World News Tonight (ABC) - 1985-03-04
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[0:03] >> From ABC, this is World News Tonight
[0:06] with Peter Jennings.
[0:07] >> Good evening. The South American nation
[0:09] of Chile is still reeling this evening
[0:11] from the powerful aftershocks of last
[0:13] night's earthquake. At least 124 people
[0:16] died in Chile's worst earthquake in 25
[0:18] years. Nearly 2,000 more people have
[0:20] been injured and thousands are homeless.
[0:23] ABC's John McQuey is in Santiago.
[0:26] It was still daylight when the
[0:28] earthquake hit. Street lights swayed.
[0:30] Clouds of dust rose from the hills.
[0:32] Landslides blocked roads. And in the
[0:34] cities, as the sun went down, buildings
[0:36] crumbled, fires broke out. In an area of
[0:39] several thousand square miles, a night
[0:41] of terror began for millions.
[0:43] >> Everybody was screaming cuz it was it
[0:45] was a hard earthquake. It sounded awful.
[0:49] I was just going to say I thought it
[0:50] might kill us. The center of the
[0:51] earthquake was just 25 miles off the
[0:54] coast of Chile, adjacent to where 80% of
[0:57] this country's population is
[0:58] concentrated. In Santiago, Chile's
[1:01] largest city and its capital,
[1:02] electricity, gas, water, and phones were
[1:05] out most of the night. Santiago, in
[1:08] darkness, was cut off from the rest of
[1:09] the country. And for hours, the country
[1:12] was cut off from the rest of the world.
[1:14] Thousands of injured poured into the
[1:16] hospitals and as communications were
[1:18] restored, the official death toll
[1:19] continued to rise. Chile's president
[1:22] Pinochett rushed back to Santiago and
[1:25] imposed a midnight to 5:00 a.m. curfew
[1:27] with orders to shoot looters on site.
[1:30] People abandoned their houses in the
[1:31] darkness, sleeping in parks and streets
[1:33] for fear their houses would collapse.
[1:35] And by morning, it was clear that many
[1:37] of the homes had collapsed, particularly
[1:40] those in the older and poorer
[1:41] neighborhoods. And many that were not
[1:43] destroyed outright, were no longer safe
[1:45] to live in. Churches, generally among
[1:48] the oldest structures, suffered terrible
[1:50] damage. Five people were killed in one
[1:52] church where the earthquake hit during a
[1:54] Catholic mass. Though most of Chile has
[1:57] returned to normal today, the
[1:58] aftershocks are continuing. All day,
[2:01] tremors have shaken the city of 4
[2:03] million, tens of thousands of whom now
[2:05] have only the street as a home. John
[2:08] McQuey, ABC News, Santiago, Chile. And
[2:11] now, Mother Nature here at home. The
[2:13] National Weather Service first saw it
[2:14] when it was forming over the Pacific.
[2:16] And today, one of the biggest winter
[2:18] storms in a long time hit much of the
[2:20] Midwest. The two states most severely
[2:22] affected have been Minnesota and South
[2:24] Dakota. In South Dakota, it is the worst
[2:26] general storm since the 1960s. with a
[2:29] roundup of who and what has been
[2:31] affected. Here's ABC's Chris Buri.
[2:34] Winter telegrammed a March message to
[2:36] the Midwest. It's not over yet. The
[2:38] worst storm of the year dumped up to 2
[2:40] ft of snow across the Dakotas,
[2:42] Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. In
[2:44] South Dakota, the icy roads were so
[2:46] dangerous, drivers were told to get off
[2:48] or get arrested. Morning rush hour was a
[2:51] mess throughout the Midwest. Airports in
[2:53] Minneapolis, Milwaukee, and Detroit were
[2:55] shut down most of the day. The snow was
[2:57] everywhere, even on the seats of the
[2:59] Silver Dome in Pontiac, Michigan, home
[3:01] of Detroit's Pistons and Lions. Parts of
[3:03] the fabric roof ripped under heavy snow.
[3:05] No one was hurt, but in Evansville,
[3:07] Indiana today, firemen dug out the
[3:09] bodies of three construction workers
[3:10] killed when high winds blew down a
[3:12] concrete wall.
[3:14] >> Walk next to the building. Ice is
[3:16] falling. Walk next to the building.
[3:19] >> In Chicago, it seemed as if the sky was
[3:21] falling. Pieces of ice tumbled off
[3:23] downtown buildings. In Michigan, 50 mph
[3:26] winds pushed chunks of ice into
[3:28] lakefront homes. South of Detroit, Lake
[3:30] Erie spilled into the streets, forcing
[3:32] 50 families from their homes. Thanks to
[3:34] the storm, thousands of school children
[3:36] got the day off. Perhaps the only ones
[3:38] who seem to enjoy this latest blast from
[3:40] the winter that won't go away. Chris
[3:43] Buri, ABC News, Chicago. Later in this
[3:46] broadcast, a bullet is fired into the
[3:48] home of Supreme Court Justice Harry
[3:49] Blackman. More violence in southern
[3:52] Lebanon. And just north of the
[3:54] California border, the residents of Pine
[3:56] Creek fighting to keep their town in the
[3:58] Beaver State.
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[5:06] >> We learn today of what may have been
[5:08] intended as an attack on Supreme Court
[5:10] Justice Harry Blackman. Last Thursday
[5:12] night, someone fired a bullet into his
[5:14] home. Here's our law correspondent, Tim
[5:16] O'Brien.
[5:18] >> It happened just after 10:00 Thursday
[5:20] night. A 9mm bullet shot through the
[5:22] living room window of the Blackman's
[5:24] home in Arlington, Virginia, outside
[5:26] Washington. The justice reportedly had
[5:28] just left the room, but Mrs. Blackman
[5:30] was showered with glass and shaken up,
[5:32] although not otherwise hurt. No one has
[5:34] claimed responsibility for the shooting.
[5:36] The FBI, which recovered the bullet from
[5:38] a chair, says it's making no assumptions
[5:40] about the motive. But there have been
[5:42] plenty of threats against Justice
[5:43] Blackman since he wrote the court's
[5:45] landmark 1973 decision legalizing
[5:48] abortion.
[5:49] >> I think you can um
[5:52] think of any
[5:54] name to call someone. I've been called
[5:56] it
[5:58] uh butcher of Dow murderer.
[6:01] >> Court sources say the threats against
[6:03] Blackman have been growing in
[6:04] viciousness and in number. The most
[6:06] recent, a letter with a New York
[6:07] Postmark in which the writer threatened
[6:09] to blow the justice's brains out.
[6:12] Security was beefed up at the court last
[6:14] October following other similar threats.
[6:16] On his frequent afternoon walks around
[6:18] the court, Blackman now is usually
[6:20] accompanied by a bodyguard. Blackman was
[6:23] on the bench this morning, and the court
[6:24] itself has maintained at least the
[6:26] appearance of tranquility despite what
[6:28] seems to be the growing threat of
[6:29] lawlessness from those who oppose the
[6:32] way the justices view the law. Tim
[6:34] O'Brien, ABC News. At the Supreme Court,
[6:37] >> there were two important rulings from
[6:38] the Supreme Court today. The justice has
[6:40] held that if you make a confession and
[6:41] only after that are advised of your
[6:43] rights, a subsequent confession can be
[6:45] used against you. The justice has also
[6:47] said that a Vermont attorney does have
[6:49] the right to practice law in New
[6:51] Hampshire, and that is a ruling which
[6:53] could affect residency laws for a number
[6:54] of professions in a number of states. A
[6:58] new round of arms talks between the US
[7:00] and the Soviet Union is set to begin
[7:01] next week in Geneva. And against that
[7:03] background, President Reagan today sent
[7:05] a new report to Congress urging Congress
[7:08] to move ahead with the MX missile
[7:10] program. The president called the MX,
[7:12] again, an essential element of America's
[7:14] arms control strategy. Here's our White
[7:17] House correspondent, Sam Donaldson.
[7:20] >> President Reagan has used a number of
[7:21] arguments over the years to try to
[7:23] convince an increasingly reluctant
[7:25] Congress to continue funding the MX
[7:27] missile. Tying it directly to the new
[7:29] Geneva arms negotiations is only the
[7:31] latest. As talks begin, each house of
[7:34] Congress will cast a vote that will
[7:37] directly, perhaps dramatically affect
[7:39] the outcome at Geneva. A negative vote
[7:42] in either house would undercut our
[7:45] negotiators and send a message to Moscow
[7:47] that America is an irresolute and
[7:50] divided nation whose divisions can be
[7:53] exploited at Geneva. That must not
[7:56] happen. With 21 MX missiles already paid
[7:59] for, Congress last year held up $1.5
[8:02] billion for another 21 missiles pending
[8:05] the new vote. The president today told
[8:07] Congress the release of that money is
[8:08] essential. But he also acknowledged that
[8:10] putting the MX in Minuteman holds as
[8:13] planned will not appreciably reduce US
[8:15] land-based missile vulnerability, which
[8:17] was one of the main reasons for building
[8:19] the MX in the first place. Opponents
[8:21] today called the president's Geneva
[8:23] gambit a last gasp argument. This is the
[8:26] only way they can win this vote. This
[8:29] system is gone on its merits because the
[8:32] weapon just doesn't fill the function
[8:34] for which it was designed, that is to
[8:36] deal with the vulnerability of the
[8:38] minute man silos in which it is now to
[8:40] be put.
[8:41] >> Meanwhile, House Majority Leader Jim
[8:43] Wright announced the House would not
[8:44] send the delegation of observers to
[8:45] Geneva as the White House had requested
[8:47] because administration officials had
[8:49] called it a junket, complaining members
[8:51] were taking their wives. But uh I think
[8:53] my colleagues have the feeling that if
[8:56] they're going to be used by the
[8:58] administration, they don't want to be
[8:59] abused by the administration at the same
[9:01] time.
[9:02] >> Wright may well change his mind and go
[9:04] to Geneva. Although White House
[9:05] officials really don't care. What they
[9:07] really want is to keep the MX alive. And
[9:09] the Geneva Gambit, last gasp argument or
[9:11] not, could do that, at least for a while
[9:14] longer. Sam Donaldson, ABC News, the
[9:17] White House. The former deputy defense
[9:19] secretary, Paul theer, pleaded guilty
[9:21] today to lying about stock market
[9:23] dealings. When he was a member of
[9:24] various corporate boards, they gave
[9:26] inside information to a stock broker.
[9:28] Information that netted them and theer's
[9:30] mistress one.5 million in profits.
[9:33] Theyer quit his Pentagon job when the
[9:35] charges were made public last year. And
[9:37] the maximum sentence is 5 years in
[9:39] prison and or a fine. The White House
[9:42] said today it will look into reports
[9:44] that Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Dver
[9:46] and other members of a White House
[9:48] advance team bought nine expensive
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[9:52] in West Germany last week. They were
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[11:41] In overseas news, once again, a
[11:42] terrorist bombing has brought sudden
[11:44] death to southern Lebanon. This time,
[11:46] the target was a mosque at a Shiite
[11:48] religious center in a small village.
[11:50] Details from ABC's Mike Lee.
[11:55] This videotape was shot with an amateur
[11:57] camera shortly after the booby trap bomb
[11:59] exploded on the upper floor of the
[12:00] Shiite Religious Center in Marake, South
[12:03] Lebanon. At least 12, possibly 15 were
[12:06] killed and dozens were injured.
[12:08] Pandemonium broke out among the
[12:10] villagers.
[12:14] Among the dead were two high-ranking
[12:16] leaders of the Amal Shiite militia,
[12:19] including 25-year-old Muhammad Assad,
[12:21] who've been active in planning guerrilla
[12:23] attacks against Israeli troops in
[12:24] southern Lebanon.
[12:27] The bomb went off less than 48 hours
[12:30] after the Israeli army had raided the
[12:32] village of Mahar and entered a number of
[12:34] buildings in a security sweep. Lebanese
[12:36] Shiite leaders claimed the Israelis
[12:38] planted the bomb. The name of the town
[12:41] Mahar means battle. And with the Shiites
[12:44] believing that Israel is responsible for
[12:46] this disaster, the cries of Mahar may
[12:49] soon spread to other areas still
[12:51] occupied by Israeli troops in southern
[12:53] Lebanon. Mike Lee, ABC News.
[12:57] >> This is Bob Zelnik. While acknowledging
[12:59] their troops had conducted extensive
[13:01] recent operations in Mahar and other
[13:04] Shiite villages, Israeli officials
[13:06] tonight denied categorically any role in
[13:09] the blast at the village mosque.
[13:11] >> Israel had nothing to do with this
[13:12] blast. This is not a way Israel is
[13:16] combating
[13:17] terror.
[13:18] >> But today in and around the port city of
[13:20] Ty, more evidence of the iron fist
[13:23] Israel has brought down on South Lebanon
[13:25] Shiites. Israeli patrols fan across the
[13:28] landscape. They've stepped up raids on
[13:30] villages where suspected Shiite fighters
[13:33] live. Mass roundups, house-to-house
[13:36] searches for weapons. Often this is the
[13:39] result.
[13:40] Homes reduced to rubble.
[13:42] >> Unless there will be no terrorist action
[13:47] on their side, there will be lot of
[13:51] suffering to them. For Israel, the
[13:54] danger is that their iron fist will
[13:56] provoke still more Shiite retaliation,
[13:58] perhaps reaching the Israeli side of the
[14:00] border. The likelihood is that Lebanon
[14:03] Shiites will overwhelmingly blame Israel
[14:05] for planting the bomb at Mahar. After 30
[14:08] months of occupation, there's no
[14:10] credibility between the two communities.
[14:12] No goodwill, only the desire for
[14:15] vengeance. Bob Zelnik, ABC News, Tel
[14:18] Aviv.
[14:19] Still overseas, the year-long strike by
[14:21] British coal miners is now over. Miners
[14:23] will return to work in most places
[14:24] tomorrow. Although some Scottish miners
[14:26] and those in Kent in southern England
[14:29] say they will continue to stay off the
[14:30] job. As ABC's Barry Dunore reports, the
[14:32] mine workers union has emerged as a big
[14:35] loser.
[14:36] The miners united.
[14:44] >> But the miners were not united and their
[14:46] strike to prevent the closure of coal
[14:48] mines on economic grounds has collapsed.
[14:50] Today, many mining communities went
[14:52] through a last spasm of defiance before
[14:55] returning to work tomorrow without an
[14:57] agreement and deeply divided.
[15:01] >> Much of the bitterness stems from the
[15:03] violence of the strike. Mass picketing
[15:05] brought out mass police lines. Two
[15:07] people were killed. Britain was shot. In
[15:10] the end, the violence cost the miners
[15:12] much needed public support while
[15:14] encouraging Prime Minister Thatcher in
[15:16] her tough negotiating line.
[15:17] >> This I hope we'll never see again in
[15:20] Britain some of the terrible scenes we
[15:21] witnessed. I didn't think we could ever
[15:24] see them here, but we have, and now I
[15:26] hope it's over.
[15:28] >> Without exception, British newspapers
[15:29] today depicted Miners Union President
[15:31] Arthur Scargill as the big loser. most
[15:34] accepting the Thatcher government's
[15:36] contention that it had fought and
[15:37] defeated the enemy within.
[15:40] >> It was about the whole way in which
[15:41] Britain was going to move forward
[15:43] whether it was going to look back or
[15:44] look forward. Uh to that extent it was a
[15:47] necessary war. It had to be fought and
[15:49] it had to be won.
[15:50] >> But Marxist Scarill is not conceding
[15:52] defeat and his bitterness toward those
[15:54] who did not support him burns with the
[15:57] same intensity which split this country
[15:59] after the last great strike in 1926. 50
[16:02] years on, people remember those who
[16:04] betrayed the union. No, it's not going
[16:06] to be for a while. It's going to be for
[16:08] the end of time.
[16:09] >> One of the strongest and proudest labor
[16:11] unions has lost one of the most violent
[16:14] and the longest major strike in British
[16:16] history. That is bound to leave some
[16:19] very deep scars in the British body
[16:21] politic. Barry Dunore, ABC News in the
[16:24] Kent Cole Fields. Our commentator George
[16:27] Will is with us this evening and he has
[16:29] some comments about unions on both sides
[16:31] of the Atlantic. George
[16:32] >> Peter, Mrs. Thatcher obviously has been
[16:34] very lucky in the enemies that history
[16:36] has handed to her. First the Argentine
[16:38] generals and now a man like Mr. Scargle.
[16:41] But this is a night perhaps for
[16:42] Americans to think how lucky we are in
[16:44] the kind of labor unions we have.
[16:46] British unions are strictly speaking
[16:48] many of them reactionary. They don't
[16:50] believe in economic growth. They're
[16:52] afraid of change. They want to argue
[16:54] about how to carve the economic pie.
[16:56] American unions believe in growth by and
[16:58] large and want to bake a bigger pie.
[17:01] It's a mystery to me, Peter, why so many
[17:03] conservative American businessmen
[17:05] complain about American unions. The
[17:06] principal effect of American unions has
[17:09] been to increase the purchasing power of
[17:11] American men and women. What do they
[17:13] buy? They buy what conservative American
[17:15] businessmen are selling. In the 1930s,
[17:18] we had a great many radical unionists in
[17:20] this country. Now, thanks to the unions,
[17:22] they have the money to buy a home in the
[17:24] suburb, maybe a cottage by the lake, a
[17:26] camper to drive to and from their home
[17:28] and their cottage in.
[17:29] >> George, let me ask you a question. How
[17:30] much do you think this has to do with
[17:31] the fact that we are one class
[17:32] essentially in this country and Britain
[17:34] is really still divided very much into
[17:36] two classes?
[17:37] >> I think it has a great deal to do with
[17:38] that, Peter. But again, I think American
[17:40] labor unions get a large share of the
[17:42] credit for making us a middle class
[17:44] country.
[17:45] >> George, thank you very much indeed.
[17:47] Another blast today. And when we come
[17:49] back, the California asbestous trial,
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[20:00] even though it is being held in San
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[20:04] giant lawsuit filed by asbestous
[20:06] manufacturers against their insurance
[20:08] companies. As ABC's Ken Kashuahara
[20:10] reports, it will be a trial with some
[20:12] mind-boggling proportions.
[20:14] The trial is so large it is being held
[20:17] in an auditorium converted into a
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[20:24] more than a hundred lawyers, and
[20:26] billions of dollars in injury claims. At
[20:28] issue is who must pay asbestous victims,
[20:31] the manufacturers or insurance
[20:33] companies, and the question of when
[20:34] liability begins for a disease that
[20:37] takes years to develop.
[20:38] >> Insurance policies say they will cover
[20:41] an insured for claims for bodily injury.
[20:43] The question in this case is when does
[20:45] bodily injury occur. to handle what is
[20:47] believed to be the largest single trial
[20:49] in California history. Workers completed
[20:52] the $200,000 courtroom conversion over
[20:55] the weekend, installing some innovative
[20:57] electronic devices. How, for example,
[21:00] does the judge recognize a lawyer he can
[21:02] barely see?
[21:03] >> There's going to be a light system that
[21:05] uh is connected to my bench, and when an
[21:07] attorney wants to be recognized, he will
[21:09] push a button. Meanwhile, outside the
[21:11] courtroom today, asbestous victims, many
[21:14] of them former workers, protested the
[21:16] fact that while lawyers argue over who
[21:18] pays, victims continue to suffer.
[21:20] >> This is a awful way to die.
[21:23] >> People are basically, a lot of them are
[21:24] dying before any compensation would need
[21:26] to be given to them at all.
[21:28] >> Indeed, the trial is expected to last at
[21:30] least a year with appeals taking several
[21:32] years beyond that. Ken Kajwahara, ABC
[21:35] News, San Francisco.
[21:38] In tonight's Money Matters, a corporate
[21:39] takeover bid called off. Financier Carl
[21:42] Icon today agreed to drop his effort to
[21:44] acquire Philips Petroleum. As our
[21:46] business correspondent Steven Og
[21:47] reports, icon was not the first to get
[21:49] in on this new game of takeover
[21:51] monopoly. It is played for millions.
[21:55] This is oil man T. Boon Pickkins. He was
[21:57] the first to try to take over Philips
[21:58] Petroleum. He started quietly buying
[22:01] Phillips last fall when the stock was
[22:02] about $40 a share. He went public last
[22:05] December and the price shot up to about
[22:07] 55. But the management didn't like it,
[22:09] so they bought him off for $53 a share.
[22:12] Pickins didn't get the company, but he
[22:13] did make $89 million on the stock he
[22:16] bought. Now enter Carl Icon, another
[22:18] corporate raider. He sees himself as a
[22:20] champion of the stockholder, a man who
[22:22] keeps corporate managers on their toes.
[22:24] >> The managements, not all of them, but a
[22:26] lot of them go around with their jet
[22:27] planes and they go around to their
[22:29] hunting lodges. I mean, they live like
[22:30] the nobility of old, but they don't own
[22:32] these companies. Again, I'm not doing it
[22:34] because I'm Robin Hood. I'm doing it
[22:36] because of the financial absolutely
[22:37] because I I I want the financial gain,
[22:39] but I think it's a very good thing that
[22:40] I do and more people should do it.
[22:42] >> Philip's management didn't want to sell
[22:44] out to Icon either. And the settlement
[22:46] today effectively buys him off for $25
[22:48] million, technically reimbursing him for
[22:50] the cost of his takeover attempt. So,
[22:52] who won and who lost in all of this? One
[22:55] big winner, as we said, is Tboon Pickins
[22:57] with his $89 million. So were other
[22:59] investors who got in early and sold out
[23:01] when the stock was going up. One big
[23:03] loser was the company itself. It cost
[23:05] them more than hund00 million dollars
[23:07] just to fight off Pickings and Icon. And
[23:09] now they face billions of dollars more
[23:11] in their plan to buy back half their
[23:12] stock so other Raiders won't try to do
[23:14] it again. Still with millions, if not
[23:17] billions to be made from takeover
[23:18] fights, this is one highstakes game that
[23:20] is sure to continue. Steven Og, ABC
[23:23] News, Washington.
[23:24] >> Stephen, on Wall Street today, the Dow
[23:26] Jones Industrials closed down almost 10
[23:28] points. Trading was just over a 100
[23:30] million shares. When we come back, Pine
[23:32] Creek, Oregon, just north of the
[23:34] California border. They want to keep it
[23:36] that way.
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[25:10] Tonight on Night Line, financiers have
[25:12] been making hundreds of millions of
[25:14] dollars from corporate takeovers,
[25:15] sometimes just from the threat of them.
[25:17] Tonight, how it affects the economy and
[25:19] you.
[25:21] As we have pointed out on this broadcast
[25:23] before, this has not been the best of
[25:25] seasons at exclusive Palm Beach in
[25:26] Florida. With the hulk of the freighter
[25:29] Mercedes still firmly beached, ruining
[25:31] the sea view for some. Guess what showed
[25:33] up to swim around the freighter? You
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[25:42] tonight, the lure of California. Ask
[25:44] Californians about their way of living,
[25:46] and you will hear about the climate, the
[25:47] laid-back living style. They say that
[25:49] just about everybody in the nation wants
[25:51] to live there. They say, as ABC's Jud
[25:54] Rose reports, however, not necessarily.
[26:00] If the town of New Pine Creek doesn't
[26:02] ring a bell, don't worry. There's not
[26:04] much there outsiders would notice. But
[26:06] to a few hundred people, it's home.
[26:08] They're proud of their hometown and
[26:09] especially their home state.
[26:11] >> I am very proud of being an Oregonian,
[26:14] and I have no desire to change. If I had
[26:17] wanted to be something else, I'd have
[26:18] bought property on that side of the
[26:20] line.
[26:21] >> That side of the line is California. The
[26:23] state border runs right through the
[26:24] center of town, giving New Pine Creek
[26:26] sort of a split personality. California
[26:29] has the liquor store, the tavern,
[26:31] trading post, market, gas station, and
[26:33] school. The post office, church, fire
[26:36] department, town hall. They're in Oregon
[26:38] along with the general store, which
[26:40] offers Californian sunglasses styled in
[26:42] Europe. Wait, it gets worse. If you shop
[26:45] here on the Oregon side, you don't pay
[26:47] any sales tax. But if you live there on
[26:49] the California side, you don't pay as
[26:51] much property tax. Of course, if you
[26:53] live on the California side, you still
[26:54] have an Oregon mailing address. And try
[26:56] explaining that to the tax people. But
[26:58] all that could change if Oregon loses
[27:00] New Pine Creek altogether.
[27:02] >> It's been this way for a hundred years,
[27:05] probably at least. Now, why, you know,
[27:08] do they want to make a big mess? Because
[27:11] California officials say someone goofed
[27:13] 117 years ago. They say the state border
[27:17] is way off, a half mile off where it
[27:19] hits New Pine Creek. They want to redraw
[27:21] the border, moving the town into
[27:23] California and extending the line miles
[27:25] out into the Pacific. Of course, there
[27:27] are 30,000 acres sitting out there in
[27:29] the ocean that uh uh you know, if there
[27:31] was oil discovered or minerals, well,
[27:33] naturally uh uh it would become very
[27:37] valuable. Officials from both states met
[27:40] and failed to settle the dispute. So now
[27:42] there's talk of a summit between
[27:43] governors, but California legal
[27:46] officials say the US Supreme Court
[27:48] should define the border. Oregon's
[27:50] governor says go ahead, go to court.
[27:52] He's already drawn the line.
[27:54] >> I don't see any need at all to change
[27:56] the borders between California and
[27:57] Oregon. None.
[27:58] >> I'll put a for sale sign on my place if
[28:00] it asks, you know, if if it becomes
[28:03] California. I've been an Oregonian all
[28:05] my life and I'm not going to change. So
[28:08] for now, whichever state they live in,
[28:10] everyone here is bordering on a state of
[28:13] confusion. Jud Rose, ABC News, New Pine
[28:16] Creek, Oregon.
[28:18] And that's our report on World News
[28:19] Tonight. I'm Peter Jennings. For
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