World News Now (ABC) - 1995-09-08 (partial)

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[0:00] and medium-sized businesses as well as

[0:02] growing concern over the recent failures

[0:04] of financial institutions.

[0:07] In addition to the rate cut, aggressive

[0:10] buying by the Bank of Japan once pushed

[0:12] up the dollar to 100 level for the first

[0:15] time in more than 7 months. The dollar

[0:17] at three is 99.95.

[0:20] The Nikkay average climbed 658 points to

[0:23] end at 18,279.

[0:26] The broader base topics went up to 1436.

[0:30] In regional trading, the hungen in Hong

[0:32] Kong is up at 9319.

[0:35] In Singapore, the straight times is

[0:37] 2134.

[0:39] Toyota will become the first Japanese

[0:41] company to produce passenger cars in

[0:43] Vietnam. Toyota will set up a joint

[0:46] venture capitalizing 70% of the $49

[0:50] million project. The company starts

[0:52] producing and selling passenger cars

[0:54] there in 1997. The plans call for annual

[0:57] production to reach 10,000 units in 5

[1:00] years.

[1:02] India's economic liberalization is now

[1:04] boosting sales of motorcycles among the

[1:07] middle class families. The price of a

[1:10] motorcycle is still equivalent to about

[1:12] half the annual income, but many

[1:15] middle-class people say it's worth

[1:17] buying. Kiwo Honda, a joint venture with

[1:20] the Japanese motorc

[1:25] of 100 cc motorcycles and estimates that

[1:28] the market will surpass 4 million units

[1:31] in 5 years or so.

[1:34] That's Asia Business Now in Tokyo. Back

[1:37] to you, Ned. Thank you, Aikido. On Wall

[1:40] Street, Friday begins with the Dow Jones

[1:42] Industrials at 4669 following a 14-point

[1:45] loss yesterday. Trading was moderate.

[1:48] The Nasdaq closed at 1051, up nearly

[1:50] seven points. And that's the news for

[1:53] this half hour. Coming up, more World

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[1:57] this morning.

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[2:22] >> You've probably heard that visitors to

[2:23] Portland spend more than a billion of

[2:25] their hard-earned dollars right here in

[2:26] the Rose City. And you probably knew

[2:28] that tourism is larger than other state

[2:30] industries like high-tech and forestry.

[2:32] And I bet you figured out that all those

[2:34] visitor dollars translate into jobs.

[2:36] Jobs for managers, jobs for bakers, jobs

[2:38] for drivers and cabinet makers. More

[2:40] than 20,000 jobs in the tri county area.

[2:43] And since you know all this, I probably

[2:45] don't have to tell you that tourism is a

[2:46] good thing. But I'll do it anyway.

[2:48] Tourism, it's a good thing.

[2:50] >> Karate and Cindy,

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[2:57] >> In dance, the act of swiveing one's hips

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[3:03] >> Good. The selection.

[3:05] >> Let's try royalty for 600. A greeting

[3:08] chanted by well-wishers at his

[3:10] coronation. Tom, what is Long Live the

[3:12] King?

[3:12] >> Right.

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[4:19] >> How the Pacwood resignation affects you.

[4:21] Tonight at 5.

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[4:40] >> Good Friday morning from New York. I'm

[4:41] [music] Bill Greenwood

[4:42] >> and I'm Ned Potter. Kevin Newman's

[4:44] assignment for his on assignment for one

[4:46] more night. In the news this morning,

[4:48] the resignation [music] of powerful

[4:49] Oregon Senator Bob Packron. Why the jury

[4:52] won't hear from Mark [music] Ferman or

[4:53] OJ Simpson. A commonly used drug may

[4:56] help prevent crippling strokes. And also

[4:59] coming up in this half hour, how a long

[5:01] and prominent Senate career came

[5:02] crashing to an end. And a look at the

[5:04] morning papers. We begin with the top of

[5:06] the news. And Bill Ned. After months of

[5:09] defiance, Oregon Senator Bob Pacwood is

[5:11] leaving the US Senate. Pacwood announced

[5:14] his decision to retire as the ethics

[5:15] committee released 10,000 pages of

[5:18] evidence of misconduct, including the

[5:20] senator's own diaries. The Oregon

[5:22] senator was tearful as he took the

[5:24] floor.

[5:26] It is my duty

[5:29] to resign.

[5:32] It is the honorable thing to do

[5:35] for this country,

[5:37] for this Senate.

[5:40] So I now announce that I will resign

[5:43] from the Senate

[5:45] and I leave this institution

[5:49] not with malice

[5:51] but with love.

[5:53] Pacwood could still face criminal

[5:55] charges. He allegedly altered evidence

[5:57] of sexual and official misconduct. And

[5:59] as ABC's Brian Rooney reports, Pacwood's

[6:02] decision to leave brought mixed reaction

[6:04] in his home state.

[6:07] >> It's a great day in history. Bob Pacwood

[6:10] finally going down the drain.

[6:11] >> I think it's a sad day for Oregon.

[6:14] >> Even as Oregonians debated the fairness

[6:16] of what happened, the hard reality for

[6:18] Senator Pacwood was that his political

[6:20] base of 27 years disappeared. From the

[6:23] state's largest newspaper to the

[6:24] governor, power brokers called for

[6:26] Pacwood to quit.

[6:28] >> This has gone on for a very long time. I

[6:30] don't believe the senator can any longer

[6:32] effectively represent uh Oregon.

[6:34] >> Even among Republicans, Pacwood had few

[6:36] vocal defenders. One former staff member

[6:38] attributes Pacwood's problems to

[6:40] political opponents.

[6:41] >> The bottom line is from the beginning

[6:43] they thought that there was a Senate

[6:44] seat up for grabs here and they would do

[6:46] absolutely anything to get the seat.

[6:49] >> But the efforts of supporters were

[6:50] eclipsed by the accusations of the women

[6:52] who charged Pacwood with sexual

[6:54] harassment. One is Gail Ber, a former

[6:56] restaurant hostess who said Pacwood made

[6:58] a physical advance.

[7:00] >> Nobody ever wanted revenge. We just

[7:02] wanted justice. wanted him to be

[7:05] accountable for his actions.

[7:07] >> Much of what Pacwood is accused of

[7:09] occurred more than two decades ago, but

[7:11] the senator's actions finally caught up

[7:13] with him. Brian Rooney, ABC News,

[7:16] Portland.

[7:18] The defense in the OJ Simpson trial says

[7:20] it has made its case and is ready to

[7:22] rest. But that probably won't happen

[7:24] until Monday because first the defense

[7:26] wants to wants an appeal matter cleared

[7:28] cleared up, an appeal by the other side.

[7:31] Here's reporter Jenna Tomorrow.

[7:34] do tell me that you're

[7:35] >> the trial has stalled once again because

[7:37] the prosecution is unhappy with Judge

[7:39] Itto's planned instructions to the jury

[7:41] to explain why Mark Ferman will not be

[7:44] recalled to the stand.

[7:46] >> The court

[7:48] will instruct the jury as possible,

[7:50] excuse me, as follows.

[7:53] Detective Mark Ferman is not available

[7:55] for further testimony as a witness in

[7:57] this case. His unavailability for

[8:00] further testimony both on

[8:02] cross-examination, excuse me, on

[8:04] cross-examination is a factor which you

[8:06] may consider in evaluating his

[8:08] credibility as a witness.

[8:09] >> Though the jury won't be told Ferman

[8:11] invoked the Fifth Amendment, the

[8:14] prosecution is still appealing. They

[8:16] won't begin their planned 5-day rebuttal

[8:18] case until Monday. That prompted another

[8:21] angry exchange between lawyers.

[8:23] >> We're on track to resolve this. and

[8:25] they're standing over there being

[8:27] petulant saying we want to wait till

[8:28] tomorrow.

[8:28] >> It is my duty to make sure that when I

[8:30] think a violation of law has occurred to

[8:32] the detriment of the people or the

[8:33] defendant for that matter. It is my duty

[8:35] to do all that I can to make sure that

[8:37] that is remedyed. The jury was

[8:39] reportedly in no better mood when they

[8:41] learned they'd probably have another 3

[8:43] days off. It's also official that OJ

[8:46] Simpson will not take the stand. His

[8:48] attorneys say it's because they are

[8:50] worried about the jury

[8:52] >> to prolong this case. Another 3, four

[8:54] weeks uh may might make it impossible.

[8:58] So, we want to get a verdict. He wants a

[8:59] verdict as soon as possible. We want to

[9:02] get this case to the jury as soon as

[9:03] possible.

[9:04] >> Reporting from Los Angeles, Janet for

[9:07] ABC News.

[9:08] >> A new study has found that a commonly

[9:10] prescribed medication could help prevent

[9:12] as many as 40,000 strokes every year.

[9:15] ABC's George Strait reports on the

[9:17] government sponsored research.

[9:21] >> The drug is called couadin, a common

[9:23] blood thinner which keeps clots from

[9:24] forming. Clots that can lodge in the

[9:26] brain causing strokes.

[9:28] >> I cannot move it with someone to help

[9:31] me.

[9:32] >> Bertha Mims had a stroke last month. The

[9:34] clot which caused it was likely the

[9:36] result of a heart problem called atrial

[9:38] fibrillation. The upper chambers of the

[9:40] heart beat irregularly, interrupting

[9:42] blood flow, often causing clots to form.

[9:44] Two million Americans, including former

[9:46] President Bush, have this heart problem,

[9:48] which causes strokes and 80,000 people a

[9:51] year. Researchers say if more doctors

[9:53] use couadin, almost half of those

[9:55] strokes could be prevented, saving

[9:57] 12,000 lives and millions in healthcare

[10:00] costs.

[10:00] >> We estimate that it would be uh a cost

[10:03] reduction of about 600 million to a

[10:05] billion dollars every year.

[10:06] >> But there is a potential problem. Many

[10:08] doctors have been reluctant to prescribe

[10:10] couadin because patients need such

[10:12] strict monitoring. Too much of the drug

[10:14] can cause internal bleeding, a

[10:16] particularly dangerous problem for older

[10:18] Americans.

[10:19] >> In the elderly, especially who are prone

[10:21] to more falls, they are they have a

[10:23] higher risk of developing bleeds within

[10:25] the brain.

[10:26] >> The new study says the benefits of

[10:27] couadin outweigh that risk. For every

[10:30] person who has a bleeding complication,

[10:32] dozens more will avoid a

[10:33] life-threatening stroke.

[10:35] >> George Strait, ABC News, Washington.

[10:38] >> Hillary Rodm Clinton has wrapped up her

[10:40] Asian trip with a visit to Mongolia. The

[10:43] first lady toured a center for homeless

[10:44] children that receives US aid. She said

[10:47] Americans should be proud their money is

[10:49] helping those who need it. Mrs. Clinton

[10:52] also sampled some of Mongolia's

[10:53] fermented mayor's milk.

[10:56] Most Westerners hate it. The first lady,

[10:59] however, offered a diplomatic reaction

[11:01] and said it tasted like yogurt.

[11:04] The Caribbean island of St. Martin was

[11:06] particularly hard hit by Hurricane

[11:08] Louise. At least 13 people are dead and

[11:10] hundreds of others are missing. This

[11:12] week's storm wrecked entire

[11:14] neighborhoods and left as many as 2,000

[11:16] residents of St. Martin homeless.

[11:18] Thousands of tourists have been left

[11:19] stranded without power, water, or phone

[11:22] service. Now, the weather closer to home

[11:25] with thunderstorms in the te in Texas

[11:27] and the Rockies. Rain from Florida to

[11:29] the Carolinas and from New England to

[11:31] the western Ohio River Valley. Summer

[11:33] weather continues in the west and the

[11:35] south. Unseasonably cool temperatures

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[11:39] The World News Now national temperature

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[15:13] >> The Chicago White Socks were riding an

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[15:17] they faced the Texas Rangers who were

[15:19] trying to end a four-game losing streak

[15:21] and get back into the wildcard playoffs.

[15:24] At the ballpark in Arlington, and I have

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[15:29] eightgame winning streak. The game was

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[16:23] situation.

[16:25] >> You following me, folks? ESPN's Beth

[16:28] Tusack is going to explain all of it in

[16:30] this week's auto racing report. We added

[16:33] the scores.

[16:37] >> You want fast? Go to an Indie car race.

[16:39] You want to know who won? Stick around

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[16:43] you'll find out. The case of the missing

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[18:27] carry over to racing. Speaking of

[18:29] championship fights, the battle for

[18:31] NASCAR's Bush Grand National Crown took

[18:33] an interesting turn this weekend at

[18:35] Darlington, South Carolina, where the

[18:37] top challenger was knocked out of the

[18:41] race. That is, not the title chase. 29

[18:44] points behind Johnny Benson going in,

[18:46] Chad Little took a blow when he crashed

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[19:17] >> ABC's World News Now will continue after

[19:20] this from our ABC stations

[19:23] >> Sunday on Town Hall. So I now announce

[19:26] that I will resign from the Senate

[19:30] and I leave this institution

[19:33] not with malice

[19:35] [music] but with love. Senator Bob

[19:38] Pacwood resigns from the US Senate. But

[19:39] this isn't the end of the Pacwood story.

[19:41] What's next for the senator and for

[19:43] Oregon? Join accusers and defenders in a

[19:45] history-making town hall discussion. A

[19:48] senator steps down Sunday at 6 on Spirit

[19:50] 2.

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[20:00] Labor Day accident at Multma Falls.

[20:02] >> Rocks and water were just flying

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[20:26] It is my duty

[20:28] to resign.

[20:31] It is the honorable thing to do.

[20:35] If you had been visiting Congress

[20:36] yesterday, you might have thought that

[20:38] there were two senators named Bob

[20:40] Pacwood. One was the statesman that Mr.

[20:42] Pacwood himself chose to remember, the

[20:44] champion of tax reform, the defender of

[20:46] abortion rights. The other was the

[20:48] offender rooted out by the ethics

[20:50] committee. The man who harassed more

[20:52] than a dozen women used his office to

[20:54] win financial favors and then tried to

[20:56] cover his tracks. After 3 years of

[20:59] simmering scandal, it all played itself

[21:00] out yesterday in a few hours. The ethics

[21:03] panel produced 10,000 pages of evidence

[21:06] and Pacwood announced it was time to

[21:08] give up. If you had been visiting

[21:10] Congress yesterday, this is what you

[21:12] would have seen.

[21:15] The committee has heard enough.

[21:17] The Senate has heard enough.

[21:20] The public has heard enough. By any

[21:24] standard in any workplace in the United

[21:27] States of America, he would have been

[21:29] fired. And I voted to fire Senator

[21:32] Pacwood from the United States Senate.

[21:34] >> This is the atomic bomb. We can do no

[21:37] more than to expel a member and to refer

[21:39] this conduct to the uh Justice

[21:42] Department.

[21:42] >> I thank the chair. Thank the majority

[21:44] leader.

[21:46] I think many of you are aware of why I'm

[21:48] here today.

[21:51] I am aware of the dishonor that has

[21:53] befallen me in the last three years and

[21:56] I don't want to visit further that

[21:58] dishonor on the Senate.

[22:03] I respect this institution and my

[22:06] colleagues too much too much for that.

[22:10] The evidence that we have here to

[22:13] release amounts to 40 lbs and 10,145

[22:20] pages.

[22:21] And here it is.

[22:27] I know that at various [clears throat]

[22:28] points in this case, there were those

[22:30] out there who wondered whether the

[22:31] ethics committee would get it in the

[22:34] Pacwood case. Well, there can be no

[22:36] doubt today that the ethics committee

[22:39] got it. concerning the gross and

[22:41] persistent misconduct demonstrated by

[22:44] Senator Bob Pacwood.

[22:47] First of all, no workplace in America

[22:50] ought to tolerate the kind of offensive,

[22:53] degrading sexual misconduct that the

[22:55] ethics committee finds Senator Pacwood

[22:58] to be guilty of. And it certainly cannot

[23:01] be tolerated in the United States Senate

[23:03] either.

[23:05] For 27 years, I've worked alongside

[23:09] Bob Dole, Ted Stevens, a few others from

[23:12] that era,

[23:14] most of all from Mark Hatfield.

[23:17] He was not just a colleague, but a

[23:19] friend of almost 50 years standing

[23:24] who I met when I was a teenage young

[23:26] Republican.

[23:28] and he was a bright young as yet

[23:30] unelected state legislator and he

[23:32] subsequently turned out to be my

[23:33] teacher, mentor, friend, fraternity

[23:36] brother.

[23:41] There have been many successes in these

[23:43] 27 years, some failures, some

[23:46] frustrations. In this case, I think it's

[23:48] important to note that the committee

[23:51] found a pattern of conduct, a pattern of

[23:55] conduct from 1969

[23:57] down to the most recent event that

[23:59] indicated that sexual misconduct was uh

[24:02] part of the pattern of Senator Pacwood's

[24:05] conduct of his official duties. These

[24:08] were not merely stolen kisses, as

[24:10] Senator Pacwood has claimed.

[24:14] There was a habitual pattern of

[24:17] aggressive, blatantly sexual advances,

[24:21] mostly directed at members of his own

[24:23] staff or others whose livelihoods were

[24:26] connected in some way to his power and

[24:29] authority as a senator.

[24:33] In at least some of the 18 incidences of

[24:36] which we find Senator Pacwood guilty, he

[24:39] used physical coercion against his

[24:41] victims, frightening them and causing

[24:44] them severe emotional distress. He has

[24:47] made at least 18 unwanted, unwelcomed

[24:51] sexual advances on women. He

[24:54] intentionally obstructed the committee's

[24:56] inquiry by tampering with his diary. He

[24:59] asked lobbyists for jobs for his wife to

[25:02] reduce his alimony payments. His

[25:05] offenses cumul taken cumulatively and

[25:08] even individually are unacceptable.

[25:10] >> If this were a criminal court,

[25:14] Senator Pacwood would likely receive 10

[25:16] to 16 months in prison as a first

[25:19] offender under the federal sentencing

[25:21] guidelines.

[25:23] The law itself allows prison sentences

[25:25] of up to five years. This is a gravely

[25:29] serious offense.

[25:31] >> Some in my age group

[25:35] will remember General MacArthur's final

[25:37] speech at West Point.

[25:40] Duty, honor, country.

[25:47] It is my duty

[25:49] to resign.

[25:52] It is the honorable thing to do

[25:56] for this country.

[25:58] for the Senate.

[26:01] So I now announce that I will resign

[26:03] from the Senate

[26:06] and I leave this institution

[26:09] not with malice

[26:12] but with love.

[26:16] Good luck. Godspeed. I think Senator

[26:20] Pacwood has made the correct decision.

[26:24] It's not easy.

[26:26] hasn't been easy.

[26:31] It's always easy when you're

[26:32] criticizing, but it's not as easy when

[26:34] you're taking it. We all know that.

[26:36] We've been on both sides.

[26:39] I must say, I've watched Senator Pacwood

[26:41] the last uh

[26:44] 24 hours

[26:47] and wondered myself how he was able to

[26:51] carry on.

[26:54] But then again, I know Bob Pacwood.

[26:56] >> And even though the media and the public

[26:59] often treats us as objects,

[27:02] we are human beings with emotions and

[27:06] with feelings.

[27:08] And I want to say as a fellow human

[27:10] being, I rise to give these few remarks

[27:13] with a sad heart,

[27:15] for I hurt with Senator Pacid.

[27:18] >> I do not believe it is a happy day for

[27:21] the United States Senate. I do believe

[27:24] it is a day of some courage and bravery

[27:27] on the part of Senator Pacwood. My

[27:30] father used to always say to me, Diane,

[27:35] don't let a man be known for the last

[27:37] thing he does. Let him be known for the

[27:40] best thing he does.

[27:44] >> Some of what happened on Capitol Hill

[27:45] yesterday as Oregon's Bob Pacwood

[27:47] announced his res resignation. You're

[27:50] watching ABC's World News. Now,

[27:55] >> if you need extra strength medication to

[27:57] treat insect bites, you're not alone.

[27:59] >> When insects bite, the itch is

[28:01] unbelievable.

[28:02] >> Um, but uh in the in the in the corner,

[28:05] um, we could not have gotten through a

[28:06] newscast without mentioning Cal Ripken.

[28:08] So, they have a small item called

[28:10] Starbeam. If parents still name babies

[28:13] after people in the news, we trust

[28:15] little Cal Ripkins will far outnumber

[28:17] little Bob Peeks.

[28:19] I'm sorry.

[28:19] >> Okay. I'm leaving.

[28:21] >> The New York Times has a story. It's

[28:22] really an Associated Press story and

[28:24] it's a a good idea not to get arrested

[28:27] in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Uh, one man

[28:30] did over the Labor Day weekend and for 5

[28:33] days the police forgot that he was in

[28:35] their holding cell. [laughter] Talk

[28:37] about losing weight.

[28:39] >> Well, um, go ahead. We have proof that

[28:41] civilization has come to an end and it

[28:43] comes from the Nachez Democrat in in

[28:46] Nachez, Mississippi. Down here at the

[28:48] bottom, there's a story uh about what

[28:52] I'm sure was the favorite pastime.

[28:53] >> This must be a real thigh slapper.

[28:55] >> If you were in trouble, if you were

[28:56] [laughter]

[28:57] if you were speeding, if you were drunk,

[28:58] the thing to do was race across the

[29:00] bridge to Louisiana. Well, Louisiana

[29:02] police will be waiting for you there.

[29:04] >> Just stay out of Fredericksburg,

[29:05] Virginia. It gets better.

[29:07] >> To paraphrase Pogo in uh Oak Mgi,

[29:11] Oklahoma, folks, the news is us. This is

[29:14] a copy of today's Daily News and they

[29:17] are reporting they they kissed off the

[29:19] Pacwood story and are reporting on page

[29:22] one that we reported on their page one

[29:24] last night. And so folks, all of you in

[29:26] the at the Oak Mgi Daily News, you keep

[29:29] putting us on page one, we'll keep

[29:31] putting you on world news now. Okay.

[29:33] Thank you. That's the news for this half

[29:36] hour.

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