World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-06-01
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[0:20] >> Together they rise. The major airlines
[0:22] jack up their prices again. We'll take a
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[0:38] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:41] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:44] Peter Jennings. Good evening. It's been
[0:46] 70 days now since the NATO alliance
[0:48] began to bomb Yugoslavia. And today,
[0:50] with all sorts of qualifiers, there may
[0:53] be the faint outline of a political
[0:55] solution to this war in the making. all
[0:57] sorts of qualifiers. For several weeks
[0:59] now, we've been advised to watch for a
[1:01] visit to Belgrade by the president of
[1:03] Finland, one of the few people left to
[1:05] have the trust of both Yugoslavia and
[1:07] the NATO alliance. And he is going there
[1:10] tomorrow. ABC's John McQuey reports
[1:13] tonight on why this trip may be
[1:15] different.
[1:17] The Finnish president Marti Atasari will
[1:20] go to Belgrade with Russian special
[1:22] envoy Victor Chernameir. Today they said
[1:24] NATO and Russia may not agree on every
[1:27] detail of how to stop the war but there
[1:29] is now agreement enough.
[1:31] >> We have come now to the point when the
[1:34] clarity has to be sought from the
[1:36] Yugoslav end.
[1:37] >> In particular clarity on two critical
[1:40] questions. Who will be peacekeepers in
[1:42] Kosovo and how many Serb troops will be
[1:45] left there. NATO is demanding that its
[1:48] soldiers play a central role in
[1:50] peacekeeping. Mallosovich is saying no
[1:53] troops from NATO countries that have
[1:54] bombed Yugoslavia are acceptable. NATO
[1:57] is demanding all Serb troops must leave
[2:00] Kosovo. Mallosvich says several thousand
[2:03] of his soldiers and police must stay.
[2:06] >> Obviously, these two gentlemen, Mr.
[2:09] Chairman and President Atasari have
[2:11] exceedingly hard work ahead of them
[2:13] tomorrow.
[2:14] >> But there are important hints that
[2:16] something is going on. Serb leader
[2:19] Mallosvich is signaling in many ways he
[2:21] is finally ready to talk. His government
[2:24] sent a letter to the Germans saying
[2:26] Yugoslavia was willing in principle to
[2:29] accept peacekeepers in Kosovo. Second,
[2:32] Mallosvich will not have to negotiate
[2:34] with anyone from NATO, allowing a face-
[2:37] saving way for him to give ground. And
[2:40] third, US officials argue that the
[2:42] intensifying air war is clearly taking a
[2:45] toll on the quality of life of all
[2:47] Yugoslav civilians. Word that Mallosvich
[2:50] was ready to talk peace swept through
[2:53] Belgrade and was suddenly on the lips of
[2:55] his most ardent supporters and even some
[2:58] opponents. The Serb vice president
[3:00] suddenly dropped his vehement objections
[3:02] to international peacekeepers in Kosovo.
[3:05] And an opposition figure held a press
[3:07] conference today saying he thought
[3:09] troops from NATO countries could be part
[3:11] of any peacekeeping force. But US
[3:14] officials insist until they hear that
[3:16] kind of talk from Mallovich himself,
[3:18] there will be no letup in the air
[3:20] campaign. John McQuey, ABC News. The
[3:23] Pentagon,
[3:24] >> there has been another attack by NATO
[3:26] aircraft on the Albanian side of the
[3:28] border with Kosovo.
[3:32] It was an accident. NATO says it's hard
[3:34] to tell how much damage was done. There
[3:36] were several bombs or missiles on
[3:38] several defensive positions put up by
[3:40] the Albanian army. One refugee was
[3:43] reportedly injured. Several journalists
[3:44] working in the area were sent scrambling
[3:47] and Albanian villagers fled the area in
[3:50] panic. These attacks along the border
[3:53] were deeply upsetting to those who are
[3:54] helping the ethnic Albanian refugees.
[3:56] There's nothing they fear more than this
[3:58] war spreading across the frontier.
[4:02] In the other news tonight, our other
[4:04] lead story is from Littleton, Colorado.
[4:06] Back inside. Students were allowed back
[4:09] in Coline High School today for the
[4:11] first time since 15 people died there 6
[4:13] weeks ago. ABC's Tom Foreman reports on
[4:16] what an experience it was.
[4:19] With police and teachers standing watch,
[4:21] hundreds of students returned to pick up
[4:24] backpacks, books, all the things
[4:26] abandoned in the panic of the attack.
[4:28] Some were tearyeyed, some nervous, all
[4:31] curious about what they would see.
[4:33] >> Just knowing that people died in there
[4:35] and just I don't know, it's weird.
[4:38] Teachers escorted small groups past
[4:40] boarded up windows to where they were
[4:42] when the shootings began. Many saw
[4:45] bullet holes, scars from the bombs,
[4:47] water damage from fire sprinklers, and
[4:49] ceilings torn out by investigators
[4:51] looking for more bombs.
[4:53] >> People lost their friends. I didn't lose
[4:55] anyone too close to me. But it's still
[4:57] really hard to talk about.
[4:59] >> No one was allowed into the library
[5:00] where most of the killing occurred, but
[5:02] just being inside the building was hard
[5:05] enough once I got in there and started
[5:07] walking around and it it got a little
[5:10] more
[5:12] okay with me. But it was kind of weird
[5:14] because all those feelings of anger
[5:15] started to come back. For a while, the
[5:17] anger around Coline was so strong there
[5:20] was talk of tearing the whole school
[5:22] down. But today, many said it is better
[5:26] this way, better that they reclaim what
[5:28] was so violently taken away. Tom
[5:31] Foreman, ABC News, Littleton. At the
[5:35] White House today, President Clinton is
[5:36] trying to have some impact on the amount
[5:38] of violence in the entertainment
[5:40] industry. He's asked federal
[5:41] investigators to study the extent to
[5:43] which the industry markets violence to
[5:46] children. The study will cost a million
[5:48] dollars and take about 18 months.
[5:51] When we come back, why are so many more
[5:54] people this year suffering from
[5:55] allergies and searching for a storage
[5:58] solution to the nuclear waste that is
[6:01] out there?
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[7:56] very clear reminder that spring and
[7:58] emerging summer are not a pleasure for
[7:59] everyone. A poll commissioned by the
[8:01] employees health coalition in Florida
[8:03] has found that 28% of their employees
[8:06] are affected by allergies at a
[8:09] considerable cost to business. There are
[8:11] no certain answers, but ABC's James
[8:13] Walker tonight on what the experts
[8:15] believe so many more people are
[8:17] suffering from.
[8:20] Since the early 1980s, the amount of
[8:22] asthma and allergy cases has more than
[8:24] doubled, and in some places this spring,
[8:26] it has grown even worse. Scientists do
[8:29] not know exactly why, but they site four
[8:31] possible reasons. The poor quality of
[8:34] indoor air. Most new homes and office
[8:36] buildings are built with thick
[8:38] insulation and airtight windows which
[8:40] can trap allergens inside. The dust and
[8:42] the mold and the mildew where people
[8:44] work and live. They also say the quality
[8:47] of outdoor air is poor filled as it is
[8:49] in some places with irritants from
[8:51] diesel exhaust, auto emissions, and
[8:53] industrial gases. They cite the
[8:55] increasingly sedentary lifestyle of
[8:58] young people which leaves their lungs
[8:59] weak. It could be that uh less exercise
[9:02] somehow puts more stress on the lungs in
[9:05] terms of their function when they get
[9:07] exposed to things like pollins and
[9:09] viruses and toxins.
[9:10] >> And something else, long-term eating
[9:13] habits.
[9:14] >> It may be that um different uh bacteria
[9:17] or other kinds of flora that live in the
[9:20] GI tract influenced by diet may have
[9:23] subtle effects on the immune system.
[9:25] There are certain things people can do
[9:26] to minimize the effects of contaminants,
[9:29] but ultimately many scientists say it's
[9:31] genetic makeup that will determine who
[9:34] gets allergies. James Walker, ABC News,
[9:37] New York.
[9:38] >> On the quality of air, to say the least,
[9:40] on the border between Florida and
[9:41] Georgia, an enormous fire is spreading
[9:43] through the delicate ecosystem, which is
[9:45] the Oka Pinoi Swamp. 53,000 acres have
[9:48] been burned so far. The swamp is a
[9:50] national wildlife refuge. The fire poses
[9:53] a danger to alligators, deer, and
[9:56] several hundred species of birds. On the
[9:59] money tonight, government is getting
[10:01] bigger. The Rockefeller Institute of
[10:02] Government says that 324,000 government
[10:05] jobs were added last year, most at the
[10:08] state and local level where people have
[10:10] been requiring more services as many
[10:12] parts of the federal government cut
[10:14] back. Borders Books says it has a new
[10:17] weapon to fight online book sellers, a
[10:20] machine that prints books in the store
[10:22] on demand. Borders hopes people will be
[10:24] drawn by immediate access to titles that
[10:27] they currently find on the internet but
[10:29] can't find in bookstores. Poor customer
[10:32] service is hurting sales on the
[10:34] internet. According to a new survey, 67%
[10:36] of online purchases are never completed
[10:38] because people can't get information
[10:40] about the products they're buying or how
[10:42] they will be delivered. On Wall Street,
[10:46] the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up
[10:48] 36 and a half points to close at 10,596.
[10:52] On the Nasdaq, stocks were down just
[10:54] about 58 points. In a moment, just what
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[13:14] >> Well, the airlines have done it again
[13:15] just as people are firming up their
[13:17] plans for the summer vacation. Six of
[13:19] the major airlines, American,
[13:21] Continental, Delta, Northwest, US
[13:23] Airways, and United have raised their
[13:26] domestic fairs by 4%. It is the third
[13:29] increase this year. Fairs have gone up
[13:31] 11% overall. Let's take a closer look at
[13:35] what's going on. Anyone who flies, and
[13:37] that is millions of people now, know
[13:39] that the airlines are not putting the
[13:40] additional revenue into service. And
[13:42] they are raising prices again because
[13:45] they can. Here's ABC's Betsy Stark.
[13:50] In what has become a familiar game of
[13:52] follow the leader, the nation's major
[13:55] carriers raise the price average
[13:56] consumers pay for a ticket just as
[13:59] Americans head into the big summer
[14:01] travel season. Their theory is, yeah,
[14:02] we'll cram you in airplanes like
[14:04] sardines and we'll jack up the fairs
[14:06] 11%.
[14:07] >> It's no coincidence that all the
[14:09] carriers acted at once. Airline analysts
[14:12] say that's how the industry works. No
[14:15] carrier can afford to be left behind
[14:17] when prices drop, and all of them want
[14:19] to join in when prices go up. Joining
[14:22] together like this is all perfectly
[14:24] legal as long as the airlines are just
[14:27] reacting to each other's prices and not
[14:29] planning them together ahead of time.
[14:33] Right now, the industry says it needs to
[14:36] raise prices.
[14:37] >> The airlines need to do these fair
[14:39] increases so that they can pay their
[14:41] workers better, buy new airplanes, and
[14:44] cover the rising cost of jet fuel.
[14:47] >> Consumer advocates do not accept that
[14:49] explanation. The problem is that when
[14:51] oil prices were going down, airfares
[14:53] were going up, too. So whenever whenever
[14:56] price goes up or down, they keep putting
[14:58] the ticket prices up.
[15:01] >> The fair increases come against the
[15:03] backdrop of a 26% rise in complaints
[15:06] about airline service and growing calls
[15:09] in Washington for an airline passengers
[15:11] bill of rights. But as long as consumers
[15:14] have plenty of money to spend, higher
[15:16] fairs are likely to fly. Betsy Stark,
[15:19] ABC News, New York.
[15:22] >> There is always a way to bring prices
[15:23] down, at least in the short run.
[15:25] Introduce some meaningful competition.
[15:28] And some companies are figuring out that
[15:30] there is a way to pair down the enormous
[15:32] cost of business travel. Anyway, here's
[15:34] ABC's Bob Jameson.
[15:37] >> Dick Almond is traveling from Detroit to
[15:39] Chicago for General Motors.
[15:41] >> Good morning, ladies.
[15:42] >> Tom Decker is traveling to Washington
[15:43] for Daimler Chrysler. Their tickets are
[15:46] much cheaper than they used to be
[15:47] because they are flying a new airline,
[15:49] ProAir. GM and Chrysler have guaranteed
[15:52] ProAir 5 years of business to create
[15:54] competition and lower fairs in Detroit.
[15:58] The aim is to break Northwest strangle
[16:00] hold in Detroit. With 80% of all
[16:02] flights, Northwest has been able to set
[16:04] business fairs at will, as much as
[16:06] $1,000 round trip to New York.
[16:08] >> Airlines priced based on what the market
[16:10] will bear. And if they control totally
[16:13] control and dominate the market, you
[16:15] tend to pay a premium price. And you've
[16:17] changed that.
[16:18] >> We've changed it in the markets that
[16:20] we've got pro air flying into.
[16:22] >> On 10 routes, business fairs from
[16:24] Detroit have dropped by 65%. A savings
[16:27] for GM and Chrysler together of $10
[16:29] million a year. For businesses here in
[16:32] De Mo, Iowa, the issue isn't money
[16:34] alone, it's also time. And those
[16:36] businesses have also turned to a new
[16:38] airline to help solve their problems. It
[16:40] is excess air and local businesses
[16:43] practically created it. After
[16:44] complaining for years of high fairs and
[16:46] a lack of direct service, they invested
[16:48] most of the $20 million in startup
[16:50] costs.
[16:51] >> The only way we're really going to solve
[16:53] these problems is to band together and
[16:55] do it ourselves. And so this is very
[16:57] much a do-it-yourself uh airline.
[17:00] >> Until February, if you wanted to fly
[17:02] from De Moines to New York or Los
[17:03] Angeles, you had to go to Chicago and
[17:06] change planes. But access Air flies
[17:08] directly to both cities, cutting travel
[17:10] time almost in half and ticket prices by
[17:12] 2/3.
[17:14] >> We can leave here in the morning and get
[17:15] out to Los Angeles and conduct 5 to 6
[17:18] hours worth of meetings and then get
[17:19] back that night.
[17:20] >> Good morning.
[17:22] >> Lengthy government approval procedures
[17:23] and tough competition from major
[17:25] carriers make it difficult to start a
[17:27] new airline. But other companies are
[17:29] watching to see if these two ideas will
[17:31] succeed in the long run. Tom Jameson,
[17:34] ABC News, De Mo. The enduring challenges
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[20:11] in South Carolina. The waste is left
[20:13] over from years of weapons production.
[20:16] It has been stored at an enormous cost
[20:18] and the system does not work. Here's
[20:20] ABC's John Martin.
[20:23] Along the Savannah River, there are
[20:25] steel tanks holding 34 million gallons
[20:29] of highly radioactive nuclear weapons
[20:31] waste. Around 1980, the Department of
[20:34] Energy decided to build a plant to
[20:36] process the waste for storage. That's
[20:39] when the trouble began. To separate the
[20:42] materials, it chose a method called ITP,
[20:46] intank precipitation, even though it was
[20:48] warned this would create benzene, a
[20:51] highly flammable toxic liquid.
[20:53] >> I told them that I thought that
[20:57] DOE was was playing with fire.
[20:59] >> One of DOE's own engineers, Herman
[21:01] Brandt, now retired and living nearby,
[21:04] spent years telling his superiors to
[21:06] find another process. In 1988, Brand
[21:09] wrote, "At worst, it could become
[21:11] inoperable. Benzene is a hazard to
[21:14] store." In 1990, he begged DOE to find
[21:18] an alternative as a fallback. It wasn't
[21:21] just Brandt. Auditors in and out of the
[21:23] agency warned of danger, but they went
[21:26] ahead anyway. This is where the
[21:28] chemicals were injected. And sure
[21:30] enough, there was, as predicted,
[21:32] benzene, too much at dangerous levels.
[21:35] So, they stopped. And that was more than
[21:37] three years ago.
[21:39] >> A plant that was originally to cost $32
[21:42] million and a job that was to take three
[21:45] years has now cost $489 million and
[21:49] taken 16 years and failed.
[21:52] >> We're left with a process that the
[21:55] government has paid a lot of money for
[21:58] that doesn't work.
[21:59] >> DOE concedes it took too long to see the
[22:01] light.
[22:02] >> It is certainly with hindsight throwing
[22:04] good money after bad. Uh, frankly, I
[22:07] think uh it's inexcusable that it went
[22:08] on uh as long as it did.
[22:10] >> From 1980
[22:12] to 1999, they can't make it work. How
[22:16] much do you give them? Do we subsidize
[22:19] those people for the rest of their lives
[22:21] and their children?
[22:22] >> The government has finally gotten Herman
[22:24] Brandt's message. It has just told
[22:27] Westinghouse, its prime contractor for
[22:29] 10 years, the company will not be
[22:31] allowed to work on the project this fall
[22:33] when they start all over again. John
[22:36] Martin, ABC News, Aken, South Carolina.
[22:40] Russia Space Agency said today that
[22:42] their space station Mir is finally going
[22:44] to be abandoned 13 years after it went
[22:47] into orbit. They simply don't have the
[22:49] money to keep it going. The crew will
[22:51] leave in the summer and several months
[22:52] later, Mir will burn up and disintegrate
[22:55] when it falls back through the Earth's
[22:57] atmosphere.
[22:59] When we come back, he helped to build
[23:00] the new South Africa. Now, he's going to
[23:03] hand it over.
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[24:57] >> Coming up next on Channel 2 News, the
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[25:13] >> Just a brief review of our main story.
[25:14] Very, very faint signs that a political
[25:17] solution to the war in Yugoslavia may be
[25:19] taking shape. The president of Finland
[25:21] and the Russian special envoy Victor
[25:23] Chernimir are scheduled to meet with the
[25:25] Yugoslav president, Mr. Mallosvich, in
[25:27] Belgrade tomorrow. Finally, this evening
[25:30] in South Africa, an 80year-old man is
[25:33] preparing to retire to a house near the
[25:36] sea. He says President Nelson Mandela is
[25:38] going to step down after a national
[25:40] election tomorrow. Another chapter in
[25:42] his remarkable journey from political
[25:45] prisoner to president completed. ABC's
[25:47] Jim Mutin from South Africa tonight on
[25:49] the man and the future.
[25:55] For millions of black South Africans, he
[25:57] was the one man who could change their
[25:59] country and their lives. They believed
[26:01] that when they elected him and perhaps
[26:04] in the euphoria of victory, he believed
[26:06] it too.
[26:07] >> Let us build the future together and
[26:10] toast a better life for all South
[26:13] Africans.
[26:14] >> Yet now as then, South Africa still has
[26:17] massive problems. Violent crime driving
[26:20] thousands out of the country,
[26:22] unemployment at nearly 40%. and the same
[26:25] old poverty and homelessness. Those who
[26:28] said it would never work now say, "I
[26:30] told you so." Not all whites blame
[26:33] Mandela. Ralph Mayor indictes the old
[26:36] racist regime in which he once served.
[26:39] >> Much of the distortion of the South of
[26:42] African society was brought about by a
[26:43] party. That's a reality. And I don't
[26:46] think one can ever deny that. But no one
[26:48] denies that Mandela and his party
[26:51] offered the people unrealistic visions
[26:53] of what would be accomplished.
[26:55] >> They shot themselves in the foot by
[26:57] making huge promises
[26:59] knowing very well that they would not be
[27:01] able to deliver.
[27:04] >> Actually, they have delivered quite a
[27:06] lot. New utilities, water, electricity,
[27:09] telephones for millions and hundreds of
[27:11] new schools, including this one.
[27:14] >> This is the most beautiful school. We
[27:16] must thank Nelson Mandela.
[27:19] >> Mandela has built 750,000
[27:22] new homes for people like Miriam Pagot
[27:24] and her son.
[27:27] >> I had no homes, she says.
[27:29] >> Now I do.
[27:32] >> And there are many more on the way.
[27:35] Building a democracy is never easy.
[27:37] Building a democracy here on the ruins
[27:39] of a partage is vastly more difficult
[27:42] and without Nelson Mandela, next to
[27:44] impossible. That is a part of his
[27:46] legacy. The new South Africa is a work
[27:49] in progress, but the building has begun.
[27:54] And now most agree his heirs in power
[27:57] can build on that foundation. Even
[27:59] though they lack the almost mythic
[28:01] presence of Mandela that led so many to
[28:04] expect miracles from his government.
[28:06] What they got instead is respect from
[28:08] the rest of the world, a fledgling but
[28:11] working democracy, and a future. Jim
[28:14] Wooten, ABC News, Johannesburg.
[28:17] >> That is our report on World News Tonight
[28:19] on Night Line. A unique perspective on
[28:20] South Africa and on Nelson Mandela from
[28:22] his former wife, Winnie Mandela. I'm
[28:25] Peter Jennings. Have a good evening. See
[28:27] you tomorrow, we hope. Good night.
[28:33] Tomorrow, horse racing, big money at
[28:35] stake. How could these owners almost
[28:37] give away a champion worth millions?
[28:40] Watch ABC's World News Tonight with
[28:42] Peter Jennings. This has been a
[28:44] presentation of ABC News.