World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-07-26

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[0:00] Good night. Good night.

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

[0:06] drought is taking a terrible toll and

[0:08] it's being more widely felt. The battle

[0:10] of the stars and bars in South Carolina.

[0:12] What will it take to bring down the

[0:14] Confederate colors or should they stay?

[0:17] And we'll take a closer look at how

[0:19] different Americans are from Europeans.

[0:22] A debate involving hundreds of millions

[0:25] of dollars.

[0:33] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:36] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:39] Peter Jennings.

[0:40] >> Good evening. We begin this Monday with

[0:41] a strange state of the weather. Some

[0:43] people are praying for rain. Others wish

[0:45] they could do something about the heat.

[0:47] There is now a serious drought from

[0:48] Virginia to Massachusetts. The Midwest

[0:50] is baking as well right through Ohio and

[0:53] Indiana. There's drought in the

[0:54] Northwest. There has been less rain in

[0:57] some parts of the country than there has

[0:58] been in a decade. The consequences are

[1:01] widespread everywhere. Some we notice

[1:03] immediately, others only take a while.

[1:06] ABC's Barry Sarafan reports first from

[1:08] Maryland.

[1:10] The calendar says July, but it looks

[1:12] like November at New York City's

[1:14] Riverside Park, where the trees have

[1:15] already dropped their leaves. In

[1:17] Maryland, some reservoirs are at 10-year

[1:19] lows. In Virginia, a million fish were

[1:22] found dead in a tributary of the

[1:24] Pocomoke River. They died because

[1:26] excessive heat depleted the oxygen in

[1:28] water that was already at low levels. In

[1:31] Pennsylvania, mandatory water

[1:32] conservation measures have been declared

[1:34] in 55 counties. In Philadelphia, even

[1:37] the fountains have been turned off.

[1:39] Throughout the Mid-Atlantic states and

[1:41] the upper Ohio Valley, the drought is

[1:43] drying up grass and soil.

[1:45] >> And in that region, it's comparable to

[1:47] the worst that we've seen over the last

[1:49] 100 years. Rainfall in parts of the

[1:51] region is more than a foot below normal

[1:53] over the past year. The drought has had

[1:56] drastic effects on farmers in states

[1:58] like Maryland. By now, this corn should

[2:01] be head high. Instead, much of it barely

[2:04] reaches to your knee.

[2:06] >> I've farmed all my life and I've never

[2:08] seen anything quite this severe.

[2:10] >> Charles Fagy is president of the Howard

[2:12] County, Maryland Farm Bureau.

[2:14] >> What does this mean to a farmer?

[2:17] >> It's a throwaway crop. I think at this

[2:19] point this certainly will not make it.

[2:21] >> With pastures drying up, ranchers are

[2:23] already feeding their cattle hay.

[2:25] >> That's usually cattle that I would sell

[2:27] in late fall. We're going to go on to

[2:29] stock ours now because I just can't

[2:30] afford to continue to put money into

[2:32] them to feed.

[2:33] >> The weather problems are the opposite in

[2:35] the Midwest, which has been getting too

[2:36] much rain. In Anamosa, Iowa, the Wapsy

[2:39] Pinnacon River is expected to crest

[2:41] tonight at 5 ft above flood stage. In

[2:44] the parched East, forecasters say it

[2:46] would take a tropical storm or hurricane

[2:48] to bring relief. For now, the forecast

[2:50] is only normal rainfall, not nearly

[2:52] enough to end the drought. Barry

[2:55] Sarafan, ABC News, Howard County,

[2:57] Maryland. Little more specifics about

[2:59] the heat. Temperatures are well into the

[3:00] 90s in more than half of the country. In

[3:02] the Midwest over the last week, there

[3:04] have been several deaths attributed to

[3:06] the heat. Cincinnati and Chicago have

[3:08] been particularly affected.

[3:10] In Sacramento today, a motel handyman

[3:13] has confessed to killing a woman in

[3:14] Yusede National Park. He's also the

[3:17] prime suspect in the murder of three

[3:19] sightseers near Yusede in February. That

[3:22] has been widely reported. He'd been

[3:24] questioned by the FBI after those first

[3:26] killings and let go. The latest from

[3:29] ABC's Lisa Salters.

[3:32] >> 37year-old Carrie Stainer appeared in

[3:34] court today charged with killing

[3:36] 26-year-old Yusede Park guide Joey

[3:38] Armstrong. The FBI filed an affidavit

[3:41] that says Stainer admitted murdering

[3:43] Armstrong and provided details about the

[3:46] killing which corroborate his

[3:47] confession. But today, the FBI is no

[3:50] closer to explaining how they missed

[3:52] Stainer in their investigation into the

[3:54] three earlier murders at Yusede. Carol's

[3:57] son, her daughter Julie, and friend Sina

[3:59] Peloso were last seen alive at the Cedar

[4:02] Lodge Resort, where Stainer worked as a

[4:04] handyman. Carrie Stainer was interviewed

[4:06] by FBI agents and task force members in

[4:09] connection with the Sun Paloso case. He

[4:11] was not considered a suspect at the time

[4:12] this occurred.

[4:14] >> In fact, two months ago, FBI officials

[4:16] seemed confident that the people they

[4:18] believed were responsible for the Sun

[4:20] Pelos killings were already behind bars

[4:22] on unrelated charges. In May, they

[4:25] reassured the public that Yusede

[4:26] National Park was safe. They now say

[4:29] they were wrong. After Joey Armstrong's

[4:32] body was found last week, Stainer was

[4:34] questioned again twice. He refused to

[4:37] let sheriffs search his backpack. While

[4:39] they waited for a warrant to conduct

[4:41] that search, Stainer was released. It

[4:43] was not until the next day when he

[4:45] failed to show up for work that the FBI

[4:47] began looking for Stainer again.

[4:49] >> And if there are lessons to be learned

[4:51] or mistakes made, we will we will

[4:54] identify those. Police now say again

[4:57] they are confident they have the right

[4:59] suspect behind bars. Lisa Salters, ABC

[5:02] News, Sacramento.

[5:04] >> So Woodstock 99 is over. Anyone who

[5:07] participated in the first one and there

[5:08] were half a million people there 30

[5:10] years ago knew this festival couldn't

[5:12] possibly measure up to the original. The

[5:14] first one was a happening. This was an

[5:16] enterprise and it didn't go very well.

[5:18] Here's ABC's Bill Blakemore.

[5:22] It was clear all along that this

[5:24] Woodstock was not going to be like the

[5:26] one 30 years ago. Different generation,

[5:28] different music, different drugs, and

[5:31] certainly a different ending. The

[5:33] trouble started with a few kids feeding

[5:35] wood into small bonfires.

[5:37] >> Somebody decided to light something and

[5:39] get them going. And then when one person

[5:41] does it, another person does it and

[5:43] another person does it.

[5:45] >> A core of troublemakers started looting

[5:46] some concession stands. Before long, a

[5:49] dozen tractor trailers were on fire.

[5:51] >> The 18-wheeler started blowing up. You

[5:53] could hear them boom. Gas tanks or

[5:55] propane tanks or something.

[5:57] >> It was insane. That fire was like

[5:59] >> unbelievable.

[6:00] >> It took police about 3 hours to restore

[6:03] order. Only seven people were arrested.

[6:05] Police say several hundred others who

[6:07] were involved slipped away. moving.

[6:10] >> One of the things police want to know

[6:11] now is why so few of the private

[6:13] security guards hired by the festival

[6:15] were in evidence when the trouble broke

[6:17] out. Today, the toppled sound tower lay

[6:20] not far from the row of concession tents

[6:22] that were destroyed.

[6:23] >> We had tables to protect ourselves. They

[6:24] started taking the tables, throwing them

[6:26] in the fire, and then uh once it just

[6:28] got too hot, the vendors just just

[6:30] jumped out and they just jumped in. And

[6:31] it was it was a free-for-all. By most

[6:33] accounts, the great majority of the

[6:34] crowd here last night, still between 100

[6:37] and 150,000, did not join in the

[6:40] destruction, even though the

[6:41] troublemakers invited them to. Still,

[6:43] for those who remember the original

[6:45] Woodstock and what it stood for, those

[6:47] echoes of peace, love, and understanding

[6:50] now seem very distant. Bill Blakemore,

[6:53] ABC News, Rome, New York. American

[6:56] officials in Colombia say the wreckage

[6:57] of a US Army plane missing after an

[6:59] anti-drug operation last week has been

[7:01] found near the border with Ecuador. They

[7:03] believe the plane was in an area

[7:05] controlled by guerrillas fighting the

[7:07] Colombian government, but that the plane

[7:09] actually ran into a mountain. Five

[7:11] American soldiers were on board. They

[7:12] were all killed. They were involved in a

[7:15] war the US is deeply involved in. Here's

[7:18] ABC's John McQuey.

[7:21] A gorilla army now controls 60% of

[7:24] Colombia's countryside. It is now deeply

[7:26] involved in production and trafficking

[7:28] of cocaine, which is making the gorillas

[7:30] rich.

[7:31] >> Unlike every other guerilla force in

[7:33] Latin America, the gorillas in Colombia

[7:35] are getting stronger.

[7:36] >> On any given day, 200 American soldiers,

[7:39] mostly special forces, are in Colombia

[7:42] helping to train its military to fight

[7:44] the drug traffickers. In addition, US

[7:47] troops operate three radar sites inside

[7:49] Colombia, as well as a small air force

[7:52] of spy planes in the region, all to

[7:54] gather intelligence. The US now spends

[7:57] more on aid to Colombia than to any

[7:59] other country in the world except Israel

[8:02] and Egypt. Nearly all the money, 300

[8:05] million this year, as much as 500

[8:07] million next, goes towards fighting the

[8:09] drug war. But in Colombia, the US

[8:12] appears to be losing the war. The drug

[8:15] production levels in Colombia are

[8:17] astronomical. It's actually doubled in a

[8:21] little more than 3 years.

[8:22] >> There are real questions about whether

[8:24] more American assistance will really

[8:27] slow production of cocaine in Colombia.

[8:29] There are also concerns that greater use

[8:32] of America's military could draw them

[8:34] into a civil war, something Pentagon

[8:37] officials say they want no part of. John

[8:40] McQuey, ABC News. The Pentagon. We have

[8:42] been following the recruiting problem in

[8:44] the military for some time. You may know

[8:45] today some hard figures. The Air Force

[8:47] says that by the end of September, it

[8:50] will have 11,000

[8:52] empty positions and no one to fill them.

[8:54] The Army says that it is 8,000 recruits

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[11:23] In South Carolina today, the National

[11:25] Association for the Advancement of

[11:26] Colored People went to see the governor.

[11:28] Subject: Removing the Confederate flag

[11:31] from its prominent position over the

[11:32] state house. The NAACP has called for an

[11:35] economic boycott of South Carolina until

[11:37] the flag comes down. Today's meeting was

[11:39] inconclusive, but now the boycott has

[11:41] won support from the influential

[11:43] Southern Christian Leadership Conference

[11:45] and some others. ABC's Steve Osansami

[11:48] tonight on the different views of

[11:50] history.

[11:55] >> There are plenty of people in South

[11:57] Carolina who celebrate the old South to

[11:59] whom the Confederate battle flag is a

[12:01] banner of pride and culture others

[12:03] should respect.

[12:04] >> You don't look at another group of

[12:06] people and say, "Your symbols are evil.

[12:08] Remove them from my face." You just turn

[12:11] your face away and be polite. But the

[12:13] NAACP points out the Stars and Bars has

[12:16] only flown above South Carolina's

[12:18] capital in Colombia since 1962.

[12:21] Put there to protest court-ordered

[12:23] desegregation.

[12:25] >> It is the flag that flew over

[12:27] legislators that said that I had to ride

[12:29] in the back of city buses.

[12:31] >> The NAACP and other black groups say now

[12:34] is the time for South Carolina and the

[12:36] rest of the South to abandon the

[12:38] controversial symbol altogether. But

[12:41] like his Confederate ancestors, State

[12:43] Senator Glenn McConnell doesn't like

[12:45] outsiders telling his people what to do.

[12:47] >> The NAACP, because of its own bias now

[12:51] against these emblems, has charted a

[12:53] course of intolerance.

[12:54] >> The former governor backed a measure to

[12:56] move the flag three years ago. He was

[12:58] voted out of office in November. Even

[13:01] some people of color are tired of

[13:02] fighting this issue. The hidden racism

[13:05] and the progress that we have to make as

[13:07] a minority African-Americans in this

[13:10] country will not be changed by removing

[13:12] a flag from the state house.

[13:13] >> It's over with. Move on.

[13:18] >> Carolina.

[13:21] >> But for many white South Carolinians,

[13:23] the flag is worth the fight. There is a

[13:26] romance here with the Confederacy.

[13:28] Interest in Civil War souvenirs,

[13:30] history, and reenactment is growing.

[13:34] The fight for the flag is a sign the

[13:36] South will cherish its past, no matter

[13:38] how uncomfortable it makes some people

[13:40] feel. Steve Oansami, ABC News Atlanta.

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[14:18] On the money tonight, first Wall Street,

[14:19] the Dow Jones Industrial Average was

[14:21] down more than 47 points to close at

[14:23] 10,863.

[14:25] On the NASDAQ, stocks were down little

[14:27] more than 73 points. An item about the

[14:31] Postal Service and Image. The Postal

[14:33] Service cycling team and its star Lance

[14:35] Armstrong, we know the tour to France

[14:37] this weekend. They're getting an awful

[14:38] lot of attention. The post office is

[14:40] getting a lot of high praise from many

[14:42] people. Meanwhile, the last bicycle mail

[14:45] carrier in the Northwest is now being

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[14:51] In a moment, we'll take a closer look at

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[17:10] of thinking about food, specifically

[17:12] about using biotechnology to alter food.

[17:16] Last year, about 26 million cows in the

[17:19] United States received hormones, as a

[17:22] result of which they produced more meat

[17:23] and less fat, and nearly 60 million

[17:26] acres of crops in North America are

[17:28] genetically altered to make them

[17:30] resistant to disease and pests. On the

[17:33] other hand, go to Europe these days and

[17:35] you'll hear many people think that

[17:36] Americans are crazy, that Europeans

[17:38] would no more eat food that have been

[17:40] scientifically tampered with and fly to

[17:42] the wound. Some American food stuffs are

[17:44] banned altogether in Europe and American

[17:48] producers say they are losing hundreds

[17:49] of millions of dollars as a result. So,

[17:52] let's look at the two sides of this.

[17:54] First, we go to France and ABC's Sheila

[17:56] McVicker.

[17:59] Europe is still a continent where people

[18:02] take their food very seriously,

[18:05] where many families still shop every day

[18:08] for the freshest food. And where as long

[18:10] as the food is seen to be natural,

[18:12] millions of Europeans think nothing of

[18:14] eating raw beef and eggs.

[18:17] But if you ask about scientifically

[18:19] modified food, listen to a shopper in

[18:22] London.

[18:22] >> It could have a terrible effect on our

[18:24] children. to a businessman in Brussels.

[18:27] >> It may be very dangerous for people.

[18:29] >> In Europe, they call it Franken food, as

[18:32] in Frankenstein. Let the Americans play

[18:35] with food and technology. They say here,

[18:37] "We just won't buy it." It's not that

[18:40] farmers here haven't tried

[18:42] biotechnology.

[18:43] In the mid 1980s, European farmers did

[18:46] use hormones on their beef cattle. But

[18:48] when some scientific studies began to

[18:50] suggest that some of the hormones might

[18:52] cause cancer, the public reacted and the

[18:55] hormones were banned.

[18:57] Cattle rancher Pierre Shioalier says the

[18:59] hormones helped him raise more

[19:01] profitable cattle, but they also drove

[19:04] customers away.

[19:06] >> Consumers here are totally aware of what

[19:08] they eat. He says they demand to know

[19:11] exactly how the animals were raised.

[19:14] >> That's been especially true since mad

[19:16] cow disease caused when grass-eing

[19:18] cattle were fed meat. That reinforced

[19:22] the view that messing with nature is a

[19:24] bad idea.

[19:26] Now every piece of beef that butcher

[19:28] Elena Sto sells comes with a certificate

[19:31] so consumers can actually trace the meat

[19:33] in the shop back to the pasture.

[19:37] My customers are obsessed. He says they

[19:39] want to be sure it's safe.

[19:42] >> For most Europeans, high technology and

[19:45] food just do not mix. Sheila Mcficker,

[19:48] ABC News, Merlin, France.

[19:52] >> So what happens when you play with food

[19:54] and technology? In some respects, it's

[19:56] difficult to tell. There have been no

[19:57] largecale studies. Researchers at

[20:00] Cornell University did feed pollen from

[20:02] a widely used genetically engineered

[20:04] corn to caterpillars on their way to

[20:06] becoming monarch butterflies. Many of

[20:08] the caterpillars died or developed

[20:11] abnormally, but it's unclear whether

[20:13] monarchs would ever come in contact with

[20:15] altered corn pollen in the wild, and

[20:18] scientists say this is not evidence that

[20:20] humans might be adversely affected. Many

[20:24] Europeans, of course, would say this is

[20:25] at least food for thought. But the

[20:28] agriculture industry here, for them,

[20:30] genetic engineering is business as

[20:32] usual. Here's ABC's Bob Jameson.

[20:37] On this feed lot in Colorado, the

[20:39] Anderson family has been giving growth

[20:41] hormones to their cattle for 40 years.

[20:44] Jim Anderson defends it as good science

[20:46] and good business. I think everybody,

[20:49] including agriculture and outside

[20:50] agriculture, people are looking at ways

[20:52] to be more productive. Most American

[20:54] farmers have embraced science as a way

[20:56] to produce heavier cattle and bigger

[20:58] crops and as a way to make their

[21:00] production more efficient, reliable, and

[21:02] uniform. Growth hormones are in 90% of

[21:05] the beef Americans buy. At least 50

[21:08] American crops have now been genetically

[21:10] modified. Whether they know it or not,

[21:13] American consumers are buying billions

[21:14] of dollars of genetically altered

[21:16] products. From potatoes and tomatoes to

[21:19] a corn syrup that is used as a sweetener

[21:21] in hundreds of products.

[21:22] >> It has to do with fooling with your

[21:24] food. And we have a tendency to do

[21:26] things to our food. And Europeans, at

[21:28] least in the past, have a history of not

[21:31] doing things to their food.

[21:32] >> US officials say European consumers

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[21:37] They say the problem is that European

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[21:41] and that Europe has never developed a

[21:43] reliable system of food regulation.

[21:45] >> They just don't have really the same

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[21:50] scientifically examine food products and

[21:52] determine if they're safe that we that

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[21:58] >> However, there are signs that some

[22:00] Americans are moving closer to the

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[22:04] that genetically modified foods be

[22:06] labeled and sales of organic foods are

[22:08] growing by 20% a year. Still, most

[22:11] Americans accept science in agriculture

[22:13] not as something that is creating a

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[22:17] food better and safer.

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[25:31] your child committed murder, could you

[25:34] turn them in to the police? This father

[25:37] did his heartbreaking story on 2020

[25:41] tonight at 87 central.

[25:45] Finding this evening a lot of money and

[25:47] hopefully a little embarrassment when

[25:49] the media baron and philanthropist Ted

[25:51] Turner made an enormous financial

[25:53] contribution to the United Nations about

[25:55] a year ago. He said this would be a

[25:56] better world if more people who have a

[25:58] lot of money shared their wealth more

[26:00] liberally. With that piece of advice in

[26:03] mind, we go to Belleville, Michigan. And

[26:05] ABC's Dean Reynolds.

[26:09] Laying down asphalt in the middle of

[26:11] July is a hot job, but what's happened

[26:14] to these workers near Detroit is pretty

[26:16] cool. Thanks to their boss, many of them

[26:18] are rich, even millionaires.

[26:20] >> Before this, I figured I was going to

[26:22] work until I died.

[26:23] >> The thing is, it just makes it a whole

[26:24] lot easier to to come to work when

[26:26] somebody's, you know, thinks that much

[26:28] of your your workers.

[26:30] >> Yeah. Yeah. That somebody is Bob

[26:32] Thompson. Last month, he sold his

[26:34] 40-year-old road building company,

[26:35] taking home $420 million and one

[26:39] question.

[26:39] >> You know, that's a lot of money. And and

[26:41] what do I need it for when you get right

[26:43] down to it?

[26:43] >> So Thompson made the jaw-dropping

[26:45] decision to share almost 130 million of

[26:48] those dollars with the 500 people who

[26:50] work for him.

[26:51] >> For 40 years, we've asked our people to

[26:53] outperform our competition, and they've

[26:55] done it. Back in 1960, the second person

[26:58] Thompson hired was Pete Mott.

[27:01] Today at 68, Mott is retired, but he

[27:04] just got a very fat check from Bob and

[27:06] is thinking about a trip to Las Vegas.

[27:09] >> Are you sure it's actually true?

[27:11] >> No, not yet.

[27:16] >> Eric Thomas has been on the job for only

[27:19] 2 years.

[27:20] >> I didn't expect what I got. I just I

[27:22] figured, you know, maybe, you know,

[27:24] since I haven't been here so long, maybe

[27:25] a gift certificate for dinner or

[27:27] something.

[27:28] >> Thompson plans to give a lot of what's

[27:30] left to charity.

[27:31] >> Boy, I'm getting tons of letters.

[27:33] >> And he hopes to set an example for other

[27:35] welloff Americans.

[27:37] >> We have a lot of folks that take a lot

[27:39] of money and spend it on themselves.

[27:41] That's okay. That's the system. That's

[27:42] fine. But if we can maybe embarrass them

[27:45] or influence them, that's fine, too.

[27:47] >> Dean Reynolds, ABC News, Belleville,

[27:50] Michigan. embarrass the others just a

[27:52] little. That's our report on World News

[27:53] Tonight. Don't forget 2020 and Night

[27:55] Line later on. I'm Peter Jennings. Have

[27:56] a good evening. Hope we'll see you

[27:58] tomorrow. Good night.

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