World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-08-01

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[0:01] On World News Tonight this Sunday,

[0:03] Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks out about

[0:06] her husband's infidelity and why she

[0:09] stood by her man.

[0:14] In the wake of the Atlanta shootings,

[0:16] mourning the dead and new calls for gun

[0:18] control.

[0:20] And behind bars, America's prisons

[0:23] housing the mentally ill and unprepared

[0:26] to do so.

[0:33] >> From ABC,

[0:35] this is World News Tonight, Sunday.

[0:39] >> Good evening. I'm Carole Simpson. They

[0:42] are long-awaited words from the First

[0:44] Lady and they come in the middle of her

[0:46] listening tour in New York as she

[0:48] campaigns for a likely run for the

[0:50] Senate. In an interview in the new

[0:52] magazine Talk, she answers many of the

[0:55] questions that Americans have been

[0:56] wondering about since the Monica

[0:58] Lewinsky scandal first broke. We begin

[1:01] with ABC's Carole Davis.

[1:04] >> When the president and daughter Chelsea

[1:06] attended church today, the First Lady

[1:08] was not seen. But in an interview with

[1:11] Talk magazine to be published this week,

[1:13] she called her husband's infidelity a

[1:15] weakness caused by childhood abuse. Mrs.

[1:18] Clinton says he was so young, barely

[1:20] four, when he was scarred by abuse.

[1:23] There was terrible conflict between his

[1:25] mother and grandmother.

[1:27] Mr. Clinton's grandmother helped raise

[1:29] him while his mother attended nursing

[1:31] school. The First Lady indicated that he

[1:33] was torn between the two.

[1:35] In the magazine owned by Disney, ABC's

[1:38] parent company, Mrs. Clinton admitted

[1:40] she knew her husband had been unfaithful

[1:42] but thought he had changed after the

[1:44] Jennifer Flowers affair. She says, "I

[1:47] thought this was resolved 10 years ago.

[1:49] I thought he had conquered it. I thought

[1:51] he understood it. But he didn't go deep

[1:53] enough or work hard enough."

[1:56] Political pundits are already asking, is

[1:58] Frank Talk smart strategy for someone

[2:01] eyeing a Senate seat?

[2:02] >> She knew she was going to have to

[2:03] address more directly this issue the

[2:05] president's behavior. And she's chosen

[2:07] to do it in an extended interview. I

[2:09] think she hopes that now she will not

[2:11] have to do it on the fly at news

[2:12] conferences.

[2:13] >> Others argue the revelations are too

[2:15] much, too late.

[2:17] >> I can't imagine that it is a good

[2:18] strategy because it resurrects all of

[2:21] these issues that people have wanted to

[2:23] put to bed. She's trying to establish

[2:25] herself on the issues as a candidate for

[2:27] senator. Anything that simply puts her

[2:29] back in the Monica Lewinsky world, I

[2:32] think hurts her campaign.

[2:33] >> When asked if her marriage could

[2:35] withstand a Senate bid, the first lady

[2:37] replied, "The president is responsible

[2:39] for his own behavior, whether I'm there

[2:42] or 100 miles away."

[2:44] As to why Mrs. Clinton stays with her

[2:46] husband, she says, quote, "There has

[2:48] been enormous pain, enormous anger, but

[2:51] I have been with him half my life, and

[2:53] he is a very, very good man."

[2:56] Carla Davis, ABC News, Washington.

[3:00] >> The White House today said the article

[3:02] paints a portrait of Mrs. Clinton that

[3:04] is quite positive, and it speaks for

[3:07] itself.

[3:08] And we have late word that Monica

[3:10] Lewinsky has been hospitalized tonight

[3:12] in Ventura, California. The highway

[3:14] patrol says Lewinsky was involved in a

[3:17] traffic accident. Police say she

[3:19] suffered minor injuries. Tomorrow on

[3:22] Good Morning America, Diane Sawyer sits

[3:24] down for an exclusive interview with

[3:26] Talk editor Tina Brown and Lucinda

[3:28] Franks, the writer who interviewed Mrs.

[3:30] Clinton.

[3:32] In Atlanta, the grieving continued

[3:34] today. Leanne Barton, the first victim

[3:37] in last week's shooting rampage which

[3:39] left 13 dead, was buried today. Here's

[3:42] ABC's Steve Osunsami.

[3:48] >> In tears under the Georgia heat this

[3:50] Sunday afternoon, mourners came to bury

[3:53] Leanne Barton, the killer's 27-year-old

[3:56] wife. A few hours away, another

[3:58] ceremony, the wake for her two

[4:00] stepchildren, Shelley, Matthew, killed

[4:03] by their own father with a hammer.

[4:05] >> I think the whole

[4:07] state of Georgia

[4:09] is uh

[4:11] upset about it.

[4:13] >> July was a deadly month in the state

[4:15] capital. 23 people dead in three

[4:17] separate incidents. 3 weeks ago, a

[4:20] stepfather killed seven people then

[4:22] himself. Last weekend, an all-night

[4:24] standoff claimed the lives of the gunman

[4:26] and two officers. And on Thursday, what

[4:29] would become the deadliest mass killing

[4:32] in the state's history.

[4:33] >> I don't know that there is any

[4:34] explanation for it.

[4:37] We'll simply have to search our souls

[4:39] and

[4:40] try to find ways of making our society

[4:43] stronger in the future.

[4:46] >> Across Georgia this weekend, the sound

[4:48] of grief. An Islamic service for Dean

[4:50] Delawalla, one of the day traders. 2,000

[4:53] people attended.

[5:00] And about a mile from the office

[5:01] building where the nine people died

[5:03] Thursday, Sunday worship at Peachtree

[5:06] Road United Methodist.

[5:07] >> We were living happily along and taking

[5:09] things for granted

[5:11] until terror and death hit at random.

[5:14] >> This week, the church will hold a

[5:16] memorial service for those killed in the

[5:18] two offices. Steve Osunsami, ABC News,

[5:22] Atlanta.

[5:23] >> Shootings in Atlanta have revitalized

[5:25] calls for gun control. A house bill

[5:28] containing gun control measures was

[5:30] defeated last month. But as ABC's Tim

[5:33] O'Brien reports, there is still a chance

[5:35] that new gun controls could become law.

[5:39] >> At most gun shows, like this one today

[5:40] in Kansas City, unlicensed dealers can

[5:43] legally sell guns to anyone without any

[5:45] background check, a loophole in federal

[5:47] gun laws. Background checks might not

[5:50] have prevented Thursday's shooting spree

[5:51] in Atlanta or that massacre at Columbine

[5:54] High School in Colorado last April. But

[5:56] both incidents have focused attention on

[5:58] that loophole and put pressure on

[6:00] Congress to close it.

[6:02] >> How much is required? What else has to

[6:05] happen to convince the Republican

[6:07] leadership in the Congress of a need for

[6:09] some effective gun control?

[6:12] >> I happen to do believe that closing the

[6:15] gun show loophole can stop some

[6:18] criminals from getting guns.

[6:21] >> Republicans have opposed the idea until

[6:23] Friday, one day after the rampage in

[6:25] Atlanta. Even they went on record

[6:27] supporting it as part of a larger

[6:29] juvenile justice bill.

[6:31] >> Is a realistic possibility that we can

[6:33] work out language in conference that

[6:36] will allow this bill to pass and that

[6:38] can satisfy some of the request of those

[6:40] who want more control.

[6:42] >> Opponents say there are enough controls

[6:44] already.

[6:45] >> The laws are already there. If they

[6:46] enforce the laws that are in existence

[6:48] now,

[6:49] we wouldn't have the problems.

[6:50] >> Members of the House and Senate hope to

[6:51] agree on a compromise later this week

[6:53] that would close the gun show loophole.

[6:56] New polls show most Americans want even

[6:58] stronger gun laws than Congress is now

[7:00] considering. Tim O'Brien, ABC News at

[7:03] the Capitol.

[7:05] >> The heat wave has broken in some parts

[7:06] of the nation, but its effects are still

[7:09] being felt. In Chicago, the death toll

[7:11] from heat-related causes climbed to 73

[7:15] as more autopsies were performed.

[7:17] Nationwide, the heat has claimed at

[7:19] least 182 lives. And the cooling system

[7:23] that brought relief has also been

[7:25] deadly. Four people in Ohio and upper

[7:27] Wisconsin were killed by falling trees

[7:30] when thunderstorms swept through the

[7:32] region.

[7:33] Still ahead on World News tonight

[7:35] Sunday, moving off welfare and into the

[7:38] job force.

[7:39] A disturbing trend in the nation's

[7:41] prison population.

[7:43] And the world's oldest twins and what

[7:46] they mean for Japan.

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[9:29] >> New statistics are out today on the

[9:31] millions of Americans making the switch

[9:33] from welfare to work programs. The

[9:36] numbers are being called a success by

[9:38] the White House, but as ABC's Andrea

[9:40] McCarren reports, not everyone agrees.

[9:44] >> Bye-bye.

[9:45] >> After 6 years on welfare, Janet Russell

[9:48] is now working to support her four

[9:49] children. She's one of an estimated 1

[9:52] and 1/2 million Americans who have

[9:54] traded welfare checks for paychecks in

[9:56] the last 3 years.

[9:58] >> It's comparable to a drug. If you decide

[10:00] you're not going to do drugs no more,

[10:01] you don't do them. So, I'm not to be on

[10:03] public assistance no more, then you just

[10:05] don't do it.

[10:06] >> According to new statistics released

[10:08] today, Oregon, Montana, Wisconsin, Iowa,

[10:11] and Wyoming showed the highest

[10:13] employment rates for welfare recipients.

[10:16] More than 55% worked at least 20 hours a

[10:19] week. Maryland, North Carolina, New

[10:21] Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Arkansas

[10:24] reported the lowest rates, fewer than

[10:26] 20% going from welfare to work.

[10:29] >> We need to make sure that work pays

[10:31] better than welfare. That's why we're

[10:32] fighting hard to raise the minimum wage

[10:34] and hold on to the earned income tax

[10:35] credit, which boosts people's paychecks.

[10:38] >> More people may be off welfare, but

[10:41] critics argue many are forced to find

[10:43] help elsewhere.

[10:44] >> We have put too much emphasis on

[10:45] caseload reduction, and we are finding

[10:48] that some families are actually losing

[10:49] ground, losing income

[10:51] as a result.

[10:53] >> Donna Williams has a job, but has to

[10:55] rely on food banks and charities just to

[10:57] get by.

[10:58] >> Making minimum wage 515 an hour just

[11:01] isn't enough

[11:02] for someone to survive on with two

[11:04] children.

[11:05] >> This week, President Clinton will call

[11:07] on business leaders to hire even more

[11:09] people from the welfare rolls. He will

[11:11] also push Congress for more money for

[11:13] child care, so those who make it from

[11:15] welfare to work can stay there. Andrea

[11:18] McCarren, ABC News, the White House.

[11:21] >> In news overseas now, new tensions in

[11:23] Kosovo. A bomb ripped through a Serbian

[11:26] Orthodox church under construction in

[11:28] Pristina. No one was injured, but the

[11:31] violence undermines efforts to convince

[11:34] the Serb minority that Western

[11:36] peacekeepers can protect them.

[11:39] In Japan, a growing challenge faces the

[11:41] country, aging. The world's oldest twins

[11:45] celebrated a landmark birthday there

[11:47] today, and as Mark Litke reports,

[11:49] balancing care for the elderly with the

[11:52] needs of a struggling economy is proving

[11:54] difficult.

[11:56] >> 107-year-old

[11:58] twins, Kin and Gin, symbolize one of

[12:01] Japan's greatest achievements, the

[12:03] longest life expectancy in the world.

[12:06] But they are also at the heart of why

[12:08] Japan is still struggling to repair its

[12:10] economy. It's being called Japan's aging

[12:14] time bomb. Simply put, the population of

[12:17] people over 65 here is skyrocketing.

[12:21] While the world has been pushing Japan

[12:23] to lower taxes and increase spending to

[12:25] help lead Asia out of its financial

[12:27] crisis, Japan actually needs more tax

[12:30] revenues and more savings to pay for the

[12:32] rising cost of elderly pensions and

[12:35] medical care.

[12:37] 18% of national income is already spent

[12:40] on health and welfare benefits here, but

[12:42] at least twice that amount will be

[12:44] needed soon, and the country cannot

[12:46] afford it.

[12:47] Adding to the age problem, the birth

[12:49] rate here is so low, the population will

[12:52] soon start to shrink. That means fewer

[12:54] people to pay taxes just as more elderly

[12:57] are demanding benefits.

[12:59] Japan's next generation is already

[13:01] facing a bill it cannot possibly pay.

[13:04] The long-term solution is to launch

[13:06] another baby boom, and some local

[13:09] governments here are now offering cash

[13:11] incentives for childbirth, up to $1,000

[13:14] per child. But it hasn't turned the tide

[13:17] yet.

[13:18] Japanese are already bracing for the

[13:20] inevitable, something familiar to

[13:22] Americans, higher taxes and fewer

[13:24] old-age benefits. The grain of Japan is

[13:28] no longer the cause for celebration that

[13:30] it used to be.

[13:32] Mark Litke, ABC News, Tokyo.

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[15:48] >> Tonight, in part two of our series

[15:50] behind bars, a profound shift in

[15:53] America's prison population. There are

[15:55] about 60,000 severely mentally ill

[15:58] patients in the nation's public

[16:00] psychiatric hospitals today. But over

[16:03] four times as many mentally ill people,

[16:06] nearly 284,000,

[16:09] are incarcerated. It is a trend with

[16:12] profound implications for a system

[16:14] designed to punish. As ABC's Jamie Floyd

[16:17] reports, behind bars in America's

[16:20] prisons and jails, caring for the

[16:22] mentally ill is a growing problem.

[16:26] >> Rikers Island inmate James DeMarco was

[16:29] sentenced this past week to six years

[16:31] for attempted burglary. He was diagnosed

[16:33] with schizophrenia as a teenager.

[16:36] >> Release,

[16:37] arrest, incarceration,

[16:39] over and over and over again. That's

[16:42] what his life has been.

[16:43] When he's not in prison or in hospital,

[16:45] he's trying to exist on the streets.

[16:48] And that's where he gets in trouble.

[16:50] >> DeMarco is like thousands of other

[16:52] prisoners, spending a lifetime in and

[16:54] out of the system due to mental illness.

[16:57] >> The trend began with a wholesale closing

[16:59] of public mental hospitals in the 1960s.

[17:02] Today, there are far more mentally ill

[17:04] in the nation's jails and prisons than

[17:07] in hospitals.

[17:08] According to a recent study by the

[17:10] Department of Justice, at least 16% of

[17:13] the inmate population is mentally ill.

[17:16] That's three times the percentage in the

[17:18] rest of the country. There are now more

[17:20] than a quarter million people with

[17:22] mental illnesses in prisons and jails

[17:25] unprepared to handle them.

[17:26] >> They may be

[17:28] uh kept in four-point restraints for

[17:30] long periods of time. Uh they may be

[17:32] stripped of all clothing because they're

[17:34] viewed as a suicide risk. These are

[17:36] environments that are not only not

[17:38] therapeutic, they're almost guaranteed

[17:40] to worsen the symptoms that these people

[17:41] are experiencing.

[17:43] >> For 9 years, Congressman Ted Strickland

[17:45] was a psychologist at Ohio's only

[17:47] maximum security prison.

[17:49] >> I saw individuals uh young inmates who

[17:52] were so disturbed that they would uh

[17:54] uh puncture their eyes.

[17:56] Um

[17:57] one inmate stuck a pencil into his

[17:59] abdomen until it disappeared.

[18:01] >> He's sponsoring a bill to divert

[18:03] mentally ill defendants from jail to

[18:05] treatment.

[18:06] >> Prisons were not meant to be mental

[18:08] health treatment facilities. And um and

[18:11] we ought not to be using them for that

[18:14] purpose.

[18:15] >> In 1997, the Justice Department ordered

[18:18] the LA County Jail to improve its

[18:20] treatment of the mentally ill. The

[18:22] result? A brand new facility that

[18:24] screens and treats thousands of mentally

[18:27] ill patients. But even the best jail may

[18:30] not be the best place to treat these

[18:32] patients.

[18:33] >> The county jail was not built to deliver

[18:35] mental health services. I mean, it's

[18:36] not. Uh that was always been the proper

[18:39] response of, you know, medical

[18:40] institutions and mental institutions

[18:42] that handle those issues. Well, now it's

[18:44] been foisted on the sheriff's

[18:45] department.

[18:46] >> Until the system provides treatment for

[18:48] the mentally ill, experts say the cycle

[18:50] of release and arrest will continue.

[18:53] Jamie Floyd, ABC News, New York.

[18:56] >> For more about mental illness in

[18:58] America's prisons, go to our website at

[19:01] abcnews.com.

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[21:18] >> In sports this Sunday, baseball's race

[21:20] towards summer milestones and some key

[21:23] NBA news from the Utah Jazz. We get the

[21:26] latest from Kenny Mayne at ESPN

[21:28] SportsCenter. Kenny?

[21:30] >> Carol, Karl Malone has signed a 4-year

[21:32] contract worth $67 million. He'll finish

[21:34] his great career in Utah. Now, besides

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[21:38] to ride his motorcycles. His drive, of

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[21:42] NBA title. In baseball, his Jays won,

[21:45] but Shawn Green had his hitting streak

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[21:49] Detroit's Gabe Kapler, Green, of course,

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[22:05] McGwire and Sosa did the improbable and

[22:07] surpassed the record of 61 home runs in

[22:09] a season. It captivated the country and

[22:12] gave Major League Baseball a lift. And

[22:14] this summer brings more of the same

[22:15] aside from McGwire and Sosa. Bill Pido

[22:18] tells the story.

[22:21] >> The careers of Tampa Bay Devil Ray Wade

[22:23] Boggs and San Diego Padre Tony Gwynn

[22:25] have paralleled each other for so many

[22:27] years. It's only fitting that their

[22:29] chase for 3,000 hits comes in the same

[22:31] season. They are the two best pure

[22:33] hitters still playing. Gwynn holds eight

[22:35] National League batting titles, while

[22:36] Boggs has five in the American League.

[22:38] It would only be appropriate if they

[22:40] reach 3,000 on the same day. Baseball's

[22:43] Iron Man Cal Ripken Jr. isn't far

[22:44] behind. If the Baltimore Oriole third

[22:46] baseman also reaches 3,000 this year,

[22:49] it'll be the first time three players

[22:50] have done it in the same season.

[22:54] Sammy Sosa hasn't hit 20 home runs in a

[22:56] month as he did last June, but he's

[22:57] ahead of the pace that saw him hit 66

[22:59] out of the park last season. Is Mark

[23:01] McGwire's record of 70 out of reach? The

[23:04] Cubs play more than half of their

[23:05] remaining games in the homer-friendly

[23:07] confines of Wrigley Field. Mark McGwire

[23:09] continues to put a jolt in every venue,

[23:11] but not for his assault on the

[23:13] single-season home run record. This

[23:15] summer, it's the number 500. That's the

[23:17] mythical home run figure, like 3,000

[23:19] hits, that guarantees admission into

[23:22] baseball's Hall of Fame.

[23:25] Bill Pido there. Carol, that's your

[23:26] Sunday sports in brief.

[23:28] >> Thank you. ESPN's Kenny Maine. Still

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[25:28] >> Now checking in at the nation's box

[25:29] office, Runaway Bride is the number one

[25:32] movie this weekend. The low-budget

[25:34] surprise hit Blair Witch Project leaped

[25:37] from 17th place to the number two spot.

[25:39] Number three, Deep Blue Sea.

[25:42] Finally tonight, giving is getting a lot

[25:45] of attention. The Gates Foundation said

[25:47] today that a report that the billionaire

[25:49] Bill Gates would give away most of his

[25:51] fortune was exaggerated. But the

[25:54] Microsoft chairman is giving, and among

[25:56] those who make their fortunes in

[25:58] cyberspace, he's not alone. Here's ABC's

[26:01] Deborah Wong.

[26:03] >> Trish Melines was 39 years old when she

[26:06] became a multi-millionaire.

[26:08] >> Stock options.

[26:09] That made that possible. Landing at the

[26:11] right place at the right time.

[26:14] >> With total financial security, she left

[26:16] her job at Microsoft and used some of

[26:18] her money to do what she's always wanted

[26:20] to do. Help minority kids learn how to

[26:22] program computers.

[26:24] >> I personally feel I have a

[26:25] responsibility to share that money in

[26:28] some way, shape, or form.

[26:30] >> Paul Brainard made $120 million from the

[26:33] sale of his software company. Now he too

[26:35] is devoting his life to giving a huge

[26:37] chunk of his fortune away.

[26:39] >> This work is like getting a big hug.

[26:41] Literally, I've had people come up to me

[26:43] and put their arms around me and say,

[26:45] "Thank you, Paul, for the work you've

[26:47] enabled in this community."

[26:48] >> These young philanthropists run their

[26:50] charities in the same hands-on

[26:52] aggressive way that they run their

[26:54] businesses, calling themselves venture

[26:56] philanthropists. They're not just giving

[26:58] away money, they're making what they

[26:59] call social investments and they're

[27:01] demanding results.

[27:03] >> And do you want to throw something out?

[27:04] >> In Seattle, they brainstorm ways to lend

[27:07] their business and technical expertise

[27:09] to the charities they support.

[27:10] >> I just didn't want to write a a check

[27:13] to someone and just say, "See you later.

[27:14] Hope it works out." I want

[27:15] >> And they are setting an entirely new

[27:17] agenda, focusing much of their efforts

[27:19] on high-tech education, the secret of

[27:22] their own success.

[27:24] And on causes that matter to their

[27:26] generation. Microsoft co-founder Paul

[27:29] Allen is spending $100 million

[27:31] building a museum to rock and roll.

[27:33] >> Roll it.

[27:35] >> Now, even once obscure charities are

[27:37] finding funding where little existed

[27:39] before. This preschool for low-income

[27:41] families was desperate for funds to

[27:43] expand when it got an unexpected gift

[27:46] from Paul Allen's foundation.

[27:48] >> Uh I cried.

[27:50] It's pretty incredible. After all the

[27:51] work we've done for years,

[27:53] and then with one stroke of his pen,

[27:56] it's taken care of.

[27:59] >> With so many years of giving ahead of

[28:01] them, this new generation of

[28:02] millionaires might just live to see

[28:04] their generosity pay off.

[28:07] Deborah Wong, ABC News, Seattle.

[28:10] >> And that's our report. Watch 20/20 later

[28:13] and tomorrow on Good Morning America,

[28:15] Talk magazine editor Tina Brown. I'm

[28:18] Carol Simpson. For all of us here at ABC

[28:20] News, have a good week and good night.

[28:31] >> Monday, a hot new development in genetic

[28:33] engineering. Could it mean disaster for

[28:35] some farmers? How will it affect you?

[28:38] Watch ABC's World News tonight with

[28:39] Peter Jennings.

[28:52] >> Duval Woods live Monday night at 8:00 on

[28:55] ABC.