World News Tonight (ABC) - 1995-12-12

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[0:00] Six.

[0:04] >> Freedom for two French pilots shot down

[0:06] over Bosnia. Some Republicans tell

[0:09] President Clinton, "Cancel your overseas

[0:12] trip planned for this week. Stay home

[0:14] and deal with us on the budget."

[0:16] >> There you go.

[0:17] >> And trying to deal with juvenile

[0:19] violence, building bridges between

[0:22] police and the kids.

[0:26] From ABC, this is World News Tonight

[0:29] with Peter Jennings.

[0:30] >> Good evening. We begin tonight in Bosnia

[0:32] where a serious obstacle to the signing

[0:34] of a peace agreement this week has been

[0:36] overcome. The peace agreement which the

[0:38] United States has brokered is going to

[0:40] be signed in Paris. But the French have

[0:42] become increasingly angry that two of

[0:44] their pilots shot down by the Bosnian

[0:46] Serbs during the summer were still being

[0:48] held prisoner. Today, however, the

[0:50] Bosnian Serbs got the message. And our

[0:52] first reporter from ABC's John McCarthy.

[0:56] >> After months of uncertainty, the two

[0:58] French pilots looking very frail were

[1:01] suddenly not only alive but on their way

[1:03] to freedom. But first, Rodco Meadage,

[1:06] head of the Bosnian Serb military and a

[1:08] man wanted by the West for war crimes

[1:11] had a last gloating moment before

[1:13] turning the pilots over to the French

[1:14] chief of staff.

[1:18] US intelligence sources tell ABC News

[1:20] that Meadage resisted to the end, only

[1:23] yielding when Serb President Sloan

[1:26] Mallovich in a phone conversation

[1:28] intercepted by the US threatened to have

[1:30] Madage arrested if he did not free the

[1:33] two Frenchmen. Today, the pilot said

[1:35] they were treated well within limits.

[1:37] >> It was not always easy, but

[1:41] that's l