World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-06-16

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[0:00] See you then.

[0:04] >> On World News Tonight this Wednesday, US

[0:06] intelligence believes that Osama bin

[0:08] Laden is preparing an act of terrorism

[0:10] against the United States. The question

[0:12] is

[0:15] >> this woman was a member of the Symbian

[0:17] Liberation Army arrested in the Midwest

[0:19] today after 25 years on the run.

[0:24] >> In Toso, exuberance and chaos. Can NATO

[0:27] get it under control? And we'll take a

[0:30] closer look at lawsuits and lead paint

[0:32] taking the paint makers to court.

[0:42] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:45] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:48] Peter Jennings.

[0:49] >> Good evening. The US government has

[0:51] described the Saudi Arabian businessman

[0:53] Osama bin Laden as the world's most

[0:55] dangerous terrorist for some time. The

[0:57] US believes that bin Laden is ultimately

[0:59] responsible for the attack on US

[1:01] embassies in Africa last summer that

[1:03] killed more than 200 people. The US says

[1:05] he's connected to several other major

[1:07] acts of terrorism as well. And tonight,

[1:10] the United States is concerned that he

[1:12] may be about to strike again. Here's

[1:14] ABC's John McQuey.

[1:18] Intelligence sources tell ABC News that

[1:20] Osama bin Laden appears to be quote in

[1:23] the advanced stages of operational

[1:25] planning for another attack against a US

[1:28] facility. ABC News has learned this is

[1:30] based in part on recent intercepted

[1:33] telephone calls and other communications

[1:35] by people close to Bin Laden who

[1:38] indicate that bomb-making material and

[1:40] the people who assemble such devices are

[1:43] now being moved into position. To the

[1:45] great frustration of the US government,

[1:48] the FBI and CIA do not know where or

[1:51] when Bin Laden will strike, though US

[1:54] facilities in the Persian Gulf, Middle

[1:56] East, and Africa are on high alert.

[1:59] Sources say several US embassies in

[2:01] Africa are considered possible targets.

[2:04] ABC News has learned the embassy in

[2:06] Mosamb beek was videotaped last month

[2:09] from a parked car, which drove away at

[2:11] high speed when approached by police. In

[2:14] Ghana and Sagal, officials believe

[2:16] people have tried to find weaknesses in

[2:18] US embassy security. Intelligence

[2:21] sources say there is mounting evidence

[2:23] Bin Laden's network has acquired

[2:26] ingredients for chemical or biological

[2:28] weapons through countries that were once

[2:30] part of the Soviet Union. Further, they

[2:33] have reports that his network has set up

[2:35] crude laboratories in Afghanistan. One

[2:38] near the town of Coast, another near

[2:40] Jalalabad. As for Bin Laden himself,

[2:43] officials say there is growing evidence

[2:46] that he suffers from a degenerative

[2:48] condition known as Marfan syndrome,

[2:50] which limits his mobility and may put

[2:53] him at high risk of heart attack or

[2:55] stroke.

[2:56] >> Despite his limitations, intelligence

[2:58] sources say Bin Laden from Afghanistan

[3:00] is still directing his terrorist

[3:02] network, now patiently closing in for

[3:05] another kill. John McQuey, ABC News,

[3:09] Washington. There's another story about

[3:11] terrorism today in St. Paul, Minnesota.

[3:13] Today, the FBI's arrested a woman they

[3:15] say was a member of the Symbian

[3:17] Liberation Army. We take you back to the

[3:19] 60s and early 70s when the SLA was a

[3:22] fringe radical group out of Berkeley,

[3:24] California. It became notorious for

[3:25] kidnapping and then turning Patty Hurst,

[3:28] the newspaper errorist, into a

[3:30] terrorist. The SLA believed revolution

[3:32] would only come about when blacks and

[3:33] whites men and women worked together.

[3:35] and Kathleen Sallayia was the only

[3:38] member still unaccounted for. Here's

[3:40] ABC's Dean Reynolds.

[3:43] On a quiet Wednesday morning on this

[3:45] quiet St. Paul Street, the past caught

[3:47] up with Kathleen Anslayia. In this

[3:49] neighborhood, she was known as Sarah

[3:51] Jane Olsen, 52 years old, married to a

[3:53] doctor, mother of three.

[3:55] >> What type of family are they?

[3:57] >> Average, as far as I can tell.

[3:59] >> I know she does some work as an actress.

[4:02] >> I've not seen her. Quite talented, I

[4:04] guess. Yes.

[4:05] >> Early this morning, a woman fitting

[4:07] Celia's description pulled out of a

[4:09] residence in a van watched by the task

[4:12] force.

[4:12] >> The FBI and police have been watching

[4:14] the house for hours and they quickly

[4:16] pulled her over without incident. 25

[4:18] years ago, Kathleen Sallaya was believed

[4:20] to be involved with the Symbian

[4:22] Liberation Army, the anarchist who

[4:24] transformed Patty Hurst into a bank

[4:26] robbing urban gerilla.

[4:29] The SLA was involved in this dramatic

[4:31] shootout with police south of Los

[4:32] Angeles. And several bank robberies

[4:34] before Hurst and others were arrested.

[4:37] Sallaya, a suspected accomplice,

[4:39] vanished, but the charges against her

[4:41] still stand.

[4:42] >> Conspiracy to commit murder of a police

[4:44] officer, possession of a destructive

[4:46] device or explosive, attempt to explode

[4:49] or ignite a destructive device with

[4:51] intent to commit murder. The law began

[4:53] closing in on Salia last month after her

[4:55] picture was broadcast on television and

[4:57] a $20,000 reward was offered.

[5:01] And then this morning at 20 after 8, the

[5:04] woman known in her neighborhood as a

[5:05] dedicated jogger ended her run. Dean

[5:08] Reynolds, ABC News, Chicago.

[5:11] Overseas, it's been another day of

[5:13] energized transition in Kosovo. No

[5:15] problems, particularly with the Yugoslav

[5:17] pullout. continues. But NATO troops are

[5:20] finding something to surprise them

[5:21] around every corner. ABC's Bob Woodruff

[5:24] begins tonight from the town of

[5:25] Vuchitrin in Kosovo.

[5:30] >> When NATO forces arrived in Buchern

[5:33] today, the emotions of the people were

[5:34] finally unleashed. They directed their

[5:37] anger at the Serbs in retreat

[5:42] and their hunger drove them here to a

[5:44] warehouse where the Serb police had

[5:46] stored their food. The people say Serbs

[5:49] stole it from them. So today, as NATO

[5:52] patrol just yards away, they took it

[5:54] back.

[5:55] >> This is all our ours.

[5:58] >> Our things. Our things.

[5:59] >> They stole from us. Now we have to steal

[6:01] to stole our things. Some of these

[6:04] people are starving.

[6:07] >> Look at this. Look. Look at this.

[6:10] >> Scander Brock Tori took us to his house

[6:12] to show us how he had survived the last

[6:14] few months.

[6:16] >> We We stayed here and we can't get out

[6:19] and we look corridors.

[6:22] >> This is your hiding.

[6:23] >> Hiding. Hiding.

[6:25] >> Whenever the Serb police came, he and

[6:27] his family escaped through this hole.

[6:29] Everyone hid in their backyards. here.

[6:32] >> So, you never had to go out in the

[6:33] street?

[6:33] >> Never. Never. Just get out and touch.

[6:37] >> Kosovo is still a very violent place.

[6:40] NATO soldiers found this Serb shot in

[6:42] the leg today. They took care of his

[6:44] wound. They took his bullets, but gave

[6:46] him back his gun. They have no orders,

[6:49] they said, to disarm civilians. Every

[6:51] day all over Kosovo, NATO soldiers and

[6:54] journalists are finding scenes like

[6:56] this. a house where Serbs allegedly

[6:58] filled a room with 59 Albanian women and

[7:01] children and threw in a hand grenade.

[7:03] There was so much blood it soaked into

[7:05] the basement. We found this place today,

[7:08] a graveyard. No names, just numbers. 1

[7:11] to 60. Bob Woodruff, ABC News.

[7:14] Christina,

[7:15] so much pain in Kosovo today and a great

[7:17] deal of tension. It is the tension which

[7:20] is the challenge to NATO. ABC's Mike Lee

[7:22] has spent the day with American soldiers

[7:24] in the southern part of the province.

[7:27] The US military ran headon into the

[7:29] violent politics of Kosovo today,

[7:31] confiscating weapons from both Serbs and

[7:33] ethnic Albanians.

[7:35] >> At an army checkpoint, Serb civilians

[7:37] were angry because Stannislava Ratchik's

[7:39] son and five other Serb men have been

[7:42] kidnapped last night. US soldiers, they

[7:44] say, were supposed to protect both

[7:46] sides.

[7:46] >> We can't give everyone personal

[7:48] security. Uh but we will with

[7:49] checkpoints, traffic control points, and

[7:52] uh presence patrols throughout all the

[7:55] area. Captain M. McFarland knew that US

[7:57] credibility was at stake here. He made a

[7:59] list of the kidnapped victims and

[8:01] promised Mrs. Rakage to help negotiate

[8:03] their release. So why doesn't the US

[8:05] military just go to where the KLA is

[8:07] known to be hiding, disarmed them, and

[8:09] free any Serb hostages that might be

[8:11] holding? The answer appears to be that

[8:14] for now, American forces here, for their

[8:16] own safety, are under orders to stick to

[8:19] the main roads.

[8:19] >> We have to take you

[8:20] >> put the arms out on the road. along one

[8:23] of those roads today. The Marines

[8:25] disarmed several dozen KLA fighters.

[8:27] >> Get the weapons.

[8:29] >> Back at the army checkpoint late today.

[8:31] Stannislava Rakitch was still waiting

[8:33] for US troops to rescue her son. As one

[8:36] soldier here said, "We have a lot to

[8:38] prove to these people." Mik Lee, ABC

[8:40] News, in the American control sector of

[8:43] Kosovo. From outside the country today,

[8:45] as many as 10,000 Kosovo Albanians left

[8:48] their refugee camps in Macedonia and

[8:50] Albania for home. Some refugees may be

[8:53] returning to rubble instead of homes,

[8:54] but it doesn't seem to matter. We could

[8:56] not stay one more second in Albania,

[8:58] said one, where the refugees have not

[9:01] been all that popular. In Helsinki

[9:02] tonight, Defense Secretary William

[9:04] Cohen, who's been meeting with his

[9:05] Russian counterpart, says some progress

[9:07] has been made about a Russian role in

[9:09] the Kosovo peacekeeping, but there are

[9:12] no specifics. 200 Russian soldiers are

[9:14] still in control at the main airport in

[9:16] Kosovo and the sticking points continue

[9:19] to be who will command whom and where

[9:21] will the Russians operate.

[9:24] When we come back some of the other news

[9:26] following the economy, inflation and

[9:28] interest rates and the interest in Al

[9:31] Gore. Today he's officially a candidate

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[11:39] On the money tonight, a sense of relief

[11:40] on Wall Street brought on by good news

[11:42] about inflation. The consumer price

[11:44] index was unchanged last month after a

[11:47] big jump in April that set the Dow Jones

[11:49] Industrial Average up just under 190

[11:51] points to close at 10,784.

[11:55] On the Nasdaq, stocks were up 103

[11:57] points. That is the largest 1-day point

[11:59] gain ever. Investors seem to think that

[12:01] the inflation news means there is less

[12:03] pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise

[12:05] interest rates. ABC's Betsy Stark,

[12:08] however, reports that doesn't mean no

[12:10] increase, period.

[12:13] Just as healthy Americans endure

[12:15] short-term pain for long-term gain, most

[12:18] economists still expect a small dose of

[12:20] preventive medicine from the Fed, an

[12:23] increase in interest rates. Despite

[12:25] today's good news on inflation,

[12:27] >> it's really a flu shot for the US

[12:29] economy to try to keep it healthy so

[12:31] that we can have a sustained, long

[12:33] sustained economic recovery with very

[12:36] low inflation. The Fed is watching

[12:38] American consumers load up their credit

[12:41] cards to buy new cars, new computers,

[12:43] fancy vacations, you name it. And it's

[12:46] worrying. Worrying that eventually this

[12:49] spending spree will lead to higher

[12:50] prices. There are already some early

[12:53] warning signs of inflation. Today's

[12:56] report reveals that the cost of housing,

[12:58] health care, clothing, and airline

[13:00] travel have all gone up in the last few

[13:03] months. Economists also believe the time

[13:06] is ripe for a rate increase because the

[13:08] Fed is no longer afraid of what it would

[13:10] do to the rest of the world. If higher

[13:12] interest rates slow down American

[13:14] spending, now consumers abroad are in a

[13:17] better position to make up the

[13:19] difference. All of the regions of the

[13:20] world really are looking quite a bit

[13:22] stronger than a year ago. Uh Asian

[13:24] economies uh in the financial crisis

[13:26] area are recovering. Japan positive

[13:29] growth, Europe looking stronger than it

[13:31] did a year ago, and of course, Brazil

[13:33] coming back on track.

[13:34] >> Is that black some 2500?

[13:36] >> The financial markets of course have

[13:37] been anticipating an increase in

[13:39] interest rates. The big rally on Wall

[13:41] Street seems to indicate that after

[13:43] today's inflation report, investors

[13:46] believe that any increase is likely to

[13:48] be a small one.

[13:50] >> Betsy Stark, ABC News, New York.

[13:53] >> There was a little conventional wisdom

[13:55] knocked on its ear today. Perhaps some

[13:57] test results on sports utility vehicles

[14:00] done by the Insurance Institute for Road

[14:02] Safety revealed that the bumpers on many

[14:05] popular SUVs. There is the list of the

[14:07] six they tested are too flimsy to

[14:10] prevent pretty expensive damage in

[14:11] crashes when they were going only 5 m an

[14:15] hour. SUVs are not required to prevent

[14:18] damage in low-speed collisions. It is a

[14:20] little different, said the Safety

[14:21] Institute, from the rugged image which

[14:24] the manufacturers are selling. In

[14:27] Carthage, Tennessee, today, Vice

[14:28] President Al Gore had a big event to

[14:30] make the official announcement that he's

[14:32] running for the presidency. ABC's John

[14:34] Cochran was there for us.

[14:37] >> Ladies and gentlemen, my father, Al

[14:39] Gore.

[14:42] >> Al Gore's own pollster calls him famous

[14:45] but unknown. So today he reintroduced

[14:48] himself to America. He wants you to know

[14:50] he is a family man with family values.

[14:53] And if you think that makes him

[14:54] different from Bill Clinton, that's fine

[14:56] with him. I will take my own values of

[14:59] faith and family to the presidency to

[15:01] build an America that is not only better

[15:03] off, but better. And that is why today I

[15:07] announce that I am a candidate for

[15:09] president of the United States.

[15:13] 17 times in his speech, Gore spoke of

[15:15] defending family values. Only twice did

[15:18] he mention Bill Clinton and then only in

[15:20] referring to the economy and Kosovo.

[15:22] This was his chance to say, "I am not

[15:24] Bill Clinton." As he also did in talking

[15:27] to Diane Sawyer about the sex scandal.

[15:29] >> What he did was inexcusable.

[15:32] And particularly as a father, I I felt

[15:34] that it was uh uh terribly wrong.

[15:38] Obviously,

[15:39] >> even in this little town where Gore

[15:41] spent much of his childhood, even here

[15:43] where they know him, they needed to hear

[15:45] him distance himself from Clinton.

[15:47] >> I, for one, grew very tired of Monica

[15:50] Lewinsky and Bill Clinton. And we didn't

[15:54] want to turn our TVs on. We didn't hear

[15:55] Al Gore. We didn't know Al Gore.

[15:58] >> He has to separate himself. Clinton was

[16:01] wrong.

[16:02] Gore had hoped to wait until this fall

[16:04] to announce, but faced with sagging

[16:06] polls and saturation coverage of

[16:08] Governor George Bush, Gore felt he had

[16:10] to make his move.

[16:15] >> He also reminded Hispanic voters Bush

[16:17] isn't the only one who can speak

[16:19] Spanish, an attempt to reassure worried

[16:21] Democrats he is ready to take on Bush if

[16:23] he has to. In the months ahead, Gore

[16:26] will try to convince voters that with

[16:27] him they can have the things they like

[16:29] about the Clinton years, especially

[16:31] economic prosperity, but without the

[16:33] heavy baggage of scandal. John Cochran,

[16:35] ABC News, Carthage, Tennessee.

[16:38] >> Later this evening, an extensive

[16:39] interview with Diane Sawyer, vice

[16:41] president, and Mrs. Gore on 2020. When

[16:44] we come back, suing the paint companies

[16:47] for the health costs of lead paint.

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[19:07] We're going to take a closer look

[19:08] tonight at a problem which to judge by

[19:10] the interest in it many people seem to

[19:11] think was resolved a long time ago,

[19:14] which as you will see is not the case.

[19:16] The sale and use of lead paint was

[19:18] banned in the United States in 1978 when

[19:21] it became clear that after children

[19:23] ingested it, usually through breathing

[19:25] paint dust, it caused learning

[19:27] disabilities and even severe mental

[19:29] retardation. And about 85% of all homes

[19:33] built before 1978 still have leadbased

[19:36] paint in them. It has been a very

[19:39] expensive public health problem down

[19:41] through the years. Which brings us to

[19:43] the latest news. Several cities taking a

[19:45] lead from those who have sued the

[19:47] tobacco companies for damages have

[19:49] decided to sue the paint companies.

[19:51] Here's ABC's Aaron Brown.

[19:55] Mostly

[19:56] >> 21 years after lead paint was banned, a

[19:58] third of all children in Providence

[20:01] still have too much lead in their blood.

[20:03] Chipping paint is largely responsible.

[20:06] Cities and states preparing to sue will

[20:08] argue the industry knew about the danger

[20:11] long before the paint was banned and

[20:13] lied to protect profits. They knew that

[20:16] it inflicted harm. They knew that that

[20:18] the pigment in there was poisonous. They

[20:20] knew it was toxic and yet they kept

[20:22] selling it. Central to their case will

[20:24] be documents written years ago. In the

[20:26] 1950s, 30 years after lead paint was

[20:29] banned in much of Europe, the lead

[20:31] industry in the US maintained that lead

[20:33] paint had no undesirable qualities. But

[20:37] privately, the health and safety

[20:38] director of the lead industries

[20:40] association wrote members lead poisoning

[20:43] was common enough to constitute perhaps

[20:46] my major headache. Then as now, the

[20:49] problem was clustered on the poor side

[20:51] of town, run-down housing and

[20:53] deteriorating paint. To the industry,

[20:56] the problem was the customer, not the

[20:59] paint. We have no monopoly on either

[21:01] substandard housing or substandard

[21:04] mentalities in the USA. They believed

[21:07] that the American public at that time

[21:09] wouldn't care about poor slum

[21:12] African-American children getting

[21:14] poisoned by their product. Two decades

[21:17] after lead paint was banned, the

[21:18] industry faces enormous risks. And not

[21:21] just here in Rhode Island. Twothirds of

[21:23] all homes in the country have sunled

[21:26] paint. Simply opening a window can send

[21:29] lead dust into the air and into young

[21:31] bodies, causing brain damage and a

[21:34] lifetime of learning and behavioral

[21:36] problems. Cities and states are now

[21:38] looking to the paint industry to recover

[21:41] the costs. I want them to come through

[21:42] our neighborhoods and uh pay for fixing

[21:45] the houses where kids right now, this

[21:47] afternoon, as we speak, are still

[21:49] getting poisoned by their lead paint.

[21:51] >> The industry denies ever having deceived

[21:53] anyone at any time about the dangers of

[21:56] lead paint.

[21:57] >> The paint and coatings industry has

[21:59] never acted to conceal anything uh with

[22:02] regard to lead pigment and consumer

[22:04] paints. But lawyers like McConnell,

[22:07] flush from their victory over the

[22:08] tobacco industry, have their sights set

[22:11] on paint. States are lining up and there

[22:14] is no shortage of examples of the

[22:16] problem a generation after lead paint

[22:18] was banned.

[22:20] Aaron Brown, ABC News, Providence, Rhode

[22:23] Island. Just to reassert why the concern

[22:25] might and should be still there. Lead

[22:26] has been eliminated from paint and gas

[22:29] currently sold in the United States.

[22:31] Still about 900,000 preschool-aged

[22:34] children have dangerous high levels of

[22:36] lead in their blood. When we come back,

[22:40] there is no place like home. Just ask

[22:43] the Pope.

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[25:50] >> Tonight, campaign 2000 begins. Diane

[25:52] Sawyer one-on-one with Al Gore. His

[25:55] public image, his private life, and

[25:57] morality in the Clinton White House.

[25:59] >> At what moment did you say to yourself,

[26:01] he's not telling the truth? exclusively

[26:03] on 2020 tonight.

[26:07] >> Finally this evening we take you to a

[26:08] tiny town in Poland called Vadvitz in

[26:12] 1978. Vervitz was a big a date line as

[26:15] anywhere in the world because it was the

[26:16] birthplace of the Polish Roman Catholic

[26:19] priest who had just been chosen to be

[26:21] the pope wherever he's gone in the last

[26:23] 20 years. And he's the most traveled

[26:24] pope in history. John Paul and Poland

[26:27] have always been synonymous. And today

[26:30] he was home. ABC's Bill Blakemore is

[26:32] with him.

[26:35] >> By the time he got to the little

[26:37] mountain town where he was born and grew

[26:38] up, his health and his spirits had come

[26:41] bounding back. "Welcome home," they

[26:43] shouted. "You are home now."

[26:46] He visited the church right next door to

[26:48] the little apartment where he lived with

[26:50] his father after his mother died when he

[26:51] was eight.

[26:53] Then he reminisced with everyone about

[26:55] his schoolmates.

[27:00] >> About his favorite pastry shop.

[27:03] >> He asked if the old movie theater was

[27:04] still there. No, he said, "Well, things

[27:07] change."

[27:10] "May you live a hundred years?" they

[27:12] sang. The Pope who 79 said that's easier

[27:15] sung than done.

[27:18] >> No one wants to say that this is his

[27:20] final farewell to his hometown. Polls

[27:22] have said that on his other recent trips

[27:24] and learned better. Of course, this time

[27:27] it might be.

[27:30] And the fact that he struggled out of a

[27:31] sick bed to get here only added to the

[27:34] emotion in the town square this evening,

[27:37] his hometown.

[27:40] Bill Blakemore, ABC News, traveling with

[27:42] the Pope.

[27:44] That's our report on World News Tonight.

[27:46] Don't forget 2020, Diane Sar's interview

[27:47] with the vice president. And on Night

[27:49] Line, Ted Cppel in Kosovo. I'm Peter

[27:52] Jennings. Have a good evening. We'll see

[27:53] you tomorrow. Good night.

[28:07] Tomorrow. Powerful technology. And still

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[28:14] Watch ABC's World News Tonight with

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[28:26] part of the Go Network. Tonight, Dharma

[28:28] and Greg's perfect world with a new baby

[28:30] may be about to change.

[28:32] >> Daniel's mother wants him back.

[28:33] >> A heartbreaking Dharma and Greg. And

[28:36] what if you could quit your old job for

[28:37] an exciting broadcasting career?

[28:39] >> I don't mean to imply that women aren't

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