World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-01-19

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-01-19
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[0:04] On World News Tonight this Monday, did

[0:06] students at a Maryland college get

[0:08] sufficient warning before a disastrous

[0:10] trip to Guatemala as the country

[0:13] remembers Martin Luther [music] King

[0:15] Jr.? We'll take a closer look at what

[0:17] his name means today and the $6 billion

[0:21] subway system in California that might

[0:23] never be finished. [music] and they have

[0:25] been using your money.

[0:31] [music]

[0:34] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:37] York, Monday, [music] January 19th,

[0:42] this is World News Tonight with Peter

[0:44] Jennings.

[0:44] >> Good evening. We're going to begin

[0:45] tonight at St. Mary's College in

[0:47] southeastern Maryland. They've had a

[0:49] terrible weekend trying to figure out

[0:51] why such a sudden outburst of violence

[0:53] engulfed their students on a trip to

[0:56] Central America. We learned over the

[0:57] weekend that 13 of St. Mary's students

[1:00] and three of their chaperones had been

[1:02] ambushed in Guatemala. Today, the

[1:04] students, five of whom say they were

[1:06] sexually assaulted as well as robbed,

[1:09] returned to their campus. David Enzo

[1:11] reports. There are now difficult

[1:13] questions for the college and for

[1:15] Washington.

[1:18] This small college tried to carry on

[1:20] with life as usual today, but the

[1:22] professor who took the students to

[1:23] Guatemala and ended up at gunpoint while

[1:26] some of them were raped found himself on

[1:28] the defensive.

[1:29] >> We knew that there was uh criminal

[1:31] activity certainly uh to be considered

[1:34] and we we thought we were taking the

[1:37] necessary precautions to to ensure the

[1:40] safety of the group. In fact, the State

[1:42] Department routinely warns travelers to

[1:44] Guatem