World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-07-20

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[0:00] Good night everyone

[0:05] >> on World News Tonight this Tuesday. Why

[0:07] it's so difficult to find John F.

[0:09] Kennedy's plane. Who's going to win the

[0:11] political fight about cutting taxes? And

[0:14] how much do the voters care in

[0:16] Yugoslavia? What looks like an

[0:18] environmental disaster caused by NATO's

[0:21] bombing.

[0:24] 30 years ago today, one giant leap for

[0:27] mankind and nothing like it since. We'll

[0:30] take a closer look at what the engineers

[0:32] say is possible.

[0:42] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:44] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:48] Peter Jennings.

[0:49] >> Good evening. It's rather difficult to

[0:50] tell this evening whether the Coast

[0:51] Guard and the Navy are making any

[0:53] serious progress in their search for

[0:55] John F. Kennedy Jr.'s plane. The Coast

[0:57] Guard and the National Transportation

[0:59] Safety Board are very cautious in their

[1:01] reporting this evening. They warned at

[1:03] the outset that it might be slowgoing.

[1:05] We're going to go first to ABC's Lisa

[1:07] Stark who was in Massachusetts. Lisa, I

[1:10] think some members of the public are

[1:11] frustrated at the pace. Are the

[1:13] investigators frustrated? Well, Peter,

[1:16] these are professionals and they know

[1:17] how tough it can be to find wreckage

[1:20] like this. Even though they have a

[1:21] fairly defined search area, this is a

[1:24] very small plane and it's a very large

[1:26] ocean. So, they will keep at this as

[1:28] long as necessary, weeks if need be.

[1:33] Searchers believe they now have a much

[1:35] more accurate picture of where the

[1:36] wreckage may be based on additional

[1:38] analysis of radar data. Still, they have

[1:41] not yet recovered any underwater pieces

[1:43] of wreckage despite numerous dives today

[1:46] by both the Navy and state police. They

[1:49] still believe there are two very

[1:51] promising locations and divers will

[1:53] continue as long as possible this

[1:55] evening to go down and take a look, but

[1:58] divers are operating under very tough

[2:00] conditions.

[2:01] >> What they're facing essentially on the

[2:03] bottom is a water temperature of around

[2:05] 52 degrees.

[2:08] The visibility is less than 8 ft

[2:13] and there is a significant current that

[2:15] they're fighting against.

[2:16] >> Most of the wreckage recovered in the

[2:18] first 3 days of searching was found in

[2:20] the surf or on shore near the current

[2:23] search area. Part of it on Filin Beach

[2:26] on the southwestern part of the island.

[2:28] And just to the south, a source confirms

[2:31] that the plane's registration papers

[2:33] washed ashore on Saturday on property

[2:36] owned by John Kennedy Jr. and his

[2:39] sister. Last Friday's fatal flight was

[2:42] apparently the second plane trip that

[2:44] week for JFK Jr. He reportedly took his

[2:46] Piper Saratoga to Toronto for business

[2:49] on Monday. Kennedy was on crutches with

[2:52] a broken ankle in a cast. So when he

[2:55] flew to Canada, he took a flight

[2:56] instructor with him as a precaution. By

[3:00] Friday, the cast was off and Kennedy

[3:02] decided to fly the plane by himself.

[3:06] Now, we have more details tonight, also

[3:08] based on more analysis of radar data

[3:11] about the fatal plunge to the water,

[3:13] which investigators say now occurred at

[3:15] about 5,000 ft per minute. Just before

[3:18] that dive, Kennedy descended to about

[3:21] 2,300 ft. He then apparently began a

[3:24] turn to the right and went back up

[3:26] slightly. Then he began another turn to

[3:29] the right and that is when the dive

[3:31] began a rapid dive. The lead

[3:33] investigator Robert Pierce was asked

[3:35] whether this was the sign of a confused

[3:37] pilot. He said he could not venture an

[3:40] opinion, but he did say at that point

[3:42] the plane was no longer heading toward

[3:44] Martha's Vineyard. Peter,

[3:45] >> thanks Lisa. Lisa Stark in

[3:47] Massachusetts. Very careful

[3:48] investigators in every case tonight. The

[3:51] search of wreckage or the search for

[3:53] wreckage on the ocean floor is a

[3:54] painstaking process. As Lisa makes

[3:56] clear, the key is sonar. ABC's Bill

[3:59] Blakemore tonight on what that really

[4:01] means.

[4:03] Most of the ocean floor in the search

[4:05] area off Marthur's Vineyard is only 80

[4:07] to 105 ft down, but it's littered with

[4:10] objects. Everything from old shipwrecks

[4:12] to boulders. To help distinguish these

[4:15] objects from the wreckage, the searchers

[4:16] are using two kinds of sonar. The first

[4:19] is transmitted from surface ships. This

[4:22] gives a general view, but not much

[4:23] detail. It's for closer looks that they

[4:26] use the side scanning sonar, which sends

[4:28] signals from a pod towed underwater

[4:31] closer to the seafloor. But sidescan

[4:34] sonar images are still hard to make out.

[4:36] >> They're definitely not at all like

[4:39] visual imagery. At 20 to 30 targets a

[4:43] minute, there's going to be an awful lot

[4:45] of work going into uh identifying

[4:48] possibilities.

[4:49] >> Wreckage in pieces spread out in a

[4:51] debris field makes identification even

[4:54] harder. Ironically, the fact that the

[4:56] search area is in relatively shallow

[4:58] water makes it more difficult to find

[5:00] objects on the sea floor. Since the

[5:03] sonar from the surface ships looks down

[5:05] through an angle of about 90°, the

[5:07] closer to the bottom, the less it can

[5:09] see, like a flashlight shining on a

[5:11] wall.

[5:12] >> The closer you are, the smaller the spot

[5:14] that the flashlight is illuminating.

[5:16] That's exactly the situation you have

[5:18] with sonar in the water.

[5:21] >> There is one advantage to the relatively

[5:23] shallow water. When they do find objects

[5:25] of interest, scuba divers can get to

[5:27] them quickly to check them out. Even

[5:29] though there may still be difficulty

[5:30] when the underwater visibility is

[5:32] limited. Bill Blakemore, ABC News,

[5:35] Hyannis, Massachusetts. The

[5:37] >> Kennedy family is trying as best as it

[5:39] can to have some privacy. It isn't easy.

[5:41] On New York's Long Island, Caroline

[5:43] Kennedy and her husband knew that even a

[5:45] short bike ride would be recorded, but

[5:47] it isn't easy to be cooped up under any

[5:49] circumstances. In a moment, we'll go on

[5:52] to the other news when trade is a

[5:54] vigorous two-way street looking to the

[5:56] north and to the south. and the rocket

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[7:30] On Capitol Hill today, Republican

[7:32] leaders are trying to decide whether

[7:34] they have as popular a political issue

[7:36] in cutting taxes as they like to think

[7:39] they have. The conventional wisdom has

[7:41] always been that supporting tax cuts is

[7:42] a no- lose proposition, but ABC's Linda

[7:45] Douglas reports, this time that may not

[7:47] be the case.

[7:51] >> Republicans have always believed that

[7:53] cutting taxes is their issue. And so it

[7:56] is again this year.

[7:58] >> We're going to cut taxes by the most

[8:01] amount of taxes that have been cut in

[8:04] modern history.

[8:05] >> The push for a tax cut does not come

[8:07] from the state of the economy. The last

[8:09] thing, of course, an economy that's

[8:11] already very strong needs, uh, is a tax

[8:14] cut.

[8:14] >> Bruce Steinberg and other economists

[8:16] worry that tax cuts will give consumers

[8:18] more money to spend, which might lead to

[8:21] higher inflation and prompt the Federal

[8:23] Reserve Board to raise interest rates,

[8:25] >> and the economy would end up slowing

[8:27] down uh, more than it probably needed to

[8:29] slow down.

[8:30] >> And though voters think taxes are too

[8:32] high, they are not clamoring for a tax

[8:34] cut. Numerous polls show tax cuts rank

[8:37] low on their list of priorities behind

[8:39] education, Medicare, and Social

[8:41] Security.

[8:42] >> I think there's no there's no better

[8:45] time than the present to start solving

[8:46] those problems with a surplus rather

[8:48] than a tax cut.

[8:50] >> I think there needs to be some social

[8:51] security left for the youth of America

[8:54] when they retire. But Republicans not

[8:56] only believe tax cuts are the defining

[8:58] issue of their party, they also see

[9:01] taxes as the one issue President Clinton

[9:03] has not yet commandeered.

[9:05] >> Republicans believe that if they offer a

[9:07] significant tax cut, ultimately the

[9:10] president will not be able to steal that

[9:12] issue because his main priority are

[9:15] spending initiatives.

[9:17] >> But now the president is also calling

[9:18] for a tax cut. So tomorrow, the House

[9:21] may consider a Republican proposal to

[9:23] cut taxes by $800 billion over 10 years

[9:26] and possibly a Democratic alternative to

[9:28] cut taxes by less than half that. So

[9:30] voters may well get a tax cut whether

[9:32] they want one or not. Linda Douglas, ABC

[9:35] News, Capitol Hill.

[9:37] >> On the money tonight, another record for

[9:39] the trade deficit. In the month of May,

[9:41] the United States bought $21 billion

[9:43] more in product than it sold in product

[9:46] to the rest of the world. That's up

[9:48] nearly 15% from April. That is a very

[9:51] large trade deficit, and a growing share

[9:53] of it is across the country's northern

[9:55] and southern borders. Here's ABC's Betsy

[9:58] Stark.

[10:01] Whether it's lumber, oil, or

[10:03] automobiles,

[10:05] so much of what is produced in Canada is

[10:07] now sold in the USA that the US trade

[10:10] deficit with Canada now ranks behind

[10:12] only China and Japan. It's the same

[10:15] south of the border. From t-shirts to

[10:17] televisions, more than 85% of what's

[10:20] made in Mexico is bought by Americans.

[10:22] At this rate, analysts estimate the US

[10:25] trade deficit with Canada and Mexico

[10:27] could reach a record $50 billion this

[10:29] year. But while the prospect of the US

[10:32] buying more than it sells alarms policy

[10:34] makers when it comes to China or Japan,

[10:37] not so when it comes to Mexico and

[10:39] Canada. That's because trade across

[10:42] these borders is much more a two-way

[10:44] street, particularly since a free trade

[10:46] zone was created in 1994. The US, for

[10:50] example, buys a lot of Levis's jeans

[10:52] from Mexico, but it sells Mexico the

[10:54] cotton used to make the jeans. The US

[10:56] buys cars from Canada, but it sells

[10:59] Canada the auto parts to make them. This

[11:01] arrangement has produced over half a

[11:03] trillion dollars in two-way trade with

[11:05] Canada and Mexico, which is not the case

[11:08] with China. Our trade with China is very

[11:11] much one way. Uh we sell in fact very

[11:15] little to China uh about $5 billion per

[11:18] month. Uh on the other hand uh we import

[11:21] quite a bit from China about $25 billion

[11:24] per month.

[11:25] >> Right now the US is importing more from

[11:28] just about everyone. And as long as

[11:30] American consumers have more money to

[11:32] spend than anyone else in the world,

[11:34] these trade gaps are likely to continue.

[11:37] Betsy Stark, ABC News, New York.

[11:40] >> Still on the money, many investors in

[11:42] Wall Street were selling stocks to lock

[11:44] in their profits. Today, the Dow Jones

[11:46] Industrial Average dropped more than 191

[11:48] points to close at 10,996.

[11:52] On the NASDAQ, there was also a lot of

[11:53] profit taking and some worries about

[11:55] slower growth at the big technology

[11:57] companies. Stocks there were down a

[11:59] fraction over 98 points. Here's an

[12:02] interesting example of the tight job

[12:04] market. a shortage of priests,

[12:05] ministers, and rabbis. The Bureau of

[12:08] Labor Statistics projects that over the

[12:09] next 6 years, there will be an average

[12:11] of 7,000 job openings a year for clergy

[12:14] of all denominations. The world's

[12:17] highest oil field has been found in

[12:18] Tibet, more than 15,000 ft above sea

[12:21] level. The Chinese government, which has

[12:23] occupied Tibet for the past 40 years,

[12:26] says the field is commercially viable

[12:28] and could hold as much as a billion

[12:31] barrels of oil. In the mountains of

[12:34] southern France today, the American

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[12:52] aftermath of a NATO attack in

[12:54] Yugoslavia.

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[15:03] >> In Yugoslavia, the war's poisonous

[15:05] legacy. United Nations experts are now

[15:07] in Yugoslavia to assess the

[15:09] environmental damage caused by 11 weeks

[15:12] of NATO bombing. The UN team began in

[15:14] the city of Panchchevo today, taking

[15:17] soil samples for analysis. Locals call

[15:20] Kanebo the most toxic place in the

[15:23] country. ABC's Bill Ricker is there.

[15:28] The city does not appear that badly

[15:31] damaged.

[15:33] But NATO's attack on Poncho, recorded by

[15:36] a local television station, ripped apart

[15:38] an oil refinery, a prochemical plant, a

[15:41] fertilizer factory, and it released a

[15:44] huge cloud of cancer-causing vinyl

[15:46] chloride so dense that it blocked the

[15:48] sun for a day.

[15:51] The effects may be felt for years.

[15:54] >> Direct damage. Today, one of the

[15:56] managers of the complex said the attack

[15:58] also caused hundreds of tons of fuel oil

[16:01] and mercury to leak from storage tanks

[16:03] into the Danube River.

[16:05] >> This discharge channel is a direct

[16:07] connection with the river Danube. And

[16:09] this is the way how Danube was directly

[16:12] polluted from here.

[16:14] >> Toxic pollution on the Danube could

[16:15] damage other parts of Yugoslavia as well

[16:18] as Romania and Bulgaria downstream.

[16:21] examples of what people there may face.

[16:24] >> Ava Baratzka says one of her sons who

[16:26] suffers from asthma now has daily

[16:29] attacks. Her other son complains of

[16:31] stomach cramps. The longerterm problems

[16:34] according to scientists here and outside

[16:36] Yugoslavia are likely to be much more

[16:38] serious.

[16:39] >> We can expect uh the various malgon

[16:42] diseases especially the breast cancer,

[16:45] lung cancer, some skin cancer.

[16:49] In fact, no one here really knows just

[16:51] how contaminated their air, water, and

[16:54] soil has become because until now there

[16:56] has been no independent assessment of

[16:59] the environmental damage that was

[17:00] created here.

[17:02] >> For now, only anecdotal accounts of

[17:04] painful blisters, headaches, stomach

[17:07] aches, and what visitors first notice

[17:09] here, the heavy smell of chemicals that

[17:12] still hangs over the area. Bill Reiker,

[17:15] ABC News, Ponchibbo, Yugoslavia.

[17:18] Some signs of progress in Yugoslavia

[17:20] today. The government reopened the first

[17:21] bridge to be repaired since the NATO

[17:23] campaign ended. They worked very hard at

[17:26] it, but an enormous construction job

[17:28] remains. 48 more bridges to go. Health

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[17:35] in the final stages of testing. Johnson

[17:37] and Johnson says it works for women very

[17:39] much like the nicotine patch works. The

[17:42] drug to prevent pregnancy is absorbed

[17:43] through the skin. The company plans to

[17:45] file for approval early next year. In

[17:48] Los Angeles today, Kathleen Sallaya, the

[17:51] former member of the Symbian Liberation

[17:53] Army who was captured last month after

[17:55] 25 years on the run, has been released

[17:58] on a million dollars bail. Friends put

[18:01] up the money. She'll be allowed to

[18:02] return to Minnesota, where authorities

[18:04] will keep tabs on her through an

[18:06] electronic monitoring system. At the

[18:09] Kennedy Space Center today, engineers

[18:10] are trying to determine why a computer

[18:12] malfunctioned, causing them to abort the

[18:14] launch of the space shuttle Columbia

[18:16] last night in just over 7 seconds before

[18:19] takeoff, says six. It was just more than

[18:22] seven. The computer detected a

[18:23] potentially dangerous buildup of

[18:25] hydrogen in the shuttle's engine

[18:27] compartment. Technicians are now

[18:29] preparing the shuttle for launch on

[18:31] Thursday. in a moment. By the way, why

[18:35] are astronauts still going to space the

[18:37] oldfashioned way? We'll take a closer

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[21:05] Well, it's a big anniversary in the

[21:07] American space program. As you may know,

[21:08] 30 years ago today, Neil Armstrong was

[21:11] the first man to walk on the moon.

[21:13] Today, Mr. Armstrong and fellow

[21:15] astronauts Michael Collins and Buzz

[21:16] Alden were given an achievement award

[21:18] from the Smithsonian Institution in

[21:20] Washington. vice president. In fact,

[21:22] they all look great. Consider this.

[21:25] Three decades after the Apollo 11

[21:27] triumph, NASA is still launching

[21:29] astronauts into space the way they have

[21:31] for years. Not a question of knowhow.

[21:34] ABC's Ned Potter takes a closer look

[21:36] tonight at the way we go into space then

[21:39] and now.

[21:41] >> The moon was a giant leap for mankind.

[21:46] Left off and the clock is turning.

[21:51] >> We choose to go to the moon.

[21:52] >> 3 2 1 zero.

[21:57] >> In those heady days, the mandate was to

[21:59] try something. Try anything. If it

[22:01] worked, great. If it failed, try

[22:02] something else. Just reach the goal. And

[22:05] then they hoped move on. But we haven't

[22:09] moved on. And Homer Hickham, longtime

[22:11] NASA engineer, now turned writer, says

[22:13] if we want to

[22:16] We'll need rockets far more advanced

[22:18] than what we have now.

[22:19] >> The big bad rockets that I'm talking

[22:21] about building use uh such energy

[22:23] sources as fishing or fusion or even

[22:26] antimatter. And I know that that u I

[22:29] know that that sounds like uh uh you

[22:31] know Star Trek and Star Wars and all

[22:33] that kind of thing, but it's it's real.

[22:35] >> In fact, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight

[22:37] Center in Huntsville, Alabama, they're

[22:39] already at work on the next generation.

[22:42] Engineers here talk without flinching of

[22:44] robot ships that can go to the next

[22:47] star. How to get enough power? Instead

[22:50] of burning fuel as rockets do now, how

[22:53] about nuclear fusion? Combining atoms in

[22:56] the same process that powered the

[22:58] hydrogen bomb.

[22:59] >> This type of technology we give you

[23:02] basically g fuel efficiencies of about a

[23:06] factor of 100 better than that of

[23:08] chemical rocket technology. Even better

[23:09] than that, possibly.

[23:11] >> If that works, a ship could jet you from

[23:13] Earth to Mars in a matter of weeks.

[23:15] Today's probes must conserve their fuel

[23:17] so carefully that the trip takes almost

[23:19] a year. Engineers dream of space planes

[23:22] propelled toward orbital speed by a long

[23:24] track of high-powered magnets. They even

[23:27] look to the sun's rays. Perhaps the

[23:29] pressure of the photons in them can be

[23:31] harnessed to propel a craft through

[23:33] space.

[23:34] >> If you're willing to pay the price,

[23:35] there's you can practically do anything.

[23:38] But here's the reality. Since the days

[23:40] of Apollo,

[23:41] >> we have ignition,

[23:42] >> the NASA budget has been cut by almost

[23:44] 23.

[23:45] >> Thanks for the ride.

[23:46] >> And advanced rockets get only 3% of what

[23:50] remains.

[23:51] >> As long as you see us keep flying the

[23:53] space shuttle over and over again and

[23:55] building the International Space

[23:56] Station, you know that we're really not

[23:58] serious about conquering space.

[24:00] >> The moon was a giant leap. There's been

[24:03] nothing like it since. Ned Potter, ABC

[24:06] News, Huntsville, Alabama.

[24:08] >> Just one other item about space tonight.

[24:11] Speaking of the past, the Mercury

[24:13] capsule that carried astronaut Gus Gryom

[24:15] into a suborbital flight 38 years ago

[24:18] has finally been pulled up from the

[24:20] Atlantic Ocean today, 300 m southeast of

[24:23] Cape Canaveral. It sank shortly after he

[24:26] landed in the ocean. Space enthusiasts

[24:28] have always wanted to know if the hatch

[24:30] blew too early because of mechanical

[24:32] fault, thereby sinking it, or if Mr.

[24:35] Gryom himself, the late Gus Gryom, sad

[24:37] to say, caused the problem. We'll be

[24:40] back in just a moment with the

[24:41] photographer.

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[26:35] >> A final note this evening about a

[26:37] photographer. The country is divided

[26:39] about photographers this week. Grant

[26:41] you, it's pretty divided about the media

[26:42] in general. But some of the country

[26:44] thinks that photographers are pushing so

[26:47] hard they're invading the Kennedy's

[26:48] privacy. Others are fascinated with the

[26:51] intimacies of life that a candid

[26:53] photograph reveals.

[26:56] These pictures were taken by a

[26:58] photographer who pleased the Kennedys

[27:00] even as he captured very intimate

[27:02] moments that would become part of

[27:04] history. They have stirred the emotions

[27:06] of two generations now. President

[27:09] Kennedy and his young son taking a break

[27:12] in the Oval Office only a month before

[27:15] the president was killed in 1963.

[27:18] John Jr. is almost three as he peaks at

[27:20] the camera from under his father's desk.

[27:23] The magic of these treic pictures may

[27:26] help explain why the fascination with

[27:28] the Kennedys continues and is likely to

[27:30] continue. Here is the young president

[27:33] and his young son frozen in time.

[27:38] Stanley Trek, who took the pictures,

[27:40] died yesterday. He was 77.

[27:45] That's our report on World News Tonight

[27:47] on Night Line. This evening, 30 years

[27:48] later, the astronaut Buzz Alden reflects

[27:51] on the first lunar landing. I'm Peter

[27:53] Jennings. See you tomorrow. Good night.

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