World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-06-05

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[0:00] News two

[0:03] >> on World News Tonight this Saturday.

[0:05] Putting words into action. NATO and

[0:08] Yugoslav military leaders begin

[0:10] hammering out the details of peace. In

[0:13] Illinois, did police and prosecutors

[0:15] railroad an innocent man. The jury

[0:17] speaks. But I miss you.

[0:20] >> The Velvet Fog silence. Singer Mel

[0:22] Tormet dead at 73.

[0:27] And for charismatic, a chance to make

[0:30] history lost

[0:37] from ABC.

[0:40] This is World News Tonight Saturday.

[0:44] Good evening. I'm Aaron Brown. There

[0:45] were more NATO air strikes today in

[0:47] Yugoslavia, but tonight peace may be one

[0:50] step closer. For the last two and a half

[0:52] months, the town of Blachce has been the

[0:54] main crossing point for refugees fleeing

[0:57] Kosovo into Macedonia. Today, it was the

[1:00] backdrop for what could become the

[1:02] beginning of the end of the conflict.

[1:04] So, we begin there and ABC's Sheila

[1:06] McVicker.

[1:07] >> For 3 hours this morning, the Serbs kept

[1:10] NATO waiting. Technical difficulties,

[1:12] said NATO officers. It was a frantic

[1:14] round of phone calls that finally

[1:16] persuaded the Yugoslav officers to

[1:17] attend. So for the first time since the

[1:20] bombing began, Yugoslav officers sat

[1:22] down with their NATO counterparts in a

[1:24] restaurant near the Macedonian border.

[1:27] These were not negotiations, said NATO.

[1:30] The Serbs would be expected to sign an

[1:32] agreement that would implement the

[1:33] withdrawal of their forces.

[1:35] >> It's not a place for haggling or

[1:38] equivocation.

[1:40] This is not the place to discuss the

[1:43] size or the positioning of the

[1:46] conference table. This is a place for

[1:49] decision and action.

[1:52] >> The six-page agreement specifies the

[1:54] three routes Yugoslav forces will use to

[1:57] withdraw from Kosovo. It lays out a

[1:59] 7-day timetable for that withdrawal. The

[2:02] Serbs must tell NATO where their forces

[2:04] have laid landmines, and bombing may

[2:07] continue until the withdrawal is

[2:09] verified. It took hours of discussions

[2:11] characterized by NATO officers as very

[2:14] professional as they went through the

[2:16] document literally line by line. Both

[2:19] sides clearly had questions. The

[2:22] American general monitoring the meeting

[2:23] for the US was on the phone. The Serb

[2:26] delegation caucused back of the

[2:27] restaurant.

[2:28] >> I mainly came out to tell you that this

[2:30] could be prepared for a long afternoon.

[2:31] >> What hinges on these talks is deployment

[2:34] of thousands of troops like these US

[2:36] Marines waiting now off the coast of

[2:38] Greece. They will be the first US troops

[2:41] into Kosovo. That could happen very

[2:43] soon. But the discussions today went on

[2:46] for more than 5 hours when suddenly the

[2:48] Yugoslav delegation emerged and drove

[2:51] off back across the border into

[2:53] Yugoslavia. They said they'd be back in

[2:55] an hour. That didn't happen.

[2:57] >> What we now have is a full understanding

[3:00] on both sides as to the content of the

[3:03] military technical agreement.

[3:05] >> Understanding may be, but so far not a

[3:08] signature. The Yugoslavs have told NATO

[3:10] they need more time to consult with

[3:12] Belgrade. Sheila McVicker, ABC News,

[3:15] Blachce, Macedonia.

[3:17] >> Who will command the peacekeeping troops

[3:19] remains one point of contention today.

[3:22] Very strong words from the Russian

[3:23] envoy, Victor Cheramir, who said Russia

[3:26] will never allow any troops it may send

[3:28] to Kosovo to be under NATO control. NATO

[3:32] is urging the Kosovo Liberation Army to

[3:34] abide by the terms of the peace plan.

[3:36] The KLA has been fighting for the

[3:38] independence of Kosovo and remains a

[3:40] wild card in the peace equation. Here's

[3:43] ABC's Richard Gizber.

[3:45] >> Like everybody else affected by this

[3:47] war, these KLA soldiers want to know

[3:50] what happens next, so they listen to

[3:52] shortwave radio for news and await new

[3:54] orders. It's already clear what NATO

[3:57] wants them to do. We hope that the

[3:58] Kosovo Liberation Army will renounce

[4:00] violence

[4:02] and act in conformity with the

[4:04] conditions that were laid down in the

[4:07] peace plan. The peace plan calls for the

[4:10] KLA to give up most of its weapons. But

[4:12] this KLA leader has already said the

[4:15] resistance will continue. When pressed

[4:17] to commit to KLA disarmament, he

[4:19] refused. The KLA from its leadership

[4:22] right down to the trenches doesn't trust

[4:24] the Serbs. I know that Serbs always lies

[4:28] and they don't tell no anytime the

[4:30] truth. What they say is that the war is

[4:33] finished. They they want that the war

[4:35] get finished, but we don't trust them.

[4:37] >> One of NATO's main concerns is that the

[4:39] KLA will attack withdrawing Serb forces

[4:42] and provoke a Serb response. Only a year

[4:45] ago, the KA was a ragtag force of 2,000

[4:48] men. Today, it remains lightly armed,

[4:51] but has swollen to 17,000 soldiers. All

[4:55] along they have fought for an

[4:56] independent Kosovo. The peace plan and

[4:58] the international community offer

[5:00] something less. Autonomy.

[5:02] >> After a while, if it does not appear

[5:04] that they are going to achieve their

[5:06] agenda, there's a distinct possibility

[5:09] that some parts of the KLA might even

[5:11] turn against the NATO force.

[5:13] >> Because even though to many the Serbs

[5:15] appear to have lost this war until

[5:17] Kosovo becomes independent, the KLA

[5:20] believes it has won nothing. Richard

[5:22] Gizbert, ABC News, London.

[5:25] >> Peace agreement calls for the return of

[5:27] the nearly 1 million ethnic Albanians

[5:29] who were driven out of Kosovo. But as

[5:32] NATO works out the details of their

[5:34] return, there are signs that yet another

[5:36] refugee crisis could be on the horizon.

[5:39] From Belgrade tonight, ABC's Bob

[5:40] Woodruff.

[5:42] If the Serb military leaves Kosovo and

[5:45] NATO troops move in, there is growing

[5:47] concern here in Belgrade that the

[5:49] approximately 100,000 Serb civilians

[5:51] still living in Kosovo will flee.

[5:54] >> Most of them

[5:55] >> most of them will leave.

[5:56] >> Yeah. Probably from more than 60% of

[6:00] them.

[6:01] >> Even at the Pentagon today, there were

[6:03] predictions of an exodus. Uh, I don't

[6:06] think that Kosovo is going to be a very

[6:09] happy place for Serbs um when NATO comes

[6:12] in.

[6:14] >> What Serbs in Kosovo fear most is the

[6:16] Kosovo Liberation Army. They also fear

[6:19] ethnic Albanian refugees who may be

[6:21] intent on revenge for what the Serbs did

[6:23] to them. The hardline leader of Serbia's

[6:26] radical party, Voyasav Cheshel, warned

[6:28] today that without Serb soldiers

[6:30] remaining in Kosovo, no Serb will ever

[6:33] stay. Historian Frederick Marovich

[6:35] agrees.

[6:36] >> Nobody will stay uh under Albanian under

[6:40] pure Albanian administration.

[6:42] >> Nobody.

[6:43] >> Nobody.

[6:44] >> Today in Serbia, there are more than

[6:46] half a million displaced Serbs from the

[6:48] wars in Bosnia and Croatia. Now, UN

[6:51] officials warned that air strikes have

[6:52] inflicted so much damage, Serbia may be

[6:55] unable to accept many more. If we move

[6:57] into the winter with Serbia itself still

[7:01] suffering from the damage caused by the

[7:03] bombing, still not having heating and

[7:05] water, they may move out of Serbia into

[7:07] Bosnia or elsewhere.

[7:09] >> Today, one of Serbia's leading

[7:10] politicians pleaded with the Serbs in

[7:12] Kosovo to stay where they are, promising

[7:14] that they will be safe and protected.

[7:16] Clearly, the last thing Serbia needs now

[7:18] is a new flood of refugees. Bob

[7:21] Woodruff, ABC News, Belgrade. Soldiers

[7:24] from the US Army First Infantry Division

[7:26] are expected to be among the first

[7:28] American troops to enter Kosovo. Today

[7:30] on the shores of Normandy, members of

[7:32] that division honored soldiers from

[7:34] another era, reenacting the landing on

[7:37] Omaha Beach and marking the 55th

[7:40] anniversary of D-Day. 10,000 World War

[7:42] II veterans were there to attend the

[7:44] ceremonies. Still ahead on World News

[7:46] Tonight this Saturday, the jury's

[7:47] verdict on whether prosecutors and

[7:49] police framed this man. Stopping the

[7:53] cycle of drug crime, a plug from the

[7:56] stars and charismatic's difficult day

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[9:54] Here's ABC's Jim Williams.

[9:56] >> Hi guys.

[9:58] >> Following the verdict, there was relief

[9:59] among the veteran law enforcement

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[10:02] >> It shows that uh we're doing our job and

[10:05] we're doing it right. The defendants

[10:07] known as the DuPage 5 were accused of

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[10:46] of the DuPage 5, Cruz denied telling

[10:49] detectives about a dream, but in a

[10:51] startling admission, Cruz said he was

[10:53] now being treated by a psychiatrist to

[10:56] stop lying. That testimony, legal

[10:58] experts say, was the turning point in

[11:00] this trial.

[11:01] >> Rolando Cruz's credibility was very

[11:03] important to the prosecution, and the

[11:06] defense very effectively uh destroyed

[11:08] his credibility in the course of the

[11:10] trial.

[11:10] >> Throughout the trial, the parents of the

[11:12] murdered child stood by the defendants,

[11:15] convinced they had properly handled the

[11:17] prosecution of Cruz.

[11:18] >> Tears of joy. This is a celebration

[11:20] tonight. Nevertheless, still unsolved

[11:23] after 16 years is the murder of a little

[11:26] girl. Jim Williams, ABC News, Chicago.

[11:30] >> The war on drugs has produced few

[11:32] victories, but drug courts would appear

[11:35] to be among them. They started in South

[11:37] Florida as a way to get drug users into

[11:40] treatment while keeping the normal

[11:41] criminal courts free to deal harshly

[11:43] with drug dealers. Caught on around the

[11:46] country and now the federal courts may

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[11:51] >> This afternoon, at a meeting of drug

[11:53] court professionals, actor Martin Sheen

[11:56] praised the courts for helping his son

[11:58] who has publicly battled drug addiction.

[12:00] >> I can't think of anything more important

[12:02] to give our country than recovery.

[12:05] >> Charlie Sheen sent this recorded

[12:07] message.

[12:08] >> I look forward to the day when there is

[12:09] a drug court in every community. In just

[12:12] 10 years, the judges and prosecutors at

[12:14] this meeting have set up nearly 400

[12:17] state-run drug courts nationwide.

[12:20] Judicial alternatives for drugrelated

[12:22] offenders.

[12:23] >> So, you you really want to do something

[12:24] about changing your life?

[12:26] >> Yeah, I do.

[12:27] >> Defendants are given a choice. Clean up

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[12:31] >> Tom Gorum was an addict of 35 years who

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[12:36] >> Or I'd be a fool if I went back to jail

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[12:47] up federal drug courts in 10 cities. The

[12:50] nation's drugs are is behind the effort.

[12:52] He says it could help ease jail

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[12:56] costs.

[12:57] >> Locking people up for minimum mandatory

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[13:16] Most kick the habit for good, ending

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[13:22] more than 140,000 Americans have passed

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[13:27] estimated 80% of them are still clean

[13:30] and sober. Steve, ABC News, Miami Beach.

[13:34] In Little Rock, Arkansas today, American

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[13:43] Investigators hope the wreckage will

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[13:47] wing panels that slow the airplane down

[13:50] on landing. The co-pilot says he

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[13:54] flight recorder indicates otherwise.

[13:57] Coming up, troops pulling out, leaving a

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[16:18] For 17 years, Israel has occupied the

[16:20] southern part of Lebanon, an effort to

[16:22] protect northern Israel. But when an

[16:25] Israeli supported militia pulled out of

[16:27] the Lebanese town of Jazine this week,

[16:29] it was a sign that Israel intends as its

[16:31] new prime minister has promised to leave

[16:34] Lebanon for good. But as ABC's Klay

[16:36] Scott reports, the road to withdrawal is

[16:39] a rocky one.

[16:41] >> They poured into the streets of Jazine

[16:43] today to welcome their president. The

[16:45] emotion was spontaneous. Joy at

[16:47] rejoining the rest of Lebanon, relief

[16:49] that their backyard will no longer be a

[16:51] battlefield, as well as fear.

[16:55] The few remaining residents of this once

[16:57] thriving Christian town know that to

[16:58] many Lebanese, they are considered

[17:00] collaborators with Israel.

[17:04] The soldiers of the South Lebanon army,

[17:06] the Israelibbacked militia that ruled

[17:08] Jazine for 15 years, suddenly retreated

[17:10] on Thursday, finally driven out by the

[17:13] deadly attacks of Hezbollah guerillas.

[17:15] The last devastating blow, this roadside

[17:18] bomb that killed an SLA commander. The

[17:21] Lebanese government sees the pull out

[17:23] from Jazine as a triumph, the first step

[17:25] toward the end of Israeli occupation,

[17:27] but the complete pullback they're hoping

[17:28] for could leave a dangerous security

[17:30] vacuum.

[17:33] If Israel does withdraw from southern

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[17:37] recently promised, it's the Lebanese

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[17:40] void, keeping peace between the area's

[17:42] Muslims and Christians. And the US wants

[17:45] to make sure they're up to the task.

[17:47] Since the end of the civil war here in

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[17:50] Lebanese army millions of dollars in

[17:53] military equipment. From uniforms and

[17:55] rifles to tanks and helicopters,

[17:58] dozens of Lebanese officers have gone to

[18:00] the US for training. Now they say they

[18:02] are strong enough to keep the south from

[18:04] falling back into civil war.

[18:06] >> We in the army, we are ready to uh uh do

[18:10] our job and execute the mission.

[18:13] >> Today, Israel's jets fired rockets at

[18:15] what it said were Hezbollah targets,

[18:17] showing no sign it's ready to withdraw

[18:20] anytime soon. Clay Scott, ABC News,

[18:23] South Lebanon.

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[20:37] at Belmont. Today, it was to be a race

[20:39] for the history books. Tonight, it is

[20:41] concern over the injury suffered by

[20:43] Charismatic, who entered the stretch of

[20:45] the Belmont Stakes with a little bit of

[20:47] a lead and a chance to be the first

[20:49] Triple Crown winner in 21 years. Lesie

[20:52] Visser of ABC Sports covered the race

[20:54] and joins us tonight from Belmont. Good

[20:56] evening, Lesie. Good evening, Aaron. It

[20:58] was a day of mixed emotions out here at

[21:00] the 131st Belmont. Charismatic and

[21:02] trying to become the 12th horse to win

[21:04] the Triple Crown, suffered a condular

[21:06] fracture of his left front cannon bone.

[21:09] It is not life-threatening. That is the

[21:11] important information. He will undergo

[21:13] surgery tomorrow. Wayne Lucas, the

[21:15] trainer, just now said it probably was

[21:17] life-saving that Chris Antley, the

[21:19] jockey, pulled him up quickly and hopped

[21:21] off, but Chris Antley was quite

[21:23] emotional after the race.

[21:28] >> He broke down just after the wire. You

[21:30] know, it's just a sad thing when these

[21:32] things happen.

[21:33] Um, he gave us a lot. He gave America a

[21:38] lot.

[21:40] >> He certainly will not be forgotten. And

[21:42] not to be forgotten in this race is the

[21:44] effort of Lemon Drop Kid who did win the

[21:46] Bellmont. Charismatics battled him

[21:48] through the stretch. Lemon Drop Kid a

[21:50] quite a long shot for trainer Scotty

[21:53] >> Schulhoffer.

[21:55] CHARISMATIC IS BEATEN. HERE'S THE

[21:57] FINISH. It's going to BE TIGHT. LEMON

[21:59] DROP KID I BELIEVE HELD ON TO WIN IT BY

[22:01] A HEAD. TRAINED by Scotty Schulhaford.

[22:04] Written by Jose

[22:04] >> for Scotty Schulhaford. That was another

[22:06] upset win in the Belmont. In 1993, he

[22:08] won with Longshot Colonial Affair. Well,

[22:11] Aaron, it's been, you know, quite a day

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[22:18] >> Leslie, thanks. ABC's Leslie Visser

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[22:35] back, memories of a music legend.

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[24:35] >> Finally tonight from us, the death of

[24:36] Mel Tormet, one of the great singers of

[24:38] our time, or perhaps another time

[24:41] really. There aren't many of his era

[24:42] left anymore. Mel Tormet died in

[24:45] California early today. Complications

[24:47] from a stroke. He was 73. Here's ABC's

[24:50] Bob Brown.

[24:53] >> Hold it. Hold it. Yeah. Yeah. Hold it,

[24:55] guys. You got to count four. Do you want

[24:57] me to count it for you?

[24:58] >> He was impatient. He was demanding. But

[25:01] he was an artist who understood every

[25:02] nuance of a song and his and everyone

[25:04] else's role in it.

[25:06] >> Natches to Mobile

[25:09] to St. Joe wherever the winds blow.

[25:13] >> The reason he earned such respect was

[25:15] that Tormet was not only one of the

[25:17] great vocal interpreters, he was one of

[25:19] the few named singers who could also

[25:21] write his own band arrangements. It was

[25:23] as if the cliche musician's musician was

[25:26] invented to describe him.

[25:30] >> As a teenage prodigy from Chicago in the

[25:33] 1940s, he used his skill as a drummer to

[25:36] perform with the Chico Marx band, then

[25:38] graduated to featured roles in Hollywood

[25:40] musicals. He settled down in Beverly

[25:42] Hills, where sitting by a pool one day

[25:45] in the heat of July, he wrote one of the

[25:47] most recorded songs of all time, the

[25:50] Christmas song. Chestnuts

[25:53] roasting on an open fire.

[25:56] >> He was only 21 then, but as he aged, he

[25:59] knew he would never fit the classic

[26:01] image of a kuner like his contemporary

[26:03] Frank Sinatra.

[26:04] >> Look at this classic profile of mine.

[26:07] Sort of small chin, double chin. Uh, not

[26:10] exactly Robert Redford. I am not a sex

[26:12] symbol type singer.

[26:16] >> Grow long. and he seemed to come easily

[26:19] to terms with the fact that he wasn't a

[26:20] huge commercial success. If we're going

[26:23] to fail, he once said, "Let's do it in

[26:25] style."

[26:26] >> So, he honed the musicianship that

[26:28] defined his career. And with typical

[26:31] Tormet feistiness, he fought the record

[26:33] labels that insisted he pad his

[26:35] recordings with rock and roll when that

[26:37] style came into vogue. I had to fight

[26:40] for every inch of wax that I wanted to

[26:43] record. And they said, "Don't be a wise

[26:46] punk. We'll tell you what to sing. I

[26:48] said, "No, you won't. Not unless you're

[26:52] Duke Ellington. Then you can tell me

[26:54] what to sing." Benny Goodman, you can

[26:56] tell me what to sing. Arty Shaw, but you

[26:59] don't know as much about music as I do.

[27:03] >> Not many people did. Don't

[27:07] swing.

[27:11] >> Back in the early days of his career, a

[27:14] disc jockey trying to describe Tormet's

[27:16] voice gave him the nickname the Velvet

[27:18] Fog. It stuck, but he never liked it.

[27:21] And in his 40s and 50s, as his voice

[27:24] matured and darkened, that old nickname

[27:26] became even less appropriate. This man

[27:29] who estimated he knew more than 5,000

[27:31] songs always illuminated the music with

[27:34] his voice.

[27:41] >> He never obscured it.

[27:49] >> He did transform it.

[28:03] Square.

[28:08] Bob Brown, ABC News, New York.

[28:17] >> Well, Tormet, we welcome your thoughts

[28:19] and comments on what we do. You can

[28:21] email us at weekendabcnews.com.

[28:24] That's our report for tonight. Tomorrow

[28:26] on this week with Sam Donaldson and Koki

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