World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-05-01

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-05-01
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[0:03] [music]

[0:06] On World News Tonight, freedom for the

[0:08] Palestinian leader Yaser Arafat. His

[0:10] headquarters no longer a prison. ABC's

[0:13] Ted Cppel asked the Israeli prime

[0:15] minister how much freedom Mr. [music]

[0:17] Arafat will have. An ABC News exclusive.

[0:21] The 5-year-old girl who vanished and no

[0:23] one noticed for a year. We'll take a

[0:25] closer look at a huge hole in the

[0:27] welfare system. Medicine on the cutting

[0:30] edge. If the French can clear up

[0:32] allergies without a shot, why not here?

[0:36] And able to recognize a foot long object

[0:39] a 100 miles away in a snowstorm. Now

[0:42] that's a spy plane.

[0:45] [music]

[0:48] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:50] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:54] Peter Jenning.

[0:54] >> Good evening everybody. We're going to

[0:56] start in the Middle East this this

[0:57] evening because there have been two

[0:58] dramatic developments there. First of

[0:59] all, Yaser Arafat is a free man. The

[1:01] Israelis have pulled away from his

[1:03] compound in Ramla. But the more dramatic

[1:05] event tonight, at least in the short

[1:07] term, is what happened in Bethlehem. Not

[1:09] very long ago, there were a couple of

[1:10] very serious explosions either at or

[1:13] immediately adjacent to the Church of

[1:15] the Nativity. And then a fire began

[1:17] either in the church or in the immediate

[1:20] surroundings. We're still not sure

[1:22] precisely which. The Palestinian

[1:24] spokesman immediately said that the

[1:26] Israelis had started it by firing at the

[1:28] church. The Israelis came along and said

[1:30] the Palestinians inside had started it

[1:32] and that they had sent a fire department

[1:35] that hadn't had any effect at this point

[1:37] an