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[0:00] change them.

[0:01] >> A difficult challenge in a community

[0:03] unaccustomed to the intolerance that

[0:05] appears to exist here. Jane Clayson, ABC

[0:08] News, San Francisco.

[0:10] >> The big economic news today is the trade

[0:12] deficit. It surged to a record high last

[0:15] year. $168 billion more in goods and

[0:19] services came into the country than went

[0:21] out, breaking the record set in 1987. On

[0:25] the money tonight, ABC's Bob Jameson.

[0:29] Americans buying cheap imports from Asia

[0:31] and other regions in economic trouble

[0:33] helped drive the trade deficit to its

[0:35] record. But unlike 1987 when the

[0:38] previous record was set, the surge in

[0:40] imports is seen as a sign of US economic

[0:42] strength. Then unemployment was at 6.2%

[0:46] and growing and the deficit was seen as

[0:48] a threat to American industry and

[0:50] American jobs. That's less true today.

[0:52] >> The unemployment rate in our country is

[0:55] currently at a 30-year low. It's kind of

[0:57] hard to get worried about uh import

[0:59] competition if anyone uh who could

[1:01] basically breathe can find a job right

[1:03] now.

[1:04] >> The deficit also rose because US exports

[1:06] fell for the first time in 13 years. 13

[1:10] years ago, many American manufacturers

[1:12] couldn't compete successfully overseas.

[1:14] Today, US exports are declining because

[1:16] much of the world is in recession.

[1:18] >> Manufacturing is actually very

[1:20] competitive. Productivity is high. The

[1:21] exchange rate is reasonable, but the

[1:23] demand overseas just isn't there.

[1:26] Some US industries are worried about the

[1:28] trade deficit. Steel manufacturers say

[1:30] they are being hurt by cheap imports

[1:32] while farmers are suffering from falling

[1:34] exports. But for now, this largest trade

[1:37] deficit ever seems to be causing no

[1:39] serious concern. Bob Jameson, ABC News,

[1:42] New York. On Wall Street today, the Dow

[1:44] Jones Industrial Average was up more

[1:46] than 41 points to close at 9339. On the

[1:49] Nasdaq, stocks were up 23 points. When

[1:53] we come back, elephants dying in zoos.

[1:56] Are humans to blame?

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[4:05] >> The head of the US Olympic Committee

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[4:20] guidelines. For several years now, young

[4:24] elephants have been dying mysteriously

[4:26] in American zoos, and no one has been

[4:28] able to figure out why. A report from

[4:30] John's Hopkins University has revealed

[4:32] that a very well-known common disease

[4:35] may be the cause. And it's a cruel

[4:37] example of what can happen when man

[4:39] interferes with nature, even with the

[4:41] best intentions. Here's ABC's Morton

[4:43] Dean.

[4:45] >> Her name was Kumari. She was a star

[4:48] attraction at the National Zoo in

[4:50] Washington, the first elephant born

[4:52] there. When she died, she was only 16

[4:56] months old. It was a mysterious death.

[4:58] >> We were very baffled. It it came on

[5:01] quickly and in 5 days, she uh she died

[5:05] acutely and we were all very shocked.

[5:07] >> That was four years ago. Soon,

[5:09] researchers discovered young elephants

[5:11] were dying in other zoos. A lethal

[5:14] virus, a previously unknown form of

[5:16] herpes, is now suspected of killing at

[5:18] least nine elephants born in US and

[5:21] Canadian zoos.

[5:22] >> Apparently, this virus is something that

[5:25] is carried by African elephants and

[5:27] transmitted to Asian elephants that

[5:29] doesn't affect the adult elephants.

[5:32] Really only affects the babies.

[5:36] >> Humans may be at fault. The two species

[5:38] do not inhabit the same regions in the

[5:41] wild, but often are put together in

[5:43] zoos. One solution would be to separate

[5:46] the elephants where possible. The

[5:48] elephants are beginning to get some help

[5:50] from humans. Proof of that is doc. Doc

[5:54] has been treated successfully with a

[5:56] drug used to treat human herpes. Early

[5:58] diagnosis was the key, clearing the way

[6:01] to a long life and just possibly a long

[6:05] career in show business. Morton Dean,

[6:08] ABC News, New York.

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[6:27] In a moment, the horror of the trenches.

[6:30] We put dead bodies in the bottom of the

[6:33] trench so that we could stand on them to

[6:35] keep drying.

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[10:17] Finally tonight, the century on Friday.

[10:20] When an editorial this week described

[10:22] impeachment politics as trench warfare,

[10:24] it made perhaps a casual reference to a

[10:26] brutal time, the First World War. The

[10:29] Germans, Austrohungarians, and the

[10:31] Ottomans pitted against the French,

[10:33] British, and Russians. They stood for

[10:35] years in a stubborn standoff. And 83

[10:38] years ago this month in the Battle of

[10:40] Verdon, German troops stormed the French

[10:42] trenches in an attempt to break the

[10:44] stalemate. They failed at a cost of

[10:47] 700,000 lives. Peter Jennings tonight on

[10:50] the misery endured by men buried in the

[10:53] bowels of the earth.

[10:58] Tonight, the trenches of World War I.

[11:05] We put dead bodies in the bottom of the

[11:07] trench so that we could stand on them to

[11:11] keep dry. And in some occasions

[11:16] to make it higher so that we could walk

[11:20] a bit better instead of crouching.

[11:27] At night the rats

[11:30] they grew to enormous sizes

[11:33] feeding on the on the corpses there. It

[11:37] was impossible to get the get the the

[11:39] dead buried. There are few images more

[11:42] central to the 20th century experience

[11:44] than the trenches that stretched across

[11:47] the western front of World War I. It was

[11:50] here in the mud of France that many

[11:53] believe the century lost its optimism,

[11:56] its belief in technology, in the

[11:58] goodness of life. Some said in God

[12:02] himself.

[12:05] After the hostilities broke out in

[12:07] August 1914,

[12:09] men who'd been raised to think of battle

[12:12] as a noble enterprise had expected to

[12:15] join in a gallant adventure.

[12:19] But technology had already shattered the

[12:22] nature of war. And thanks to an American

[12:25] invention, the machine gun, the

[12:27] combatants of World War I would be the

[12:29] first to experience the change. with

[12:32] that one mere soldier could sit there

[12:36] and murder people

[12:39] on mass. That was something quite new in

[12:42] warfare. The machine had taken over. You

[12:45] could say that the 20th century begins

[12:47] at that moment.

[12:49] >> Each side dug into the trenches and

[12:52] waited, living for months on end with

[12:55] death just over the top.

[12:58] The fighting consisted of sporadic

[13:00] anonymous skirmishes across an

[13:02] undefended battlefield called No Man's

[13:04] Land. The shock to the troops was

[13:08] overwhelming.

[13:14] Someone said to us excitedly,

[13:18] "Jack Smith." I said, "What about him?"

[13:20] The first one of the battalion to be

[13:22] shot. He put his head too far over and

[13:26] the sniper got him and that caused a bit

[13:30] of a sensation amongst the the lads.

[13:33] They thought, well, uh, this is not

[13:37] exactly what we call for quite a

[13:38] business.

[13:40] >> There were thousands of miles of

[13:41] trenches on the Western Front, all of

[13:43] them connected. In some places, they

[13:46] formed virtual underground cities. Men

[13:49] often gave the dirt corridors the names

[13:51] of hometown streets. But this was not

[13:54] home. Not with the stench of dead bodies

[13:57] and the burning, blinding agony of a new

[14:00] weapon. Poison gas used by both sides.

[14:09] Covered mud. Absolutely chewed up by

[14:12] lice.

[14:14] We used to say and to think we wanted to

[14:17] come to this hole. Forced to live with

[14:20] the dead, their battles robbed of

[14:21] meaning, many men began to show symptoms

[14:23] of strange psychological maladies. Shell

[14:27] shock got its name here. The arrival of

[14:31] the tank in 1916 helped to break the

[14:34] stalemate. It could survive the machine

[14:36] gun fire and crush the barbed wire that

[14:38] surrounded the trenches. The tank could

[14:40] leave an advance on an enemy position.

[14:43] But in the end, it was exhaustion, much

[14:45] more than any new weapon that ended the

[14:48] First World War. After 9 million dead,

[14:53] and when it was over, many thought the

[14:55] trenches were the ultimate symbol of

[14:57] modern man's folly.

[15:01] If you visit our website, the

[15:03] century.com, there is much more on the

[15:05] battlefields of World War I and on some

[15:07] of the repercussions of the First World

[15:10] War, the Russian Revolution, and the

[15:11] rise of Adolf Hitler. That is our report

[15:14] on World News Tonight. Later on 2020, a

[15:16] family's tragedy that led to a major

[15:18] investigation. And on Night Line, a

[15:21] music superstar died, but his fans still

[15:24] insist he's alive. I'm Charles Gibson.

[15:26] For all of us at ABC News, have a great

[15:28] weekend. Good night.

[15:33] >> Sunday on This Week with Sam Donaldson

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