World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-06-29

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[0:00] Six.

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

[0:06] big news about changing Medicare,

[0:08] helping millions of people buy

[0:10] prescription drugs. The big news on

[0:13] interest rates. Tomorrow's the day.

[0:15] >> Yay. He's a big one.

[0:17] >> We'll take a closer look at new

[0:18] technology to identify turbulence before

[0:21] it finds the plane that you're in. And

[0:24] the amazing comeback for the world's

[0:26] most endangered sea turtle.

[0:36] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:38] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:42] Peter Jennings.

[0:43] >> Good evening. We're going to begin

[0:44] tonight with Medicare. The word alone is

[0:46] enough to peique the interest of 39

[0:48] million elderly and disabled Americans

[0:50] who depend on it for health care. Say

[0:53] you're going to change Medicare and you

[0:54] get a lot of people's full attention.

[0:57] President Clinton wants to make some

[0:58] changes. He said so today. He says what

[1:00] he has in mind will make Medicare

[1:02] financially secure and provide better

[1:05] care. He has a lot of people's full

[1:08] attention. First, here's ABC's Jackie

[1:10] Jud.

[1:12] >> President Clinton said his plan would do

[1:14] two things. Keep Medicare from going

[1:16] broke and modernize it by offering

[1:18] coverage for prescription drugs. Nobody

[1:20] would devise a Medicare program today if

[1:24] we were starting all over without

[1:26] including a prescription drug benefit.

[1:30] >> In the first year of the

[1:31] administration's plan, seniors who want

[1:33] to participate would pay a $288 annual

[1:36] premium. In exchange, the government

[1:39] would cover half the cost of drugs with

[1:41] a cap of $2,000 total. There's more.

[1:45] Another proposed new benefit would offer

[1:47] at no cost preventive care such as

[1:50] mammograms, screening tests for colon

[1:52] and prostate cancer and osteoporosis.

[1:55] Buried in the plan is how all this would

[1:57] be paid for. The surplus covers some,

[2:00] but not all of it. Recipients would have

[2:03] to pay a larger deductible for

[2:05] outpatient care. It's been frozen at

[2:07] $100 for several years. increases would

[2:10] be linked to inflation and they would

[2:13] have to pay 20% of lab tests which are

[2:16] now free. But under the administration's

[2:18] plan, providers take the biggest hit.

[2:21] The administration wants to reduce

[2:23] expected payments over 10 years to

[2:25] hospitals, doctors, and others by more

[2:28] than $ 31 billion. There were several

[2:31] congressional Republicans in the

[2:32] audience here today suggesting that

[2:35] while there will be fights over the

[2:36] details, there is some common ground,

[2:39] especially when it comes to the

[2:41] politically popular idea of offering

[2:43] drug coverage to seniors. Peter,

[2:45] >> thank you, Jackie. Jackie Jud at the

[2:46] White House tonight. The president's

[2:47] proposal for Medicare has a certain

[2:49] urgency to it for many people. One of

[2:51] the companies that manages drug benefits

[2:53] for several major health plans reports

[2:56] that the prices of popular drugs are up

[2:58] as much as 20% over the last two years.

[3:00] And so the plan to have Medicare pay for

[3:03] prescription drugs is a recognition of

[3:06] the burden. Here's ABC's John Cochran.

[3:10] >> My plan will offer an affordable

[3:11] prescription drug benefit.

[3:13] >> Across the country, the elderly watch

[3:14] the president tell them help may be

[3:16] coming for prescription drugs in New

[3:18] York. I mean, I think it's it's a step

[3:19] in the right direction. I think it

[3:21] should have been done a long time ago.

[3:23] >> What he said sounded wonderful to me,

[3:25] but it seemed that all the benefits are

[3:27] for the future. I need help now in my

[3:29] pharmacy bill.

[3:30] >> In Los Angeles,

[3:31] >> well, it sounded great, and I just hope

[3:33] it I hope it works.

[3:36] >> A 90-year-old said Congress will pass a

[3:38] drug benefit only if older folks fight

[3:40] for it.

[3:41] >> We can do it, but we have to make

[3:44] ourselves hurt. For many older people,

[3:47] the Clinton plan is welcome, but it

[3:49] would hardly solve the problems of those

[3:51] who have huge drug bills every month.

[3:54] That would include the Mitchells, who

[3:56] live in Florida. 68-year-old Willie has

[3:58] kidney problems, heart problems, and

[4:00] diabetes. The Mitchell's combined income

[4:02] each month from Social Security is only

[4:05] $1,200.

[4:06] Last month, Willy's drug bill alone was

[4:08] more than $1,000. To make it through

[4:10] each month, he cuts back on food and on

[4:12] medication, cutting his pills into

[4:15] quarters.

[4:15] >> And sometimes I have to take insulin

[4:18] four times a day. So I I'll use one

[4:21] syringe four times, which is not

[4:23] recommended, but you just have to do

[4:24] what you have to do.

[4:26] >> Meanwhile, other things don't get done.

[4:28] The leaky roof stays leaky. Bills don't

[4:30] get paid. Lots of bills.

[4:32] >> It's hard to pay because we just don't

[4:35] have the money. Under the Clinton plan,

[4:37] Willie would get only $83 a month. Not

[4:40] enough. And he is skeptical that

[4:41] Washington politicians will do even that

[4:44] much.

[4:44] >> Instead of u looking out for the needs

[4:49] of the elderly, they're looking out to

[4:52] get the best foothold politically.

[4:54] >> His doctor urged him to go to Mexico

[4:56] where drugs are cheaper. But as a war

[4:58] veteran who paid taxes all his life,

[5:00] Willie can't understand why his own

[5:02] government can't help more. John

[5:04] Cochran, ABC News, Washington.

[5:07] >> On Wall Street today, the Dow Jones

[5:09] Industrial Average is up more than 160

[5:11] points to close at 10,815.

[5:14] On the Nasdaq, stocks were up about 39

[5:17] 12 points. In Washington today, the

[5:19] Federal Reserve Board, chaired by Alan

[5:21] Greenspan, began two days of meetings.

[5:24] That's him on his way in his usual

[5:26] fashion. They're meeting on the economy.

[5:28] And as we've said before, certainly

[5:30] professional investors are expecting the

[5:32] Fed to raise interest rates sometime

[5:34] tomorrow. ABC's Betsy Stark joins us

[5:37] from the New York Stock Exchange

[5:38] tonight. Betsy, let me ask you first,

[5:40] why should we be so sure they're going

[5:42] to raise it tomorrow?

[5:44] >> Well, Alan Greenspan has been

[5:46] telegraphing this rate increase as much

[5:48] as Alan Greenspan ever telegraphs

[5:50] anything, Peter, and it's widely

[5:52] expected here on Wall Street. Based on

[5:54] the conversations you and I have had

[5:56] earlier today, let's look at the three

[5:57] things you say that the Federal Reserve

[6:00] is worried about. First of all, the

[6:02] spending spree we reported on last

[6:04] night.

[6:05] >> Consumers have been spending like crazy

[6:07] and the fear is that eventually all that

[6:09] demand leads to higher prices and that

[6:12] creates inflation and that's what the

[6:14] Federal Reserve is trying to fight

[6:15] before it starts.

[6:17] >> The tight labor market.

[6:18] >> The tight labor market. At some point

[6:20] there are so few people left to hire

[6:22] that the only way to attract workers is

[6:24] to offer them higher wages. Again, an

[6:26] inflationary pressure.

[6:27] >> And the stock market itself where you

[6:29] are tonight.

[6:29] >> Well, the stock market has is is trading

[6:32] at record levels. And Alan Greenspan, I

[6:34] think, would like to throw a little bit

[6:36] of cold water on that. And again, rising

[6:39] interest rates does the trick.

[6:41] >> Very briefly, if it were larger than a

[6:43] quarter point, what would the market

[6:44] then think? The market might interpret

[6:46] that as a signal that Allan Greenspan is

[6:49] more worried that there are inflationary

[6:51] pressures in the economy already and you

[6:53] could see a negative reaction. The fear

[6:55] is also what's going to happen after

[6:57] this rate increase tomorrow. Will there

[6:59] be more to come?

[6:59] >> Thanks Betsy. Betsy Stark at the New

[7:01] York Stock Exchange tonight will be with

[7:02] us again tomorrow. Still on the money,

[7:05] the end of an era at General Motors. The

[7:07] final cars rolled off the assembly line

[7:09] at the original Buick plant in Flint,

[7:12] Michigan. GM will continue to make

[7:14] trucks in Flint and Buicks elsewhere,

[7:17] but it's an enormously symbolic day for

[7:18] the company and for the city. GM has

[7:20] been making Buicks in Flint for almost a

[7:23] century. When we come back, the busiest

[7:26] illegal crossing point in the country,

[7:28] which was once a quiet town, and we'll

[7:31] take a closer look at what frightens so

[7:33] many people who travel by air.

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[9:03] >> Overseas today in Yugoslavia, the first

[9:05] significant opposition rally against the

[9:07] Yugoslav leader Sloban Mallovich since

[9:10] the end of the NATO bombing campaign.

[9:12] 10,000 people gathered in the town of

[9:14] Chachak to cheer opposition leaders

[9:16] demanding Mr. Mallosvich's resignation

[9:19] and booing him at every opportunity.

[9:25] At one point, the rally was interrupted

[9:27] by an explosion.

[9:29] No one quite knows who set it off. The

[9:33] international community, as we've

[9:34] reported before, gave generously to help

[9:36] the Kosovo refugees, but the World

[9:38] Health Organization now reports that up

[9:40] to half of all the aid shipments could

[9:42] end up sitting in a warehouse or face

[9:45] destruction because they were

[9:47] inappropriate. It's a problem we've

[9:49] reported on before, so you know it's not

[9:50] a new problem. Here's ABC's John Martin.

[9:54] In Bosnia, there were piles of unusable

[9:57] medical products. Now, in Kosovo, a

[10:00] similar problem. A World Health

[10:02] Organization official told ABC News

[10:04] today, Albanian refugees have received 4

[10:07] million unusable tablets, plus 100,000

[10:11] unusable vials for injections and

[10:14] 100,000 unusable tubes of creams and

[10:16] ointments, all either outdated or the

[10:19] wrong kind. Some relief workers complain

[10:22] that Project Hope, a development agency

[10:25] helping with relief, is sending

[10:26] hemorrhoid remedies, cough syrups, even

[10:29] lip balm, which they say are not

[10:31] critical. But a Project Hope official

[10:34] insisted the products are needed and

[10:36] will be used.

[10:37] >> We ship to that country what the

[10:40] Ministry of Health has asked us to ship.

[10:43] >> Relief workers say governments are under

[10:45] pressure to take whatever they can get,

[10:47] even if it is not needed or usable. if

[10:49] they're in a period of crisis, it's very

[10:52] difficult for a government to ac to to

[10:54] refuse uh donations.

[10:56] >> And there's a lot being offered

[10:58] sometimes because tax deductions make it

[11:00] very attractive for companies to dump

[11:02] products that are near their expiration

[11:04] date or products they have overproduced.

[11:07] This leaves countries an awkward choice.

[11:09] refuse aid, much of which is clearly

[11:11] beneficial, or accept massive amounts of

[11:14] it, as well as the cost that goes along

[11:16] with destroying large portions that are

[11:18] not likely to be used. John Martin, ABC

[11:21] News, Washington. Just one last item

[11:24] from overseas in Turkey today. The

[11:26] Kurdish leader Abdullah Ojalan was

[11:28] sentenced to death for treason. Ojalan

[11:30] led many Kurds in a battle for

[11:32] self-ruule in Turkey that lasted 15

[11:34] years and led to many deaths on both

[11:37] sides. Many people now wonder if there

[11:39] will be more violence if Ojelan is

[11:42] executed. When we come back, we're going

[11:45] to take a closer look at turbulence in

[11:47] the air. One of the things that worries

[11:49] many people who fly. And we'll also

[11:51] visit a town on the US Mexican border

[11:54] that used to be quiet.

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[12:03] >> Reliving your mother's stuffed peppers.

[12:05] >> Hard again, huh? What are you taking,

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[14:04] >> In other news today, a desperate attempt

[14:05] to reach the United States off the coast

[14:08] of Florida today. Another small group of

[14:10] Cubans had made it almost all the way

[14:11] from Cuba to the US mainland in a

[14:13] rowboat when they encountered the Coast

[14:14] Guard. The Cubans who were about to be

[14:17] picked up leapt from their boat and

[14:19] tried to swim the last few dozen yards.

[14:22] At least one of the Cubans made it to

[14:24] shore. The others were not so lucky.

[14:26] Cubans picked up by the Coast Guard in

[14:29] the water are sent back to Cuba. Those

[14:31] who make it to land are able to stay.

[14:35] The Immigration and Naturalization

[14:37] Service says there's a new hot spot for

[14:39] illegal immigrants coming into the

[14:40] country from Mexico. Indeed, every time

[14:43] the INS and the Border Patrol are able

[14:44] to stem the flow of illegals in one

[14:47] place, the tide of people trying to get

[14:49] into the US finds another. And it can

[14:52] have a very dramatic effect on the

[14:53] people who live there. ABC's Mike von

[14:56] Frammed reports tonight from Douglas,

[14:59] Arizona on the border between the US and

[15:01] Mexico.

[15:03] >> Until 6 months ago, Douglas, Arizona was

[15:06] the sort of place where people felt

[15:08] safe, leaving their doors unlocked and

[15:10] their windows open.

[15:12] >> How many you got?

[15:14] >> But not anymore.

[15:15] >> 40 to 50.

[15:16] >> Good job. This remote desert border town

[15:19] has become overwhelmed by illegal

[15:21] immigrants.

[15:23] In what has become a nightly ritual,

[15:25] nearly 400 border patrol agents fan out

[15:28] across the desert.

[15:30] >> West go right.

[15:32] >> Using night scope surveillance

[15:34] equipment.

[15:35] >> He got him.

[15:35] >> The agents round up nearly a thousand

[15:38] immigrants a night.

[15:39] >> I got two little boys and have money. No

[15:43] got jack my my country. It is estimated

[15:46] that for every immigrant captured,

[15:48] another slips through. Many of those

[15:51] returned to Mexico will try to reenter

[15:53] the US later that same night. This is

[15:57] now the busiest illegal crossing point

[15:58] along the Mexican border. More than

[16:01] 20,000 illegal immigrants are captured

[16:03] every month here, more than the entire

[16:05] population of Douglas.

[16:07] >> There's a group of illegals in the brush

[16:09] right there. Frustrated cattle ranchers

[16:12] like Larry Brazier have become spotters

[16:14] for the border patrol. The fence along

[16:17] the back of his ranch is the only thing

[16:18] that keeps his cattle from wandering

[16:20] into Mexico.

[16:22] Immigrants cut through it every night.

[16:24] Every morning he must make repairs.

[16:27] >> You can come up here and you you think,

[16:29] "Well, I'll stem the flow here for a

[16:31] little bit

[16:33] and then soon as you come back the next

[16:35] morning it's all torn back up again."

[16:38] While there has not been any indication

[16:39] that the immigrants are violent people,

[16:41] the border patrol has told the ranchers

[16:44] they should wear sidearms.

[16:45] >> You'll be out walking around fixing

[16:47] fence or something and look around and

[16:48] there's 30 or 40 people laying around

[16:50] you. And when you're by yourself, that's

[16:52] not very good odds and it kind of makes

[16:53] you nervous.

[16:55] >> In town, many residents have put iron

[16:57] bars over their bedroom windows, while

[16:59] others have built razor wire fences

[17:01] around their houses. They are hoping

[17:04] word will eventually spread in Mexico

[17:06] that the border patrol is in Douglas and

[17:08] that the immigrants should try their

[17:10] luck elsewhere. Mike vonfrem, ABC News,

[17:13] Douglas, Arizona.

[17:16] >> We've got two items about light today. A

[17:18] new study by an energy consulting firm

[17:20] finds that children learn about 20%

[17:23] faster in classrooms with a lot of

[17:25] natural light. And light also makes

[17:28] people spend more money. The study also

[17:30] finds that sales in stores with

[17:32] skylights are 40% higher than in those

[17:35] without. In our next segment, invisible

[17:38] threats in the sky, how to identify

[17:40] them. We'll take a closer look.

[17:46] Courage. Something shared by countless

[17:49] Americans.

[17:51] Those who risk their lives.

[17:53] Those who battle serious illness. When I

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[19:02] While Johnny Kim was getting ready for

[19:04] the first customers of the day, someone

[19:07] else was looking at larger space for his

[19:09] growing business. At 3:00, while the

[19:11] Curtis family was watching their

[19:13] daughter's soccer game, someone else was

[19:15] walking a prospective tenant through one

[19:17] of their apartment buildings. And while

[19:20] Carmen Delar was preparing for a fashion

[19:22] show, someone else met with an appraiser

[19:24] about her investment property. You've

[19:26] got a life, we let you live it. We're

[19:29] realtors. Real estate is our life.

[19:32] >> You're on Love Matters. When love

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[19:36] >> Yeah. I'm having this problem with my

[19:38] girlfriend. It's kind of involved.

[19:40] >> Diarrhea. Get it and you want it gone.

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[19:47] >> Only Emodium Advanced relieves diarrhea

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[19:54] >> So, was I right to invite my mom along

[19:56] on my honeymoon?

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[20:01] count on.

[20:05] We're going to do what we hope is a

[20:07] minor public service tonight for those

[20:08] millions of Americans who fly and

[20:11] especially those who wish that it always

[20:13] seemed as safe as flying actually is.

[20:18] As someone who's been a white knuckle

[20:19] flyer from time to time, we know that

[20:21] nothing can so unsettle passengers as

[20:24] sudden turbulence. Yes, we know the

[20:27] plane can usually stand a lot more than

[20:28] we can. But a number of serious crises

[20:32] are the result of unforeseen turbulence.

[20:35] These pictures confirm it.

[20:38] And Air Force One, the president's

[20:40] plane, is not immune to it either. Not

[20:43] including airline crashes, which are

[20:45] rare. Turbulence is the leading cause of

[20:47] injury on America's airlines. Three

[20:50] people have been killed and 850 injured

[20:53] since 1981. It costs US airlines about

[20:57] hund00 million a year in damage to

[20:59] planes, payments to the injured, and

[21:02] disruption to their service. So,

[21:04] wouldn't it be wonderful if turbulence

[21:06] could be predicted and thus avoided?

[21:08] Let's take a closer look. Here's ABC's

[21:10] Lisa Stark.

[21:12] >> Resume your own navigation.

[21:14] >> It's a perfect day for flying.

[21:16] >> Today looks like a really excellent um

[21:19] day for thunderstorms. A perfect day if

[21:22] you're trying to develop revolutionary

[21:24] software to help predict turbulence.

[21:28] >> The red is the heart of the storm or the

[21:30] area with the most precipitation.

[21:33] >> Are we getting into that now?

[21:35] >> We tend to stay 2 to three miles outside

[21:37] of the center of the storm.

[21:39] >> But even here, the weather is miserable.

[21:43] That's the sound of hail pelting the

[21:46] plane.

[21:49] An especially armored World War II T-28

[21:52] trainer will fly through the very center

[21:55] of the bad weather, guided by scientists

[21:57] using giant Doppler radar systems on the

[22:00] ground.

[22:00] >> Hey, here's a big one.

[22:02] >> It's all part of a project to keep

[22:04] planes out of harm's way by teaching the

[22:07] sophisticated storm radars already on

[22:10] many airliners a new task. how to

[22:13] recognize the relatively tiny changes in

[22:15] atmospheric patterns that signal

[22:18] turbulence near storms.

[22:20] >> Pilots typically fly far around the

[22:22] worst part of the thunderstorm, but they

[22:25] can still fly into areas that appear

[22:27] safe and hit severe turbulence. That's

[22:29] what the system is designed to prevent.

[22:32] What it will take is new programming for

[22:35] the radar's computers.

[22:36] >> If we can keep them from flying through

[22:38] any turbulence, that'd be great. If we

[22:40] can especially keep them from flying

[22:42] through any heavy turbulence that really

[22:43] shakes the people up, spills, drinks, or

[22:45] or injures anybody, uh, that's our

[22:47] primary goal.

[22:48] >> Engineers are confident they can give

[22:50] pilots a minute's warning of storm

[22:52] turbulence ahead. And they predict the

[22:55] new software will be on board airliners

[22:57] within 2 years.

[22:59] >> We're going through again,

[23:01] >> sparing passengers, many a rough ride

[23:03] and perhaps serious injury. Lisa Stark,

[23:07] ABC News. In the skies over Colorado.

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[25:08] >> Finally, this evening, coming back, it's

[25:10] been a good season for some of the

[25:11] world's endangered species. The White

[25:13] House is expected to propose that the

[25:14] bald eagle be taken off the endangered

[25:16] species list. In August, the paragan

[25:19] falcon is due to come off the list. Both

[25:22] these majestic birds were once close to

[25:24] extinction, and they came back. ABC's

[25:28] Barry Sarapan reports tonight that such

[25:30] is the hope for the world's most

[25:33] endangered sea turtle.

[25:35] >> It is known as the Kemp's Ridley, a sea

[25:38] turtle that has been around since the

[25:40] time of dinosaurs, far longer than

[25:42] humans. But humans nearly ended its

[25:45] existence. Half a century ago, huge

[25:48] numbers of Kemp's whidlings were still

[25:49] coming ashore to nest, as many as 40,000

[25:53] of them a day. But by the mid 80s, their

[25:56] numbers had dropped dramatically with

[25:58] only about 250 nesting females coming

[26:00] ashore each year. The camp's Ridley was

[26:03] on the brink of extinction.

[26:05] >> Some biologists said that mathematically

[26:08] they probably can't come back at that

[26:10] point in time.

[26:11] >> The turtles were slaughtered by poachers

[26:13] and their eggs were taken from beaches.

[26:15] Many others were killed by shrimp

[26:17] fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico and

[26:19] snared in trolley nets where they

[26:21] drowned.

[26:24] But now the Kemp's Ridley has a chance.

[26:27] The US and Mexican governments now

[26:29] require the use of so-called turtle

[26:31] excludder devices, metal grids which

[26:34] guide turtles through openings in the

[26:35] net. Some fishermen still violate the

[26:38] law, but most comply. And onshore

[26:41] nesting areas are now protected. Camps

[26:44] Ridley's nest mainly on one stretch of

[26:46] beach on Mexico's Gulf Coast.

[26:49] The female turtles labor as they lay

[26:52] about 100 eggs the size of pingpong

[26:54] balls. Then they make their way back

[26:56] across the sand to return to the sea.

[27:01] As part of a program sponsored by the US

[27:04] and Mexican governments and the fishing

[27:05] industry, biologists dig the eggs up,

[27:09] then reberry them in pens to protect

[27:12] them from coyotes and other predators.

[27:14] Almost every day during nesting season,

[27:17] hatchlings emerge, pushing their way up

[27:19] and out of the sand.

[27:21] >> That is a sight right there.

[27:23] >> The recovery effort is paying off. There

[27:25] are now more than 3,000 nests a year

[27:28] here.

[27:29] >> I think we have a good shot, but we

[27:30] can't stop what we're doing.

[27:33] >> Many natural hazards await the

[27:35] hatchlings as they head for the sea.

[27:37] Their survival rate is believed to be

[27:39] only about 5%. But after nearly

[27:42] destroying the camp's Ridley, man is now

[27:45] improving the odds for this ancient race

[27:47] of turtles. Harry Sarapan, ABC News,

[27:51] Rancho Noeo, Mexico. That is our report

[27:54] on World News Tonight. Later this

[27:56] evening on Night Line, a whistleblower

[27:58] charges the Secretary of State with

[28:00] retaliation. I'm Peter Jennings. Have a

[28:02] good evening. Good night.

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