World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-03-06
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[0:00] Another dry day Wednesday, but more
[0:01] showers coming again on Thursday.
[0:03] Temperatures in the upper 40s and low
[0:04] 50s. That's a look at the weather we'll
[0:06] have for you at the top of every hour
[0:08] right here on the Power [music] of Two.
[0:16] >> On World News Tonight this Saturday, is
[0:18] there a spy at the nation's top nuclear
[0:20] weapons laboratory?
[0:23] An investigation [music]
[0:24] into stolen nuclear secrets. Anger over
[0:28] the aqu quiddle of an American pilot
[0:30] [music] from the village where 20 people
[0:32] died. And dreamhouse or eyes sore.
[0:35] [music] An ugly fight in a beautiful
[0:37] valley.
[0:44] >> From ABC. This is World News Tonight
[0:49] Saturday.
[0:50] >> Good evening. I'm Elizabeth Vargas. One
[0:52] congressional source tells ABC News it
[0:55] is the most significant loss of secrets
[0:57] since the Rosenbergs were convicted of
[0:59] spying for the Russians in the 1950s.
[1:02] This time it is China that is accused of
[1:04] stealing American nuclear secrets.
[1:06] Recent published reports in the New York
[1:08] Times and the Wall Street Journal have
[1:10] focused on the search for a spy in the
[1:12] nation's top weapons laboratory. ABC's
[1:15] Martha Ratitz has been doing her own
[1:17] investigating. She reports now from
[1:19] Washington.
[1:21] This is the government laboratory where
[1:23] the most sensitive, highly classified
[1:26] nuclear technology available today is
[1:29] held.
[1:29] >> The laboratories have probably uh the
[1:32] smartest people in science and
[1:34] engineering and physics in the world.
[1:37] And sources tell ABC News that the FBI
[1:40] is now investigating one of those
[1:42] scientists, a Chinese American suspected
[1:45] of giving China information about