a lot of assistance could be provided. I mean it was very rudimentary. In some cases you saw children that were lying on cabinets. There weren't even enough beds in the hospital to take care of them. Very limited medical supplies.

The doctors there, quite frankly were pretty heroic. Because you can imagine having 360 patients arrive, many of them in a critical state, and having to stabilize them was pretty difficult.

CALLAWAY: I would think that they would need staff, too, to help care for all of those injured.

RAGAN: Well, a lot of the injuries appeared to be eye and face related. There were five patients that we saw who looked as if they'd completely lost their sight. So, on the technical side, some medical expertise with facial and eye-related injuries is probably going to be something that they'll need in the short-term.

CALLAWAY: The news continues to be grim from that area. Richard Ragan, thank you so much for taking the time and giving us an update on the situation there.

RAGAN: Thank you.

SAN MIGUEL: Here's a preview of what else CNN has in store for you. We'll also bring you the latest on that situation in North Korea.

And then at 8:30 a.m. Eastern -- pardon me, "HOUSE CALL WITH DR. SANJAY GUPTA" explores the science of organ donation. At 9:15 a.m., we'll talk to a hostage just released from Iraq about his ordeal and what's coming up next. And at 9:45 a.m., renowned actress Kathleen Turner will join CNN to talk about the march for women's lives in Washington, D.C. We'll be right back.

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Aired April 25, 2004 - 08:00   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR: From CNN Center in Atlanta, this is CNN SUNDAY MORNING. It is April 25.
Good morning. I'm Renay San Miguel.

CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Catherine Callaway. Thanks for being with us.

Here's a look at what we have coming up for you in this hour of CNN SUNDAY MORNING. We'll update you on the developing situation in Iraq with a live report from Baghdad.

And it has been a heavily guarded secret. We have very rare footage with a closer look at Israel's nuclear missile facility in Demona (ph).

Finally, an option more and more are taking, being plastic surgery. We'll talk about what people are having done and the latest in making sure that your voice matches the rest of you.

CALLAWAY: First, the headlines this hour: Iraq resumed exporting oil today from a southern terminal near Basra after boat bombings occurred Saturday. Now two U.S. sailors were killed and four wounded in those attacks. The soldiers were trying to board a suspicious boat near the oil terminals when they blew up. Two other boats also exploded but caused no damage. These pictures of the terminal were taken last year.

Tensions remain high in the besieged city of Fallujah. U.S. Marines say they can take that city at any time but they will not. Instead, officials say they'll give peace talks more time because military action could just hurt the rebuilding process.

And the death toll now at 161 after the devastating train explosion in North Korea last week. Nearly half of the dead were children. International aid workers who arrived at the site say they found a mess. Huge craters in the ground, buildings flattened, and thousands have been left homeless. Emergency aid from China arrived today.

SAN MIGUEL: And we go straight to Iraq this hour, where it has been another deadly day of attack as the White House decides what to do about Fallujah. For the latest from the streets, we turn to Jim Clancy in Baghdad -- Jim. JIM CLANCY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Renay, it's a day where we're really watching a situation developing that could have a lot to do with how this handover is going to go. What we're going to see in the next 60 days, we were told things were going to get worse before they got better.

Today it would appear Iraqi civilians are coming under attack, increasingly, their sense of insecurity being exploited. The U.S. death toll relentlessly going higher. The scenes from Baghdad today, a roadside bomb in the northeastern area, near what's called Martyr's Monument. In that area, a roadside bomb targeting a routine patrol.

One U.S. soldier killed, two others wounded. The Humvee burning furiously. Iraqi doctors say two schoolboys were also killed in that attack. Unclear if that was from the original explosion or return fire from the U.S. troops after the bombing.

Also a high-level visitor coming amid all of the insecurity and uncertainty in Baghdad. Prime Minister John Howard of Australia, one of two dignitaries. The prime minister here on ANZEC Day, a day that Australia mourns its war dead and salutes its members of the armed services.

John Howard had words of praise for the soldiers, the 650 of them that Australia still has in the country. His opposition would like to bring them home.

Also, today in Fallujah, that cease-fire looking increasingly like a stand-off between the two sides. The U.S. trying to sweeten the deal, if you will, a little bit. They've negotiated an extension of the cease-fire. They're offering Fallujah and nearby Ramadi tens of millions of dollars in reconstruction aid. The trick is going to be trying to get both sides now to lay down their arms, trying to get those insurgents to hand over foreign fighters, and hand in their heavy weaponry.

Also, today, as you noted briefly oil exports were halted from Iraq after Saturday night, suspected suicide boats approached the main oil terminal in Iraq. It's about 10 kilometers south of the shoreline. It's in the Arabian Gulf. One of the dows was being boarded by U.S. service members. It exploded as they were preparing to get on board.

Two U.S. servicemen killed, three others wounded in that incident. Two other explosions as other vessels tried to move into that exclusion zone around the oil terminal. Those boats were exploded by -- it's believed, by coalition fire -- Renay.

SAN MIGUEL: Jim, one quick question. Are you hearing anything about whether the coalition believes that the people in Fallujah who are negotiating with the coalition, the leaders of the city, as it were, are able to have any control over the insurgents who are taking the shots at the coalition soldiers?

CLANCY: If they have any control, it isn't being demonstrated in the streets, according to U.S. Marines on the lines opposite. They say that apparently those community and religious leaders do not hold much sway with the fighters. But they are working on it, and that is what is important here.

The situation right now is instability across many areas of Iraq. We have a shifting strategy. What the coalition has to be mindful of is that even though its troops may be protected, they may be armed, Iraqi civilians are increasingly paying the price in all of this. They want to avoid a conflict if they can.

But they also need to restore some order. They need to strike some deals here that are actually going to be kept by the other side. That's why we've been hearing those stern warnings that this could go the other way. The U.S. Marines can go back in, Renay.

SAN MIGUEL: Jim Clancy, live from Baghdad. Thank you, Jim.

New details are emerging this morning suggesting that Saudi Arabia was far more involved in the war against Iraq than previously acknowledged. The Associated Press reports that Saudi Arabia secretly allowed the U.S. to operate from several of its air bases. Permitted special forces to stage attacks from Saudi soil, and provided cheap fuel.

The AP quotes unnamed political and military officials from both countries. The assistance was reportedly kept quiet out of concern it would add to instability inside Saudi Arabia.

CALLAWAY: A close look now at something Israel has neither admitted, nor denied, for decades, the existence of a nuclear weapons facility. Here is CNN's John Vause.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JOHN VAUSE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): This is the only fleeting glimpse Israeli censors have ever allowed of their country's nuclear reactor; the cornerstone of Israel's nuclear arsenal, which Israel has never confirmed, and never denied.

Most estimates put the stockpile at more than 100 bombs ranking Israel just after Britain. Shimon Peres is seen as the father of Israel's nuclear capacity. Through the 1950s, he won French help to build the reactor. For decades it was referred to as a textile plant.

(on camera): Mr. Perez, how is the textile industry these days, at Demona (ph)?

SHIMON PERES, FMR. ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: Textile is out of business, you know, people are going for high-tech today. But the textile business achieved it's basic aim, as a deterrent.

Uzi Even was a young engineer who work at Demona.

UZI EVEN, TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY: It was kind of a pioneering atmosphere because we were really sure that we were doing something that would safeguard the future of our country.

VAUSE (voice over): The Israeli military is believed to have air, land and sea capability for launching a nuclear attack. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Essentially it's a message that Israel will never be, so to speak, eradicated, removed from the face of the Earth.

VAUSE: Israel recently took delivery of the new F-16i, a long- range fighter, which can be modified to carry a nuclear payload capable of reaching Iran, among other countries. There is the Jericho medium-range ballistic missile. Israel has three German Dolphin (ph) Class submarines.

A recent report in "The Los Angeles Times" claims the subs can launch cruise missiles modified to carry a nuclear payload. Israel denied that report. When Libya announced it was abandoning its program of weapons of mass destruction, pressure increased on Israel to do the same.

PERES: For us, it's really a matter to be, or not to be. It's not a simple story.

VAUSE: Those who want disarmament argue that Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat. There are peace treaties with Jordan and Egypt, and Israeli nuclear stockpile, they say, real or perceived, promotes an arms race among Arab nations.

JOSEPH CIRINCIONE, CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR PEACE: As long as Israel has these weapons, others are going to rise up to challenge them. Maybe not next year, but certainly next decade.

VAUSE: While the nuclear version of "don't ask, don't tell" may have worked for the last 40 years, the question facing Israel now is, how much longer can it keep a bomb in the basement.

John Vause, CNN, Demona (ph), Israel.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

CALLAWAY: Israel is backing away from threats against Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. A deputy to Ariel Sharon says the prime minister has no imminent plans to take action against Arafat. Sharon earlier created an international furor when he said he was no longer bound by a promise that he made to the U.S. not to harm Arafat. Israeli officials say that Sharon's comments were meant as a deterrent.

SAN MIGUEL: A Treasury Department news release just a few days before the April 15th filing deadline has raised quite a few eyebrows. Critics say it smacks of using taxpayer time and money to trumpet the Bush administration. Sean Callebs has that.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SEAN CALLEBS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): It starts simple enough. An April 9 release from the Treasury office of public affairs, a tax day reminder.

But here is what's different: In italicized paragraph at the end that reads, "America has a choice. It can continue to grow the economy and create new jobs as the president's policies are doing, or it can raise taxes on American families and small businesses, hurting economic recovery and future job creation."

Some political observers say the language is jaw-dropping.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is not playing around in the gray area. It is not pushing the envelope. This is having a government agency, the IRS, at tax time say to the American people you have a choice, you can either support the president or end up paying higher taxes by supporting Senator Kerry.

CALLEBS: The same warning is found on the Republican National Committee web page and a White House fact sheet. Representative Charles Rangel is asking the Treasury Department's inspector general to investigate.

REP. CHARLES RANGEL (D), NEW YORK: It is not proper for the secretary of the Treasury to be promoting political policies and to be using taxpayers' money to get it out. If he wants to go to fund- raisers and do it, if he wants to go to rallies and do it, so do it.

CALLEBS: A spokesman for the Treasury Department says, it is an appropriate statement and in no way, shape or form is it unusual or political language. He says, "We are stating fiscal policy. This is standard, it predates this administration to the previous eight years."

CNN spoke with the former Treasury official who served under President Clinton who denies such messages were ever attached to news releases.

(on camera): This isn't lost on the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. A spokesman for John Kerry says, the Bush administration is abusing the public trust and at the same time campaigning on the taxpayers' dime.

Sean Callebs, CNN, Washington.

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SAN MIGUEL: So you don't like what you look like, huh? You may be able to change that and it may be easier than you think. It's becoming more and more popular on television. What about plastic surgery in real life? We'll chat with a surgeon about what options are out there.

First, a question for you. What do you think was the most popular type of plastic surgery last year? The answer when we come back.

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SAN MIGUEL: You know, it took 12 innings, but with six players on the disabled list, the Red Sox still managed to send the Bronx Bombers packing. The Sox are poised to sweep the Yanks in a three- games series this afternoon. Also worth noting, and sports fans are going to get a lot of this, this year, the Yankees payroll is $183 million. Roughly double that of the Red Sox.

CALLAWAY: Is that all?

And good morning to the birth place of rock 'n' roll. Here is a live shot of Rock 'n' Roll, Memphis, Tennessee?

SAN MIGUEL: Birth place, yes.

CALLAWAY: I thought it was country music.

SAN MIGUEL: Elvis is in there somewhere, I think.

CALLAWAY: Well, the forecast with Rob in a moment. CNN SUNDAY MORNING continues. Stay with us.

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CALLAWAY: The answer now to that question that we asked you earlier? What was the most popular type of plastic surgery last year? If you said nose job, you're right. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, more than 350,000 people had that surgery done in the year 2003.

Television shows like "Extreme Makeover" and "The Swan", they have more and more people thinking about cosmetic surgery. But fixing the telltale signs of aging, or just fixing up, can go far beyond just a person's face.

You wouldn't believe the two in surgeries available for you out there. On the two things that are a dead give away on your age, your voice and your hands.

Joining us now to give us some expert advice on it is Dr. Michael Wojtanowski. A plastic surgeon at the famed Cleveland Clinic.

Thank you for being with us today.

DR. MICHAEL WOJTANOWSKI, PLASTIC SURGEON: Good morning.

CALLAWAY: First, I want to talk about these television shows for a moment and get your thoughts on how these surgeries are portrayed on television. You see these massive amounts of plastic surgery being done on one person. Have you -- or would you ever do that much surgery on one person?

WOJTANOWSKI: I think the answer to that is no. I think most patients have maybe one or two features that may be in issue. But multiple procedures like they do on some of these shows are a little bit unrealistic, I think.

CALLAWAY: Does it make people think that surgery -- because, you know, all the pain is edited out and they take a four-week process and cut it down to 15 minutes. It's a timely recovery, isn't it? WOJTANOWSKI: Absolutely.

CALLAWAY: And painful? Tell us about that.

WOJTANOWSKI: Absolutely. I think there is a little bit of misrepresentation. The shows are certainly positive in that they bring plastic surgery to the common man and let you know what's available. But there is some misrepresentation about all that goes in between the before and after in terms of the anesthesia, the risk, the healing involved, the pain involved, the bruising and the swelling. It's important for that to be discussed with patients in detail.

CALLAWAY: But come on, Doctor Wojtanowski, I know you got to love these shows. Because surely business is up for you.

WOJTANOWSKI: Absolutely. The shows are great. They've educated the public as to what we, as plastic surgeons, have available. I think people sit there and they look at these shows and say, maybe I don't want to have 10 operations, but maybe I can have one. Maybe one will help me out. That's where the shows have been beneficial.

CALLAWAY: Do you think you're going to get more people coming in saying, I just saw a lady have this, this and this done, I want it done myself. What do you say to them?

WOJTANOWSKI: Most patients, believe it or not, are very realistic. I use the analogy of patients of an apple and an orange. We're not trying to make an apple and make it an orange, we're trying to take an apple and polish and make it better apple.

CALLAWAY: Right?

WOJTANOWSKI: That is what we should do when we approach this.

CALLAWAY: OK, yeah, yeah, but I know you get some people in there with low self-esteem. Surely, you have to suggest to them that they perhaps need to get some counseling before they assume that having a face lift is going to make them suddenly beautiful.

WOJTANOWSKI: Absolutely. Our job is to be the gatekeeper. We're supposed to analyze patients properly and make sure they have realistic expectations and perform the right procedures for them. That's our duty as plastic surgeons, you bet.

CALLAWAY: All right, we're going to talk quickly about the two things that we mentioned at the beginning.

This surgery now to make your hands look younger, that's one I would have to say, I can see all the things I've done outside, having horses and playing tennis, and all that. It is terrible on your hands. What in the world can they do for that? And is that risky or painful?

WOJTANOWSKI: There are basically three things that happen to the hands. They lose the volume so you can see the veins and arteries. The skin gets pigmentation. Can you take care of the pigmentation and changes in the skin with micro-peeling procedures. CALLAWAY: Ouch!

WOJTANOWSKI: You can put some fat in the hands to cover up the veins. You can also do a little operation called a hand lift, where the skin if it's a little bit saggy can be treated a little bit better.

CALLAWAY: Can you show us on your hand where that surgery would be? Where you would do the surgery on your hand? Where would the -- how do you do a lift on your hand?

WOJTANOWSKI: There is a small incision on the top of the wrist, sort of below where the cuff comes down to a blouse or shirt. The other surgeries are done with needles and injections so there are no incisions for the fat injection processes. And certainly the chemical peeling processes don't have incisions.

CALLAWAY: We mentioned the voice. I can't believe people actually have their voice altered. I guess if your voice is kind of wobbly or coarse, it is a giveaway on your age, right?

WOJTANOWSKI: There is a relatively new procedure that is performed by Ear, Nose & Throat surgeons, where they take vocal chords which have lost their tone, their plumpness from youth and plumb them up a little bit, usually with a fat or a collagen injection to make them more youthful and transferring that into a more youthful voice.

CALLAWAY: What will they think of next?

WOJTANOWSKI: Who knows!

CALLAWAY: All right, Doctor Wojtanowski, thank you very much for being with us this morning.

WOJTANOWSKI: Thank you. You bet.

SAN MIGUEL: Well, there's been much debate about how women are portrayed in popular music. We'd like your thoughts on this topic. E-mail us at wam -- w-a-m -- @cnn.com, and we'll share some later this hour.

Also ahead is "HOUSE CALL WITH DR. SANJAY GUPTA." It's going to highlight the process of organ donation. We'll be right back.

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CALLAWAY: As we told you earlier today the death toll now from that horrible explosion -- train explosion in North Korea last week has now reached 161. Most of those apparently -- at least half of those fatalities were children.

On the phone with us now is Richard Ragan; he's with the World Food Program. Mr. Reagan went to the scene there to see what kind of aid he could bring to the region.

Richard, what can you tell us -- you're in Pyongyang now. Right? RICHARD RAGAN, WORLD FOOD PROGRAM (via telephone): Correct.

What did you find when you arrived there at the scene?

RAGAN: Well, we visited two sites. The first area we visited was the blast site itself. And the scene, quite frankly, was apocalyptic. It appeared around two-thirds of the city's center had been destroyed.

The really horrific part of the tragedy was that nearby was a primary school and a college dormitory. And apparently, those two buildings took the brunt of the blast. We left the blast scene and then were allowed to visit a hospital where the patients were, and there were 370 of them that had been hospitalized and about 60 percent of those patients were children.

CALLAWAY: Mr. Ragan, can you tell us what the scene is now? What their situation is now? What their needs are and what is being done there?

RAGAN: Well, the county officials that we met with mentioned five things that they considered a priority. They considered medicines, food, building materials, and then utensils to cook the food, cooking stoves, and other things like spoons and forks.

The hospital was clearly an area where a lot of assistance could be provided. I mean it was very rudimentary. In some cases you saw children that were lying on cabinets. There weren't even enough beds in the hospital to take care of them. Very limited medical supplies.

The doctors there, quite frankly were pretty heroic. Because you can imagine having 360 patients arrive, many of them in a critical state, and having to stabilize them was pretty difficult.

CALLAWAY: I would think that they would need staff, too, to help care for all of those injured.

RAGAN: Well, a lot of the injuries appeared to be eye and face related. There were five patients that we saw who looked as if they'd completely lost their sight. So, on the technical side, some medical expertise with facial and eye-related injuries is probably going to be something that they'll need in the short-term.

CALLAWAY: The news continues to be grim from that area. Richard Ragan, thank you so much for taking the time and giving us an update on the situation there.

RAGAN: Thank you.

SAN MIGUEL: Here's a preview of what else CNN has in store for you. We'll also bring you the latest on that situation in North Korea.

And then at 8:30 a.m. Eastern -- pardon me, "HOUSE CALL WITH DR. SANJAY GUPTA" explores the science of organ donation. At 9:15 a.m., we'll talk to a hostage just released from Iraq about his ordeal and what's coming up next. And at 9:45 a.m., renowned actress Kathleen Turner will join CNN to talk about the march for women's lives in Washington, D.C. We'll be right back.

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