World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-01-18
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[0:06] On World News Tonight this Sunday,
[0:09] students from this quiet American campus
[0:12] find horror on a rural road in
[0:14] Guatemala.
[0:15] Paula Jones leaves the capital and
[0:18] leaves behind a swirl of questions and
[0:20] speculation.
[0:23] And why cattle ranchers have a beef with
[0:26] Oprah.
[0:28] From
[0:33] ABC News World Headquarters in New York,
[0:37] January 18th,
[0:40] this is World News Tonight, Sunday.
[0:43] Here's Carol Simpson.
[0:45] >> Good evening. A group of American
[0:47] college students is heading home tonight
[0:48] from a study trip to Guatemala that
[0:51] turned into a nightmare. Like more than
[0:53] 85,000 young Americans who go abroad to
[0:56] study every year, they expected to find
[0:59] excitement and enlightenment. They found
[1:01] neither. The Maryland students left
[1:04] January 2nd for a 3-week tour of
[1:06] Guatemalan history and culture. They
[1:09] returned tonight traumatized by a brutal
[1:11] crime. ABC's Beth Nit Nissen has the
[1:14] story.
[1:17] >> The 13 St. Mary's college students and
[1:19] three chaperones were returning to
[1:21] Guatemala City after an outing Friday
[1:23] when their bus was forced off the road
[1:25] by a pickup truck containing four gunmen
[1:27] reportedly carrying automatic weapons.
[1:30] The gunman forced everyone out of the
[1:31] bus and into a nearby sugarcane field
[1:34] and robbed them. Then five of the
[1:36] women's students were taken some
[1:37] distance away at gunpoint and raped.
[1:40] Guatemalan police said the rape victims
[1:42] were treated at a Guatemala city
[1:44] hospital and released. Those women
[1:46] returned to the Washington DC area
[1:47] yesterday. The rest of the group is due
[1:50] home tonight.
[1:52] There was no word on the possible
[1:53] identity of the ar