World News Tonight (ABC) - 1988-03-28

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[0:00] This is World News Tonight with Peter

[0:02] Jennings. Sitting in tonight, Sam

[0:04] Donaldson.

[0:05] >> Good evening. The Reverend Jesse Jackson

[0:07] campaigned through Connecticut today in

[0:09] advance of tomorrow's primary there,

[0:11] riding a wave of momentum from his big

[0:13] Saturday win in Michigan, while

[0:14] Democratic Party leaders conferred in

[0:16] both awe and fright on the possibility

[0:19] that Jackson could indeed become their

[0:21] presidential nominee. As expected,

[0:23] Representative Richard Gart, who came in

[0:25] a poor third in Michigan, dropped out of

[0:27] the race today, saying, "We had a fair

[0:29] shot. I have no alibis. Gart withheld an

[0:31] endorsement of anyone else for now, but

[0:34] some of Gart's delegates were a portion

[0:36] to those remaining, and Jackson gained a

[0:38] net of 17 of them to draw within nine

[0:40] delegates of Governor Michael Dukakus'

[0:42] total, according to our ABC News count.

[0:45] Senator Albert Gore remains in third

[0:47] place. But it is not the delegate count

[0:49] that has suddenly made Jackson the

[0:51] candidate of the hour. As Jim Wooten

[0:53] reports, it is his possible breakout

[0:55] into the ranks of white voters.

[0:59] Across this nation,

[1:01] hope has been unleashed. When Jackson's

[1:04] support was mainly mostly black,

[1:06] >> a great man,

[1:08] >> and he'll be our first black president,

[1:10] too.

[1:11] >> His candidacy was applauded by party

[1:14] leaders as a noble reflection of the

[1:16] Democratic ideal. But now that he's also

[1:18] attracting whites, the hierarchy sees

[1:20] him as a threat to the party's future.

[1:24] >> We, the people, can win. And that is the

[1:27] threat they perceive. What if Jackson

[1:29] does reach the Atlanta Convention with

[1:31] more delegates than anybody else? Could

[1:34] he be denied the prize?

[1:36] >> I think uh at that point the party has

[1:38] to acknowledge the fact that the people

[1:40] have spoken or rally behind uh his his

[1:43] uh ultimate nomination.

[1:44] >> For the first time, Chairman Kirk and

[1:46] other party veterans are thinking the

[1:48] unthinkable. astonished by Jackson's

[1:50] stunning sweep in Michigan, alarmed by

[1:53] the prospect of nominating a black

[1:55] activist preacher whom they believe to

[1:57] be unelectable.

[1:59] Still, Jackson's Connecticut campaign

[2:01] was drawing enthusiastic crowds today on

[2:03] the eve of the primary there, and the

[2:06] polls suggest his Michigan momentum has

[2:08] increased his local strength. Thank you

[2:11] all very much. Thank you. Connecticut is

[2:13] still a dukaka state, however, and in

[2:15] contrast to his lacadasical attitude in

[2:17] Michigan, he was campaigning hard there

[2:20] today, trying to avoid a second

[2:22] consecutive debacle. What happened to

[2:24] him on Saturday, he was hardfoot to

[2:26] explain. Look, I am what I am. But what

[2:30] he is right now, according to Lynn

[2:32] Cutler, vice chairman of the Democratic

[2:34] Party, is a man with a message problem.

[2:37] Well, clearly it seems that that the

[2:39] governor has got to develop a message

[2:42] that he has already used successfully in

[2:45] Massachusetts to talk to workingclass

[2:47] voters. But the Dakus message or lack

[2:50] thereof may be less important over the

[2:52] long haul than Jackson's ability to

[2:54] expand his base. Because despite his

[2:57] remarkable success in Michigan, there

[3:00] are still serious questions about the

[3:01] willingness of white voters in the big

[3:03] states remaining to support a black man

[3:06] for the American presidency. Jim Wooten,

[3:09] ABC News, New York. In the wake of

[3:12] Jackson's Michigan triumph, New York

[3:13] Governor Mario Cuomo said it again

[3:15] today. He is not a candidate and he will

[3:17] not join a movement to stop anybody. If

[3:20] Jackson gets the most delegates, he

[3:22] deserves to be the nominee, said Cuomo.

[3:24] And just why has Jesse Jackson done so

[3:26] well? Britt Hume finds one big reason is

[3:29] that Jackson has a clear message

[3:31] passionately delivered.

[3:34] Put simply, the big difference in Jesse

[3:36] Jackson's campaign this year is that he

[3:38] is reaching out to whites and a lot of

[3:39] them are reaching out to him. It is a

[3:42] campaign full of optimism and so far of

[3:44] unexpected success. He has little money

[3:46] and no record in office to run on, but

[3:49] with his unmatched rhetorical flare, he

[3:51] almost makes that sound like an

[3:53] advantage over his rivals.

[3:54] >> IF I HAD THEIR BUDGET, THEY COULD NOT

[3:56] COMPETE.

[3:58] >> If they had my budget, THEY WOULD

[4:00] SURRENDER UNDER THE BEST MEMBERS of

[4:03] >> There is something to that claim in the

[4:05] sense that the Jackson campaign at times

[4:07] achieves a kind of spontaneous

[4:09] efficiency others must envy. I am

[4:12] >> I am

[4:12] >> so much

[4:14] >> here. He shakes hands with voters at the

[4:16] same time leading his audience in one of

[4:18] his patented chants while aids pass the

[4:20] collection bucket through the crowd.

[4:25] A Jackson rally is still a happening,

[4:27] but in general this is a better planned

[4:29] and more organized campaign than he

[4:31] mounted in 1984. The black radical

[4:33] minister Lewis Farrakan, part of the

[4:35] team then is nowhere to be seen now.

[4:37] Instead, Jackson takes counsel from such

[4:40] mainstream political figures as Jimmy

[4:42] Carter's one-time budget director, Bert

[4:44] Lance. Jackson now has a message on

[4:46] drugs, much of which could be endorsed

[4:48] by Nancy Reagan.

[4:49] >> If and when I'm elected, I will

[4:53] substantially cut the supply of drugs,

[4:56] but you must cut the demand for the

[4:58] drugs. You must refrain from drugs.

[5:01] Jackson's message on economics is aimed

[5:03] this year at out of work laborers and

[5:06] out of luck farmers, not just inner city

[5:08] blacks. It is an intensely populist

[5:10] anti-corporate appeal.

[5:12] >> WE THE PEOPLE MUST STOP THE ECONOMIC

[5:15] VIOLENCE. IT'S NOT SO MUCH ABOUT BLACK

[5:18] OR WHITE OR BROWN OR FEMALE. THESE

[5:21] CORPORATE BARRACUDAS EAT EVERY SMALL

[5:24] FISH THEY CAN FIND, NO MATTER THE COLOR,

[5:27] THE SEX, OR THE SIZE.

[5:30] Stopping drugs and saving jobs has

[5:32] proved more appealing than Jackson's

[5:33] 1984 pitch, which became mostly an

[5:36] attack on his party's nominating rules.

[5:38] >> I got 18% of the vote

[5:42] and 7% of the delegates. Jackson this

[5:45] year has much more of both and so far

[5:47] has not made much of an issue of party

[5:49] rules, which are structured to make it

[5:51] hard for an outsider like Jackson to

[5:53] gain a majority of delegates through the

[5:55] primaries. But if Jackson continues to

[5:57] do well and is blocked at the

[5:58] convention, party leaders worry the

[6:00] Democrats could have a rules fight that

[6:02] would bitterly divide a party already

[6:04] having trouble uniting behind a nominee.

[6:07] Brit Hume, ABC News, Washington. On the

[6:10] Republican side, Vice President Bush

[6:12] picked up another endorsement today.

[6:14] This time from one of his recent rivals,

[6:16] Jack Kemp. The New York congressman said

[6:18] his endorsement of Bush is unequivocal

[6:20] and that he will campaign vigorously for

[6:22] him. Meanwhile, sources in the Dole

[6:24] campaign tell ABC News that Bush's main

[6:27] challenger, Senator Robert Dole of

[6:28] Kansas, will drop out of the Republican

[6:30] contest tomorrow. That's certainly no

[6:33] surprise at this point since Dole has

[6:34] already talked about Bush being the

[6:36] likely nominee. Dole is expected to make

[6:38] his announcement on Capitol Hill at

[6:40] midafternoon.

[6:42] In a moment, the violent end to a

[6:44] protest in Panama. And later in this

[6:46] broadcast, why some airline travelers

[6:48] are saying anybody but Eastern. and some

[6:51] Vietnamese children meet their American

[6:53] fathers for the first time.

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[8:06] >> In Panama today, they took to the

[8:08] streets. Thousands of people trying to

[8:10] force General Manuel Noriega out of

[8:12] office. It began peacefully enough, then

[8:14] an ambush by the army with water cannon

[8:16] and tear gas. Soldiers fired pellet guns

[8:19] and beat demonstrators with rubber

[8:21] trenchons. It was the first major

[8:23] protest since the attempted coup against

[8:24] Noriega nearly two weeks ago. Unlike

[8:27] previous marches, today's took place in

[8:29] a workingclass neighborhood, and many of

[8:31] that neighborhood's residents joined in

[8:33] the march, a reflection of the widening

[8:35] discontent with Noriego. The good news

[8:38] from the region is that American troops

[8:39] are on their way home from Honduras. In

[8:42] fact, the first several hundred troops

[8:43] have already arrived back home at Fort

[8:45] Bragg, North Carolina, arriving as the

[8:48] airborne troops often do the hard way.

[8:50] As they left Honduras, some of the

[8:52] soldiers told ABC's Gary Shepard what

[8:54] they thought they had accomplished.

[8:57] These 800 paratroopers from the 82nd

[9:00] Airborne Division were the first of

[9:01] 3,200 Americans who will be pulling out

[9:04] of here during the next few days. After

[9:06] spending 10 days on joint maneuvers with

[9:09] the Honduran army, they said they

[9:11] accomplished their mission and were glad

[9:12] to be heading back to the United States.

[9:14] >> Helped out the Hondurans. You know,

[9:16] Sanish has pulled back. It's about what

[9:18] we're here for. You know, show force.

[9:20] I'm ready to go home. I'm going to kiss

[9:22] the ground when I get there.

[9:23] >> Outside the front entrance to the base,

[9:25] several hundred Hondurans gathered in a

[9:27] demonstration of support for the GIS.

[9:29] Many of the signs they carried read,

[9:31] "Thank you for helping us to maintain

[9:33] our liberty." More American combat

[9:36] troops should be leaving here later

[9:37] tonight and tomorrow. And the pull out

[9:39] is expected to be completed by

[9:41] Wednesday. Gary Shepard, ABC News,

[9:44] Amarola Air Base, Honduras.

[9:47] The Israeli government cracked down

[9:49] harder on its rebellious occupied

[9:50] territories today, taking the

[9:52] extraordinary step of virtually sealing

[9:54] off Gaza and the West Bank from the

[9:56] outside world for the next 3 days in an

[9:59] effort, the government said, to prevent

[10:00] violence on Wednesday, the anniversary

[10:02] of a past Palestinian uprising. US State

[10:05] Department officials expressed regret at

[10:07] the action, but Dean Reynolds reports

[10:09] Israeli officials are clearly bent on

[10:12] imposing order.

[10:14] From tonight and for the next three

[10:16] days, the entire Gaza Strip with its

[10:18] 650,000 Palestinian residents will be

[10:20] under curfew. None of them will be

[10:22] allowed in or out. During the same

[10:24] period, the West Bank will be virtually

[10:27] sealed off. Some 900,000 Palestinians

[10:30] denied entry into both Israel and

[10:32] Jordan. Only Jewish settlers will be

[10:34] free to move in and out of the

[10:35] territories, and reporters will not be

[10:38] allowed to enter the territories on

[10:39] their own. The army wants to choke off

[10:42] trouble before Wednesday's observance of

[10:44] land day, the anniversary of a bloody

[10:46] 1976 clash between soldiers and Israeli

[10:49] Arabs over the confiscation of Arab

[10:51] land.

[10:51] >> The measures that we've taken are

[10:53] preventive measures to ensure that we

[10:55] maintain control over the situation and

[10:57] we prevent the situation from deterior

[10:59] deteriorating to further violence and

[11:01] disorder.

[11:02] >> The Israelis did offer to permit limited

[11:04] reporting in the territories, but only

[11:06] in the company of the army. an offer

[11:08] that drew protests from foreign news

[11:10] organizations.

[11:11] >> We see absolutely no reason uh why the

[11:15] next three days should be any different

[11:16] from the last four months.

[11:18] >> The Israelis are concerned about what

[11:20] may happen on land day, but they believe

[11:22] their tough measures will meet the

[11:23] challenge. Defense Minister Rabine

[11:26] tonight warned the Palestinians that if

[11:28] they want a confrontation, they can have

[11:29] one, said Rabbine. We'll see who wins.

[11:33] Dean Reynolds, ABC News, Jerusalem.

[11:36] Iranian gunboats attacked two super

[11:38] tankers today in the Persian Gulf.

[11:40] Though nobody was hurt, the attack on a

[11:42] Danish tanker set off a spectacular fire

[11:44] on the bridge and in the crew quarters.

[11:47] In a moment, hard times at Eastern

[11:49] Airlines.

[11:54] As soon as you get out there, call Mike

[11:56] Butler at the Century 21 office.

[11:57] >> Well, he already called me, Dad.

[11:59] >> Check the utility bills.

[12:01] >> I will, Dad. You know the right. Isn't

[12:04] this guy Butler a friend of yours?

[12:06] >> Yeah, sure.

[12:08] If he's half the guy you are,

[12:11] I bet I can trust him.

[12:14] >> Take care of yourself.

[12:16] >> Put your trust in number one.

[12:18] >> Write your mother.

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[12:25] nutrition, it takes almost three bowls

[12:27] of special K.

[12:28] >> I'm eating shredded wheat.

[12:29] >> You're eating 12 bowls.

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[12:37] >> in just one bowl.

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[12:54] >> Walter, this is mother.

[12:58] >> Mother. Walter wants to use the phone.

[13:01] Uh, fine. Right there.

[13:04] >> Second class phones. They're making

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[13:25] President Reagan promised again today to

[13:27] veto any protectionist legislation that

[13:29] is passed by Congress. The president

[13:31] toured a metal working plant in

[13:32] Richmond, Virginia, which has seen its

[13:34] export business rise sharply over the

[13:36] last year. He said the trade bill now

[13:38] being considered by Congress could

[13:40] squaltch productivity and destroy

[13:42] American competitiveness. We have a

[13:44] report tonight on an American trouble

[13:46] company in trouble, but not because of

[13:48] trade. Eastern Airlines has had its

[13:51] wings clipped by a series of legal

[13:52] battles. It's embroiled in major

[13:54] disputes with its labor unions, and it's

[13:57] had to answer new questions about its

[13:58] safety. More from ABC's Al Dale.

[14:03] >> In the two years since the nation's

[14:04] fourth largest airline was sold to Texas

[14:07] Air Corporation, its income and image

[14:09] have plummeted. Despite lucrative East

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[14:13] Boston, New York, Washington shuttle, it

[14:15] is an airline groaning under labor

[14:17] disputes, lawsuits, and demands for a

[14:19] federal investigation. Texas SA since

[14:22] they took over has been an extremely

[14:24] bottom line oriented management and we

[14:27] feel that they put safety in the

[14:28] backseat to profits. Last year, Eastern

[14:31] was fined $9.5 million for safety

[14:33] violations. The airline says it now

[14:35] spends more on maintenance than ever.

[14:37] But Eastern has cut back on its fleet of

[14:39] planes, its roots, even its food

[14:41] service, and has laid off almost 10,000

[14:43] workers since 1986.

[14:46] Eastern pilots have been leaving partly

[14:48] because of concerns about safety and

[14:49] salary cuts at a rate 10 times the

[14:52] normal Eastern attrition. 500 retired or

[14:54] quit in 1987 and 259 so far this year,

[14:58] causing so severe a shortage that

[15:00] flights have had to be cancelled for

[15:02] lack of crews in the cockpit.

[15:04] >> Eastern stinks.

[15:06] >> It said cancel. The third time I had a

[15:08] flight that was canceled on me. I knew

[15:09] it. It's like stink.

[15:12] But Eastern officials, who would not

[15:14] talk on camera, insist the

[15:15] cancellations, 135 during a recent 3-day

[15:18] period, were on marginal routes and did

[15:21] not seriously affect the schedule.

[15:23] Management and the machinist union are

[15:24] at an impass now on a new contract, but

[15:27] union members got a boost recently when

[15:29] a federal judge ordered Eastern not to

[15:31] sell the East Coast shuttle operation to

[15:32] a non-UN subsidiary. Management says it

[15:35] needs the $225 million asking price to

[15:38] keep Eastern afloat, but critics say

[15:40] it's a union busting ploy and a way to

[15:43] build up a strike fund. Some of the

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[15:57] >> Airline analysts say if Eastern doesn't

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[16:00] sold again or face bankruptcy. Al Dale,

[16:03] ABC News Atlanta.

[16:05] >> In tonight's other money matters on Wall

[16:07] Street, the Dow Jones Industrials gained

[16:09] a little less than a point today. The

[16:11] trading was slow. In a major civil

[16:13] rights settlement, the city of Chicago

[16:15] today agreed to pay more than $9 million

[16:17] in back pay to 729 women, blacks, and

[16:21] Hispanics on the Chicago Police Force.

[16:23] They had charged the police department

[16:25] with discrimination in hiring and

[16:27] promotion dating back 20 years. When we

[16:30] come back, what do the taxpayers think

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[18:38] 1988 is not turning out to be a good

[18:40] year for the IRS. No. Despite the

[18:43] so-called tax simplification, by nearly

[18:45] 2 to1 margin, taxpayers have told us

[18:47] they believe the new tax system is worse

[18:50] than the old one. And on top of that, an

[18:52] even bigger majority believe they are or

[18:54] will be paying higher taxes. But as

[18:57] ABC's Bill Greenwood reports, the

[18:59] reality could be different.

[19:07] >> CPAs for every

[19:09] >> with 2,700 changes in the law. Tax

[19:12] reform has become the biggest joke on

[19:14] the Washington Entertainment Circuit.

[19:16] But there's not much to laugh about for

[19:18] taxpayers. It's DWI GHT.

[19:21] >> Preparers expect a 30% increase in

[19:23] business from customers who say tax

[19:25] simplification has made the process too

[19:28] complicated.

[19:29] >> I'd be bald if I were trying to do it

[19:31] myself. I'd pull all my hair out.

[19:32] >> Oh, it's been horror, panic,

[19:35] frustration,

[19:36] depression.

[19:38] >> A study by the University of Akran found

[19:40] that half of all high school graduates

[19:42] couldn't understand the tax

[19:43] instructions. And the IRS can't

[19:46] understand why most people think they're

[19:47] paying more this year. In fact, the

[19:50] average taxpayer is getting $88 back.

[19:53] That's $22 more than last year.

[19:56] >> The average refund is up, not down with

[19:59] the same about the same number of

[20:01] refunds actually being paid this year as

[20:03] last year. So, if there is a problem out

[20:06] there, we haven't seen it. In processing

[20:08] returns, the IRS has found that many

[20:10] Americans did not have enough money

[20:12] withheld from their paychecks to cover

[20:13] the amount they owed. Those people

[20:16] aren't paying higher taxes. It just

[20:18] feels that way. Bill Greenwood, ABC

[20:21] News, Washington. Well, tax time is a

[20:24] good time to be thinking of real estate.

[20:26] The president and Mrs. Reagan announced

[20:28] today they've taken out a three-year

[20:29] lease on a retirement home. It's a $2.5

[20:32] million estate in the exclusive Bair

[20:34] District of Los Angeles, bought by a

[20:37] group of the president's friends who are

[20:38] leasing it to him, where just how much

[20:41] money was not disclosed. When we come

[20:44] back, joyful reunions and tears of

[20:46] frustration in Vietnam.

[20:52] This Easter, you can send flowers in

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[22:22] Tonight on Night Line. Now they're

[22:24] saying Jesse Jackson could be the

[22:26] Democratic nominee. But could he win the

[22:28] presidency? And what would happen if the

[22:30] party tried to stop him?

[22:34] Finally tonight, the story of a family

[22:35] search across time and history. When the

[22:38] United States left Vietnam, some 8 to

[22:40] 10,000 children fathered by American GIS

[22:43] were left behind. Many of them

[22:45] abandoned, to be blunt about it, because

[22:46] their fathers wanted nothing to do with

[22:48] them. But that was not the case in every

[22:51] instance. So when the government of

[22:52] Vietnam recently agreed to allow

[22:54] Amarasian children to leave for the

[22:56] United States if their fathers wanted

[22:58] them, some exgis set out to claim their

[23:00] own. Ken Kashawara followed the quest of

[23:03] three such men who went to Vietnam in

[23:06] search of the children they had left

[23:08] behind.

[23:09] It was a journey born of frustration.

[23:12] Three Americans flying back to Vietnam

[23:14] to a past they left behind 15 years ago

[23:18] to do what their government and the

[23:19] Vietnamese had failed to do. Get their

[23:22] children to America. They carried

[23:24] evidence of years of unbending

[23:26] bureaucracies, letters and telegrams to

[23:28] Washington and Hanoi and photographs.

[23:31] >> Our government has abandoned these kids

[23:35] just the way helicopters and jeeps were

[23:37] left behind in 75. Um there's someone

[23:40] very high up who has just decided, well,

[23:43] let's write these kids off.

[23:44] >> You look at all the paperwork and you

[23:45] say, "By God, here it is finally." And

[23:47] then the bottom falls out. Yeah. There's

[23:48] anger.

[23:50] A lot of it.

[23:51] >> Arriving in Vietnam in a city named

[23:53] after Ho Chi Min. The fathers found the

[23:56] red symbols of the new communist order

[23:58] turned into a red carpet. One by one,

[24:01] the images in the photographs came alive

[24:03] in a rush of emotion.

[24:10] Don Burgess meeting his 16-year-old

[24:13] daughter Tao and her mother who was

[24:15] pregnant when Burgess left Vietnam. It

[24:17] was the first ever meeting between

[24:19] father and daughter. It's been a long

[24:21] time. Never ready for this moment for a

[24:24] long time.

[24:26] This makes things complete.

[24:28] >> And Don Benson seeing his daughter Han

[24:30] Dung for the first time since she was

[24:32] four.

[24:36] Benson married Hondong's Vietnamese

[24:38] mother, but when they moved to the

[24:40] United States, Hanung was left behind

[24:42] with her grandparents for what was

[24:44] supposed to be a year or two. They

[24:46] didn't count on the communist takeover.

[24:49] >> We're both talking at the same time.

[24:52] There's no problem in recognition.

[24:55] >> And at another location, Carl Bearefield

[24:58] being reunited with his 15year-old son,

[25:01] Tan Hung, abandoned by his Vietnamese

[25:03] mother after he was born. I can't speak

[25:06] Vietnamese and he can't speak English.

[25:08] If he knew me, I knew him.

[25:12] >> Two of the fathers were allowed to visit

[25:14] their daughter's homes, traveling for 2

[25:16] days in the now peaceful Meong Delta, a

[25:18] countryside they had only known in the

[25:21] violence of war. For Don Benson,

[25:23] visiting his daughter's home was a

[25:25] chance to see friends and his in-laws

[25:27] again. For the town's people, it was a

[25:29] chance to see an American for the first

[25:31] time since the communist takeover. For

[25:33] Benson's daughter, it meant saying

[25:35] goodbye to those she grew up with.

[25:38] >> In another town, 16-year-old Tao was

[25:40] proud that her American father was

[25:42] coming, she said, even though she has

[25:44] suffered discrimination as an amiration.

[25:47] But Burgess's visit ended in

[25:48] disappointment. Ta's grandfather decided

[25:51] she should leave Vietnam only with her

[25:53] mother and Vietnamese family, a

[25:55] complication which would mean more

[25:57] timeconsuming bureaucratic procedures.

[26:00] I'm worried that if I don't get her out

[26:02] in the next day or two that somehow this

[26:06] little window that we see opening will

[26:08] be closed. It is not clear why the

[26:11] Vietnamese government agreed to cut

[26:12] through all the red tape to help the

[26:14] American fathers. But as one Vietnamese

[26:16] official put it, "We did our part. Now

[26:19] it is up to the American government."

[26:22] >> The children still had to be interviewed

[26:23] and approved by US State Department

[26:25] officials. still had to go through

[26:27] medical exams and be cleared by the

[26:29] government of Thailand, the first stop

[26:31] on their journey to America.

[26:33] >> You have three governments involved

[26:34] here. You have uh the uh the Vietnamese

[26:37] government, you have the Royal Thai

[26:39] government, and you have our government,

[26:41] and they've all got to got to come

[26:42] together.

[26:43] >> But the dreams turned to despair to

[26:45] American officials. Carl Befield's son

[26:48] didn't look amorasian, didn't look white

[26:50] enough. His father, they said, would

[26:52] have to come up with more proof that Tan

[26:54] Hung was his son. Fairfield's reaction.

[26:57] >> Disappointment.

[27:00] Disappointment. I had pretty high hopes

[27:02] here in the last couple of days,

[27:03] especially after the Vietnamese

[27:04] government themselves had more or less

[27:08] cleared everything.

[27:09] >> For the others, the bureaucratic

[27:11] machinery simply would not move fast

[27:13] enough. The three fathers would have to

[27:15] leave their children behind. Don Benson

[27:18] was too distraught to talk about it.

[27:20] Carl Be sat alone with his own thoughts.

[27:23] Don Burgess perhaps summed up the

[27:25] concerns of all.

[27:26] >> What are they going to do after I leave

[27:28] Vietnam and after I leave Thailand? Will

[27:30] everybody forget about this on both

[27:31] sides? The questions increase the pain

[27:34] of parting again. The fathers could only

[27:36] take with them the hope that their

[27:37] presence here will now speed up their

[27:39] children's departure. And the children,

[27:42] they can only go back to their dreams of

[27:44] following their fathers to a brighter

[27:46] future, to a new home in America. Ken

[27:49] Koshwara, ABC News, Ho Chi Min City.

[27:54] That's our report on World News Tonight.

[27:56] I'm Sam Donaldson. For everyone at ABC

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