World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-01-16

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

[0:06] public and private debate about Ted

[0:08] Kazinsk's sanity. The judge gets a

[0:11] psychiatric report. Texas and the

[0:13] tobacco companies reach a $15 billion

[0:16] settlement. Now, what will the Congress

[0:18] do?

[0:22] >> And 25 years after Row versus Wade,

[0:25] we'll take a closer look at the great

[0:27] abortion debate.

[0:36] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:39] York, Friday, January 16th,

[0:43] this is World News Tonight with Peter

[0:46] Jennings.

[0:46] >> Good evening. After a week of very

[0:48] intense psychiatric examination, the

[0:50] judge in the Uni Bomber case is now in a

[0:52] position to judge. Whether Ted Kazinski

[0:55] is mentally competent to defend himself,

[0:58] we don't know the answer yet, but there

[0:59] are certainly indications tonight that

[1:02] Kazinski will be found competent and

[1:04] will stand trial. So, first, here's

[1:06] ABC's Terry Moran.

[1:09] This is the enduring public image of

[1:11] Theodore Kazinski. Dirty, wildeyed, and

[1:14] disheveled, almost a caricature of a mad

[1:16] bomber. But today, as a court-appointed

[1:19] psychiatrist completes four days of

[1:20] examining Kazinski for his competency to

[1:23] stand trial, another side of this

[1:25] defendant has emerged in his own words

[1:28] in transcripts of closed door hearings

[1:30] last week.

[1:31] >> The transcripts revealed this defendant

[1:32] to be an articulate, focused spokesman

[1:35] for his own cause.

[1:36] >> In private meetings with the judge and

[1:38] his lawyers, Kazinski demonstrated a

[1:40] firm grasp of his tricky legal situation

[1:43] and a mastery of legal jargon. In his

[1:45] first comments to the judge, he said,

[1:47] "Now, I'm not an attorney, and I'm not

[1:49] su