World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-09-16

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[0:03] What time

[0:04] >> on World News Tonight this Wednesday,

[0:06] another nasty day in Washington. Will

[0:08] other politicians now have their lives

[0:10] turned upside down? American fishing

[0:13] boats full of unsold fish containers

[0:15] going to Asia empty? We'll take a closer

[0:18] look at the rest of the world and the

[0:19] American economy. And what are micro

[0:22] flyers? The new age of surveillance

[0:24] technology on the cutting edge.

[0:34] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:37] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:40] Peter Jennings.

[0:42] >> Good evening. Yes, it did get nastier in

[0:44] Washington today. The House Judiciary

[0:46] Committee presses on with its debate

[0:47] about releasing the videotapes of Mr.

[0:50] Clinton's grand jury testimony. Mr.

[0:52] Clinton declines another opportunity to

[0:54] be more specific about whether he lied

[0:56] about Monica Lewinsky. We'll hear the

[0:58] president in a moment, but we're going

[0:59] to start on Capitol Hill because a

[1:02] widely respected politician at the very

[1:04] center of any impeachment process has

[1:07] had his past question today. Here's

[1:10] ABC's Linda Douglas.

[1:13] >> Almost as soon as he got the Star

[1:14] Report, House Judiciary Chairman Henry

[1:17] Hyde warned his members that things

[1:18] might get rough from here on out. He

[1:21] pointed to media reports that Mr.

[1:22] Clinton's supporters might try to dig up

[1:24] dirt on them, saying White House staff

[1:27] may be attempting to disseminate

[1:28] derogatory personal information about

[1:30] members of the House Judiciary

[1:32] Committee. Hyde called it the scorched

[1:34] earth policy.

[1:35] >> Hyde made clear any effort to intimidate

[1:37] committee members could amount to

[1:39] obstruction of justice. But even before

[1:41] he wrote that memo, Hyde had learned

[1:43] that the president's allies might be

[1:45] spreading a story about him. Two

[1:47] reporters have told ABC News that a

[1:50] senior White House official has pedled a

[1:52] story to them that Hyde once had a

[1:54] girlfriend. Another reporter said the

[1:56] official was offering stories of sexual

[1:58] escapades by Republican House members.

[2:01] Today, Salon Magazine, an internet

[2:03] publication often sympathetic to the

[2:04] White House, broke the story that 30

[2:07] years ago, Hyde had an extrammarital

[2:09] affair. The magazine insisted the story

[2:11] did not come from the White House. Hyde

[2:13] issued a statement saying, "The statute

[2:15] of limitations has long since passed on

[2:17] my youthful indiscretions. The only

[2:20] purpose for this being dredged up now is

[2:21] an obvious attempt to intimidate me and

[2:24] it won't work." Tonight, the White House

[2:26] put out a statement saying that they

[2:27] will have zero tolerance for this kind

[2:29] of behavior. The statement went on to

[2:31] say that if the White House finds out

[2:33] who the official is, that person will be

[2:35] fired. Peter,

[2:36] >> thanks very much. Linda Douglas on

[2:38] Capitol Hill. We're also joined this

[2:39] evening by ABC's Cookie Roberts, who's

[2:41] seen this kind of thing before. Cookie,

[2:43] let me ask you first of all about the

[2:44] videotape debate. Is there any doubt on

[2:46] the Hill that the tapes will be

[2:47] released?

[2:48] >> No, because the Republicans have the

[2:49] majority and tomorrow the uh committee

[2:52] will meet and uh take a vote and it'll

[2:55] probably be a straight partisan vote

[2:56] with the Republicans saying release it,

[2:58] Democrats saying don't and it'll be

[3:00] released probably on Friday along with

[3:02] some other materials as well.

[3:04] >> Sorry to interrupt. Are the Republicans

[3:06] all together on this?

[3:07] >> The Republicans are all together on

[3:08] this. The Democrats are all together on

[3:11] this. The Democrats are not.

[3:13] >> The Democrats are all together on this

[3:15] on the question of the videotape, but

[3:17] they're not all together on the question

[3:19] of the president's fate. Uh, privately

[3:22] more and more Democrats are saying that

[3:24] it would be more comfortable for them if

[3:26] the president resigns. They don't expect

[3:28] that to happen, but uh they are now

[3:30] conducting polls in their own districts

[3:32] among likely voters that show that

[3:35] there's much less sympathy for the

[3:36] president than our media polls are

[3:38] showing.

[3:38] >> Okay, Coke, thanks very much. Koki

[3:40] Roberts in Washington tonight. There

[3:41] were plenty of questions for Mr. Clinton

[3:44] today and there were no new answers.

[3:46] Hello. He faced reporters for the first

[3:48] time since the Star report was made

[3:50] public on Friday at a news conference at

[3:52] the State Department with the president

[3:54] of the Czech Republic, Vatlav Havo. Mr.

[3:57] Clinton was asked if Monica Lewinsky's

[3:59] account of their relationship was

[4:00] accurate and truthful and if he still

[4:02] maintains he did not lie under oath.

[4:05] This was his answer.

[4:07] The right thing for our country and the

[4:11] right thing for all people concerned

[4:14] is not

[4:16] to get mired in all the details here but

[4:20] to focus for me to focus on what I did

[4:23] to acknowledge it

[4:25] uh to atone for it and then to work on

[4:28] my family

[4:30] where I still have a lot of work to do

[4:32] difficult work and to lead this country

[4:36] uh to deal with the agenda And before

[4:37] us,

[4:38] >> in a moment, we'll have some of the

[4:39] day's other news. There is a new drug to

[4:42] treat rheumatoid arthritis recommended

[4:44] to the FDI. Can it live up to the hype?

[4:47] Other drugs could not. And tonight,

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[6:23] In Washington today, advisers to the

[6:24] Food and Drug Administration recommended

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[7:02] had an adequate solution to their

[7:04] problem, they're very eager to leap, as

[7:07] are their doctors, onto some new thing

[7:09] that makes promises.

[7:10] >> In some cases, those promises have

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[7:17] after only 3 months because it caused

[7:19] hundreds of deaths. Another drug,

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[7:26] as a number of similar drugs have

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[7:32] >> Many of these drugs do have side

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[7:35] to suppress the immune system.

[7:37] >> The extent of the side effects often is

[7:39] not clear until after a drug is

[7:41] approved. This happens because the drug

[7:43] companies are accused of stacking the

[7:45] deck in their favor during clinical

[7:47] tests. The people using the drug are

[7:50] generally sicker than the people on whom

[7:52] the drug was tested and the problems

[7:54] start emerging after approval that would

[7:57] have emerged before approval if they had

[7:59] tested on a more representative group of

[8:01] people. The new arthritis drug

[8:03] recommended for approval today may turn

[8:05] out to be as good as it seems. But if

[8:07] history is a guide, it may not. George

[8:11] Strait, ABC News, Washington.

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[8:35] effectively. Economic news, it was a

[8:38] fairly quiet day on Wall Street. The Dow

[8:40] Jones Industrial Average rose for the

[8:42] fourth day in a row, up 65 points to

[8:44] close at 8089.

[8:47] On the Nasdaq index, stocks gained just

[8:49] under 12 points. Northwest Airlines

[8:52] eased back into operation today. It's

[8:53] been 3 weeks since the pilots went on

[8:55] strike in search of more money. These

[8:57] flights from home base in Minneapolis

[8:59] this morning were among the first. It

[9:02] will take until next week to resume a

[9:04] full schedule. When we come back,

[9:06] rocking the boat of global trade, we'll

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[11:22] Americans of the global financial

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[11:29] Let me say, Congressman,

[11:30] >> today the chairman of the Federal

[11:32] Reserve, Alan Greenspan, warned that

[11:34] continuing instability in the world's

[11:36] financial markets is beginning to take

[11:38] its toll here.

[11:39] >> Despite the still very solid American

[11:42] economy as of now, there are really the

[11:46] first signs of erosion at the edges.

[11:50] >> That is because with a third of the

[11:52] world's economies now in recession, many

[11:54] American companies are simply selling

[11:56] less overseas. Here's a quick take on

[11:59] what some countries are facing. Brazil,

[12:01] Argentina, and Mexico are in financial

[12:04] turmoil. We know that Russia is an

[12:05] economic basket case.

[12:07] >> It is country in a very complicated

[12:09] situation.

[12:10] >> The president of the Czech Republic in

[12:11] Washington today said that Russia would

[12:13] not get out of its mess for decades.

[12:16] In Asia, Indonesia is in a terrible

[12:19] state. Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand,

[12:21] none of them is in good shape. It's hard

[12:24] to know how bad things are in China, but

[12:27] they're not good. And the financial

[12:29] markets in Hong Kong are faltering. The

[12:31] Japanese economy has been stagnant for 7

[12:34] years now. Japan's banking system is in

[12:37] disarray. So, it is no surprise to hear

[12:40] Mr. Greenspan telling the Congress what

[12:42] many Americans are already feeling. Two

[12:44] reports from the field. First, ABC's

[12:46] Jane Clayson.

[12:49] In Long Beach, California, business has

[12:52] never been better at the nation's

[12:53] busiest port.

[12:55] Every day around the clock, cargo ships

[12:57] brimming with tons of goods from Asia

[13:00] are unloaded

[13:01] and transported to distribution centers

[13:03] like this one. Electronic equipment,

[13:06] clothes, toys. These are just some of

[13:09] the Asian products Americans cannot wait

[13:11] to buy.

[13:12] >> On the import side, consumers have to be

[13:14] very happy because they're getting more

[13:17] and cheap and betters.

[13:19] And that's one of the beauties of the

[13:20] global economy.

[13:22] >> But the nature of the current global

[13:24] economy means that while these steel

[13:25] containers are coming into the US full,

[13:28] tons of them are going back empty. The

[13:31] demand for American products is just not

[13:33] there. For example, a freighter ship

[13:36] arrives in Long Beach with more than

[13:38] 3,000 containers full of everything from

[13:40] furniture to electronics. 24 hours

[13:43] later, it departs for Asia with 800

[13:45] containers loaded with US exports and

[13:47] nearly 1,500 empties. Shippers are

[13:51] losing hundreds of millions of dollars

[13:52] because of this one-way trade.

[13:54] >> When you see these containers going out

[13:56] empty, what do you think?

[13:58] >> I I see dollar signs flying out the

[14:00] window.

[14:01] >> But in Asia, there are still more goods

[14:03] to ship than there are containers. And

[14:05] as the holiday shopping season

[14:07] approaches, it's a scramble to find

[14:09] enough of them. The bottleneck could

[14:11] lead desperate retailers to find other,

[14:13] more expensive transportation. Instead

[14:15] of shipping, for example, they might fly

[14:17] their goods here at more than 10 times

[14:20] the cost.

[14:21] >> In America, that means Asian-made

[14:23] products might not be such a bargain.

[14:25] But right now, empty containers are.

[14:28] Jane Clayson, ABC News, Long Beach,

[14:30] California.

[14:31] >> We have no expertise at all in the used

[14:33] container market, but everyone knows

[14:35] about tuna fish, right? ABC's Brian

[14:37] Rooney reports on the tuna overload

[14:41] >> in the Pacific Northwest. A hundred

[14:43] boats holding thousands of pounds of

[14:45] frozen tuna are waiting for buyers.

[14:47] >> In the 50 years since my family has been

[14:50] fishing Alpakore, I've never seen the

[14:52] market just disappear.

[14:54] >> A combination of events aggravated by

[14:56] the Asian financial crisis has hurt

[14:58] American tuna fishermen. In Japan and

[15:01] Asia, fewer people can afford those

[15:02] expensive raw fish dishes, particularly

[15:05] tuna. So Asian fishermen are trying to

[15:07] stay afloat selling more tuna to

[15:09] American canners.

[15:10] >> A lot of the Asian longlininers have

[15:12] switched over to fish albaore for the

[15:14] American market where they can be paid

[15:16] in dollars and the dollar is so strong

[15:18] against the yen that it it's favorable

[15:20] for them to do that. The Americans catch

[15:22] a fish that is a little darker and

[15:24] oilier. Although it is 40% cheaper, it's

[15:27] still not cheap enough for canners who

[15:29] prefer the Asian caught fish.

[15:31] >> It's wider in color. It's lighter in

[15:33] texture. and it's lower in fat, which

[15:35] are all attributes that Albaore

[15:37] consumers are interested in.

[15:38] >> Some Americans stuck with a boatload of

[15:40] fish will lose everything and many will

[15:43] at least lose money because the people

[15:45] who catch tuna have themselves been

[15:47] caught in the global economy. Brian

[15:49] Rooney, ABC News, Los Angeles. Just one

[15:52] other item. The trade relationship

[15:54] between the US and Asia is so delicate,

[15:56] even an insect can cause a major

[15:58] commotion. the Asian longhorned beetle.

[16:01] In this case, the US has announced it

[16:03] will ban the import of all Chinese goods

[16:05] shipped in wooden crates because the

[16:08] beetles which live in the wood escape

[16:10] and destroy American trees. The

[16:12] restrictions may well cost the Chinese

[16:14] billions of dollars. When we come back,

[16:17] the tiny eye in the sky. Surveillance

[16:20] technology on the cutting edge.

[16:29] Someday jet aeroplanes will be invisible

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[18:45] ABC News has learned today that the

[18:47] authorities in Uganda in East Africa

[18:49] have arrested two men in connection with

[18:51] a plot to attack the US embassy and

[18:54] other international facilities in the

[18:55] Ugandan capital Kala. We are told that

[18:58] the men were arrested in a private

[19:00] vehicle at the border arriving from

[19:03] Kenya. The international treaty banning

[19:06] anti-personnel landmines is going into

[19:08] effect. It needed the approval of 40

[19:09] countries and today the African nation

[19:12] of Burkina Faso became number 40. The

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[19:16] adamantly opposed to the treaty. The US

[19:19] says it needs the mines to protect

[19:21] American troops between the two Koreas.

[19:25] In Japan today, southwest of Tokyo, a

[19:28] powerful typhoon has caused severe flash

[19:30] flooding, washing away abandoned cars in

[19:33] some cases like they were toys. More

[19:35] than a foot of rain fell in a day. At

[19:37] least two people were killed before the

[19:38] storm finally moved offshore. Tonight in

[19:42] technology on the cutting edge, an

[19:44] example of really how far things have

[19:46] come and how fast they are moving. This

[19:48] is about surveillance and it's pretty

[19:50] amazing. Here's ABC's Jack Smith.

[19:56] >> When you think of high-tech spy planes,

[19:58] you think of this.

[20:01] But this?

[20:03] Yes. Believe it or not, the Pentagon is

[20:06] funding research into these miniature

[20:08] flyers to be the spy planes of the

[20:10] future. They're called microair vehicles

[20:13] and could do things big planes can't,

[20:15] like fly through forests to find enemy

[20:17] troops or into buildings to look for

[20:20] hostages.

[20:20] >> It's just like having a trained uh bird

[20:23] that you can send off and tell it

[20:25] exactly where to go, and you get to look

[20:26] through its eyes. This breakthrough

[20:28] design, a 6-in disc weighing less than

[20:31] 1/2 o and controlled from the ground,

[20:33] has flown for a quarter of an hour at

[20:36] speeds up to 42 mph. Engineers have

[20:39] built an onboard camera smaller than a

[20:41] sugar cube. The pictures it sends back

[20:44] would let this revolutionary new type of

[20:46] vehicle help not just soldiers, but

[20:48] civilians. Microflyers could go into

[20:51] crippled nuclear reactors to assess

[20:53] damage over crime scenes to help the

[20:55] police find criminals through earthquake

[20:58] ravaged structures to look for

[21:00] survivors. And less benignly, they could

[21:03] also be used to spy on people.

[21:05] >> The fly that's on the wall might not be

[21:07] a real fly, but it may be a mechanical

[21:09] fly listening into a conversation.

[21:12] >> One big problem with going this small,

[21:14] you can't just scale down regular

[21:16] airplanes. It doesn't work. As you get

[21:18] smaller and smaller, the air starts

[21:21] working like say molasses does when you

[21:24] push a knife through it.

[21:25] >> Down at those sizes, we believe that

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[23:57] >> A brief review of the lead story. The

[23:59] debate continues over whether to release

[24:01] the tape of President Clinton's grand

[24:03] jury testimony. ABC's Koki Roberts says

[24:06] it is likely to happen. The story in

[24:08] other regards is growing meaner or the

[24:10] situation is. Two reporters tell ABC

[24:12] News that a White House official has

[24:14] told them there are stories about sexual

[24:16] indiscretions by Republican congressman

[24:18] and one got published today as you know

[24:20] including involving Henry Hyde, the

[24:22] chairman of the judiciary committee. Mr.

[24:24] Hyde calls it an attempt to intimidate

[24:26] him. Finally this evening, farewell to a

[24:30] legend and George Wallace was a legend

[24:32] in his own time. For many people in the

[24:34] country, Wallace will always be a symbol

[24:37] of southern racism. Alabama was

[24:39] certainly mired in racial animosity when

[24:42] Governor Wallace made his famous

[24:43] inaugural segregation forever speech in

[24:46] 1963. Several of us in this news

[24:49] organization, including John Cochran,

[24:52] covered one or more of Governor

[24:54] Wallace's presidential political

[24:55] adventures, and we all have mixed

[24:57] emotions about him. But he changed, and

[25:00] Alabama changed. John Cochran went to

[25:02] the funeral today.

[25:05] >> On the day they buried George Wallace,

[25:07] Alabama youngsters played and studied

[25:09] together without regard to race. It's

[25:12] ancient history to them that there was

[25:14] once a governor who vowed segregation

[25:16] forever. Alamians also worked together

[25:18] in a Mercedes plant that would never

[25:20] have located here in Wallace's heyday.

[25:23] The state's image was too racist in the

[25:25] 1960s. And yet Alabama gave him a

[25:28] farewell unlike any since the funeral of

[25:30] the legendary football coach Bear

[25:32] Bryant. For Wallace, like Bryant, gave

[25:35] Alamians the feeling that those damn

[25:37] Yankees were finally paying attention to

[25:39] them. Journalist Bob Ingram covered

[25:41] Wallace for 40 years. Alabama has always

[25:44] had an the people have had an

[25:45] inferiority complex. Uh and here was one

[25:48] of our own running for president of the

[25:50] United States. Most Alamians were just

[25:52] busted with pride.

[25:54] That may explain why so many whites

[25:56] honored Wallace today, but blacks were

[25:58] here, too. Some came for a last look at

[26:01] a man they still regard as evil.

[26:03] >> I say it's like looking in the face of

[26:06] evil. Yes.

[26:07] >> But most have made their peace with

[26:09] George Wallace.

[26:10] >> I don't personally believe he was a

[26:11] racist, but if he was a racist, I

[26:14] forgive him cuz he asked forgiveness. I

[26:16] don't know if I could say that I liked

[26:18] him as he was, but I have grown to love

[26:23] him as he became.

[26:25] >> I consider George Wallace a a great man.

[26:29] >> Wallace's friends say at the end,

[26:31] nothing meant more to him than having

[26:33] blacks forgive him. Today, his funeral

[26:35] procession passed by one of the many

[26:36] places he went seeking forgiveness,

[26:38] Martin Luther King's former church. A

[26:41] recent TV movie shows Wallace totally

[26:43] dependent on a black attendant who

[26:45] wheels him into the church. That really

[26:47] happened. The movie also portrays the

[26:49] attendant as seething with anger. He

[26:51] even considers murdering Wallace. That

[26:54] was fiction. In real life, Wallace

[26:56] considered that black man his best

[26:58] friend. And if people found irony in

[27:00] that, Wallace didn't care. He was still

[27:02] his best friend. And today, that friend

[27:05] who had shared Wallace's long,

[27:07] painracked nights said goodbye.

[27:09] Wallace's life was a long journey with

[27:11] some strange twists. At the end, he felt

[27:14] most blacks believed his change of heart

[27:16] was genuine and friends said he was

[27:19] ready to go.

[27:23] >> Goodbye.

[27:26] That's our report on World News Tonight.

[27:28] Now, don't miss the premiere of the new

[27:30] 2020 Wednesday with Sam Donaldson and

[27:32] Diane Sawyer. And on Night Line this

[27:34] evening, they're going to deal with the

[27:35] House Judiciary Committee and the

[27:37] prospects of releasing those

[27:38] videootapes. I'm Peter Jennings. Have a

[27:40] good evening and good night.

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