World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-09-06
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[0:05] On World News Tonight this Monday, hard
[0:08] at work, harder than ever. Americans
[0:10] putting in record hours on the job. Is
[0:13] it really worth it?
[0:16] A humanitarian catastrophe, the deadly
[0:19] cost of democracy.
[0:21] A different look at drug testing. Most
[0:23] companies depend on them, but are they
[0:25] wasting time and money? And marking the
[0:28] millennium, 50,000 years from now, a
[0:32] closer look at the ultimate time
[0:34] capsule.
[0:41] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:44] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:47] Peter Jennings. Sitting in tonight,
[0:50] Charles Gibson.
[0:51] >> Good evening. Millions of Americans took
[0:53] a break from work on this Labor Day and
[0:56] needed it. A major report from the
[0:58] United Nations released today says
[1:00] Americans now work harder and labor
[1:02] longer hours than workers in any other
[1:04] industrialized nation. That was not true
[1:07] in recent years. Why is it true now and
[1:10] what has caused it? Here's ABC's Barry
[1:12] Sarapin.
[1:16] >> The news that we are working long hours
[1:18] comes as no surprise to many Americans.
[1:21] >> I work uh on an average between 60 and
[1:23] 65 hours a week. about 70 to 75 hours a
[1:26] week
[1:26] >> go up to 75 or 80 hours.
[1:29] >> There have been times when I've worked
[1:30] three and a half months with hardly a
[1:32] day off.
[1:32] >> Americans averaged nearly 2,000 hours on
[1:35] the job every year. That is 83 hours
[1:38] more than in 1980, the equivalent of two
[1:41] more weeks at work.
[1:42] >> I work every weekends and I usually work
[1:45] three late nights a week.
[1:46] >> And US workers are putting in longer
[1:48] hours on the job than their counterparts
[1:50] in the rest of the industrialized world.
[1:53] While the developed industrialized
[1:55] countries have been slowly declining in
[1:57] their hours of work, Americans have been
[1:58] running counter to the trend.
[2:00] >> 20 years ago, Japanese workers put in
[2:03] much longer hours than Americans. But
[2:05] today, US workers average almost two
[2:07] work weeks more each year than the
[2:10] Japanese, almost 8 weeks more than the
[2:12] French and 10 weeks more than Germans.
[2:16] The booming US economy is partly to
[2:19] blame, putting added demands on workers.
[2:21] But experts say many Americans are
[2:23] choosing to work, motivated by a strong
[2:25] work ethic and money. For high salaried
[2:29] employees, working more produces rich
[2:31] rewards. And at the other end of the
[2:33] wage scale,
[2:34] >> if you're at the bottom of the wage
[2:35] scale here, you are likely to be much
[2:38] lower than many people in most other
[2:40] industrialized countries, and you are
[2:42] going to have to work harder to make
[2:43] ends meet. The study also says that
[2:45] although other countries are gaining, US
[2:48] workers continue to lead the way in
[2:50] productivity.
[2:53] One big reason, the heavy investment by
[2:55] American businesses in computers and
[2:57] other technology, but that too can lead
[3:00] to longer hours.
[3:01] >> It's really hard to separate yourself
[3:02] from work because you have cell phones,
[3:04] faxes, computers. So people always feel
[3:06] like they're either on or they could be
[3:09] on at any second. So for American
[3:12] workers, the good news on this Labor Day
[3:14] is prosperity, productivity, and low
[3:16] unemployment. The bad news is less time
[3:19] to enjoy it. Barry Sarapan, ABC News,
[3:23] Washington.
[3:24] >> Tomorrow on World News, we'll begin a
[3:25] series called Working Wiser: How Your
[3:28] Job and Office are about to change in
[3:30] dramatic ways. News around the world
[3:32] tonight, there was an apparent
[3:34] assassination attempt in the Middle East
[3:36] today. In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak
[3:38] was attacked while riding in his
[3:40] motorcade by a man with a knife. The man
[3:43] was shot and killed by the president's
[3:44] bodyguards. Mubarak was wounded only
[3:47] very slightly. The attack comes a day
[3:49] after the Egyptian president helped
[3:51] mediate a new peace agreement between
[3:52] Israel and the Palestinians. In Israel
[3:55] today, the Supreme Court there has
[3:57] banned the use of torture during the
[4:00] interrogation of prisoners. For decades,
[4:02] Israel has defended the practice because
[4:04] Israel was so often threatened by
[4:06] terrorists and because it was a way of
[4:07] obtaining information about terrorists.
[4:10] Today's ruling says torture is never a
[4:12] reasonable practice. There are calls
[4:15] tonight to send international
[4:16] peacekeepers to East Teeour to stop a
[4:19] humanitarian catastrophe. Only one week
[4:22] ago, the people of East Teeour voted
[4:24] peacefully to leave Indonesia and become
[4:26] a new nation. Tonight, armed gangs are
[4:29] on a killing spree in the capital city
[4:31] of Dilly. Tens of thousands of people
[4:33] are trying to get out. Here's ABC's Mike
[4:35] Lee.
[4:37] >> They fling themselves through the razor
[4:39] sharp wire of the UN compound. Some are
[4:42] caught in the fence. Parents throw their
[4:44] children over the wall in hopes of
[4:46] saving them. The compound is one of the
[4:49] few places people believe they will be
[4:51] safe.
[4:52] >> Literally every piece of floor, floor
[4:54] space is covered by uh humanity. So
[4:57] yeah, you're stepping over people and
[4:59] young kids.
[5:01] >> This is what they're running from.
[5:03] Militias loyal to the Indonesian
[5:05] government on the rampage after last
[5:07] week's vote in favor of independence.
[5:10] Today they attacked a Red Cross compound
[5:12] destroyed the home of a Nobel Peace
[5:14] Prize winner, a bishop who campaigned
[5:16] for independence. And they drove
[5:18] thousands out of the country.
[5:22] It
[5:22] >> was a bloody city.
[5:25] It was uh always uh always shots,
[5:29] shoots, shootings, shooting. Everybody
[5:31] was shooting.
[5:32] >> Eyewitnesses say the Indonesian army is
[5:34] turning a blind eye to the brutality.
[5:37] Some experts believe the United Nations
[5:39] should have known there would be a
[5:41] violent reaction to the independence
[5:43] vote and should not have trusted the
[5:44] Indonesian government to keep the peace.
[5:48] The violence has become so intense that
[5:51] foreign reporters were forced to leave
[5:53] the country today. That will make it
[5:55] easier for the gangs to keep on killing
[5:57] in East Teour without the world
[5:59] watching. Mike Lee, ABC News, London. In
[6:04] New York today, likely Senate candidate
[6:06] Hillary Clinton, who has plenty of
[6:07] political enemies, appears to be losing
[6:10] some political friends. The first lady
[6:12] has now upset key members of the Puerto
[6:14] Rican community because of a
[6:15] disagreement with her husband. ABC's
[6:18] John Cochran tonight on Mrs. Clinton's
[6:20] new position between a rock and a hard
[6:22] place.
[6:26] In Virginia today, President Clinton
[6:28] emphasized the importance of repairing
[6:30] schools, but he and his wife may also
[6:32] need to repair political damage caused
[6:34] by a policy disagreement between them.
[6:37] It started on August 11th when the
[6:39] president offered clemency to 16 members
[6:41] of a Puerto Rican guerilla group
[6:43] responsible for bombings in the 70s and
[6:45] 80s. In return, they would have to
[6:47] renounce violence and accept other
[6:49] conditions. Republicans accused the
[6:51] president of trying to win Hispanic
[6:53] support for his wife's expected Senate
[6:55] bill. August 23rd, Mrs. Clinton's likely
[6:58] opponent, New York City Mayor Rudy
[7:00] Giuliani, condemned the offer.
[7:02] >> I don't remember the judge or the jury
[7:03] saying they were convicted of being
[7:05] freedom fighters.
[7:06] >> Criticism, too, from law enforcement.
[7:09] >> I'm speaking for Howard Safer and for
[7:10] the 40,000 men and women of this police
[7:12] department who know that this is a group
[7:15] that kills and maims.
[7:17] >> September 4th, Mrs. Clinton made
[7:19] headlines by criticizing her husband's
[7:21] decision. Even though the Puerto Ricans
[7:23] have until next Friday to meet his
[7:24] conditions, Mrs. Clinton said enough
[7:26] time had already passed. It's been 3
[7:29] weeks and I believe the offer of
[7:30] clemency should be withdrawn. That
[7:33] brought an angry response from New
[7:34] York's Puerto Rican neighborhoods.
[7:36] >> I totally disagree with her and I don't
[7:38] think she's going to get a lot of votes
[7:39] from the Hispanic community. And in
[7:41] today's New York Times, Democratic
[7:43] Congressman Joseé Serrano said, "I am
[7:45] rescending my encouragement of her
[7:47] candidacy." Given the emotion
[7:49] surrounding the issue of clemency, there
[7:51] is no way the Clintons could have
[7:52] satisfied everyone, but the way they
[7:54] handled it has satisfied no one. John
[7:58] Cochran, ABC News, the White House.
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[8:32] >> Alan F was 84 years old. Just ahead,
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[11:03] become a standard part of the job.
[11:05] Testing policies are usually based on
[11:07] the conventional wisdom that workers who
[11:09] have the possibility of a drug test
[11:11] hanging over their heads will use fewer
[11:13] drugs and be more productive. ABC's
[11:15] Terry Moran reports. The conventional
[11:17] wisdom may not be accurate.
[11:21] Drug testing in the workplace may have
[11:23] no bigger cheerleader than Dr. Joseph
[11:25] Autry who runs the federal government's
[11:27] massive drug testing program.
[11:29] >> We know that in the federal workforce
[11:30] that drug use is down because in part of
[11:33] drug testing
[11:34] >> spurred on by the government more than
[11:36] 3/4 of major US companies now drug test
[11:38] their workers. But all that testing
[11:41] comes with a price. A high price.
[11:43] According to a 1991 study, the
[11:45] government spent $1.7 million testing
[11:48] 29,000 workers for drugs, but only
[11:51] identified 153 drug users, a cost of
[11:55] $77,000
[11:57] per positive result. More and more
[11:59] researchers say that drug testing is
[12:01] simply not effective.
[12:03] >> There's no evidence that drug testing
[12:05] accomplishes what employers want it to
[12:07] accomplish. That is there's no evidence
[12:09] that it increases productivity,
[12:11] decreases accidents, or increases
[12:13] profits in the workplace.
[12:15] >> In fact, two studies of postal workers
[12:17] showed no difference in the rate of
[12:19] accidents between those testing positive
[12:21] for drugs and their colleagues. Some
[12:24] people argue that there are better,
[12:26] cheaper, and less intrusive ways of
[12:28] ensuring safety and efficiency on the
[12:30] job. Background checks, performance
[12:33] tests, and closer monitoring of workers
[12:35] can all accomplish just as much and
[12:38] perhaps more than drug testing. Very few
[12:41] companies have ever done costbenefit
[12:43] analyses of their drug testing programs.
[12:45] Those that have say it's not worth it.
[12:48] >> It's not a a good use of scarce
[12:50] resources. So, while the conventional
[12:52] wisdom says that drug testing workers
[12:54] improves performance on the job, the
[12:56] research shows that theory may be a
[12:58] faulty and costly belief. Terry Moran,
[13:02] ABC News, New York. While drug testing
[13:05] may be a bad investment for many
[13:07] companies, drug use in the workplace is
[13:09] still a big problem. There is one
[13:11] estimate that drug use by employees cost
[13:13] businesses as much as hundred billion
[13:15] dollars a year. in a moment. Marking the
[13:18] millennium in some of the most peculiar
[13:20] ways. We'll take a closer look.
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[15:34] tonight at a couple of the stranger ways
[15:37] people are getting ready to mark the
[15:38] millennium. You may have heard about all
[15:41] kinds of time capsules to be buried as
[15:43] the millennium turns, to be opened 100
[15:45] or 200 years from now. But there's a
[15:48] group of people busily endeavoring to
[15:50] get every human on Earth to send a
[15:53] message into space not to come back to
[15:55] Earth for 50,000 years. And they are
[15:58] serious about this. Here's ABC's Richard
[16:00] Gizard.
[16:03] At his computer on Long Island, Chris
[16:05] Marada is writing a letter to someone he
[16:07] will never know. Dear future beings,
[16:10] this colony,
[16:11] >> time capsules are not new. However, the
[16:14] idea of launching one into space and
[16:16] bringing it back to Earth in 50,000
[16:19] years is KO is the first project for the
[16:22] third millennium. It is a satellite with
[16:24] all the memory of the humankind inside.
[16:27] >> KO is the brainchild of French artist
[16:29] Jean Mark Philip. He wants billions of
[16:32] people to write letters addressed to the
[16:34] future that he will send into space
[16:36] stored on compact discs. It sounds
[16:39] far-fetched and expensive, but the idea
[16:42] has captured the imagination of hundreds
[16:44] of volunteers such as the high-tech
[16:46] company making the special compact discs
[16:49] and even the French space agency. uh
[16:52] people immediately react to the idea uh
[16:55] because they that makes them think about
[16:59] what they will be 50,000 years from now.
[17:04] >> Here's how it's supposed to work. The
[17:07] satellite time capsule will hitch a free
[17:09] ride on a commercial rocket, then go
[17:11] into orbit complete with wings visible
[17:13] from Earth. Over hundreds of centuries,
[17:16] gravity will slowly pull it back to
[17:17] Earth. But unlike other satellites that
[17:20] burn up on re-entry, KO and its cargo
[17:23] are designed not only to survive, but to
[17:25] create an aurora on re-entry, a
[17:28] celestial light show heralding its
[17:30] return to Earth. There are more than 400
[17:33] people working on the KO project, but
[17:35] not one of them can say with certainty
[17:37] that the satellite will ever make it
[17:39] back to Earth, let alone with its
[17:41] payload intact. But that doesn't matter,
[17:43] they say, because even if they don't
[17:45] make contact with the future, they're
[17:47] learning a great deal about the present.
[17:50] Ko has already received thousands of
[17:52] messages about life on earth on the eve
[17:54] of the third millennium. And they paint
[17:56] a very big picture.
[17:58] >> This is like a painting, you know, like
[18:00] an impressionist painting. Each message
[18:02] is like a little point with its own
[18:05] color. And when you go far from all this
[18:08] message, you see the images of what is
[18:10] the humanity of today. And in that
[18:12] image, the KO team is finding a
[18:14] universal message. People the world over
[18:17] searching for happiness, fulfillment, an
[18:20] end to suffering. Things that humans
[18:22] might still be wishing for if and when
[18:24] they read our letters 500 centuries from
[18:27] now. Richard Gizbert, ABC News, Paris.
[18:32] You wonder in 50,000 years, what would
[18:35] people make of a compact disc? But to
[18:37] turn from the stars to the heavens, the
[18:39] millennium does, of course, have
[18:40] religious significance, roughly 2,000
[18:43] years from the birth of Christ. 5
[18:45] million people will visit Jerusalem to
[18:47] mark the millennium. As ABC's Jillian
[18:49] Finley reports, some think this is an
[18:51] epic moment in the history of man.
[18:59] >> On the Mount of Olives, from where the
[19:01] Bible says Jesus ascended to heaven,
[19:03] these people are waiting to welcome him
[19:06] back. Surely the time is near. Yay, the
[19:09] time is close.
[19:10] >> Grace was a housewife in Pittsburgh.
[19:13] Marilyn worked for IBM in Atlanta. Rod
[19:15] was a singer. David managed a trailer
[19:18] park. All of them gave up jobs and
[19:20] families to move to Jerusalem because
[19:22] they believed that very soon Jesus will
[19:25] return.
[19:26] >> He's come to get me. I am the bride of
[19:28] Christ and he is my husband. He's coming
[19:30] to get me. I'm going with him.
[19:32] >> Praise God.
[19:33] Devoted Christians have been coming here
[19:35] for centuries to commemorate the life of
[19:37] Jesus, often to reenact it. The
[19:40] millennium means millions of Christians
[19:42] will come to Jerusalem, some with pretty
[19:44] powerful expectations. It's not just
[19:47] those people who believe the millennium
[19:48] will herald the second coming and who
[19:50] want a front row seat. Jerusalem has
[19:53] always attracted those who feel destined
[19:55] to play a role in that drama. More of
[19:57] them are expected, too. I got one Elijah
[19:59] the prophet right now and two Messiahs
[20:01] right now in the building.
[20:02] >> For reasons no one can quite explain,
[20:04] the Petra Hotel in Jerusalem's old city
[20:07] gets a lot of biblical characters
[20:09] checking in. That's Elijah standing over
[20:11] there. For the most part, the Bible
[20:14] guests are harmless, says manager Ted
[20:16] Bloomfield. But there have been
[20:18] extremists.
[20:19] >> I had one guy tried to castrate himself
[20:20] upstairs because he read a line that
[20:22] said uh that you should castrate
[20:24] yourself for God. The Israelis are
[20:27] worried that some of their millennial
[20:29] visitors may be dangerous. Security at
[20:32] religious sites has been increased.
[20:34] >> This time from Muslim
[20:35] >> and academics from around the world have
[20:37] been coming to Jerusalem to study the
[20:39] impact of the millennium, including what
[20:42] happens to all those believers if the
[20:44] Messiah doesn't come.
[20:46] >> When your expectations are disappointed,
[20:49] you up the ante. You you raise the bet.
[20:51] You increase the stakes. you you do more
[20:54] and more dramatic things.
[21:05] >> In the New Testament, Jesus says, "No
[21:07] man shall know the hour of my coming,
[21:09] but that has never stopped people from
[21:12] predicting." Julian Finley, ABC News,
[21:15] Jerusalem.
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[24:39] >> Good morning. America's moving to Time
[24:41] Square next Monday.
[24:45] >> A brief review of our top story. A new
[24:47] report from the United Nations finds
[24:49] that Americans are working a record
[24:51] number of hours, longer than people in
[24:52] any other industrialized country. Many
[24:55] people say that money is the motivation.
[24:57] Others say they're putting in more hours
[24:59] just to make ends meet. Excuse me.
[25:02] Finally, tonight, dreams that don't die.
[25:05] In 1983, the Milwaukee Brewers drafted a
[25:08] pitcher named Jim Morris. You never
[25:09] heard of him. Arm troubles. He quickly
[25:11] dropped out of baseball, married, had
[25:13] kids, taught high school chemistry, and
[25:15] then two years ago pitching batting
[25:17] practice to the high school kids. He
[25:19] found he was throwing the ball 95 m an
[25:21] hour, faster than he could throw it
[25:23] years ago. He doesn't know how that
[25:25] happened, but guess what it did to his
[25:27] dreams. Here's ABC's Aaron Brown.
[25:30] 35-year-old Jim Morris is afraid to tell
[25:33] his mother he quit his old job as a high
[25:36] school teacher for his new one, a relief
[25:39] pitcher in the minor leagues. Come to
[25:41] think of it, telling his wife and the
[25:43] mother of his three kids wasn't all that
[25:45] easy either.
[25:46] >> I'm the practical one. I'm the one that
[25:47] has my feet on the ground. I'm thinking,
[25:48] "This is not realistic. Come on, we've
[25:50] got to grow up sometime." But Lori
[25:52] approved of the deal Jim made with the
[25:54] high school players he coached.
[25:56] >> They made me a little deal whereby they
[25:58] were going to reach the playoffs and I
[26:00] was going to at least try out for a
[26:01] major league team.
[26:02] >> I figured he'd go up there and he'd
[26:03] throw for him and they'd say, "Yeah,
[26:05] you've got pretty good stuff for an old
[26:07] guy, but you're an old guy."
[26:09] >> And he is really old. Too old to be in
[26:11] the minors. But he's also throwing
[26:13] harder and better than he did as a
[26:16] 20-year-old kid. And so he's back in
[26:18] that strange and wonderful land called
[26:20] minor league baseball where the Bulls
[26:22] snorts smoke on every home run and
[26:24] future stars run the bases between
[26:26] innings. The land Jim left 10 years and
[26:29] four arm surgeries ago after an
[26:32] undistinguished minor league career. A
[26:34] land where you are just one call away
[26:36] from the show, the major leagues. And
[26:39] that was five wins and two losses ago.
[26:42] >> For a minor league player, September is
[26:44] the best month. It's the month the major
[26:47] league teams expand their rosters,
[26:49] calling up their best prospects, their
[26:51] most promising young players to see if
[26:53] they have what it takes. And it may be
[26:56] the month that a 35-year-old Texas
[26:58] left-hander, the guy the fans call coach
[27:00] and his teammates call old man river,
[27:03] gets the call.
[27:05] >> It's been a great experience, and I
[27:06] wouldn't change it for anything. And you
[27:09] know, if I don't get the call, that's
[27:10] fine. I've got to live out my dream.
[27:12] Back in Reagan County, Texas, the ball
[27:14] field is empty and school has started
[27:17] without Jim Morris in the classroom. But
[27:20] lessons are still being taught. There is
[27:22] a lesson about commitment and the lesson
[27:25] that no matter your age, you are never
[27:27] too old to chase a dream. Aaron Brown,
[27:31] ABC News, Durham, North Carolina.
[27:35] >> Hope for all of us. That is our report
[27:36] on World News Tonight. Later on Night
[27:38] Line, it stood watch over the Atlantic
[27:40] until the sea threatened to destroy it,
[27:43] saving America's lighthouse. Peter
[27:45] Jennings will be back at this desk
[27:47] tomorrow. I'm Charles Gibson. For all of
[27:49] us at ABC News, have a good evening and
[27:51] good night.
[28:07] Tomorrow, what's wrong with your job?
[28:10] The way you work, how you work. Things
[28:12] are going to change. The series begins
[28:14] on ABC's World News Tonight with Peter
[28:16] Jennings. This has been a presentation
[28:18] of ABC News. More Americans get their
[28:21] news from ABC News than from any other
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