World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-07-28

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[0:00] See you at 6. Good night.

[0:06] >> On World News Tonight this Wednesday, a

[0:08] White House plan to protect the country

[0:10] from terrorism on the internet. Congress

[0:13] works to make marriage and taxes less of

[0:16] a burden. Is the nation's most important

[0:19] medical journal choosing profit over

[0:21] principle? We'll take a closer look. And

[0:24] we'll pay a visit to hell. The Pope said

[0:27] today, "It's not as we may think it is."

[0:37] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:40] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:44] Peter Jennings.

[0:44] >> Good evening. We're going to begin this

[0:46] evening with what to do about a

[0:47] potential threat to national security.

[0:49] The Clinton administration said today,

[0:51] "This one won't be by sea or air or

[0:54] land. It will be online and they have a

[0:57] plan. There is no question that given

[0:59] the information infrastructure in the

[1:01] country that government and the

[1:02] financial system are vulnerable. It's

[1:05] the what to do about it that's the

[1:06] challenge. ABC's Jack Smith reports from

[1:09] Washington.

[1:11] It is computer surveillance on a scale

[1:13] that has never been tried. The White

[1:15] House wants to install an extensive

[1:17] computer system to monitor all

[1:19] information on the internet. This

[1:21] includes email on all computers in

[1:24] government and in critical civilian

[1:25] industries such as banking,

[1:27] telecommunications, and transportation.

[1:29] The goal, anticipate and thwart cyber

[1:32] terrorism before it cripples the

[1:34] nation's digital infrastructure.

[1:35] >> It's extremely important to the American

[1:37] people that their IRS information, that

[1:40] the ability to run an air traffic

[1:42] control system, that uh the social

[1:44] security system, that all of these

[1:46] computer systems be safe and secure.

[1:49] Privacy groups are deeply concerned.

[1:51] They say broad monitoring powers would

[1:53] let the government know too much whom

[1:56] people are talking to and emailing even

[1:58] the content of messages.

[1:59] >> That's going to have a chilling effect

[2:02] on the use of these computer systems by

[2:04] citizens.

[2:06] It's not going to work from a security

[2:08] standpoint and it is ripe for abuse.

[2:13] >> Nevertheless, the national computer

[2:15] system is vulnerable. Last year, teenage

[2:18] hackers broke into the Air Force's

[2:20] supposedly secure logistics network. And

[2:23] Washington believes foreign governments

[2:25] and terrorist groups are actively

[2:27] developing cyber weapons to attack the

[2:29] US

[2:30] >> in cyerspace. In essence, we've created

[2:32] this global village without a police

[2:33] department. Uh the ability to network

[2:35] has far outpaced our ability to protect

[2:37] networks.

[2:38] >> Does protecting the nation's computer

[2:40] networks necessarily mean sacrificing

[2:42] privacy? It's a controversy that grows

[2:45] as Americans rely more and more on the

[2:47] internet for so much of what they do.

[2:50] Jack Smith, ABC News, Washington. Today

[2:53] again, mercury rising. Many parts of the

[2:56] country from the plains to the east

[2:57] coast sweltering one more time.

[2:59] Temperatures well above normal. It was

[3:01] 98 degrees in Kansas City today, 92 in

[3:04] New York, and in St. Louis. The

[3:05] forecasters are calling for the 90s all

[3:07] through the weekend. So far, 49 people

[3:10] have died as a result. And ABC's Bob

[3:12] Jameson is tonight in Cincinnati.

[3:16] >> For Cincinnati, it is the hottest July

[3:18] in a decade and the deadliest. The area

[3:21] today recorded its 11th heat related

[3:23] death. A man found in his apartment.

[3:25] Most have been elderly and lived alone.

[3:27] >> We're working with our police division

[3:29] to contact through our block watch

[3:31] program. People that they know are shut

[3:33] in or in need.

[3:35] >> Meals on Wheels. We're checking up on

[3:37] senior shutins.

[3:38] >> Hey, Holly, stand up.

[3:40] >> Hi.

[3:40] >> Hi. found 90-year-old Bertha, who has no

[3:43] air conditioning, had become dehydrated.

[3:46] >> Even if those in need could afford air

[3:48] conditioners, they could not be found in

[3:49] Cincinnati. Shelves were bare in almost

[3:51] every appliance store.

[3:53] >> No. Well, you know, we're concerned to

[3:54] see if she has air conditioning, if

[3:56] she's drinking plenty of fluids in

[3:57] there.

[3:57] >> In Chicago, officials activated a phone

[4:00] center to contact shutins after

[4:02] forecasters said the same dangerous

[4:04] conditions that led to 600 deaths four

[4:06] years ago would return beginning

[4:08] tomorrow. Well, this is in response to

[4:10] um a good lesson that we've all in the

[4:12] city of Chicago have been taught in

[4:15] reference to the dangers of heat.

[4:18] >> In Nebraska, the heat wave was being

[4:19] measured in the number of cattle who

[4:21] have died, 1500 in a week. Farmer Bill

[4:24] Ray, who has lost 11 steers, was trying

[4:26] to keep the survivors cool. And with

[4:28] each day the heat wave continues, the

[4:30] demand for electrical power increases,

[4:32] putting serious strains on already

[4:34] struggling utilities. In many areas,

[4:37] utilities are asking residential

[4:38] customers to voluntarily cut their power

[4:41] use.

[4:42] >> The key is is that anytime we're facing

[4:43] a record demand for electricity, whether

[4:45] it be New England or New York, it's not

[4:47] unusual for us to have to call upon the

[4:49] public to help out by conserving

[4:51] electricity.

[4:52] >> But many businesses are not being given

[4:53] a choice. Factories have been told to

[4:55] expect power shutdowns when demand

[4:57] becomes too high. Local utilities are

[5:00] trying to buy power in the new

[5:01] deregulated market for electricity. But

[5:04] Pennsylvania based PJM Interconnection,

[5:06] the nation's largest power grid, said so

[5:08] many areas face high demand, there is

[5:10] almost no surplus power for sale. A

[5:14] drought in the Northeast is also

[5:15] affecting the power supply. Hydroelect

[5:17] electric plants on evaporating rivers

[5:19] are not producing as much electricity as

[5:21] normal. Bob Jameson, ABC News,

[5:23] Cincinnati.

[5:24] On Capitol Hill today, the Senate got

[5:26] down to debating the nitty-gritty of a

[5:28] bill to mandate the largest tax cut in

[5:30] 20 years. Last week, Republicans in the

[5:33] House of Representatives passed a $792

[5:35] billion tax cut over White House

[5:38] objections included in both the Senate

[5:40] and the House bills is a plan to revoke

[5:43] one of the most seemingly arbitrary

[5:45] provisions of the tax code. It's called

[5:48] the marriage penalty. Here's ABC's Linda

[5:50] Douglas.

[5:53] As newlyweds Will and Elizabeth Lober

[5:55] plan for the future, they are dreading

[5:57] one date, next April 15th. Under current

[6:00] law, they expect to pay higher taxes as

[6:02] a married couple than they did as two

[6:04] single people.

[6:05] >> We just want to get married and start a

[6:08] family and own a house. We don't need to

[6:11] be punished by the tax code for doing

[6:13] that.

[6:14] >> About half of working married couples

[6:16] pay the marriage penalty. Both the House

[6:18] and Senate want to provide relief. Right

[6:20] now, a single person making $25,000 a

[6:23] year gets a standard deduction of

[6:25] $4,300.

[6:27] Two single people with that income get

[6:29] double that, $8,600.

[6:31] But if those two people get married,

[6:33] their joint standard deduction is only

[6:35] $7,200.

[6:37] The GOP House and Senate plans would let

[6:39] each married person take the same

[6:41] standard deduction as a single person.

[6:44] Democrats would do roughly the same,

[6:45] though, targeting more relief at low and

[6:47] middle inome families. Nothing happens

[6:50] on Capitol Hill without pressure.

[6:52] Republicans and Democrats are responding

[6:53] to pressure about family values.

[6:56] >> I've heard of some couples who have

[6:58] actually chosen not to marry because of

[7:01] the tax penalties their marriage would

[7:04] incur.

[7:05] >> Eliminate the marriage penalty.

[7:08] >> This is the argument Christian

[7:09] conservatives such as Janet Parshaw have

[7:11] been pushing. The government needs to do

[7:13] everything it can to keep marriages

[7:15] together, not tear them apart by

[7:17] breaking their back financially.

[7:18] >> Congress and the president may never

[7:20] agree on a broad tax cut, but neither

[7:22] party wants to risk being called anti-f

[7:24] family in an election year. Linda

[7:27] Douglas, ABC News, Capitol Hill.

[7:30] >> On Capitol Hill today, Alan Greenspan

[7:32] urged Congress to put off a big tax cut

[7:34] until the projected budget surpluses

[7:36] actually materialize. The Federal

[7:38] Reserve chairman said he's not against

[7:39] cutting taxes. He just believes the

[7:40] government should pay down its debt

[7:42] first. Elsewhere on the money tonight,

[7:45] corporate America booming with three

[7:47] quarters of US businesses reporting

[7:49] earnings for the second quarter. Profits

[7:51] are up an average of 15%. Very

[7:53] impressive growth fueled by strong

[7:55] consumer spending and economic recovery

[7:58] in many other parts of the world. On

[8:01] Wall Street today, the Dow Jones

[8:02] Industrial Average was down just under

[8:04] seven points to close at 10,972.

[8:07] On the NASDAQ, stocks were up just about

[8:10] 26 and a half points. Here's another

[8:13] example of wealth being created here.

[8:16] Power and Motor Yacht Magazine reports

[8:18] today that Americans now commission

[8:20] about a third of the mega yachts built

[8:22] in the world. Much bigger than those.

[8:25] That's an increase of about 25% in a

[8:28] decade ago. The Supreme Court of

[8:30] California has made a very important

[8:32] decision. For one thing, it reaffirms

[8:33] the rights of a free press. It's also

[8:37] going to upset some very public people

[8:39] involved in very private lawsuits. The

[8:41] court said that the press and the public

[8:44] have a constitutional right of access to

[8:46] civil trials just as they do in criminal

[8:49] trials. Here's ABC's Judy Mueller.

[8:52] >> This began with the civil suit filed

[8:54] against actor Clint Eastwood by his

[8:56] former companion Sandra Lockach,

[8:58] alleging that he had ruined her career.

[9:01] The judge in their civil trial, hoping

[9:03] to avoid the circus-like atmosphere of

[9:05] the OJ Simpson case, ruled that all

[9:07] proceedings held outside the presence of

[9:09] the jury would be closed to the public.

[9:12] Media organizations charged that was a

[9:14] violation of the public's right to know.

[9:16] The California High Court agreed. I

[9:19] think the California Supreme Court is

[9:21] sending a message to courts throughout

[9:22] the country, to judges throughout the

[9:25] country, that the First Amendment does

[9:27] have meaning even outside the realm of

[9:30] criminal trials.

[9:31] >> It will now be much more difficult for a

[9:33] judge to keep a civil proceeding

[9:35] private. Shielding the jury from media

[9:37] coverage is not sufficient reason. The

[9:40] ruling could lead to fewer lawsuits and

[9:42] more negotiated settlements. Once people

[9:44] choose to go to court, the public and

[9:46] the press will be there, too.

[9:48] Because the public is paying for the

[9:50] courts of this country and when you pay

[9:52] for something, you have a right to know

[9:54] what's going on.

[9:56] >> There are still some issues that will

[9:57] remain private. California law bars

[10:00] access to juvenile proceedings, which

[10:02] often include custody battles, but every

[10:04] other private dispute is now

[10:06] indisputably public. Judy Mueller, ABC

[10:09] News, Los Angeles. There are two surveys

[10:12] out today which highlight the

[10:13] frustration with HMOs from both a

[10:16] patient and doctor point of view. The

[10:18] National Committee on Quality Assurance

[10:20] found that about a quarter of HMO

[10:21] patients say they have trouble getting

[10:23] HMOs to pay for care they thought they

[10:25] needed. And the Kaiser Family Foundation

[10:28] found that nine out of 10 doctors say

[10:30] they have had patients who were denied

[10:32] coverage in the last 2 years. There's

[10:36] been an important development in the

[10:37] fight against cancer. For the first

[10:39] time, scientists in Boston have created

[10:41] a cancerous human cell in the lab. A

[10:44] report being published in the journal

[10:46] Nature says that scientists now have a

[10:47] powerful new tool to develop drugs that

[10:50] can work against tumors. In Washington

[10:53] today, the surgeon general has declared

[10:55] suicide a serious public health threat

[10:58] for the first time and has launched a

[11:00] major campaign to try to reduce the

[11:02] increasing number of people who take

[11:04] their own lives. Suicide is the eighth

[11:07] leading cause of death in the country,

[11:09] claiming about 30,000 lives a year. And

[11:12] among young black males, the suicide

[11:15] rate is now the third leading cause of

[11:18] death. When we come back, the adventure

[11:20] expedition that went terribly wrong. And

[11:23] what is going on at the nation's top

[11:25] medical journal? We'll take a closer

[11:27] look.

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[13:40] Overseas today in Yugoslavia, United

[13:43] Nations team says it has found no

[13:44] evidence of a major environmental

[13:46] catastrophe caused by NATO bombing

[13:49] during the campaign against Yugoslavia.

[13:51] However, the US team says there has been

[13:53] significant pollution in a few isolated

[13:56] places as a result of bombing, including

[13:58] the place that we reported on, the

[14:00] industrial city of Panchevu. In Colombia

[14:03] today, searchers have found the bodies

[14:04] of four Americans who died late last

[14:06] week when their US Army plane crashed

[14:09] into a mountain. The plane was on an

[14:11] anti-drug reconnaissance flight. There

[14:13] were five Americans on board and two

[14:15] Colombians. Overseas this week, there's

[14:17] been a tragic lesson in the dangers of

[14:20] adventure sports, which are becoming

[14:22] increasingly popular everywhere. In

[14:24] Switzerland, 19 people died after a

[14:26] sudden flood crashed into a group of

[14:29] adventurers yesterday. They were doing

[14:31] something called canyoning. ABC's Sheila

[14:34] McVicker reports tonight from

[14:35] Interlockan.

[14:39] Today, Swiss police were still searching

[14:41] for the dead at the mouth of the Muddy

[14:43] River. What began as a chance, as the

[14:45] tour company put it, to push yourself to

[14:47] the extreme ended in disaster when a

[14:50] flash flood swept down. The group was

[14:54] further up this canyon when suddenly

[14:56] they were confronted by the wall of

[14:58] water. That surge was so powerful it was

[15:01] carrying along tree trunks and other

[15:02] debris. The victims were swept up and

[15:06] tossed into the rocks.

[15:08] This was the same stretch of river and a

[15:10] group led by the same tour company two

[15:12] years ago. Canyoning is a relatively new

[15:15] and growing sport, a little like

[15:17] whitewater rafting without the raft. Wet

[15:20] suits, helmets, and life jackets are

[15:21] essential equipment as participants,

[15:23] mostly college age, jump down rock faces

[15:26] and surf over rapids. It's all supposed

[15:29] to be a thrill, one that Adventure World

[15:31] promised was safe. That promise seems

[15:34] hollow now. Today, the survivors huddled

[15:36] at a small hotel. 22-year-old John Hall

[15:39] called his mother in New Zealand.

[15:41] >> He said he was just tumbling under the

[15:43] water. Just didn't know which way was

[15:45] up, which way was down. Um, he doesn't

[15:46] know for how long, but he reckons he

[15:48] went through six waterfalls on the way

[15:50] down.

[15:51] >> Tonight, Swiss tour companies announced

[15:53] they were cancelling all future

[15:55] canyoning expeditions. Sheila McVicker,

[15:58] ABC News, Interlockan, Switzerland.

[16:02] In space today, two Russian cosminauts

[16:04] carried out what will likely be the last

[16:05] spacew walk from the space station Mir.

[16:08] The two installed a new

[16:09] telecommunications antenna. Next month,

[16:12] the crew will abandon the Russian space

[16:14] station. And next year, mission

[16:15] controllers will send it off to burn up

[16:18] in the atmosphere.

[16:20] >> Three little holes. That's what NASA

[16:21] found in an engine nozzle on the space

[16:23] shuttle Colombia today, hours after its

[16:26] return to Earth. And the findings

[16:27] confirm suspicions that Colombia leaked

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[16:32] NASA says there was never any danger of

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[16:38] unprecedented emergency landing. And the

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[19:03] Some insight we hope tonight into the

[19:05] influential world of medical reporting.

[19:07] Tomorrow being Thursday, there'll be

[19:08] another edition of the New England

[19:09] Journal of Medicine. This week, articles

[19:12] about a drug to fight blood clots and

[19:13] some news about newborns will get

[19:16] widespread distribution, which is how

[19:18] the journal likes it. There are about

[19:21] 4,000 medical journals published in the

[19:23] United States every year, but none quite

[19:25] so influential. The Treatment of the

[19:27] Future, the new drugs your doctor

[19:29] prescribes, are so often first published

[19:31] in the New England Journal. So, why then

[19:34] was its popular editor just let go? And

[19:37] why are so many doctors angry at the

[19:39] Massachusetts Medical Association, which

[19:42] owns the journal? ABC's Ned Potter takes

[19:45] a closer look.

[19:47] The journal says it wants to be a source

[19:49] of truth, of medical knowledge, which

[19:51] may lengthen your life. But some doctors

[19:54] say what happened there was a triumph of

[19:56] profit over principle. It seems that the

[19:59] present leadership of the Massachusetts

[20:02] Medical Society just couldn't be happy

[20:05] with having the world's leading medical

[20:07] journal and making tens of millions of

[20:09] dollars profit from that. Sources say

[20:11] editor Jerome Casier was let go when he

[20:14] fought his boss's plans to attach the

[20:16] journal's name to health magazines for

[20:18] the general public. They wanted to

[20:20] market other medical journals, perhaps

[20:21] with papers the New England Journal

[20:23] rejected. Some felt the journal's stamp

[20:26] of approval would then be on things the

[20:27] journal had no control over. So its

[20:30] credibility would be at stake.

[20:32] >> Credibility is an important and rare

[20:34] commodity in our society and anything

[20:36] that undermines that is a great loss.

[20:39] >> But just how much of a monument is a

[20:41] medical journal anyhow? Even one as

[20:43] prestigious as this. Is it all

[20:45] scholarship or is it business too? Do

[20:48] remember that while there are plenty of

[20:49] research articles listed on the front,

[20:52] there are plenty of drug company ads in

[20:54] the back.

[20:55] >> It is first and foremost, of course, uh

[20:57] a product. Uh it is something that is a

[21:00] profit-making institution.

[21:02] >> Some of those profits went to build this

[21:04] gleaming new headquarters for the

[21:06] owners. That's gling to some doctors who

[21:08] say the journal often benefits from

[21:10] research done at taxpayers expense. But

[21:13] the publishers who are doctors

[21:15] themselves say it's important to be

[21:17] leaders in the fast changing world of

[21:19] medical information.

[21:20] >> Far better it be a medical society with

[21:23] its professional values than some

[21:26] commercial interested

[21:28] only in profits.

[21:29] >> But it's hard to separate lofty aims

[21:32] from the bottom line. Listen to Dr.

[21:34] George Lundberg who's gone from the

[21:36] Journal of the American Medical

[21:37] Association to a medical website.

[21:40] >> Medical publishing is a business. It's a

[21:42] high stakes business. It's a lucrative

[21:45] business for some medical publishers.

[21:47] Others go down the tubes.

[21:49] >> Medical journals affect your health. Are

[21:51] they temples of knowledge or business

[21:53] ventures? The answer is both. And the

[21:55] tension that creates is not easily

[21:58] cured. Ned Potter, ABC News, New York.

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[25:27] >> On 2020 Tonight.

[25:31] >> Just a brief review of our top story.

[25:33] The White House has a new plan to create

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[25:46] the least. Finally, from us this

[25:48] evening, it was not the heat that made

[25:50] us focus on the concept of hell tonight,

[25:52] we promise. It was actually Pope John

[25:54] Paul's views on hell, which he stated

[25:57] today just a week after he said that

[25:59] heaven is not some place up in the

[26:01] clouds. The Pope says that hell is not

[26:04] down there. ABC's Bill Blakemore, who

[26:07] covers the Vatican for us, understands

[26:10] these matters.

[26:12] It's the power of art the pope is

[26:14] reacting to. Catholics have never taught

[26:17] that hell is a physical place, but a

[26:19] state you put yourself in by cutting

[26:21] yourself off from God. But down through

[26:24] the centuries, artists were looking for

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[26:28] feel real. And over the years, many

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[26:35] heaven and hell are metaphors inspired

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[26:41] Dante. Dante's poem, The Inferno,

[26:44] describes the great burning pit of hell

[26:46] with the devil in the center frozen in

[26:48] ice. Poetic license, lots of it, but not

[26:53] Catholic teaching. Dante had a great way

[26:56] of imagining physical visual

[26:58] counterparts for different ways that

[27:01] souls hurt themselves.

[27:03] >> Go further back in time and biblical

[27:05] hell is a place on the east side of

[27:07] Jerusalem. Archaeologists say this

[27:09] ravine was a place called Gehenna where

[27:11] ancient people sacrificed children in

[27:13] fires and later burned garbage. So

[27:16] biblical writers used its burning and

[27:18] death to hint what it's like to be cut

[27:20] off from God.

[27:23] The latest version, a movie with heaven

[27:27] >> and hell.

[27:29] The film says these are just spiritual

[27:32] states, but pictures can still be so

[27:34] powerful, color so real, it's no wonder

[27:37] the Pope needs to remind followers that

[27:40] seeing should not always be believing.

[27:43] Bill Blakemore, ABC News.

[27:45] >> We hope that clarification is useful.

[27:47] That is our report on World News

[27:48] Tonight. Later on, 2020, the lack of

[27:50] international response to the genocide

[27:53] in Rwanda. And on Night Line, China's

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