World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-05-30

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[0:01] On World News Tonight this Sunday, a

[0:04] deadly market trip. NATO missiles hit a

[0:07] crowded bridge, killing at least nine

[0:09] civilians and injuring dozens.

[0:13] 240 m above Earth, a working holiday for

[0:16] the Discovery astronauts.

[0:19] And a dangerous race to stay thin.

[0:22] Jockey risking their health to win.

[0:31] From ABC,

[0:33] this is World News Tonight Sunday.

[0:38] Good evening. I'm Carol Simpson. On the

[0:40] eve of the holiday dedicated to American

[0:42] servicemen and women who died in battle,

[0:45] another heavy day of bombing in

[0:47] Yugoslavia. Today, NATO increased its

[0:50] daytime strikes. Airfields, army

[0:53] barracks, radio and TV stations were

[0:56] hit. But tonight, at least 11 civilians

[0:59] are dead. Many more are injured. We

[1:02] begin with ABC's Bob Woodruff.

[1:05] >> NATO attacked this bridge over the

[1:06] Morava River just after noon today.

[1:09] Witnesses say two planes flying low

[1:11] dropped three bombs while dozens of

[1:13] civilians were walking across. The

[1:15] evidence of death is everywhere.

[1:17] >> Two of my friends is dying today.

[1:20] >> Two of your friends died there?

[1:21] >> Yes. Yes, my friends.

[1:23] >> Some on the bridge were washed into the

[1:24] river, people here say. Others were

[1:26] killed instantly. Police showed the

[1:28] media eight bodies and said there was

[1:30] also a ninth, a 15year-old girl. There

[1:33] were so many people on this bridge here

[1:35] in Barin because Sunday is market day

[1:38] and this was the only way over the

[1:40] river.

[1:43] >> What can I say? This woman cried. We

[1:45] were afraid they were going to hit that

[1:46] bridge. They were afraid perhaps because

[1:49] this bridge 75 mi from Kosovo was one of

[1:52] only a few still standing and usable to

[1:54] the Yugoslav army. According to the

[1:56] state news agency, the attack also cut

[1:58] power and phone lines. NATO had no

[2:01] comment on the bombing, but a spokesman

[2:03] for allied forces in Europe said the

[2:04] bridge was a major line of communication

[2:07] and therefore a legitimate target.

[2:10] But if they really wanted to bomb the

[2:12] bridge, this man asked, why didn't they

[2:14] do it overnight when there are no people

[2:16] going home from the marketplace? In this

[2:18] quiet farming community, the people are

[2:20] now filled with anger.

[2:23] >> I'm hoping this is my last day in

[2:25] civilian clothes. This man says,

[2:26] "Tomorrow I am going to Kosovo." Bob

[2:29] Woodruff, ABC News, Varvarin.

[2:32] >> Kosovo was also a target of NATO strikes

[2:35] today. One missile hit a convoy of

[2:38] foreign journalists, killing the driver

[2:40] and injuring at least two of the

[2:42] writers, one British, one French.

[2:45] New details about alleged atrocities are

[2:47] emerging from last week's indictment

[2:49] charging Sloan Mallovich with war

[2:52] crimes. Last March, ABC News reported

[2:55] first word of an alleged Serb offensive

[2:58] on the village of Itsba. Since then,

[3:01] ABC's Martha Ratitz has been piecing

[3:03] together the story of what happened in

[3:05] that one village. A warning, some of the

[3:08] images are very graphic. Tonight, the

[3:10] anatomy of an alleged war crime.

[3:14] >> It began on a Sunday in late March with

[3:17] the vaguest of intelligence accounts.

[3:20] Just days before NATO bombs started to

[3:22] fall, Serb forces were said to be moving

[3:24] in near the village of Isita. One week

[3:27] later, with refugees now streaming out

[3:30] of Kosovo, word quickly spread to

[3:32] investigators of a terrible assault

[3:35] inside his pizza.

[3:36] >> It was shelled, then it was surrounded

[3:39] by snipers, uh, and then paramilitary

[3:42] and police swept through the town block

[3:44] by block uh, cleaning out the houses.

[3:48] >> By midappril, word of mouth was now

[3:50] backed up by hard evidence. satellite

[3:53] photos of his pizza clearly showing

[3:55] three long lines of freshly dug graves.

[3:58] By midMay, those images from the air

[4:00] were corroborated by gruesome scenes

[4:03] from the ground. A videotape smuggled

[4:05] out of Kosovo by a Kosvar Albanian

[4:08] journalist. Row after row of massacred

[4:11] villagers, old men, most of them

[4:14] tortured faces which now have names.

[4:17] Barouch Barami, age 75. Muharam Fatahi,

[4:21] age 80, 95year-old Salim Nabihi. The

[4:26] indictment against Sloban Mallovich

[4:28] lists 95 men killed at his pizza. Three

[4:31] of the men were in their 90s, eight in

[4:34] their 80s, 15 in their 70s.

[4:37] Grandfathers, fathers separated from the

[4:40] women and children in a quiet meadow,

[4:42] says the indictment, and slaughtered.

[4:45] This beach represents a a a a real

[4:48] example of what ethnic cleansing is

[4:50] like. It's extremely important that the

[4:53] leaders who actually perpetrate these

[4:56] crimes are brought to justice.

[4:59] >> Isbitza is one of seven villages named

[5:02] in the indictment where mass executions

[5:04] have been documented. But this

[5:06] indictment will not end the

[5:07] investigation into war crimes. A senior

[5:10] official tells ABC News that Sloan

[5:12] Mallovich will likely be named in many

[5:15] indictments to come. Martha Ratitz, ABC

[5:18] News at the State Department.

[5:21] Among all the heartbreaking refugee

[5:23] stories, one with a happy ending. Last

[5:26] night, 19-year-old Vaniraa Mustafa

[5:29] became Miss Albania 1999,

[5:32] the first ethnic Albanian to win the

[5:34] crown. She fled from Kosovo with her

[5:37] family and now lives in a refugee camp

[5:40] in Tyana.

[5:42] >> In other news, Discovery astronauts will

[5:45] be back on the job tonight making some

[5:47] needed repairs inside the International

[5:50] Space Station. The crew put in some long

[5:52] hours last night. As ABC's Ned Potter

[5:55] reports,

[5:57] >> 240 miles above the Earth, the space

[6:00] walkers climbed slowly between the

[6:01] shuttle's cargo bay and the outside of

[6:04] the new space station to which it was

[6:06] docked.

[6:07] >> They were helped by crew mates inside

[6:09] who maneuvered the shuttle's robot arm

[6:11] as a celestial cherry picker.

[6:13] >> Okay, thanks for the ride.

[6:14] >> They attached parts of two cranes to the

[6:17] station and left tools and footholds for

[6:19] future space walkers. We've just passed

[6:22] the 4hour mark of this planned 6-hour

[6:24] space walk.

[6:25] >> In the end, actually, the walk ran over

[6:27] by 2 hours, but NASA called it

[6:29] successful. Important because assembly

[6:31] of the station will require more spacew

[6:34] walks than there have been since the

[6:35] dawn of the space age.

[6:37] >> Each of these spacew walk crews on each

[6:39] of these flights is trained for specific

[6:41] kinds of work. The better that each one

[6:43] does its job, the next crew's job is

[6:45] easier. In fact though, this entire

[6:47] mission was never in the original plan

[6:50] of almost 90 launches to build the

[6:51] station. It was added in part because

[6:54] Russia wasn't holding up its part of the

[6:55] bargain. In a deal involving 16

[6:58] countries, Russia is building key

[7:00] station components, including the first

[7:02] living quarters. But they've been

[7:04] delayed more than a year by Russia's

[7:06] unending economic crisis. About half the

[7:08] equipment brought up on this flight was

[7:10] stuff the Russians originally thought

[7:11] they could carry. Turns out they didn't

[7:13] have the capability. So, it's fallen to

[7:15] us to carry it up into space.

[7:17] >> Discovery's astronauts will spend the

[7:18] next few days unloading supplies and

[7:20] making some vital repairs. After this

[7:23] mission, there may be a six-month lull,

[7:25] but everyone knew it would be hard.

[7:27] Never in peace time has there ever been

[7:29] an international project like this. Ned

[7:33] Potter, ABC News, New York.

[7:35] >> Still ahead on World News Tonight this

[7:37] Sunday, Chennan Square surprises 10

[7:40] years later. A leap into the past in

[7:44] South Africa and the handwriting of war

[7:48] from the men and women who lived it.

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[10:53] 10th anniversary of the Chinese military

[10:55] crackdown in Chennamin Square. Today in

[10:58] Hong Kong, pro-democracy demonstrators

[11:00] took to the streets in memory of the

[11:03] uprising. Some of the students at the

[11:05] center of the protest a decade ago have

[11:08] very different lives today. Here's ABC's

[11:11] Bill Ricker.

[11:13] >> She was one of the most visible, most

[11:15] charismatic leaders of the pro-democracy

[11:18] movement.

[11:20] 10 years later, Chai Ling is a

[11:22] capitalist with a capital C. A CEO, in

[11:26] fact, of an internet company financed in

[11:28] part by Microsoft executives. Maybe not

[11:31] so surprising considering economic

[11:34] reform was one of the main demands of

[11:36] the protesters in Tianaan Square. I

[11:38] refuse to be simply an icon of the

[11:41] history and stay and in the past um

[11:46] because I don't believe that's the only

[11:47] way to help China.

[11:49] >> By fleeing to the United States, Chiling

[11:51] was able to further her education at

[11:53] Harvard and Princeton. Her company,

[11:56] Jenzabar.com,

[11:57] links students and professors worldwide.

[12:00] This kind of new media will absolutely

[12:02] transform a total regime into a democrat

[12:07] society.

[12:09] >> I was a a deputy commander of the

[12:11] student protest movement at the time.

[12:13] >> Leelu who was Chiling's deputy also

[12:16] refuses to live in the past. Today he

[12:19] too has embraced capitalism. He's a

[12:22] hedge fund manager in New York City.

[12:24] American dream is also reflected in what

[12:26] most the Chinese want to do, especially

[12:28] the young generations.

[12:30] >> Leelu attended Columbia University where

[12:33] he earned both a law and business

[12:34] degree.

[12:35] >> Everybody on earth, I believe, share

[12:38] pretty much the same dream. Live in free

[12:41] in prosperity, work honestly and hard.

[12:44] >> Both of the exiles say they want to

[12:46] return to China someday to help their

[12:49] people and admits Leelu to help

[12:51] themselves deal with their guilt. You

[12:54] felt a guilt for two reasons. One, you

[12:58] know, so many people died and yet I'm

[13:00] still alive. And secondly, so many

[13:03] people lost their freedom, lost their

[13:05] school, lost their job, lost their

[13:07] opportunity, and yet I find freedom.

[13:10] >> Freedom here, but not back home. Neither

[13:13] can return to China. Both are at the top

[13:16] of China's most wanted list.

[13:19] >> Bill Ricker, ABC News, New York. going

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[15:43] President Nelson Mandela is stepping

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[15:48] expected to remain in power. But despite

[15:51] the reforms that the ANC has started,

[15:54] there are still some people who want to

[15:56] hold on to the past. Here's ABC's Jim

[15:59] Wooten.

[16:01] In the middle of nowhere, in this hard,

[16:03] harsh land,

[16:05] a place called Orana, where it's safe to

[16:08] say Nelson Mandela's party won't get a

[16:11] single vote. For this is where a few

[16:13] intractable Africaners have come to

[16:16] build a new country much like the old

[16:18] one with their traditions and language,

[16:21] their religion and values.

[16:23] >> We say Africaners identify themselves.

[16:25] Carl Boschoff runs the private company

[16:28] that owns this private town. Buy a house

[16:31] or a lot, you buy a share in the

[16:33] company. And in a future homeland for

[16:35] thousands who believe Africconers are a

[16:38] chosen people. After 8 years, fewer than

[16:42] 700 have chosen Orana. Who would want to

[16:45] live here?

[16:46] >> The Africaners because nobody else wants

[16:48] to live here. So this is now our home.

[16:50] Most who do live here are like Rolene D

[16:53] Clerk, younger South Africans who see

[16:55] themselves as pioneers.

[16:57] >> We believe that Africanas as a distinct

[17:00] ethnic group with a distinct national

[17:02] history in South Africa has to take a

[17:05] special place and has to be recognized

[17:07] as such.

[17:09] >> There is yet another credential for

[17:10] living in this wilderness in this little

[17:12] town with its big ideas. Beyond Africana

[17:16] philosophy, tradition and religion,

[17:18] there is also the color of one's skin.

[17:21] Like so many other things in South

[17:22] Africa, Orana is mostly about race. We

[17:27] are what we are and we're proud of what

[17:30] we are. We belong to the white race, the

[17:32] Western civilization, and we have

[17:35] certain values, and we'd like to live

[17:36] them out.

[17:37] >> In other words, no blacks, not at the

[17:40] dairy, not in the fields, not anywhere.

[17:45] The children, 40 of them now, are being

[17:47] taught to help build the new Africana

[17:50] homeland

[17:52] with its own anthem and with its own

[17:55] flag. So far, six kids have gone off to

[17:58] college.

[18:00] After graduation, four didn't come back.

[18:03] Jim Wooten, ABC News, Orana, South

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[20:21] In sports today, the 83rd annual Indie

[20:24] 500. Comedian and car enthusiast Jay

[20:28] Leno helped kick off the festivities at

[20:30] Indianapolis Motor Speedway and later

[20:33] took a turn in a pace car. Kenny Breck

[20:36] of Sweden came up the winner.

[20:39] For horse racing fans, it's the height

[20:41] of the season in the US with next week's

[20:44] running of the Belmont Stakes rounding

[20:46] out the Triple Crown. For the men and

[20:48] women behind the reigns, there's a

[20:50] constant and heavy pressure not just to

[20:53] win, but to stay thin. More from ABC's

[20:57] Jane Clayson.

[20:59] >> In thoroughbred horse racing, jockeys

[21:01] know their weight can change the outcome

[21:04] of a race.

[21:05] >> 10 years ago, Patrick Valenuela won the

[21:08] Kentucky Derby and the PNness.

[21:10] >> A lot of times, a jockey will be two to

[21:12] three pounds overweight on a horse. And

[21:14] if that horse loses by a nose, they'll

[21:16] say, "Well, hey, those two pounds cost

[21:18] us a race."

[21:19] >> Thank you.

[21:20] >> Thank you guys.

[21:21] >> With today's weight restrictions, a

[21:23] jockey rarely carries more than 116 lbs.

[21:27] Boots, whips, saddle, and all. Which is

[21:29] why there is so much pressure on

[21:31] jockeyies to be thin.

[21:33] >> It's I think one of racing's kind of

[21:35] dirty little secrets is what the

[21:36] jockeyies have to go through. So, they

[21:38] get rid of weight anyway they can.

[21:40] >> Former jockey Bobby Montano agrees. You

[21:43] look at that scale every day. You jump

[21:45] on that scale and you either go like yes

[21:48] or oh my god, you know, cuz you just had

[21:51] to work twice as hard to lose that

[21:53] weight.

[21:54] >> Hall of Fame jockeyies like Chris

[21:55] Antley, who this year could become the

[21:57] first Triple Crown winner in 21 years,

[22:00] has admitted his obsession led to

[22:02] bulimia, use of laxatives, and

[22:04] dehydration.

[22:05] >> Not only an obsession, it's it's a must.

[22:08] Lefit Pina Kai, the winningest jockey in

[22:10] the world, remembers a time when he'd

[22:13] split a peanut for dinner or worse.

[22:15] >> I used to take diabetes so I can keep my

[22:17] weight down. And uh I will fast. I used

[22:20] to take diuretics

[22:22] and uh there was a time when I was

[22:25] throwing up my dinners.

[22:26] >> And often jockeys say this obsession

[22:28] with weight leads to hardcore addiction.

[22:31] In the last 5 years, state racing

[22:33] commissions across the country have

[22:34] taken action against at least 160

[22:37] jockeyies for drug and alcohol abuse.

[22:40] Because of the weight restrictions in

[22:41] this country, some riders are moving to

[22:43] Europe where weight demands are less

[22:45] severe. In the next 3 months, 5'5 in

[22:48] Valenuela admits he needs to lose 20

[22:52] pounds.

[22:52] >> I weigh about 132 and I need to weigh

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[23:05] >> Coming up, remembering war through

[23:08] letters from the front.

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[25:03] >> Finally tonight, a unique look at the

[25:05] experience of war through the words of

[25:07] soldiers on the front line, writing

[25:09] letters to loved ones back home. On this

[25:12] Memorial Day weekend, ABC's Beth Nissen

[25:15] on the history and emotion captured on

[25:18] those pages.

[25:20] >> January 12th 45. The big pieces of

[25:23] shrapnel whistle inches over your head

[25:24] and land in the snow or rip the insides

[25:27] out of your friend behind you. Those

[25:29] thin lines of little men move always

[25:31] forward.

[25:32] >> A letter home from an American soldier.

[25:34] One of thousands of wartime letters

[25:37] collected by Andy Carroll, an editor and

[25:39] historian in Washington, DC. I think any

[25:42] historian would agree that some of the

[25:44] best information we have comes through

[25:46] the letters of everyday people, people

[25:49] who witness firsthand these events.

[25:52] >> To find more of these letters, Andy

[25:54] Carol enlisted the help of Abigail Van

[25:56] Burren. Last Veterans Day, Dear Abby

[25:58] asked readers to send Carol copies of

[26:00] Dad's and Grandpa's old war letters.

[26:02] They did.

[26:04] >> There were bins and bins of letters,

[26:06] thousands of them from all over the

[26:08] country. more than 10,000 so far written

[26:11] during every war involving Americans.

[26:14] From letters scribbled with a quill pen

[26:16] during the American Revolution to

[26:18] messages emailed from the conflict over

[26:21] Kosovo.

[26:22] >> The Serbs are hiding their equipment in

[26:24] disguised barns, garages, etc. making it

[26:27] difficult for our aircraft to target.

[26:30] Fact: We can't afford to take out every

[26:32] suspect barn, garage, etc.

[26:37] Most of the letters were written by

[26:38] soldiers fighting on the ground in

[26:41] Vietnam and Korea and the several

[26:43] battlefronts of World War II. This

[26:45] soldier wrote to mom and dad after

[26:47] D-Day. We hit water from an assault boat

[26:50] and waited ashore. There was quite a bit

[26:52] of noise around of big guns being fired

[26:54] from ship to shore. So didn't realize

[26:57] was being shot at until saw slugs

[26:58] leaving their calling cards on the sand.

[27:01] Couldn't figure out where the enemy was

[27:03] that fired at us.

[27:04] Andy Carol says these letters are

[27:06] graphic proof of what war is truly like.

[27:09] Proof Americans, especially young ones,

[27:12] need to see.

[27:14] The one war that my generation is

[27:16] familiar with is the Gulf War. And that

[27:17] was like an enormous video game. It was

[27:19] very technological. It was over very

[27:21] quickly. You know, cool graphics. But

[27:23] that's not the reality of warfare. This

[27:26] is

[27:27] >> sometimes if you can pry your head from

[27:29] the ground as the shells whistle in, you

[27:32] can see a direct hit and watch a man

[27:34] fairly come apart. His clothes, helmet,

[27:37] and other equipment seem to blossom out.

[27:39] And when you trudge past, there's just a

[27:41] lot of blood and shredded flesh where he

[27:43] was. Societies are like people. They

[27:46] forget things that they don't think they

[27:48] would ever forget, but we do. And we

[27:51] need to be reminded that war is the most

[27:54] savage and destructive act that can hit

[27:57] a society.

[27:58] >> Beth Nissen, ABC News, New York.

[28:02] >> And that's World News Tonight Sunday.

[28:04] Later on 2020 Sunday, do you really know

[28:07] what charity you're giving your money

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[28:11] on Good Morning America, Indie 500

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[28:16] For all of us here at ABC News, have a

[28:19] happy and safe Memorial Day holiday and

[28:22] good night.

[28:31] Monday, the facts about milk. Do they

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