World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-06-22
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[0:04] On World News Tonight this Tuesday, the
[0:06] Supreme Court defines more specifically
[0:09] what it takes to be called disabled in
[0:11] America. President Clinton talks it up
[0:13] for American troops in Europe and sees
[0:16] firsthand what it was like to be a
[0:17] refugee from Kosovo.
[0:19] >> The lingering damage from lead poisoning
[0:22] from one generation to the next. And
[0:24] we'll take a closer look at information
[0:27] technology driving the economy and
[0:29] making millionaires.
[0:38] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:41] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:44] Peter Jennings.
[0:45] >> Good evening. There was a landmark
[0:46] decision from the Supreme Court today
[0:48] about civil rights law. In the case of
[0:50] the Americans with Disabilities Act, the
[0:52] court has established a precedent and
[0:55] limited the acts effect. This will have
[0:57] an effect on millions of Americans. In
[1:00] the cases today, it boils down to this.
[1:02] If glasses enable you to see, you are
[1:05] not disabled. And so, we start in
[1:07] Washington with ABC's Jackie Jud.
[1:10] >> The rulings are a defeat for a mechanic
[1:13] with high blood pressure and a truck
[1:15] driver and two pilots with poor vision.
[1:18] All of them had sued after being denied
[1:20] employment. But the court said they are
[1:22] not protected under the disabilities act
[1:24] because their problems could be
[1:26] corrected. The mechanic used medication.
[1:29] The pilots use contact lenses. This is a
[1:32] big victory for American businesses
[1:34] which feared a flood of what they would
[1:36] consider frivolous lawsuits from people
[1:38] with relatively common impairments.
[1:40] Anyone who wears glasses, who takes a
[1:43] pill in the morning, and then is able to
[1:45] go to work and function normally, would
[1:48] have been protected under the Americans
[1:50] with Disabilities Act and able to sue if
[1:53] they felt they'd been treated unfairly.
[1:56] >> Writing for the majority, Sandra de O'
[1:58] Conor said, "If a person is taking
[2:00] measures to correct a physical or mental
[2:02] impairment, the effects of those
[2:04] measures must be taken into account in
[2:07] determining whether that person is
[2:09] disabled." When Congress passed the
[2:11] Disabilities Act, it expected the law to
[2:13] cover 43 million Americans who needed
[2:16] extra protection in the workplace
[2:18] because of serious handicaps. The court
[2:21] predicted 160 million could be covered
[2:24] if the act were more broadly defined and
[2:27] said that was clearly not what Congress
[2:29] had intended. But critics say the
[2:31] decisions hurt many of the people the
[2:33] law was supposed to protect. If you just
[2:35] have an impairment that you've overcome,
[2:38] you won't be considered disabled enough
[2:40] to bring a lawsuit. This turns the law
[2:42] on its head.
[2:43] >> Today's rulings greatly limit the scope
[2:46] of what is a landmark civil rights law.
[2:48] The justices made clear that practical
[2:51] considerations played a significant part
[2:53] in their thinking. Jackie Jud, ABC News,
[2:56] the Supreme Court.
[2:58] >> The court has also ruled today on the
[3:00] controversial issue of how the mentally
[3:01] disabled should be cared for. The court
[3:04] determined that when practical, states
[3:06] should try to place the mentally ill in
[3:08] community care, which is part of society
[3:11] rather than isolate them in
[3:12] institutions. Here's ABC's Aaron Hayes.
[3:16] >> FREE OUR PEOPLE.
[3:19] >> THIS case has galvanized advocates for
[3:21] the mentally ill.
[3:22] >> THIS IS ABOUT REAL CHOICE. It began when
[3:25] Elaine Wilson and Lois Curtis, both
[3:27] mentally disabled, sued the state of
[3:29] Georgia, which had confined them to a
[3:31] psychiatric ward in this hospital. The
[3:34] women wanted instead community-based
[3:36] treatment.
[3:37] >> Being in a hospital, you feel like
[3:38] you're in this little box and you and
[3:40] there's no way out. But Georgia fought
[3:42] to keep the option to hospitalize its
[3:44] mental patients, saying community-based
[3:46] programs can be too expensive and well
[3:49] aware of the fallout in other states
[3:51] where mental patients left hospitals
[3:53] only to end up wandering the streets.
[3:56] But today, the court ruled that
[3:57] unjustified isolation is discrimination,
[4:00] adding confinement in an institution
[4:03] diminishes the everyday life activities
[4:05] of individuals, family relations, social
[4:08] contacts, work options. It's
[4:10] discriminating against innocent disabled
[4:14] people to keep them locked up when they
[4:17] don't need to be. And that's what the
[4:19] Supreme Court is saying. But the ruling
[4:21] stops far short of telling states how to
[4:23] fix the problem. Indeed, it only
[4:25] requires them to provide community-based
[4:27] treatment if they have the resources to
[4:29] do it. A step in the right direction,
[4:31] say Advocates for the Disabled, but a
[4:33] much smaller step than they had hoped.
[4:35] Aaron Hayes, ABC News, Atlanta.
[4:38] >> Just one other decision today. The court
[4:39] made it slightly easier for victims of
[4:41] discrimination at work to collect what
[4:43] are called punitive damages. The court
[4:45] ruled that workers do not have to prove
[4:47] that their employer's conduct was
[4:49] egregious in order to be entitled to the
[4:52] extra money. On the money tonight, the
[4:55] Coca-Cola company has launched a major
[4:56] damage control campaign in Europe. Coke
[4:59] has taken out ads in newspapers across
[5:01] the continent today, saying it is sorry
[5:04] for responding so slowly after more than
[5:06] 200 people got sick from drinking Coke.
[5:09] The company is obviously worried about
[5:11] the lingering damage to its image.
[5:14] There's been a setback for the domestic
[5:16] steel industry. The Senate has voted
[5:18] down a bill to impose quotas on foreign
[5:21] steel imports. The US steel companies
[5:23] have been doing better, but the industry
[5:24] claims it's been hurt by steel from
[5:26] Russia, Japan, and Brazil, among other
[5:29] countries. The administration had warned
[5:31] that the quotas could set off an
[5:33] international trade war. On Wall Street
[5:36] today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
[5:37] was down more than 94 points to close at
[5:40] 10,721.
[5:43] On the NASDAQ, stocks were down just
[5:45] about 50 points. When we come back,
[5:49] America's Task Force Falcon in Kosovo
[5:53] and the most significant part driving
[5:55] the US economy,
[5:58] >> the information technology sector.
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[7:27] In Macedonia today, President Clinton
[7:29] got exactly the enthusiastic welcome you
[7:31] would expect at a refugee camp near the
[7:33] border with Kosovo. The president's
[7:35] message was not entirely what people
[7:37] living in tents for two months wanted to
[7:39] hear, but it was a very good day for
[7:40] him. ABC's Sam Donaldson is traveling
[7:43] with him.
[7:46] >> He had seen them on television along
[7:48] with everyone else. But seeing them in
[7:50] person,
[7:51] >> the Kosovo refugees in their muddy
[7:53] makeshift camp only 6 miles from the
[7:56] Kosovo border was clearly a moving
[7:58] experience for President Clinton, his
[8:00] wife, and daughter.
[8:02] This camp named Stinkovitzwan once held
[8:05] over 32,000 refugees. But with many
[8:08] screaming home, today fewer than 10,000
[8:10] remain.
[8:13] While troops in US Army helicopters kept
[8:15] a watchful eye, the president told his
[8:17] refugee audience that he knew they
[8:19] wanted to go home, but please wait a
[8:21] couple of weeks until landmines in
[8:23] Kosovo had been cleared.
[8:25] >> I don't want any child hurt. I don't
[8:28] want anyone else to lose a leg or an arm
[8:31] or a child. I want to make sure it is a
[8:34] happy return.
[8:38] >> The president got more cheers before he
[8:40] left Macedonia from a group of American
[8:42] soldiers taking part in the Kosovo
[8:44] International Security Force when he
[8:45] stopped to thank them for their effort.
[8:50] But the big crowd of American service
[8:52] personnel is at the Avano air base in
[8:55] Italy from where so many of the bombing
[8:57] sortizes originated. From the refugees
[9:00] going home to the airmen who helped make
[9:02] it possible. This has been a most
[9:03] satisfying day for the president.
[9:06] Criticism of his handling of all this
[9:07] will surely continue. But today, Bill
[9:10] Clinton heard himself cheered as a
[9:12] winner. Sam Donaldson, ABC News, Aviano
[9:16] Air Base, Italy.
[9:18] Britain said today that the two British
[9:20] soldiers who were killed in Kosovo
[9:21] yesterday were trying to detonate
[9:23] unexloded NATO cluster bombs. And in
[9:26] Kosovo's capital today, British
[9:28] peacekeepers defused another bomb only
[9:31] 100 ft from the town's biggest hotel.
[9:33] The NATO forces who are trying to
[9:35] stabilize the province are not finding
[9:36] it easy. The NATO commander, Wes Clark,
[9:39] asked the various NATO countries to
[9:41] hurry up with getting the troops that
[9:43] they have committed there. There are too
[9:45] many people who said he said who have
[9:48] yet to see a NATO soldier. ABC's Tom
[9:51] Foreman spent a day and a night with an
[9:53] American unit in the province called
[9:55] Task Force Falcon.
[9:58] At noon today, US Army soldiers dropped
[10:01] from a helicopter to surround a
[10:03] suspicious car. The owner, a member of
[10:06] the Kosovo Liberation Army, says he has
[10:08] no weapons. Then the Americans find a
[10:11] pistol and a grenade. You had a pistol.
[10:15] >> I didn't have in the I need them in your
[10:18] vehicle and that's why you ran.
[10:20] >> At the same time, not far away,
[10:23] Marines get a tip that Serbs are using
[10:25] this hospital to hide guns.
[10:28] They storm the place and seize exactly
[10:31] two rifles.
[10:32] >> We are going to enforce good order and
[10:34] discipline. We're going to enforce the
[10:36] laws as we understand them to be, which
[10:37] is we don't need guns in towns. We don't
[10:39] need guns along the the streets and
[10:41] highways.
[10:43] It is not easy. The troops must deal
[10:45] with language barriers.
[10:47] >> Ask them if they just coming back from
[10:48] the refugee camp or anything.
[10:49] >> There is a shortage of translators and
[10:51] they can seldom tell the rival factions
[10:54] apart.
[10:56] >> Albanian or Serbian?
[10:57] >> Albian.
[10:57] >> Albanian. Okay.
[10:59] >> Much of the violence comes after dark.
[11:03] Every night there are shootings between
[11:05] Serbs and Albanians, often fatal. Two
[11:08] Serbs died last night. So, American
[11:10] patrols are constantly moving beneath
[11:13] the stars.
[11:14] >> That's why you're out here walking
[11:15] around in the night. If we can be out
[11:17] here, then perhaps making our presence
[11:20] felt like this, it won't happen. They'll
[11:22] be less likely to do it if we're out
[11:24] watching them, you know, go about their
[11:27] daily business.
[11:30] These are tough days as NATO troops try
[11:33] to build a peace that may last. Tom
[11:37] Foreman, ABC News, Kachchenik, Kosovo.
[11:41] >> Just one another item about the rest of
[11:42] the world. On Capitol Hill today, the
[11:44] Senate has voted to approve a plan for
[11:46] paying much of the US debt to the United
[11:49] Nations. Under this plan, the US will
[11:51] pay $819 million of the roughly 1
[11:54] billion that it owes the UN in exchange
[11:57] for a reduction in future dues. This
[12:00] plan, this much, already faces strong
[12:02] opposition in the House of
[12:04] Representatives. When we come back, lead
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[14:17] The manh hunt intensify today for
[14:19] Raphael Rosendis Ramirez. He's the
[14:22] suspected serial killer who works the
[14:24] railroad tracks and who's now on the
[14:26] FBI's 10 most wanted list. Federal
[14:28] agents say they are getting calls about
[14:29] him from all over the country, which
[14:31] often happens in a case like this. One
[14:33] tip today from Columbus, Ohio, closed
[14:35] down an entire railard. And in Northern
[14:38] Illinois, investigators looked for a
[14:40] link to a double homicide there on
[14:42] Sunday. But late today, they arrested a
[14:44] local suspect. The Journal of the
[14:47] American Medical Association is about to
[14:49] publish a study on lead and children,
[14:51] and it finds that more than 2 million
[14:54] children may suffer tooth decay because
[14:56] of exposure to lead. It was another
[14:59] reminder that lead in old paint or
[15:01] drinking water is still a major health
[15:04] hazard. Here's ABC's John McKenzie.
[15:07] Lead poisons cells in virtually every
[15:10] part of a child's body. But the most
[15:12] significant damage occurs in the brain,
[15:14] especially during the first six years of
[15:16] life when it can disrupt the development
[15:18] of nerve cells and how those cells
[15:20] connect to each other. IQ is affected,
[15:24] specific learning disabilities occur and
[15:27] especially the ability of the child to
[15:29] attend, focus, concentrate, sort, plan,
[15:34] all the kinds of functions that are
[15:35] needed for higher learning.
[15:38] >> You can lower a child's lead levels
[15:40] either by removing the source of the
[15:41] lead or with the help of medication.
[15:45] The problem is the damage that is done
[15:48] is often irreversible.
[15:50] Recent studies show that not only can
[15:52] the damage from lead poisoning be
[15:53] permanent, it can extend from one
[15:55] generation to another. That women who
[15:58] were once exposed to high concentrations
[16:00] of lead may be passing some of it onto
[16:02] their children. Within months of
[16:04] exposure, lead in the blood moves into
[16:06] bones and essentially stays there. But
[16:09] during pregnancy, it is turned loose.
[16:12] Increasing evidence suggests that same
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[16:22] If a woman has a large amount of lead in
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[16:36] studies suggest that exposure before
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[16:42] One more chapter in the legacy of lead
[16:45] poisoning. John McKenzie, ABC News, New
[16:49] York. A second study also in the Journal
[16:51] of the American Medical Association
[16:53] finds that vitamin C may help reduce
[16:56] lead levels in the blood. In Alaska
[16:59] today, the former captain of the Exxon
[17:01] Valdes has begun serving his sentence
[17:03] for his role in spilling 11 million
[17:06] gallons of oil into Alaska's Prince
[17:07] William Sound in 1989. Captain Joseph
[17:10] Hazelwood is required to perform a
[17:13] thousand hours of community service.
[17:15] He'll work in a soup kitchen, which he's
[17:17] doing here, and pick up trash along
[17:20] Alaska's highways. In a moment, the
[17:23] force behind the explosive growth in the
[17:25] economy and the exploding wealth of
[17:28] thousands of Americans. We'll take a
[17:30] closer look.
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[19:55] >> We're going to take a closer look
[19:56] tonight at the driving force behind the
[19:58] current success of the economy. The
[20:00] Commerce Department announced today that
[20:02] since 1995,
[20:04] information technology, information
[20:06] technology has accounted for more than a
[20:08] third of the country's economic growth.
[20:11] The report is called the emerging
[20:13] digital economy and it makes very clear
[20:15] what a huge role in our lives
[20:17] information technology now plays. That's
[20:19] computers and their software, all the
[20:21] digital communications and the enormous
[20:23] number of related services that we now
[20:26] use regularly. As ABC's Betsy Stark
[20:30] reports, it is only growing.
[20:34] >> Today's report confirms that the
[20:36] explosive growth in information
[20:38] technology is likely to shape the
[20:40] American economy for years to come.
[20:42] >> The Commerce Department report puts the
[20:45] entire US economy on notice that
[20:47] information technology, computers, the
[20:50] internet are critical tools for their
[20:52] competitiveness in this next century.
[20:55] And it's those tools which now drive
[20:57] almost every sector of this economy.
[21:00] >> It's a hairdressing salon on the corner
[21:02] that uh is using the internet to make
[21:04] reservations or it's Ford or General
[21:06] Motors improving their buying process.
[21:09] Uh or it's a movie theater selling
[21:12] tickets online.
[21:15] >> For workers in high technology, the
[21:17] digital economy is driving up their
[21:19] salaries. High techchnology workers now
[21:22] earn an average of nearly $53,000 a year
[21:25] compared to roughly $30,000 for other
[21:28] workers. And the pay gap is growing.
[21:32] >> And from faster fast food restaurants to
[21:34] more efficient auto assembly lines,
[21:37] information technology is driving down
[21:39] inflation and the cost of doing
[21:42] business. The banking industry is a good
[21:44] example. It costs the bank $1.7 for a
[21:49] transaction using a teller. It costs 27
[21:52] for the same transaction on an automated
[21:55] teller machine. Many of those
[21:57] transactions can now be made on the
[21:59] internet. And they cost the bank just a
[22:02] penny. And what about the future? Nearly
[22:05] half of all American employees of all
[22:08] people working in the US uh in the next
[22:11] five years are going to be either
[22:13] working for a company that makes
[22:15] information technology or one that uses
[22:17] it in a very pervasive way.
[22:20] >> The changes in this new digital economy
[22:22] are happening so fast the government is
[22:24] having a hard time measuring them.
[22:26] >> By some estimates, electronic commerce
[22:29] alone is doubling every 9 months. And
[22:31] today's report offers no signs it's
[22:34] slowing down. Betsy Stark, ABC News, New
[22:38] York.
[22:38] >> You heard Betsy Stark say there that the
[22:40] average salary in the high-tech industry
[22:41] is now about $53,000. It is also an
[22:44] industry which is spawning millionaires.
[22:47] So here is our next report from ABC's
[22:48] Brian Rooney.
[22:52] >> Just last Friday, the three founders of
[22:54] City Auction threw themselves a party.
[22:56] Every one of them had just become a
[22:58] millionaire after only a year and a half
[23:00] in business on the internet.
[23:02] >> It's a new world when you can do things
[23:04] like that so quickly. It's a new world.
[23:07] >> It's a new world with lots of new
[23:09] things. How can such a young man afford
[23:11] such an expensive car?
[23:13] >> Stock options
[23:14] >> and new houses. Steve Kersh founded a
[23:17] company called Infosek. What's he worth?
[23:19] plus 47
[23:24] equals
[23:25] 299 million.
[23:27] >> By some estimates, the high-tech
[23:28] revolution has created a million
[23:30] millionaires in the United States,
[23:32] 10,000 of them at Microsoft alone. There
[23:35] are at least a quarter of a million
[23:37] millionaires in Silicon Valley, and new
[23:39] ones every day. The amount of money
[23:42] people pay for real estate around here
[23:43] is a good indication of how much money
[23:45] they have. The house behind me just sold
[23:48] for about $5 million.
[23:51] Now, this little house sold for $1.3
[23:53] million. The average price of a home in
[23:56] PaloAlto, the heart of Silicon Valley,
[23:58] is $700,000.
[24:01] Deianne Sherning was a secretary at
[24:03] Netscape four years ago when she paid
[24:05] $10 for stock options that turned into
[24:07] $1.2 million.
[24:09] >> What was it like that day?
[24:11] >> Well, it was it was a shock. It was so
[24:15] exciting
[24:17] and it was unbelievable.
[24:19] >> Bill Nyen is a veteran of five startups
[24:21] and he won't say what he's worth, only
[24:23] what it takes to make it.
[24:25] >> It's based on how smart are you, how
[24:26] hard are you willing to work and and how
[24:28] big are your are your dreams.
[24:29] >> These days in Silicon Valley, very big.
[24:32] Brian Rooney, ABC News, PaloAlto,
[24:35] California.
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[26:19] >> One of our own is in need of a heart
[26:21] transplant
[26:22] >> tonight.
[26:22] >> I'm worried about Bobby Doctor.
[26:24] >> Unbelievable. Then
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[26:35] >> Finally this evening, a Russian
[26:37] fundraiser. We couldn't help but think
[26:39] today about the space race. That period
[26:41] from the late 1950s to almost the 1970s
[26:45] when Americans were afraid and in some
[26:46] cases it was fear that the Russians were
[26:50] going to dominate space.
[26:53] >> And today a former cosminaut has begun a
[26:55] national fundraising campaign to save
[26:58] the Russian space station Mir.
[27:02] It seems to be the only way to keep the
[27:04] 130 ton station in space. The government
[27:07] doesn't have the money. It's in pretty
[27:09] bad shape, the Mir beset by fires on
[27:11] board, a collision while docking,
[27:13] gyroscope failures, leaking coolant. Old
[27:16] age, say the experts, and not worth
[27:18] saving.
[27:21] >> Not true, says the cosminaut Vitali
[27:23] Seastanov. It's the last symbol of the
[27:26] country's space glory. He's trying to
[27:29] raise $50 million. Today, he got $80.
[27:34] At this rate, Mir will be space dust by
[27:38] the millennium.
[27:40] That's our report on World News Tonight.
[27:41] Later on Night Line, the race to find
[27:43] evidence to convict Slovadan Mallich,
[27:46] the Yugoslav leader of war crimes. I'm
[27:48] Peter Jennings. Have a good evening. See
[27:50] you tomorrow. Good night.
[28:07] Tomorrow, pagan rituals in the US Army.
[28:10] Are these soldiers protected by or
[28:12] hiding behind the First Amendment? Watch
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