World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-06-04

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[0:00] Peter Jennings reports from the Balkans.

[0:03] Has NATO achieved a military first,

[0:06] winning a war from the air alone? We'll

[0:08] take a closer look. What happened in the

[0:11] final moments of American flight 1420?

[0:14] Crash investigators talk to the co-pilot

[0:17] and the orbiting probation officer

[0:20] tracking sex offenders by satellite.

[0:22] Technology on the cutting edge.

[0:28] From ABC News, this is World News

[0:32] Tonight with Peter Jennings. Sitting in

[0:34] tonight from Washington, Ted Cppel. Good

[0:38] evening. This is day 73 of the air war

[0:41] over Yugoslavia, but the Pentagon is

[0:43] suggesting today that the bombing could

[0:44] be discontinued as soon as this weekend.

[0:48] There has already been contact between

[0:49] Yugoslav and NATO generals, and they are

[0:52] scheduled to meet face tof face

[0:54] tomorrow. location somewhere near the

[0:56] Macedonian Kosovo border. Purpose not to

[0:59] negotiate, but so that NATO generals can

[1:02] tell their counterparts how Serbian

[1:05] forces will be withdrawn from Kosovo and

[1:07] how NATO forces will be deployed into

[1:10] Kosovo. For all that, US officials are

[1:13] still cautious. Our national security

[1:15] correspondent John McQuey is at the

[1:18] Pentagon.

[1:20] >> There was something different about the

[1:22] air campaign today. NATO chose not to

[1:25] hit Bgrade and it stopped pounding

[1:27] Yugoslavia's fragile electrical power

[1:30] grid, focusing instead on Serb army

[1:33] units deep in Kosovo.

[1:35] >> I'm anxious to end the bombing, but I

[1:37] want to know that our objectives have

[1:39] been achieved.

[1:40] >> Tomorrow's meeting between NATO and

[1:42] Yugoslav generals is expected to be a

[1:45] huge step in that direction. British

[1:47] General Sir Michael Jackson, who will

[1:50] run the NATO peacekeeping operation, is

[1:52] expected to lay down a strict timetable

[1:55] for Serb troops to get out of Kosovo.

[1:58] Once those details are settled, all Serb

[2:01] anti-aircraft batteries are to be out

[2:03] within 2 days. They must move at least

[2:06] 15 miles beyond the border of Kosovo so

[2:09] NATO surveillance planes can safely

[2:11] monitor the next steps. Serb troops and

[2:14] special police estimated at 40,000 are

[2:18] to be out of Kosovo within a week. All

[2:20] of them.

[2:21] >> If Serbia cooperates, I think the

[2:23] bombing could be halted uh um uh by the

[2:27] end of the weekend or very early next

[2:29] week. Um if they were to start to

[2:31] cooperate uh tomorrow,

[2:33] >> NATO troops could begin moving into

[2:35] Kosovo sometime next week if the Serbs

[2:38] act quickly. Today, NATO soldiers in

[2:41] Macedonia were practicing for what they

[2:43] expect to be two major challenges.

[2:46] >> Thousands of Serb landmines, how to

[2:49] diffuse them, and horrible roads. How to

[2:52] lay down your own in a hurry. It's

[2:54] anticipated that Kosovo itself will be

[2:56] divided into five peacekeeping zones

[2:59] controlled by the US, Britain, France,

[3:01] Italy, and Germany. Still unresolved is

[3:04] what to do with the Russians who are

[3:06] insisting they want to run their own

[3:08] operation. Though NATO insists this war

[3:11] is not over until the Serbs have pulled

[3:13] out in one day there has been a dramatic

[3:16] shift in planning toward how to make

[3:19] peace work. John McQuey, ABC News, the

[3:22] Pentagon.

[3:23] >> And now we go to Peter Jennings who is

[3:25] near the Albanian capital of Tyana.

[3:29] Ted, in Albania tonight, in fact,

[3:30] throughout the region, everybody is

[3:32] poised for change. But everybody seems

[3:34] somewhat uncertain about what change

[3:37] really means, depending on where they

[3:39] are and who they are. Here at a refugee

[3:42] camp outside the Albanian capital,

[3:43] Toronto, where some of the first

[3:45] refugees came from Kosovo after the

[3:47] bombing began, we found people to be

[3:50] quite anxious about the future.

[3:53] In the camps, they have suffered through

[3:55] too much disappointment to be suddenly

[3:57] excited by news which they instinctively

[3:59] know to be conditional. There are too

[4:01] many things that can go wrong.

[4:04] >> And do you believe that the NATO

[4:05] alliance will go in and protect you?

[4:10] >> I don't know if

[4:12] >> these refugees live better than others.

[4:14] Crowded, yes, but other places are

[4:17] worse. It's a time for patience.

[4:19] Everyone agreed.

[4:23] We are patient, he said. But for how

[4:25] much longer?

[4:29] >> And while many refugees would prefer to

[4:31] go to another country, news of a peace

[4:34] agreement clearly focuses the mind on

[4:37] home.

[4:40] >> "Our homes have been destroyed," he

[4:42] said. "But we'd rather live in tents in

[4:44] Kosova than tents here."

[4:49] EVERYONE IN THE region is interested in

[4:51] the future of the Kosovo Liberation

[4:53] Army. The peace agreement requires the

[4:54] KLA to give up its arms.

[4:59] >> In the Albanian capital this evening,

[5:01] the KLA spokesman said this was not yet

[5:03] the time to discuss the future of the KA

[5:06] after the Serbs have left Kosova. He

[5:09] said another complication for the

[5:11] future. Tonight in this refugee camp,

[5:14] these deeply traumatized people settled

[5:17] in again to wait for the world to decide

[5:19] their future. So few refugees in this

[5:22] part of the world have ever gone home.

[5:25] Maybe this time it will be different.

[5:28] There is nowhere in this entire region

[5:30] where the agreement to pull troops out

[5:32] of Kosovo has caused quite so much buzz

[5:35] as it has in the Yugoslav capital,

[5:38] Belgrade itself. ABC's Bob Woodruff is

[5:41] there.

[5:44] There was dancing in downtown Belgrade

[5:46] today. The newspapers proclaimed, "It's

[5:49] over." But look at the faces. Not much

[5:52] to celebrate here. There may soon be

[5:54] peace, but Serbia is in tatters.

[5:57] Dozens of bridges now lie in

[5:59] Yugoslavia's rivers. Factories have been

[6:01] bombed and burned. Refineries,

[6:03] television towers, government buildings

[6:05] destroyed. Western economists believe

[6:07] the bombing has caused almost $30

[6:09] billion in damage. The Serbs were angry

[6:12] enough when the NATO bombs destroyed all

[6:14] this. Now they are wondering if all this

[6:17] suffering amounted to nothing. The city

[6:20] of Valvo was attacked again and again.

[6:22] Today, the people who lost their homes

[6:24] here say this war was not worth it.

[6:28] >> I don't think anything is more valuable

[6:30] than human life. This man says the

[6:32] politicians are guilty. For the

[6:34] politicians, it was not supposed to end

[6:36] this way. Slovidon Mallosvich had set

[6:39] out to change the ethnic balance of

[6:41] Kosovo to keep Kosovo in Serbian hands

[6:44] and above all to keep foreign troops off

[6:46] his soil. Under the peace plan, the

[6:48] Albanian refugees may now return. And

[6:51] while Kosovo will still be under Serb

[6:53] rule, it will now be patrolled by

[6:55] heavily armed NATO soldiers. Economist

[6:58] Corin Pitic says nothing was

[7:00] accomplished.

[7:00] >> I cannot understand why did why did it

[7:02] happen or what were really the results?

[7:05] What are really the results? Who who who

[7:07] won this game?

[7:08] >> It may be too early to answer that

[7:10] question. This much is known. Mallosvich

[7:13] is an indicted war criminal and he is

[7:15] still in power. Bob Woodruff, ABC News,

[7:18] Belgrade.

[7:20] >> And so begins a very important weekend

[7:22] in the Balkans. Will the Yugoslav army

[7:25] begin to leave Kosovo in an orderly

[7:27] fashion? In time, will NATO stop the

[7:30] bombing? In time will the people who run

[7:33] all these refugee camps begin to think

[7:35] that they can close up shop rather than

[7:38] go on preparing for a dreadful summer

[7:41] and potentially bitter winter.

[7:45] Ted Peter, as you know, there have been

[7:48] a lot of naysayers these last two and a

[7:50] half months. People in the military,

[7:51] government, and the media have said the

[7:53] NATO air attacks wouldn't be enough to

[7:56] stop Sloban Mallich. A bombing campaign

[7:59] by itself has never won a war. Tonight,

[8:02] there's a good chance that it has. ABC's

[8:05] Jackie Jud takes a closer look.

[8:08] >> From the beginning, the critics

[8:10] predicted the air war would fail.

[8:12] >> I doubted that air power alone could

[8:14] force Bosovich out of Kosovo.

[8:17] >> And there was some evidence to support

[8:19] that. The SR buildup continued. NATO

[8:22] blundered with bombs that hit the wrong

[8:25] targets. Today the critics were less

[8:27] sure of themselves.

[8:29] >> In the end, uh 2 and 1/2 months of

[8:31] bombing may have been there uh may have

[8:34] been sufficient to get him there.

[8:38] >> What happened? For starters, the bombing

[8:40] became more intense. Clear weather and a

[8:43] buildup of aircraft allowed NATO forces

[8:45] to fly twice the number of combat

[8:48] missions in recent days as compared to

[8:50] the start of the war. The air campaign

[8:53] was able to inflict sufficient damage on

[8:56] other parts of Yugoslavia, on the

[8:58] Yugoslav military and on things that are

[9:00] important to civilian life, the electric

[9:02] power grid, the water supply.

[9:04] >> And there was help on the ground as

[9:06] well. Advances by the Kosovo Liberation

[9:09] Army forced Yuguslav soldiers to mass on

[9:12] the Albanian border and that made them

[9:15] vulnerable targets. In one day, for

[9:17] example, uh NATO aircraft succeeded in

[9:20] destroying 84 heaven heavy uh equipment,

[9:22] tanks, artillery, and armored personnel

[9:25] carriers. At that rate, uh we would have

[9:28] destroyed the Yugoslav army in in weeks

[9:31] rather than in months or years.

[9:33] >> Melovich was also facing international

[9:36] isolation and hints of what might come

[9:38] next. If President Clinton finally

[9:41] hadn't started sending signals that he

[9:44] will deploy ground forces, the air war

[9:46] probably would still not have been

[9:47] successful.

[9:48] >> For some, calling the air war successful

[9:51] is still going too far. The stated goal

[9:54] back in March was to stop the offensive

[9:56] against innocent civilians. That NATO

[9:59] failed to do for two and a half months.

[10:02] Jackie Jud, ABC News, Washington.

[10:05] Later on Night Line, we're going to

[10:07] bring back our panel of wise men to go

[10:09] over the developments in Yugoslavia.

[10:11] They include a former Secretary of

[10:13] State, a former national security

[10:14] adviser, and a former Secretary of

[10:17] Defense. When we come back, the American

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[10:22] the co-pilot about new information from

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[13:02] >> Passengers who survived the plane crash

[13:04] and relatives of those who did not

[13:06] visited the accident site today as

[13:09] investigators conducted a crucial

[13:10] interview with the co-pilot who is in

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[13:45] the wings and the thrust reversers on

[13:48] the engines. The thrust reversers were

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[14:19] >> The first officer said it felt as though

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[14:32] >> On the money tonight, the unemployment

[14:34] rate fell to a 29-year low last month.

[14:36] It's now at 4.2%.

[14:39] The jobless rate for blacks fell to a

[14:41] record low of 7.5%.

[14:44] The nation's largest nonprofit health

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[14:59] today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average

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[15:08] On the Nasdaq, stocks were up 75 points.

[15:12] A choice morsel of political news today

[15:14] on Good Morning America during a

[15:16] conversation with the Clintons at the

[15:18] White House. Diane Sawyer asked First

[15:20] Lady Hillary Clinton just what her plans

[15:23] are now for the Senate race in New York.

[15:27] >> I'm going to open an exploratory

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[15:38] >> And you're 100% for it, Mr. President? I

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[15:42] But I think that

[15:44] >> but I think um there are very few people

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[19:00] respect.

[19:01] >> What's important, what's matter is our

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[19:05] >> I wish uh China to be uh the number one

[19:10] uh powerful

[19:12] >> that is an enormous change.

[19:17] 10 years ago, students saw their

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[19:21] >> It's totally different. I should say

[19:23] it's totally different.

[19:25] >> Different in part because China's

[19:27] leadership has met many of the demands

[19:29] made by the pro-democracy movement.

[19:31] Chinese students now have the right to

[19:33] choose their own jobs and where they

[19:36] want to go to school. A conversation

[19:38] about that inevitably led to a

[19:40] discussion about America.

[19:42] >> Do you want to go to graduate school in

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[19:47] Because um if you want to improve the

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[19:53] other.

[19:54] >> Do you see any hypocrisy or

[19:57] contradiction in demonstrating against

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[20:02] to graduate school in the United States

[20:04] the next day?

[20:05] >> We are only against the bad things. The

[20:08] United States are not a bad state. are

[20:11] not totally

[20:13] um

[20:15] you know corrupted.

[20:20] >> Despite last month's anti-American

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[20:26] student after student told us

[20:27] anti-Americanism is neither deep-seated

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[20:32] And no one we talked to wanted anything

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[20:37] the US. The United States and China are

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[20:43] to separate with each other.

[20:46] >> 10 years after Tiana men, there's still

[20:48] no real democracy here. But then with

[20:51] this group of students, the word

[20:53] democracy hardly ever came up. Bill

[20:56] Reder, ABC News, Beijing.

[20:59] >> In Indonesia today, riot police fired

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[21:04] before a parliamentary election next

[21:05] week. A handful of people were injured.

[21:08] The election will be Indonesia's first

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[24:56] >> On the cutting edge of technology

[24:58] tonight, new uses for the global

[25:01] positioning system, GPS it's called. A

[25:03] highly sophisticated system which works

[25:05] with a network of satellites. The same

[25:08] satellites that the military is using

[25:09] right now to guide bombs in Kosovo. Now

[25:13] they're tracking high-risk sex offenders

[25:15] out on probation in Florida. ABC's James

[25:19] Walker tonight from Fort Lauderdale.

[25:22] His first name is David. That's all he

[25:25] wants known. He is a convicted sexual

[25:27] predator who must spend his weekends in

[25:30] a Florida jail. But every Sunday night

[25:32] when he leaves jail, his probation

[25:34] officer, Jeff Bunnan, greets him with a

[25:36] high-tech ball and chain. I can look

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[25:40] map, and and find out where they are at

[25:42] any given time of the day.

[25:44] >> David's electronic ankle bracelet is

[25:46] linked to a small box, which he must

[25:48] always carry. It broadcast signals to a

[25:51] group of satellites orbiting 23,000 m

[25:54] above the Earth. They pinpoint David's

[25:57] position to within 100 ft.

[26:01] So when David was about to turn left

[26:03] onto Atlantic Avenue, his probation

[26:06] officer could watch David's every move

[26:08] from his office 5 miles away.

[26:10] >> He makes a left turn here onto West

[26:12] Atlantic Avenue. He stopped at a traffic

[26:14] light there. That dot right there, he

[26:15] stopped at the traffic light at

[26:17] Southwest 7th Avenue.

[26:18] >> Not only does the satellite system

[26:20] follow offenders, it can also be

[26:22] programmed with so-called exclusion

[26:23] zones where sex offenders cannot go. The

[26:26] home of a victim, for example, or a

[26:28] school. So when David recently

[26:30] approached this middle school, the

[26:32] satellite saw him and triggered an

[26:34] alarm.

[26:37] The alarm alerted Jeff Bunnan.

[26:39] >> This is the middle school here in this

[26:41] red box around it. When David came

[26:43] within 300 ft of the school, I received

[26:46] a page and he received a message to turn

[26:48] around immediately, which he did.

[26:49] >> Florida officials are so enthusiastic.

[26:52] >> We don't want you tampering with this

[26:53] unit at all. They plan to put 800 more

[26:56] sex offenders on satellite monitoring

[26:58] within the next year.

[27:00] >> It provides great intensive supervision

[27:01] and it's a lot cheaper than having

[27:03] somebody in prison.

[27:04] >> That's $30 to $40 a day cheaper, but

[27:07] more importantly, these high-risisk sex

[27:09] offenders know that during probation,

[27:11] they are being watched every step of the

[27:14] day. James Walker, ABC News, Fort

[27:17] Lauderdale.

[27:19] One final note, 13 other states now use

[27:21] the devices to track sex offenders as

[27:24] well as probationers who committed other

[27:26] acts of violence. That's our report on

[27:28] World News Tonight. Later on 2020, will

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