World News Tonight (ABC) - 1992-03-20

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[0:00] Town Hall puts TV on trial Sunday at 6

[0:03] on channel 2

[0:07] from ABC. This is World News Tonight

[0:10] with Peter Jennings. [music]

[0:12] Sitting in tonight, Forest Sawyer.

[0:14] >> Good evening. Political shots were

[0:16] [music] being fired in Washington today.

[0:18] This was the deadline that President

[0:19] Bush had given Congress to pass his

[0:21] economic recovery plan. Congress did

[0:24] pass a plan, but one that contains a tax

[0:26] break for the middle class, paid by a

[0:29] tax increase on the wealthy. Mr. Bush

[0:32] had a veto waiting before the plan could

[0:33] even reach his desk. And then the

[0:35] charges started flying. The president

[0:38] said the congressional system is broken

[0:40] and the Democrats fired back saying Mr.

[0:42] Bush is just a panicky candidate for

[0:44] reelection. At the White House, Brit

[0:47] Hume.

[0:48] The president spoke in the White House

[0:50] East Room with the trappings of his

[0:52] office all around him. But this was

[0:54] unmistakably a campaign event and acted

[0:56] before an all Republican audience which

[0:58] roared approval at every jab in his

[1:01] harshest attack yet on the Democratic

[1:03] controlled Congress. As if by reflex,

[1:07] the Democrats in Congress could not

[1:09] resist their natural impulse to raise

[1:12] taxes. But I assure you of this, I

[1:16] simply will not let them do it.

[1:18] some.

[1:19] >> He had already signed the veto message

[1:21] for the bill passed this afternoon, he

[1:23] said, and he would send the measure back

[1:25] as soon as it arrived. He could not

[1:27] resist adding this.

[1:29] >> Needless to say, I will not um send it

[1:31] back via the House Post Office. The uh

[1:35] Congress, he complained, is choking on

[1:37] staff, a wash in special interest

[1:39] campaign money, and too long under the

[1:42] rule of one party. And for this, we get

[1:45] a Congress controlled by the Democratic

[1:47] caucus, which cannot manage a tiny bank

[1:51] or a tiny post office.

[1:54] He said he still wants his economic plan

[1:56] passed, but in the meantime, he was

[1:57] acting on his own to force Congress to

[1:59] vote on about $4 billion worth of

[2:02] spending he wants cut. For example, the

[2:04] president wants to ax the $ 1.5 million

[2:07] earmarked for two theater projects in

[2:09] New York City and to cut $200,000 for

[2:12] research on the storage of Videlia

[2:14] onions. Whether such spending cuts ever

[2:17] actually happen or not, making them an

[2:18] issue seemed to please the assembled

[2:20] Republicans and no doubt relieve worried

[2:23] White House aids. Officials here said

[2:25] today's speech was the product of a

[2:27] week-long series of highly unfocused

[2:29] meetings presided over jointly by the

[2:31] president's chief of staff and his

[2:33] campaign chief. One top official said it

[2:36] was the most chaotic process he'd ever

[2:38] seen in 10 years in government. Rit Hume

[2:41] ABC News the White House. If there was

[2:44] confusion at the White House, there was

[2:45] none at all among the Democrats on

[2:47] Capitol Hill today. They saw the

[2:49] president's veto coming and were

[2:51] prepared to sound a theme you will

[2:52] almost certainly hear throughout the

[2:54] presidential campaign. Koki Roberts has

[2:57] that story.

[2:59] >> On Capitol Hill, the Democratic

[3:01] leadership was ready and waiting for the

[3:03] president's challenge.

[3:05] >> For 12 years, Presidents Reagan and Bush

[3:09] have pursued the trickle down theory of

[3:13] economics. The American people now know

[3:16] that they've been trickled on long

[3:19] enough.

[3:20] >> Democrats rushed their House bill

[3:22] through both houses of Congress today,

[3:24] complete with its middle class cut and

[3:26] tax increase for the rich.

[3:28] >> I can't believe for the life of me that

[3:32] my friends on the Democratic side think

[3:35] there's political mileage in the kind of

[3:37] thing you've brought to the floor of

[3:39] this House. That's exactly what many

[3:41] Democrats do think, and they're thrilled

[3:44] with the president's determination to

[3:45] veto.

[3:47] >> By my count, he will alienate about 99%

[3:51] of all American taxpayers with that veto

[3:55] pen.

[3:56] >> As to the $4 billion package of spending

[3:58] cuts proposed by the president,

[4:00] Democrats say they'll choose which

[4:03] programs get the axe. At the top of

[4:05] their list, programs like the CMI River

[4:08] Basin Cleanup and the US Mexican border

[4:10] project. Programs promised by candidate

[4:13] Bush out on the primary campaign trail.

[4:17] Political games rather than legislation

[4:19] will now govern everything here. But

[4:21] voters say it's just those games that

[4:24] make them angry. So in trying to beat

[4:26] the other guy, both parties could end up

[4:28] losing. Ki Roberts, ABC News, Capitol

[4:31] Hill. More fallout from the bad check

[4:34] scandal in the House of Representatives.

[4:36] The House Speaker says he will end some

[4:38] of the perks that lawmakers now enjoy.

[4:40] No more free prescription drugs and the

[4:43] fee for using the House gym, now $100 a

[4:45] year, will be raised to bring it more in

[4:48] line with what private health clubs

[4:49] charge. While Congress and the president

[4:52] were publicly battling it out over

[4:53] taxes, the Department of Health and

[4:55] Human Services was quietly announcing a

[4:58] significant change in the

[4:59] administration's policy on abortion. A

[5:02] change that will also have a political

[5:04] impact. Here's ABC's George Strait.

[5:07] >> Under the new guidelines, abortion can

[5:09] be discussed in fally funded health

[5:11] clinics. That is a significant change

[5:13] because previous guidelines forbid the

[5:15] mention of the word. Nurses, counselors,

[5:17] even doctors were not allowed to discuss

[5:20] abortions. If a woman's life was in

[5:22] danger, all they were allowed to do is

[5:24] refer her to a clinic for emergency

[5:26] care. Nurses and counselors still cannot

[5:28] even mention the word, but the new

[5:30] guidelines do allow doctors to discuss

[5:32] the procedure with a woman and even

[5:34] refer her to a clinic that does

[5:36] abortions so long as that is not the

[5:38] only healthcare procedure they do. The

[5:41] White House says that is no real change.

[5:43] The doctors were never really prohibited

[5:45] from discussing any medical option with

[5:47] their patients. Abortion rights

[5:49] organizations say the guidelines do

[5:51] relax the so-called gag rule, but they

[5:53] are disappointed that nurses and

[5:55] counselors are still prohibited from

[5:56] discussing abortion.

[5:58] The administration would like

[6:00] anti-abortion activists to believe there

[6:02] has been no change. At the same time, by

[6:04] allowing doctors to mention abortion may

[6:07] soften criticism, some of it from women

[6:09] in the Republican party, that the

[6:11] administration is interfering with the

[6:12] doctor patient relationship. That's

[6:15] important because abortion is expected

[6:17] to be a significant issue in the fall

[6:19] election. George Strait, ABC News,

[6:22] Washington.

[6:23] >> And when we come back, Iraq tells the UN

[6:25] yes, it [music] will destroy its weapons

[6:27] of mass destruction. The beating of

[6:29] motorist Rodney King. A Los Angeles

[6:31] police officer says the videotape does

[6:34] not tell the whole story. And our person

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[7:45] war of nerves with Iraq. For more than a

[7:48] week now, there have been broad hints

[7:50] that military action might be taken if

[7:52] Iraq does not destroy all of its

[7:55] chemical, ballistic, and nuclear

[7:56] weapons. As ABC's Bob Zelnik reports,

[7:59] Saddam Hussein appears to be listening.

[8:03] On Capitol Hill this morning, General

[8:05] Coen Pal repeated, "The US was ready to

[8:07] use force if Iraq did not agree to

[8:10] destroy its weapons facilities.

[8:12] >> They can do it the easy way. They can do

[8:14] it the hard way."

[8:15] >> But a few hours later in New York, the

[8:17] UN's top weapons inspector indicated

[8:19] that Iraq has chosen the easy way.

[8:22] >> I'm glad for the first time, I think,

[8:23] since I come took up my job, I provide

[8:27] them you with some good news. Iraq has

[8:29] agreed to provide plans for the

[8:31] destruction of all equipment related to

[8:33] ballistic missiles as demanded by the

[8:35] UN. What's more, the Iraqis say they

[8:38] will destroy 10 priority items in the

[8:40] presence of an inspection team that

[8:42] enters the country tomorrow.

[8:43] >> It appears anyhow that what we have

[8:46] requested with regard to destruction

[8:48] will take place now uh in this month or

[8:51] March. Iraq also agreed to furnish UN

[8:54] inspectors with proof that all 800 of

[8:56] its Scud missiles have been destroyed.

[8:58] The Iraqis also promised complete

[9:00] details on their chemical warheads.

[9:03] Talks on the destruction of nuclear

[9:05] facilities will begin in Geneva

[9:06] tomorrow. Assuming the Iraqis follow

[9:09] through on all this, it will eliminate

[9:11] the immediate threat of renewed allied

[9:13] bombings. Diplomats also say it may mark

[9:15] the beginning of a major Iraqi push for

[9:18] a lifting of UN economic sanctions. Bob

[9:21] Zelnik, ABC News at the Pentagon.

[9:24] >> There's another difficult job ahead for

[9:25] the United Nations in Cambodia. A UN

[9:28] peacekeeping force began arriving there

[9:30] this week, and it will try to enforce a

[9:32] ceasefire between the Cambodian army and

[9:35] the Cime Rouge guerrillas, who killed at

[9:37] least a million Cambodians when they ran

[9:39] the country in the mid70s. There's also

[9:42] the job of getting hundreds of thousands

[9:44] of Cambodian refugees back home. Here's

[9:46] ABC's Bill Ricker.

[9:49] >> Ang Samu lost his right leg when he

[9:52] stepped on a landmine as he escaped from

[9:54] Cambodia. He is one of 360,000

[9:57] refugees at these camps along the border

[10:00] between Thailand and Cambodia. Now,

[10:03] after a dozen years, he and the others

[10:05] are preparing to go home.

[10:08] >> "Yes, I have fears," he says, "but the

[10:11] United Nations will keep me safe."

[10:14] That's what many here believe that the

[10:16] UN repatriation program will protect

[10:19] them from landmines, malaria, even the

[10:23] Cime Rouge. The problems confronting

[10:25] these people are so vast and so varied

[10:28] that there are serious questions being

[10:30] asked about whether the United Nations

[10:31] can manage the program. The UN's mandate

[10:35] is to safely return 10,000 Cambodians

[10:38] every week for the next 9 months. The UN

[10:41] will then supervise voting to choose the

[10:44] first freely elected government in 20

[10:46] years. Even UN officials admit

[10:49] repatriating and protecting all the

[10:51] refugees will be difficult. I

[10:53] >> I think that's that's probably the case.

[10:55] I mean, I think in a sense we've made a

[10:57] mistake. We've raised expectations about

[10:59] how much we can and cannot contribute

[11:02] towards this movement.

[11:03] >> UN officials are fighting deadlines.

[11:05] They have only a few months before the

[11:07] rainy season will wash out roads that

[11:09] are now being rebuilt. They are also

[11:12] racing to repair badly damaged bridges.

[11:15] Some of them could collapse.

[11:18] They also want to resettle the refugees

[11:20] before the Cime Rouge tries to grab and

[11:22] hold land. The strategy, award each

[11:25] family 5 acres of farmland. But there is

[11:28] not enough land that has been cleared of

[11:30] mines.

[11:31] >> They last for decades. Uh they're very

[11:34] hard to detect. They're planted

[11:36] everywhere in the jungle, in the rice

[11:37] fields, around the villages. It will be

[11:39] a a problem for decades to come.

[11:42] >> And there are, of course, the money

[11:44] problems. The UN says it is $80 million

[11:47] short for the first phase of the $3

[11:49] billion program.

[11:51] >> We need money now because we're starting

[11:53] now.

[11:54] >> The UN plans to borrow money from other

[11:57] UN budgets until it can convince member

[11:59] nations, especially the United States,

[12:02] to help out. If it fails, many of the

[12:05] returning Cambodians will be stranded,

[12:07] unable to vote in the elections,

[12:09] threatening Cambodia's chance to begin

[12:12] its return from anarchy. Bill Riker, ABC

[12:16] News, Western Cambodia.

[12:19] Still overseas in China today, a

[12:21] surprise at the opening session of the

[12:23] annual People's Congress. Premier Lee

[12:25] Punk, who has built his reputation as a

[12:27] hardliner, told the Congress that now he

[12:29] is all for economic reform. and he even

[12:32] went so far as to suggest paying workers

[12:34] more if they produce more. And in the

[12:37] former Soviet Union, leaders of the new

[12:39] Commonwealth held their fourth summit

[12:41] meeting today to try and resolve some

[12:44] urgent military and economic problems.

[12:46] They accomplished nothing. We'll be back

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[14:26] In California today, more testimony from

[14:28] one of the four Los Angeles police

[14:30] officers accused of assaulting black

[14:32] motorist Rodney King. That's the beating

[14:35] that was captured on a home video

[14:36] camera. Here's ABC's Judy Muller.

[14:40] Under cross-examination, Sergeant Stacy

[14:42] [ __ ] conceded that the beating officers

[14:44] under his command gave Rodney King was

[14:46] the most violent use of force he had

[14:48] seen in his 14 and 1/2 years on the job.

[14:51] At the same time, he insisted that the

[14:53] use of force, some 56 blows, was

[14:56] necessary.

[14:57] >> Watching the videotape now, is it your

[14:59] testimony that every one of the blows

[15:00] that you see on there is a justified use

[15:04] of force?

[15:05] >> It's a reasonable and necessary using

[15:07] the minimum force. Yes, sir. That is my

[15:09] testimony.

[15:09] >> [ __ ] said that King posed a threat to

[15:11] his officers, that he had hulk-like

[15:13] strength, rose up with a bear-like yell,

[15:16] and groaned like a wounded animal. The

[15:18] prosecutor asked [ __ ] how King could be

[15:20] called an aggressor when he never struck

[15:22] out at anyone, adding,

[15:24] >> "You didn't see uh him to have any

[15:27] weapon, did you?"

[15:29] >> Yes, I did see him to have a weapon.

[15:30] >> What kind of a weapon did Mr. King have?

[15:32] >> It was his body, and he was under the

[15:34] influence of PCP. Even though medical

[15:36] tests later showed that King was not on

[15:38] the drug PCP, [ __ ] says the officers

[15:40] believed he was and that prompted them

[15:43] to treat King as a combative suspect.

[15:45] When the prosecution made its case

[15:46] earlier, an officer with the California

[15:48] Highway Patrol told a different story.

[15:50] She said that King was not a threat and

[15:53] that he was hit seven times in the head

[15:55] without cause. But the strongest witness

[15:57] for the prosecution remains the

[15:59] videotape of the beating. The defense is

[16:01] trying to convince the jury that the

[16:02] tape does not tell the whole story. The

[16:05] prosecution did not call Rodney King to

[16:07] the stand, choosing not to dilute the

[16:08] impact as a videotape. The defense could

[16:11] still call King as a hostile witness.

[16:13] Judy Mueller, ABC News, Los Angeles.

[16:16] >> A huge pileup today on a foggy highway

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[16:23] in all on Interstate 15 at a mountain

[16:26] pass outside San Bernardino. One person

[16:28] was killed, another 45 injured. We'll be

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[18:41] >> Another court case. This one involving

[18:43] one of the biggest names in the savings

[18:45] and loan scandal, Charles Teading, who

[18:48] was the chairman of Lincoln Savings and

[18:49] Loan in California, which collapsed

[18:51] three years ago. Already convicted on

[18:53] criminal charges, Keating now faces a

[18:56] huge civil suit in Tucson, Arizona. As

[18:59] ABC's Ron Claybourne reports, thousands

[19:01] of investors are trying to get their

[19:02] money back.

[19:04] >> There is no question that it was

[19:06] deliberate, that he was just an

[19:08] outandout thief. 79year-old Michael

[19:12] Walpert is still angry at Charles

[19:14] Keading. In 1989, he lost $35,000, his

[19:17] life savings when his American

[19:19] Continental Corporation bonds became

[19:21] worthless. Wolford has had to move to a

[19:24] single room in Costa Mesa, California,

[19:26] where he lives off social security and

[19:28] whatever he can make selling inexpensive

[19:30] jewelry.

[19:31] >> How can he smile like that knowing what

[19:34] he did? cheating and seven codefendants

[19:37] are on trial for allegedly not telling

[19:39] investors that American Continental was

[19:41] losing millions of dollars. American

[19:43] Continental owned Lincoln Savings and

[19:45] Loan where some elderly investors say

[19:47] they were pressured by salesmen into

[19:48] buying bonds.

[19:49] >> My wife said, "Are these financially

[19:52] insured by the government?" He said,

[19:53] "Well, no." He said, "But they're even

[19:55] better." He said, "The government will

[19:58] go broke before you will ever go broke."

[20:00] >> These elderly investors have met

[20:01] regularly for 3 years to support one

[20:04] another. Well, if you go to some of

[20:06] these meetings that we have, it breaks

[20:08] your heart to see what it has done to so

[20:11] many people.

[20:12] >> On the stand, Kading took the Fifth

[20:14] Amendment 51 times, but he says he feels

[20:17] sorry for the investors.

[20:19] >> I feel as bad as they do. I've lost

[20:21] everything I had, too. And of course,

[20:23] their loss comes first. I Nothing in my

[20:26] life grieves me or my wife more than

[20:28] that.

[20:28] >> As far as Charles Keading is concerned,

[20:31] I would like to see him rot in jail for

[20:33] what he's done to us. Now that the

[20:34] lawsuit has gone to trial, they hope

[20:36] they will finally recover their money

[20:38] and possibly damages. But even if they

[20:40] win, elderly investors like Michael

[20:42] Walford can never replace what they've

[20:44] lost. For 3 years, they've had to get by

[20:46] without money they counted on when they

[20:48] needed it most. Ron Claybourne, ABC

[20:51] News, Los Angeles. On Wall Street, the

[20:53] Dow Jones Industrials gained nearly 15

[20:56] points today to close at 3276.

[20:59] Trading was heavy for the week. Stocks

[21:01] gained more than 40 points. A terrifying

[21:04] moment at a political rally [music] near

[21:06] Tokyo today. The vice chairman of the

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[21:18] Security guards grabbed the gunman who

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[21:22] The politician Shin Kimaru ducked behind

[21:25] the podium and was not hurt. We'll have

[21:28] more in a moment.

[21:32] World News Tonight with Peter Jennings

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[23:29] And finally this evening, our person of

[23:31] the week. She has stood on the

[23:33] international stage for decades as a

[23:35] pioneer in the arts and sciences.

[23:38] Recently, she's taken a stand of a

[23:39] different sort for a cause, asking

[23:42] Americans from all walks of life to join

[23:44] her. We have taken the lead in democracy

[23:47] and we've helped out, you know,

[23:49] earthquake victims and you name it, all

[23:51] over the world. And suddenly it seemed

[23:54] to me that Haiti was the bottom of the

[23:56] pile, bottom of everything.

[23:58] >> 49 days ago, Katherine Dunham decided it

[24:01] was time to make a point about the

[24:03] plight of refugees being sent back to

[24:04] Haiti, her second home. On February 1st,

[24:08] the 82year-old Dunham began to fast.

[24:11] >> I have been on cranberry juice and

[24:12] water. When I saw the way those Haitians

[24:15] were being treated and I knew they'd

[24:17] have to go back to Haiti and that they

[24:19] would not have

[24:21] safety there, I thought, well, somebody

[24:23] has to act in a hurry.

[24:26] >> Early on in her fast, Dunham became

[24:28] extremely weak and her vision became

[24:30] impaired. Her doctors ordered her to the

[24:33] hospital and she rallied.

[24:35] >> I'm not at all concerned about death or

[24:38] fear. But this week, after a visit by

[24:40] the exiled Haitian President Aris, who

[24:43] is planning to return to Haiti, and the

[24:45] Reverend Jesse Jackson, Dunham was

[24:47] convinced she should begin to eat, that

[24:49] she has made her point.

[24:51] >> In some real sense, the witness of

[24:54] Katherine Dunham is a factor in

[24:56] stimulating all of us to do more, to be

[25:00] more sacrificial,

[25:02] to suffer more, to the end that somebody

[25:04] else might survive. And for her own

[25:06] survival, Dunham has added chicken soup

[25:09] >> and Jell-O to her diet.

[25:11] >> I have to get strong enough to go when

[25:14] the president goes to Haiti and go with

[25:15] him.

[25:16] >> Katherine Dunham was born near Chicago.

[25:19] At the age of eight, she began dancing

[25:21] to raise money for her church.

[25:23] >> There was an urge in me, a necessity to

[25:25] dance. As a teenager, Dunham continued

[25:28] dancing to pay her way through the

[25:30] University of Chicago, where she studied

[25:32] anthropology and classical ballet. For

[25:35] her master's degree, Dunham received a

[25:37] grant to study primitive culture in the

[25:39] Caribbean. First stop, Haiti. It was the

[25:42] local dance she discovered that unlocked

[25:44] the secrets of their culture.

[25:46] >> And that has always fascinated me. Who

[25:49] dances, why, when, you know, and what

[25:52] their uh what they wear. By the late

[25:56] 1930s, Dunham was an established

[25:58] authority on primitive culture,

[26:00] lecturing at colleges around the

[26:02] country.

[26:04] [music]

[26:05] At the same time, she was forming the

[26:08] Katherine Dunham Dance Troop, the first

[26:10] black dance company in America. In terms

[26:13] of our color, it was bound to happen.

[26:16] You know, sometimes people who had never

[26:19] seen or thought about black people were

[26:21] delighted with what they saw.

[26:24] >> [music]

[26:29] >> Throughout the 1940s and 50s, the Dunham

[26:32] dancers [music] were an international

[26:34] sensation on Broadway, in movies, and

[26:37] clubs around the world. Since 1936,

[26:41] Dunham has split her time between her

[26:42] estate in Haiti and her more modest home

[26:45] in East St. Louis, Illinois. It's here

[26:48] in the impoverished inner city that

[26:49] Dunham has added a touch of her own

[26:51] brand of culture. The Katherine Dunham

[26:54] Museum of Dance and Primitive Culture,

[26:57] the world famous Dunham technique taught

[26:59] at the local college and most important

[27:02] for her, the Dunham Children's Workshop.

[27:05] >> These are the ones who need help and

[27:06] guidance. The arts can be used to

[27:09] socialize young people easier than just

[27:12] ABC.

[27:14] >> Katherine Dunham says she has never set

[27:16] out to change the world, only to make a

[27:19] point. And judging by the thousands of

[27:21] letters and phone calls in support of

[27:23] her fast for Haitian refugees, it seems

[27:25] by many to be a point well taken. If

[27:29] this has aroused some of the conscience

[27:31] of American people, I think it's been

[27:33] well worthwhile.

[27:35] >> And so we choose Katherine Dunham, a

[27:38] woman of talent and conviction who has

[27:39] always taken risks for what she

[27:42] believes. That's our report on World

[27:44] News Tonight. I'm Forest Sawyer. Peter

[27:46] Jennings will be back here on Monday and

[27:48] I'll see you later tonight on Night

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