World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-05-25
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[0:00] Congratulations.
[0:01] We'll see you at 6:00.
[0:06] >> On World News Tonight this Tuesday, how
[0:08] did China get its hands on 20 years of
[0:11] US technology? A congressional report
[0:13] says serious espionage is still going
[0:16] on.
[0:17] Two major cities use consumer protection
[0:19] laws to sue the nation's gun makers.
[0:22] And we'll take a closer look at pain,
[0:25] beyond the drugs, beyond the body.
[0:36] From ABC News world headquarters in New
[0:38] York,
[0:40] this is World News Tonight with Peter
[0:42] Jennings.
[0:43] >> Good evening. 20 years of Chinese
[0:45] espionage, not surprising that China
[0:47] wants American nuclear technology. What
[0:49] is a shock in the report by a
[0:51] congressional committee today is how
[0:53] much the Chinese appear to have acquired
[0:55] in 20 years. According to the Cox
[0:58] report, so named for the Republican
[1:00] chairman of the committee, the Chinese
[1:01] have managed to steal or buy or be given
[1:04] classified information on every warhead
[1:07] in the US ballistic missile arsenal.
[1:09] The report itself is so sensitive that
[1:11] nearly a third of it is classified and
[1:13] will not see the light of day.
[1:16] First, here's ABC's Linda Douglas.
[1:19] >> The report concludes that the Chinese
[1:21] espionage effort, which has been going
[1:23] on for two decades, is still going on
[1:26] now.
[1:27] >> It is
[1:28] exceptionally likely that that
[1:30] penetration
[1:32] of our US national weapons laboratories
[1:35] continues
[1:36] to this very day.
[1:37] >> Republicans accuse President Clinton of
[1:39] being too eager to do business with
[1:41] China. They charge his administration
[1:43] relaxed security and failed to go after
[1:46] spies.
[1:47] >> The administration has taken a a very
[1:49] casual, almost cavalier attitude uh
[1:52] toward the security breaches at the
[1:54] national labs.
[1:55] >> Administration officials countered that
[1:57] they have taken unprecedented steps to
[1:59] tighten security in the labs and Mr.
[2:01] Clinton defended America's economic
[2:03] relationship with China.
[2:05] >> I strongly believe that our continuing
[2:07] engagement with China
[2:09] has produced benefits for our national
[2:11] security.
[2:12] >> But maintaining that economic
[2:13] relationship while tightening security
[2:15] could be difficult. For example, the Cox
[2:18] Committee recommends verifying that
[2:20] high-performance supercomputers sold to
[2:22] China are used for commercial, not
[2:24] military purposes. That would require
[2:26] constant on-site monitoring. And some
[2:29] leaks will be even harder to plug. The
[2:31] Cox report found that China has 3,000
[2:34] so-called front companies in the US like
[2:36] Catic in California. It is hard to track
[2:39] how much of its operations are
[2:41] commercial and how much are devoted to
[2:42] obtaining sensitive US military
[2:44] technology.
[2:46] Now, Republican leaders on Capitol Hill
[2:48] want heads to roll, specifically those
[2:50] of Attorney General Janet Reno and
[2:52] National Security Advisor Sandy Berger.
[2:55] There are several congressional
[2:56] investigations underway and this time,
[2:58] Peter, they are bipartisan.
[3:00] >> Thanks very much, Linda Douglas. On
[3:01] Capitol Hill, a spokesman for the
[3:03] Chinese Foreign Ministry today denied
[3:04] any espionage
[3:06] and said the report is an attempt to
[3:08] divert attention from the US attack on
[3:10] the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.
[3:12] It certainly complicates the delicate
[3:14] relationship between the US and China.
[3:17] If it's true and China has been feeding
[3:19] an insatiable appetite for technology
[3:21] for 20 years,
[3:22] what difference has it made? ABC's Mark
[3:25] Litke reports tonight from Beijing.
[3:29] >> Celebrating itself on China television,
[3:31] the People's Liberation Army still seems
[3:33] stuck in another era, more propaganda
[3:36] than military prowess.
[3:38] As for its nuclear arsenal, it's
[3:40] outdated and relatively small.
[3:43] >> The weapons that China has are very old.
[3:45] They started deploying them in 1981 and
[3:47] they're coming to the end of their
[3:48] useful operational life.
[3:50] >> China insists its nuclear arsenal is
[3:52] still only defensive, but it apparently
[3:55] has been upgrading its weapons and
[3:57] missile technology much faster than many
[3:59] realized.
[4:01] US intelligence officials now fear
[4:03] China's biggest leap forward has come
[4:05] with the designs for the W88 nuclear
[4:08] warhead, believed to have been obtained
[4:10] at Los Alamos, allowing China to
[4:12] miniaturize nuclear weapons and for the
[4:15] first time place multiple warheads on
[4:17] missiles.
[4:18] >> They wanted this very badly and they
[4:20] needed it. And they decided to go after
[4:23] it, apparently, and they got a
[4:25] breakthrough at Los Alamos lab.
[4:28] >> James Lilley, former US ambassador to
[4:30] China, says that with more sophisticated
[4:32] nuclear weapons, it will be easier for
[4:34] Beijing to bully its Asian neighbors,
[4:37] easier to stand up to US power in the
[4:40] Pacific.
[4:41] When China fired missiles to threaten
[4:43] Taiwan 3 years ago, the US sent a task
[4:46] force to the region warning China to
[4:48] back off.
[4:50] Former ambassador Lilley believes that
[4:51] in a future showdown, a better armed
[4:53] China could threaten a counterattack on,
[4:56] say, Los Angeles if the US chose to
[4:59] defend Taiwan.
[5:00] >> Will you sacrifice Los Angeles?
[5:02] Think about it.
[5:03] >> Most military analysts still believe
[5:05] China is years away from deploying the
[5:07] technology it may have acquired.
[5:09] >> China does not pose a military threat to
[5:11] the United States for at least the next
[5:13] 10 to 20 years.
[5:15] >> But that is a timetable the Chinese
[5:17] military seems determined to accelerate.
[5:21] Mark Litke, ABC News, Beijing.
[5:24] >> On the subject of sensitive
[5:25] relationships, former Defense Secretary
[5:27] William Perry flew into North Korea
[5:29] today with a letter from President
[5:30] Clinton for the Korean leadership.
[5:32] The letter will propose economic
[5:34] incentives from the United States if
[5:36] North Korea gives up its attempts to
[5:38] develop a nuclear weapons programs and
[5:41] sell weapons abroad. Mr. Perry is the
[5:43] highest ranking US official to go to
[5:45] Korea since the Korean War four decades
[5:49] ago.
[5:50] When we come back, two more lawsuits
[5:52] against the gun industry. This time,
[5:54] California on the attack.
[5:57] And our series on pain management.
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[7:28] >> Two of the country's most important
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[7:31] the gun industry. They are using their
[7:33] state's consumer protection law to go
[7:36] after the gun makers. ABC's Judy Muller
[7:38] reports from California.
[7:42] >> The lawsuit filed by San Francisco, Los
[7:44] Angeles, and a number of other
[7:45] California cities is the broadest attack
[7:47] yet on the gun industry.
[7:49] >> I think it's time for them to pay.
[7:51] They need to pay for the violence in
[7:53] this country. They need to pay for the
[7:54] bloodshed.
[7:55] >> The suit names dozens of gun
[7:57] manufacturers and calls for civil
[7:59] penalties and sanctions that could
[8:00] amount to millions of dollars.
[8:02] It is based on a sweeping California
[8:04] consumer protection law that holds
[8:06] manufacturers liable for the way they
[8:08] make and sell their product.
[8:10] >> The key is proving that gun
[8:12] manufacturers did wrong things. That gun
[8:14] manufacturers did not put locks on guns
[8:17] they could have. That gun manufacturers
[8:18] created a distribution system where it
[8:20] was foreseeable it would cause harm.
[8:23] >> In other words, the cities would have to
[8:24] prove the manufacturers have failed to
[8:26] prevent their guns from being resold to
[8:29] unauthorized or underage buyers. But
[8:32] those manufacturers say it's unfair to
[8:33] hold them responsible for the criminal
[8:35] actions of others.
[8:37] >> There is no manufacturer of any product
[8:39] that can guarantee that it that the end
[8:42] consumer is not going to misuse the
[8:44] product in some way.
[8:45] >> While this lawsuit may be an unusual,
[8:47] even radical, approach, city officials
[8:50] argue they're dealing with a radical
[8:51] problem. More people die in California
[8:54] from gunshot wounds than in auto
[8:56] accidents. Judy Miller, ABC News, Los
[8:58] Angeles.
[9:00] >> Here in New York today, a dramatic turn
[9:01] of events in a police brutality case
[9:03] that has engrossed this city for almost
[9:05] 2 years. A Haitian immigrant, Abner
[9:08] Louima, had been tortured inside a
[9:10] police station and threatened with his
[9:12] life if he talked. Today, the cop
[9:15] finally said he did it. Here's ABC's
[9:17] Bill Redeker.
[9:19] >> After repeatedly denying the charges,
[9:21] Officer Justin Volpe came to court today
[9:24] and confessed to the brutal attack. "In
[9:26] the bathroom at the precinct, I
[9:28] sodomized Mr. Louima with a stick," he
[9:30] said. "I then threatened to kill him if
[9:32] he told anybody."
[9:34] Fighting back tears, the 27-year-old
[9:36] policeman then turned and apologized to
[9:38] his family, but not to his victim or
[9:41] anyone else.
[9:42] >> When you plead guilty, I think that's a
[9:43] sufficient apology. The man's facing
[9:45] life.
[9:47] >> In a city where the mayor and police are
[9:48] routinely accused of insensitivity and
[9:51] even racism, this case provoked outrage
[9:54] and disgust from everyone.
[9:56] >> Whose watch these horrific sadistic acts
[10:00] took place under?
[10:02] It was this police commissioner and this
[10:04] mayor.
[10:06] >> The so-called blue wall of silence
[10:08] behind which police officers refuse to
[10:10] testify against one another looked like
[10:12] it might hold in this case, too.
[10:14] But with the threat of a federal
[10:15] investigation, officer after officer
[10:18] took the stand against Volpe, testifying
[10:20] that he bragged openly of, quote,
[10:22] "breaking a man," even showing off the
[10:25] broom handle he used in the attack.
[10:27] >> Four other officers still face charges
[10:29] in this case, but for Justin Volpe, it
[10:31] is over. He now faces 25 years up to
[10:34] life in prison without the possibility
[10:36] of parole. Bill Whitaker, ABC News, New
[10:39] York.
[10:40] >> Of news,
[10:42] without being sexist about it, for
[10:43] mothers particularly, in Washington
[10:45] today, the government announced it's
[10:46] going to require plants that make
[10:48] luncheon meats,
[10:49] such as cold cuts and hot dogs, to
[10:51] establish new safety standards to guard
[10:53] against the bacteria called listeria.
[10:56] The government is also recommending that
[10:57] people most at risk for listeria,
[10:59] pregnant women and those over 65, take
[11:01] special precautions, including heating
[11:04] the processed meat until it is steaming
[11:07] hot.
[11:09] On the money tonight, confirmation that
[11:10] the demands of a heavy workload in a
[11:12] booming economy and family are taking a
[11:14] toll on some. A new survey finds that
[11:16] the number of people calling in sick is
[11:19] up 25% in the past 2 years. Mortgage
[11:22] rates are up, which explains why sales
[11:25] of existing single-family homes were
[11:27] down more than 3% last month.
[11:30] And on Wall Street today, the Dow Jones
[11:31] Industrial Average was down 123 points
[11:34] to close at 10,531.
[11:38] On the NASDAQ, stocks were down 72
[11:42] points. By the way, there is some air
[11:44] coming out of the internet stock bubble.
[11:45] The Dow Jones index of internet stocks
[11:48] is down more than 30% from its high this
[11:51] year.
[11:52] When we come back, the NATO alliance in
[11:54] Yugoslavia. NATO's going to double the
[11:56] number of troops near Kosovo.
[11:59] Peacekeepers or something else.
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[14:09] >> There appears no end tonight to the flow
[14:11] of people leaving Kosovo. Now there are
[14:13] reports of 150,000 people backed up
[14:17] waiting to enter Macedonia. It is
[14:19] already the largest outflow of people in
[14:22] nearly a month.
[14:23] United States and its NATO allies said
[14:25] today they're going to double the size
[14:27] of their force in the region to what
[14:29] 50,000 soldiers. The question tonight is
[14:31] this, is NATO preparing to keep the
[14:33] peace
[14:34] or fight a ground war? ABC's John
[14:36] Cochran at the Pentagon.
[14:40] >> NATO officials decided the original
[14:42] peacekeeping force was too small, that
[14:45] even if there is a peace agreement this
[14:46] summer, more force will be needed to
[14:48] move the ethnic Albanians back to Kosovo
[14:51] before winter and to protect them once
[14:53] they have returned. The new force will
[14:55] include 7,000 American troops who would
[14:57] go to Macedonia, 1,800 of them Marines
[15:01] now on board the USS Kearsarge in the
[15:03] Adriatic. The balance would come from
[15:05] the First Infantry Division in Germany.
[15:07] Today, US officials insisted the new
[15:09] force will go into Kosovo only after a
[15:12] peace agreement.
[15:13] >> This is not a shadow invasion force.
[15:14] This is being constituted as as a
[15:16] peacekeeping force.
[15:19] >> But it could also be the core of an
[15:20] invasion force if NATO's leaders ever
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[15:26] threat, so much the better. Maybe it
[15:28] will help push him toward the peace
[15:30] table.
[15:30] >> The key point is that it displays
[15:33] determination of NATO to
[15:35] persevere in the in this endeavor, and
[15:38] that in itself will have a psychological
[15:40] impact on President Milosevic.
[15:42] >> NATO hopes different audiences will get
[15:44] different messages from today's
[15:45] decision. To those allies like Germany
[15:48] who oppose a ground invasion,
[15:50] reassurance that it won't happen. To
[15:52] Slobodan Milosevic, an unspoken warning
[15:54] that it might.
[15:57] John Cochran, ABC News, the Pentagon.
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[18:47] >> This week we're taking a closer look at
[18:48] pain and pain management. So many
[18:51] doctors and scientists who work in the
[18:52] field tell us that medicine in general
[18:54] has not paid enough attention to the
[18:56] science of pain or how available
[18:59] treatment is. And yet, one in five
[19:02] Americans suffers from pain on a daily
[19:04] basis. Millions of people spend a
[19:06] fortune on drugs to alleviate pain
[19:09] and you know they don't always work.
[19:12] And so tonight, first, ABC's Nancy
[19:14] Snyderman takes us beyond drugs.
[19:19] >> Many practitioners still remember how
[19:21] suspicious doctors were of Eastern
[19:23] medicine in the '80s.
[19:25] >> You really didn't tell people what you
[19:26] did because in most states it was
[19:29] illegal and in most places
[19:32] you were thought of as a felon.
[19:34] >> But with a recent Harvard study showing
[19:36] that 60% of chronic pain sufferers use
[19:39] some form of alternative medicine.
[19:41] >> And if you bring your hands up like
[19:42] this,
[19:43] >> traditional doctors could no longer
[19:45] ignore patient requests for options.
[19:48] >> Now Western physicians are increasingly
[19:50] turning to Eastern medicine for help
[19:52] with pain control. Doctors are
[19:54] prescribing everything from acupuncture
[19:56] to movement-based Qigong for people who
[19:59] need help with pain, but either aren't
[20:01] responding with conventional medicines
[20:03] or don't like the side effects.
[20:06] >> You yoga did that a little bit?
[20:08] >> Yeah, I yoga did that a lot.
[20:10] >> At UCLA's Mattel Children's Hospital,
[20:13] they've made licensed acupuncturist
[20:15] Michael Waterhouse the first
[20:17] non-physician acupuncturist to be
[20:20] granted full clinical privileges.
[20:22] >> The traditionalists, in a sense, got
[20:24] into complementary therapies kicking and
[20:27] screaming because it wasn't by their
[20:30] choice. It was the whole movement, I
[20:32] think, was moved by the public.
[20:33] >> But now traditionalists are moving it
[20:36] even further. UCLA and other medical
[20:38] schools and universities are doing
[20:40] research to better understand how
[20:43] acupuncture and other alternative
[20:45] therapies work.
[20:46] >> We need to determine what is safe, what
[20:49] is effective for what types of patients,
[20:51] what types of conditions, and also do
[20:53] they lower costs?
[20:55] >> Here at the University of Maryland's
[20:57] Complementary Medicine Program, two
[20:59] recent studies evaluated the
[21:01] effectiveness of acupuncture for the
[21:03] treatment of osteoarthritis pain.
[21:05] >> Now.
[21:06] >> Breathe in and she gone for the painful
[21:09] musculoskeletal disease fibromyalgia.
[21:12] Both treatments gave significant pain
[21:14] relief. At the University of California,
[21:17] Irvine, Dr. Zhang-Hee Cho has shown that
[21:20] an acupuncture point on the foot
[21:22] actually stimulates the area of your
[21:24] brain that controls sight. It's all part
[21:27] of a sea change that is expected to
[21:29] alter medicine.
[21:30] >> We'll drop the labels of alternative or
[21:32] conventional, and it will become
[21:34] effective and non-effective medicine.
[21:36] >> The only distinctions important to any
[21:38] chronic pain sufferer.
[21:40] Dr. Nancy Snyderman, ABC News, San
[21:43] Francisco.
[21:44] >> The specialists in pain management tell
[21:46] us that the most significant scientific
[21:49] breakthrough in recent years has been
[21:50] the understanding that pain is
[21:52] connected, as you see there, to certain
[21:54] parts of the brain. Here's ABC's Deborah
[21:56] Amos.
[21:59] >> This was one of science's oldest
[22:01] mysteries. It's called the pain
[22:03] illusion.
[22:05] Touching these warm and cool bars
[22:07] produces pain, even though they're not
[22:10] cold enough or hot enough to hurt the
[22:12] skin. So, where does the pain come from?
[22:15] The answer, the brain.
[22:17] >> We can have pain without having injury.
[22:19] We can have injury without having
[22:22] obvious pain or without having pain. And
[22:24] that there is not a one-to-one uh
[22:27] correspondence between the injury that
[22:29] we see and the pain that we feel.
[22:32] >> Dr. Catherine Bushnell is a pioneer in
[22:35] pain research. With these brain scans,
[22:37] she proved that pain from the illusion
[22:40] and pain from a burning metal plate feel
[22:43] the same.
[22:44] >> It's a mistake because you're not
[22:46] hurting yourself, yet you feel that
[22:48] you're hurting yourself.
[22:49] >> An idea that changes how doctors have to
[22:52] view patients with chronic pain.
[22:54] >> It's very important for doctors to be
[22:56] aware that pain can be very real, even
[22:59] though the cause, the the the the injury
[23:02] is not identified.
[23:04] >> Scientists now know that there's no
[23:07] direct path to the brain from injury to
[23:10] ouch. Pain occurs when several parts of
[23:12] the brain are active, including the
[23:15] areas that control emotions and how we
[23:18] pay attention.
[23:19] >> And that helps explain another important
[23:21] part of Dr. Bushnell's findings. Pain
[23:24] can be reduced when the patient is
[23:26] distracted, not thinking about the pain.
[23:29] >> When you're distracted and that pain
[23:31] seems to go away,
[23:32] it's really gone away. You're not just
[23:34] learning to ignore the pain that's in
[23:37] your brain.
[23:37] >> This idea is changing the way pain is
[23:40] treated. Distraction, such as virtual
[23:42] reality for burn patients and hypnosis
[23:45] for chronic pain, have profound results.
[23:48] Poet and pain patient Reynolds Price
[23:51] used hypnosis to reduce his burning pain
[23:54] by 50%.
[23:56] >> It goes from here
[23:58] to here, which is negligible.
[24:01] Even though I have good peripheral
[24:02] vision, I still can see the glare of the
[24:04] flames.
[24:06] But, they don't hurt.
[24:08] >> Because it's the brain that controls our
[24:11] perception of pain. Deborah Amos, ABC
[24:14] News, Montreal.
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[26:21] >> One of the world's great works of art is
[26:23] going to be accessible to the public
[26:24] this summer. For the first time in 20
[26:26] years, Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper,
[26:29] which he painted in the church of Santa
[26:30] Maria delle Grazie in Milan 500 years
[26:33] ago, has suffered terribly the ravages
[26:36] of time
[26:37] and the elements.
[26:40] Leonardo's masterpiece has been the
[26:42] victim of humidity and air pollution and
[26:44] very poor art restoration until now.
[26:48] This effort, sponsored by the Italian
[26:50] government, began in 1979.
[26:52] This time art restorers have delicately
[26:55] removed layer after layer of paint
[26:58] applied since the original work and
[27:00] filled in areas where the original paint
[27:02] had flaked off. The results are
[27:05] dramatic.
[27:05] >> We now have a much better idea of what
[27:07] Leonardo's picture would have looked
[27:09] like from the surviving details, but we
[27:12] know that recovering what it looked like
[27:14] in total is in a sense an impossible
[27:16] job.
[27:18] >> 500 years is 500 years. Still, for the
[27:22] first time in several centuries, some of
[27:24] the original detail is clearly there in
[27:27] the facial expressions, in the eyes,
[27:30] the food on the table,
[27:32] the folds in the tablecloth.
[27:35] Da Vinci completed The Last Supper in
[27:37] 1498. The painting portrays Jesus with
[27:40] his apostles on the night before his
[27:42] crucifixion.
[27:44] There is one more facet of this
[27:46] restoration to control the environment
[27:49] in the church where Da Vinci worked so
[27:51] that this extraordinary work will
[27:52] survive the elements for several hundred
[27:55] years more.
[27:57] That's our report on World News Tonight.
[27:59] I'm Peter Jennings. Have a good evening.
[28:00] I hope to see you tomorrow. Good night.
[28:10] >> Tomorrow, common over-the-counter
[28:12] painkillers. Why and when they could be
[28:14] lethal. Watch ABC's World News Tonight
[28:17] with Peter Jennings.
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