NBC Nightly News - 1999-07-25
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[0:03] The big break in the Yoseite murder
[0:05] cases. A connection between four
[0:06] killings and an arrest.
[0:08] >> We do not believe that there is anyone
[0:10] else there on the loose.
[0:12] >> The gathering of world leaders for a
[0:14] royal funeral in Morocco. And a tour to
[0:18] force at the tour to France. Cancer
[0:20] survivor Lance Armstrong an inspiration
[0:22] to others battling the disease.
[0:25] >> He was like a marathon wheel. From NBC
[0:28] News World Headquarters in New York,
[0:31] this is NBC Nightly News reported by Len
[0:34] Cannon.
[0:36] >> Good evening everyone. Authorities in
[0:37] California have made an arrest they
[0:40] predict will close the Yuseim Sightseer
[0:42] murder case. The suspect is a handyman
[0:45] who lived near where the three women
[0:46] disappeared 5 months ago. He's in
[0:49] custody charged with another murder in
[0:51] the same general area just last week.
[0:54] The story from NBC's Dan Loian.
[0:57] The trail of another gruesome Yeusede
[0:59] murder leading investigators to the
[1:00] maintenance man who had worked and lived
[1:02] at this lodge nearby and was picked up
[1:04] at this nudist colony more than a 100
[1:07] miles away not far from Sacramento. The
[1:09] victim, 26-year-old Joey Ruth Armstrong,
[1:12] had been decapitated. Her body found
[1:14] four miles from the lodge where the
[1:16] suspect, 37year-old Carrie Stainer,
[1:18] worked. Evidence gathered now also
[1:20] making Stainer a suspect in the murders
[1:22] of three sightseers earlier this year.
[1:25] Carol and Julie's son, their friend
[1:27] Sylvina Peloso.
[1:28] >> With Stainer's arrest, we believe that
[1:30] no other person involved in any of these
[1:32] murders is still on the loose.
[1:35] >> Stainer worked at the Cedar Lodge for
[1:37] the past 2 years. It's where the three
[1:39] sightseers had stayed and a place
[1:41] Armstrong had visited. The FBI says
[1:43] Stainer had been interviewed after the
[1:45] Sun Pelos murders, but was not
[1:47] considered a suspect. Only now after
[1:50] another crime has crucial evidence
[1:52] emerged. Carol's son's parents are
[1:54] feeling relief.
[1:55] >> Yes, it brings some closure. No question
[1:57] about it.
[1:59] >> But investigators are troubled that they
[2:01] might have missed something that could
[2:02] have saved Armstrong's life. It
[2:04] >> has been a very difficult investigation.
[2:07] We've had a lot of talented people on
[2:09] it.
[2:10] >> Troubling too for tourists visiting this
[2:12] natural beauty branded by two
[2:14] high-profile murder investigations. It
[2:16] was really scary. And my husband bolted
[2:18] the door the the door with the chair,
[2:20] put the chair up.
[2:22] >> And in one final twist, the suspect's
[2:24] brother, Steven Stainer, abducted as a
[2:26] child, was in the national spotlight in
[2:28] 1980 after escaping a child molester who
[2:31] had held him for 7 years. Carrie Stainer
[2:34] will be arraigned in the latest Yusede
[2:35] murder tomorrow as investigators keep
[2:38] trying to build a stronger case in the
[2:40] other killings. Dan Loian, NBC News,
[2:42] Elportal, California.
[2:45] Villagers who traveled hundreds of miles
[2:47] joined diplomats and world leaders today
[2:49] for the funeral of King Hassan of
[2:50] Morocco. He was known as a stable
[2:53] presence in the turbulent Middle East.
[2:55] And as NBC's Fred Francis reports,
[2:57] amidst the mourning and prayers, there
[2:59] was a dialogue for peace.
[3:02] >> The crowd was estimated at 2 million.
[3:05] There was no way to measure the grief.
[3:07] At times, the mourers moved to the edge
[3:09] of chaos.
[3:12] President Clinton, who had planned to
[3:13] walk behind the king's casket for only a
[3:16] few hundred yards, was apparently caught
[3:18] up in the moment. He stayed with the
[3:20] procession the entire three miles to
[3:22] King Hassan's moselum. A Clinton aid
[3:25] said it was a spur-ofthe- moment
[3:26] decision by the president.
[3:30] >> While the crowd sang verses from the
[3:32] Quran, Clinton and other dignitaries
[3:35] were frequently jostled from the
[3:36] backside. One Secret Service agent said
[3:39] it looked like a catastrophe in the
[3:40] making. The president's national
[3:42] security adviser called it dicey, but
[3:45] the president insisted on it. Clinton
[3:47] walked directly behind the new king,
[3:49] 36-year-old Muhammad, while security
[3:52] teams often frantically joined hands to
[3:54] push back the crowds.
[3:58] It was a fitting end for King Hassan,
[4:00] who began his reign 38 years ago as a
[4:03] playboy prince and became a respected
[4:05] peacemaker. He showed it is possible to
[4:08] promote Islam's holy sites in Jerusalem
[4:11] and to reach out to Israel
[4:14] and the dream of peace, dignity, and
[4:16] security for all God's children in this
[4:18] region. Even Hassan's death served the
[4:21] purpose of reconciliation. Old enemies
[4:23] walked side by side to honor him, and
[4:25] President Clinton urged many of them to
[4:27] move forward on the peace process.
[4:29] Clinton brought together Palestinian
[4:31] leader Yasa Arafat in Israeli Barak and
[4:34] the president's men said it was
[4:36] extraordinary to watch the Israeli
[4:38] interact comfortably in an Arab capital.
[4:40] >> You didn't see barriers in that room.
[4:42] You saw a landscape where Arabs and
[4:44] Israelis were existing in a very normal
[4:47] way.
[4:51] >> The outpouring of grief, the wailing,
[4:53] and the prayers could not dampen the
[4:54] optimism that a king's death is ushering
[4:56] in a new day. Fred Francis, NBC News,
[5:00] Rabbot, Morocco.
[5:03] >> To France now, where cancer survivor
[5:05] Lance Armstrong scored an amazing
[5:07] victory in the world's premier cycling
[5:09] event. The tour to France is a
[5:11] three-week endurance test, pedalling
[5:13] over two mountain ranges, a grind broken
[5:16] up only by a plane ride and later a
[5:18] train ride. NBC's Pat Dawson now on how
[5:21] Lance Armstrong conquered more than a
[5:24] raceourse. Lance Armstrong's triumph of
[5:26] will ended fittingly at the arc to
[5:29] triumph.
[5:30] A storybook finish from a most unlikely
[5:33] champion.
[5:34] >> I never believed it 100% until uh until
[5:36] I crossed the finish line.
[5:38] >> For Armstrong, the road to victory was
[5:40] far more grueling than even the nearly
[5:42] 2300 miles of the Tour to France.
[5:45] >> The guy's been through so much. He
[5:46] deserves this more than anybody. He's
[5:48] going to do it and it's for him. This is
[5:51] his tour to France. Tour to land. Three
[5:53] years ago, the vibrant young athlete
[5:55] learned a nagging pain was testicular
[5:58] cancer. Cancer that had spread to his
[6:00] lungs and brain. The race now was
[6:03] against death. Two operations followed
[6:06] and months of chemotherapy.
[6:08] But surviving was only part of the
[6:10] struggle. Despite his illness and
[6:12] debilitating effects of chemotherapy, he
[6:14] meant to return to cycling's top ranks.
[6:17] And while doing it, Armstrong has become
[6:19] a symbol of courage for those fighting
[6:22] to survive, like Richie Martin of
[6:24] Tiffan, Ohio.
[6:25] >> It just gave me a goal, I think.
[6:27] >> At 14, Richie, near death from
[6:29] non-Hodkkins lymphoma, read about Lance
[6:32] Armstrong in a magazine. A call from his
[6:35] sister led to a meeting and a bit of
[6:37] inspirational advice about attitude.
[6:40] >> Showed everybody that it can be done.
[6:44] showed everybody in the cancer community
[6:45] that you can come back and come back and
[6:48] be the top of what you do.
[6:50] >> But the agonizing three-week challenge
[6:52] that is the tour would be the final test
[6:54] for Lance Armstrong.
[6:57] Just a year after finishing his last
[6:59] round of chemotherapy, Armstrong would
[7:01] win an unprecedented four legs of the
[7:03] event. His leads so imposing, some
[7:06] French newspapers suggested use of
[7:08] performance-enhancing drugs. Tests
[7:10] proved Armstrong's win was fueled only
[7:13] by courage.
[7:14] >> I'm living proof that u
[7:17] that we get second chances and that uh
[7:20] that the second time around is better
[7:21] than the first.
[7:22] >> A victory symbolizing more than
[7:25] finishing first. For one young athlete,
[7:27] a triumph of the human spirit. Pat
[7:30] Dawson, NBC News.
[7:34] When NBC Nightly News continues in a
[7:36] moment, the role model in orbit,
[7:38] Commander Eileene Collins, and later in
[7:40] focus, the mob's newfound interest in
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[9:04] In space overnight, the crew of Russia's
[9:06] Mir Space Station radio their
[9:08] congratulations to Colombia shuttle
[9:10] commander Eileen Collins, the first
[9:12] American woman to command a mission.
[9:14] Tonight, Collins and her crew will make
[9:16] more adjustments to the world's most
[9:17] powerful telescope, which they launched
[9:19] on Friday. Our mission update from NBC's
[9:22] Frederick Whitfield.
[9:26] that I know.
[9:28] >> Wake up on day three of a scheduled
[9:30] 5-day mission for Air Force Colonel
[9:33] Eileen Collins and her crew. The start
[9:36] of another day orbiting the Earth at
[9:38] 17,500 m an hour, 188 m up. An historic
[9:44] mission, a milestone for both NASA and
[9:47] Collins, living out her childhood dream
[9:50] and that of so many female aviators
[9:52] before her.
[9:53] >> I didn't get here alone. from the first
[9:55] barntormers through the Mercury women
[9:58] from back in the early 1960s. Um, all
[10:00] these women have been my role models and
[10:02] my inspiration.
[10:03] >> We just think she's marvelous.
[10:05] >> Jerry Sloan Truhill was one of those
[10:07] Mercury women of the 60s. Top female
[10:10] pilots once on a track to becoming
[10:12] astronauts.
[10:13] >> Hey, she is a honey.
[10:14] >> Finally, they thought a program that
[10:16] seemed to consider women pilots not as
[10:19] babes but as serious, experienced
[10:21] aviators. That is until
[10:23] >> the night before we were to leave for
[10:25] Pensacola, a telegram came that said,
[10:28] "Sorry, the women in space program has
[10:30] been cancelled."
[10:32] Period.
[10:34] >> Now, after all these years, watching
[10:36] Collins head into space is seen as a
[10:38] victory for all women.
[10:40] >> It is such a feeling of we told you so.
[10:45] >> It had been a long time in the making.
[10:47] NASA once boasted of creating
[10:49] opportunities for women,
[10:51] >> opportunities to break free.
[10:53] >> But ladies were limited at best to roles
[10:56] as scientists on the ground. It wasn't
[10:58] until 1983 that a girl joined the boys
[11:02] club. NASA sent its first female
[11:04] astronaut, Sally Ride, into orbit.
[11:07] >> 20 other women followed, some breaking
[11:10] records. In 1996, Shannon Lucid orbited
[11:14] Earth in the Russian space station Mir.
[11:16] >> My home for six months.
[11:18] >> An American record
[11:20] 188 days. And now there's Commander
[11:24] Collins, an inspiration to young girls
[11:26] at this space camp.
[11:27] >> Well, I think it's cool that a woman
[11:29] gets to do what men have been doing for
[11:32] years.
[11:33] >> And cool for a woman who dreamed of
[11:35] flying, now soaring into the record
[11:38] books. Fria Whitfield, NBC News,
[11:40] Houston.
[11:42] >> To Kosovo now, where NATO troops have
[11:44] increased their patrols around the
[11:45] farming community where 14 Serves were
[11:48] killed on Friday. The Yugoslav
[11:50] government says the killings demonstrate
[11:51] Kosovo is slipping into anarchy. But
[11:54] tension is also growing in Serbia, where
[11:56] President Mallosvich is under increasing
[11:58] pressure. NBC's Jim Meda tonight.
[12:02] Even his soldiers are now turning
[12:04] against Yugoslav President Sloan
[12:06] Mallovich. Here, hundreds of Army
[12:08] reserveists block roads complaining they
[12:10] fought in Kosovo for three months but
[12:12] haven't been paid. Even active soldiers
[12:15] last paid in May.
[12:18] >> We want the families of killed soldiers
[12:19] to be helped and we want our salaries.
[12:22] >> The government has finally promised $100
[12:24] million in back wages. Few soldiers
[12:27] believe in here. Riot police put up
[12:29] little resistance. But if Melasovich's
[12:31] forces do crack down on protesters, some
[12:33] fear civil war.
[12:37] Who knows what will happen if the
[12:38] military is used against the people. I
[12:40] think it would lead to a breakup in the
[12:42] army. Military experts claim that the
[12:45] army's embarrassing withdrawal from
[12:46] Kosovo, the fourth defeat in 10 years
[12:49] under Bolasovich's leadership has left
[12:51] all troops deeply bitter.
[12:54] >> All too often, Army soldiers and reser
[12:56] have returned from the front lines of
[12:58] Kosovo to this. Their towns bombed,
[13:00] factories destroyed, their jobs gone,
[13:03] and now their future very different from
[13:05] the one they thought they were fighting
[13:07] for. In better days, over 35,000 were
[13:11] employed in this car factory. The
[13:13] average wage over $1,000 a month. Today,
[13:16] a few thousand workers clean up the
[13:18] massive rubble from NATO bombs. Their
[13:20] monthly wage only $50. It is why Sloban,
[13:23] Midad, and Mirao, all reservists who
[13:26] fought in or near Kosovo, have joined an
[13:28] opposition party seeking Molassvich's
[13:30] resignation and early elections.
[13:34] >> They attend antiasvich rallies, now
[13:37] almost a daily occurrence. Throughout
[13:39] Serbia, the site of army headquarters
[13:41] and barracks destroyed and the memory of
[13:43] hundreds of comrades killed in Kosovo,
[13:46] raising for many the question, will the
[13:48] army's anger boil over and threaten
[13:50] Blovich's regime? Jim Bedum, NBC News,
[13:53] Kravatz, Yugoslavia.
[13:56] >> The weather emergency continued today
[13:59] over much of the nation with heat
[14:00] related deaths now reported in Chicago
[14:02] as well as Cincinnati where the death
[14:04] toll has reached seven. From California
[14:06] to Kentucky, tripledigit temperatures
[14:08] today. In Louisville, ambulances were
[14:11] sent to treat people who were overcome
[14:12] while attending a riverfront music
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[14:19] in a moment, we will talk to we will see
[14:22] why underworld figures have taken a
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[16:06] >> In focus this evening, mobsters on the
[16:09] make. Organized crimes future can be
[16:11] seen in its past. Here's CNBC's Alan
[16:13] Chernoff.
[16:15] >> Al Capone and fellow gangsters thrived
[16:17] during prohibition, tapping huge profits
[16:19] through bootlegging.
[16:21] Later, Lucky Luciano and other bosses
[16:23] moved on to gambling.
[16:25] >> I declined to answer that on the grounds
[16:27] it may tend to incriminate me.
[16:29] >> In the 50s, televised hearings revealed
[16:31] the mob was influencing labor unions.
[16:33] Now in the9s, organized crime is again
[16:36] reaching out for new sources of income.
[16:38] Bill Banano, son of legendary godfather
[16:41] Joe Banano, says the mob has adapted
[16:44] with changing times.
[16:45] >> We had bookmaking and you threw us out
[16:47] because you got off track betting. We
[16:49] had the uh numbers game and you threw us
[16:51] out of that because you come up with the
[16:53] lottery. So what the hell is there left
[16:56] but us to go into legitimate businesses?
[17:01] Legitimate businesses like the stock
[17:03] market where the mob moves in
[17:05] illegitimate ways. Pump and dump schemes
[17:08] pumping up prices of small stocks then
[17:10] dumping them on unsuspecting investors.
[17:13] Just sentenced to 5 years in prison for
[17:15] stock fraud and extortion. Banano family
[17:18] capo Frank Curlyino. Banano associate
[17:21] Eugene Lombardo and Ernest Butch
[17:23] Monttoveki, a Genevese family soldier
[17:26] sentenced to more than eight years.
[17:28] Rosario Rossi Gangji Capo in the
[17:30] Genevese family, part of the largest
[17:33] group of organized crime members to be
[17:35] jailed for stock fraud. all pled to
[17:37] manipulating stock of Healthtech
[17:39] international in a conspiracy with the
[17:41] chief executive of the Arizona based
[17:43] health club operator, former federal
[17:46] prosecutor James Bucknham.
[17:48] >> The reality of it is these are people
[17:50] who understand how to make money.
[17:52] They're going to make money in any arena
[17:54] in which that's feasible.
[17:56] >> More stock fraud alleged in Tampa last
[17:58] month. An indictment against Phil
[18:00] Brammo, a capo and the Davalcanti
[18:03] family. Indictments in Brooklyn as well.
[18:05] The scheme generated more than $10
[18:07] million in illegal proceeds by
[18:09] defrauding hundreds of innocent victims.
[18:11] >> Columbbo family associates are accused
[18:13] of working with a Russian crime group.
[18:16] >> We can no longer focus just on
[18:20] traditional organized crime as we have
[18:23] known it in this country. It has now
[18:25] become international in its consequence,
[18:28] international in its origin.
[18:30] >> Organized crime groups have been seeking
[18:31] new ventures. Tough regulation of
[18:33] traditional mob infiltrated businesses
[18:36] like construction and garbage carding
[18:38] have limited bid rigging and kickbacks.
[18:40] Now technology appears to be offering
[18:42] those new opportunities for organized
[18:44] crime. Crime families are running
[18:46] prepaid phone card scams and law
[18:49] enforcement officials are keeping a
[18:51] close eye on internet gambling worried
[18:53] that the mob is getting a piece of the
[18:55] action.
[18:55] >> We have driven them into u other areas
[18:59] that they have not historically been
[19:01] involved. And again, the examples cited
[19:03] are healthcare fraud, penny stock cases,
[19:05] um fraud committed over the internet
[19:08] certainly is something that that has a
[19:10] potential and and these are the things
[19:12] that we're watching uh today.
[19:14] >> In recent years, bosses of New York's
[19:16] major crime families have been put
[19:18] behind bars, down, but not out of
[19:20] business. The mob of the new millennium
[19:22] will continue to pursue profits wherever
[19:25] it can. Alan Chernoff for NBC News, New
[19:28] York.
[19:30] When we continue, will a tax cut make
[19:32] the cut in Congress?
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[21:56] >> Battle lines between the Republican
[21:58] Congress and the Democratic White House
[22:00] hardened today over the size of a
[22:02] proposed federal tax cut. NBC's Joe
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[22:08] Kevin and Michelle Clark got married
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[22:15] they expect to get hit with the marriage
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[22:22] pay more total taxes together than they
[22:24] would have separately.
[22:26] >> You join this holy matrimony and then
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[22:34] >> The tax system is producing unexpected
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[22:39] two worker household. Reducing the
[22:41] marriage penalty is near the top of the
[22:43] Senate Republican priority list as
[22:46] Senate floor debate begins this week on
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[22:51] reduction in the tax rate on lower wage
[22:53] earners and an increase in the amount of
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[22:59] price tag for the Republican cuts $792
[23:02] billion over 10 years. The White House
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[23:08] cuts over 10 years. But a key Democrat
[23:10] wants compromise.
[23:11] >> There's obviously a number in between
[23:13] that we should be able to get together
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[23:17] political parties.
[23:18] >> There are other disagreements. The House
[23:21] approved a capital gains tax cut, but
[23:23] the Senate bill doesn't even include
[23:25] one. Some say that will change.
[23:27] >> I believe the final bill that is adopted
[23:29] by the Congress of the United States
[23:31] will have a capital gains change in it.
[23:33] >> The White House threatens to veto the
[23:35] Republican plan. After that, the real
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[25:51] >> Finally tonight, how art is inspiring
[25:53] some people who were short on hope.
[25:55] Here's NBC's Soladad O'Brien.
[25:58] >> This is perfect Kiscuro shading and
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[26:02] >> Joan Aids, a patron of the arts,
[26:04] explaining Rembrandt self-portrait to a
[26:06] group of homeless men in New York City.
[26:08] >> And all his feelings are in the
[26:10] painting.
[26:10] >> Absolutely.
[26:11] >> He did a great job.
[26:12] >> These audiences are much more
[26:14] interesting than other audiences that
[26:16] I've had before because they're not
[26:18] inhibited.
[26:19] >> They're not inhibited and they they ask
[26:22] questions. to walk slowly and just feast
[26:26] your eyes.
[26:27] >> It may be because Joan AIDS is
[26:28] interested in the questions they ask.
[26:31] She's a volunteer for Project Renewal,
[26:33] an organization that houses the
[26:34] homeless, counselss them, and helps them
[26:37] find jobs.
[26:38] >> I can see that I can make a difference
[26:41] and then I can be more positive and make
[26:43] people feel better about themselves.
[26:45] >> Her philosophy, the arts enrich life.
[26:48] >> It all started with a slideshow on
[26:50] African art. Then Joan AIDS decided to
[26:53] bring the men here to the Metropolitan
[26:55] Museum of Art, something most of them
[26:58] had never done before. 40 men signed up
[27:01] for that first trip back in the spring.
[27:03] Each visit is carefully planned from the
[27:05] paintings to be studied to the visit to
[27:07] the roof garden where the man selling
[27:10] soft drinks told the group he had once
[27:12] been homeless, too. His recovery gives
[27:14] them hope.
[27:15] >> I was in rehab myself. I'm a daytime
[27:17] graduate.
[27:18] >> Oh, all right. Okay.
[27:21] >> The entire experience builds self-esteem
[27:24] and improves self-image.
[27:26] >> Even though we in the situation we are,
[27:28] you know, she still shows interest. She
[27:30] goes out of her way to help us, you
[27:32] know, come to this, you know, place. And
[27:34] she does a lot for us.
[27:36] >> She shows her caring in every way. I
[27:38] mean, in her gestures, in her voice, in
[27:42] her touch, everything she does, very
[27:44] caring.
[27:47] Joan AIDS also exposes the men to music.
[27:56] Horizon Concerts raises money privately
[27:58] and hires young artists to perform in
[28:01] hospitals, nursing homes, and shelters
[28:03] for people who otherwise might never
[28:05] hear classical music.
[28:09] >> You can see what music does. Music is
[28:12] therapy, and these people relate to it.
[28:24] An uplifting experience through the arts
[28:26] that Joan Aids believes will lift them
[28:29] up. Solidad O'Brien, NBC News, New York.
[28:34] >> That's NBC Nightly News for this Sunday.
[28:35] I'm Lyn Cannon. Thanks for watching and
[28:37] for all of us here at NBC News. Good
[28:40] night.
[28:42] NBC News, America's news leader.