World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-06-17

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[0:00] Six.

[0:03] >> On World News Tonight this Thursday, the

[0:05] International Space Station has a narrow

[0:07] brush with disaster and they could not

[0:09] move it. 10,000 dead in Kosovo. The

[0:12] British think so and they think they

[0:14] found a torture chamber. God and guns

[0:17] and school violence. The House of

[0:19] Representatives thinks the Ten

[0:21] Commandments might make a difference.

[0:23] And we'll take a closer look at women's

[0:25] equality in sports thanks to government.

[0:28] And this woman's winning ways, some

[0:30] talent.

[0:38] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:41] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:44] Peter Jennings.

[0:45] >> Good evening. We begin tonight with

[0:47] danger in space. ABC News has learned

[0:49] that the International Space Station,

[0:51] which the US and the Russians and

[0:53] several other nations are building, was

[0:54] recently in danger of being hit and

[0:57] possibly destroyed by space junk. The US

[1:00] has put 11 billion into the station so

[1:03] far. And what made this somewhat scary

[1:05] was the inability to get out of the way.

[1:07] Here's ABC's Ned Potter.

[1:10] The space station was sailing along in

[1:12] orbit when late last week the Air Force

[1:15] told NASA a piece of space junk, a used

[1:17] Russian rocket, would pass too close for

[1:19] comfort. But ABC News has learned that

[1:22] when controllers tried to move the

[1:24] station, they could not. In fact, the

[1:26] station's computer shut down the

[1:28] steering system for 90 minutes until

[1:30] engineers could regain control.

[1:32] >> This was the first time they tried a

[1:34] real collision avoidance burn and and it

[1:37] didn't work. How did all this happen?

[1:39] The station is currently commanded by

[1:41] Russia's mission control. So, Houston

[1:44] had to send Moscow data on how much to

[1:46] change the station's orbit. When the

[1:48] commands were sent up to the station,

[1:50] its computer shut everything down.

[1:52] >> They thought they were ready for it.

[1:54] They thought they practiced it. They

[1:55] thought they could do it, and they

[1:58] misunderstood how difficult it was going

[1:59] to be.

[2:00] >> NASA says the used rocket missed the

[2:02] station by about 5 miles. And in the

[2:04] future, with astronauts on board,

[2:06] avoidance maneuvers should be much

[2:08] simpler. But the Air Force tracks 600

[2:11] pieces of space junk that the station

[2:13] needs to avoid. One small collision

[2:15] could be fatal.

[2:16] >> This is just the first of many

[2:18] opportunities to be humbled. And uh I

[2:21] hope that everyone will keep in mind

[2:22] that we're learning as fast as anybody.

[2:25] >> This is a big issue for NASA. The

[2:27] finished station will be massive and the

[2:29] amount of junk to avoid goes up with

[2:31] every launch. Ned Potter, ABC News, New

[2:34] York.

[2:35] >> In Kosovo tonight, the headline is

[2:38] massacre. NATO forces in the province

[2:40] have now uncovered so many sites where

[2:42] they suspect that massacres occurred and

[2:44] heard so many eyewitness accounts that

[2:46] the British foreign office says at least

[2:48] 10,000 Kosovo Albanians have been killed

[2:50] by the Serbs in as many as 100 separate

[2:53] massacres. And then there was a

[2:55] discovery made by British soldiers today

[2:57] at a Serb police station in Pristina,

[2:59] the capital. ABC's Bob Woodruff is

[3:01] there.

[3:03] British soldiers came to this building

[3:05] looking for police documents. Then they

[3:07] found something else. Several rooms in

[3:10] the basement filled with tools that they

[3:12] believed were used for torture. An

[3:14] assortment of sticks and bats. A bed

[3:17] with a restraining vessel, knives,

[3:19] chains, and brass knuckles.

[3:23] >> Why would they leave so much evidence

[3:24] behind?

[3:26] >> They've uh destroyed all the paperwork

[3:28] or nearly all the paperwork. Uh, so I

[3:31] imagine they concentrate on the the

[3:32] files.

[3:34] >> Today, more gruesome discoveries all

[3:36] over Kosovo. In Saraluca, the remains of

[3:39] 26 people allegedly forced into a room

[3:42] and shot by the Serbs. The aftermath of

[3:45] a massacre in Ghost. Locals say five men

[3:48] were lined up against a wall and shot.

[3:50] In Maya, refugees returned to find the

[3:53] remains of their relatives. They say a

[3:55] 100 people were executed here. We've

[3:58] been frankly quite astonished to learn

[3:59] about the number of additional sites uh

[4:02] which are coming to our attention.

[4:04] >> NATO troops are guarding some of the

[4:05] sites, but US troops said today they

[4:08] cannot possibly guard them all. They say

[4:10] the mission is keeping the peace here

[4:12] and the peace here is still very

[4:14] fragile.

[4:18] >> Today in Pristina, a sniper shot an

[4:20] Albanian right in front of British

[4:22] troops.

[4:23] >> Shooters come from that direction down

[4:24] that way, mate. Okay. So, what's he

[4:26] doing? Two shots in the back of the car.

[4:28] >> This may have been the result of ethnic

[4:30] hatred. It may have been the result of

[4:32] something else. The shooter was not

[4:35] caught. Bob Woodruff, ABC News,

[4:37] Christina.

[4:39] >> NATO's efforts to have the Serbs stay in

[4:41] Kosovo are not proving very successful.

[4:43] The Serbs don't feel safe anymore. Up to

[4:45] 50,000 have now fled since NATO moved

[4:48] in. And the Kosovo Albanians began

[4:50] moving back. Today, thousands more

[4:52] ethnic Albanians headed home despite the

[4:55] warnings that landmines and booby traps

[4:57] may await them. On Capitol Hill today,

[5:00] the House of Representatives

[5:01] accomplished the historic. The House has

[5:03] been debating ways, as you know, to

[5:04] reduce youth violence, gun control,

[5:07] movie ratings. Today, the House settled

[5:09] on scripture. It voted to give the

[5:11] states the right to post the Ten

[5:13] Commandments in schools. Here's ABC's

[5:16] Linda Douglas.

[5:18] For two days, Republicans have argued

[5:20] that teenage violence is not caused by

[5:22] guns, but by moral decay. When the House

[5:25] voted to allow the Ten Commandments in

[5:27] schools, it was a victory for

[5:29] conservatives.

[5:30] >> I challenge anybody on the other side to

[5:32] tell me what in these Ten Commandments

[5:34] they find so objectionable. Do they find

[5:36] so objectionable that it says, "Thou

[5:37] shalt not kill."

[5:38] >> Most legal experts say the measure is

[5:40] unconstitutional and would be struck

[5:42] down by the courts, but GOP leaders were

[5:45] determined to make a statement. On top

[5:47] of the Ten Commandments debate, they

[5:48] spent hours lashing out at Hollywood.

[5:51] >> We should all do whatever we can, even

[5:53] in a small way, to show to slow this

[5:56] flood of this toxic, minding, sick,

[5:59] evil, violent, and obscene material that

[6:02] is reaching our children today.

[6:04] >> So, what they did in this case was to

[6:06] pass a resolution condemning the

[6:07] entertainment industry.

[6:09] >> I just want to make sure you're with us.

[6:11] >> But the real fight over legislation was

[6:13] on gun control. Behind the scenes,

[6:15] Democrats pleaded with their colleagues

[6:17] to stick with the proposed 3-day waiting

[6:19] period on background checks at gun

[6:21] shows.

[6:22] >> I hope and pray that Congress will do

[6:25] the right thing.

[6:26] >> In Paris, President Clinton was up

[6:28] before dawn calling wavering Democrats

[6:30] from rural districts. California's Mike

[6:33] Thompson told Mr. Clinton he was with

[6:35] him.

[6:35] >> Well, I'm fine with with the background

[6:37] check.

[6:38] >> Pressure from the other side is equally

[6:40] intense. The National Rifle Association

[6:42] delivered a letter to members of

[6:43] Congress urging them to vote for a

[6:45] weaker background check. And now sources

[6:47] in both parties say it is possible,

[6:49] Peter, that no gun bill will pass.

[6:51] >> Thanks very much, Linda Douglas on

[6:53] Capitol Hill. When we come back, some of

[6:54] the other news eluding the FBI for a

[6:57] quarter of a century. How did Kathleen

[7:00] Sallayia do it? And the electronic

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[8:35] >> In St. Paul, Minnesota today, the woman

[8:37] who the FBI says was a member of the

[8:39] radical Symbion Liberation Army,

[8:41] captured yesterday, has been denied

[8:43] bail. Kathleen Sallaya will be sent back

[8:46] to California where she was charged with

[8:48] conspiracy to commit murder and plant

[8:50] explosives in 1976.

[8:53] ABC's Dean Reynolds tonight with a story

[8:55] of 25 years on the run.

[8:58] >> How did she do it? How did a young

[9:00] radical turn herself into an acclaimed

[9:02] local actress and keep the FBI in the

[9:05] dark for a quarter of a century?

[9:07] >> I mean, talk about hiding in plain

[9:08] sight. She's been photographed. She's

[9:10] been on stage.

[9:12] >> It takes two things in America today to

[9:15] drop out of sight. Uh, it takes

[9:17] intelligence and a little bit of money.

[9:19] >> Kathleen Anne Sallayia had both. She's

[9:23] very smart, very articulate, incredibly

[9:27] kind,

[9:28] >> and she was married to a doctor. They

[9:30] lived with their three daughters in this

[9:32] comfortable neighborhood where this

[9:33] woman, who stands accused of trying to

[9:35] bomb police cruisers, was active in

[9:38] organizing campaigns against violence.

[9:40] Her husband, Dr. Gerald Peterson,

[9:42] claimed to ABC News that he knew nothing

[9:45] of her past and is shocked she is under

[9:47] arrest. On the 25th anniversary of a

[9:50] bloody shootout in California, Sallayia

[9:52] reportedly sensed correctly that the law

[9:54] was back on the case and closing in. Her

[9:57] family members in California were trying

[9:59] to make a deal for her surrender. In

[10:02] exchange for turning herself in,

[10:03] Kathleen Salia wanted to avoid all

[10:05] prison time, but according to those

[10:07] familiar with the case, law enforcement

[10:09] made no commitment one way or the other.

[10:12] As it turned out, they didn't have to.

[10:15] Dean Reynolds, ABC News, St. Paul,

[10:18] in other news today, a government health

[10:20] panel has recommended that polio shots

[10:22] replace the oral vaccine starting next

[10:24] year. The oral vaccine has been used

[10:26] routinely for childhood vaccination

[10:28] since 1965, and it's highly effective.

[10:30] But the panel, which advises the Centers

[10:32] for Disease Control and Prevention, said

[10:35] that in very rare cases, it can actually

[10:37] cause polio. The Pentagon made it clear

[10:40] today it will not put any more unknown

[10:42] servicemen from the Vietnam War in the

[10:44] tomb of the unknowns at Arlington

[10:46] Cemetery. The Pentagon says that

[10:48] advances in DNA science mean it's

[10:51] possible that all remains can be

[10:53] identified. When we come back, some

[10:56] conventional wisdom.

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[13:14] long run. Mr. Greenspan, told Congress

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[13:22] already in trouble. On Wall Street

[13:24] today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average

[13:26] was up more than 56 points to close at

[13:28] 10,841.

[13:30] On the Nasdaq, stocks were up 26 points.

[13:34] In China, the government has actually

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[13:42] stocks up 30% since May. We have a new

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[13:48] much for conventional wisdom. More than

[13:50] 30 years ago, a cover story in Forbes

[13:52] magazine predicted that the bank check

[13:55] would disappear. Americans were writing

[13:57] about 20 billion checks a year at the

[13:59] time. By the late 1990s, they were

[14:01] writing 64 billion checks a year. More

[14:05] recently, there were predictions that

[14:06] with all the available technology, we

[14:07] would do without paper in our offices.

[14:11] Wrong again. Here's ABC's Betsy Stark.

[14:16] >> In the age of email and ecommerce and

[14:19] computers on every desktop, there was

[14:22] supposed to be a lot less of this.

[14:26] Instead, the electronic revolution has

[14:28] produced an avalanche of office paper.

[14:31] More than 26 million tons of it, almost

[14:34] twice the amount used 20 years ago, or

[14:36] roughly 60 trillion sheets of the stuff.

[14:39] Do you see any evidence here of a move

[14:41] toward a paperless office?

[14:42] >> Not at all. Paper sales are very strong.

[14:45] >> It's not just that there are more people

[14:47] working in office jobs today. Powerful

[14:50] computers are giving those workers

[14:51] access to mountains of information. And

[14:54] faster, cheaper printers now allow them

[14:56] to print that information out again and

[14:59] again and again.

[15:00] >> Many, many people, myself included,

[15:02] somehow feel better if they see it on

[15:05] paper. They feel that it's really there,

[15:07] that they have the information in in a

[15:09] way more permanently. Even those who

[15:11] work on the cutting edge of computer

[15:13] technology, such as internet consultant

[15:16] Greg Blatnik, still trust hard copies

[15:18] more than hard drives.

[15:20] >> Even when I have information on the

[15:22] computer, I will carry a backup copy

[15:26] that's on paper, in the instance that

[15:28] that computer somehow becomes unusable.

[15:31] >> And there's little financial incentive

[15:32] to use less paper. For now, computer

[15:35] memory is not only unreliable, it's also

[15:38] expensive. While paper keeps getting

[15:41] cheaper, production costs have fallen so

[15:43] much that a ream of paper today costs

[15:46] about half of what it did 20 years ago.

[15:49] In the face of all this evidence, it's

[15:51] clear the conventional wisdom has been

[15:54] wrong. But it hangs on. Many still say

[15:57] the paperless office is coming. Betsy

[16:01] Stark, ABC News, New York. When we come

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[18:33] We're going to take a closer look

[18:34] tonight at women and sports. In a

[18:36] moment, we'll meet a young woman who's

[18:37] having a stunning effect on her sport.

[18:40] But first, we want to revisit a very

[18:41] important piece of legislation which

[18:43] President Nixon signed into law 27 years

[18:46] ago next week. Everyone involved with

[18:48] sports for women is familiar with Title

[18:51] Nine. No one on the basis of sex can be

[18:54] excluded from participation in or be

[18:56] denied the benefits of any education

[18:59] program or activity receiving federal

[19:02] financial assistance. Which means in a

[19:04] phrase that at every school which gets

[19:07] federal dollars, sports programs for

[19:09] women must get proportionately equal

[19:11] money and equal privilege. ABC's Aaron

[19:15] Hayes tonight on how it's going.

[19:18] If you want to know what Title 9 has

[19:19] accomplished,

[19:22] >> just watch the US women's soccer team,

[19:25] winner of the 96 Olympics.

[19:28] If you look at 1996 Olympics, you see

[19:30] the Title N babies uh perform and win.

[19:33] >> Go get it. Go get it.

[19:35] >> Babies who benefited from a girl sports

[19:37] system in America that has gained a lot

[19:39] of ground, kicked into gear by the law.

[19:42] HERE COME YOUR FIGHT for the Lady TIGERS

[19:47] and you

[19:50] >> schools like Louisiana State University

[19:52] have added many more teams for women

[19:54] facilities just as nice as the men's and

[19:57] scholarships.

[19:58] >> Our team's good. Six of our women's

[20:00] teams finished in the top 11 in the

[20:03] nation.

[20:04] >> It was not without a struggle. Women

[20:06] here sued a few years ago to force LSU

[20:09] to comply with Title 9. Indeed, more and

[20:12] more women are going to court to make

[20:14] their schools measure up, and that is

[20:16] having unintended consequences for men.

[20:19] Many schools worried about making things

[20:21] equal to comply with the law are

[20:23] actually cutting back on men's

[20:25] athletics. UCLA ended men's swimming.

[20:28] Boston University dropped football.

[20:32] Brigham Young just threw out gymnastics.

[20:34] While the average number of female

[20:36] college athletes is growing, the number

[20:38] of male athletes is shrinking.

[20:40] >> There is wholesale devastation going on.

[20:42] We've lost 85 track and field programs

[20:45] in the last 3 years. We've lost

[20:47] virtually all of our men's gymnastics

[20:49] programs.

[20:49] >> Not what the law intended and not what

[20:52] many women want.

[20:53] >> Cutting a male sport out of women's

[20:55] sport does not offer any more

[20:56] opportunities for women. It just takes

[20:59] away opportunity for men.

[21:01] Wrestlers at Cal State Bakersfield have

[21:04] taken a quue from the women suing to

[21:06] keep their program from being cut.

[21:09] Part of an ongoing tugof-war over Title

[21:12] N trying to make sure everyone comes out

[21:15] a winner.

[21:15] >> Thanks for Aaron Hayes, ABC News

[21:19] Atlanta.

[21:20] >> You heard mention in Erin's report about

[21:22] Title N. Well, the next couple of weeks

[21:24] promise to be a showcase for perhaps the

[21:26] most famous of Title N. The Women's

[21:28] World Cup of soccer begins this Saturday

[21:30] at several sites in the United States.

[21:33] They say it's the largest women's only

[21:35] sporting event in the world. And Mia Ham

[21:38] could very well be its biggest star.

[21:41] Here's ABC's Robin Roberts.

[21:44] >> Leaves it off. Here's Mia Ham in the

[21:45] box. The shot goal. SHE'S GOT THE

[21:48] RECORD.

[21:48] >> Women's sports has never seen anyone

[21:50] quite like Mia Ham. And no one has ever

[21:53] been able to put the ball in the net

[21:54] like she does.

[21:57] She has scored more goals in

[21:58] international competition than any

[22:00] player, man or woman, and is the most

[22:03] marketable and recognizable female

[22:05] athlete in the United States.

[22:10] >> Had enough.

[22:11] >> Let's go.

[22:12] >> You have to have a lot of confidence to

[22:14] pull a fast one on Michael Jordan.

[22:16] >> No, we didn't plan that. It was, you

[22:18] know, just happened. You know,

[22:22] >> some crazy moment. I just felt like

[22:24] throwing Michael Jordan. just came to

[22:25] you. Let's throw my

[22:26] >> had the chance. You know, I'm sure there

[22:28] are a lot of guys in the NBA that would

[22:30] have loved to have done that.

[22:31] >> Like Mike, Mia has a building named

[22:33] after her at Nike headquarters. She has

[22:35] her own soccer shoe and Barbie doll, but

[22:38] her friends insist she always puts the

[22:40] team first.

[22:42] She doesn't like that spotlight, you

[22:44] know, uh and and she doesn't, you know,

[22:47] want to be the one that Mia, the kids

[22:49] are going, Mia, you know, so we're we're

[22:52] always giving her some abuse uh about

[22:54] that.

[22:54] >> Mia's teammates refer to her as the

[22:56] reluctant diva. Yet, she has the rare

[22:59] opportunity, some might even say the

[23:01] responsibility, to not only advance

[23:03] soccer, but to change the face of

[23:05] women's sports. Mia has been on the

[23:07] field since she was 6 years old. At 15,

[23:10] she became the youngest player ever to

[23:12] join the national team. Now at 27 and at

[23:15] the top of her game, Mia wants more.

[23:18] >> We're still trying to sell this game and

[23:21] uh we're doing a good job at it, but you

[23:23] know, there are still things that we

[23:24] want to accomplish.

[23:27] >> Primarily launching a women's pro soccer

[23:29] league in this country. Mia Ham would be

[23:31] the cornerstone for her peers

[23:35] >> in years to come

[23:37] >> and for the next generation of Mia Hams.

[23:41] Robin Roberts, ABC News, Bernard's

[23:43] Township, New Jersey.

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[25:46] ABC News has learned that the

[25:47] multi-billion dollar International Space

[25:49] Station was in danger of being hit and

[25:52] may be destroyed by space junk. Junk

[25:54] ended up missing the station, but when

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[26:01] Finally, this evening, we're not alone.

[26:03] Not about space. No. Another example, it

[26:05] turns out, in which man, Homo sapiens

[26:08] might be more appropriate in this case,

[26:10] does not appear to be as distinct, as

[26:11] exclusive, as special, as unique as we

[26:14] thought. Now, we always knew that

[26:16] chimpanzees were somewhat like us. But

[26:19] now we learn from an international team

[26:20] of primatologists, no less they study

[26:23] apes, that chimps, like us have

[26:25] different cultures. Here's ABC's John

[26:28] McKenzie.

[26:30] In the animal kingdom, they are our

[26:32] closest cousins, but close enough to

[26:34] have culture. This latest study after

[26:37] years of scientific observations shows

[26:40] how common chimpanzees learning from

[26:42] each other develop marketkedly different

[26:44] skills in different groups.

[26:47] >> This study shows quite clearly that

[26:50] there are cultural or there is cultural

[26:52] diversity and therefore culture within

[26:54] the chimpanzeee population.

[26:58] >> In making this case for ape culture, the

[27:00] scientist studied 39 behaviors that

[27:02] varied among seven chimp communities.

[27:05] For example, in one part of Africa, all

[27:07] the chimps eat ants one at a time.

[27:10] Whereas in another region,

[27:12] >> they take a stick, actually usually a

[27:13] bit longer than this, about two feet

[27:14] long, and they dip that on the ants that

[27:16] are in a column, and the ants swarm up

[27:18] it. What the chimpanzees do then very

[27:19] deafly is to run their hand right along

[27:21] like that. They get all the ants on the

[27:23] on their hand, and they they gobble them

[27:24] up.

[27:25] >> Ungrooming. In one community, the chimps

[27:27] pick off insects and squash them with

[27:29] their hands. In another, they all use a

[27:32] leaf, while in a third, the chimps put

[27:34] the insects on a rock and study them

[27:36] carefully before killing them.

[27:38] >> Chimpanzeee social groups are learning

[27:41] from each other, and they come up with

[27:43] an independent way of doing a given

[27:46] task.

[27:47] >> And in the animal kingdom, that is

[27:49] culture. John McKenzie, ABC News, New

[27:53] York.

[27:54] >> Live and learn. That's our report on

[27:56] World News Tonight. Have a good evening.

[27:57] We'll see you tomorrow. Good night.

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[28:09] and technology bring high performance

[28:10] and power to what was once a simple toy.

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