World News Tonight (ABC) - 1996-01-19
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[0:00] Star news. We'll see you at 6.
[0:05] >> The Republican presidential campaign
[0:06] ganging up on the richest one of all.
[0:09] The mounting evidence of mass murder in
[0:11] Bosnia, counting the graves, and trying
[0:14] to keep tobacco away from teenagers. The
[0:17] states are told, "Enforce the law or pay
[0:20] the price."
[0:23] From ABC, this is World News Tonight
[0:26] with Peter Jennings.
[0:27] >> Good evening. We begin tonight with the
[0:28] richest man in the Republican
[0:30] presidential campaign. There is even
[0:32] more evidence today of how seriously the
[0:34] leading Republican contenders are now
[0:36] taking the multi-millionaire candidate
[0:38] publisher Steve Forbes. Ignoring him
[0:41] hasn't worked. And so their strategy now
[0:43] is to attack him. And it is Mr. Forb's
[0:46] greatest assets which they hope to turn
[0:48] into his greatest liability. Here's
[0:50] ABC's John Martin.
[0:53] Within hours of each other today,
[0:55] Senators Bob Dole and Phil Graham
[0:57] released their 1994 tax returns in an
[1:00] apparent attempt to wound the Forbes
[1:02] candidacy before it can capitalize on
[1:04] its growing strength. As Dole's leading
[1:07] challenger, Forbes is a
[1:08] multi-millionaire publisher who has
[1:10] called for radical restructuring of the
[1:12] tax system, but so far declined to
[1:14] reveal his income or his taxes. A
[1:16] refusal jumped on this past weekend by a
[1:19] third opponent. I think the people have
[1:21] a right to know how our own proposals
[1:24] affect us as well as them. Steve
[1:27] >> Forbes did not discuss the tax issue
[1:29] today, but his staff said he stands by a
[1:32] vow yesterday not to release his
[1:34] returns.
[1:35] >> I think that this whole thing is
[1:36] diversion from how