World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-07-01

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[0:05] On World News Tonight this Thursday,

[0:07] Russian planes over the Atlantic and

[0:09] Russian troops in Kosovo. What is Moscow

[0:12] trying to prove? Thousands more Medicare

[0:15] patients dropped by their managed care

[0:17] providers. The company says the elderly

[0:19] are too expensive. Trying to save a

[0:22] national treasure, undoing the work of

[0:24] man. We'll take a closer look. We'll

[0:27] also test some conventional wisdom about

[0:29] your car. It has to do with air

[0:32] conditioning.

[0:39] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:42] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:46] Peter Jennings.

[0:47] >> Good evening. The Clinton administration

[0:48] doesn't want to alarm anyone, but it's a

[0:50] little nervous about Russia, and the US

[0:51] would like to be a lot better informed

[0:54] about who is making decisions in Moscow.

[0:56] First, there was Kosovo, where the

[0:58] Russian army seemed eager to lay down a

[1:00] marker. And now, there are four long

[1:02] range Russian bombers cruising around on

[1:04] the edge of NATO countries in Northern

[1:07] Europe. Technically within military

[1:09] range of the United States. Yes,

[1:11] Washington is just a little nervous,

[1:13] which is why we begin tonight at the

[1:15] Pentagon with ABC's John McQuey.

[1:22] For days, the Russian military conducted

[1:25] its biggest exercises in a decade. Build

[1:28] as a demonstration that Moscow could

[1:30] still repel an attack from the west. And

[1:32] then last Friday, an unannounced part of

[1:35] the exercise, two bare bombers, old

[1:38] propeller-driven planes that were once

[1:40] the pride of the Soviet Air Force,

[1:42] lumbered across the North Atlantic

[1:44] toward NATO ally Iceland. 50 miles off

[1:47] the coast, they were intercepted by US

[1:49] fighter jets and turned back. Two other

[1:52] Russian bombers flew down the coast of

[1:53] Norway, another NATO ally, but turned

[1:56] back when pursued by Norwegian jets.

[1:59] Though capable of carrying long range

[2:01] nuclear missiles, there were no

[2:03] indications the bombers were even armed.

[2:06] And Defense Secretary Cohen today

[2:07] downplayed the incident.

[2:09] >> We have anticipated they would be

[2:10] conducting an exercise, and it does not

[2:13] come as a major surprise. But it was the

[2:15] second unexpected challenge to NATO in 2

[2:18] weeks. The last one was in Kosovo when

[2:20] Russian troops surprised everyone by

[2:23] seizing the Pristina airport ahead of

[2:25] NATO. Today, Wesley Clark, NATO's top

[2:28] general, said he was concerned about

[2:30] what he called Russia's new appetite for

[2:32] risktaking.

[2:34] >> I think it's unusual behavior in the

[2:36] sense that it we hadn't seen this type

[2:38] of behavior in the previous three years

[2:40] we've worked together in Bosnia. They've

[2:41] been very predictable, very stable, very

[2:43] steady.

[2:44] >> Not anymore. The failing health of

[2:46] Russian President Boris Yelten and his

[2:48] apparent lack of control of his military

[2:51] may be contributing.

[2:52] >> It allows the military to be more

[2:54] aggressive and to be more assertive.

[2:56] They did it in Pristina. They did it

[2:58] again with these uh flights. And I

[3:00] suspect we're going to see more of this

[3:02] kind of behavior in the near future.

[3:04] >> Russia Russia is but a shadow of what it

[3:06] once was militarily. And all the

[3:08] challenges and surprises in recent weeks

[3:10] seem to be part of a simple demand that

[3:13] NATO and the US treat Russia like the

[3:16] great power it no longer is. Peter,

[3:19] >> thank you, John. John McCarthy at the

[3:20] Pentagon today. On the subject of

[3:22] uncertainty, it is becoming clear today

[3:24] that suspected serial killer Raphael

[3:26] Rendes Ramirez, who was on the FBI's

[3:29] most wanted list, is not the average

[3:31] drifter. Investigators say Ramirez is

[3:34] articulate, self-confident, and highly

[3:36] resourceful. He's been tied already to

[3:38] at least eight murders. And today, we

[3:41] heard Ramirez's voice for the first

[3:43] time. On tape in a courtroom. Here's

[3:45] ABC's Mike von Frame.

[3:48] >> 10 years ago, inside this St. Louis

[3:50] courthouse, defendant Raphael Rescendes

[3:53] Ramirez was representing himself and

[3:56] flattering the jury.

[3:57] >> I won't ask you to find me not guilty or

[4:00] guilty. It's up to you. I consider

[4:02] myself very unworthy of you. The charges

[4:06] were illegally entering the US,

[4:08] possession of a firearm, and

[4:09] fraudulently applying for a social

[4:11] security card. It was the ninth time

[4:14] Ramirez had been arrested in the US, and

[4:17] the prosecutor warned it was not enough

[4:19] just to send him back to Mexico.

[4:21] >> He was found in the United States.

[4:24] Indeed, we'd ship him back if we thought

[4:26] he'd stay there, but history shows that

[4:29] he won't.

[4:29] >> RmIrez mounted a long and rambling

[4:32] defense.

[4:33] >> I won't lie to you. I won't try to play

[4:34] with you, man. But there's many things

[4:36] that I don't know myself. Can I tell you

[4:38] who really I am with all the secrecy

[4:41] that is in the family? I probably

[4:42] couldn't tell you who I think I am. As

[4:44] far as I know, I'm just a human being.

[4:46] And I will leave it up to you.

[4:48] >> RmIrez was convicted and served 18

[4:51] months before he was deported to Mexico.

[4:53] In the nine years since, he has crossed

[4:55] back and forth, been arrested, and

[4:57] deported at least 12 more times. At

[5:00] Ramirez's home in Rodeo, Mexico this

[5:03] week, investigators are comparing

[5:05] jewelry they have found with items

[5:07] reported stolen from the murder scenes.

[5:09] And in Hugh Springs, Texas, a possible

[5:12] ninth victim, 83-year-old Ley Mason. She

[5:15] had lived just 50 yards from the

[5:17] railroad tracks and was bled to death

[5:19] last October.

[5:21] >> I feel very confident that it is the

[5:23] same guy.

[5:24] >> But tonight, authorities appear no

[5:26] closer to catching him. Mike vonfrem,

[5:28] ABC News, Dallas.

[5:31] >> On the money tonight, part two of the

[5:33] fight over the trillion dollar budget

[5:34] surplus. Republicans in the House of

[5:36] Representatives were high on beating a

[5:38] drum today for tax cuts. They want to

[5:41] use the projected surplus over the next

[5:43] 10 years for a trillion dollar across

[5:45] the board tax cut. If there is such a

[5:47] big surplus, they say people are clearly

[5:49] paying too much in taxes. On Wall Street

[5:52] today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average

[5:54] was up more than 95 points to close at

[5:56] 11,66.

[5:58] On the Nasdaq, stocks were up 20 points,

[6:01] closing at 2706. And that is a record

[6:05] high. Some important health maintenance

[6:07] organizations said today they're cutting

[6:09] coverage for a quarter of a billion

[6:11] Medicare patients. The HMO say that

[6:13] Medicare does not pay them enough. The

[6:16] government says nonsense. And of course,

[6:19] the Medicare patients are caught in the

[6:21] middle. Here's ABC's Linda Douglas.

[6:24] >> It was a financial decision that had to

[6:26] be made.

[6:27] >> Cinta Healthcare in Norfol, Virginia has

[6:30] been breaking the bad news to its 14,000

[6:33] Medicare patients. Starting next year,

[6:35] the HMO will no longer cover them. Many

[6:38] like Orville Hammond are shaken.

[6:40] >> I was worried. Yeah. And I'm still

[6:42] worried about what do I do now? You

[6:44] know, here I am 75 years old and no

[6:48] place to go.

[6:49] >> Last year, HMOs dropped 400,000 Medicare

[6:52] patients. Today's announcement of

[6:54] another 250,000 will leave more seniors

[6:57] scrambling for coverage.

[6:58] >> We believe this is happening because

[7:00] Washington is inadequately funding the

[7:02] plans and the impact on beneficiaries is

[7:07] devastating. For years, the government

[7:09] has encouraged Medicare patients to

[7:11] enroll in HMOs, hoping to cut costs for

[7:14] patients and taxpayers. HMOs like

[7:17] Santara tried to offer lowcost health

[7:19] care with generous benefits. But they

[7:21] say the government's reimbursement did

[7:23] not cover their costs.

[7:24] >> In losing 6 to9 million on 14,000

[7:27] members, we just can't sustain that.

[7:29] We'll be out of business.

[7:31] >> Next year, most of the HMOs that stay

[7:33] with Medicare will raise premiums or cut

[7:35] benefits. But some in Congress scoff at

[7:38] the industry's complaints.

[7:39] >> They're not making any money uh because

[7:41] their management probably isn't any

[7:43] good. So, they're coming to the

[7:44] government to bail them out.

[7:45] >> The managed care industry says Congress

[7:47] had better listen to its complaints

[7:49] because HMOs are popular with seniors

[7:51] and Congress takes seniors seriously,

[7:54] especially when there's an election

[7:55] coming up. Linda Douglas, ABC News,

[7:57] Capitol Hill. When we come back,

[8:00] restoring what man has ruined in the

[8:02] Everglades and demolishing a dam in

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[9:38] tonight at two examples of man trying to

[9:40] undo the work of man. The Clinton

[9:43] administration in the person of Vice

[9:44] President Gore has unveiled a hugely

[9:46] ambitious plan to restore the Florida

[9:49] Everglades and the ecosystem which once

[9:52] thrived there. The White House wants to

[9:54] commit $7.8 billion over the next 20

[9:56] years to restore what man has destroyed

[9:59] in the last 50 years. It is what someone

[10:02] accurately called a giant replplumbing

[10:05] project. First, here's ABC's Bill

[10:08] Blakemore.

[10:11] Florida's magnificent river of grass

[10:13] used to curve and weave 125 m down to

[10:17] the sea. Originally, one continuous flow

[10:20] of water from Orlando down through Lake

[10:22] Okichchobee and on into the Everglades

[10:24] filtered through a series of rich

[10:26] environments.

[10:28] It was the lifeblood of an enormous

[10:30] ecosystem. But in the late 1940s, the

[10:33] Army Corps of Engineers intervened to

[10:35] create dry land so towns and farms could

[10:38] be developed. 1.7 billion gallons of

[10:41] water a day were diverted east into the

[10:43] Atlantic, west into the Gulf of Mexico

[10:46] and much of the rest trapped in canals.

[10:49] Now 50% of the Everglades are completely

[10:52] gone.

[10:53] >> We accomplished the intended purposes of

[10:55] for 50 years ago, but have essentially

[10:57] dried up a national treasure.

[11:00] >> 90% of waiting birds have vanished. 68

[11:04] other species of animals are near

[11:05] extinction. Today's plan calls for

[11:08] engineers to tear down 2.4 million acres

[11:11] of levies and canals to redistribute the

[11:14] water into what's left of the Everglades

[11:16] and try to entice its complex nature to

[11:19] come back. Though no one knows exactly

[11:22] how to meet nature's many needs. They

[11:25] hope to discover as they go.

[11:26] >> We're going to have to learn how those

[11:28] components fit together as we replplum

[11:30] the system and restore the right water

[11:32] quality and quantity. The plan would

[11:34] also increase the fresh water for towns

[11:37] and farms. If it passes, the threat's

[11:39] not over. South Florida's population is

[11:42] expected to double in 50 years, and

[11:44] Congress may have to reauthorize the

[11:46] plan each year for 20 years. But there

[11:49] has been a change. Where people once

[11:52] ripped up entire ecosystems without a

[11:54] thought in their rush to build, they're

[11:56] now ready to work with nature and even

[11:59] take instructions from it. Bill

[12:01] Blakemore, ABC News.

[12:04] As Bill Blakemore points out, the

[12:05] Everglades project has a great deal of

[12:07] support, but it may yet become very

[12:09] controversial. In Florida, there is

[12:10] always a struggle about water rights, as

[12:14] there has been in Maine. The government

[12:16] today destroyed a dam in Maine, and it

[12:19] had been a struggle. ABC's Barry Sarapan

[12:21] reports from Augusta, Maine on the

[12:24] beginning of a new era.

[12:27] History was made today when the Edwards

[12:29] Dam, which had served Augusta for 162

[12:32] years, began to come down. It started

[12:34] with a signal from Interior Secretary

[12:36] Bruce Babbett.

[12:39] Earth was scraped away from a section of

[12:41] the dam that had already been partially

[12:43] removed. Water from the dam's reservoir

[12:46] quickly carved out a channel. It was a

[12:48] sight that local residents had never

[12:50] seen. The KBc River running freely. The

[12:54] churning water tore loose old timbers as

[12:56] the gash in the dam grew. It marks the

[12:59] first time that the federal government

[13:01] has ever acted to restore a river by

[13:04] refusing to rellic a hydroelectric dam.

[13:07] >> This is the beginning of a new chapter

[13:10] of stewardship of river restoration and

[13:13] it's a powerful experience.

[13:15] >> The dam 19 ft high and nearly 1,000 ft

[13:18] wide was built in 1837. It powered a

[13:22] textile mill which once employed more

[13:24] than a thousand people. But the mill is

[13:26] gone now.

[13:26] >> We used this river for industry in the

[13:28] past. The jobs have gone. We can't do

[13:30] that anymore. This is now a river for

[13:32] fish and fisheries.

[13:33] >> The dam has been an impassible barrier

[13:36] to sturgeon, salmon, striped bass, and

[13:38] other fish which now will be able to

[13:40] migrate 17 more miles up river. Is the

[13:44] removal of the Edwards Dam a precedent?

[13:46] Does it make it more likely that other

[13:48] dams will come down? The hydropower

[13:50] industry says no, but some of the same

[13:53] groups that fought to restore this river

[13:55] hope the answer is yes.

[13:57] >> I hope this uses is used as a model to

[14:00] take the dam removal options seriously

[14:03] at other dams that don't make sense.

[14:06] >> The Army Corps of Engineers is studying

[14:08] a proposal to breach four large dams on

[14:11] the lower Snake River in Washington

[14:13] State in an effort to save endangered

[14:15] salmon. There is still stiff opposition.

[14:18] But advocates of river restoration say

[14:20] they faced opposition here too before

[14:23] finally freeing the canac. Barry Sarapan

[14:26] ABC News Augusta.

[14:29] In just a moment we'll shift our focus.

[14:31] How clean is the air inside your car?

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[16:42] >> Meteorologists at the space agency say

[16:44] that the weather phenomena known as

[16:46] Leninia is nearly gone. At least for

[16:49] now. That pool of unusually cool

[16:51] tropical water in the Pacific looked

[16:53] like this four months ago. It's that

[16:54] blue and purple band. And here it is

[16:58] now. Over the past year, Leninia has

[16:59] created cool weather in the Midwest and

[17:01] dry, warm conditions in the South. The

[17:03] experts do caution that Leninia has

[17:05] shrunk before, as we said, only to

[17:08] return. The American Automobile

[17:10] Association says this could be the

[17:12] busiest July 4th travel weekend in more

[17:15] than a decade, which makes for a lot of

[17:17] pollution. The conventional wisdom, of

[17:20] course, is close the car windows, turn

[17:22] on the air conditioning, and move along.

[17:25] Not quite. Here's ABC's John Martin.

[17:28] It's rush hour in the city where smog

[17:31] was born, Los Angeles. Sandra Butler, a

[17:35] technical recruiter, is making her way

[17:37] home to Long Beach. An hour's drive one

[17:39] way at a time when traffic is heavy and

[17:42] the air is foul.

[17:43] >> I'm behind black smoke all the time.

[17:46] >> So, what do you do? Well, you roll up

[17:48] your window and you reach over and you

[17:50] turn on the air conditioning with its

[17:52] climate control, which makes you think

[17:54] that you're protected from the dirty air

[17:56] outside. Wrong. Not true. In fact, in

[17:59] this case, the conventional wisdom is

[18:02] just full of hot air.

[18:03] >> You would think because the air is

[18:05] always circulating in the car. I think

[18:07] I'm getting fresh air.

[18:09] >> In fact, California's air resources

[18:11] board studied the air in Los Angeles and

[18:13] Sacramento and found it's even dirtier

[18:16] inside the car than outside. Outside

[18:19] though, researchers found plenty of

[18:20] toxic materials, benzene, carbon

[18:23] monoxide. Inside they found higher

[18:25] concentrations depending on the vehicle

[18:27] in front of you and how close it is.

[18:30] >> It's about uh 2 to 10 times more

[18:32] polluted inside a vehicle uh on a

[18:36] congested freeway or major street.

[18:41] The key, of course, is how much

[18:43] pollution coming out of the truck or bus

[18:45] or car ahead of you is trapped inside

[18:47] your car. The automakers say they've

[18:49] been concentrating on what comes out the

[18:51] exhaust, not what gets inside. But so

[18:54] much does get in that as people spend

[18:56] more time commuting, they are exposed to

[18:58] more bad air.

[19:00] >> Makes me think about all the damage I've

[19:01] done to my

[19:03] to my lungs just from from commuting for

[19:06] 4 and 1/2 years. So just when Sandra

[19:10] Butler thought the air in her car was

[19:11] safe, it turns out to be pretty dirty.

[19:14] No matter what the conventional wisdom

[19:16] >> say, I did not know that before. Now I

[19:18] do.

[19:19] >> John Martin, ABC News, Washington. As

[19:22] the woman said, now you know. When we

[19:24] come back, kids and R-rated movies.

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[21:51] It is now officially the height of the

[21:53] summer movie season. A season that in

[21:55] one important respect was supposed to be

[21:56] different. Three weeks ago, movie

[21:58] theater owners told President Clinton

[22:00] they would begin checking IDs of kids

[22:03] trying to see our rated movies. The idea

[22:06] is to keep children under 17 away from

[22:08] all that sex and violence on the screen.

[22:10] We asked our reporter Aaron Hayes to

[22:13] check out how it was working.

[22:16] >> How old are you anyway?

[22:17] >> 17 years. Do you have ID?

[22:20] >> This theater owners promised would

[22:21] become the norm.

[22:22] >> Hi, can I help you?

[22:24] >> IDs checked. No kids under 17 allowed in

[22:27] R-rated movies. Easier said than done.

[22:30] We watched some underage teens slip in

[22:32] last night to the opening of the very

[22:34] controversial South Park movie.

[22:36] >> All hell breaks loose.

[22:38] >> It's an animated satire based on a

[22:40] popular TV show, but the producers made

[22:43] the movie to push the limits.

[22:45] >> Well, we did go pretty far beyond the

[22:46] show, but We went pretty far behind the

[22:49] company.

[22:50] >> And they made it attractive to a lot of

[22:52] kids. The movie story line, 8-year-olds

[22:54] sneak into an R-rated film where they

[22:57] learn things we can't repeat here, but

[22:59] they repeat through the entire South

[23:01] Park movie. Some of the runchiest

[23:03] combinations of swearing and sex

[23:05] references you can imagine. Not for

[23:07] kids. Many theaters enforce that, but we

[23:10] asked 17 underage kids to try to buy

[23:13] tickets to South Park. If asked, they

[23:15] had to tell their age. Three of the

[23:17] 14-year-olds got right in. No one

[23:19] checked their ID or asked their age.

[23:21] >> I went up and asked for a ticket for

[23:23] South Park and they gave me one. I was

[23:25] like, "Wow, I got in cuz I don't look

[23:28] 17."

[23:30] >> Bob Fridley is one theater owner working

[23:33] hard to enforce the ratings. Frustrated,

[23:35] he says, by movie makers luring teens to

[23:38] rough and runchy movies, many with

[23:40] popular teen stars. It's very hard being

[23:42] a theater owner these days and having to

[23:45] exist on the kind of movies we have in

[23:48] the most part

[23:49] >> like the upcoming American pie. Its

[23:52] makers call it a teen comedy. They work

[23:54] to get it an R rating.

[23:56] >> It's not a space shuttle launch. It's

[23:57] sex

[23:58] >> because they say today's high school

[24:00] kids are runchy. And ranch is pushing

[24:03] its way down even into PG-13 movies.

[24:08] >> That's bitter.

[24:10] >> Criy. The new Austin Powers film, which

[24:13] technically any kid can see, is a sex

[24:15] comedy with a phallic, bathroom, or sex

[24:18] joke on average every 3 minutes.

[24:22] >> How to stem the flow of ranch to kids?

[24:24] Many are convinced if you can stop the

[24:26] flow of kids, box office receipts will

[24:28] drop. Movie makers will get the message

[24:31] this summer with its slate of R-rated

[24:33] teen fair should prove a good test.

[24:36] Aaron Hayes, ABC News, Atlanta.

[24:39] Well, this will seem a little tame by

[24:41] comparison, but in Scotland today, the

[24:43] Queen and the Scots made history. A

[24:46] Scottish Parliament, the first in nearly

[24:48] 300 years, was opened by Queen

[24:50] Elizabeth. It's an enormous political

[24:52] change for Britain. Scotland now has

[24:54] power over many of its own affairs. For

[24:56] the first time since it was united with

[24:58] England in 1707,

[25:00] the British Parliament still controls

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[26:51] >> Tonight, two beautiful children, a

[26:54] perfect life, a secret revealed. Did you

[26:56] plan for a long time how you were going

[26:58] to do it?

[26:58] >> The bizarre odyssey of a man and his

[27:00] daughters who simply vanished. Tonight

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[27:07] >> Finally this evening, just a brief word

[27:09] about the presidency. There is no more

[27:11] exclusive club. By the end of this

[27:12] century, only 41 members. The American

[27:15] people, as we know, sit in judgment on

[27:17] its every move. Last night, we began the

[27:20] broadcast with news that George W. Bush,

[27:22] the governor of Texas, had raised more

[27:24] money to pursue the job than any other

[27:26] man before him. Today, we wondered if it

[27:30] didn't go to his head just a little. He

[27:32] was campaigning in California.

[27:35] >> This is not my first trip to this

[27:38] incredible land called Silicon Valley.

[27:42] It's my first trip as president of the

[27:43] United States, the soon to be president

[27:45] of the United States.

[27:47] >> Well, it's funny how the mind works,

[27:48] though. No major damage done. Not with

[27:51] 36 million in the bank. That's our

[27:53] report on World News Tonight. Later on

[27:54] Night Line, the breakthrough event for

[27:56] women's sports, the women's World Cup in

[27:58] soccer. I'm Peter Jennings. Have a good

[28:01] evening. Good night.

[28:07] >> Tomorrow, is the bald eagle really out

[28:10] of danger? If the government doesn't

[28:12] protect America's symbol, who will?

[28:14] Watch ABC's World News Tonight with

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