World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-09-22

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[0:03] On World News Tonight this Tuesday in

[0:05] Washington, delicate discussions about

[0:08] whether a deal could be made to spare

[0:10] the president.

[0:14] Hurricane George rampages through the

[0:16] Caribbean, Puerto Rico, and the

[0:18] Dominican Republic are not spared. And

[0:21] for millions of workers, a paycheck from

[0:24] a different place every week. We'll take

[0:26] a closer look at free agents in the

[0:28] workplace.

[0:36] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:39] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:43] Peter Jennings.

[0:44] >> Good evening. What a difference a day

[0:45] makes. Or videotape testimony makes. In

[0:48] the Washington political establishment

[0:50] today, there are the faintest signs that

[0:52] a political deal to spare President

[0:54] Clinton the impeachment process is

[0:56] inching its way into the serious debate

[0:59] about his future. Nothing cut and dried

[1:01] by a very long shot. But now that the

[1:04] country has seen the president's

[1:05] videotape testimony, there are hints.

[1:08] And so we start at the White House with

[1:10] Sam Donaldson. How strong are the hints,

[1:11] Sam? Well, Peter, no one will say it on

[1:13] the record, but various sources close to

[1:15] the White House defense strategy suggest

[1:17] the president may be willing to stop

[1:19] arguing that he did not lie under oath

[1:22] as part of a deal with Congress that

[1:24] would spare him the prospect of

[1:25] impeachment and removal from office.

[1:28] >> Good afternoon.

[1:29] >> Presidential press secretary Mike Mccur

[1:31] chose his words carefully.

[1:33] >> We are working hard to try to see if

[1:35] there's some way to proceed in a way

[1:37] that does what is in the best interest

[1:39] of this country. McCur said the

[1:41] president is very much involved in this

[1:43] search for a way out.

[1:44] >> He will will continue

[1:47] uh to have the conversations he's been

[1:50] having and certainly will listen

[1:51] carefully to the kinds of suggestions

[1:53] that the White House staff and others

[1:56] working with the White House have been

[1:57] receiving from others.

[1:59] >> Maybe so. But when the president was

[2:01] asked directly if he's paying attention

[2:02] to any aspect of this, he said,

[2:05] >> "Not much. Believe it or not, I haven't

[2:07] read the report or my lawyers replies. I

[2:10] uh I think it's important that I focus

[2:12] on what I'm doing for the American

[2:14] people.

[2:14] >> What the president's lawyers were doing

[2:16] today was sending a letter to Capitol

[2:18] Hill complaining that the main body of

[2:20] the Star report failed to include Monica

[2:22] Lewinsky's sworn testimony that quote no

[2:25] one ever asked me to lie and I was never

[2:28] promised a job for my silence. That said

[2:30] the lawyers is a one-sided and unfair

[2:33] manipulation of the evidence. What Star

[2:36] did say in his report was while the

[2:38] president did not expressly instruct her

[2:40] to lie, according to Ms. Lewinsky, he

[2:42] did suggest misleading cover stories.

[2:44] Behind such sparring, people on both

[2:46] sides of this issue are exploring what

[2:48] might go into a deal. One suggestion is

[2:50] that the president present his defense

[2:52] to the House Judiciary Committee,

[2:54] perhaps even in person, and while not

[2:56] admit that he lied under oath, not

[2:58] continue to maintain that he didn't

[3:00] either, arguing instead that even if he

[3:02] did the things he's accused of, they do

[3:04] not rise to the level of impeachable

[3:06] offenses. Now that may seem like a small

[3:08] shift, Peter, but there is a difference

[3:10] between saying I am not guilty and even

[3:14] if I am guilty, it's not important

[3:16] enough to warrant sending me out of

[3:18] Ashwas. Thanks very much, Sam. Sam

[3:20] Donaldson at the White House. Um, no

[3:23] secret to all of you that the

[3:24] president's speech got a tremendous

[3:25] amount of attention from the media and

[3:28] our polling unit has been sampling

[3:29] public opinion since. The speech does

[3:31] not appear to have changed many minds.

[3:33] The majority still say the president

[3:35] should not resign or be impeached. 68%

[3:38] of those who did pay attention thought

[3:40] that the word which best described the

[3:42] president's answers to most questions

[3:44] was evasive. 68% say the president was

[3:48] right not to discuss the details of his

[3:50] sexual activity with Monica Lewinsky.

[3:53] The public does seem to have a broader

[3:55] definition of sexual relations than Mr.

[3:57] Clinton. Unlike the president, 81% say

[4:01] that sexual relations does include oral

[4:03] sex as well as sexual intercourse.

[4:07] In Congress today, where they control

[4:09] the fate of the president, members

[4:10] almost certainly had their eyes on the

[4:12] polls. One congressman said, "As we

[4:15] judge the president, America will be

[4:17] judging us." And so, after a day to

[4:19] think about the president's testimony,

[4:21] has Congress had any serious change of

[4:23] heart? From Capitol Hill tonight, ABC's

[4:25] Linda Douglas.

[4:28] Today, for the first time in weeks, when

[4:30] Senate Democrats met behind closed

[4:32] doors, sources say they did not rail

[4:34] against the president or mutter about

[4:36] how much they'd like to see him go. Many

[4:38] said Mr. Clinton's videotape testimony

[4:40] may have helped him. Senate Minority

[4:42] Leader Tom Dashel, who's been critical

[4:44] of the president, sounded more positive

[4:46] today. The overnight polling data

[4:48] suggests that the American people now

[4:50] have a more sympathetic view of the

[4:52] president than they had before. And I

[4:54] think that's a reflection of what they

[4:56] view to be the fairness of this process.

[4:58] >> Congressional sources say more Democrats

[5:00] have been talking about a deal to punish

[5:02] Mr. Clinton without going through

[5:04] impeachment hearings, censuring him,

[5:06] figning him, even reducing his pension.

[5:09] They know Republicans are likely to

[5:10] reject an effort to shortcircuit the

[5:12] impeachment process, but at the very

[5:14] least, Democrats could then accuse

[5:16] Republicans of prolonging the country's

[5:18] misery. Today, the chairman of the House

[5:20] Judiciary Committee batted away

[5:22] questions about making a deal.

[5:24] >> Well, there's an old saying, that's

[5:25] above my pay grade. U I don't know. Uh I

[5:29] I would say that's very premature to

[5:32] talk about that. That is a decision if

[5:35] it ever gets that far that the Senate

[5:38] would make. But but we'll see.

[5:41] >> Which is another way of saying that no

[5:42] matter what talk of deals is around, the

[5:44] House is still headed toward impeachment

[5:46] hearings. And Peter, it doesn't seem

[5:48] that there's much the White House can do

[5:49] to head them off.

[5:50] >> Very much Linda Douglas on Capitol Hill.

[5:52] As we said, don't hold your breath.

[5:53] Nothing's going to happen in a great

[5:55] hurry. We'll be back with some of the

[5:56] other news today in just a moment.

[5:58] Hurricane George running rough shaw

[6:00] through the Caribbean and now heading

[6:02] for Florida and pumping up young

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[7:36] >> In the Caribbean tonight, the powerful

[7:38] powerful Hurricane George is rolling

[7:40] through the Dominican Republic in Haiti

[7:42] and maybe in Cuba. By the morning, for

[7:45] much of the day, Santa Domingo had to

[7:46] endure winds of up to 120 mph and very

[7:50] heavy rain. Three people in the

[7:52] Dominican Republic have died. Hurricane

[7:55] George has wrecked one island after

[7:57] another and was especially vicious in

[8:00] Puerto Rico. ABC's Guju Chang is in San

[8:02] Juan tonight.

[8:07] The hurricanes swarled straight across

[8:09] Puerto Rico. It was a direct hit.

[8:15] George sent anything that wasn't bolted

[8:17] down and even things that had been

[8:19] flying through the streets of San Juan.

[8:23] >> Tourists clutching pillows and blankets

[8:25] were taken into stairwells of high-rise

[8:27] hotels away from flying glass.

[8:29] >> It was just unbelievable. I mean, we

[8:31] were standing here and the windows blew

[8:33] out, blew all over us, and then they

[8:35] took us to the to the stairwells and

[8:37] made us stay there for like 6 and 1/2

[8:39] hours. The storm's onslaught chased tens

[8:42] of thousands of residents into shelters.

[8:44] The hurricane force winds knocked down

[8:46] so many trees and along with them power

[8:48] lines that the entire island of Puerto

[8:51] Rico was without power following the

[8:53] hurricane. And because electricity fuels

[8:56] the water pumping stations, 80% of the

[8:58] island found itself without running

[9:01] water. Streets covered with debris

[9:04] became a virtual obstacle course. Many

[9:06] were completely blocked. the people are

[9:09] uh trying to uh clean up our

[9:12] transportation uh systems, our roads,

[9:14] our avenues, our uh uh highways.

[9:20] >> Work crews began chopping up and

[9:22] sweeping up after the high winds and

[9:24] torrential rain. Hurricane George

[9:27] demolished Susanna Ferris's home and

[9:29] nearly everything inside.

[9:32] >> "When I saw my house, it destroyed me,"

[9:34] she said. "But thank God I'm alive.

[9:37] Susanna as well as many who live in the

[9:39] Caribbean had prepared for the storm.

[9:41] She was not prepared for this. Juju

[9:44] Chang, ABC News, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

[9:47] >> All of South Florida and the Florida

[9:48] Keys in particular are nervous about

[9:51] George. Tourists were ordered to

[9:52] evacuate the Keys today. They boarded up

[9:55] the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

[9:58] That's a sign. Forecasters say that

[10:00] George may reach the Keys as early as

[10:03] Thursday. In Japan, the weather story is

[10:06] Typhoon Vicki. Nine people have died

[10:08] following that storm's landfall today.

[10:11] High winds and heavy rain also knocked

[10:13] out power to more than a million people.

[10:17] In New York today, President Clinton met

[10:19] with one of the most important players

[10:20] in the current global economic crisis,

[10:22] the Japanese prime minister. For months,

[10:25] the president and his Treasury Secretary

[10:27] Bob Rubin have said that unless the

[10:29] Japanese economy improves and Japanese

[10:32] consumers start spending, the economic

[10:34] mess in the world can only get worse.

[10:37] Here's ABC's Morton Dean.

[10:40] >> The Japanese prime minister came here

[10:42] knowing that he would come under

[10:43] enormous pressure to get his economy

[10:45] moving again. While he said he favored

[10:48] reform, he would not predict what his

[10:50] parliament would do.

[10:53] I'm neither optimistic or pessimistic on

[10:55] this.

[10:56] >> The US has long complained Japan is

[10:59] dragging down the world economy.

[11:01] >> I think there is virtually unanimous

[11:04] support in the world uh for the kind of

[11:07] financial reforms that uh would restore

[11:11] economic growth in Japan. Specifically,

[11:13] the US wants Japan to shut down some of

[11:16] its insolvent banks and begin a bailout

[11:18] process that might dwarf what Washington

[11:20] did for the savings and loans. Japan's

[11:23] banking industry is crippled by more

[11:25] than a trillion dollars in bad loans.

[11:28] >> Well, the banks can't do their main job

[11:30] now. They can't lend because so many of

[11:32] their old loans are duds. The

[11:34] dysfunctional banking system and the

[11:36] reluctance of Japanese to spend their

[11:38] savings on their own and foreign goods

[11:40] have helped push Japan's economy into

[11:43] its devastating downturn. And again

[11:46] today, there's no evidence that Japan

[11:48] will in fact follow the tough measures

[11:50] the US and others have been pushing for

[11:53] so long. Morton Dean, ABC News, New

[11:56] York. On a Wall Street today, the Dow

[11:58] Jones Industrials lost 36 points to

[12:01] close at 78.97.

[12:03] On the NASDAQ market, stocks gained more

[12:06] than 17 points. One other note from

[12:08] overseas, 600 South African troops

[12:11] crossed into the small kingdom of Lutu

[12:13] this morning, answering a plea from the

[12:15] prime minister there to beat back the

[12:17] rebels who claim he rigged the last

[12:19] election. The South Africans managed to

[12:22] recapture the Royal Palace and several

[12:24] other buildings, but at least 10

[12:26] soldiers and five civilians were killed

[12:28] in the process. When we come back, Mark

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[14:40] >> The home run derby between Mark Magguire

[14:42] and Sammy Sosa winds up this weekend.

[14:44] It's been terrific for baseball. And as

[14:46] it turns out, it's been an unintended

[14:48] boon for a controversial muscle building

[14:50] drug known as Andro. Sammy Sosa does not

[14:53] use Andro, but Mark Maguire, who's ahead

[14:56] in the home run count, does. And now

[14:59] Andro is going to get even more

[15:00] attention because ESPN, which is owned

[15:02] by ABC's parent company, began running

[15:05] the first national television ads for

[15:07] it. Here's ABC's Judy Mueller.

[15:11] >> The makers of Anderson Dion, or Andro as

[15:14] it's called, hoped to pedal their

[15:15] product to a much bigger audience.

[15:17] >> I just know it could help you add size,

[15:19] strength, and cuts without the risks.

[15:23] The first ever TV ad for the

[15:25] controversial supplement follows a

[15:27] recent surge in sales sparked by

[15:29] Maguire's disclosure that he uses Andro,

[15:31] which boosts testosterone. It's banned

[15:33] by many professional sports, but not by

[15:36] Major League Baseball. Some physicians

[15:38] worry about Maguire's influence on young

[15:40] athletes.

[15:41] >> They've got the message that what their

[15:43] bodies do normally isn't enough. In

[15:45] order to get big and strong, they have

[15:46] to use something else. And it carries

[15:48] over into the rest of their adult

[15:50] physical life. that is, it may carry

[15:52] over into their adult life. No one knows

[15:54] the long-term effects of these

[15:55] supplements on the body. The FDA does

[15:58] not test or regulate them since they're

[16:00] sold as dietary supplements in health

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[16:05] Teenagers are especially at risk with

[16:07] Andro since too much testosterone can

[16:09] eventually cause heart and liver damage.

[16:12] Many young athletes are already using

[16:13] another controversial supplement, an

[16:15] amino acid called creatine. Utah high

[16:18] school football player Ryan Bingham says

[16:20] it helped him gain more than 45 lbs. Is

[16:23] he now tempted to take Andro? Ryan

[16:26] conceds his interest was peaked by

[16:27] Magguire's example.

[16:29] >> Anything to, you know, help you out or,

[16:31] you know, make you stronger. I mean, you

[16:32] know, you're looking at it.

[16:34] >> Ryan decided not to sample Andro. After

[16:36] all, he's already bench pressing 410

[16:38] lbs. But in a world where bigger is

[16:40] better, untested supplements can be a

[16:43] powerful temptation fueled by powerful

[16:45] examples. Judy Mueller, ABC News, Los

[16:48] Angeles.

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[19:42] >> We're going to take a closer look this

[19:43] week at some of the dramatic ways that

[19:45] work in America is changing. In this

[19:48] century, the American workforce has more

[19:49] than quadrupled. Today, somewhere in

[19:52] America,

[19:53] 130 million people were doing something

[19:55] to make a living. Almost as many women

[19:57] working as men, which is very different

[20:00] from a generation ago. It is what we do

[20:02] today that indicates how the country and

[20:05] the economy have changed.

[20:08] >> There are more people today who work at

[20:10] Walmarts than in the steel industry. Uh

[20:12] there are more people who work in

[20:14] dentist offices than in the automobile

[20:16] industry. Over 3/4 of the workforce is

[20:19] really in the service economy.

[20:21] >> And here's another significant change

[20:23] from the last generation. And the

[20:24] average American is likely to change

[20:27] jobs six or seven times in his or her

[20:30] lifetime.

[20:32] >> As many as one out of every three people

[20:34] in the workforce is working in what we

[20:36] would call non-traditional kinds of

[20:38] jobs. That is where they're only working

[20:41] part-time, where they're temporary

[20:43] workers, where they may be

[20:44] self-employed, a whole range of

[20:46] combinations.

[20:48] >> Certainly, the idea of job loyalty is

[20:50] changing. Here's ABC's Betsy Stark.

[20:54] So, I did a lot more business this month

[20:55] than I expected.

[20:57] >> Meet the board of directors for the 21st

[20:59] century.

[21:00] >> It's not a done deal yet or it is a

[21:01] deal.

[21:01] >> All over the country, entrepreneurs and

[21:03] independent consultants are getting

[21:05] together to share contacts.

[21:07] >> So, anyway, I called Joanna's lead and

[21:10] had a really good conversation and

[21:12] >> encouragement. Those are major. I mean,

[21:14] that's like you're playing in a new

[21:15] league and business strategy.

[21:18] >> Is there any way that this could

[21:19] backfire? These women are part of a new

[21:22] workforce author Dan Pink calls free

[21:25] agents.

[21:26] >> To me, the definition of a free agent is

[21:28] someone who is essentially who is who's

[21:30] on their own, uh, who is untethered from

[21:33] a big institution, a big company, who is

[21:35] kind of what I call a micro business.

[21:38] >> From graphic designers to personal

[21:40] trainers to nannies, it's estimated that

[21:42] 25 million Americans are free agents.

[21:45] Nobody knows for sure, but evidence of

[21:48] this new workforce is growing. Filings

[21:50] of the 1099 tax form for the

[21:52] self-employed have jumped by almost 7

[21:54] million in the past 10 years. Temp

[21:57] agencies report their revenues have

[21:58] doubled in 6 years. And Staples, the

[22:01] office supply store of free agents,

[22:03] opens a new outlet every 51 hours.

[22:06] >> I just couldn't imagine getting up in

[22:08] the morning knowing that I have to do

[22:11] things cuz somebody else says so. Joanna

[22:13] Baker is a free agent. After business

[22:15] school, she turned down an offer at a

[22:17] pharmaceutical company to start her own

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[22:20] >> Stuff I want to show you.

[22:21] >> Great.

[22:22] >> I'm working for myself. I'm working for

[22:24] my clients. I always uh think when other

[22:26] people are commuting, I'm doing yoga.

[22:29] >> Free agency sounds great and for those

[22:32] who choose it, it can be. But the ranks

[22:34] of free agents also include downsized

[22:37] corporate employees, day laborers, and

[22:39] temps who would rather be permanent.

[22:42] What's more, free agents of all kinds

[22:44] typically earn less money and receive

[22:46] poorer health benefits than their

[22:48] corporate counterparts. Free agents also

[22:50] pay taxes corporate workers do not. All

[22:53] of which helps explain why there is an

[22:55] organization called Working Today. The

[22:58] challenge is to bring people together

[23:00] with

[23:00] >> Sarah Harowitz is a labor leader for the

[23:02] '90s. She founded Working Today to help

[23:05] free agents get better deals on health

[23:07] insurance, office supplies, and taxes.

[23:10] If employers get a 100% tax break for

[23:12] health insurance and pensions, we should

[23:14] too.

[23:14] >> Today, she is meeting with a

[23:16] representative for New York City cab

[23:18] drivers.

[23:18] >> They're in kind of the no man's land of

[23:20] of protection.

[23:22] >> Yeah. I mean, there's no guaranteed

[23:23] income and most of them are living at a

[23:25] poverty level.

[23:26] >> Haroit says politicians do not

[23:28] understand the potential political

[23:30] influence of free agents.

[23:32] >> What's incredible is that there's really

[23:34] no leadership coming from Washington

[23:36] that's even realized that this is a

[23:38] political issue. And it's sort of

[23:40] shocking but true that they they they

[23:42] don't get it.

[23:43] >> This is a potential political tsunami.

[23:47] >> Dan Pink gets it. In fact, he left his

[23:49] job as a White House speech writer to

[23:51] become a free agent himself. And by his

[23:54] calculation, the benefits are well worth

[23:57] the costs.

[23:58] >> But again, I'm working till 11:00 at

[23:59] night many times, but I'm doing it

[24:00] upstairs. I'm getting up early in the

[24:02] morning, but I'm working in shorts.

[24:04] >> You want to see some picture, Georgie?

[24:05] >> I answer to myself. Uh, and um and I get

[24:09] to see my daughter a lot, which is the

[24:11] best part.

[24:13] >> Millions of Americans apparently agree.

[24:17] >> Betsy Stark, ABC News, New York.

[24:20] >> Tomorrow, more and more Americans on the

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[24:24] but what does it do to families? And in

[24:27] a moment, a final thought. Two blank

[24:29] pages in a German newspaper. What does

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[26:24] A brief review of our main story. There

[26:26] are hints today from the White House

[26:28] that the president might be willing to

[26:29] stop arguing that his testimony was

[26:31] legally accurate as part of a deal to

[26:34] spare him from impeachment.

[26:36] Nevertheless, it does appear the House

[26:38] House of Representatives is headed

[26:39] towards holding impeachment hearings.

[26:42] Nonetheless, just a final word this

[26:44] evening, though not the last word

[26:45] necessarily, on where the president

[26:47] might look overseas today for comfort.

[26:53] Cambodia's aging king Nordomuk said

[26:56] today, "If every country was as tough

[26:58] with its leader as the US, there would

[27:01] be no leaders left." Certainly, many

[27:03] people overseas want to know whether the

[27:04] president lies. But millions of people

[27:07] are confused. Releasing Mr. Clinton's

[27:10] videotape testimony said one European

[27:12] newspaper was a bomb attack on the

[27:14] office of the president. A regional

[27:16] French paper said the Star investigation

[27:18] was totalitarian.

[27:20] As for the conservative German newspaper

[27:22] Hamburger Morgan Post, under the

[27:24] headline, "We've had enough," two of

[27:27] their news pages were completely blank.

[27:31] >> The German chancellor, who's trying hard

[27:34] to hang on to his job in elections this

[27:36] weekend, said the whole spectacle made

[27:38] him want to throw up. And in Iran, where

[27:41] they know about spectacle, one newspaper

[27:44] blamed the American press. We had no

[27:46] taste, the paper said, and lacked

[27:49] discretion. So that is our report on

[27:52] World News Tonight. Later on Night Line,

[27:54] will it be compromise or impeachment for

[27:56] the president? I'm Peter Jennings. Have

[27:58] a good evening. Be with us tomorrow

[27:59] night.

[28:06] Tomorrow, the night shift. Millions work

[28:09] it, but is it good for them? What about

[28:11] the kids and raising a family? Watch

[28:13] ABC's World News Tonight with Peter

[28:16] Jennings. This has been a presentation

[28:17] of ABC News. More Americans get their

[28:20] news from ABC News than from any other

[28:22] source. AB Senior.