World News Tonight (ABC) - 1983-05-16

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[0:04] This is ABC's World News Tonight. Here

[0:07] for Frank Reynolds in Washington, David

[0:09] Brinkley.

[0:10] >> Good evening. The New York stock market,

[0:12] always bubbling and steaming with rumors

[0:14] right and wrong, guesses and

[0:16] predictions, right and wrong, reacted in

[0:18] fear today to a prediction, right or

[0:21] wrong, that interest rates may soon be

[0:23] rising again. The result was a

[0:25] substantial drop in the Dow Jones. As

[0:28] ABC News economics editor Dan Courtz

[0:31] reports, the wave of selling orders was

[0:34] touched off by Friday's completely

[0:35] unexpected $4.2 billion jump in the

[0:38] nation's money supply. A leap investors

[0:40] fear could force the Federal Reserve

[0:41] Board to nudge interest rates upward and

[0:43] by a sobering Sunday forecast from a top

[0:46] financial economist. The forces now at

[0:48] work suggest to me very strongly that

[0:51] there's very little left to interest

[0:53] rates coming down from here on in a very

[0:56] meaningful fashion. The Dow Jones

[0:58] Industrial Average plummeted 17 points

[1:00] in the first hour and later fell even

[1:02] lower before closing just below 1203

[1:05] down almost 16 points. The sharp drop in

[1:08] interest rates is the main reason for

[1:10] the current economic recovery. In less

[1:12] than 2 years, the prime rate on business

[1:14] loans has plunged from 20 1.5% to 10

[1:16] 12%, aiding corporate profits. Mortgage

[1:19] rates have fallen from an average of

[1:21] about 18% to around 13%, spawning a

[1:24] burst of new home construction. And

[1:26] consumer loan rates are off from as high

[1:28] as 21% to as low as 15%, boosting sales

[1:31] of cars, appliances, and other big

[1:33] ticket items. Even if rates don't go any

[1:36] lower, must think the recovery is in no

[1:38] immediate danger. Clearly we have quite

[1:40] a strong upswing going on uh despite the

[1:43] current level of interest rates. Uh

[1:45] however if things are not done to uh for

[1:48] example restrain the budget and other

[1:50] things uh then you could have problems

[1:53] coming down the line.

[1:55] >> In spite of the investor worries on

[1:56] display at the stock exchange though the

[1:58] recovery now seems to be right on

[2:00] schedule. As if to confirm that the

[2:02] government reported today that the

[2:03] nation's factories operated last month

[2:05] at more than 71% of their capacity. the

[2:08] best performance since March 1982.

[2:11] Dan Courtz, ABC News, New York.

[2:14] >> Another nervous prediction is that the

[2:17] tremendous federal deficit of about $200

[2:19] billion and all the borrowing it

[2:21] requires will be a soggy wet blanket

[2:24] holding down the economic recovery.

[2:26] President Reagan spoke today to the

[2:28] National Association of Homebuilders and

[2:30] said he wanted the deficit reduced, but

[2:32] not by raising taxes. ABC's Mike von

[2:35] Fren reports. The housing industry is on

[2:39] the rebound and the president was

[2:41] anxious to tell the homebuilders that

[2:42] his economic policies have helped bring

[2:44] that about. But Mr. Reagan was equally

[2:47] anxious to deliver another sharp warning

[2:49] to Congress that he will not stand for a

[2:52] tax increase as a way to bring down the

[2:54] deficit. Yes, the deficit doctors have

[2:56] their scalpels out all right, but

[2:58] they're not poised over the budget.

[3:01] That's as fat as ever and getting

[3:02] fatter. What they're ready to operate on

[3:05] is your wallet. But at the same time the

[3:07] president was criticizing Congress, he

[3:09] was also speaking of the need to work

[3:11] together to reduce what he calls

[3:13] intolerable deficits.

[3:15] >> The Congress needs to join in a

[3:17] bipartisan effort to cut irresponsible

[3:19] spending.

[3:20] >> But Senator L. Wer, one of the so-called

[3:23] gang of five Republicans who wants to

[3:25] increase taxes now, warned that the

[3:27] president should stop name calling and

[3:29] compromise.

[3:30] The Congress has compromised mightily

[3:33] already and I think the time has come

[3:35] for the president to enter into the

[3:36] compromise process rather than um the

[3:39] name calling process.

[3:41] >> Finance Committee Chairman Robert Dole

[3:43] yesterday called on the president to

[3:44] become more personally involved. But

[3:47] Majority Leader Howard Baker jokingly

[3:49] responded, "If the president were any

[3:51] more involved in the budget process, I

[3:53] don't think I could stand it."

[3:54] Republican budget committee members met

[3:56] on Capitol Hill late this afternoon and

[3:58] they will meet with the president in the

[4:00] morning. But the White House says the

[4:02] president will not give on taxes and the

[4:04] president's chief of staff, James Baker,

[4:06] who has been acting as a mediator, says

[4:08] that no budget resolution is better than

[4:10] a bad one. And if neither side gives, no

[4:13] budget is exactly what they'll have.

[4:15] Mike von, ABC News, the White House.

[4:18] Tomorrow night at 8:00 Eastern time,

[4:20] President Reagan will have a press

[4:22] conference and no doubt will give his

[4:23] views then on the budget and spending.

[4:26] ABC News will carry it live. Coming

[4:29] along, tornadoes hit several towns in

[4:32] Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. And

[4:36] cocaine use has spread far beyond the

[4:38] Hollywood crowd in Beverly Hills. And

[4:41] despite its enormous price, it is used

[4:43] or at least tried by about 10% of the

[4:46] total population.

[4:50] From ABC, this is World News Tonight

[4:53] with Frank Reynolds in Washington, Max

[4:55] Robinson in Chicago, Peter Jennings in

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[6:05] >> Spring is supposed to be the best

[6:07] weather of the year, but this one in

[6:08] much of the country has been one bad day

[6:10] after another. as today in several

[6:13] southern states where tornadoes hit in

[6:15] the early morning causing damage and

[6:17] injuries. Here's ABC's Jay Shadler. The

[6:21] tornadoes came shortly after dawn,

[6:23] violently hopscotching their way through

[6:25] a halfozen southeastern communities. In

[6:27] Tallahassee, a twister slammed into the

[6:30] city's airport, demolishing a hanger and

[6:32] temporarily trapping six people inside.

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[6:40] because before you had a chance to do

[6:42] anything the whole building was on top

[6:43] of you.

[6:44] >> The Tallahassee storm was part of a

[6:46] slowmoving cold front pushing across the

[6:48] southeast spawning tornadoes and heavy

[6:50] rains throughout parts of Georgia,

[6:52] Alabama, and North Florida. Hardest hit

[6:54] was the small South Georgia town of

[6:56] Blakeley, where 12 people were

[6:58] hospitalized when a twister smashed into

[7:00] a mobile home park, leaving behind a

[7:02] half mile wide stretch of devastated

[7:04] homes. At the Blakeley airport, eight

[7:06] private planes were lifted off the

[7:08] runway and scattered into a nearby

[7:09] woods. And in Rowena, 15 mi away, a

[7:12] mobile home was exploded by a twister,

[7:14] injuring four people, one critically.

[7:18] Further to the north in Columbus,

[7:20] Georgia, still more damage to trees,

[7:22] power lines, and homes.

[7:24] >> The branches of the tree came on through

[7:26] the house and it just uh missed me.

[7:29] >> In the wake of the storms, cleanup

[7:30] operations have already begun as

[7:32] residents quite literally begin picking

[7:34] up the pieces of their lives. Jay

[7:36] Shadler, ABC News, Atlanta.

[7:40] 11 days ago, an Eastern Airlines L1011

[7:43] jet lost all three engines shortly after

[7:45] it left the Miami airport because its

[7:48] mechanics had neglected to install three

[7:50] oil seals. In a federal government

[7:53] hearing today, it came out the seals had

[7:55] been left off before. As ABC's Mark

[7:58] Potter reports from Miami,

[8:00] >> during the hearing, it was revealed that

[8:02] flight 855 was not the first time an

[8:04] Eastern L1011 jet lost engine power in

[8:07] mid-flight because the tiny oil seals

[8:09] called O-rings were missing. The new

[8:11] information comes from an Eastern

[8:13] Airlines internal memo written nearly 2

[8:15] months before the near crash of flight

[8:16] 855. The March 8th memo warns Eastern

[8:20] mechanics to be careful to put in the

[8:21] O-rings and says, "Yesterday, we

[8:24] dispatched an L1011 with a chip detector

[8:26] with no O-rings installed. This caused

[8:29] another in-flight shutdown due to loss

[8:31] of oil.

[8:33] >> This is the fifth or sixth such

[8:34] occurrence since we started to do the

[8:37] N7204-5.

[8:39] N7204-5

[8:41] is a maintenance procedure that Eastern

[8:43] says it began in July 1981 to put chip

[8:46] detectors in the engines to test the oil

[8:48] for metal flakes. The detectors are

[8:51] supposed to contain tiny O-rings to keep

[8:53] the oil from leaking out. An Eastern

[8:55] spokesman today confirmed the five or

[8:57] six in-flight incidents, but will not

[8:59] provide specifics, only to say they

[9:01] involved the loss of just one engine per

[9:03] flight and did not endanger anyone.

[9:06] Because of flight 855, Eastern Airlines

[9:08] says it has changed its maintenance

[9:10] procedures. O-rings and chip detectors

[9:12] are stored together now in the same

[9:14] packages, which Eastern hopes will

[9:16] prevent one from being installed without

[9:18] the other. Mark Potter, ABC News, Miami.

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[9:27] charged with threatening and defrauding

[9:29] him in his last years in order to pay

[9:31] nearly a half million dollars in

[9:33] damages. Today, a judge cut that amount

[9:35] in half. It may mean a new trial. In

[9:38] Brentwood, Long Island, New York, a

[9:40] teacher's aid, recently fired, returned

[9:43] to the East Junior High School, where he

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[11:43] formerly used only by the government and

[11:45] at its own expense fire them into space

[11:48] to launch communications satellites. ABC

[11:51] News Carol Simpson has a report.

[11:55] >> With the successful flights of the space

[11:56] shuttles, NASA proved that it had a

[11:58] dependable workhorse to carry satellites

[12:00] into space, a cargo carrier it could use

[12:03] and use again. For the 25 years before

[12:06] the shuttle, NASA employed what are

[12:08] called expendable launch vehicles. These

[12:11] were unmanned rockets which were

[12:12] destroyed once their missions were

[12:14] accomplished. Rockets such as the Delta,

[12:16] the Atlas Centaur, and the Titan. The

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[12:23] costeffective fleet of space shuttles.

[12:26] The companies which make the rockets,

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[12:29] General Dynamics, have been clamoring to

[12:32] use the rockets commercially, primarily

[12:34] to boost communication satellites into

[12:36] space. Today, President Reagan agreed to

[12:40] encourage private enterprise in space.

[12:42] The president said the government would

[12:43] sell back the unused rockets to

[12:45] commercial firms and permit them to

[12:47] launch the vehicles from existing launch

[12:49] pads. Mr. Reagan said the move would not

[12:52] only save the government money, but

[12:53] maintain US leadership in space

[12:56] transportation. Members of Congress are

[12:58] expected to be more receptive to this

[13:00] proposal than they were to President

[13:01] Reagan's plan to sell weather satellites

[13:03] to private industry. There will be

[13:05] hearings on Capitol Hill tomorrow, and

[13:07] the early indications are that President

[13:09] Reagan will get what he wants. There

[13:11] will be rockets for sale. Carol Simpson,

[13:14] ABC News, Washington.

[13:16] >> And now the news from overseas. In the

[13:18] Middle East today, both the Israeli and

[13:20] Lebanese parliaments approved the

[13:21] agreement by which Israeli troops are

[13:23] supposed to leave the country. The

[13:25] agreement will probably be signed

[13:26] tomorrow, but no one is leaving. The

[13:28] Israelis won't go until Syria does, and

[13:31] the Syrian foreign minister told a

[13:32] Beirut newspaper, "Syria will block the

[13:35] agreement." The Lebanese Israeli

[13:36] agreement does give Israel a security

[13:38] role inside Lebanon. And whether the

[13:41] Syrians believe it or not, they say that

[13:43] puts South Lebanon under Israeli

[13:45] domination and threatens Syrian

[13:47] security.

[13:48] The other subject which will attract a

[13:50] lot of attention this week is the effort

[13:51] to reduce nuclear weapons in Europe.

[13:54] Both American and Soviet negotiating

[13:56] teams have returned to Geneva to begin

[13:58] their 71st session. Even before they

[14:01] meet again, each side has said that the

[14:03] latest proposal from the other is

[14:04] unacceptable. The US delegation led by

[14:07] Paul Nitsa will be wanting to discuss at

[14:09] least an interim accord. But as ABC's

[14:12] Bob Zelnik reports from Moscow, that

[14:14] depends on what's included.

[14:17] With the return of Paul Nitsa to Geneva,

[14:19] both Western diplomats and Soviet

[14:21] analysts here say the question of

[14:23] partial NATO missile deployment dwarfs

[14:26] all other issues at the talks. Western

[14:28] defense strategists say the military

[14:30] value of persing 2 and cruise missiles

[14:32] more than offsets any military

[14:34] retaliation the Soviets are expected to

[14:37] take. And they say agreeing not to

[14:39] deploy, in effect giving the Soviets a

[14:41] veto over NATO weapons, could be fatal

[14:43] to the alliance in the long run. Soviet

[14:46] analysts argue there is no need for NATO

[14:48] deployment. They claim Yurandropath's

[14:51] proposal to reduce Soviet warheads to

[14:53] the combined British French total would

[14:55] mean fewer launches and warheads

[14:57] targeted on Europe than in 1976,

[15:00] 3 years before NATO decided on its own

[15:02] deployment. One idea discussed in both

[15:05] camps would count British but not French

[15:07] nuclear forces in the NATO total. Soviet

[15:10] sources insist that political opposition

[15:12] to deployment will be so damaging to the

[15:15] West that they will sign no deal, taking

[15:17] Western leaders off the hook. Both

[15:20] Soviet and Western sources agree that

[15:22] other issues can be settled. And there

[15:24] has been talk of finessing the question

[15:26] of Soviet SS20s in Asia by setting a

[15:29] numerical limit high enough to meet

[15:31] Soviet security concerns, but not so

[15:33] high as to permit the wholesale

[15:35] redeployment of European missiles.

[15:38] Still, the overwhelming consensus among

[15:40] both Soviet analysts and Western

[15:42] diplomats here is that this round at

[15:44] Geneva will not produce a settlement.

[15:46] The bottom NATO line remains partial

[15:48] deployment, while the bottom Soviet line

[15:50] is net. Bob Zelnik, ABC News, Moscow.

[15:55] In Poland today, police say they will

[15:57] investigate the death of a student who

[15:59] died after having been in their custody.

[16:01] The student's mother says he was

[16:02] severely beaten by police. She works

[16:05] with the once independent union

[16:06] solidarity and the death of just one

[16:09] person in the past has led to serious

[16:11] anti-government demonstrations. Poland's

[16:14] Roman Catholic primate arrived in Rome

[16:16] today. Cardinal Glimp said he and John

[16:18] Paul will discuss the final details of

[16:20] the Pope's visit to his homeland in

[16:22] June. Cardinal Glimp said he did not

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[18:56] Not long ago, the main export of

[18:58] Colombia in South America was coffee.

[19:01] Now, it is cocaine exported to the

[19:03] United States, where it brings a vastly

[19:05] higher price than coffee. Its use in the

[19:08] United States is rising at an alarming

[19:10] rate. And there are more efforts to help

[19:13] those who are addicted. As Jud Rose

[19:15] reports from San Francisco,

[19:18] just a few years ago, it was a private

[19:20] play thing for the privileged. The drug

[19:22] known to some as Uptown. But Uptown has

[19:25] gone downtown with frightening speed. In

[19:28] just the past 2 years, the number of

[19:30] Americans who've tried cocaine has

[19:32] jumped from 15 million to 22 million.

[19:35] Every day about 5,000 more take their

[19:37] first dose or toot. As many as 5 million

[19:40] snort, shoot or smoke cocaine every

[19:43] month. And of those, some experts think

[19:45] up to 1 million are hooked. Now more and

[19:48] more are trying to get help. More than

[19:50] 12,000 coke users were known to be in

[19:52] treatment by the end of last year. Each

[19:55] month brings new efforts to fight the

[19:57] white line fever that spread from Miami

[19:59] to Denver to San Francisco. In the

[20:02] hospitals of this city, doctors see more

[20:04] cocaine victims than almost anywhere in

[20:06] America. And here too are some of the

[20:08] most diverse programs to combat the

[20:10] cocaine crisis. One of them takes place

[20:12] north of San Francisco in a rustic old

[20:14] resort. For some, it's now a last

[20:17] resort.

[20:18] >> Little chute.

[20:19] >> No thanks. It's all yours.

[20:20] >> Take a good look.

[20:21] >> That's okay. I don't do it anymore.

[20:23] >> Okay. It's okay.

[20:24] >> Desensitization, the therapist calls it.

[20:27] He's offering powder, pipes, and

[20:29] paraphernalia to coke addicts. testing

[20:31] their ability to say no after just a few

[20:33] days away from cocaine and everything

[20:36] else. Wilbur Hot Springs is 20 miles

[20:38] from the nearest town. It sports a

[20:41] century old Victorian hotel, mineral

[20:43] baths, and activities like nature hikes,

[20:46] acupuncture, and aerobics. The price is

[20:49] almost $1,000 for 5 days of therapy. The

[20:52] program is called Cokeenders. I'm

[20:54] getting people who are blueco collar

[20:56] workers and I'm getting

[20:57] multi-millionaire entrepreneurs and

[20:59] carpenters and mechanics and lawyers and

[21:01] doctors and celebrities. They're all

[21:03] walks of life.

[21:04] >> I'm 32 years old. I'm on my third wife.

[21:07] Uh the other two I lit literally traded

[21:09] for cocaine.

[21:11] >> Jeffrey Rounds is a heavy equipment

[21:13] operator and current cokeenders patient.

[21:15] Clint Spencer is a Cokeenders graduate,

[21:17] a former theater manager on Broadway,

[21:19] who last year spent $150,000

[21:23] on cocaine.

[21:24] >> It's easy to say no. It's easy now.

[21:27] There's a time in my life it wouldn't

[21:28] have been impossible to say no.

[21:31] >> For those who prefer hospitals to hot

[21:33] tubs, there are facilities like San

[21:35] Francisco's French Hospital offering a

[21:37] 3-week inpatient program for almost

[21:39] $6,000. The regimen is familiar.

[21:42] Stretch, stretch, and stretch. Good.

[21:46] >> The people here are scared. They're

[21:47] paranoid. They have lost a lot of money.

[21:50] A lot of them come in saying, you know,

[21:51] if I don't do something, I'm going to

[21:53] die. But how many stay clean? Most

[21:56] programs are too new to be fairly

[21:58] judged. And even those who claim a high

[22:00] rate of success admit they can't be

[22:02] sure. Drug addicts are accomplished

[22:04] liars. Still, the desire to go straight

[22:06] is there. In Hollywood, hundreds are

[22:09] joining Cocaine Anonymous. And every

[22:11] day, 1,000 callers dial

[22:14] >> 800 cocaine.

[22:16] >> That's 800 Cocaine, a new toll-free

[22:18] hotline based in New Jersey, a service

[22:21] for coke addicts who don't know where to

[22:23] turn.

[22:23] >> We've had um one family call and

[22:26] announce that they had sold their baby

[22:29] to support the cocaine habit of a member

[22:31] of that family.

[22:33] >> From every state, the calls, the cries

[22:35] for help are pouring in. Cries of homes

[22:37] wrecked, health ruined, lives destroyed.

[22:40] cries from those who paid $150 a gram to

[22:44] travel uptown only to find there's a

[22:46] much higher price at the end of the

[22:48] line. Jud Rose, ABC News, San Francisco.

[22:53] The Smithsonian Institution's collection

[22:56] of American artifacts is one of the most

[22:58] interesting museums in the world. But

[23:00] like all collectors, it has run out of

[23:02] space. And today it opened a new

[23:04] warehouse to hold the overflow. It will

[23:07] hold 350,000 biological specimens and

[23:11] jars of alcohol, 300,000 dried flowers,

[23:15] the world's biggest collection of bugs,

[23:17] 7 million mosquitoes, fleas, ticks. The

[23:20] Smithsonian is called this country's

[23:22] attic, but it now has an item probably

[23:25] not found in your grandmother's attic

[23:28] for its natural history display of sea

[23:30] animals. It has a 7,000galon tank for

[23:33] boiling the fat out of whale carcasses.

[23:42] What kind of people drink Sanka? Tugboat

[23:45] Captain Case Flu.

[23:47] >> Maneuvering a giant cargo ship takes

[23:49] steady nerves and too much caffeine

[23:52] doesn't help. One wrong move and I've

[23:55] got tons of scrap metal on my hands.

[23:57] That's why I look forward to relaxing

[23:59] with a cup of Sanka. It really tastes

[24:01] great without the caffeine I don't need.

[24:04] For me, that's a perfect fit.

[24:06] >> Sanka Brand decaffeinated coffee for

[24:08] people who love coffee but not caffeine.

[24:12] >> Anyone for total?

[24:13] >> No, we're having Raisin Brand.

[24:15] >> Hope you're hungry. Starving. Good. Cuz

[24:18] you'll have to eat four bowls of Raisin

[24:20] Brand to get the vitamin nutrition in

[24:22] one bowl of total.

[24:23] >> You're kidding. Nope. Whole wheat total

[24:25] has 100% of a day's worth of nine

[24:27] vitamins and iron. Raisin Brand 25%. It

[24:30] takes four bowls to equal Total's

[24:32] vitamin nutrition. Tastes good, too.

[24:35] >> What happened to raisin bread?

[24:36] >> We're not that hungry.

[24:38] >> For the start, that's bowls apart.

[24:40] Total.

[24:43] >> Out here, survival against the elements

[24:46] is what it's all about. And when it

[24:48] comes to surviving against rust, that's

[24:50] what Kryon Rust Magic is all about. On

[24:53] metal surfaces like this, grueling tests

[24:56] against fog and acid rain proved even

[24:59] the leading national brand can't beat

[25:01] Kryon Rust Magic Protection. And Rust

[25:04] Magic dries hours faster. Kryon Rust

[25:07] Magic for tough, fastrying rust

[25:10] protection.

[25:14] In other news overseas, vulcanologists

[25:16] are not quite sure what to do next in

[25:18] their battle with Sicily's Mount Etna.

[25:20] Saturday's attempt to divert the flowing

[25:22] lava away from populated areas was only

[25:24] partially successful. The 900 lb of

[25:27] dynamite did not entirely remove a

[25:29] barrier between the natural lava stream

[25:32] and a man-made canal designed to make

[25:34] the lava go where man wanted it to. In

[25:37] the Swiss Alps, there has been a sudden

[25:39] landslide on Mlon. Three people are

[25:41] missing. A major road between

[25:43] Switzerland and eastern France was

[25:44] blocked. Switzerland has had only 6 days

[25:47] without rain in the last 2 months. Last

[25:49] night, it had as much rain as it usually

[25:52] gets in the whole month of May. And

[25:54] finally, from here in Britain,

[25:56] everything you've ever believed about

[25:57] the weather in this country is coming

[25:59] true. If there is anything to evolution

[26:01] at all, a great many people here should

[26:03] be developing webbed feet. Well, before

[26:06] the British Tourist Board jumps all over

[26:08] me, it doesn't always rain here. That

[26:11] is, except for the last month and a

[26:12] half. Here's ABC's Mike Lee.

[26:16] For 30 days in a row now, it has rained

[26:19] in London. In fact, there have been only

[26:21] six dry days here since mid-March. April

[26:23] was the wetest month since 1940 and the

[26:26] country is now only 10 days away from

[26:28] matching the biblical record which

[26:29] launched Noah's ark.

[26:31] >> Heavy showers coming up into

[26:35] >> Britain's computerized weather forecast

[26:37] center is tracking an unusually

[26:38] prolonged series of North Atlantic

[26:40] storms.

[26:41] >> Fact it's been going for six to seven

[26:42] weeks. It's it's a long time and you

[26:44] could say that on average we're due for

[26:45] a change, but at the moment we we can't

[26:47] see a change.

[26:49] Satellite photographs aren't the only

[26:51] sign of weather depression around here.

[26:53] >> Oh, it's dreadful. It's the most

[26:55] dreadful thing that's ever happened.

[26:57] >> There's been no heavy flooding because

[26:59] the showers come and go and come and go.

[27:02] Despite what the weather forecasters

[27:04] here call occasional sunny intervals,

[27:06] most betting people here would rather

[27:08] put their money on racing hounds and

[27:10] horses than the chance that this British

[27:12] spring will last any longer than 48

[27:14] hours at the most. what it is. The odds

[27:17] are 5 to one against the not raining

[27:20] over two days.

[27:22] >> In the meantime, Londoners have begun to

[27:24] figure out just who or what is really

[27:26] behind the bad weather.

[27:28] >> It's all that stuff they've got up in

[27:29] space.

[27:30] >> Could have been the comet that we had.

[27:32] >> Maybe we can blame our relationship.

[27:34] >> So far, it's just all water off what an

[27:37] Englishman calls his broly. And England

[27:39] can cope with just about anything as

[27:41] long as she has a nice cup of tea. Mike

[27:44] Lee, ABC News, London.

[27:48] >> Once again, tonight's top story. Wall

[27:50] Street reacted feverishly to a

[27:52] prediction that interest rates might

[27:54] soon begin rising, and if so, the

[27:56] economic recovery could be slowed down

[27:59] with the result that the market fell

[28:01] substantially, almost 16 points. Later

[28:04] tonight on Night Line, an interview with

[28:06] Phil Donahghue and the woman who won a

[28:09] huge lawsuit against him. for all of us

[28:12] at ABC News. Thank you and good night

[28:22] from ABC. This has been World News

[28:25] Tonight.

[28:30] Monday, an ABC network television

[28:32] premiere.

[28:33] >> Anyone could have done it.

[28:35] >> You can't pin that on me.

[28:36] >> Me?

[28:37] >> Me?

[28:37] >> Everyone had a reason.

[28:40] Betty Davis.

[28:40] >> It's incredible.

[28:41] >> Mia Faroh, Maggie Smith, and Peter

[28:44] Houston. Deaths on the Nile tonight.

[28:50] Coming up on Channel 2 News, the former

[28:52] mayor of