World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-02-18

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[0:00] Peter Jennings is next. We'll see you at

[0:01] 6:00.

[0:05] >> On World News Tonight this Thursday, the

[0:07] presidential rehabilitation project back

[0:10] where he first became the comeback kid.

[0:13] In the very earliest polio vaccine,

[0:15] there was a virus. Is there now a link

[0:17] to cancer?

[0:19] The latest pollution standards for cars

[0:21] and sport utility vehicles, the

[0:24] government says it'll be like taking 50

[0:26] million cars off the road.

[0:28] And one country's entire genetic profile

[0:32] given over to a pharmaceutical company.

[0:34] We'll take a closer look at Iceland.

[0:44] >> From ABC News world headquarters in New

[0:47] York,

[0:48] this is World News Tonight with Peter

[0:51] Jennings.

[0:51] >> Good evening. One of the most skillful

[0:53] political campaigners America has ever

[0:55] seen went back to the campaign trail

[0:57] today. It's 7 years ago today that Mr.

[1:00] Clinton managed to finish second in the

[1:02] New Hampshire primary after weathering

[1:04] accusations about affairs and draft

[1:07] dodging. He said then that New Hampshire

[1:09] made him the comeback kid. Now, Mr.

[1:12] Clinton would like to be the comeback

[1:13] president. ABC's John Cochran starts us

[1:16] off from New Hampshire.

[1:18] >> The president came back to the state

[1:20] that gave him a second chance 7 years

[1:22] ago when he promised that despite

[1:23] reporting about his character, he would

[1:25] rebuild a recession-wracked economy. Now

[1:28] polls show most people here feel he has

[1:30] kept his promise. So, how does it feel

[1:32] to return?

[1:33] >> Wonderful.

[1:34] >> Not everyone welcomed him back.

[1:35] Certainly not old enemies like

[1:37] Manchester's conservative newspaper,

[1:39] which still demands that he resign. B