World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-02-17

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-02-17
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[0:00] Six. See you then.

[0:04] >> On World News Tonight this Wednesday,

[0:06] that ship split in half on the Oregon

[0:08] coast. First they tried to burn it. Now

[0:10] they want to sink it. They better get it

[0:12] right. Kurdish demonstrators die in

[0:15] Europe today as they do what they can in

[0:17] support of this man. When rich

[0:20] adventurers get into trouble, should it

[0:21] be the taxpayer who comes to the rescue?

[0:24] Maybe there's another way. And how about

[0:26] weather as a weapon? It's a little far

[0:29] out, but the Pentagon is watching and

[0:31] we'll take a closer look.

[0:40] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:43] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:46] Peter Jennings.

[0:47] >> Good evening. We begin tonight on the

[0:48] coast of Oregon where a grounded ship

[0:50] carrying heavy crude oil has proved to

[0:52] be a very stubborn environmental

[0:54] challenge. And unless the authorities

[0:56] get it right, this time an ecological

[0:58] disaster is still a possibility. The new

[1:02] Carissa got into the news a couple of

[1:03] weeks ago when she slipped her anchor

[1:04] and was pushed onshore by high winds and

[1:07] the surf. It's not been possible to pump

[1:09] the oil off and it has been leaking all

[1:12] the time. The plan to burn it off didn't

[1:14] work. So today, another plan. Here's

[1:17] ABC's Judy Mueller.

[1:20] It seemed like a good plan at the time,

[1:22] but with rupt weather threatening to

[1:23] break up the new Carissa and spill

[1:25] 400,000 gallons of oil, the Coast Guard

[1:28] set the ship on fire. They hoped that

[1:30] most of the heavy oil would burn off.

[1:32] They were wrong. I

[1:32] >> mean, the buck stops here and and you

[1:35] can always go back and say should have,

[1:36] co