World News Tonight (ABC) - 1983-05-17

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[0:03] This is ABC's World News Tonight. Here

[0:06] for Frank Reynolds in Washington, David

[0:08] Brinkley.

[0:09] >> Good evening. Here it is 2 months into

[0:11] spring and in two western states,

[0:14] there's something like a blizzard with

[0:15] 65 mph winds, about a foot of snow, and

[0:19] in Denver, the power lines are down.

[0:21] More on that shortly.

[0:23] Israel and Lebanon signed an agreement

[0:26] worked out by the United States to

[0:27] remove all foreign forces from Lebanon.

[0:30] That Syria hates the whole idea, says it

[0:33] will not accept it, and so it is unclear

[0:35] now how many foreign troops actually

[0:37] will leave. Peter Jennings at our

[0:39] foreign desk in London. Peter

[0:42] >> David, even though the document signed

[0:44] by Israel and Lebanon is less than a

[0:46] peace treaty, and though it won't lead

[0:47] in the short run to the withdrawal of

[0:49] foreign forces, it is a major political

[0:51] achievement for the Israelis. It carries

[0:54] with it far greater and some would say

[0:55] graver consequences for Lebanon. There

[0:58] were actually two signing ceremonies,

[0:59] one in Israel, the other just outside

[1:01] Beirut. And even before the ink was dry,

[1:04] Syria, the PLO, and some Lebanese were

[1:07] expressing their displeasure. First from

[1:09] the Lebanese capital, ABC's Mike McCort.

[1:13] >> In Muslim West Beirut, a lot of people

[1:15] think the agreement is worthless. This

[1:17] morning, just as it was being signed in

[1:19] suburban Cal, about 100 Shiite Muslims

[1:22] staged a protest sitin at a downtown

[1:24] Beirut mosque. This was the only means

[1:27] of objection for the Shiites who have

[1:29] been disarmed. But when they took their

[1:30] campaign to the streets, the Lebanese

[1:32] army, confirming many observers worst

[1:35] fears, demonstrated just how uncertain

[1:37] they are about keeping law and order in

[1:39] Beirut, let alone the entire country.

[1:53] So far as is known, there was no return

[1:56] fire. Several people were wounded and

[1:58] some may have been killed, but no one

[2:00] knows for sure because the authorities

[2:02] here have imposed a complete ban on

[2:04] details. The shooting at the mosque

[2:06] broke out again and again, possibly

[2:08] because the army was infuriated by some

[2:10] protesters who defiantly waved banners

[2:12] of the Ayatollah Kumeni. Many Shiites

[2:15] here are supporters of the Ayatollah and

[2:17] his regime in Iran. The army says the

[2:20] demonstrators opened fire first, but

[2:22] there is simply no evidence of that at

[2:24] all. On the contrary, the shooting this

[2:26] afternoon was an ominous sign that

[2:28] Israel, for one, is right when it says

[2:30] the Lebanese army is in no condition yet

[2:32] to take over security in its own

[2:34] country. Mike McCord, ABC News, Beirut.

[2:38] Completely unconfirmed reports say at

[2:40] least five people were killed as a

[2:41] result of the shooting. Lebanon's chief

[2:43] negotiator said today it wasn't a

[2:45] perfect agreement, but perfection, he

[2:47] said, belongs to the gods. The second

[2:49] signing ceremony took place in Israel.

[2:51] Here's ABC's Bill Seammens.

[2:54] in the they sat down to sign a second

[2:57] time today in the northern town of Kirat

[2:59] Shimmona. The Israelis held out for the

[3:01] best border security arrangements they

[3:03] could get because as a senior Israeli

[3:05] official told ABC News, they expect it

[3:08] will take more than 2 years to turn the

[3:10] Lebanese army into an effective fighting

[3:12] force. Meanwhile, a 25m wide security

[3:16] zone will be covered by joint patrols of

[3:18] Israeli and Lebanese troops to prevent

[3:21] the return of the PLO to the border

[3:23] until the Lebanese can handle the job

[3:26] themselves. The US is expected to train

[3:28] the Lebanese army as part of its pledge

[3:31] to make the agreement work. Both

[3:33] countries,

[3:35] Israel and Lebanon, have suffered much

[3:38] and will not forget it and have shown

[3:42] themselves dedicated to the proposition

[3:45] that having learned well the lessons of

[3:47] the past, there must be no repetition.

[3:50] >> But the Syrian rejection of the

[3:52] agreement dampened the signing

[3:53] ceremonies. Lebanese representative

[3:55] Antoine Fatal, speaking in French, said

[3:58] his country has a pressing need for calm

[4:00] and order. Its very survival is at

[4:03] stake, he said. And the Israeli delegate

[4:06] said the agreement was a real challenge

[4:08] for the peacemakers.

[4:09] >> We call on all those who wish peace for

[4:12] our region and peace for the Lebanon to

[4:15] use all their influence to achieve a

[4:18] speedy withdrawal of the terrorists and

[4:20] of the Syrian forces.

[4:24] >> Meanwhile, in Lebanon, Israeli troops

[4:26] remain in a high state of alert. And

[4:28] defense minister Aaron said today that

[4:30] if the Syrians don't withdraw, Israel

[4:33] would, after consulting with the US and

[4:35] Lebanon, consider only a partial

[4:38] pullback of its own troops. And Aaron's

[4:40] warned that Israel would not tolerate a

[4:43] war of attrition. Bill Seams, ABC News

[4:46] in Israel.

[4:48] >> Well, as we already know, the Syrians

[4:50] think this agreement jeopardizes both

[4:51] Lebanese sovereignty and Syrian

[4:53] security. Damascus has reacted today by

[4:56] saying the Lebanese government is

[4:58] illegitimate. And though the Syrian

[5:00] military has denied it, two main roads

[5:02] between Beirut and the part of Lebanon,

[5:04] Syria controls are reported to have been

[5:06] closed. Those roads are the trade routes

[5:09] between Lebanon and the rest of the Arab

[5:10] world. One other note, it looks as if

[5:13] Saudi Arabia will get behind Lebanon.

[5:15] The Saudi endorsement is guarded, but

[5:17] along with support from other Arab

[5:19] states, it serves to further isolate the

[5:21] Syrians. David

[5:24] President Reagan said today's signing

[5:26] was a positive step toward peace in the

[5:28] Middle East. And negotiator Philip Habib

[5:30] will return there this week to see if he

[5:33] can talk Syria in the PLO into leaving

[5:36] tonight at 8:00 Eastern time. President

[5:38] Reagan has a press conference. ABC News

[5:41] will carry it live. Coming along, spring

[5:44] in Denver, heavy snow, high winds, and

[5:47] the power out. And sometime it won't be

[5:51] news anymore, she says, but a woman in

[5:53] New York was the first to win a Pulitzer

[5:56] Prize in music. Until this year, all the

[5:59] Pulitzers were awarded to men.

[6:02] From ABC, this is World News Tonight

[6:05] with Frank Reynolds in Washington, Max

[6:08] Robinson in Chicago, Peter Jennings in

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[7:18] Max Robinson is out sick tonight. Denver

[7:21] had local elections today, but it was

[7:23] not easy. There was a heavy snow, high

[7:26] winds, the power out, traffic lights

[7:28] out, not much of a spring. Tom Shell has

[7:31] the story.

[7:33] The weather is more suited to March than

[7:34] the middle of May. The storm had been

[7:37] expected, but that hasn't eased the

[7:38] problems. The National Weather Service

[7:40] forecast for the next 24 hours is bleak.

[7:43] This is the Denver Metron forecast. A

[7:46] blizzard warning tonight and a travel

[7:47] advisory for Wednesday morning. Tonight,

[7:49] snow continuing with up to 8 in of

[7:51] additional accumulation in the

[7:52] foothills, two to four in the metro

[7:54] area. Winds of 54 mph whip the wet snow

[7:57] across Colorado and Wyoming, causing

[8:00] numerous accidents and snarling traffic.

[8:02] In downtown Denver, snow quickly turned

[8:04] to slush, and the people weren't

[8:06] prepared to cope with it. I

[8:07] >> think it's a little late in the year for

[8:09] this, and my feet are wet, and I'm very

[8:11] cold. We're from 85° in Washington DC to

[8:14] here and it's beautiful. Little slushy

[8:17] though.

[8:18] >> Not prepared. I think I took a wrong

[8:19] turn back in April. This is supposed to

[8:21] be May, not January. I think I'm going

[8:23] to move to Alaska.

[8:26] >> There were major disruptions of air

[8:28] travel to and from Denver. As only two

[8:30] of the four runways at Stapleton

[8:32] International Airport are open. Long

[8:34] delays were caused when departing

[8:35] airliners needed frequent deicing. Today

[8:38] was election day in Denver with six

[8:40] candidates running for mayor. A major

[8:42] issue in the campaign was the city's

[8:44] failure to deal with a major snowstorm

[8:46] last Christmas. Power outages caused by

[8:49] today's storm prevented many people from

[8:51] casting ballots. Some suburban areas

[8:53] have been without power all day. A radar

[8:56] picture shows the storm spreading over a

[8:58] large section of the eastern Rockies.

[9:00] Winds of 86 mph were reported near

[9:03] Cheyenne, Wyoming, where nearly a foot

[9:04] of snow has fallen. The National Weather

[9:07] Service says the storm is heading for

[9:09] western Kansas. Tom Shell, ABC News.

[9:14] >> Philadelphia had a primary today to

[9:16] choose a candidate for mayor, one of

[9:17] them black. If elected, he would be the

[9:19] city's first black mayor. Former mayor

[9:22] Frank Rizzo casting his vote today

[9:28] and his opponent Wilson Good casting

[9:30] his. Both voting and both predicting

[9:33] victory.

[9:35] A tremendous campaign by the banking

[9:37] industry and a tremendous response from

[9:39] people saving money who don't want their

[9:40] interest taxed in advance with results

[9:44] seen in a vote in the House today. As

[9:46] ABC's Charles Gibson reports from the

[9:48] capital,

[9:50] if nothing else, it proves congressmen

[9:52] read their mail. Or in this case, if

[9:53] they don't read it, they weigh it. The

[9:55] banks, the credit institutions flooded

[9:57] the capital with mail by the ton.

[9:59] Banking customer pleas to roll back

[10:01] withholding on interest and dividends.

[10:03] And did it pay off? It is quite clear

[10:05] that the people didn't want it.

[10:07] >> They do not wish to be taxed in this

[10:08] fashion.

[10:09] >> The 10% withholding was an unwarranted

[10:11] invasion of privacy.

[10:13] >> The issue had tied senators in knots

[10:15] over the winter, but the bankers beat

[10:16] them and the system. The House didn't

[10:18] even put up a fight.

[10:20] >> Today, we are conceding control of that

[10:22] system to a special interest that has

[10:24] won the day largely by deceiving

[10:26] American taxpayers. To show how

[10:28] effective such mail campaigns can be,

[10:30] last August, 226 House members voted for

[10:33] a tax package that included withholding

[10:35] on interest in dividends. Today, the

[10:37] withholding measure could get only 41

[10:39] votes.

[10:40] >> First thing is to answer your mail.

[10:42] That's basic if you're a member of

[10:44] Congress. And to be able to answer uh

[10:47] 50,000 people in your district telling

[10:49] you that you're going to change your

[10:50] mind and that you're going to do what

[10:52] they ask you, that gives you a little

[10:53] plus along the line. Over at the

[10:55] American Banking Association, they

[10:57] watched the House vote on TV, knowing

[10:59] they'd won. Their mail campaign, they

[11:01] said, only expressed the will of the

[11:02] American people.

[11:03] >> It's not government by applause meter.

[11:06] >> Withholding for taxes would have netted

[11:08] the government $2.5 billion next year.

[11:11] Now the deficit just grows another 2.5

[11:13] billion. Charles Gibson, ABC News,

[11:16] Capitol Hill.

[11:22] as it tried again to do what it has been

[11:24] unable to all year, produce a tax and

[11:26] spending plan for 1984 that a majority

[11:29] of the Senate and the president will

[11:30] support. Republican leaders at that very

[11:33] hour were down at the White House being

[11:34] told what they already suspected. The

[11:36] president has given all the ground on

[11:38] the budget he is going to.

[11:39] >> I don't think you'll compromise on

[11:40] defense and I don't think you'll

[11:41] compromise significantly on taxes.

[11:43] >> Majority Leader Baker acknowledged the

[11:45] deadlock had put the congressional

[11:46] budget process in danger of collapse.

[11:48] What happens after the committee meets

[11:50] today and tomorrow remains to be seen,

[11:52] but the possibility the Senate once

[11:54] again will not adopt a a budget

[11:56] resolution is still real.

[11:59] >> What happened in the committee today was

[12:01] not very much except for some

[12:02] caterwalling by Democrats angry at the

[12:04] president.

[12:05] >> He cannot continue to misrepresent the

[12:08] facts and to go out and talk as if this

[12:10] giant spending explosion is something

[12:12] that he bears no responsibility for.

[12:14] This is his plan. That's what's produced

[12:17] the massive deficits in the House. More

[12:19] of the same.

[12:20] >> He is the biggest alibi artist ever to

[12:23] have served in the White House. He never

[12:26] admits responsibility for his own

[12:28] failures. But the public is not

[12:30] deceived. No budget, it seems, can pass

[12:33] Congress that does not call for higher

[12:35] taxes than the president will accept.

[12:37] That's why many here now think it

[12:39] doesn't matter if one passes or not.

[12:41] Brit Hume, ABC News, on Capitol Hill. A

[12:44] Senate vote today on William Ruckle's

[12:46] House to be the new head of the

[12:48] Environmental Protection Administration,

[12:49] which has been shaken and rattled by

[12:51] scandal, bad publicity, and low morale

[12:53] among the staff. They voted to confirm

[12:56] him, and the vote was unanimous. Later

[12:58] tonight on Night Line, there will be an

[13:00] interview with Ruckle House.

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[14:42] >> The Soviet Union, after some delay, has

[14:44] agreed to discuss an agreement to buy

[14:47] some American grain. How much they might

[14:49] buy now is unknown. Since President

[14:52] Carter embargoed grain sales to Russia

[14:54] in 1980, they have been buying from

[14:56] other countries. And when the embargo

[14:58] was lifted in 81, the US had lost most

[15:00] of its market, a loss to the American

[15:02] farmer. and a House committee deeply

[15:06] divided voted to let Mr. Reagan have the

[15:08] money to go ahead with research and

[15:10] development on the MX missile, $560

[15:14] million. Peter, well, in Geneva today,

[15:17] David, Soviet and American negotiators

[15:19] began a new round of talks on limiting

[15:21] medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe.

[15:23] Paul Nitsa and Julie Vitzinski met for

[15:25] two hours at the office of the Soviet

[15:27] delegation. As usual, there was no

[15:29] comment afterwards. While both sides

[15:31] came back to Geneva accusing the other

[15:33] of setting unacceptable conditions, this

[15:36] round of talks does contain some hints

[15:38] of flexibility. In Geneva, ABC's Greg

[15:41] Dobs. Today is their 76th official

[15:44] meeting, but after a year and a half of

[15:46] proposals from each that the other would

[15:47] obviously dismiss as unacceptable. Some

[15:49] new ideas finally are on the table that

[15:51] both might actually consider. from

[15:54] President Reagan, a proposal to put

[15:55] aside for the time being the zero option

[15:57] which the Soviets with their current

[15:59] missile advantage call something for

[16:00] nothing and replace it with an interim

[16:03] option. The Soviets cutting down their

[16:05] existing number of missiles, the US

[16:07] placing in Europe fewer missiles than

[16:08] currently scheduled. This at least

[16:10] allows some flexibility in numbers that

[16:12] the zero option didn't have. From

[16:14] Chairman Andropov, a proposal to count

[16:16] not just missiles, but actual warheads

[16:18] where the Soviet Union currently seems

[16:20] to have the advantage. The problem is he

[16:22] proposed this in connection with

[16:24] something the US, not to mention its

[16:25] European allies, won't buy. The

[16:27] inclusion of both French and British

[16:29] nuclear missiles in any negotiable

[16:31] balances of East versus West. As these

[16:34] talks proceed, many other conflicts must

[16:36] be ironed out. Disputes over the range,

[16:38] power, and accuracy of missiles, whether

[16:40] existing missiles should be dismantled

[16:41] or simply moved, whether or not to

[16:44] include missiles that aren't actually

[16:45] based on land, and how to verify

[16:47] whatever is finally agreed to. Greg

[16:50] Dobs, ABC News, Geneva.

[16:53] >> And here in London today, yet another

[16:55] demand that the government in Chile

[16:56] investigate torture by its own police.

[16:59] Amnesty International has accused the

[17:01] secret police in Chile of systematically

[17:04] torturing political prisoners. The Human

[17:06] Rights Organization said medical

[17:08] personnel sometimes actively

[17:09] participated in what amnesty called a

[17:12] widespread and continuing pattern of

[17:14] torture. ABC's Barry Sarafan has been on

[17:17] special assignment in Chile. He has

[17:20] found that criticism of the government

[17:21] there is increasing at home.

[17:29] Chile's 67-year-old right-wing president

[17:31] Austo Pino seized power almost 10 years

[17:34] ago. It was in 1973 that Marxist

[17:37] President Salvador Yendai's government

[17:39] was toppled by a military coup in which

[17:41] the presidential palace itself came

[17:42] under fire. A Yendi died, murdered

[17:45] according to his family, a suicide

[17:47] according to police. Although the US had

[17:49] financed Aendi's opponents, there was no

[17:51] evidence of direct CIA involvement in

[17:53] the takeover. 2 days after the coup,

[17:56] Pinocha, commander of the army, became

[17:58] Chile's president. In the decade since,

[18:00] neither his power nor his military

[18:02] backing has waned. At this recent troop

[18:04] review, an army commander pledged, "We

[18:06] are ready to answer the president's call

[18:08] at his bidding at any time." Chile's

[18:11] neighbors, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil,

[18:13] Uruguay, and Argentina have all either

[18:16] moved to the election of civilian

[18:17] governments or are scheduled to in the

[18:19] near future.

[18:22] But Pinocha shows no sign of following

[18:25] their example. A government approved

[18:27] candidate will not be offered to voters

[18:28] until 1989. And that lone candidate

[18:31] could be Pinocha himself. No open

[18:34] elections are scheduled until 1997.

[18:37] In some places, such as the seaside

[18:39] resort of Vignia Delmare, the status quo

[18:42] is just fine. Thank you. The lifestyle

[18:44] as golden as the sunsets.

[18:49] >> But for many Chileians, this is a

[18:51] picture of the status quo. A church-run

[18:53] soup kitchen for children whose families

[18:55] are too poor to feed them. Unemployment

[18:58] has leaped from 8% in 1981 to more than

[19:01] 20% today. About 800,000 people. And

[19:04] another 10% of the country's workforce

[19:06] is enrolled in a government sponsored

[19:08] employment program in which workers earn

[19:11] as little as $28 a month. Although

[19:13] they've now recovered somewhat, copper

[19:15] prices dropped from more than a dollar a

[19:17] pound in 1980 to as low as 64 cents a

[19:20] pound last year. That has crippled

[19:22] Chile's economy. So has a flood of

[19:25] imports. In supermarkets, an American

[19:27] brand of coffee costs less than a local

[19:29] brand. That may change as Chile's peso

[19:32] was devalued, but the country is still

[19:34] faced with a foreign debt that has

[19:36] climbed from 11 billion in 1981 to 17

[19:40] 1.5 billion this year, one of the

[19:41] highest per capita in the world. Chile's

[19:44] military government promised progress

[19:46] through peace and order. But in view of

[19:48] this country's staggering economic

[19:50] problems, peace and order are no longer

[19:52] enough for some people here, and

[19:54] progress not fast enough. Over the past

[19:57] two weeks, there has been a series of

[19:58] clashes between protesters and police.

[20:01] Hundreds of people have been arrested

[20:02] and in one demonstration, two people

[20:04] were killed.

[20:06] And critics ranging from conservatives

[20:08] to socialists recently joined together

[20:10] to release a so-called democratic

[20:12] manifesto calling for an end to

[20:14] emergency military police powers and the

[20:16] restoration of democratic government.

[20:24] Julio Subaso, an attorney who signed the

[20:26] manifesto, says if there is no rapid

[20:29] democratic opening, the situation will

[20:31] undoubtedly become a crisis.

[20:36] >> The president's response, "Look out, I

[20:38] can be tougher than you can imagine. If

[20:41] Pino is tough enough to keep a lid on

[20:43] descent, the children of Chile's soup

[20:45] kitchens could be old enough to vote

[20:47] before their country is able to elect a

[20:49] civilian government." Barry Sarapin, ABC

[20:52] News, Santiago, Chile.

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[23:23] woman ever to win a Pulitzer Prize in

[23:26] music. She says numerous other women

[23:28] composers have done outstanding work,

[23:30] but somehow didn't win the prizes.

[23:32] Here's ABC's Stone Phillips in New York.

[23:41] In a small apartment overlooking the

[23:43] Hudson River, 43-year-old Ellen Zwillik

[23:45] wrote her first symphony.

[23:56] The composition called Symphony Number

[23:58] One was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize

[24:01] for Music, making Zillik the first woman

[24:03] to win since 1943 when the awards began.

[24:07] >> I personally longed for the day when

[24:09] this will not be news because uh I think

[24:12] of myself as a composer and um my

[24:16] concerns are with writing music just

[24:18] like anyone else.

[24:21] Critics describe her as one of perhaps a

[24:23] halfozen outstanding women composers in

[24:25] the country, distinguishing themselves

[24:27] in a field that for generations belonged

[24:29] almost exclusively to men.

[24:31] >> There's been a a kind of unspoken

[24:33] prejudice against taking women composers

[24:36] seriously. And I think women are

[24:38] breaking through this and that's one of

[24:40] the reasons this is such a great moment.

[24:42] I've been aware of lots of uh good women

[24:45] composers for most of my life and uh

[24:48] they somehow they've always slipped

[24:51] through and never gotten the kind of

[24:52] credit that they might. I think that the

[24:54] time has now come and I'm very happy for

[24:56] Ellen that she's the first one to sort

[24:58] of plunge in there. Not only is Willick

[25:01] the first woman to win the Puliter

[25:03] Prize, but in 1975 she became the first

[25:06] woman in the 60-year history of the

[25:07] Giuliard School of Music to earn a

[25:09] doctorate in composition. Since then,

[25:11] she's been composing full-time. In 1979,

[25:15] her husband, a violinist, suddenly died

[25:17] of a heart attack at age 53, while the

[25:20] two of them attended a concert in New

[25:21] York.

[25:23] It was after his death that the clear

[25:26] expressive style that captivated the

[25:27] Pulitzer judges began to emerge. In a

[25:30] strange way, it's intensified my love of

[25:32] life and my feeling of the preciousness

[25:35] of life

[25:37] um and my feeling of the the

[25:40] preciousness of music.

[25:45] Winning the Pulitzer won't guarantee

[25:47] that Zillick's music will be played by

[25:49] major symphony orchestras, but she sees

[25:51] the award as a symbol that the world of

[25:53] composing is open to women.

[25:59] Stone Phillips, ABC News, New York.

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[27:39] >> Once again, tonight's top story. Israel

[27:42] and Lebanon signed an agreement calling

[27:44] for all foreign troops to pull out of

[27:46] Lebanon. President Reagan called it a

[27:48] positive step toward peace in the Middle

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[28:16] from ABC. This has been World News

[28:19] Tonight.

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