World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-12-15
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[0:00] Champagne. [music]
[0:01] >> Your vision for the future.
[0:06] [music]
[0:13] On World News Tonight this Wednesday,
[0:14] two more Middle East enemies come to
[0:17] Washington in search of peace. Security
[0:20] or the lack of it at the State
[0:21] Department. What [music] the Inspector
[0:23] General found out. Divorce in the Bible
[0:26] belt higher than everywhere else in the
[0:28] country. The tech companies which are
[0:31] driving the NASDAQ
[0:33] and tall in the saddle. Sam Donaldson on
[0:36] the open range.
[0:44] From ABC News world headquarters in New
[0:47] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:50] Peter Jennings.
[0:51] >> Good evening. We're going to begin at
[0:52] the White House tonight because once
[0:53] again, peace in the Middle East is not
[0:55] possible without American participation.
[0:57] And at the White House today, for the
[0:59] first time, an Israeli prime minister
[1:01] and a Syrian foreign minister sat down
[1:03] to discuss a permanent peace between
[1:06] their two countries. By the end of the
[1:08] day, the negotiations were described as
[1:10] hard, very hard. But for the first time
[1:13] since the state of Israel was
[1:14] established more than 50 years ago, the
[1:16] possibility of a general peace in the
[1:18] Middle East, brokered by the United
[1:20] States, may be on the near horizon.
[1:23] First at the White House, ABC's John
[1:25] Cochran.
[1:27] >> With the Israeli prime minister and
[1:28] Syria's foreign minister looking on
[1:30] approvingly, President Clinton said
[1:32] there has never been such an
[1:33] extraordinary opportunity for peace
[1:35] throughout the Middle East.
[1:37] >> For the first time in history, there is
[1:38] a chance of a comprehensive peace
[1:41] between Israel and Syria and inde