Preview -- World News Tonight 06/28/01
June 28 -- Good Afternoon.
Our apologies for being late today. The summer doldrums have given way to several breaking, very interesting stories.
We'll begin in Yugoslavia. Slobodan Milosevic, who led his country into war and economic ruin, is finally on his way to The Hague, Netherlands, to stand trial before the International War Crimes Tribunal. The charges: crimes against humanity.
It was Milosevic, you'll remember, who was responsible for the ethnic cleansing of Muslims in Bosnia, which crystallized in the siege of Sarajevo. More recently it was Milosevic who fanned the flames of Serbian nationalism again, resulting in the deaths of 10,000 ethnic Albanians in the province of Kosovo and leading to a massive NATO bombing campaign to end the bloodshed.
Milosevic is the first head of government to stand before the war crimes tribunal. The Serbs considered an enormous amount of U.S. aid in making the decision to hand him over. Bob Woodruff and Jim Wooten have the story.
And then there's Microsoft. In a very important decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington reversed the lower court ruling ordering the giant software maker be broken up in violation of antitrust laws. The court cited "serious misconduct" by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson in the way he conducted the government's original case against Microsoft.
This is not an outright victory for Microsoft. The court has sent the antitrust case to be reviewed by another judge. The Justice Department is happy. The state attorney generals who are party to the suit are happy. Microsoft's competitors appear to be happy, and Microsoft says it is pleased. We'll have more from our business reporter, Betsy Stark.
One of America's most enduring and beloved actors has died. Jack Lemmon appeared in more than 70 movies and television shows. Our Brian Rooney looks back at his amazing career. Lemmon was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won twice. He was as comfortable in straight dramatic roles — remember Days of Wine and Roses and Save the Tiger — as he was in raucous comedy — playing a man dressing up as a woman in Some Like It Hot or as Felix Unger opposite Walter Matthau's Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple. Lemmon and Matthau teamed up again late in their careers in Grumpy Old Men, a great success at the box office.
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