World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-09-17 - 1 of 2
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[0:00] Yes, ma'am.
[0:01] >> Nicole Kidman talks about life with Tom
[0:03] tomorrow at 9:00.
[0:07] >> [music]
[0:11] >> On World News Tonight this Wednesday,
[0:13] President Clinton [music] says no deal
[0:14] with the tobacco companies
[0:16] until cigarettes get expensive enough
[0:18] that teenagers will stop smoking them.
[0:21] After five military crashes in four
[0:23] days, all of the armed forces are told
[0:25] not to fly for 24 [music] hours
[0:28] and check their safety manuals.
[0:31] And one of the great television
[0:32] comedians,
[0:35] Red Skelton, has died.
[0:39] >> [music]
[0:42] >> From ABC, this is World News Tonight
[0:45] with Peter Jennings.
[0:46] >> Good evening. We begin tonight with the
[0:47] president's plan to reduce smoking. Ever
[0:50] since the tobacco companies cut their
[0:51] $368 billion deal with the states to try
[0:55] to get the lawsuits out of their lives,
[0:58] everyone has been wondering whether the
[0:59] president would go along. Today, Mr.
[1:00] Clinton said the deal is not tough
[1:02] enough.
[1:03] He says he doesn't want to punish the
[1:04] big tobacco companies, but he does want
[1:06] tougher rules to keep smokes away from
[1:08] teenagers.
[1:10] Here's our White House correspondent,
[1:11] John Donvan.
[1:12] >> prevention programs.
[1:13] >> Mr. Clinton made a point of inviting
[1:15] many of the states' attorneys general
[1:17] who negotiated last June's agreement and
[1:19] gave them credit for bringing the
[1:20] process this far, but the president
[1:23] wants the deal to go a lot further.
[1:25] >> Uh today, I want to challenge Congress
[1:28] to build on this historic opportunity
[1:30] by passing sweeping tobacco legislation
[1:33] that has one goal in mind, the dramatic
[1:36] reduction of teen smoking.
[1:38] >> These are the