World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-06-11

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[0:04] On World News Tonight this Friday, the

[0:06] NATO peacekeeping troops for Kosovo. It

[0:09] is imminent. And exactly what are the

[0:11] Russians doing?

[0:13] The new virus cripples thousands of

[0:15] computers.

[0:17] Virtual reality helping people face the

[0:19] real dangers of life. Technology on the

[0:22] cutting edge. and when the United States

[0:26] saved Europe the century on Friday.

[0:32] >> From ABC News, this is World News

[0:36] Tonight with Peter Jennings reporting

[0:39] tonight from Macedonia.

[0:40] >> Good evening from Macedonia. The war

[0:42] between NATO and Yugoslavia is over, but

[0:44] the crises plural continue. It has been

[0:48] a tricky day.

[0:50] The Russians threw NATO a curve today by

[0:53] ordering some of their troops to advance

[0:55] toward Kosovo through Serbia before

[0:58] there was an agreement with NATO on

[0:59] precisely where they would be deployed

[1:01] and what the overall command structure

[1:04] in Kosovo would be. It is not believed

[1:06] here that the Russians went into Kosovo

[1:08] itself. And it's possible that Moscow,

[1:11] which has been the Serb's only

[1:12] significant ally in this crisis, was

[1:15] simply showing the flag to the Serbs

[1:17] while keeping NATO just a little on

[1:20] edge.

[1:21] Being the first to Kosovo has become

[1:23] something of a game. The national

[1:25] headline, if not the national honor

[1:28] seeming to be at stake.

[1:30] >> The British and French are virtually

[1:32] ready to go, but many more US Marines

[1:34] arrived outside the Macedonian capital

[1:37] today. And though the US says it will

[1:39] hang back, a token force may be in the

[1:42] first wave to go this weekend, maybe in

[1:45] the middle of the night. It is a very

[1:48] serious military business. Kosovo is not

[1:50] secure. Though NATO says it is not the

[1:52] Yuguslav army which is the problem,

[1:55] rather the kind of freelance violence in

[1:57] the province which they fear may last

[1:59] for some time. Again today, NATO using

[2:03] unmanned aircraft confirms that the

[2:05] Yugoslav forces are pulling out in an

[2:07] organized fashion. Long lines of

[2:09] military vehicles were seen leaving. It

[2:12] is orderly but slow. And sources at NATO

[2:15] headquarters tell us that General Wesley

[2:16] Clark himself will not be surprised if

[2:20] it takes 3 weeks or more for them all to

[2:22] leave rather than 11 days as agreed. The

[2:26] general anticipates delays because of

[2:28] breakdowns and a possible shortage of

[2:30] fuel. At several points today, it was

[2:33] seen the Serbs do have fuel available

[2:35] that was either not attacked by NATO or

[2:38] missed by NATO. And several fires were

[2:41] seen along the Serbs exit route. We

[2:44] cannot tell what they are. And while the

[2:46] Yugoslav forces were leaving Kosovo

[2:48] today, ABC's Bob Woodruff, who's been

[2:50] based in Bgrade, was going in.

[2:53] >> On the road between Serbia and Kosovo

[2:55] today, the Serb military withdrawal,

[2:57] picked up steam.

[3:00] These were mostly air defense units

[3:02] hauling out anti-aircraft guns and

[3:04] missile launchers. As the troops moved

[3:06] out, so did several Yugoslavian fighter

[3:08] jets flying low over Pristina, heading

[3:11] north to Serbia. With the soldiers in

[3:13] retreat, a new refugee crisis is

[3:15] emerging. This time, the refugees are

[3:17] Serbs. A massive convoy of Serb

[3:20] civilians passed through Christina from

[3:21] western Kosovo. These people said there

[3:24] are no Serbs left in their town of

[3:25] Suarea. They got out carrying everything

[3:28] they could, apparently in fear of the

[3:30] Kosovo Liberation Army.

[3:34] >> As soon as the soldiers left, this woman

[3:36] claimed the Albanians started shooting.

[3:39] Driving along the road into Pristina

[3:40] today, one could see the smoke from

[3:42] about half a dozen fires. In most cases,

[3:44] we had no way of finding out how these

[3:46] got started or what was burning. There

[3:49] are reports that Serbs are burning homes

[3:51] on their way out one last shot before

[3:53] NATO moves in. These gunners, born and

[3:56] raised here, say they will go then come

[3:58] back in civilian clothes.

[4:04] >> We have to come back. The soldier said

[4:06] this is where we live. But some Serb

[4:08] soldiers appeared happy to leave this

[4:10] place, a land of war with very little

[4:12] left. Bob Woodruff, ABC News, Christina.

[4:17] At the Macedonian Kosovo border today,

[4:19] there was a meeting between NATO and

[4:21] Yugoslav officers on where and what

[4:23] advancing NATO troops, not to mention

[4:26] civilians, might find in the way of

[4:28] danger. a lot of looking at maps which

[4:32] may show where mines have been

[4:34] deliberately laid but may not show

[4:36] unexloded NATO bombs.

[4:38] >> This is a continuation of a meeting

[4:40] >> and during a briefing there was a very

[4:42] short burst of gunfire from the nearby

[4:44] Kosovo Hills

[4:46] >> to Kosovo shooting in the background

[4:48] attracting the cameras.

[4:50] >> The fact that no one had the slightest

[4:51] idea who was doing the shooting

[4:53] reinforced the notion that Kosovo is one

[4:56] very uncertain place. The Secretary of

[4:59] State made a short visit to Macedonia

[5:01] today. Maline Albbright is already on

[5:04] her way home. First, a visit to the US

[5:07] forces, namely the First Infantry

[5:09] Division outside the capital here. She

[5:11] had lunch and a briefing from the senior

[5:14] NATO officer, Britain's General Sir

[5:15] Michael Jackson, and then gave the

[5:17] troops a brief talk about gratitude.

[5:20] >> I think that you are doing very well.

[5:27] And then she came to Stanovich 1, a

[5:30] visit she clearly enjoyed with the

[5:32] Kosovo refugees.

[5:35] >> With no offense to Mrs. Albbright,

[5:37] anything and everything is a welcome

[5:39] break in the desperate tedium of life in

[5:41] these camps. Today it was close to 100°

[5:45] and not a whisper of air. The secretary

[5:48] was her usual gregarious self. And those

[5:51] refugees who knew she was here in one

[5:53] small corner of the camp responded

[5:55] warmly.

[5:59] >> "If it weren't for the Americans," one

[6:01] man said, "and we'd had to rely on

[6:03] Europeans,

[6:04] >> we'd have been annihilated."

[6:06] >> There was a brief pep talk here as well.

[6:09] >> "We have fought this war so that you,

[6:14] the refugees, could go home.

[6:17] And it came as no surprise to any

[6:19] refugees when Mrs. Albbright said that

[6:21] some might still be here when winter

[6:24] comes.

[6:27] >> So, you've only had a chance for a quick

[6:28] impression, but what is it?

[6:29] >> Well, the impression I have is they're

[6:31] ready to go home, but they also

[6:33] understand that they have to go home

[6:35] carefully as a number of them talk to me

[6:38] about the landmine problem.

[6:39] >> Was she surprised about what the

[6:41] Russians were doing today?

[6:43] >> Uh, I was surprised when I heard about

[6:44] it. Yes. I spoke to foreign minister

[6:46] Ibanov and he assured me uh that there

[6:50] uh they would not enter Kosovo uh that

[6:52] they were waiting to come in. Uh but of

[6:55] course we have to see. As for what

[6:56] President Clinton said last night about

[6:58] no help for Serbia while Slovadan

[7:00] Mallovich is in power,

[7:02] >> that there is a desire by everybody to

[7:05] help reconstruct

[7:07] um the the Balkans region and Serbia

[7:10] will be left out of what will be the

[7:13] biggest reconstruction effort since what

[7:15] happened in Western Europe.

[7:17] >> And then she was off late today outside

[7:21] this camp, an even more important

[7:23] diversion for the refugees. They stood

[7:25] and cheered as NATO troops drove by on

[7:29] their way to the border soon to enter

[7:31] the refugees homeland in the hope of

[7:34] beginning that reconstruction effort.

[7:37] Later in the broadcast, the century on

[7:40] Friday now and then. But first of all,

[7:44] Kevin Newman who's in New York has some

[7:45] of the day's other news. Kevin

[7:47] >> and Peter, we're going to take a short

[7:48] break, but when we return, another

[7:50] computer virus is creating havoc at some

[7:52] of the country's largest companies. How

[7:54] to spot it in your email before it gets

[7:56] you. And making morality matter, a

[7:59] verdict in the case of the cursing

[8:02] canoist.

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[10:15] >> The FBI has launched a hunt in cyerspace

[10:18] for the source source of a new computer

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[10:36] Seattle.

[10:37] Gina Calabria thought that somebody was

[10:40] playing a practical joke when she

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[10:44] >> All of my documents were empty.

[10:46] Basically, there were no bites of

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[10:49] >> It wasn't a joke. It was the latest

[10:51] computer virus to cause chaos at

[10:53] companies around the world. From Boeing

[10:56] to AT&T to Starbucks, even chipmaker

[10:59] Intel and software giant Microsoft were

[11:02] affected. The law firm Perkins Koi had

[11:05] to shut down its entire computer network

[11:07] for 12 hours while they fought the

[11:09] virus.

[11:09] >> We just have so much online that it is

[11:11] devastating to have anything down for

[11:13] any amount of time.

[11:14] >> It is the type of virus known as a worm.

[11:17] It arrives disguised as an email from

[11:19] someone you know with a file attached.

[11:21] If that file labeled zipped files.exe

[11:25] is opened, the virus literally worms its

[11:27] way into your computer, destroying

[11:29] files. And the worm reproduces by

[11:32] sending itself out in response to

[11:34] incoming email.

[11:36] >> What made this virus unique is that not

[11:38] only did it spread quickly, but it was

[11:40] pretty malicious and that it did damage

[11:42] quickly. Um, deleting lots of files.

[11:44] >> There is a way to fight this virus.

[11:46] Shutting down email systems prevents it

[11:48] from spreading and anti virus

[11:50] programmers have posted new software on

[11:52] the internet to detect and disable it.

[11:55] Computer users are being warned that

[11:57] this is not the end of the virus threat.

[11:59] Others even more destructive could be on

[12:02] the way and nobody is immune. Deborah

[12:05] Wong, ABC News, Seattle.

[12:08] >> The Federal Aviation Administration said

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[12:35] On the technology heavy NASDAQ, stocks

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[12:40] In Michigan today, there was a verdict

[12:42] in an unusual case over the issue of

[12:45] enforcing a more courteous society. A

[12:47] man was convicted of uttering

[12:49] profanities on a not so peaceful stretch

[12:52] of river almost a year ago. ABC's Jim

[12:54] Williams begins there.

[12:57] Canoeing on the Rifle River is a

[12:59] favorite pastime in Northern Michigan.

[13:01] But last summer, a canoe trip here was

[13:04] very unpleasant for Mike and Tammy Smith

[13:06] and their two young children. In court,

[13:08] the Smiths described a tirade they heard

[13:11] just a few yards down the river.

[13:13] >> Tired of this place. I want out of this

[13:15] river. Get that canoe back here. God.

[13:21] And that's all I heard.

[13:23] >> I just took my hands and I put them over

[13:25] her ears. So, I didn't I did not want

[13:27] her hearing that at all.

[13:29] >> The Smiths testified that Timothy

[13:31] Boomer, after falling out of his canoe,

[13:33] screamed profanity for minutes.

[13:35] >> I don't think I did anything wrong.

[13:36] Nothing at all.

[13:38] >> Nothing at all.

[13:38] >> Nothing that broke the laws.

[13:40] >> But a sheriff's deputy also heard Boomer

[13:42] and gave him a ticket for breaking a

[13:44] 102year-old Michigan law that makes it

[13:47] illegal to curse in front of women and

[13:49] children. Long before Boomer was

[13:51] charged, people here had been

[13:53] complaining that behavior on the river

[13:55] had become increasingly rowdy. So last

[13:57] summer, the sheriff stepped up patrols

[13:59] and started cracking down. But Boomer's

[14:02] attorney argued that with the charge

[14:04] against his client, the effort to stop

[14:06] bad behavior has gone too far.

[14:09] >> Timothy Boomer should not be made a

[14:12] scapegoat.

[14:13] >> The defense said parents, not

[14:14] government, should protect children from

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[14:18] Timothy Joseph Boomer.

[14:20] >> But the jury disagreed and tonight

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[14:31] Williams, ABC News, Standish, Michigan.

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[17:13] confront their demons. Here's ABC's Judy

[17:15] Mueller. On the cutting edge of virtual

[17:18] reality,

[17:20] >> Curtis, a recovering drug addict, is

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[17:24] >> You let me know what you need and I will

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[17:28] two-dimensional TV screen, Curtis is

[17:30] seeing as virtual reality in his

[17:32] three-dimensional goggles.

[17:35] >> Yo, come get something.

[17:37] >> It took me back almost to when I was

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[17:41] if I was there.

[17:42] >> Instead, he's with a therapist who

[17:45] monitors his reactions to specific

[17:47] scenes which might trigger cravings.

[17:48] >> You can see that there's your heart

[17:50] rate.

[17:51] >> Okay.

[17:51] >> And there are points toward the end

[17:53] there where it got higher and higher.

[17:55] This program is revolutionary because it

[17:57] integrates virtual reality technology

[18:00] with a computerized BOF feedback system

[18:02] measuring temperature and pulse. That

[18:05] information helps cut through an

[18:07] addict's denial.

[18:08] >> Deep down inside they really believe

[18:09] like doesn't do anything for me.

[18:11] >> But then you can show them otherwise.

[18:12] >> Yes. And that's how we challenge it.

[18:14] >> Repeated viewings are aimed at

[18:16] desensitizing the patient so he can

[18:18] learn to resist those cravings.

[18:19] >> Once you see what you've been through,

[18:22] you say, "Well, I can't go through that

[18:23] no more." Virtual reality therapy is

[18:26] already being used to treat phobias such

[18:28] as fear of flying. Soon it will be used

[18:30] to treat eating disorders as well. And

[18:33] patients are not the only ones who can

[18:35] benefit from this technology. One

[18:37] program helps doctors empathize with

[18:39] cancer patients who experience profound

[18:41] fatigue after chemotherapy.

[18:43] >> Come walk in my steps.

[18:45] >> The doctors wear a 3D helmet while

[18:47] pushing pedals that with a great deal of

[18:50] effort enable them to walk through a

[18:52] virtual home. They learn how difficult

[18:54] it is to do simple things like answering

[18:57] the door.

[18:58] >> You're worried about getting there

[18:59] before

[19:01] somebody uh leaves.

[19:03] >> The program left this oncologist feeling

[19:05] >> frustrated, exhausted, and uh very

[19:08] impressed.

[19:09] >> Impressed with the power of virtual

[19:11] reality.

[19:12] >> Just one hit.

[19:13] >> A technology born in the art of

[19:15] entertainment, now adopted by the art of

[19:18] healing. Judy Mueller, ABC News, Los

[19:20] Angeles.

[19:22] There was also a reminder today of the

[19:23] vulnerability of modern technology.

[19:25] Today, one of the most popular websites,

[19:27] eBay, shut down for the second time this

[19:29] week. The online auction site said it

[19:32] had server problems. When it's up and

[19:33] running, eBay says it handles 500 bids

[19:36] for merchandise every minute. Its stock

[19:38] lost 9% of its value today. And just

[19:41] enough time for a quick quirky story

[19:43] from baseball. New York Mets manager

[19:45] Bobby Valentine was suspended for two

[19:47] games today by the National League. And

[19:49] here is why. Valentine was thrown out of

[19:51] a game Wednesday after arguing with an

[19:54] umpire. Now, under the rules, he is

[19:55] supposed to stay away from the team

[19:58] after that, but later cameras picked up

[20:00] a man in the team dugout with a mustache

[20:02] and glasses. Valentine in disguise. He

[20:06] is appealing his suspension. And that is

[20:09] all from here. Let's return to Peter

[20:10] Jennings now in Macedonia.

[20:13] When we come back to Century on Friday,

[20:15] saving Europe now and then.

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[23:43] >> Finally this evening from the Balkans.

[23:45] What might the connection be to the

[23:46] century on Friday? Well, a very direct

[23:48] one actually. It is impossible to

[23:51] underestimate what it's going to take to

[23:52] put Kosovo back together again. And

[23:55] everywhere you look in the region, there

[23:56] is a terrible need for assistance. When

[23:59] the Secretary of State told us today

[24:00] that if Yugoslavia didn't get rid of Mr.

[24:02] Mallosovich, it would be left out of the

[24:05] biggest reconstruction effort since what

[24:08] happened in Western Europe. She was

[24:10] referring to what the United States did

[24:12] to save Europe after World War II.

[24:20] Tonight, the Marshall Plan. It saved

[24:23] Europe.

[24:32] I think that uh it will stand down time

[24:36] as one of the major accomplishments of

[24:39] the last 50 years or so.

[24:45] When history's most savage conflict,

[24:47] World War II, came to an end in 1945, it

[24:50] left a continent in ruins.

[24:52] >> There was England and it was a victor,

[24:56] but it was exhausted. France was a

[24:59] victor, but it was humiliated.

[25:02] Soviet Union was a victor, but it had

[25:04] lost 20 million people.

[25:09] >> Hitler's once mighty Third Reich was in

[25:12] tatters. As I made my way through

[25:14] Germany, I realized the total

[25:17] destruction that had taken place in that

[25:20] country. Displaced persons walking all

[25:23] over from the east to the west, from the

[25:25] west to the east, large cities bombed

[25:28] out, ruins, people without jobs, people

[25:32] without homes, children without parents.

[25:35] Uh it was a nightmare.

[25:39] >> Starvation was everywhere. There was

[25:41] absolutely nothing to eat. So they

[25:44] rummaged in garbage cans. If I think of

[25:47] my father rumaging in garbage cans is

[25:50] terrible.

[25:51] >> The social conditions were so bad that

[25:54] the political situation was volatile.

[25:56] >> Wherever there was misery and poverty,

[25:58] where could people turn but to

[26:00] communism? I mean, there really was a

[26:02] sense that Italy might topple uh the

[26:05] next election, even France. There was a

[26:08] definite momentum it seemed to me in

[26:10] favor of the red menace.

[26:14] >> Secretary of State George C. Marshall

[26:16] proposed a solution, massive American

[26:19] aid.

[26:20] >> The United States is the only country in

[26:22] the world today which has the economic

[26:24] power and productivity to furnish the

[26:28] needed decisions. Marshall was a

[26:30] commanding figure in American

[26:31] government, a soft-spoken former general

[26:34] who had run the Department of War for

[26:36] President Roosevelt. But Congress had to

[26:39] be convinced. Many Americans remained

[26:42] wary of foreign affairs.

[26:43] >> The whole world

[26:46] hangs in the balance.

[26:47] >> Congress passed the Marshall Plan, and

[26:50] by June of 1948, the largest aid program

[26:53] in history began delivering shiploads of

[26:56] supplies to the Europeans.

[26:59] Malnutrition was eased. Factories were

[27:02] restarted. New deliveries of fuel

[27:05] ensured that people would not go without

[27:07] heat. At one point, 150 ships arrived in

[27:10] European ports every day. Our economy

[27:14] would be

[27:16] drastically influenced if and in a

[27:19] detrimental way if if Europe had gone

[27:22] under. And there's no question that it

[27:24] saved Western Europe, saved a way of

[27:27] life there.

[27:28] >> With $13 billion of assistance, in four

[27:31] years, Europe began to rise again.

[27:35] Industrial production increased 40%. And

[27:38] to a generation of Europeans, the name

[27:41] Marshall became synonymous with American

[27:44] generosity.

[27:47] And that is our report on World News

[27:49] Tonight. We hope you have a good

[27:51] weekend. I'm Peter Jennings. Good night

[27:54] from the center of Scopia in Macedonia.

[28:07] >> Sunday on this week with Sam Donaldson

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[28:56] >> You're looking at what's left of an ATM

[28:58] that bandits ripped out of a Columbia

[29:00] convenience mart. Good evening,

[29:02] everyone. That unusual heist happened

[29:04] early this morning in a market on a very

[29:06] busy corner.

[29:07] >> Now, the bandits didn't just grab the

[29:09] loot, they stole the safe and an ATM to

[29:11] boot. Andy Cordan has the story you'll

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[29:17] >> 2:45 Friday morning. Two bandits hit

[29:19] this BP station on Highway 50.

[29:21] >> Before they entered, they cut the phone

[29:23] lines, disabled alarm system.

[29:25] >> The bandits then pried off this back

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[29:28] store surveillance caught glimpses of

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