World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-06-23

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[0:00] Good night.

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

[0:06] the Marines in a Kosovo firefight. NATO

[0:09] finds chaos on every corner. The

[0:11] suspected serial killer. The FBI knows

[0:13] who he is and how he operates. They just

[0:16] can't find him. The country's largest

[0:18] medical association approves a union for

[0:20] doctors. A union to challenge, manage

[0:23] care, and the insurance companies. and

[0:26] the witches in the army.

[0:28] >> Freedom of religion. We'll take a closer

[0:31] look.

[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. It's been a very difficult

[0:46] day for the NATO troops in Kosovo. In

[0:49] two parts of the province, they have

[0:51] been involved in firefights.

[0:54] In the American sector near the village

[0:56] of Jaggra, about two dozen Marines were

[0:58] manning a checkpoint when they came

[0:59] under fire and returned fire. Tonight,

[1:02] the Pentagon says one of the gunmen was

[1:04] killed, two others wounded. No Marines

[1:06] were hurt. It is not clear who the

[1:08] gunmen were. Earlier in the day in Mitra

[1:11] Vita, French forces shot and killed two

[1:14] Serb gunmen who had shot at them. The

[1:17] French sector is particularly tense

[1:19] tonight. ABC's Morton Dean is there.

[1:24] >> On the bridge over the Eb River, the

[1:26] most powerful tanks in the French

[1:28] arsenal appeared useless today,

[1:30] overmatched by verbal threats from a

[1:32] menacing mob of Serbs.

[1:36] >> He said, "This city belongs to the

[1:38] Serbs." Directly defying NATO, they

[1:41] declared this is a Serbian zone.

[1:44] The Albanians and the Serbs can't live

[1:47] together.

[1:48] >> Typical of what's been happening all

[1:50] week today, a refugee, a young Albanian

[1:53] woman with a baby in her arms, was

[1:55] prevented from returning home.

[1:59] >> "You can't come over here," he shouted.

[2:01] French soldiers watched but did not

[2:04] intervene.

[2:06] >> "Where should I go?" she cried.

[2:08] >> The Serbs are all garbage.

[2:11] The French say they need more troops

[2:13] before they can provide all the security

[2:16] the Albanians need. Mitro Vita is one of

[2:19] the most tense and polarized places in

[2:21] Kosovo.

[2:24] Today, while the Serbs were terrorizing

[2:27] the Albanians on one side of the river,

[2:29] on the other, Albanians were pillaging

[2:31] and looting the homes of gypsies who the

[2:34] Albanians here believe are supporting

[2:36] the Serves.

[2:38] Turn just about any corner and there's

[2:40] proof how volatile this situation still

[2:43] is. How deep these hatreds still are.

[2:47] >> Hatred exploded into flames all over

[2:50] this city. The NATO troops still have to

[2:52] establish the peace before they can keep

[2:55] the peace. Morton Dean, ABC News, Mitro

[2:59] Vita, Kosovo.

[3:00] >> Just one other item about Kosovo. How

[3:02] much damage did NATO really do to the

[3:05] Yugoslav army when it was there? As they

[3:08] were leaving Kosovo, the Serbs seemed to

[3:10] be taking a great deal of equipment with

[3:12] them. NATO had said that nearly 800

[3:15] armored vehicles and artillery pieces

[3:17] were destroyed in the air campaign. So,

[3:20] where did all this come from? In many

[3:23] cases, it seems NATO was attacking

[3:26] decoys. As flimsy as they look at ground

[3:29] level, not to mention they're white,

[3:31] NATO's commander admits that the Serbs

[3:33] had skillfully deployed a lot of decoys,

[3:36] which of course don't look this flimsy

[3:38] from the air. And the Yugoslav army did

[3:40] not seem as demoralized leaving Kosovo

[3:43] as NATO commanders had anticipated,

[3:46] though NATO does point out they

[3:48] accomplished their goal anyway. Now, the

[3:52] other news today in Kentucky, the police

[3:53] have said that the suspected serial

[3:55] killer, Raphael Rescendes Ramirez, was

[3:58] seen in Louisville last week. The FBI is

[4:00] now leading a very intense nationwide

[4:02] manhunt for the man. He's wanted for

[4:04] eight murders in three states, and he

[4:06] may be connected to others. For one

[4:09] thing, they know a fair amount about

[4:10] him. For another, he's extremely

[4:12] elusive. Here's ABC's John Cocker.

[4:16] The FBI says it has received hundreds of

[4:18] tips since putting Ramirez on its 10

[4:20] most wanted list. Unfortunately, says

[4:22] FBI director Louis Free.

[4:24] >> In many of these cases, a lot of

[4:26] sightings are inaccurate.

[4:28] >> But the Kentucky tip looks promising.

[4:30] Police are certain it was Ramirez who

[4:32] was spotted at a homeless shelter.

[4:33] >> Those are confirmed sightings of Raphael

[4:35] Ramirez. Yesterday at 7:00 a.m. in

[4:38] neighboring Illinois, a surveillance

[4:40] camera at a convenience store in Cahokia

[4:42] took pictures of someone who bears a

[4:44] strong resemblance to Ramirez.

[4:46] >> I just compare kept comparing him to the

[4:48] the man in the paper and I said, "Man,

[4:51] they look a lot like him."

[4:52] >> And there were other sightings yesterday

[4:54] in Illinois and in Wisconsin. The

[4:57] investigation has not been easy. For one

[4:59] thing, Ramirez looks different in

[5:00] different pictures. and he is highly

[5:02] mobile, a loner riding the rails,

[5:05] traveling with other loners whose code

[5:07] is to mind their own business and then

[5:09] go their own way.

[5:10] >> The frightening part of this person

[5:12] right now is the total uh

[5:14] impredictability. We have no idea where

[5:17] he's going next.

[5:18] >> The FBI calls him a sloppy killer,

[5:20] leaving behind fingerprints and other

[5:22] evidence. But he can also be cy. After

[5:25] each murder, he has left a cold trail,

[5:27] doing nothing that would make him stand

[5:28] out until the next murder. He apparently

[5:31] carries no weapons. When he kills, he

[5:33] just picks up any available object to

[5:35] bludgeon his victims.

[5:37] >> He's not just going to disappear and

[5:39] evaporate. He's going to kill and he's

[5:40] going to continue killing and with more

[5:42] frequency.

[5:43] >> And that's why despite all the false

[5:45] leads, the FBI is still counting on

[5:47] someone in the public to provide the tip

[5:49] that stops Ramirez from killing again.

[5:51] John Cochran, ABC News, Washington.

[5:54] >> The Supreme Court ruled on two important

[5:56] issues today. One of which was about

[5:57] states rights. By a narrow margin, the

[6:00] court ruled that states are immune from

[6:02] most lawsuits filed by individuals in

[6:05] state courts to protect their rights

[6:07] under federal laws. And the justices

[6:10] also threw out a $ 1.5 billion class

[6:12] action settlement over asbestous. The

[6:15] court said that such deals worked out by

[6:17] lawyers run the risk of ignoring the

[6:20] rights of some victim. It's a decision

[6:22] which could torpedo several other major

[6:24] product liability settlements. In

[6:27] California today, the bad news about

[6:28] school test scores. The size of the

[6:30] classes is not making enough difference.

[6:34] The state paid for a study by the Rand

[6:36] Corporation and it found that reducing

[6:37] the size of primary school classes

[6:39] produces only a modest improvement in

[6:42] test scores. Smaller classes have always

[6:44] been held up as a way to improve

[6:45] education. Here's ABC's Jane Clayson.

[6:50] >> California vowed to reduce class size in

[6:53] its kindergarten through third grades

[6:55] and it spent 3 7 billion and hired

[6:58] 23,000 new teachers to do it. But it was

[7:01] hard to find facilities for all those

[7:04] kids and even harder to find qualified

[7:06] teachers in such a short time.

[7:09] >> They brought in people who had less

[7:11] preparation. They had less college

[7:14] training, less experience in the

[7:16] classroom, uh less credentials.

[7:19] >> 5 years ago, California students scored

[7:22] among the worst in the country in

[7:23] reading. Educators believed new teachers

[7:26] and smaller classes would raise test

[7:28] scores, but the state sponsored Rand

[7:31] study reveals reading, math, and

[7:33] language scores of third graders have

[7:35] improved only two to three points in

[7:38] standardized tests.

[7:42] >> Veteran first grade teacher Terresa

[7:44] Aragim says it will take time and

[7:47] probably more than just smaller classes.

[7:50] >> We had 20 to1, but we didn't have the

[7:52] facilities. We had 20 to1, but we didn't

[7:54] have um the textbooks. We had 20 to1,

[7:56] but we didn't have anything else to

[7:59] support it.

[8:00] >> It had been the conventional wisdom that

[8:02] all it took to raise test scores was to

[8:04] spend more money to reduce class size.

[8:06] Now, California is realizing it's more

[8:09] complicated than anyone thought. Jane

[8:11] Clayson, ABC News, Los Angeles.

[8:14] >> 20 to1 not enough. When we come back,

[8:16] some of the other news, a doctor's

[8:18] union, what might that do to the cost of

[8:20] healthcare? and witches in the army.

[8:24] Magic rituals and military rights.

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[10:39] In Chicago today, the American Medical

[10:41] Association, the country's largest

[10:43] doctor's group, voted to back the

[10:45] formation of a national union for

[10:47] doctors to negotiate fees and services

[10:50] with managed care companies. It is a

[10:52] sign of the doctor's growing displeasure

[10:55] with HMOs. ABC's Jim Williams is in

[10:57] Chicago.

[10:59] >> Raise your hand. The AMA said today a

[11:02] doctor's union will be good for patients

[11:05] because thousands of doctors working

[11:07] together will take on powerful managed

[11:09] care organizations

[11:11] >> to preserve our profession to be able to

[11:13] speak on behalf of our patients. We need

[11:15] new tools.

[11:17] >> Today's vote underscored doctor's

[11:19] frustration with insurance companies.

[11:21] The insurance company basically

[11:23] approaches me, delivers a contract in a

[11:26] plain brown envelope, throws it on my

[11:29] desk, and says, "Take it or leave it."

[11:30] >> Doctors like Chicago's Finley Brown say

[11:33] they are tired of the one-way street

[11:35] where insurers dictate fees and

[11:37] frequently pressure doctors and patients

[11:39] to make specific medical decisions.

[11:42] >> Our only chance on behalf of our

[11:44] patients is to negotiate collectively.

[11:46] The AMA says a doctor's union would

[11:49] level the playing field and force

[11:51] insurers to deal rather than dictate.

[11:53] For now, Brown and most other doctors

[11:55] would not be allowed to join the new

[11:57] union because they are self-employed.

[12:00] Federal antirust law forbids them from

[12:02] bargaining as a group. But Congressman

[12:04] Tom Campbell is sponsoring legislation

[12:07] that would change that. I want the

[12:08] doctors to be able to bargain from a

[12:10] position of strength so that they can

[12:12] give their patients the benefit of true

[12:16] medical care. But Campbell's legislation

[12:19] has some powerful opponents. The Clinton

[12:21] administration and the insurance lobby

[12:24] both argue a doctor's union will drive

[12:26] up the cost of health care further while

[12:28] making doctors richer.

[12:30] >> The fact is that this is just a power

[12:33] play for money. This is not uh an issue

[12:36] of quality of care.

[12:37] >> Put your hands out in front of you.

[12:39] >> Both sides claim to be motivated by the

[12:41] same thing. Concern for patients.

[12:44] >> Say I.

[12:45] >> Jim Williams, ABC News Chicago.

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[12:48] >> Elsewhere on the money tonight, more

[12:50] people than ever hiring others to do

[12:52] their chores. The government says the

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[13:20] last two months. But a record number of

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[13:25] the same time. On Wall Street today, the

[13:27] Dow Jones Industrial Average was down

[13:28] more than 54 points to close at 10,666.

[13:32] On the NASDAQ, stocks were up about 17

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[13:49] In the current issue of the magazine

[13:50] Nature, there is a report which says

[13:52] that man is creating danger for himself

[13:54] in space. Three Italian scientists say

[13:57] that because there is more and more junk

[14:00] up there, satellites and even the space

[14:03] shuttle are at greater risk of

[14:05] collision. ABC's Aaron Hayes tonight on

[14:08] the details of overcrowding.

[14:11] >> Okay. And I can see the back side of it.

[14:13] >> Space, it always looks so beautiful,

[14:15] clean, untouched. Well, the truth is,

[14:18] like so many places man has been before,

[14:21] man has left behind the trash. There

[14:24] goes this. Looks like a thermal can.

[14:27] >> Hundreds of thousands of bits and parts,

[14:29] shattered rockets, broken satellites,

[14:31] some in orbit for the past 30 years, and

[14:34] all potential trouble, which the

[14:36] military now tracks.

[14:37] >> Our deep space sensors are capable of

[14:39] tracking an object about this size out

[14:41] to a range of 22,300 m.

[14:44] >> Junk like this in orbit travels at about

[14:46] 17,000 m an hour. And at that speed,

[14:50] NASA tests show even tiny bits of debris

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[14:55] >> Zero.

[14:56] >> A real worry as companies like Iridium

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[15:06] could result in spreading fragment

[15:08] swarms across space.

[15:09] >> The number of collisions could grow very

[15:11] rapidly and then the collisions cascade.

[15:14] You have fragments of one satellite

[15:16] hitting fragments of another satellite,

[15:18] creating many more fragments.

[15:20] >> And NASA is worried those fragments

[15:22] threaten the space shuttle, which often

[15:24] flies upside down and backwards, with

[15:26] the reinforced underbelly serving as a

[15:29] shield. Already half a dozen shuttle

[15:31] missions have actually had to change

[15:33] course because of space debris. And the

[15:35] National Research Council has cautioned

[15:37] NASA to improve its collision warning

[15:39] system or risk major damage in the

[15:41] future.

[15:44] A caution gaining urgency as more and

[15:47] more nations launch rockets sail

[15:50] satellites adding to the potential scrap

[15:53] heap in space. Aaron Hayes, ABC News,

[15:56] Atlanta.

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[16:24] In a moment, the army has making room

[16:26] for witches. We'll take a closer look.

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[18:39] We're going to take a closer look at the

[18:41] army tonight. You never know quite what

[18:42] you'll find. Even witches. Now, the

[18:46] armed forces policy on religion is

[18:47] pretty clear. It does not evaluate or

[18:49] judge the merits of specific faiths or

[18:52] officially sanction the validity of any

[18:55] faith. About 72% of soldiers in the army

[18:58] say they're Christians. 26% don't list

[19:00] any religious affiliation. And a very

[19:03] small number list themselves as Muslims,

[19:05] though that is growing, or Jews, or

[19:07] other faiths. We're going to take a

[19:09] closer look at one of the other faiths.

[19:12] Stirring the pot in various ways. Our

[19:14] religion editor, Peggy Wayer, reports

[19:17] from Fort Hood in Texas.

[19:20] >> At the US Army's largest military base,

[19:23] soldiers train by day

[19:27] and welcome.

[19:28] >> But late at night here in central Texas,

[19:31] some of them meet under a moonlit sky to

[19:34] cast spells and chant to pagan

[19:36] goddesses.

[19:37] >> Wanda power I conjure thee, attract such

[19:40] things as named by me. These are the

[19:43] Fort Hood witches, a group that includes

[19:45] active and retired army personnel who

[19:48] are members of Wikah, a 50-year-old

[19:50] pagan religion.

[19:52] >> Hell, Freya,

[19:53] >> God is the fire.

[19:55] >> Wiccans believe there is divine power in

[19:57] nature, and that they can harness and

[19:59] direct that power through chanting and

[20:02] magic rituals. Mama,

[20:07] >> the leaders of our country are going to

[20:09] GIVE ACCOUNT TO GOD WITH HOW THEY DEAL

[20:11] WITH THIS MATTER OF WITCHCRAFT BECAUSE

[20:13] OUR PRECIOUS SINGLE SOLDIERS ARE GOING

[20:15] TO BE INVOLVED WITH IT if they allow IT

[20:18] ON OUR MILITARY FORCE.

[20:20] >> IT'S EVIL.

[20:21] >> But some local pastors who consider

[20:24] witchcraft satanic are outraged the army

[20:27] is making room for witches. and

[20:29] conservative Christian groups are

[20:31] telling young men and women not to join

[20:33] the army until the witches are banned.

[20:36] The Wiccan ceremonies are allowed on

[20:38] Fort Hood because several years ago, the

[20:40] army brass here recognized Wikah as a

[20:42] legitimate religion. Since then, a

[20:45] handful of US military installations

[20:47] have sanctioned pagan rituals. Pentagon

[20:50] officials say it's their duty under the

[20:52] First Amendment. The federal courts and

[20:54] statues have decreed that they are an

[20:57] organized religion and thus they fall

[20:59] under the protection of the

[21:00] constitution.

[21:03] >> But the army did insist that the Wiccans

[21:05] not perform their rituals in the nude.

[21:08] Marcy Palmer, a six-year veteran of the

[21:10] military police, is the Wiccan's high

[21:12] priestess. How has the army been to you?

[21:16] >> They they're great. The army's been

[21:18] really good. It's good that, you know,

[21:20] everybody is allowed to

[21:23] express their own spirituality.

[21:25] >> The Wiccans argue their critics

[21:27] misunderstand them. They say witches

[21:29] don't sacrifice animals, worship the

[21:32] devil, or cast evil spells.

[21:35] >> Sage, rosemary, parsley, sage, rosemary.

[21:39] >> We hope that these herbs will carry our

[21:41] message to the rest of the world for

[21:44] understanding, harmony, and love. The

[21:48] Fort Hood witches say that despite their

[21:50] unusual rituals, they deserve the same

[21:53] respect and are entitled to the same

[21:55] rights as any other religion on the

[21:57] base. Peggy Way Meer, ABC News, Fort

[22:00] Hood, Texas.

[22:02] >> Our closer look for today in a moment.

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[25:36] >> On 2020 Tonight,

[25:40] finally from us this evening, the

[25:41] promise coming due. A dozen years ago, a

[25:44] California woman made a promise to a

[25:46] glass of first graders. And now the time

[25:48] has come to keep her word. We have

[25:50] reported before on millionaires making

[25:52] promises like this one, but not a woman

[25:54] of relatively modest means. And it is

[25:57] going to cost her dearly, hundreds of

[25:59] thousands of dollars. Here's ABC's Brian

[26:01] Rooney.

[26:03] >> Latasha Hunter.

[26:04] >> Latasha Hunter is off to college in

[26:07] Alabama next fall.

[26:08] >> I want a good job, a career. Not a job,

[26:10] a career. And that's what college will

[26:12] help me do.

[26:12] >> Her tuition will be paid by this quiet

[26:15] woman in the audience, Oral Lee Brown of

[26:17] Oakland, California. How many are going

[26:19] to college?

[26:20] >> 12 years ago, Oral Brown realized the

[26:22] children in her neighborhood needed

[26:24] help. She promised 23 first graders that

[26:27] if they graduated from high school, she

[26:30] would pay for their college.

[26:31] >> It's the hardest

[26:33] challenge a job I've ever had in my

[26:37] life.

[26:37] >> And she's not rich. Brown made only

[26:40] $45,000 a year at the time and started

[26:43] putting away $10,000 a year. It wasn't

[26:46] just the money. It was helping the

[26:48] children learn, helping them make it,

[26:50] >> including making sure from time to time

[26:53] that the kids had money to get food.

[26:56] From time to time, making sure that the

[26:57] kids had clothes to wear. Certainly

[26:59] shoes. I've had to buy shoes.

[27:01] >> Over the years, that class of 23

[27:03] scattered to a halfozen California

[27:05] cities. One girl even moved to St.

[27:07] Louis. But Oral Brown kept in touch with

[27:10] every one of them. This month, 19 of the

[27:13] original 23 will get diplomas. Jeffrey

[27:16] Tony graduated last week and Mrs. Brown

[27:18] is sending him to Columbia College in

[27:20] Chicago.

[27:21] >> When I become rich and famous, I'm going

[27:23] put her nice glass mansion on the hill

[27:26] with her name and lights. Miss Brown.

[27:28] >> Before that happens, there are bills to

[27:31] pay. With donations, the college fund

[27:33] has grown to $427,000.

[27:36] It needs to be twice that. But Oral

[27:38] Brown believes that if her students can

[27:40] defy the odds, she can, too. Brian

[27:43] Rooney, ABC News, Oakland, California.

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

[27:48] Tonight. Don't forget 2020 later this

[27:50] evening and on Night Line, some

[27:51] interesting free political advice for

[27:53] Mrs. Clinton as she plans for her New

[27:55] York Senate race. I'm Peter Jennings.

[27:57] Have a good evening. See you tomorrow.

[27:59] Good night.

[28:07] Tomorrow, childhood anxiety and fears.

[28:09] If left untreated, could it lead to drug

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