World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-08-05

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[0:03] On World News Tonight this Thursday, a

[0:06] remarkable achievement in the health of

[0:08] the nation. A dramatic drop in heart

[0:11] disease. The growing controversy over

[0:13] the anthrax vaccine. The Pentagon swears

[0:16] it's safe for troops, but some are not

[0:18] so sure. No vacation when the dream

[0:22] getaway turns into a nightmare. We'll

[0:24] take a closer look. And a new weapon in

[0:27] the battle against aging. Can something

[0:29] in a bottle of wine be a miracle for

[0:32] your skin.

[0:41] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:43] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:46] Peter Jennings. Sitting in tonight,

[0:49] Kevin Newman.

[0:50] >> Good evening. And this is one of those

[0:52] evenings when we can begin with some

[0:53] good news. We learned today that newborn

[0:55] Americans can expect to live even

[0:57] longer. for an average of 76 and a2

[1:00] years now. And the Centers for Disease

[1:02] Control also reported a big reason why.

[1:05] The number of deaths from the country's

[1:07] number one killer, heart disease, has

[1:09] fallen almost 60% in the past 50 years.

[1:12] And the death rate from stroke has also

[1:14] way down 70% since 1950. It is a

[1:18] remarkable achievement. And ABC's

[1:20] Rebecca Chase has more.

[1:24] Heart disease. It has been the leading

[1:26] cause of death in the US since 1921.

[1:30] >> 140 over 80.

[1:31] >> Today, figures released by the US

[1:33] Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta

[1:35] show that since 1963, the steady decline

[1:39] in heart disease has added up to a

[1:41] dramatic drop in deaths. Today, 621,000

[1:46] fewer people die of heart disease. We

[1:49] can attribute it to both advances in

[1:51] medical care such as uh treatment of

[1:53] high blood pressure and high blood

[1:55] cholesterol as well as major efforts at

[1:58] public health prevention.

[2:00] >> For example, 30 years ago, 42% of all

[2:03] adults smoked. Today, only 25%.

[2:07] up.

[2:10] >> The number of people with hypertension

[2:12] who are exercising or taking medication

[2:14] to control their high blood pressure has

[2:17] increased from 79 to 90%.

[2:21] And with Americans eating healthier, the

[2:23] study says the number of adults with

[2:25] high cholesterol has dropped from 33 to

[2:28] 19%.

[2:30] All of which has led to this huge drop

[2:32] in heart disease. I would characterize

[2:34] the decline in cardiovascular disease as

[2:36] one of the most important achievements

[2:38] in public health in the 20th century.

[2:41] >> Even with so much progress, researchers

[2:43] are worried about a risk factor that

[2:45] seems to be getting worse. Obesity. In

[2:48] the last 30 years, the percentage of

[2:50] Americans overweight has jumped from 24

[2:53] to 35%,

[2:56] including a growing number of children.

[2:58] Rebecca Chase, ABC News, Atlanta.

[3:03] On a related note, a new study in the

[3:04] British medical journal, The Lancet,

[3:06] suggests that people who have had heart

[3:08] attacks can reduce their risk of dying

[3:10] from another one by 30% if they take a

[3:13] fish oil capsule every day. And a study

[3:16] being published in the journal Science

[3:17] says that sunburns may be one way the

[3:20] body protects itself against skin

[3:22] cancer. Researchers found that sunburned

[3:25] skin makes a protein that kills any

[3:27] cells with mutations that might

[3:28] otherwise lead to cancer. The damaged

[3:30] cells disappear when the skin peels.

[3:33] Turning to other news now. The Pentagon

[3:35] said today that it has agreed to pay big

[3:37] money for something that's a subject of

[3:39] a big controversy. The military will

[3:41] double what it is paying a Michigan

[3:43] company for a vaccine against anthrax.

[3:46] That is an agent used in biological

[3:48] weapons. And it's something the Pentagon

[3:50] has ordered all its personnel to take.

[3:52] 320,000 have so far, but a growing

[3:55] number of them do not want it. Our

[3:57] national security correspondent John

[3:59] McQuey has the latest.

[4:02] >> For the Pentagon, the anthrax vaccine is

[4:04] becoming a huge political headache. At

[4:07] least 200 people in the active and

[4:09] reserve force have now refused to take

[4:11] the shots and are being punished. There

[4:14] are indications this small protest

[4:16] movement is growing with claims the

[4:18] vaccine is unsafe, a criticism the

[4:20] Pentagon vehemently denies.

[4:22] >> It's certainly not unsafe. It appears to

[4:24] be safer than most of the vaccines that

[4:26] are given today.

[4:28] >> Dr. Sue Bailey, Assistant Secretary of

[4:30] Defense for Health Affairs, does concede

[4:32] that the shots are causing more itching

[4:35] and swelling arms than expected, but

[4:37] very few side effects beyond that.

[4:39] >> We've seen no crippling side effects. Uh

[4:42] we have seen uh several and and

[4:44] literally several that were more

[4:46] serious. Uh and we're very concerned

[4:48] about those,

[4:49] >> but there are cases the Pentagon cannot

[4:51] explain. Soldiers like Sergeant Robert

[4:54] Soskup who blamed the anthrax shots for

[4:57] ruining their health.

[4:58] >> Swung on my hands and feet, dizziness,

[5:00] memory loss, sleep disorders, black one

[5:04] blackout, night sweats, chest pains. My

[5:07] condition continues to worsen.

[5:08] >> The Pentagon is still struggling with

[5:10] credibility problems caused by how badly

[5:13] it handled questions after the Gulf War

[5:15] when soldiers came home sick. Some

[5:18] members of Congress are again

[5:20] questioning whether defense officials

[5:22] are telling the truth and are demanding

[5:24] at a minimum that anthrax shots be made

[5:26] voluntary. This is not going to become a

[5:30] problem for the military. It is a

[5:31] problem for the military.

[5:33] >> Pentagon officials understand that they

[5:35] do have a problem, but say to them the

[5:38] whole issue is a no-brainer because at

[5:40] least 10 countries now have anthrax

[5:43] weapons. Sending troops into battle

[5:45] without the shots, they say, is like

[5:47] sending a soldier to war without a

[5:49] helmet. Unthinkable. John McQuey, ABC

[5:52] News. The Pentagon.

[5:54] >> The State Department has issued a

[5:55] worldwide caution to Americans traveling

[5:58] overseas. It says there has been no

[6:00] specific threat, but Saturday is the

[6:02] anniversary of the embassy bombings in

[6:04] Kenya and Tanzania, and that might

[6:05] inspire a terrorist group to attack US

[6:08] citizens again. On Capitol Hill, one of

[6:10] the biggest nomination fights of recent

[6:12] years is finally resolved. The Senate

[6:14] confirmed Richard Hullbrook today as UN

[6:17] ambassador, and that's more than a year

[6:19] after the president nominated him.

[6:21] Hullbrook is the man who designed the

[6:22] deal that ended the war in Bosnia four

[6:24] years ago. And still in Washington, the

[6:26] debate over a tax cut played out as

[6:29] expected today. The House passed the

[6:31] $792 billion version and President

[6:34] Clinton went to Capitol Hill to reassure

[6:37] Democrats that he will veto it as too

[6:40] expensive. Both Republicans and

[6:42] Democrats think this is an issue that

[6:43] they can campaign on.

[6:46] >> On Wall Street today, the Dow Jones

[6:47] Industrials were up 119 points to close

[6:50] at 10,793.

[6:52] And the internet investors were

[6:54] breathing a little sigh of relief today

[6:55] after falling five days in a The tech

[6:57] heavy NASDAQ market gained more than 25

[7:00] points.

[7:02] When we come back, down on the bone dry

[7:05] farm, every day without rain is costing

[7:07] money. And dredging the Delaware River,

[7:10] spending your money for what?

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[8:40] >> The freakish summer weather over much of

[8:42] the country continues. Today, NASA

[8:44] released some satellite images

[8:45] suggesting an old Nemesis may be partly

[8:47] to blame. Take a look at this. All that

[8:50] blue and purple in the Pacific is the

[8:52] cold water of Leninia. Now, scientists

[8:54] thought it would be long gone by now.

[8:56] Instead, it is still in force, messing

[8:58] up the jetreams which blow over it. And

[9:00] that is one reason the drought in the

[9:03] east continues. Two more states imposed

[9:05] water restrictions today. Delaware and

[9:07] New Jersey. ABC's Dean Reynolds is in

[9:10] Waterford, Ohio tonight. That's one of

[9:11] 69 farming counties in that state

[9:13] declared disaster areas.

[9:17] Down Route 109 in Washington County,

[9:19] Ohio. Clear skies are bad news.

[9:23] >> Looked like we were in for a good year.

[9:26] And then when it quit raining, well,

[9:29] that was the end.

[9:31] There's been no rain of any consequence

[9:33] here since late May. And the results are

[9:35] staring farmer me Huck in the face every

[9:38] day.

[9:38] >> Here, you'd think would be real nice

[9:41] tomato to to put on your dinner table.

[9:44] >> Oh, yeah.

[9:46] That's what they do. Just burn up. They

[9:49] call that dry rot.

[9:52] And

[9:52] >> while his squash plants look green, the

[9:55] stems are holding what little moisture

[9:56] is left. 2/3 of his crop is lost. This

[10:00] should be just full of of blossoms and

[10:03] yellow squash. And here's this little

[10:06] poor excuse of a squash dried up inside.

[10:11] The cucumbers are bleached and the green

[10:13] beans never came up.

[10:16] There's one right there.

[10:19] >> And what's the deal on the corn?

[10:22] >> Isn't there same story?

[10:23] >> Same story, only worse.

[10:26] >> Droughtstricken farmers are now able to

[10:27] get low interest loans from the federal

[10:29] government to tide them over. But more

[10:32] debt is something they need about as

[10:34] much as a nice tan.

[10:37] >> The pigs are thirsty at David Shad's

[10:39] farm. He has 750 of them. Every day you

[10:42] just see it getting drier and drier.

[10:44] >> The pond water he pumps to his herd is

[10:46] down more than 20 ft and will run dry in

[10:49] 2 weeks.

[10:50] >> Come on.

[10:51] >> And his cattle, keep this in mind. One

[10:54] cow drinks 25 gallons of water a day.

[10:57] Come on.

[10:58] >> Back at me hu, the sun is high in the

[11:01] sky and set at baking temperature.

[11:03] >> This year it's it's been so bad that I

[11:06] don't even want to come to the field.

[11:11] But he does go out to plow under his

[11:14] withered crops. Bush hoging he calls it

[11:19] uprooting his hopes for this year while

[11:21] he waits for a cloud. Dean Reynolds, ABC

[11:24] News, Waterford, Ohio.

[11:27] Well, wildfires are burning through

[11:29] hundreds of thousands of acres in the

[11:30] western states. In Los Angeles today, a

[11:32] brush fire threatened homes on steep

[11:34] hills and canyons in the northern part

[11:36] of the city. The city rushed

[11:37] water-dropping helicopters to the area

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[11:42] In a moment, no escape. We'll take a

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[13:59] For those of us who have to work this

[14:00] week, it's natural to look at all the

[14:02] people on vacation and think that

[14:03] they're the lucky ones. Well, tonight

[14:05] we're going to take a closer look at

[14:07] when vacation is no vacation. Now, the

[14:10] most popular travel destination in

[14:12] general terms is the beach or a lake.

[14:14] About 75% of vacationers head out to the

[14:17] country to splash their toes in the

[14:19] water and breathe all that clean, fresh

[14:20] air. But a study out today says that in

[14:23] some cases, the country air they're

[14:25] breathing is more polluted than the air

[14:27] they left behind. Here's ABC's Barry

[14:30] Sarapin.

[14:32] >> Those who want to escape the smog of

[14:34] Houston, Texas, may be surprised to

[14:35] learn that the Gulf Coast beaches of

[14:37] Galveastston have had just as many dirty

[14:39] air days this year. In Tennessee, haze

[14:42] obscures mountaintops in the Great Smoky

[14:44] Mountains National Park. smog created by

[14:47] vehicles and by smoke stacks hundreds of

[14:50] miles away. They've been measuring the

[14:52] ozone in the park for 9 years, and every

[14:55] year it has gotten worse.

[14:56] >> The air quality here during a 24-hour

[14:59] period is actually more hazardous than

[15:00] it is in downtown Knoxville or Nashville

[15:02] or Memphis.

[15:03] >> Today's report says coal burning power

[15:05] plants coupled with more and bigger

[15:07] vehicles on the road are producing smog

[15:09] that cannot be escaped.

[15:11] >> Air pollution follows you from the big

[15:12] cities to the vacation destinations. EPA

[15:15] maps show how plumes of smog shown here

[15:18] in orange and red grow and spread across

[15:21] entire regions.

[15:22] >> The pollution you breathe in one city in

[15:24] one part of the country may have been

[15:25] generated hundreds of miles away.

[15:27] >> Although ozone is not always visible,

[15:29] Cape Cod has had more unhealthy days

[15:31] this year than Boston. And vacation

[15:33] resorts such as Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

[15:35] have had higher readings than Chicago.

[15:38] >> I expect clean air and that's what I

[15:39] that's what I thought I was getting.

[15:41] This summer's heat wave has made the

[15:43] problem worse. Sunlight helps to create

[15:45] ozone and that creates health risks.

[15:48] >> It brings with it a whole host of public

[15:51] health problems, not the least of which

[15:53] are a worsening of asthma attacks,

[15:55] particularly in our children.

[15:57] >> To reduce smog, the EPA is requiring

[16:00] that emissions from sport utility

[16:02] vehicles, minivans, and light trucks get

[16:04] much cleaner over the next several

[16:06] years. For now, millions of Americans

[16:08] are bringing pollution with them when

[16:10] they drive to vacation destinations.

[16:13] Barry Sarapin, ABC News, Washington.

[16:16] >> And here's something that won't make you

[16:17] feel much better. Americans get about 12

[16:19] days of vacation every year. Now,

[16:20] compare that to 28 days in Britain and

[16:23] 35 days in Germany. Now, many of us

[16:26] count on vacations to melt away stress,

[16:28] but as ABC's John McKenzie tells us,

[16:30] doesn't always work.

[16:36] the long awaited summer vacation.

[16:40] You dream about it, you plan for it, and

[16:43] in many cases, you set yourself up for

[16:45] disappointment. A national survey found

[16:47] that 27% of those returning home from a

[16:50] family vacation felt tired and stressed.

[16:53] And not surprising, just getting there

[16:55] is becoming more of a problem,

[16:57] especially if you're one of the

[16:58] estimated 240 million Americans

[17:00] traveling by car this summer. The most

[17:02] aggravating thing is just the congestion

[17:05] out on the highways. The interstates are

[17:07] packed in popular areas, and it gets

[17:09] very frustrating when you can't get to

[17:11] where you want to be on time.

[17:14] When you do get there, you often find

[17:16] even more crowds. Beaches, amusement

[17:18] parks, national parks, all are reporting

[17:21] record numbers of visitors this summer.

[17:23] But psychiatrists say if a family

[17:25] vacation is stressful, it's often

[17:27] because of the family itself. For

[17:29] example,

[17:30] >> if you're a thrill seeker and you like

[17:32] to be active all the time, but you have

[17:34] a family that wants to relax at the

[17:36] beach, you right away have a conflict.

[17:38] Some families look to vacations

[17:40] specifically to resolve ongoing

[17:42] conflicts. A time to focus on issues

[17:44] between husband and wife or parent and

[17:46] child. But often that creates tension.

[17:49] >> You say, "We'll deal with all of these

[17:50] relationship issues during the

[17:51] vacation." That's when you're really

[17:53] loading up the stress on a vacation.

[17:55] Often making matters worse, many

[17:57] Americans continue to work on vacation.

[17:59] A Galla poll last year found more than a

[18:02] third of people surveyed make calls to

[18:04] work and 19% check their email. 11%

[18:07] actually cut their vacation short

[18:09] because of work. Some psychiatrists say

[18:12] perhaps the biggest mistake many

[18:13] families make is to expect 2 weeks of

[18:16] vacation to make up for 50 weeks of

[18:19] stress. John McKenzie, ABC News, New

[18:23] York.

[18:24] When we come back, digging up mud, more

[18:27] than a quarter billion dollars worth,

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[18:36] >> Do you want to stop by Dave's after uh

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[20:53] A story now about dredging a river with

[20:55] your money. The river is the historic

[20:58] Delaware, which is the water route for

[21:00] the city of Philadelphia. And the

[21:02] government wants to make it deeper. But

[21:04] as ABC's John Martin reports, it's not

[21:06] clear why.

[21:08] The Army Corps of Engineers plans to

[21:10] dredge 33 million tons of earth from the

[21:13] river, increasing the shipping channel

[21:15] from 40 ft to 45 ft deep. The cost, $311

[21:20] million, of which 200 million comes from

[21:23] federal taxpayers. The core says the

[21:26] biggest reason to spend the money is to

[21:28] help big tankers deliver crude oil

[21:30] directly to six refineries. Here,

[21:33] there's only one problem dredging out in

[21:35] the channel, and it's back here at the

[21:36] oil company landing. The water is still

[21:39] too shallow here for the tankers to

[21:41] dock. So, the oil companies would have

[21:42] to spend a lot of their own money to

[21:44] dredge here. They don't want to do that.

[21:47] That's because the refineries are happy

[21:49] with the way they're getting the oil

[21:50] right now. They simply transfer it to

[21:53] smaller ships and barges that have no

[21:55] problem reaching these docks. But the

[21:57] Delaware River Port Authority says,

[21:59] "Well, there's another reason to dredge.

[22:01] Deeper water will attract new business.

[22:04] Ships are going to be getting bigger and

[22:07] everybody else is deepening their

[22:08] channel and if we don't deepen ours,

[22:11] we're not going to get the cargo.

[22:13] >> But transportation consultant Theodore

[22:16] Prince, who has spent 20 years in the

[22:18] shipping business, says Philadelphia has

[22:20] already missed the boat.

[22:22] >> Most steamship lines have already signed

[22:24] long-term agreements with other ports.

[22:27] >> Does that mean taking $200 million in

[22:30] federal tax money is going to waste it?

[22:32] I think so. Remember, they're building

[22:35] this

[22:36] without any commitments from customers.

[22:39] It's like building a sports stadium

[22:40] without a team.

[22:42] >> Where does this leave taxpayers? Up the

[22:45] river, where the return on their

[22:46] investment is uncertain. What is certain

[22:49] is that the government is about to spend

[22:51] $300 million largely for six oil

[22:54] refineries, which so far see no reason

[22:57] to spend their own money to make the

[22:58] project worthwhile. What's at stake is

[23:01] your money.

[23:02] John Martin, ABC News, Philadelphia.

[23:06] >> If everything goes according to plan,

[23:07] they will start the digging sometime

[23:09] next year. In a moment, taking the wine

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[23:19] >> You know, my friend Mr. Moreti, he

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[23:43] 2 million tons of professional grade

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[25:03] tonight.

[25:05] And a quick review of our top story. The

[25:07] Centers for Disease Control reported a

[25:09] very important public health achievement

[25:11] today. A huge decline in the number of

[25:13] deaths from the country's number one

[25:14] killer, heart disease. The death rate

[25:16] has fallen almost 60% in the past five

[25:19] decades. And the death rate from stroke

[25:21] is also way down 70% since 1950.

[25:25] Well, finally tonight, those feet

[25:27] stomping grape crushers in the vineyards

[25:29] of France were on to something. When

[25:31] skin meets grape, it's not only a good

[25:33] way to make wine, it's apparently a new

[25:35] route to beauty. Here's ABC's Hillary

[25:38] Brown in the Bordeaux region of France.

[25:42] Shadow Smith Oatlit produces some of the

[25:45] finest wines in France. Now there's a

[25:47] wine spa among its vineyards for those

[25:50] who join the battle of the wrinkles.

[25:53] During the annual fall harvest here, the

[25:56] seeds of the grapes, tons of them, are

[25:59] skinned to produce a concentrate of

[26:01] polyphenols, the substance that's said

[26:04] to slow the process of aging.

[26:06] Polyphenols help protect the skin from

[26:08] the ravages of sun, smoke, and polluted

[26:11] air. It turns out that grape seeds are

[26:13] full of them. A little Bordeaux in your

[26:16] bath, madam. Try some grape seed powder

[26:19] to rejuvenate your skin. Perhaps a

[26:22] Cabernet scrub for a silky body. You can

[26:25] even have a grape seed mask which

[26:28] hardens like ceramic on the face and

[26:30] makes conversation quite impossible. All

[26:33] this venootherapy was developed by

[26:35] Matild Thomas who 3 years ago brought

[26:38] out a line of cosmetics based on grape

[26:40] seeds from the shadows annual harvest.

[26:42] She now does more than $3 million in

[26:45] sales each year.

[26:46] >> They didn't understand at first, but now

[26:48] it is a trend and everybody is trying to

[26:50] copy us.

[26:53] >> One of her first customers was her own

[26:54] mother, Florence. She's 52, looks 35.

[26:59] >> Maybe it's also the kind of life I I

[27:01] lead now because I use wine from inside

[27:04] and from outside.

[27:06] >> So far, the spa seems to be used by

[27:09] people who don't actually need it. The

[27:11] source of paradise, I dream.

[27:16] >> This Parisian says she thinks of it as a

[27:18] preventative form of beauty treatment.

[27:21] >> Many experts say this unorthodox

[27:23] approach is not a gimmick.

[27:26] >> Have fun and be handsome, thanks to

[27:28] wine.

[27:30] >> It will take more than a decade to prove

[27:32] the beneficial effects of grape seeds on

[27:34] the face and body. By then, 1999 may be

[27:38] remembered as a very good year.

[27:41] Hillary Brown, ABC News, Bordeaux.

[27:45] >> And that is our report on World News

[27:46] Tonight. Later on Night Line, the story

[27:48] of a woman who survived a terrorist

[27:50] bombing. I'm Kevin Newman. For all of us

[27:52] at ABC News, have a good evening. Good

[27:54] night.

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[28:08] 15,000 fugitives. What chance is there

[28:10] for justice? Can we put the law in

[28:12] order? Watch World News Tonight with

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