World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-02-18
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[0:00] to a shower or two as we move into the
[0:02] weekend. Things look pretty good. That's
[0:04] the weather for now. It's up every hour.
[0:07] On the hour, I'm Jim Boston.
[0:16] >> On World News Tonight this Thursday, the
[0:18] presidential rehabilitation project back
[0:20] where he first became the comeback kid.
[0:23] In the very earliest polio vaccine,
[0:25] there was a virus. Is there now a link
[0:27] to cancer? the latest pollution
[0:30] standards for cars and sport utility
[0:33] vehicles. The government says it'll be
[0:35] like taking 50 million cars off the
[0:37] road. And one country's entire genetic
[0:41] profile given over to a pharmaceutical
[0:44] company. We'll take a closer look at
[0:46] Iceland
[0:54] from ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:57] York.
[0:59] This is World News Tonight with Peter
[1:01] Jennings.
[1:02] >> Good evening. One of the most skillful
[1:03] political campaigners America has ever
[1:05] seen went back to the campaign trail
[1:07] today. It's 7 years ago today that Mr.
[1:10] Clinton managed to finish second in the
[1:12] New Hampshire primary after weathering
[1:14] accusations about affairs and draft
[1:17] dodging. He said then that New Hampshire
[1:19] made him the comeback kid. Now, Mr.
[1:22] Clinton would like to be the comeback
[1:24] president. ABC's John Cochran starts us
[1:26] off from New Hampshire.
[1:28] >> The president came back to the state
[1:30] that gave him a second chance seven
[1:32] years ago when he promised that despite
[1:34] reporting about his character, he would
[1:35] rebuild a recession racked economy. Now,
[1:38] polls show most people here feel he has
[1:40] kept his promise. So, how does it feel
[1:42] to return?
[1:43] >> Wonderful.
[1:44] >> Not everyone welcomed him back.
[1:46] Certainly not old enemies like
[1:47] Manchester's conservative newspaper,
[1:49] which still demands that he resign. But
[1:52] there were plenty who were eager to hear
[1:53] him address their concerns about
[1:55] retirement and long-term health care.
[1:58] >> We all get sick. We all need doctors. We
[2:00] all need health care. This should not be
[2:02] a partisan issue.
[2:05] >> That was the bipartisan Clinton
[2:06] speaking. We will hear a lot from that
[2:08] Clinton as he tries to show he can still
[2:10] work effectively with the Republican
[2:12] Congress. But he also remembers it was
[2:14] the Republicans who impeached him. and
[2:16] that Clinton will be working closely
[2:18] with allies meeting part of the South in
[2:20] Miami where big labor has formulated an
[2:22] unprecedented $43 million battle plan to
[2:26] oust Republicans from control of the
[2:28] House.
[2:29] >> As long as we discuss issues that affect
[2:31] working men and women and not wedge or
[2:34] fringe issues, then I think we'll be
[2:36] very effective in the year 2000.
[2:38] >> But while the president wants a
[2:39] Democratic House, the Democrat he most
[2:41] wants to win is Al Gore. The president's
[2:44] top political priority is to help Gore
[2:46] succeed him. All the Democrats will need
[2:48] money and President Clinton will be
[2:50] active in that starting with a
[2:51] fundraiser in this hall tonight. Bill
[2:53] Clinton knows his history and he knows
[2:55] the Watergate scandal devastated Richard
[2:57] Nixon's party. But Clinton feels he is
[3:00] different, that he can actually be a big
[3:02] plus for his party and in the process
[3:04] maybe, just maybe, change the way
[3:07] history judges him. John Cochran, ABC
[3:10] News, Manchester, New Hampshire. In
[3:13] Washington and in Europe today, NATO
[3:15] military commanders are making
[3:16] contingency plans for Kosovo. In the
[3:18] event that the Serbs and ethnic
[3:20] Albanians fail to reach a peace
[3:22] agreement, the US has ordered 51
[3:24] warplanes to join an attack force in
[3:26] Europe. These planes would strike at
[3:28] Serb targets in Kosovo if the Serbs
[3:31] block a deal. NATO is also making plans
[3:34] to evacuate hundreds of international
[3:36] monitors in Kosovo if the air strikes
[3:39] look likely. In Washington today, the
[3:42] Environmental Protection Agency is on
[3:44] the verge of proposing a stiff new
[3:46] series of pollution regulations. They
[3:49] will affect cars and trucks and sport
[3:51] utility vehicles and gasoline. And if
[3:54] the White House signs on, they're going
[3:56] to be very tough. Here's ABC's Barry
[3:58] Sarafan.
[4:00] Under the proposed new rules, light
[4:02] trucks, including sport utility
[4:04] vehicles, pickups, and minivans, would
[4:06] have to meet the same increasingly
[4:08] strict emission standards that apply to
[4:10] passenger cars. Those who have seen the
[4:12] proposal say they would begin to phase
[4:14] in in 2004. Automakers say they have
[4:17] already eliminated 97% of emissions,
[4:20] that cleaning up the rest will be
[4:22] difficult, and they need more time. And
[4:25] they say the stricter emission standards
[4:27] would add about $200 to the cost of the
[4:29] average vehicle. To make the catalytic
[4:32] converter on vehicles more efficient,
[4:33] the proposed rule would also require
[4:35] cleaner gasoline. They would force oil
[4:38] companies to cut the sulfur content in
[4:40] gas by 90%. Lowering sulfur to levels as
[4:44] low as 30 parts per million on a
[4:46] nationwide basis is equivalent to taking
[4:49] 54 million vehicles off the road
[4:53] overnight.
[4:54] >> The oil industry also says it needs more
[4:57] time.
[4:58] >> 2004 to 2006 is too much too soon.
[5:03] >> Oil industry officials claim the new
[5:05] rules would cost consumers an added 5 to
[5:08] 6 cents a gallon at the gas pump. The
[5:10] proposals have not yet gone to the White
[5:12] House and the EPA would not comment
[5:14] today beyond a statement saying the new
[5:16] regulations will reduce millions of tons
[5:20] of harmful air pollution. Barry Sarapan,
[5:23] ABC News, Washington. In other news
[5:26] today, there are some serious questions
[5:27] being asked about the very first polio
[5:30] vaccine used in America between 1955 and
[5:34] 1963.
[5:35] Today, more than 30 years later, another
[5:38] American scientist, in this case, one
[5:40] Janet Butell at the Baylor College of
[5:42] Medicine in Texas believes that a monkey
[5:45] virus in the early polio vaccine may be
[5:49] associated with cancer. First, here's
[5:51] ABC's John McKenzie.
[5:55] It was part of an aggressive nationwide
[5:57] campaign to stop the spread of polio.
[6:00] Tens of millions of Americans received
[6:02] the first sock polio vaccine. But by the
[6:05] early 1960s, scientists had discovered a
[6:07] problem. Some of the vaccine made from
[6:10] the cells of monkeys had been
[6:11] contaminated with a monkey virus called
[6:14] SV40.
[6:16] Tests showed SV40 caused a variety of
[6:18] tumors in hamsters. Now, a report in the
[6:21] journal of the National Cancer Institute
[6:23] reviewing all the available scientific
[6:25] literature concludes there's persuasive
[6:27] evidence that SV40 DNA can be found in
[6:31] human cancer. The studies weren't done
[6:33] in the past to look for it. You don't
[6:35] find something unless you look for it.
[6:37] And it was only when the technology
[6:39] became uh sensitive and specific enough
[6:42] that definitive results could be
[6:44] obtained.
[6:45] >> And what might this mean today? Evidence
[6:48] of this monkey virus now appears in
[6:50] about 33% of bone cancers, 50% of
[6:53] childhood brain cancers, and as much as
[6:56] 70% of a rare lung cancer called
[6:58] metheloma.
[7:00] Researchers are clear to point out that
[7:01] while the virus can be found in certain
[7:03] cancers, there is no proof it actually
[7:06] causes those cancers. Nor is there proof
[7:08] that Americans carrying the virus, now
[7:10] estimated to be as much as 10% of the
[7:12] population, actually got it from that
[7:14] original vaccine.
[7:16] >> We don't know that it was introduced by
[7:18] the by the polio vaccine. Is it may well
[7:21] be that the virus has always been able
[7:23] to infect people. The researchers say
[7:25] that one bit of good news from this is
[7:27] that associating this monkey virus with
[7:29] certain tumors might eventually help in
[7:31] the early diagnosis of certain cancers.
[7:34] John McKenzie, ABC News, New York.
[7:37] >> Our medical editor, Dr. Tim Johnson,
[7:39] joins us from Boston tonight. Tim, okay,
[7:41] in the meantime, what does this mean to
[7:43] me say I took that vaccine between 55
[7:46] and 63?
[7:47] >> Well, I want to point out two things.
[7:48] Since 63, there has been no
[7:50] contamination of the polio vaccine by
[7:52] this virus. And for those who did have
[7:54] it before 63, there has been no evidence
[7:56] that they have been at any greater risk
[7:59] for these cancers as a result of that
[8:01] kind of exposure. So bottom line, we
[8:03] have to keep pursuing this research. We
[8:05] have to find out what the presence of
[8:06] these viruses mean, but we don't have
[8:08] any solid evidence that they cause the
[8:10] tumors that you got them from the
[8:11] vaccine.
[8:12] >> This piece of news sort of sprang into
[8:13] prominence today. I realize it's been
[8:15] around for some time. What's the good
[8:17] news? The good news is that the more we
[8:19] learn about this virus and its possible
[8:21] relationship to tumors, the better
[8:23] chance, as John said, of diagnosis,
[8:25] maybe even of developing a vaccine
[8:27] against this particular virus, which
[8:29] would be ironic, a vaccine against a
[8:30] virus that originally contaminated
[8:32] another vaccine.
[8:33] >> Thanks very much, Tim Johnson, our
[8:35] medical editor, who is in Boston with
[8:37] the good news. When we come back, the
[8:39] other news, a wave of kidnappings in
[8:41] Mexico, and Mexicans say enough. And
[8:45] believe it or not, a bicycle made from a
[8:47] bed. A carrot that looks like a hand.
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[10:19] >> In Mexico today, there has been a
[10:21] kidnapping that has stunned the nation,
[10:23] and that is saying something given how
[10:26] many kidnappings there are in Mexico.
[10:28] Here's ABC's Bill Blakemore.
[10:33] >> World Cup player Jorge Compost is a mega
[10:35] star in Mexico. And when his father was
[10:38] kidnapped by men with assault rifles
[10:40] yesterday from a soccer field, it was
[10:42] the last straw for many in Mexico.
[10:46] >> Enough already pleaded Mexico's leading
[10:48] news anchor. Nobody escapes crime in our
[10:51] country.
[10:53] >> There have been more than 2,000
[10:55] kidnappings in the last year, one a day
[10:57] reported in Mexico City alone. Hundreds
[11:00] of millions of dollars were paid last
[11:02] year in ransoms. Rich people now
[11:04] routinely buy bulletproof cars and hire
[11:07] bodyguards.
[11:08] >> My daughter couldn't go to any place
[11:10] without bodyguards. And that that is
[11:13] terrible because you you be you begin to
[11:15] live in an culture of fear.
[11:20] >> Making things worse, Mexico's police
[11:22] have been implicated in many
[11:23] kidnappings. The kidnappers themselves
[11:26] now come from across the society. the
[11:28] unemployed, political activists,
[11:30] small-time crooks, and organized crime.
[11:35] >> Jorge Compost was in Hong Kong when his
[11:37] father was kidnapped. He arrived home
[11:39] this afternoon to newspaper reports that
[11:41] the kidnappers are asking $2 million.
[11:44] Bill Blake, more ABC News. On the money
[11:47] tonight, stocks first. On Wall Street
[11:49] today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
[11:51] was up more than 103 points to close at
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[11:56] about 11 and a half points. From the
[11:59] Internal Revenue Service today, the 22
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[12:03] IRS says the average person who takes at
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[12:46] that is only New York. When we come
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[15:01] >> In France today, a court has agreed to
[15:03] send a convicted murderer back to the
[15:04] United States. Ira Einhorn has spent
[15:08] decades eluding the law and the state of
[15:10] Pennsylvania has gone to enormous
[15:12] lengths to get him back. Passing a law,
[15:14] granting him a new trial, promising not
[15:16] to seek the death penalty in his case.
[15:18] But even today, they don't quite have
[15:21] their hands on him. ABC's Cila McVicker
[15:24] tonight in the French city of Bordeaux.
[15:28] Holly Maddox's sisters said they did not
[15:31] really expect justice today. The
[15:33] extradition order for the man accused of
[15:35] killing her left them stunned.
[15:37] >> We're giant steps closer to
[15:41] our dream goal of actually seeing him
[15:43] come off an airplane in chains.
[15:46] >> 22 years ago, Ira Einhorn was a
[15:48] well-known peace activist and hippie
[15:50] guru in Philadelphia when his longtime
[15:53] girlfriend Holly Maddox mysteriously
[15:55] disappeared. Einorm was arrested for the
[15:57] first time in Philadelphia in 1979 after
[16:01] police found the mummified body of Holly
[16:03] Maddox in a locked trunk in a locked
[16:06] closet in his bedroom. Charged with
[16:09] murder, Einhorn fled and spent the next
[16:11] 18 years on the run in absentia in a
[16:13] Philadelphia court. He was tried and
[16:15] convicted of the murder. But hiding in
[16:17] France, he lived comfortably under an
[16:19] assumed name with his Swedish wife until
[16:21] a routine police check revealed his
[16:23] identity. Today's decision takes him
[16:26] closer to custody in America. But
[16:28] American prosecutors were upset when the
[16:31] French judge let Einhorn walk free
[16:33] pending an appeal.
[16:35] >> I am concerned that he may flee again.
[16:39] >> The French judge said he had no reason
[16:41] to detain Einhorn, who has been honoring
[16:43] his pledge to regularly report to French
[16:45] police. But last year, Einhorn told
[16:48] ABC's 2020 he has no intention of
[16:51] serving any time in jail. There are
[16:54] alternatives. There may not be too many
[16:55] of them, but there are alternatives.
[16:56] >> The French courts will give him months
[16:58] to plan his next step. Sheila McVicker,
[17:01] ABC News, Bordeaux.
[17:04] >> Two other items overseas today. There's
[17:05] a report from South Korea today which
[17:08] says more than 2 million people have
[17:10] died in the North as a result of famine.
[17:12] South Korean intelligence officials site
[17:14] a classified survey from the North
[17:17] saying that more than 500,000 North
[17:19] Koreans have died of hunger every year
[17:22] since 1995.
[17:24] Very hard, as you know, to check on. In
[17:27] Australia, the bush fire burning out of
[17:28] control has killed some 4,000 sheep,
[17:31] burned through 22,000 acres of
[17:33] grassland. Hundreds of firefighters
[17:35] trying to contain the fire. Gusting
[17:37] winds, as you can see, making it
[17:39] difficult. In a moment, still from
[17:42] overseas, selling your genetic code, an
[17:45] unprecedented experiment. We'll take a
[17:47] closer look.
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[20:05] Chevy Tahoe like a rock.
[20:12] We're going to take a closer look at
[20:14] genetics tonight because it is by
[20:16] studying the basic building blocks of
[20:18] life that scientists believe the
[20:20] greatest advances in medicine will now
[20:22] be made. Here is one example of why it
[20:25] is such a challenge.
[20:28] If it were possible to line up all the
[20:30] genetic material of a single baby, all
[20:32] the DNA strands into one line of
[20:36] material, it would be long enough to
[20:38] stretch from the sun to Pluto and back
[20:41] 15 times. That's 114 billion miles of
[20:45] genetic material in one baby. And all it
[20:49] takes is one unexpected alteration in
[20:52] those miles of DNA to be the source of a
[20:56] crippling disease. Scientists have
[20:58] already made progress finding these
[20:59] altered genes in DNA strands. They've
[21:02] identified genes that are the source of
[21:04] Alzheimer's and cystic fibrosis, but
[21:07] there is still so much to learn, which
[21:10] brings us to one of the most unusual
[21:12] donor programs in the name of research.
[21:15] The entire population of Iceland in the
[21:18] middle of the North Atlantic is giving
[21:19] up its genetic information to a
[21:22] pharmaceutical company. ABC's Richard
[21:24] Gizert has just been there.
[21:29] Iceland is a beautiful yet forbidding
[21:31] place. A geologically restless island of
[21:35] lava still shifting, still growing. A
[21:38] work in progress in the North Atlantic.
[21:40] Now scientists want to mine Iceland, but
[21:43] they're not looking at the rock, the
[21:44] volcanic landscape. They're examining
[21:47] the genetic landscape, the people.
[21:49] Iceland is a unique resource in the
[21:51] world for genetic research.
[21:54] The whole country is like one extended
[21:57] family.
[21:59] >> Nearly all 270,000 people here have
[22:02] roots that go back to the Vikings.
[22:04] Hardly any new immigrants have come in
[22:06] the last thousand years. Icelanders are
[22:08] passionate about their unique identity.
[22:11] Many trace family trees back to the 12th
[22:13] century on ancient parchments
[22:15] meticulously preserved. It's no wonder,
[22:18] given their shared heritage, that
[22:20] Icelanders tend to look alike on the
[22:22] outside and on the inside, right down to
[22:25] their Viking genes.
[22:28] That genetic similarity might make
[22:30] Iceland the best laboratory anywhere to
[22:32] study genes. Scientists hunting for the
[22:35] tiny genetic mutations that can cause a
[22:38] disease find that those mutations really
[22:40] stand out here compared to a more mixed
[22:43] gene pool like the US.
[22:45] >> We would have a database that would be
[22:47] of of spectacular value would be a great
[22:50] instrument to create new knowledge in
[22:51] medicine.
[22:52] >> Carrie Stephenson is a neurologist who
[22:55] is making Iceland's genetic heritage his
[22:57] business. He wants to store the genetic
[22:59] profile of every Icelander in a computer
[23:02] database. then sell access to that
[23:05] information for big money to drug
[23:07] companies or anyone doing research. The
[23:10] government has approved Stephenson's
[23:12] plan. In exchange, his company will
[23:14] computerize Iceland's entire medical
[23:16] history and give Icelanders free access
[23:19] to any drugs produced through the
[23:21] database. In effect, Iceland is treating
[23:24] its unique genetic heritage as a natural
[23:27] resource, not unlike the fishing grounds
[23:29] that surround it. Not everyone here
[23:31] thinks that's a good idea.
[23:33] >> I find that a bit disgusting that people
[23:36] can make make such huge amounts of of
[23:39] money by breaking ethical rules.
[23:42] >> The idea of the database has attracted
[23:45] criticism from well beyond Iceland. The
[23:48] fear is once personal genetic
[23:50] information is put in the hands of
[23:52] private companies, that information
[23:54] could end up anywhere. For instance,
[23:57] what if you carry a gene mutation that's
[23:59] particularly common in alcoholics? If
[24:01] your employer ever found out, you could
[24:03] lose your job. What about a woman who
[24:05] has a genetically higher risk of getting
[24:07] diabetes? Could an insurance company get
[24:10] that information and then deny that
[24:12] woman coverage? Carrie Stephenson says
[24:15] the database will be coded, everyone's
[24:17] privacy will be protected, and science
[24:19] will be well served.
[24:21] >> We should not put limitations on
[24:22] creation of knowledge. We should create
[24:24] this knowledge. But we should be very
[24:26] careful on the way in which you use it.
[24:28] >> Careful to ensure that the genetic
[24:30] essence of the individual remains
[24:32] private, a mystery a bit like the
[24:34] diseases medical science has come here
[24:37] to cure. Richard Gizburg, ABC News,
[24:40] Rake, Iceland. There is more about
[24:43] Iceland and genetic research in general
[24:45] on our website, abcnews.com.
[24:47] And we'll be back in a moment. Believe
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[27:00] The final word this evening, which we
[27:02] picked up first on National Public
[27:03] Radio. We thanked them. This is the 90th
[27:05] anniversary of Ripley's cartoon, Believe
[27:08] It or Not. At one time around the world,
[27:10] believe it or not, was read by 80
[27:11] million people. Today, there's a
[27:13] Ripley's retrospective on a national
[27:16] tour. And this week, it's at the High
[27:18] Museum in Atlanta.
[27:22] By the 1930s, Ripley's archive of the
[27:25] odd and often bizarre was enormously
[27:29] popular.
[27:29] >> It became a great phenomenon that uh
[27:33] Americans all seem to want to
[27:35] participate in. contortionist, balancing
[27:38] acts, the only man in history named
[27:40] after currency. Believe it or not,
[27:43] millions of people dreamed of being
[27:45] immortalized by Ripley.
[27:47] >> Well, Robert Ripley really touched a
[27:49] cord in the American psyche about
[27:52] wanting to make a mark on the world, uh,
[27:54] wanting to stand out.
[27:56] >> At its height in the 30s and 40s,
[27:58] believe it or not, attracted 1 million
[28:00] letters and photographs a year.
[28:02] >> It became an incredibly competitive
[28:04] thing. So that people who saw somebody
[28:08] in Ripley's thought about now how could
[28:10] I top that? Try this or this. Her hat
[28:15] made from her own hair. His bicycle made
[28:19] from a bed. The biggest carrot ever
[28:22] grown in the shape of a human hand. A
[28:25] 90-year-old man hoisting himself on a
[28:27] flag pole. That elusive 15 minutes of
[28:31] fame.
[28:33] Believe it or not,
[28:36] that is our report on World News
[28:37] Tonight. We hope you have an inventive
[28:39] evening. I'm Peter Jennings. We'll see
[28:40] you tomorrow. Good night.