World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-08-25

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[0:00] On World News Tonight this Tuesday,

[0:03] Hurricane Bonnie, a quarter of a million

[0:06] people ordered to evacuate the North

[0:08] Carolina coast.

[0:09] >> I want to caution people out there to

[0:11] take this hurricane serious. It's a very

[0:14] strong hurricane.

[0:15] >> One of the world's most infamous

[0:17] terrorists is in custody. Will Abunal be

[0:21] brought to justice? Good news for

[0:23] millions of women who suffer from PMS. A

[0:26] simple remedy that may work. and a

[0:29] controversial murder case in Nevada.

[0:31] Should the law punish people who fail to

[0:34] help at the scene of a crime? We'll take

[0:37] a closer look

[0:45] from ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:48] York. This is World News Tonight with

[0:51] Peter Jennings. Sitting in tonight,

[0:54] Forest Sawyer.

[0:55] >> Good evening. The barrier islands off

[0:57] North Carolina's coast are being

[0:59] evacuated this evening. More than

[1:00] 250,000 tourists and residents ordered

[1:04] to safety as Hurricane Bonnie bears

[1:06] down. With a storm expected to be very

[1:08] near the islands by late tomorrow

[1:10] morning, Governor Jim Hunt has declared

[1:12] a state of emergency and a threatened

[1:14] state of disaster. Now, here's the

[1:16] latest. Late this afternoon, Bonnie

[1:19] Center was about 260 mi south of Cape

[1:22] Lookout. It is moving northn northwest

[1:24] at about 16 miles per hour. Hurricane

[1:27] warnings are posted from Merles Inlet,

[1:29] South Carolina north to Chinkatig,

[1:32] Virginia in Nags Head, North Carolina on

[1:34] the Outer Banks. ABC's Bill Recker.

[1:37] Bill. Well, Forest, if we didn't have

[1:39] those satellite photographs, it would be

[1:40] difficult to believe, at least looking

[1:42] at this weather, that a major hurricane

[1:44] is headed this way. It's been sunny,

[1:46] hot, and humid, but not terribly windy

[1:49] today. Still, a mandatory evacuation

[1:52] order has been issued, and most people

[1:53] here are taking it very seriously.

[1:56] Throughout the day, traffic was backed

[1:58] up for miles as tourists and residents

[2:00] heeded the call to get off the barrier

[2:03] islands. Some who fled were too anxious

[2:05] to get away. There were several

[2:07] accidents along the two-lane road. The

[2:10] entire North Carolina coast is expected

[2:12] to be hit by hurricane force winds

[2:14] tomorrow.

[2:14] >> I want to caution people out there to

[2:17] take this hurricane serious. It's a very

[2:19] strong hurricane.

[2:20] >> The effects are already being felt as

[2:22] far north as the New Jersey shore.

[2:24] Rescue boats were kept busy picking up

[2:27] swimmers who were swept out to sea by

[2:28] strong rip tides.

[2:30] >> Much water coming in that when the tide

[2:32] goes out, it picks the weakest point in

[2:34] the beach and funnels through that way

[2:37] and that's when the rip current forms.

[2:41] >> Residents unpacked old pieces of plywood

[2:43] and boarded up their shops and homes.

[2:46] We've been doing these for a while.

[2:48] >> Hurricane Bonnie graffiti has sprung up

[2:50] nearly everywhere, reflecting the

[2:51] sentiment of many vacationers who've

[2:53] been forced to pack up their bags and go

[2:55] home. Earl and Veronica Daphne arrived

[2:58] last night from Washington DC.

[3:00] >> I walked on the beach this morning and

[3:02] nearly got knocked down by a couple of

[3:04] waves.

[3:04] >> Bill and Shantel Monty had to cut their

[3:06] honeymoon short.

[3:08] >> Nice honeymoon

[3:10] Saturday. As the hurricane picks up

[3:13] speed and bears down on the coast, local

[3:15] officials are trying to get stragglers

[3:17] to pick up and move. Warning help may

[3:19] not be available when the full brunt of

[3:21] the storm hits. That said, it appears

[3:24] that most people are in fact taking this

[3:26] quite seriously. This island is quickly

[3:28] being evacuated as you can see behind

[3:30] me. Perhaps not even sightseers are left

[3:32] behind. Forest Bill Ruter here at Nags

[3:35] Head, North Carolina. Thank you, Bill.

[3:36] Now, former director of the National

[3:38] Hurricane Center, Bob Sheets, who is now

[3:40] an ABC News consultant, joins us again

[3:42] tonight from Orlando. And once again, if

[3:44] you would, Bob, walk us through where

[3:46] the hurricane is now and where it's

[3:47] going.

[3:47] >> Okay, Forest, it's continuing to move on

[3:49] this northwest course and expected to

[3:52] turn toward the north, but since it

[3:53] hasn't turned, they actually extended

[3:55] the warnings a little farther south now

[3:56] to Cape Roma. That's just north of

[3:58] Charleston all the way up to Cape Hen.

[4:00] And now the storm is expected to make

[4:02] landfall somewhere on the North Carolina

[4:04] coast some about noon tomorrow. But the

[4:07] winds are already starting to get close

[4:09] to the islands right now as the bands

[4:11] are starting to approach there.

[4:12] >> And how strong are those winds and how

[4:14] dangerous does that make the hurricane

[4:15] >> a loft? They're about 115 120 mph. But

[4:19] the thunderstorm activity is not real

[4:21] strong in there right now. And that's

[4:22] good news. But as it moves over the

[4:24] warmer waters there, the Gulf Stream, it

[4:26] may start developing those strong winds

[4:28] down to the surface. Bob Sheets in

[4:29] Orlando. Bob, once again, thank you very

[4:31] much.

[4:31] >> Thank you for

[4:32] >> People on the Southeast Coast are, of

[4:34] course, no strangers to hurricanes and

[4:36] the destruction they can cause. The

[4:37] community of Wrightsville Beach, North

[4:39] Carolina is one of the places that has

[4:41] been devastated before. So, what are

[4:43] they doing differently this time? Here's

[4:46] ABC's Rebecca Chase.

[4:50] They started evacuating Writesville

[4:52] Beach at 11:00 this morning, having

[4:55] learned the lessons only hurricanes can

[4:58] teach.

[4:58] >> Yes, take it seriously and get ready.

[5:03] Two years ago, Hurricane Fran came

[5:05] ashore here and with its fury of wind

[5:08] and water, leveled beach homes, tore off

[5:11] roofs, tossed boats into front yards,

[5:14] flooded streets with water, and in some

[5:17] places sand. Across the state, Fran left

[5:20] 17 dead and caused $6 billion worth of

[5:23] damage. This time, the city government

[5:26] passed new rules and residents were

[5:28] prepared to heed them. Propane tanks,

[5:31] which can become floating bombs in a

[5:33] storm, have to be tied down. Boats are

[5:36] being pulled out of the water, and

[5:38] residents are better securing their

[5:40] homes.

[5:40] >> We are doing a lot better job of

[5:42] boarding up than we did last time. We

[5:43] took in a good bit of sand and and water

[5:46] throughout some upstairs windows.

[5:47] >> Down the road, the Holiday Inn that was

[5:49] destroyed by Fran is being rebuilt, and

[5:52] there are tough new rules for that as

[5:54] well. new rules that require better

[5:57] construction to withstand hurricanes.

[5:59] >> I think it'll be a safe building. It's

[6:02] definitely

[6:03] higher and better space, better place

[6:06] back from the ocean.

[6:08] >> An expensive project to refurbish the

[6:10] beach was just completed, and officials

[6:12] here know it may all be lost to this

[6:14] storm. But having learned the lessons of

[6:17] Fran, people here hope the beach will be

[6:19] their only loss. Rebecca Chase, ABC

[6:22] News, Writesville Beach, North Carolina.

[6:26] >> One other bit of weather news over in

[6:27] South Texas today. A scene of

[6:29] overwhelming damage from the floods left

[6:31] by Tropical Storm Charlie. Authorities

[6:33] say dozens of people are still missing.

[6:36] At least 10 are known to have died. The

[6:38] cleanup is going to be a massive job and

[6:40] the flood crest is still moving down the

[6:43] Rio Grand. In just a minute, some of the

[6:46] day's other news. A fatal bombing at an

[6:48] American chain restaurant overseas. Is

[6:50] it retaliation for the US missile

[6:53] strikes and escaping the rush, the

[6:55] money, the stress? Where are so many

[6:57] people going to create a different type

[7:00] of life?

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[8:28] >> Overseas tonight, South Africa. A bomb

[8:30] went off in a Planet Hollywood

[8:32] restaurant, a chain owned by Americans.

[8:35] At least one person was killed and more

[8:36] than two dozen hurt in the Cape Town

[8:38] restaurant. And the question everyone is

[8:40] asking, is this another terrorist strike

[8:44] against Americans? Here's ABC's Mike

[8:46] Lee.

[8:49] >> First word from South Africa police

[8:51] officials was that the pipe bomb

[8:52] appeared to have been thrown into the

[8:54] restaurant from outside.

[8:55] >> One lady was like holding her head and

[8:57] screaming hysterically. One woman was

[8:59] lying on the bench and and saying to her

[9:01] and screaming, "Please God, tell me I

[9:03] have that my legs are still there." We

[9:05] heard a loud bang behind us and

[9:08] everything just fell down around us.

[9:10] >> There was no clear answer as to whether

[9:12] this attack on an American restaurant

[9:13] was an attack against America.

[9:19] >> A group called Muslims against global

[9:21] oppression, which demonstrated against

[9:23] President Clinton during his recent

[9:25] visit to South Africa tonight claimed

[9:27] the bomb was in retaliation for last

[9:29] week's US air strikes in Sudan and

[9:31] Afghanistan. Others point out that there

[9:33] have been 51 bombings in South Africa

[9:36] this year related to gang violence. The

[9:38] fear of course is that this was not gang

[9:40] warfare but terrorism. Mike Lee, ABC

[9:43] News, London. Still overseas, we learned

[9:46] today that the Egyptian government has

[9:48] for weeks been holding a man who was

[9:50] once one of the world's most feared

[9:52] terrorists. Palestinian extremist Abu

[9:54] Nidal apparently entered Egypt from

[9:57] Libya. US officials say Abony Doll has a

[10:00] lot to answer for, but they are far from

[10:02] certain he will ever stand trial. Here's

[10:05] ABC's John McQuey.

[10:09] He is credited with some of the

[10:11] bloodiest terrorist attacks of the

[10:13] 1980s. Massacres in the airports of Rome

[10:16] and Vienna, airplane hijackings of

[10:19] flights from Pakistan and Greece, the

[10:21] slaughter of Jewish worshippers at a

[10:23] synagogue in Istanbul. Now, the Egyptian

[10:27] government tells ABC News that Abu Nidal

[10:29] is receiving medical treatment in Egypt.

[10:32] He is widely reported to be dying of

[10:34] leukemia. Other sources say Egyptian

[10:37] authorities have in fact arrested him.

[10:41] But Egypt, which is struggling with its

[10:42] own violent radical Islamic groups, is

[10:45] said to be extremely nervous about

[10:47] holding such a well-known terrorist. And

[10:49] US officials are worried Egypt may be

[10:51] tempted to let him go. But there is

[10:54] little the US can do. Despite Abu

[10:56] Nidal's bloody record, he rarely

[10:58] targeted Americans. Officials say there

[11:01] are no US charges pending against him.

[11:04] No secret indictments, which means there

[11:07] is no way the US can legally demand that

[11:09] he be brought here to stand trial. The

[11:12] hope is that some European government

[11:14] will step forward before Egypt gets cold

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[13:42] This week's Journal of the American

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[15:12] News, Washington.

[15:13] >> Passages to report. Retired Supreme

[15:15] Court Justice Lewis Powell, who was in

[15:17] his time one of the most influential

[15:20] justices, died today of pneumonia. He

[15:22] was 90 years old. Pal spent 15 years on

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[15:27] several important cases. Perhaps the

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[15:42] actor EG Marshall has died. During the

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[16:01] >> And on Wall Street today, the Dow Jones

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[16:04] 8602. On the NASDAQ market, stocks were

[16:07] up 7 points. When we come back, should a

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[18:42] tonight at whether the law should punish

[18:44] people who fail to intervene when they

[18:45] witness what may be a crime. Only a

[18:48] handful of states require a bystander to

[18:50] come to the aid of a crime victim, but

[18:52] most of these laws apply only in certain

[18:55] situations, and they are rarely

[18:57] enforced. So, if a person allows a crime

[18:59] to happen, is that person an accomplice?

[19:02] There's a very controversial murder case

[19:04] involving this issue going on right now

[19:06] in Nevada. Here's ABC's Brian Rooney.

[19:10] >> Trying to get a new law in Nevada,

[19:12] Charice's Law. Two Los Angeles radio

[19:15] hosts have taken up the cause for a law

[19:17] that would make it a crime to fail to

[19:20] report a sexual assault on a child.

[19:22] >> I don't know who's dropped the ball, but

[19:25] we've got a piece of it and we're not

[19:27] going to put it down.

[19:28] >> What sparked this were the actions or

[19:31] inactions of a 20-year-old Berkeley

[19:33] student named David Cash.

[19:34] >> I don't understand how he wasn't charged

[19:36] with a crime. About 3:30 a.m. on May

[19:39] 25th, 1997, Cash was with his friend

[19:42] Jeremy Strowmire at a casino south of

[19:44] Las Vegas. Strowmire, seen here in a

[19:47] surveillance video, played tag with

[19:49] 7-year-old Shereice Iverson, whose

[19:51] father was somewhere else in the casino.

[19:54] Strowmire followed the girl into the

[19:56] ladies room. Cash also went in. There he

[19:59] saw his friend assault the girl. Cash

[20:02] left after 2 minutes and Shereice was

[20:04] later found dead. Strowmire was charged

[20:07] with the murder and by his own

[20:09] admission, Cash did not try to stop the

[20:11] crime, nor did he turn in his friend.

[20:14] >> I have done nothing wrong.

[20:15] >> Cash once called into the radio show to

[20:17] defend himself. David, seriously, buddy,

[20:19] what's wrong with you?

[20:20] >> Like, I I'm very remorseful towards

[20:23] Cyrus and you know, I mean, it's a

[20:24] terrible thing that happened, but I

[20:26] mean, how how much is how much am I

[20:27] supposed to to sit down and cry about

[20:29] this? I mean, I mean, let's be

[20:30] reasonable here.

[20:31] >> The girl's mother is outraged by Cash's

[20:34] apparent indifference. He said himself

[20:36] he was watching it. Watching her him

[20:39] play with my child in certain nasty

[20:42] ways. Um

[20:45] he's an accessory to the murder.

[20:48] >> Sheresa's law would not stop someone

[20:50] like David Cash from walking away, but

[20:52] it would make him pay a price if he did.

[20:55] Brian Rooney, ABC News, Los Angeles.

[20:59] The biggest question surrounding cases

[21:00] like this one is judging when the moral

[21:02] obligation to intervene should become a

[21:04] legal obligation. Earlier we spoke with

[21:07] Elizabeth Simmel, a criminal defense

[21:08] attorney in Washington DC.

[21:11] Miss Simmel, if we are talking about

[21:12] something as simple as making a 911 call

[21:14] to police, what is wrong with a law on

[21:17] the books that says you really should do

[21:19] that?

[21:19] >> There's nothing wrong with a law that

[21:21] encourages people to act or provisions

[21:24] that encourages encourage people to act.

[21:27] The difference is making it a crime for

[21:30] failing to act. Putting people in jail

[21:32] or sending them to prison for failing to

[21:34] act.

[21:35] >> All right. There's a penalty attached to

[21:36] you're not doing it. If there is, what's

[21:39] wrong with that?

[21:40] >> How do we define which crimes we want to

[21:43] identify? Is it a failure to report a

[21:46] rape? Is it a failure to report a petty

[21:47] theft? Uh who would be subject? If you

[21:51] are under the age of 18, are you immune

[21:53] from that criminal penalty? If you're a

[21:55] woman and don't weigh very much or a man

[21:57] who doesn't weigh very much, how do we

[21:59] make these distinctions? And how do we

[22:01] decide how to punish? I mean, we're

[22:04] talking about an enormous gray area of

[22:07] behavior for an individual who is a

[22:10] stranger who has no involvement in the

[22:13] crime itself.

[22:14] >> If it is your argument that this is in a

[22:16] sense trying to legislate morality, how

[22:19] do you go about getting people to do the

[22:21] right thing? Well, what we might want to

[22:23] do is think about not making people

[22:25] liable civily. That is not punishing

[22:28] them by monetary damages when they do

[22:31] step up and perhaps their negligence or

[22:34] their emotionalism in this in the

[22:35] situation causes more harm. I mean,

[22:37] remember, one of the reasons people fail

[22:39] to act in a highly emotional situation

[22:41] is they may not be sure what's going on.

[22:43] >> Elizabeth Siml, criminal defense

[22:45] attorney, thank you very much.

[22:46] >> You're welcome.

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[24:47] >> Now, a brief review of our lead story.

[24:49] With Hurricane Bonnie bearing down,

[24:51] hundreds of thousands of people have

[24:53] been ordered to evacuate evacuate the

[24:55] coastlines of North and South Carolina.

[24:58] Hurricane warnings are posted as far

[25:00] north as Virginia. The hurricanes

[25:02] expected to hit land sometime tomorrow.

[25:05] Finally, tonight, the simple life. This

[25:07] is the time of year that people like to

[25:08] enjoy some relaxation, go on vacation,

[25:11] leave a stressful life behind. Well, the

[25:13] past few years, it seems a lot of people

[25:15] are leaving that life behind for good.

[25:17] There is a boom in rural America, and

[25:20] the changes are causing some friction.

[25:22] In Hamilton, Montana, ABC's Jane

[25:24] Clayson.

[25:26] >> Bruce Stone has reinvented his life.

[25:29] Yeah.

[25:30] >> 3 years ago, the successful real estate

[25:32] developer from San Diego left his

[25:34] highpaying, high stress job in the big

[25:37] city.

[25:37] >> Before I truly was a little more

[25:40] frantic, a little more keed up, uh, a

[25:43] little more stressed out over issues.

[25:46] >> He, like millions of baby boomers in

[25:48] other states, decided to settle his

[25:50] family in this tiny mountain hamlet. Who

[25:53] would have thought that Hamilton would

[25:55] be so enticing? But it's part of the

[25:57] fastest growing county in Montana and an

[25:59] example of what's going on across the

[26:02] country. Baby boomers used to go for

[26:04] bright lights in big cities. Now it's

[26:07] rural America's time to boom. In the

[26:09] 1990s, 75% of all rural counties have

[26:13] grown.

[26:14] >> We've called it the rural rebound. It is

[26:16] a significant change from the

[26:18] traditional uh trend which is that the

[26:21] urban areas grow and the rural areas are

[26:23] stable or decline.

[26:26] Which is why some real estate companies

[26:28] are reporting record business. This mega

[26:30] development, complete with Championship

[26:32] Golf Course, is quickly selling off lots

[26:35] despite price tags of a million dollars.

[26:38] Laura Merrill's sales have been up 20%

[26:40] every year since 1990. But she is not

[26:43] necessarily happy about that.

[26:45] >> Well, I think the downside to the growth

[26:47] is that we aren't ready for it. We don't

[26:50] have a countywide comprehensive plan to

[26:52] help us manage the growth. Merryill is

[26:54] not the only one who feels that way.

[26:56] People who have lived here all their

[26:58] lives don't like what's happening to

[27:00] their town.

[27:00] >> Western Montana is growing. It's a large

[27:02] influx of people and it's changing the

[27:04] quality of life here.

[27:05] >> And it's not necessarily positive.

[27:07] >> In many communities, the influx of

[27:09] wellto-do city dwellers drives up

[27:11] property taxes and the cost of housing.

[27:13] And there aren't enough good paying jobs

[27:15] for people who live here. In Hamilton,

[27:18] for example, 25% of the population earns

[27:21] $15,000 a year or less. Bruce Stone

[27:25] realizes he's contributing to a change

[27:27] here. I

[27:28] >> I think that the changes will will come

[27:31] to areas like this and a lot of people

[27:33] don't like them, but how do you close

[27:36] the doors to others?

[27:38] That's difficult to do as word spreads

[27:41] about cleaner air and a slower pace

[27:43] among city folks searching for a simpler

[27:46] way of life. Jane Clayson, ABC News,

[27:49] Hamilton, Montana.

[27:51] >> And that is our report on World News

[27:53] Tonight. Later on Night Line, the latest

[27:54] on Hurricane Bonnie. I'm Forest Sawyer.

[27:56] For all of us here at ABC News, a very

[27:59] good night.

[28:05] Tomorrow, hurricane watchers, insurance

[28:07] companies, loved ones near shorelines.

[28:09] Listen up. A new scientific discovery

[28:11] and an ominous prediction on World News

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