World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-09-04
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:01] Shop Northwest Rugs today located in
[0:03] Wilsonville and in Tiger.
[0:07] Pay less on absolutely everything Sunday
[0:09] at 6 on Town Hall.
[0:13] [Music]
[0:18] On World News Tonight this Thursday, the
[0:20] British royal family under siege. The
[0:22] Queen will now go on television to talk
[0:25] about Diana.
[0:27] The terrorists strike in Jerusalem
[0:29] again.
[0:32] Seven people are dead, nearly 200
[0:34] injured.
[0:36] And can the IRS be forced to stop
[0:38] abusing ordinary taxpayers? Sam
[0:41] Donaldson talks to the man who will try.
[0:43] Taxpayers that have been abused,
[0:46] harassed, and intimidated.
[0:51] From ABC, this is World News Tonight
[0:55] with Peter Jennings.
[0:56] Good evening. The news today is marked,
[0:57] as it is so often, by violence, a
[0:59] terrorist attack in Jerusalem. And in a
[1:01] minute, we'll try to understand what
[1:02] effect that will have on the US effort
[1:05] to make peace between Israelis and
[1:06] Palestinians. But the news is dominated
[1:09] again today by the wave of resentment
[1:11] and anger against the British royal
[1:14] family that has spread across Britain as
[1:16] a whole. The Princess of Wales, Diana,
[1:19] this one individual, it turns out, was
[1:21] more central to the British public than
[1:23] many of them had imagined. and we'll
[1:25] deal with that at length tonight. To
[1:27] begin, what the world's most important
[1:30] royal family has been obliged to do in
[1:32] the face of public pressure. ABC's Jim
[1:35] Wooten reports from London.
[1:38] In several remarkable ways today, the
[1:40] royal family responded to the country's
[1:43] growing unhappiness with their silence
[1:45] and seclusion. First returning from
[1:48] private worship in Scotland, they
[1:50] allowed themsel