World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-05-27

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[0:00] Good night everyone.

[0:06] >> On World News Tonight this Thursday,

[0:08] will Sloban Mallich ever appear at the

[0:11] International Court of Justice?

[0:13] >> Another hurricane season is about to

[0:15] begin better understanding how severe

[0:18] they will be. College students who

[0:20] decide they would rather earn than learn

[0:23] anymore. And is there a curse on the

[0:25] California Launchpad? Nothing seems to

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[0:37] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:40] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:44] Peter Jennings.

[0:44] >> Good evening. It is the first time a

[0:46] ruling head of state has ever been

[0:48] charged with committing war crimes.

[0:50] Today, the United Nations International

[0:51] War Crimes Tribunal indicted the

[0:53] Yugoslav leader, Sloban Mallovich, and

[0:56] four of his senior officials, holding

[0:58] them responsible for the murder of at

[1:00] least 340 Kosovo Albanians, as well as

[1:04] the deportation of 750,000 others. ABC's

[1:08] Sheila McVicker reports first from the

[1:10] Netherlands.

[1:13] The indictment describes a systematic

[1:15] campaign of terror against Kosovo

[1:17] Albanians.

[1:19] Shelling, house burnings, beatings,

[1:21] where Serbian soldiers and police

[1:23] intentionally created an atmosphere of

[1:25] fear through force or threats of force,

[1:28] all carried out under orders from the

[1:30] Serbian leadership.

[1:31] >> There is credible basis to believe that

[1:34] these accused are criminally

[1:36] responsible. The victims were entitled

[1:39] to expect protection from each one of

[1:42] these accused.

[1:45] >> The indictment is a collection of

[1:46] stories. The story of Rakatch. In

[1:49] January, Serve forces began by shelling

[1:52] the village, then went house to house.

[1:56] The indictment says 45 men were taken to

[1:58] a hill where policemen shot and killed

[2:01] them.

[2:02] >> The terrible story told by this man,

[2:04] Salami Alshani.

[2:08] The police lined up three or four yards

[2:11] in front of us. The first bullet grazed

[2:13] me in the shoulder. I fell and others

[2:16] fell on top of me.

[2:17] >> 14 men shot and then burned. Salami was

[2:21] the lone survivor. He became a witness

[2:23] for the war crimes tribunal. Arrest

[2:26] warrants have been issued that

[2:27] technically compel all members of the

[2:29] United Nations to assist in bringing the

[2:31] accused to justice. The tribunal has

[2:34] even asked officials in Yugoslavia to

[2:36] help put their leader on trial. Sheila

[2:39] McVicker, ABC News, the HEG.

[2:42] >> In Yugoslavia today, President

[2:43] Mallosvich's government called the

[2:45] indictment another attempt to mislead

[2:47] the world. Even his enemies were

[2:49] critical. They said the indictment backs

[2:51] Mr. Mallosvich into a corner, making it

[2:53] very unlikely he will negotiate an end

[2:56] to the war. A view very much shared at

[2:59] the Pentagon. We go next to ABC's John

[3:02] McCrae.

[3:04] >> NATO officials insisted today that the

[3:06] indictment of Mallosovich will not alter

[3:09] the military campaign.

[3:10] >> As far as Operation Allied Force is

[3:13] concerned, one thing must be clear.

[3:17] Nothing has changed.

[3:19] >> But something has changed. Pentagon

[3:21] officials believe the chances of a

[3:23] negotiated settlement slim to begin with

[3:26] may have just evaporated. Military

[3:29] officials point out that at the

[3:30] beginning of this crisis, air strikes

[3:32] were only supposed to be used to give

[3:34] diplomacy a little push. Now the air

[3:37] campaign is all there is.

[3:40] Talk of sending ground troops to Kosovo

[3:43] to end the conflict has deeply divided

[3:45] NATO has many critics in Congress and is

[3:48] unlikely to become a reality anytime

[3:51] soon. That leaves NATO with little

[3:53] viable diplomacy, a stalled ground

[3:56] option, and a massive air campaign that

[3:59] is now operating in clear weather with

[4:01] growing intensity. No end in sight. John

[4:05] McCathy, ABC News, the Pentagon. Here in

[4:08] New York today, Human Rights Watch said

[4:09] it was about time Mr. Mallosvich had

[4:11] been indicted. and Louise Arbour, the

[4:13] Canadian judge who indicted him and the

[4:15] others told us today it was now up to

[4:18] those who could get their hands on the

[4:19] Yugoslav leader to be sure that he is

[4:22] delivered to the courtroom. Madame Arbor

[4:24] also said she knew that this indictment

[4:26] would have an effect on any negotiations

[4:28] for a political settlement, but that was

[4:30] not her problem. And why, she asked us

[4:33] rhetorically, would you trust a man like

[4:35] Mr. Mallosvich anyway? We talked to her

[4:38] earlier.

[4:40] Do you believe that the indictment

[4:42] disqualifies Mr. Malloich as someone

[4:44] with whom the NATO alliance could

[4:45] negotiate an end to the war?

[4:48] >> That's not the a matter for me to

[4:49] decide.

[4:50] >> At the same time, Madam Arbor, you do

[4:52] raise yourself in your official

[4:53] statement that this does raise the

[4:55] possibility that Mr. Mallosvich is not a

[4:57] guarantor of a peace agreement.

[4:59] >> Well, the one thing I want to make very

[5:01] clear is Mr. Mallovich is not a

[5:03] different man today than he was

[5:04] yesterday. This indictment does not

[5:06] render him more or less suitable as a

[5:10] negotiator or a guaranter of any deal

[5:12] than he was the day before. What the

[5:14] indictment revealed though is that a

[5:16] judge, an independent judge, was

[5:18] satisfied that there's credible evidence

[5:20] to believe that if it's unanswered or

[5:22] unchallenged, he could be convicted on

[5:24] the basis of this evidence uh for his

[5:27] implication in the murder of over 340 of

[5:32] persons who lived under his protection.

[5:35] uh that it seems to me poses a pretty

[5:37] serious question of whether that can be

[5:39] the person who would be the guarantor of

[5:42] the safety of those who would be asked

[5:44] to return under an agreement that he

[5:46] would be sponsoring. That to me is a

[5:48] much more significant question than that

[5:51] of whether people should so so-called

[5:54] talk to him or shake his hands or

[5:56] negotiate with him.

[5:57] >> As for getting him to the court, it'll

[5:59] be very difficult. There's been another

[6:00] incident overseas today between India

[6:02] and Pakistan which worries the US a lot.

[6:05] Pakistan shot down an Indian fighter jet

[6:07] over the disputed territory of Kashmir.

[6:10] They've been fighting off and on over

[6:11] this piece of land for more than 20

[6:13] years. The US is always worried that

[6:15] violence between Indians and Pakistanis

[6:17] may escalate to the point of war and

[6:20] worried especially now that each has as

[6:22] one Pentagon source said a stiletto in

[6:25] their back pocket which is nuclear.

[6:29] When we come back, the other news, the

[6:30] hurricane season, it could be

[6:32] particularly brutal this year. And the

[6:35] planet Mars, a very rugged place as

[6:38] you've never seen it before.

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[8:07] The 1999 hurricane season is about to

[8:10] begin without question. And today,

[8:12] federal forecasters predicted that at

[8:13] its peak during August, September,

[8:16] October, it will likely be even more

[8:17] violent than normal. Here's ABC's Bill

[8:19] Blakemore.

[8:23] Today's predictions from the National

[8:24] Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[8:26] are for a season as bad as last year's

[8:28] with at least three major hurricanes.

[8:31] Other predictions say there will also be

[8:33] at least six smaller hurricanes. A main

[8:36] cause, Leninia, the strip of cold water

[8:38] now in the Mid Pacific that just won't

[8:40] go away. Noah scientists are also

[8:43] developing a powerful new tool for

[8:45] predicting the severity of hurricanes.

[8:48] They've never been able to tell when a

[8:50] weak hurricane might suddenly become a

[8:52] monster. They now expect to find the

[8:54] answer in a sea current called the Gulf

[8:57] Eddie. Some years it breaks off of the

[9:00] warm Gulf Stream and whirls warm water

[9:02] into the Gulf of Mexico where it can

[9:04] give heat and power to storms.

[9:07] >> We're going to be looking at the thermal

[9:08] structure of that current, how deep the

[9:10] warm water is, and how much heat energy

[9:12] it has available to transfer to the

[9:13] hurricane. Scientists are excited by new

[9:16] satellite images that show this summer

[9:18] there will be a new eddy forming in the

[9:20] Gulf for them to study. The worry for

[9:23] Gulf Coast residents is that the new

[9:25] Eddie will be there waiting to

[9:27] strengthen any weak hurricane that

[9:29] crosses it. Bill Blakemore, ABC News,

[9:32] New York.

[9:33] >> The transportation department said today

[9:35] traffic up, fatalities down. The number

[9:38] of deaths on the road has dropped to the

[9:40] lowest level in four years, even though

[9:41] the number of miles being driven is up.

[9:44] 41,500 people died last year. 620 fewer

[9:48] than in 1997.

[9:51] Even with all the public attention,

[9:52] however, 62% of those killed were not

[9:55] wearing seat belts. Back upstairs again,

[9:58] NASA gave us a remarkable

[10:00] three-dimensional portrait of the planet

[10:02] Mars today. First of its kind. It's a

[10:05] map made from laser images. Mars is very

[10:08] rugged. Here's ABC's Ned Potter.

[10:12] >> We've always called it the red planet,

[10:14] but engineers set their computers to

[10:16] show Mars in false color. The

[10:18] mountainous regions in bright orange,

[10:20] the flat lowlands in blue. The result, a

[10:24] topographic map of Mars more detailed

[10:26] than any of Earth.

[10:28] >> Anyone who wears glasses can relate to

[10:30] looking at things without your glasses

[10:32] on. Today, we put our glasses on and can

[10:34] see the details in great relief.

[10:37] >> What it shows most strikingly is that

[10:39] the planet's southern hemisphere is

[10:40] almost all mountains and craters, while

[10:43] the north is mysteriously about 3 mi

[10:46] lower. If Mars was once warm and wet, as

[10:49] scientists believe, its northern

[10:51] hemisphere could have been a vast ocean.

[10:54] The computer map was made by a little

[10:56] ship called Mars Global Surveyor. It

[10:58] brings parts of Mars into sharp focus.

[11:01] The largest crater in the solar system,

[11:03] 1300 m wide. The greatest canyon, 3,000

[11:07] m long. These images will help

[11:10] scientists pick landing sites for future

[11:12] probes in the search for life on that

[11:14] distant and now colorful world. Ned

[11:17] Potter, ABC News, New York. When we come

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[13:35] >> On the Money Tonight Wall Street, the

[13:36] Dow Jones Industrial Average was down

[13:38] more than 235 points today to close at

[13:40] 10,466.

[13:43] On the Nasdaq, stocks were down just a

[13:45] fraction over eight points. There are

[13:47] big changes coming in the world of

[13:49] trading stocks. The NASDAQ voted today

[13:51] to create an evening trading session,

[13:54] and the chairman of New York Exchange

[13:55] said today that New York is under

[13:57] pressure to do the same thing, sooner

[13:58] than they'd anticipated. ABC's Betsy

[14:01] Stock reports tonight that trading is

[14:02] getting more Democratic everywhere.

[14:06] The NASDAQ vote comes as pressure builds

[14:09] on both of the nation's major stock

[14:11] exchanges to offer evening hours before

[14:14] a new breed of Upstart exchanges steals

[14:16] their customers away. The customer is

[14:18] dictating that we need longer trading

[14:20] hours, so we'll be there.

[14:21] >> The Upstarts, fully electronic stock

[14:24] exchanges with names such as Island and

[14:26] Archipelago, are grabbing a growing

[14:29] share of the 450,000 stock trades made

[14:32] over the internet every day. 40% of them

[14:36] after the NASDAQ and the New York Stock

[14:38] Exchange close.

[14:39] >> Take a look at the uh website here

[14:41] >> at these offices right across the street

[14:44] from the New York Stock Exchange.

[14:46] Another after hours electronic stock

[14:48] market, Indivx is preparing to launch

[14:50] this summer.

[14:52] >> People want to be able to uh invest when

[14:54] it's convenient for them. There's no

[14:56] doubt about it that prime time hours are

[14:58] more convenient for most people than

[15:00] 9:30 to 4.

[15:01] >> I'm getting hit on a million. I'll buy a

[15:03] million. The stakes are big because

[15:05] stock markets make money on every trade

[15:07] that passes through. But there are

[15:09] potential problems with after hours

[15:11] trading. For one thing, if trading

[15:14] volume is light, it will be harder to

[15:16] match buyers and sellers at prices both

[15:18] agree on.

[15:20] >> What's more, the idea of a longer

[15:22] workday or a second shift is clearly not

[15:26] welcome in the industry. On the West

[15:28] Coast, brokers already arrive at 5 in

[15:31] the morning to be ready for the opening

[15:32] bell in New York.

[15:34] >> They can't really see how they can

[15:36] possibly have a family life and work

[15:37] longer hours.

[15:38] >> The industry had better get used to the

[15:41] idea. Many say a 24-hour trading day is

[15:44] inevitable.

[15:46] >> Betsy Stark, ABC News, New York. the

[15:49] automobile industry. General Motors

[15:51] decided today that 35,000 Cadillac

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[15:56] electrical shorts might cause fires

[15:58] around the engines. And the fires can

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[16:01] of the ignition and the engine off. And

[16:04] so GM strongly recommends the cars not

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[16:10] fixed. In a moment, choosing the

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[18:42] tonight at a world of opportunity. It is

[18:44] the graduation season. As so many of you

[18:46] know, high school and college, thousands

[18:48] of college graduates must now make a

[18:50] living. And many thousands of black

[18:52] students, high school and college, will

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[18:57] they may not have had before. First, the

[19:00] college crowd. ABC's Jackie Jud reports

[19:03] on the appeal of the marketplace rather

[19:06] than graduate school.

[19:11] Corporate America is putting the hard

[19:14] sale on college graduates. I had over 30

[19:18] interviews,

[19:19] >> offering them everything from signing

[19:21] bonuses to furnished apartments to cars.

[19:24] >> I interviewed with approximately 10 to

[19:27] 15 different uh employers and received

[19:30] offers from four or five.

[19:32] >> Congratulations. Great job. Carell

[19:34] Williams graduated from the University

[19:36] of Virginia in Charlottesville last

[19:38] weekend. He had every intention of going

[19:41] on to graduate school, but could not

[19:43] resist the goldplated job offers that

[19:45] came his way.

[19:46] >> I don't think mom and dad is going to

[19:48] support me anymore.

[19:50] >> And the recruiters were offering money.

[19:52] >> Yes. Yes. Yes.

[19:53] >> What kind of money?

[19:54] >> Yes. Big money.

[19:56] >> Williams, a business major, is moving to

[19:58] Midland, Michigan to take a job with

[20:00] Dowo Chemical. Dell is hiring 50% more

[20:04] college graduates today than five years

[20:06] ago and paying them 25% more. Starting

[20:10] salaries top $40,000.

[20:13] It is an economic principle all students

[20:16] learn. Demand is greater than supply.

[20:19] >> The disciplines that we've had the most

[20:21] difficult time recruiting have been in

[20:24] information systems because everyone is

[20:27] seeking computer science, computer

[20:29] engineering majors. The trend of

[20:31] snatching up undergraduates is causing

[20:33] something of a brain drain in graduate

[20:35] schools, and they're not happy about it.

[20:38] For example, at UVA's Graduate School of

[20:40] Engineering, enrollment slumped from 700

[20:43] in 1991 to 516 last year, forcing

[20:48] officials to offer incentives such as

[20:51] travel expenses for prospective

[20:53] students. Unless the move away from

[20:56] post-graduate studies turns around,

[20:58] corporate America may face shortages in

[21:00] the future.

[21:02] >> Companies and the talent they need, and

[21:04] the educational level for that talent is

[21:06] is what we have to be concerned about

[21:07] and what they will be concerned about.

[21:10] >> Carell Williams says at some point he

[21:12] expects to get a master's degree, but

[21:14] for now he's following the money. Jackie

[21:17] Jud, ABC News, Charlottesville.

[21:19] >> Well, the other thing about the money

[21:21] tonight is this. There's more of it for

[21:22] more people. And some of those who are

[21:24] traditionally left behind even in the

[21:26] boom times are finding more opportunity.

[21:29] A study by professors at Harvard and the

[21:32] College of William and Mary finds that

[21:34] with a high school education or less,

[21:36] young black men are working in record

[21:38] numbers for better pay. Here's ABC's

[21:41] Rebecca Chase.

[21:43] The study found that it took nearly six

[21:46] years of low unemployment

[21:48] >> and rates falling below 5% before the

[21:51] economic boom began to benefit young

[21:54] black men. Tommy Fle is one of them.

[21:57] >> I feel like I'll be here I'll be here

[21:58] for a real long time. I I can see I can

[22:00] see myself growing along with this

[22:02] company.

[22:03] >> In the past, the 22-year-old held

[22:05] temporary jobs or just hung out. Now he

[22:08] maintains an apartment complex earning

[22:11] 1150 an hour. In fact, earnings for

[22:14] young black men have increased faster

[22:16] than for other high school graduates.

[22:18] One reason is now they are getting

[22:21] better jobs.

[22:22] >> Right before this problem occurred was

[22:23] >> when Compact Computer could not find

[22:25] enough college graduates to staff its

[22:28] customer support center. It hired high

[22:30] school graduates and trained them. that

[22:33] gave Rivera Foster a chance at a $30,000

[22:36] a year job.

[22:37] >> The previous jobs that I've had have

[22:39] been pretty much menial. Um, they had

[22:42] some form of growth, but not much.

[22:44] >> The job market is so tight that in some

[22:47] cities, like here in Atlanta, even young

[22:49] men with prison records are in demand.

[22:53] >> One uses a

[22:54] >> Every inmate who graduates from this

[22:55] welding course gets hired. In fact, the

[22:58] prison has a hard time meeting the

[23:00] demands of employers.

[23:02] >> They're happy with them, and they'll

[23:03] call me and say, "Hey, we'd like to have

[23:04] some more just like them."

[23:06] >> In 1992, 52% of young black men were

[23:10] employed. Today, that number has jumped

[23:12] to 64%.

[23:15] Their unemployment rate is still nearly

[23:17] double that for whites, but unlike past

[23:19] recoveries, they no longer are left out.

[23:23] Rebecca Chase, ABC News, Atlanta. In a

[23:27] moment, we're going to visit a

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[25:24] Finally from us this evening, space and

[25:26] almost space. The space shuttle

[25:28] Discovery is heading towards a rendevous

[25:30] this weekend with the International

[25:31] Space Station. Discovery left Florida

[25:33] this morning carrying a load of supplies

[25:35] for the space station. Tonight in our

[25:37] report on your money, we're going to go

[25:39] to California to a launch pad that costs

[25:41] billions of dollars and has yet to

[25:44] witness a success. Here's ABC's Brian

[25:46] Rooney.

[25:48] Here on the California coast, the Air

[25:50] Force built Space Launch Complex 6,

[25:52] known as Slick 6. The year was 1966, and

[25:56] the pad was designed to launch the

[25:57] manned orbital laboratory, a military

[26:00] observation post. But unmanned

[26:02] satellites made the lab obsolete before

[26:05] any attempt to put it in orbit. Slick 6

[26:07] was left to rust in the ocean breeze.

[26:09] >> It was probably the most expensive movie

[26:12] set used for the bionic woman. One of

[26:15] the episodes called Fembots uh from Las

[26:17] Vegas.

[26:18] >> Then came the idea in the 80s to launch

[26:21] the space shuttle from the west coast.

[26:23] Billions more were spent converting

[26:25] Slick 6. Even then there were

[26:27] complaints. This shuttle launch facility

[26:29] at Vandenberg is the costliest Air Force

[26:33] facility that we've ever constructed,

[26:35] almost $3 billion. The problems were

[26:38] fixed and finally the shuttle Enterprise

[26:40] was put on the pad. Then the Challenger

[26:42] blew up over Florida. Slick 6 was

[26:45] abandoned again. One story has it that

[26:47] the Chumash Indians who once roamed this

[26:50] area put a curse on Slick 6 because it

[26:52] was built on an ancient burial site.

[26:55] Even if you believe in ritual curses,

[26:57] there is no evidence that the chew mash

[26:59] put one on Slick 6. But some people

[27:01] cling to the tale as a possible

[27:03] explanation for why no project at Slick

[27:06] 6 has ever worked. In 1994, the Air

[27:09] Force leased Slick 6 to the Lockheed

[27:11] Corporation. Their first rocket had to

[27:13] be blown up 300 m over the Pacific. The

[27:16] second put a satellite in space for 4

[27:19] days before it crashed back into the

[27:21] atmosphere. But hope for Slick 6 is

[27:24] eternal.

[27:25] >> We have ignition and liftoff of the

[27:27] Athena 2 launch vehicle carrying

[27:29] >> on April 27th this year. The Athena flew

[27:32] out of sight carrying a new Earth

[27:34] imaging satellite and that was the last

[27:37] seen or heard of it. After 35 years and

[27:40] $8 billion, Slick 6 has kept a perfect

[27:44] record. Brian Rooney, ABC News at

[27:47] Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

[27:50] That is our report on World News

[27:52] Tonight. Later on Night Line, the case

[27:53] against Sloban Mallich. I'm Peter

[27:55] Jennings. We hope you have a good

[27:56] evening. See you tomorrow. Good night.

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