World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-07-22

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[0:00] Well, thank you. Good night.

[0:03] >> On World News Tonight this Thursday,

[0:06] buried at sea,

[0:10] >> close to where they died.

[0:22] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:24] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:28] Peter Jennings. Good evening. It was a

[0:30] simple private burial. It was what the

[0:32] families wanted. The privacy only

[0:34] possible because the Kennedys and the

[0:37] betettes went to see. Our first report

[0:39] tonight is from ABC's Morton Dean.

[0:45] It was a day of profound sadness.

[0:48] Members of both grieving families

[0:50] arriving in Woods Hole with heavy hearts

[0:52] and haunted looks. Senator Ted Kennedy

[0:56] and John Kennedy's sister Caroline led

[0:58] their family dressed in dark clothing

[1:00] onto the Coast Guard cutter Santael. It

[1:03] would transport the mourners to the Navy

[1:05] destroyer the USS Brisco. The bet family

[1:08] included Carolyn and Lauren's mother,

[1:11] sister, and stepfather.

[1:13] >> Earlier in the morning, the Coast Guard

[1:15] cutter took some ceremonial items to the

[1:18] destroyer. three precisely folded

[1:20] American flags and three floral wreaths

[1:23] which are now floating somewhere off the

[1:25] coast of Marthur's Vineyard.

[1:29] The journey for the 17 family members

[1:32] was soon underway and in a few minutes

[1:34] the families arrived at the Brisco for

[1:37] the religious ceremony. Four Navy

[1:39] chaplain and a civilian Jesuit priest

[1:42] would conduct the ceremony. It took the

[1:44] destroyer 25 minutes to reach the waters

[1:47] off the southwest coast of Martha's

[1:49] Vineyard, just 3 miles from where John

[1:52] Kennedy's plane crashed. The Brisco

[1:55] stopped, remaining almost motionless for

[1:58] 30 minutes. It was then that the family

[2:01] members, one to three at a time,

[2:03] scattered the ashes into the sea. It was

[2:06] a very private ceremony. The government

[2:09] had created a virtual zone of privacy

[2:11] for miles around banning the public and

[2:14] the news media. While it was held on a

[2:17] US Navy ship and a Navy brass quintet

[2:20] played, it was not a military ceremony.

[2:23] There were no taps. As the ceremony

[2:26] ended, the seas which had just received

[2:29] the ashes of John Kennedy Jr., Carolyn

[2:32] bet Kennedy and her sister Lauren began

[2:35] to churn and their family's departure

[2:38] for land had to be delayed, giving them

[2:41] even more time to contemplate their day

[2:44] of profound sadness. Morton Dean, ABC

[2:47] News, Hyannisport.

[2:49] The tradition of burying the dead at sea

[2:51] is as old as seafaring.

[2:58] The captain calls, "All hands, bury the

[3:01] dead."

[3:02] >> Burial at sea is probably the most

[3:05] solemn and ancient ritual that is

[3:08] carried out at sea.

[3:10] >> Born of necessity centuries ago when

[3:12] ships were weeks from any port.

[3:18] >> Today, a simple honor for anyone who has

[3:21] served in the military. The crew is

[3:24] mustered in their dress uniforms. Uh

[3:28] words are spoken either by a chaplain if

[3:31] embarked or by the captain and the

[3:33] departed shipmate is consigned to the

[3:35] deep.

[3:36] >> "Death is at all times solemn," wrote

[3:38] the editor Charles Dana during the Civil

[3:41] War, but never so much as at sea.

[3:45] Off the coast of Virginia today on the

[3:47] aircraft carrier named for the late

[3:49] president, a moment of silence.

[3:59] The USS Kennedy already carries a

[4:01] portrait of JFK Jr. saluting his

[4:04] father's coffin. Off Martha's vineyard,

[4:07] the USS Grasp continues to pull up the

[4:09] wreckage of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s Piper

[4:11] Saratoga. ABC's Lisa Stark has been

[4:14] monitoring the recovery operation again

[4:15] today, and she reports tonight from

[4:19] Woods Hole in Massachusetts.

[4:22] has gone twice as fast as expected and

[4:24] ABC News has learned that more than 90%

[4:27] of the plane has now been recovered. The

[4:30] broken fuselage with parts of the wings

[4:32] ripped off, seats and wires twisted from

[4:35] the impact is still on board the Navy

[4:37] vessel, the USS Grasp. The wreckage is

[4:40] expected to be taken off the ship

[4:42] sometime tomorrow at the Naval Station

[4:44] in Newport, Rhode Island, and trucked

[4:46] back to Cape Cod for examination by

[4:48] investigators. They believe they have

[4:50] enough pieces to determine whether there

[4:52] was a problem with the plane, including

[4:55] the propeller, engine, and instrument

[4:57] panel, all recovered in 116 ft of water.

[5:02] >> The information that may be available

[5:03] from this wreckage includes whether the

[5:05] engine was running, the prop was

[5:06] turning, and maybe even the instrument

[5:07] readings, which could tell us the air

[5:09] speed and the angle of entry.

[5:10] >> The wreckage has already revealed one

[5:12] thing. It is unlikely the plane broke up

[5:15] in the air because the pieces of the

[5:18] plane are not scattered over a wide

[5:20] area. And investigators already know how

[5:23] the three people on board died. They

[5:25] died instantly on impact with the water.

[5:29] Although the investigation continues,

[5:32] officials have suspended all briefings

[5:34] out of deference to the families until

[5:36] the burials and the memorial services

[5:39] are completed. Peter,

[5:40] >> thank you. Lisa Lisa Stark at Woods Hole

[5:42] of Massachusetts. There is some appetite

[5:44] for a public celebration of John F.

[5:47] Kennedy Jr.'s life and that of his wife

[5:49] and sister-in-law here in New York in a

[5:51] neighborhood that used to be called

[5:53] Little Ireland. The Irish community

[5:55] today celebrated a mass at St. Patrick's

[5:57] Cathedral.

[6:10] Family and friends will gather again

[6:12] tomorrow for a private memorial service

[6:14] on the upper east side of Manhattan. And

[6:17] ABC News will have live coverage

[6:19] beginning at 10 Eastern time tomorrow.

[6:22] When we come back this evening, the

[6:24] other news of the day.

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[7:52] >> For those of you who know, of course,

[7:53] that was St. Patrick's Old Cathedral,

[7:55] which is in downtown Manhattan. That

[7:58] celebration today on the money tonight.

[8:00] Another warning about the economy from

[8:02] Alan Greenspan. Testifying before

[8:03] Congress today, the chairman of the

[8:05] Federal Reserve said he did not know

[8:07] whether the Fed would raise interest

[8:09] rates again anytime soon, but he did

[8:12] promise to act promptly and forcefully

[8:14] if there is any evidence of inflation.

[8:17] On Wall Street today, the Dow Jones

[8:19] Industrial Average was down about 33 1.5

[8:22] points to close at 10,969.

[8:26] On the NASDAQ, stocks were down a little

[8:28] more than 77 points. The internet

[8:31] retailer Amazon.com lost $138 million in

[8:35] the second quarter. That sent its shares

[8:37] down about 18% today. The company is

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[8:44] effort to increase sales. United Partial

[8:48] Service UPS is going public. Stock

[8:50] analysts believe UPS stock will be in

[8:51] greater demand because it ships goods

[8:54] bought on the internet and the company

[8:55] may grow as internet commerce grows.

[9:00] Federal Chairman Alan Greenspan did say

[9:01] today he believes it's more important to

[9:03] pay down the national debt than to lower

[9:06] taxes. But this afternoon in Washington,

[9:09] House Republicans settled an internal

[9:11] revolt and passed a bill cutting taxes

[9:14] by $792 billion over the next 10 years.

[9:18] President says he won't accept it.

[9:20] Here's ABC's Linda Douglas.

[9:23] >> The bill is passed. In the short run,

[9:25] House Republican leaders got what they

[9:27] wanted, a tax cut they could crow about.

[9:30] >> This is not the government's money.

[9:33] >> It's your money. You earned it. You

[9:36] shouldn't pay more than we need, and we

[9:38] shouldn't need more than we do.

[9:41] >> But to get enough votes for passage, GOP

[9:43] leaders had to craft a shaky compromise

[9:45] within their own party. Dissident

[9:47] complained the tax cut would siphon off

[9:49] money that should be used to pay down

[9:50] the national debt. So GOP leaders

[9:53] promised that if interest on the debt

[9:55] rises in any year, the 10% income tax

[9:58] cut would not be applied in that year.

[10:01] But some economists warned that plan

[10:03] might be unworkable because interest on

[10:05] the debt is hard to calculate and the

[10:07] IRS might have to keep revising tax

[10:09] rates. At the same time, other parts of

[10:11] the tax reduction package would go into

[10:13] effect, the cut in capital gains and the

[10:16] phase out of the inheritance tax. So,

[10:19] Democrats argued the only people sure to

[10:21] benefit would be the wealthy.

[10:23] >> Thousands for the rich, pocket change

[10:26] for working Americans. That's the

[10:29] Republican tax bill.

[10:30] >> The president says he would veto the

[10:32] House plan, and the Senate won't pass it

[10:34] either. But House Republicans think they

[10:36] have scored points with their core

[10:37] voters, the ones most likely to turn out

[10:40] next year. Linda Douglas, ABC News,

[10:42] Capitol Hill.

[10:44] >> Couple of notes from overseas. There's

[10:45] more difficulty for Coca-Cola in Europe.

[10:47] Investigators have now raided the

[10:49] company's offices in Britain, Germany,

[10:51] Austria, and Denmark, looking into

[10:54] allegations that Coke is illegally

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[10:58] Coca-Cola denies the allegations. And

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[13:40] some ways, it's an old story. Weapon

[13:42] systems that have run way over budget in

[13:44] development. In this case, specifically,

[13:47] a new fighter plane, the F-22. And there

[13:50] are also serious allegations that

[13:52] Pentagon officials have actually broken

[13:53] the law by ignoring what the Congress

[13:56] had ordered them to do or not to do.

[13:59] First, here's ABC's John Martin.

[14:03] >> In critical language rarely aimed at the

[14:05] Pentagon, the House Appropriations

[14:07] Committee accused the Air Force and the

[14:09] Army of defying the law and the

[14:11] Constitution by funding weapons and

[14:13] programs without the consent of

[14:15] Congress. Today's report calls the

[14:17] actions abuses, which it says are

[14:19] numerous.

[14:20] >> This is really a direct challenge to our

[14:23] constitutional system of government.

[14:26] Congress is supposed to have the power

[14:28] of the per

[14:35] Congress did not approve the C5's

[14:37] modernization. Yet, the Air Force

[14:39] diverted several hundred million from

[14:41] another project to pay for it. The

[14:43] Pentagon bought thousands of these Army

[14:45] trucks after Congress told it to wait

[14:48] until the truck maker fixed serious

[14:50] defects. The Army bought these special

[14:52] tanks with funds from a demonstration

[14:54] project for another program. Congress

[14:57] terminated a medium alitude air defense

[15:00] program, but the defense secretary

[15:02] revived it with $2 million from a

[15:04] different project. Today, Secretary

[15:06] Cohen defended the diversions as few in

[15:09] number.

[15:09] >> About 99.9% of the time, uh, we seem to

[15:12] be doing things right.

[15:13] >> We're talking about a principle. who is

[15:17] allowed to spend taxpayer money and

[15:19] under what circumstances.

[15:21] >> A spokesman here dismissed the failure

[15:23] to notify Congress as accidents. But

[15:26] subcommittee chairman Jerry Lewis of

[15:28] California at work today on the budget

[15:30] said that even after 20 years in office,

[15:33] he found the Pentagon's disobedience

[15:35] little short of amazing.

[15:38] John Martin, ABC News, Washington.

[15:41] >> Here is the other amazing thing that has

[15:43] happened to the military establishment

[15:45] this week. In this case, it's the Air

[15:46] Force. It is almost unthinkable for the

[15:49] Congress to kill a major weapon system

[15:51] that is virtually on the assembly line.

[15:54] But it is very close to that with the

[15:56] F-22, the single most advanced piece of

[15:59] technology in the whole Air Force

[16:01] arsenal. Here's ABC's John McQuey.

[16:05] Last week, the new F-22 build as the

[16:08] most advanced fighter plane on the

[16:09] planet was flying through its early test

[16:12] program already earmarked as the cutting

[16:14] edge of the 21st century Air Force. Now,

[16:17] suddenly, it is in jeopardy of being

[16:19] cancelled. The House would delay

[16:21] production of the F-22 for at least a

[16:24] year because the aircraft is too

[16:26] expensive. House members were influenced

[16:28] by how badly strained the Air Force is

[16:30] after Kosovo and decided the money is

[16:33] urgently needed elsewhere. The F-22 can

[16:36] become one of the most fabulous assets

[16:38] in the history of air power. But there

[16:40] are other alternatives. Let's find the

[16:42] best way to spend our money. For now,

[16:45] the House is saying that means spending

[16:47] more to train and keep pilots and to buy

[16:49] more tankers and electronic jamming

[16:51] planes. The sudden attack on the F-22,

[16:54] which is projected to cost $200 million

[16:57] per plane, was led by the House

[16:59] Appropriations Committee, some of the

[17:01] Pentagon's most loyal supporters, all of

[17:04] whom basically like the plane.

[17:06] >> It would be a great plane to have if we

[17:08] had all of the money in the world. But

[17:11] the problem is that its costs are taking

[17:13] off faster than the airplane is expected

[17:15] to if it's ever constructed. The

[17:18] administration argues that if production

[17:19] of the F-22 is put off, penalty costs

[17:22] for the delay will raise the price of

[17:25] the plane so high that Congress will

[17:27] never buy it. I fear, Mr. Speaker, that

[17:30] this pause in the program effectively

[17:32] kills the development of a fighter

[17:34] aircraft that is a key to the long-term

[17:36] defense of our nation and of our allies.

[17:39] >> In the last decade, the Air Force has

[17:41] spent nearly $20 billion to develop the

[17:44] F-22. No one doubts its potential. What

[17:47] is being questioned is whether the

[17:49] country can afford it. John McQuey, ABC

[17:52] News, the Pentagon.

[17:53] >> The F22 took another hit just today. The

[17:55] House of Representatives eliminated $1.8

[17:57] billion of its funding that effectively

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[22:42] >> Home health care, empowering the

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[22:52] That's the new paradigm of medicine.

[22:54] >> Smart home devices like this available

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[23:04] quality. Jack Smith, ABC News, Palo

[23:07] Alto, California. Technology marching

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[25:20] So many people have written or spoken

[25:22] poetically about the sea, especially

[25:24] today. The Irish writer James Joyce

[25:26] talked of it as a metaphor for life and

[25:28] death. Another Irishman, President

[25:31] Kennedy, spoke often of his affection

[25:32] for the sea, and it was certainly shared

[25:35] by his son. Here's ABC's Aaron Brown.

[25:39] For John Jr., as it has been for

[25:41] generations of Kennedys, the sea was a

[25:44] place to grow and play.

[25:45] >> John Kennedy Jr.'s earliest memories

[25:48] would have been sitting on his father's

[25:49] lap on all sorts of boats off

[25:52] Hyannisport. on boats and on beaches in

[25:55] the water with his playmate, a secret

[25:57] service agent. Young John was at home in

[26:00] the water the Kennedy way. The three

[26:03] oldest boys served in the Navy in World

[26:05] War II JFK commanding the PT 109 and

[26:09] saving his crew. Younger brother Bobby

[26:11] serving on a ship named after his oldest

[26:14] brother Joe who died a hero in the war.

[26:18] John would swim and sail and kayak in

[26:21] the ocean off Cape Cod. He would court

[26:23] his prospective bride on a small boat

[26:25] named 109 PT. The water is where the

[26:29] Kennedys found excitement. That's Bobby

[26:32] on the raft. It is where they found

[26:34] quiet. And it is where just this week

[26:36] again they found comfort and strength to

[26:39] deal with loss. No matter how tumultuous

[26:42] their lives were, in all sorts of ways,

[26:46] the family would always come back to

[26:48] Hyannasport, would gather in the summer,

[26:51] and spend a lot of the time on

[26:53] sailboats. The family's decision to have

[26:55] John buried at sea is something his

[26:57] father surely would have understood. The

[27:00] president spoke these words about our

[27:02] connection to the sea in 1962, the year

[27:06] before he died. I think it's because in

[27:09] addition to the fact that the sea uh

[27:10] changes and the light changes and the

[27:13] ships change, it's because uh we all

[27:16] came from the sea. And it is an

[27:18] interesting biological fact that all of

[27:22] us have in our veins

[27:24] the exact same percentage of salt in our

[27:28] blood that exists in the ocean. And

[27:31] therefore uh we have salt in our blood,

[27:34] in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied

[27:37] to the ocean and when we go back to the

[27:39] sea, whether it is to sail or to watch

[27:43] it, we are going back from whence we

[27:45] came.

[27:46] >> And so it was today.

[27:49] Aaron Brown, ABC News, New York.

[27:52] >> That's our report on World News Tonight.

[27:54] I'm Peter Jennings. Good night.

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