World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-06-15

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[0:00] Tonight, this Tuesday, the Serbs are

[0:01] leaving on schedule, filling the power

[0:04] vacuum with a vengeance. The Kosovo

[0:06] Liberation Army, cancelling an event on

[0:09] the road for the very first time because

[0:11] he's ill. The Pope in Poland. We'll take

[0:14] a closer look at how pension plans are

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[0:19] anymore. And the secret code in the

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[0:32] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:34] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:38] Peter Jennings.

[0:39] >> Good evening. In Kosovo today, some

[0:40] things went according to plan. The

[0:42] Yugoslav army has withdrawn from the

[0:44] southern sector of the province on

[0:45] schedule as required by its agreement

[0:48] with NATO. Some things seem to be

[0:50] inevitable. Serb civilians are leaving

[0:52] the province in large numbers because

[0:55] they're afraid that returning Albanians

[0:57] will take out their anger on them.

[0:58] There's a hint of panic among the Serbs

[1:00] in Kosovo now. And they're particularly

[1:02] afraid of the Kosovo Liberation Army,

[1:05] which has emerged as a force in the

[1:07] province even sooner than many people

[1:09] anticipated. Our first report tonight is

[1:11] from ABC's Bob Woodruff.

[1:14] >> For 11 weeks, these Serbian tanks had

[1:16] avoided NATO bombs.

[1:19] Today they roared out of their hiding

[1:20] places while NATO forces watched them

[1:23] leave.

[1:26] >> We love Serbia, the soldier yelled, "We

[1:28] will come back again." As the Serbs

[1:31] moved out, NATO moved in.

[1:35] >> Ethnic Albanians in the town of Glovats

[1:37] had been hiding for months in their

[1:39] homes or in the hills. Today, they

[1:41] emerged. Today, they thanked NATO.

[1:44] >> I'm just I'm overwhelmed. I I can't

[1:46] believe that the the response to the

[1:48] local people was just fantastic.

[1:50] >> But as the Serb military left, soldiers

[1:53] burned more houses today. In Pina, the

[1:55] Serb police destroyed their records,

[1:57] throwing them out of a window and then

[1:59] burning them. And as this military

[2:01] leaves, the Serb civilians are right

[2:03] behind them. Their protectors are no

[2:05] longer here. The few buses leaving

[2:08] Kosovo today were packed with Serb

[2:10] civilians. Some people could not get on.

[2:13] Most are afraid of the Kosovo Liberation

[2:15] Army and the Albanians who may soon be

[2:17] coming home.

[2:19] >> We are very, very concerned that the

[2:21] return of refugees to Kosovo must not

[2:23] lead to a new refugee exodus and there

[2:25] are signs that this is beginning.

[2:27] >> These Serb children saluted the troops

[2:30] as they left. This Albanian boy tore up

[2:32] a Serbian flag. The soldiers are

[2:35] leaving, but the hatred remains. Bob

[2:38] Woodruff, ABC News, Christina. The

[2:41] Kosovo Liberation Army, as mentioned,

[2:43] there is what has so many Serbs

[2:44] frightened. One Serb, this one, told

[2:46] ABC's Mike Lee that his brother had been

[2:48] abducted yesterday and that NATO

[2:50] provides no protection. Some Serbs who

[2:52] want to leave the province have been

[2:54] prevented from doing so by the KLA. And

[2:57] while NATO has agreed that Kosovo will

[2:58] be part of Yugoslavia and the KLA will

[3:00] be disarmed, a KLA commander said today

[3:03] they would eventually become the army of

[3:05] an independent country. ABC's Jim Wooten

[3:08] reports from Kosovo's second city,

[3:10] Prisan.

[3:13] >> German armor rolls through rainy prison

[3:16] today, welcomed by exuberant civilians,

[3:18] traffic control, courtesy of the KLA.

[3:22] >> The KLA are the brave souls, this woman

[3:25] says, who brought us our freedom. Under

[3:28] the peace agreement, KLA fighters are

[3:31] supposed to put down their guns and work

[3:32] for stability. But now all across

[3:35] Kosovo, they're fanning out and quickly

[3:37] filling the vacuum left by departing

[3:40] Serb soldiers and police in some cases

[3:42] in places before NATO troops established

[3:45] their presence and administration. The

[3:48] KLA was never very large or very lethal.

[3:51] But its stubborn militants did become a

[3:53] symbol for Kosovo's resistance and now

[3:56] its liberation.

[3:58] They surface now even in the capital.

[4:00] Christina, a KLA officer with armed

[4:03] escorts, arrives to walk a flower line

[4:06] path into new headquarters for a meeting

[4:08] with British representatives of NATO,

[4:10] who urged him to keep the peace, not

[4:13] continue the war.

[4:14] >> He said they were giving instructions to

[4:16] that effect. And so that makes me

[4:19] hopeful.

[4:19] >> In effect, NATO wants the KLA

[4:22] neutralized, if not disbanded. Not

[4:25] exactly music to the ears of fighters

[4:27] like 17-year-old Rahheem Bafia. It

[4:30] >> says you must lay down your arms and

[4:32] take off your uniforms.

[4:40] >> No way. He says never. If the war is

[4:43] over, we'll form our own army. We will

[4:46] remain soldiers. And that could be a

[4:49] problem. There were reports today that

[4:51] the KLA is burning the houses of Serbs.

[4:54] Jim Wooten, ABC News, Prisan, Kosovo.

[4:58] >> A little while ago, we talked to the man

[4:59] who is most responsible for controlling

[5:01] the Kosovo Liberation Army for now, the

[5:04] NATO commander in Kosovo, General Sir

[5:06] Michael Jackson.

[5:08] There are variety of reports that the Ka

[5:10] is actually holding people back. In some

[5:12] cases, taking hostages, in one case,

[5:14] torching homes. How serious a

[5:16] complication is that for you?

[5:17] >> Um, I disapprove. mightily of any such

[5:20] behavior, but actually looking overall

[5:23] comparing today's reports that I have of

[5:25] tension uh and yesterday, it's much less

[5:29] today.

[5:29] >> You have said, General Jackson, that

[5:31] questions about the Russians at the

[5:32] Pristina airport bore you and yet you're

[5:35] a student of the Russian mind. What's

[5:38] your suggestion about what should be now

[5:40] done?

[5:41] >> Well, I tell you one reason it bores me

[5:43] is because it is a distraction. We will

[5:46] need to get that airport up and running

[5:47] in due course. Uh but right now I'm I'm

[5:50] just happy with the situation it is.

[5:52] It's mainly a political situation. It's

[5:54] not a military one and I know that will

[5:56] be resolved in due course.

[5:58] >> Got any suggestions?

[5:59] >> Now I think what we're seeing here is is

[6:02] Russia saying look um we've been

[6:04] somewhat uh somewhat neglected, ignored

[6:07] whatever uh over the last few months.

[6:10] Now that's not going to be the case in

[6:12] future and Russia properly as a member

[6:14] of the international community has its

[6:16] own part to play. That's the message I'm

[6:18] getting and I'm very comfortable with

[6:19] that message.

[6:20] >> Have you been surprised by anything?

[6:22] >> Yes, funnily enough, I have been

[6:24] surprised. I have been surprised by less

[6:27] destruction of houses than I thought I

[6:30] was going to find. I'm rather encouraged

[6:32] that the amount of physical

[6:35] reconstruction required is less than I

[6:37] and and and I'm sure all international

[6:39] agencies once feared.

[6:41] >> General Jackson, thank you.

[6:43] >> My pleasure.

[6:44] >> There was a pragmatic decision from NATO

[6:46] today. The Russians have asked NATO to

[6:48] escort a small convoy of Russian troops

[6:50] to the airport in Pristina to resupply

[6:52] the Russian paratroopers who are already

[6:54] there and NATO has agreed. A growing

[6:57] number of Kosovo Albanian refugees think

[7:00] it's worth trying to get home. There was

[7:02] something of a traffic jam at the border

[7:04] in Macedonia today. About 5,000 made the

[7:06] crossing from there and from Albania.

[7:10] And the first war crimes investigators

[7:12] began arriving in Kosovo today. There's

[7:13] a lot they have to look at today. NATO

[7:16] soldiers found the burned remains of

[7:18] about 20 people in the rubble of a

[7:20] farmhouse in southwest Kosovo. NATO says

[7:24] the victims appear to have been shot and

[7:26] then burned. When we come back, some of

[7:29] the other news. The Pope in Poland out

[7:32] of his sick bed for just a few minutes

[7:34] today. And the pension plan that is good

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[9:31] first time in 87 foreign trips since he

[9:34] became pope in 1979, John Paul had to

[9:38] cancel a public appearance because he

[9:39] was ill. ABC's Bill Blakemore reports

[9:42] from Kkow.

[9:45] They chanted under the Pope's balcony

[9:47] tonight. We'll help you get better.

[9:50] >> Then the old man struggled to the

[9:52] window. It was wild as a rock concert.

[9:56] Then he suddenly had them quiet and

[9:58] singing a prayer.

[10:00] Then he was gone

[10:02] >> this morning. A million people had

[10:04] gathered in the rain for mass when the

[10:05] news came. The pope would not be there

[10:08] because of a fever of about 100°.

[10:11] >> This uh has been evaluated at something

[10:13] mild and and a classical case of flu.

[10:17] >> Many stayed at the mass and prayed for

[10:19] him. The 79year-old pope who suffers

[10:22] from Parkinson's had also slipped and

[10:24] hit his head a few days ago. It required

[10:27] three stitches, but he had continued his

[10:30] schedule appearing strong. Then last

[10:32] night, in a cold wind, he began to look

[10:35] extremely tired. At least people here

[10:38] are saying he got sick at home in Kkow.

[10:40] This is the tiny basement apartment

[10:42] where he lived during the Nazi

[10:44] occupation and where he made the

[10:46] decision to become a priest. Krakow is

[10:49] where John Paul served for many years as

[10:51] Archbishop and Cardinal before becoming

[10:53] pope and where in many churches people

[10:56] are praying for him tonight. The doctors

[10:58] decide tomorrow if he can finish the

[11:00] three days left on this trip. If the

[11:02] young people under his balcony have any

[11:04] influence, he'll be up and around for

[11:06] sure. Phil Blakemore, ABC News, KKO.

[11:10] In other news overseas, a US defense

[11:12] official says about 30 North Koreans may

[11:14] have died today in the Yellow Sea when

[11:17] South Korea sank a patrol boat from the

[11:19] North. The latest flare up between the

[11:21] two Korea started a week ago when North

[11:23] Korea began sailing in and out of a

[11:25] disputed fishing area. Each side

[11:27] naturally blames the other. The North

[11:29] says that Washington is urging South

[11:31] Korea on. The Australian Navy released

[11:34] pictures today of a spectacular show off

[11:36] the coast of Western Australia. The

[11:38] Australian Navy used one of its new

[11:40] submarines to torpedo that old warship

[11:42] there. It was designed to prove that the

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[14:36] now, just deciding on what legislation

[14:38] to vote on has provoked a nasty battle

[14:40] in the House. Here's ABC's Linda

[14:42] Douglas.

[14:44] >> Democratic leaders accuse their

[14:45] Republican counterparts of trying to

[14:47] divide and conquer on the issue of gun

[14:49] control. The heart and soul of America

[14:53] is on the line. And out in America, this

[14:56] is not a partisan issue.

[14:58] >> At issue, a decision by GOP leaders to

[15:01] present not one but two bills in the

[15:03] House. The first would spend $ 1.5

[15:05] billion on juvenile crime programs.

[15:08] Republicans will try to add provisions

[15:10] focusing on culture, banning the sale of

[15:12] explicitly violent books and movies to

[15:14] minors and allowing schools to post the

[15:17] Ten Commandments and permit voluntary

[15:19] prayer. The second measure deals with

[15:21] guns, giving authorities 72 hours to

[15:24] conduct a background check for sales at

[15:26] gun shows. Democrats will push for

[15:28] mandatory child safety locks and banning

[15:30] handgun possession by anyone under age

[15:32] 21. Democrats say putting guns in a

[15:35] separate bill gives the NRA its best

[15:37] chance to defeat it. Republicans insist

[15:40] that was not their goal.

[15:41] >> We uh have prided ourself on a free and

[15:45] open and fair debate, and that's exactly

[15:47] what is going to take place.

[15:49] >> In fact, the NRA's pointman is not a

[15:51] Republican, but the senior Democrat,

[15:53] Michigan's John Dingle, a former NRA

[15:55] board member. I work with any citizens

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[16:01] a justifiable case.

[16:03] >> As many as 50 Democrats may join with

[16:05] Dingle to try to wink weaken the gun

[16:08] control proposals, said one Republican

[16:10] aid if the NRA wins this one. Don't

[16:13] blame us. Peter,

[16:14] >> thank you very much. Linda Douglas on

[16:16] Capitol Hill this evening on the money

[16:17] tonight. A difficult week for the

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[16:41] On Wall Street today, the Dow Jones

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[16:44] close at 10,594.

[16:47] On the NASDAQ, stocks were up 16 points.

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[19:35] tonight at retirement planning. There

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[19:40] workers say they expect their main

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[19:47] where they have worked. This is where

[19:48] the company contributes to your account

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[19:53] monthly payment when you retire. Fewer

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[19:58] Since 1980, the number of companies

[20:00] which contribute the lion share to your

[20:02] fund has gone down by 26%. The employee

[20:06] is being required to contribute more.

[20:09] And there are other changes as companies

[20:11] look to reduce their costs. In the early

[20:13] 1980s, about 60% of larger companies

[20:16] gave cost of living increases to people

[20:19] on pension. Today, fewer than 4% do.

[20:23] This is all part of a trend which saves

[20:25] companies money and enables them to make

[20:26] benefits more attractive to people at

[20:28] the beginning of their career than at

[20:30] the end. Here's ABC's John Cochran.

[20:35] >> For longtime employees at big companies

[20:37] like IBM, new does not mean better when

[20:40] it comes to new retirement plans. Bill

[20:42] Edge has looked at the numbers and found

[20:44] he will lose more than $250,000.

[20:48] >> I'm going to have to work for another

[20:49] six to seven years just to match what I

[20:51] would have had. Um, under the old plan,

[20:55] >> the so-called cash balance plan puts in

[20:57] the same percentage of money each year

[20:59] for each worker. That is different from

[21:02] the traditional plan, which gives more

[21:04] for longtime workers nearing retirement.

[21:07] The cash balance plan penalizes many

[21:10] workers who had expected to be rewarded

[21:12] for their longtime service, like Bill

[21:14] Edge, who has worked at IBM for 17 years

[21:17] and expects to work there much longer.

[21:19] Well, not only is this pension fund

[21:23] ripoff by IBM wrong, but uh I really

[21:27] think it's one of the most immoral acts

[21:29] I've ever seen committed.

[21:31] >> He's not the only IBM employee who's

[21:33] upset. So are hundreds of others who

[21:35] have vented their anger on the internet.

[21:37] And it's not just IBM. Many familiar

[21:40] companies have adopted the cash balance

[21:42] scheme. Why did they do it? They say

[21:44] they can take some of the retirement

[21:45] money for older workers and use it to

[21:47] attract talented workers by offering

[21:50] higher salaries, bonuses, and stock

[21:52] options. Companies also say the new plan

[21:54] attracts younger workers who jump from

[21:57] job to job and want a nice chunk of

[21:59] retirement money each time they change

[22:01] companies.

[22:02] >> If you are working for different

[22:04] companies throughout your career, the

[22:06] cash balance plan will probably be

[22:08] better suited for you than the

[22:11] traditional plan. Pensions consultant

[22:13] Scott Hansen says companies are choosing

[22:15] the new plans only because they are

[22:17] cheaper.

[22:18] >> They're going to these cash balance

[22:19] plans for one reason and one reason

[22:21] only. It's to save money.

[22:23] >> What the companies are doing is

[22:25] perfectly legal. So some workers are

[22:27] asking Congress to take action to stop

[22:29] them. That is unlikely. And pension

[22:32] consultants are urging middle-aged and

[22:34] older workers to accept the new reality

[22:36] and start looking for other ways to

[22:39] expand their retirement income. John

[22:41] Cochran, ABC News, Washington.

[22:44] >> When we come back, we'll take a look at

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[24:25] Wednesday, campaign 2000 begins. Diane

[24:28] Sawyer one-on-one with Al Gore. his

[24:31] public image, his private life, and

[24:32] morality in the Clinton White House.

[24:34] >> At what moment did you say to yourself,

[24:37] "He's not telling the truth."

[24:38] >> Exclusively on 2020, Wednesday.

[24:42] Just a brief review of the main story

[24:44] this evening. The Yugoslav Army is

[24:46] leaving Kosovo on schedule with NATO's

[24:48] requirements. And filling the vacuum is

[24:50] the Kosovo Liberation Army. It is

[24:53] supposed to be disarmed at some point,

[24:54] but today a KLA commander said the KLA

[24:57] wants to become the army of an

[24:59] independent country. Finally, from us

[25:02] this evening, the code which the CIA has

[25:04] failed to crack. This is not about the

[25:05] Russians or the Chinese. And in

[25:08] fairness, the effect on the nation's

[25:09] security is negligible. But it is a

[25:12] matter of pride. Here's ABC's John

[25:14] Martin.

[25:16] >> Behind CIA headquarters, there's a

[25:18] secret message waiting to be decoded.

[25:20] It's a mystery to the agency and the

[25:22] hundreds of employees who relax here.

[25:25] This curved copper sculpture contains

[25:27] 1,76 letters stacked in 31 rows. It's

[25:31] the artist's coded challenge to the CIA,

[25:34] which commissioned his work and

[25:36] installed it 9 years ago.

[25:38] >> I don't know that it will ever be

[25:40] totally figured out. Only William

[25:43] Webster, the CIA director at the time,

[25:46] was given the decoded text, and he

[25:48] locked it in the office safe when he

[25:50] left in 1991.

[25:52] But now there's been a break after all

[25:53] these years. An analyst here has

[25:55] deciphered part of the message. In fact,

[25:58] two parts of the message. 38-year-old

[26:01] David Stein, a CIA physicist working at

[26:04] home nights and weekends for about 400

[26:07] hours, has deciphered all but 97 of the

[26:10] letters. They use the Earth's magnetic

[26:13] field. The information was gathered and

[26:15] transmitted underground to an unknown

[26:17] location.

[26:18] >> What location? If you know the code, the

[26:21] coordinates are there.

[26:22] >> 38° 57 minutes 6.5 seconds north, 77° 8

[26:28] minutes 44 seconds west. ID by Rose.

[26:32] >> Do you know where that is on Earth?

[26:33] >> It's approximately this location.

[26:36] >> Yes, he is on the right track.

[26:38] Retired CIA cryptographer Ed Shite knows

[26:40] because he taught the artist how to

[26:42] encode his message. We showed him

[26:44] Stein's work.

[26:45] >> Well, what is the third section that

[26:47] he's unable to get now?

[26:48] >> Uh, that's still a secret.

[26:50] >> And that's how the sculptor wants it.

[26:53] >> I think it's important that every every

[26:55] piece of artwork holds one's attention

[26:58] for as long as possible.

[26:59] >> So, will you tell us now what the last

[27:00] part is?

[27:01] >> I couldn't do that. Still, after 9

[27:04] years, the veil has been pulled back

[27:06] slightly. But the mystery continues, and

[27:09] the CIA says it still wants the message

[27:11] deciphered, if only to show it enjoys

[27:13] the challenge. John Martin, ABC News,

[27:17] Langley, Virginia.

[27:19] Now, if you are so inclined, there's no

[27:21] reason you should feel left out. If you

[27:22] want to face the challenge of cracking

[27:24] the code, you can find it in full at our

[27:26] website, abcnews.com.

[27:29] Have a go. That's our report on World

[27:31] News Tonight. Later on Night Line, Ted

[27:32] Cppel talks to Serbs who say that

[27:35] nothing bad happened to Kosovo

[27:37] Albanians. I'm Peter Jennings. We'll see

[27:39] you tomorrow. Good night.

[28:02] Tomorrow, lead paint and kids. Who

[28:04] should pay for the damage it's caused?

[28:06] Will your state go after the paint

[28:08] industry? Watch ABC's World News Tonight

[28:10] with Peter Jennings.

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[28:44] >> Now, News 2 at 6. First, fast accurate.

[28:50] The vice president comes home to

[28:52] announce the biggest decision of his

[28:54] political life. Good evening. The eyes

[28:57] of the political world focus on Al

[28:59] Gore's hometown of Carthage. That's

[29:01] where tomorrow morning the vice

[29:03] president formally announces he will be

[29:05] seeking the top spot at the White House.

[29:07] News 2's Bob Mueller is in Carthage

[29:09] tonight where just a short time ago he

[29:11] sat down with the vice president for an

[29:13] interview. Bob

[29:14] >> and Brett, the vice president has come

[29:16] home to Carthage, Tennessee, where they

[29:17] have rolled out the red carpet preparing

[29:19] for tomorrow morning's announcement. The

[29:21] vice president calls Carthage home.

[29:22] Although he was reared in Washington, he

[29:24] spent many summers and vacations working

[29:26] the family farm. He says he's glad to be

[29:28] home. He started every one of his

[29:29] candidates candidacies from