World News Tonight (ABC) - 1996-03-29 (low volume)

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1996-03-29 (low volume)
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[0:00] Town Hall seeks solutions to classrooms

[0:02] in crisis. Sunday at 6. Tension outside

[0:05] the Freeman Ranch in Montana as two of

[0:07] their leaders appear in court. [music]

[0:09] The judge says no bail. President

[0:12] Clinton's news for cancer patients. The

[0:14] drug pipeline is about to move faster.

[0:18] And would you pay $7500

[0:20] just to get in the door? [music]

[0:24] From ABC, this is World News Tonight

[0:27] with Peter Jennings. Sitting in tonight,

[0:30] Forest Stoyer.

[0:31] >> Good evening. Day five of the standoff

[0:33] in Montana and two of the leaders of the

[0:35] anti-government group, the Freeman, were

[0:36] back in court today for a bail hearing.

[0:39] Twice before the two men disrupted the

[0:41] courtroom and today was even worse.

[0:43] While federal agents kept watch over the

[0:45] Freeman compound, where armed fugitives

[0:47] are holed up, the two leaders shouted

[0:49] defiance of the government and warned

[0:51] the confrontation will end in violence.

[0:54] We have two reports. First in Billings,

[0:56] Montana, ABC's Dean Reynolds.

[1:00] >> For the third time this week, Freeman

[1:02] Leroy Schwitzer and Daniel Peterson went

[1:04] to federal court and once more turned

[1:06] the proceedings upside down with

[1:09] repeated interruptions involving obscure

[1:11] criminal law and the Bible. They loudly

[1:14] rejected the court's authority and their

[1:16] courtappointed lawyers.

[1:17] >> Day we have to ask if they want any

[1:19] assistance and each day they have uh

[1:21] vehemently said no. I'm being subjected

[1:23] to satanic worship, yelled Schweitzer.

[1:26] Give me liberty or give me death,

[1:28] Peterson told the court. Then referring

[1:30] to the standoff at the Freeman Ranch

[1:32] north of