World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-06-26

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[0:00] Six on News 2.

[0:04] >> On World News Tonight this Saturday, the

[0:06] airport at Christina reopens as tension

[0:09] in Kosovo continues to run high.

[0:13] The railroad killer still at large? But

[0:16] do FBI wanted posters have the wrong

[0:19] name? And a giant horse part of an even

[0:22] larger dream shared by two men born 500

[0:26] years apart.

[0:32] From ABC,

[0:35] this is World News Tonight Saturday.

[0:38] Good evening. I'm Aaron Brown. Tonight,

[0:40] the airport outside of Kosovo's capital

[0:43] is open for the first time since the

[0:45] peacekeeping mission began there.

[0:47] Russian and French jets touched down

[0:49] today. A milestone at the end of a

[0:51] turbulent week in the province where the

[0:53] dangers of keeping the peace continue to

[0:55] grow. Tonight we begin with ABC's Terry

[0:58] Moran.

[1:00] >> Huge fires burned tonight in a gypsy

[1:03] neighborhood of Pristino where unknown

[1:04] arsonists targeted two homes. Today in

[1:07] the northern town of Mitra Vita, French

[1:09] troops struggled to separate mobs of

[1:11] Serbs and ethnic Albanians. And in the

[1:13] southern Kosovo village of Zegra, US

[1:16] Marines, in an indication of how NATO's

[1:17] mission here is changing, were not

[1:19] looking for combatants, but criminals.

[1:21] >> We're attempting to stop burning and

[1:24] looting of houses. But several Serb

[1:26] homes were burned down in Jaggra today

[1:28] and the Marines detained 15 people here,

[1:30] including this man.

[1:31] >> He's been caught vandalizing and uh you

[1:34] know taking gear that doesn't belong to

[1:36] him out of the Serbian houses.

[1:38] >> Get out of here. Move.

[1:40] >> Postwar Kosovo is a virtually lawless

[1:42] place. And since NATO can't be

[1:44] everywhere, the situation is

[1:46] deteriorating quickly.

[1:50] We need a lot more troops here because

[1:52] we are getting looted and robbed, says

[1:53] this man at a cafe in Pristina.

[1:56] >> The UN official charged with restoring

[1:58] order to Kosovo said last week more than

[2:00] troops are needed here and a police

[2:02] force is a top priority.

[2:03] >> This will take a few months. The uh

[2:07] recruitment system, the selection of

[2:10] candidates,

[2:11] uh their training,

[2:13] >> but NATO says that's not fast enough.

[2:15] And yesterday, NATO General Mike Jackson

[2:17] sought to reassure a crowd of Serbs

[2:19] outside Pristina.

[2:20] >> So what I am saying to you is that every

[2:23] day

[2:27] >> the security forces K4 become stronger.

[2:30] >> But as the lootings and the burnings

[2:31] continue, it is increasingly clear that

[2:33] NATO is not strong enough to stop the

[2:35] cycle of ethnic violence and revenge in

[2:38] Kosovo. Terry Moran, ABC News,

[2:40] Christina, Kosovo. NATO peacekeepers

[2:42] arrested a Serb policeman who they say

[2:44] may be linked to as many as 56 murders

[2:47] in Kosovo. K4 spokesman said today the

[2:50] suspect was captured in a house outside

[2:52] Pushina has not been indicted yet by the

[2:55] International War Crimes Tribunal in the

[2:57] Netherlands. Macedonia today uh refugees

[3:01] at the Stanovich camp are registering

[3:03] for their long- aaited journey home.

[3:05] Starting Monday, around 2,000 ethnic

[3:07] Albanians will be bust out of the camp

[3:09] each day. But over 300,000 other

[3:12] refugees have already made their way

[3:15] home or what's left of their homes on

[3:17] their own. Here's ABC's Tom Foreman.

[3:21] The refugees are folding their tents and

[3:24] packing their cars. The Sasha family is

[3:26] headed back like most with no clue as to

[3:29] how they will get by.

[3:33] I am worried because we don't have a

[3:35] house. The mother says we have small

[3:37] children and we don't know where we're

[3:39] going.

[3:41] >> Many of the refugees have never felt

[3:43] welcome in the countries to which they

[3:45] fled and say if they must live in tents

[3:47] they would rather do so at home.

[3:50] So relief planes are constantly flying

[3:53] in supplies to Kosovo. But there is so

[3:55] much need.

[3:58] In many places, there is no housing, no

[4:01] phones, little water, food, electricity.

[4:04] Still, aid agencies are not having much

[4:06] success telling people to wait.

[4:08] >> As of today, we cannot welcome these

[4:10] people back into those areas where the

[4:12] destruction level is high.

[4:14] >> There are serious concerns about

[4:16] landmines and about families being

[4:18] broken up in the dash for the border.

[4:20] Children are being given identity

[4:22] bracelets and parents are urged to make

[4:24] contingency plans. Especially with the

[4:27] younger children, you might teach them

[4:28] landmarks, the names of their villages,

[4:31] uh the names of their family, or perhaps

[4:32] their father's name.

[4:33] >> Many of the people who are still in the

[4:35] camps are here simply because they have

[4:37] no choice. They cannot afford

[4:40] transportation back home. But they are

[4:43] pressing relief agencies to start bus

[4:45] service back to Kosovo, and that should

[4:47] begin within days,

[4:50] carrying even more refugees to an

[4:53] uncertain future. Tom Foreman, ABC News,

[4:57] Tetiva, Macedonia.

[4:59] >> Some Kosovo refugees may not be

[5:01] returning home. They have chosen to face

[5:04] their uncertain future in unfamiliar

[5:06] places. Starting over in California from

[5:09] ABC's Lisa Salters,

[5:11] >> when Vila and his family arrived in

[5:14] California this week,

[5:15] >> hi, how are you?

[5:17] >> They were met by a welcoming committee

[5:19] of strangers. Welcome.

[5:21] >> Members of the Westminster Presbyterian

[5:23] Church outside San Francisco were there

[5:25] to greet the villas and to show them to

[5:27] their new home. One provided compliments

[5:30] of the church.

[5:31] >> Whole community done everything humanly

[5:33] possible to bring nine people. They got

[5:35] them a house, clothing, dishes. I mean

[5:38] just like coming to your own home

[5:40] really, you know.

[5:40] >> The congregation had only days to

[5:43] prepare for the VA's arrival. Hundreds

[5:45] of volunteers work almost around the

[5:47] clock building bunk beds, arranging

[5:49] furniture, polishing silverware,

[5:52] stocking the house with supplies. On

[5:54] Wednesday, we signed the papers on the

[5:56] house and in 3 days by Friday afternoon,

[6:01] the house was fully furnished from

[6:02] donations of the congregation.

[6:04] >> It's working.

[6:05] >> And after spending weeks in a crowded

[6:07] refugee camp in Macedonia, the Vas are

[6:10] grateful.

[6:11] >> Thank you for accepting us over here.

[6:13] This is like a home for us and

[6:15] everything what they have done for us.

[6:16] >> The family is settling in this weekend.

[6:19] They all plan to take English lessons

[6:21] and to find jobs in their new adopted

[6:24] country. But despite the excitement of a

[6:26] new beginning in America, there's still

[6:28] so much sadness when they think about

[6:31] what's become of their home in Kosovo.

[6:35] >> The house are burned.

[6:37] >> Even if you go back, how you going to

[6:38] walk the land? There's nothing to work

[6:40] with. For the VAS, starting over will be

[6:43] difficult, but they are comforted by

[6:45] knowing that they won't have to do it

[6:47] alone.

[6:49] >> I love America.

[6:50] >> Lisa Salters, ABC News, Tibberon,

[6:53] California.

[6:54] >> And more homecomings today on this side

[6:56] of the Atlantic as Navy warplanes and

[6:58] their pilots touched down at Andrews Air

[7:00] Force Base in Maryland. There's four of

[7:02] the six that came back. They're the

[7:04] first Navy pilots to return from NATO's

[7:06] air campaign where they flew 717 surges

[7:10] over Yugoslavia. Still ahead on World

[7:12] News Tonight this Saturday, disturbing

[7:14] new details about an elusive serial

[7:17] killer suspect and a chilling document

[7:19] surfaces from the hand of Adolf Hitler.

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[9:33] Rosendez Ramirez is still in the United

[9:36] States. ABC News also reached his aunt

[9:39] in Mexico tonight, who says she does not

[9:41] believe her nephew is guilty, but the

[9:43] FBI is continuing to look for him in a

[9:46] nationwide manhunt. Here's ABC's Mike

[9:48] Vonr.

[9:50] He may be among the nation's most

[9:52] wanted, but officials on his trail do

[9:54] not know where he is and are not even

[9:56] sure what his real name is. FBI

[9:59] officials have been told that the name

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[10:20] Ramirez, is actually that of an uncle

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[10:25] Rescendes Ramirez was the name he gave

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[10:30] Paso. When he was released this month,

[10:32] it was at least the fourth time he was

[10:34] set free across the border back into

[10:37] Mexico. A fact that law enforcement

[10:39] officials find frustrating, but admit it

[10:42] has given them something useful. What it

[10:44] does do is give us the most current

[10:46] photograph that we can get out to the

[10:47] public in hopes that somebody may have

[10:49] seen this person.

[10:50] >> Just the latest photograph from a string

[10:52] of arrests in Miami. In 1979, he was

[10:56] given a 20-year sentence for burglary

[10:58] and aggravated assault. 1985, he was

[11:01] arrested in Elno, Oklahoma for falsely

[11:04] representing himself as a US citizen.

[11:06] 1987, arrested in Dallas, Texas on the

[11:09] same charge. 1988 in New Orleans for a

[11:12] concealed weapon and in St. Louis for

[11:15] falsifying documents. 1992 in Los Cusus,

[11:18] New Mexico for burglary. 1993 in Carson

[11:22] County, Texas for stealing a truck. 1994

[11:25] in San Bernardino, California for

[11:27] carrying a pistol.

[11:30] His wife, who is cooperating with law

[11:32] enforcement, says that her husband knows

[11:33] his way back and forth across the US

[11:36] border. She says he frequently earns

[11:38] thousands of dollars transporting

[11:40] illegal aliens. The FBI says it does not

[11:43] make much difference whether his name is

[11:44] Rendez Ramirez or Anhel Ryz that it's

[11:47] not going to change the name on its most

[11:49] wanted poster. Mike Vonm, ABC News,

[11:53] Houston. A private detective and his

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[15:11] in an air attack this week by US and

[15:13] British forces. While Kosovo has

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[15:17] months, that report is a reminder of the

[15:20] stubborn problems the US faces in Iraq.

[15:23] Here's ABC's Martha Ratitz.

[15:26] Day after day, US and British jets

[15:28] engage in a war over Iraq that may be

[15:31] forgotten, but is certainly not gone.

[15:34] Throughout the three-month air campaign

[15:36] in Yugoslavia, the Iraqis fired on US

[15:39] aircraft or violated the no-fly zones

[15:42] dozens of times. The US bombed close to

[15:46] 50 Iraqi air defense and command and

[15:48] control sites in response. US air

[15:51] operations over Iraq were suspended at

[15:54] one point this spring because aircraft

[15:56] were needed in Kosovo. But Saddam

[15:58] Hussein's military power has still been

[16:01] seriously damaged.

[16:02] >> The impact of these strikes, I think, is

[16:04] the continued containment of Saddam

[16:07] Hussein. While the bombing may have

[16:08] degraded Saddam Hussein militarily, it

[16:11] has been 6 months since UN weapons

[16:14] inspectors were forced out of Iraq. One

[16:16] US official tells ABC News that there

[16:19] has been activity detected in Iraq's

[16:21] biological and chemical weapons

[16:23] production. But without monitors, it is

[16:26] nearly impossible to say how extensive.

[16:28] >> They've almost certainly built up a

[16:30] significant biological and chemical

[16:33] weapons capability.

[16:35] They probably resumed their nuclear

[16:37] weapons research efforts and they

[16:39] brought some of their missile programs

[16:41] back online.

[16:42] >> The US has tried other strategies to

[16:44] destabilize the Iraqi regime over the

[16:47] past few months, funneling money to

[16:49] opposition groups in hopes of

[16:50] overthrowing Saddam Hussein.

[16:53] >> I would council patience.

[16:54] >> Princecraftoft, who took on Saddam

[16:56] Hussein in the Gulf War, believes the

[16:58] Iraqi president will eventually be

[17:01] toppled. I think we can continue as long

[17:03] as he can at this.

[17:05] >> But that may take a long, long time. For

[17:08] if any world leader has shown resilience

[17:10] over the years, it's Saddam Hussein who

[17:13] seized power in Iraq over 30 years ago

[17:16] back in 1968.

[17:18] Martha Ratitz, ABC News at the State

[17:21] Department.

[17:22] >> One of the most important and certainly

[17:24] one of the most chilling documents ever

[17:26] produced by Nazi Germany has turned up

[17:28] in Los Angeles. The infamous Nuremberg

[17:31] laws.

[17:33] Historians say this simple document

[17:35] typed on white paper set the stage for

[17:38] the horror of the Holocaust. At the

[17:40] bottom, Hitler's signature. Drafted in

[17:43] 1935, the Nuremberg laws define German

[17:47] citizenship as based on blood.

[17:50] Marriages, it says, between Jews and

[17:52] citizens of German blood are forbidden.

[17:55] Extrammarital sexual intercourse between

[17:58] Jews and citizens of German blood

[18:01] forbidden.

[18:06] >> The law stripped Jews of their legal

[18:08] protection in society and led to the

[18:11] persecution, the deportation, and

[18:13] eventually the murder of millions of

[18:15] people. The manuscript was given to the

[18:18] Huntington Library in Los Angeles by

[18:20] General George Patton in 1945 and

[18:23] largely forgotten. Even scholars didn't

[18:26] know it was there. This spring, an

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[18:32] Scurball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

[18:35] They will go on display Tuesday.

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[20:48] >> Parents, whether they adopt their

[20:50] children or are the biological parents,

[20:52] face similar, indeed in most cases,

[20:55] identical problems. But in practice,

[20:57] they are not necessarily treated the

[20:59] same. Beginning on the 1st of July, that

[21:02] will change in the state of Maryland,

[21:03] the first state to do so. And for that,

[21:06] adoptive parents can thank one couple

[21:08] and their adopted newborn son. ABC's

[21:11] Carol Simpson with the story.

[21:14] Kevin and Kristen Moran wanted a baby.

[21:16] For 5 years, they underwent difficult

[21:19] and expensive fertility treatments. They

[21:21] didn't work. So, the couple decided to

[21:24] adopt a newborn.

[21:25] >> And I just wanted to be home with him as

[21:27] much as possible. And I wanted him to

[21:28] have every um opportunity that a regular

[21:32] or not regular, but a you know, a

[21:34] natural birth child would have. But

[21:36] Kristen was told by her employer she was

[21:39] not entitled to the same six weeks paid

[21:42] leave her pregnant co-workers got.

[21:45] >> Her husband was outraged

[21:47] >> after everything we had been through.

[21:49] That was uh uh that was uh really

[21:52] upsetting to us.

[21:54] >> Kevin began contacting state officials.

[21:57] He found a sympathetic ear in delegate

[21:59] Mark Shriber. A baby, whether it's

[22:02] biological or adopting, will scream and

[22:04] in the middle of the night, as we all

[22:05] know, they need to be fed. Uh they need

[22:08] time to bond with their adopting

[22:09] parents.

[22:10] >> In January, Shriber introduced a bill in

[22:13] the Maryland legislature, requiring

[22:15] companies with policies granting paid

[22:18] leave for a birth parent to quote,

[22:20] "grant the same leave with pay to an

[22:23] employee when a child is placed with the

[22:25] employee for adoption." At first,

[22:28] Maryland businesses bought. They didn't

[22:30] want the government mandating benefits

[22:32] for their employees. But since there are

[22:34] only about 500 adoptions in Maryland

[22:36] every year, they realized the impact

[22:39] would be negligible and they withdrew

[22:41] their opposition. The bill passed.

[22:44] >> The Morans ended up getting everything

[22:46] they wanted. Kevin got a new law passed

[22:49] and Kristen got her six weeks paid leave

[22:52] to be with her new son.

[22:54] >> He's our angel. It's a wonderful baby.

[22:58] makes us very happy.

[22:59] >> Carol Simpson, ABC News, Howard County,

[23:02] Maryland.

[23:04] >> Couple of sports notes tonight. Tears in

[23:06] New York, but celebrations in San

[23:08] Antonio. Spurs returned home today after

[23:10] squeaking past the New York Knicks last

[23:12] night. Madison Square Garden 7877.

[23:16] Spurs win the series four games to one.

[23:18] The first time one of the former ABA

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[23:25] team tomorrow. in baseball. Rare moment

[23:28] for rookie Cardinal pitcher Jose Jimenez

[23:31] threw a no hitter against Arizona last

[23:33] night. Jimenez is the first National

[23:35] League rookie to throw a no hitter in 27

[23:38] years. First St. Louis rookie to do that

[23:41] in 65 years. Still ahead tonight, a

[23:45] vision of the equin kind 500 years in

[23:49] the making.

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[25:35] >> A great feat at the Great Wall today

[25:38] just outside Beijing. Four precision sky

[25:40] divers landed at top one of the towers

[25:42] at the Great Wall. The event marks the

[25:44] 50th anniversary of the People's

[25:46] Republic of China and the Millennium as

[25:49] well. When we first came across our

[25:51] final story tonight, we were attracted

[25:53] not simply by the art, which as you will

[25:55] see is stunning, but by how this piece

[25:58] of art came to be, which is a truly

[26:00] remarkable story. A story of two men

[26:02] born 500 years apart, bound together by

[26:06] a dream. Here's ABC's Jamie Floyd.

[26:10] This weekend, hundreds of people are

[26:12] flocking to Beacon, New York to see a

[26:14] horse. But it's not just any horse. It's

[26:17] 24 feet high and was 500 years in the

[26:20] making. Legend has it Leonardo da Vinci

[26:23] wept on his deathbed at never having

[26:25] completed the monumental sculpture he

[26:27] hoped would be his greatest legacy.

[26:29] Dainci's dream of Il Cabalo, Italian for

[26:32] the horse, was shattered when French

[26:35] troops invaded Milan and the bronze

[26:37] intended for the sculpture was

[26:39] sacrificed to the war effort. In 1977,

[26:43] nearly 500 years later, the story caught

[26:45] the attention of another dreamer,

[26:47] airline pilot and art collector Charles

[26:50] Dent. Da Vinci's dream became his, and

[26:52] Dent commissioned a New York foundry to

[26:54] create the massive horse. Charlie was a

[26:57] dreamer and he was an inspiration could

[27:00] inspire people like me and many many

[27:02] others to help fulfill this dream.

[27:06] >> Da Vinci left notes and some sketches

[27:08] but no completed drawings of the horse.

[27:11] As Dent found, it's not easy to recreate

[27:14] a Da Vinci and after several

[27:15] unsuccessful renditions, sculptor Nina

[27:18] Akamu joined the effort.

[27:20] >> It's the symbol for creative energy.

[27:22] Leonardo was a paragon of creativity. He

[27:25] was an archetype of human potential. I

[27:27] mean, he was one of the great geniuses

[27:29] and renaissance people of the world.

[27:31] >> Dent died in 1994, but next month the

[27:34] dream he shared with Da Vinci becomes

[27:36] reality. The completed 15ton, $6.5

[27:40] million horse will be shipped to Milan,

[27:43] a gift to Da Vinci's native Italy.

[27:45] >> We're thanking the Italian people for

[27:48] Leonardo da Vinci, for the Renaissance,

[27:50] for 2,000 years of culture on that

[27:52] peninsula. And uh we think of it as a as

[27:55] a giant present from one country to

[27:57] another.

[27:58] >> It will be dedicated on September 10th,

[28:01] 500 years to the day the French invaded

[28:03] Milan and Dainci's dream died. Jamie

[28:06] Floyd, ABC News, New York.

[28:09] >> We're always interested in hearing from

[28:11] you. You can email us at

[28:12] weekendabcnews.com.

[28:15] That's a report for tonight. Tomorrow on

[28:17] this week with Sam Donaldson and Koki

[28:18] Roberts, Minnesota Governor Jesse

[28:20] Ventura. I'm Aaron Brown in New York.

[28:23] Good night from all of us at ABC News.

[28:33] Monday, America's frenzy buying binge

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