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Behind Closed Doors of Sistine Chapel, They'll Decide Who Will be Next Pope; Protecting the Vatican

Aired April 06, 2005 - 11:30   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Americans returning home from Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean will have to have a passport by 2008. The new security rules will be phased in over three years, starting at the end of this year. Until then, a driver's license or a birth certificate will work.
And one of America's most influential writers of the twentieth century is dead. Nobel and Pulitzer Prime-winning novelist Saul Bellow was 89. His greatest critical success came with "Humble Gift" in 1975. Death and immortality themes ran through many of his books.

RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: New details have been coming out throughout the morning that we've been sharing with you about what's to come at the Vatican in the days ahead. Thousands upon thousands of mourners still lining up to pay their last respects to Pope John Paul II. The wait to get inside St. Peter's Basilica can take up to 12 hours in some cases, depending on when you're there. The Vatican says more than a million mourners viewed the pope's body in the first 24 hours. The cardinals have read the pope's will. It is Polish. The document will be made public tomorrow once the translation is complete.

And the cardinals have chosen April 18th as the start date of their conclave. Behind the closed doors of the Sistine Chapel, they will decide who among them will be the next pope.

Well, this new pope is going to face many challenges when he is sent to the throne of St. Peter. Let's talk about some of those now with Monsignor Kevin McCoy. He's a rector at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.

And I'm reading some information about you here, and it says, monsignor, that you're in charge of training future American priests. To that end, I wonder, given all the public lift that the death of this pope has gotten, and all of it favorable, most of it certainly deserved as well, do you think that will improve the recruitment of priests in the future, given that it's been down something like 26 percent since 1980?

MSGR. KEVIN MCCOY, PONTIFICAL NORTH AMERICAN COLLEGE: Well, certainly. This Holy Father has been very influential in basically being the best vocation director the Roman Catholic Church has had in a good long while. He's inspired the vocations of many young men. We have 150 young men preparing to be priests for service as (INAUDIBLE) and priests back home in the United States. And Every one of them -- we had a chance to visit with so many of them last night -- they speak of how he inspired their vocations, and just what hope and what promise he's given to them to be the new evangelizers, to be, really, as he was, an apostle for Christ Jesus.

SANCHEZ: In the meantime, though, because there has been a shortage, the time that I've attended mass at different churches, be it in Florida, here in Georgia, or New York, I notice that there's more lay involvement now. You're seeing more deacons. You're seeing more nuns taking part. In the past, as a kid, I remember that being basically being done by priests. Is that a welcome change?

MCCOY: Well, I think THAT there's no question there's a welcome to that. I point out at that the deacons themselves are of course part of the clergy. We were experiencing that since 1972 under Paul VI reign, when the Deacada (ph) was restored, and then we had the married deacons work in the church today to continue to help the priests in their sacramental role. And indeed with the introduction of new catacus (ph) laity, it's a great help, and it's going to be one of the vital ways that a priest can continue to give attention to the essentials of his ministry, is that sacramental ministry, that prince for others in the world today.

SANCHEZ: Is this moment a very positive one in the church, in your estimation, undoing the negative with molestation trials and the stuff that we've heard of in the past, or is it countering it? Where would you say we are?

MCCOY: Well, I would really think that what this moment really shows is you see literally millions of people coming to Rome to pay their final respects to John Paul II. They felt that he's reached out in all of his generosity to bring healing to people, and I think this is a positive moment for the church. And it really will help -- if we follow in his example, we'll continue to bring healing to many people.

SANCHEZ: If you were recruiting me or someone listening right now and saying maybe you should consider a life in the priesthood, how would you use this pope, the reference of his life, as an example to set in that recruitment?

MCCOY: Well, you know, what I would say is this pope, first and foremost, what he is a man of faith, and he's a man that lives that eucharistic reality, that he saw that Christ died to bring redemption to all people, and to the world. And I believe that young people, especially young men, would like to be a part of that.

SANCHEZ: Monsignor Kevin McCoy, a pleasure talking to you, sir. Thank you so much.

MCCOY: Thank you so much.

SANCHEZ: Appreciate it.

MCCOY: All right, Rick. Thank you.

KAGAN: We have breaking world from the world of sports right now. Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona has been taken to a New York City hospital complaining of tightness in his chest. Of course the Red Sox are the defending world champions in baseball, the new season just under way. The Red Sox are at New York City playing a three-game series, trying to avoid a sweep by the New York Yankees. Once again, Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona taken to a hospital in New York City, complaining of tightness in his chest.

Other news, 200 world leaders are expected at St. Peter's for Friday's papal funeral. Such a large number of VIPs in such a small space would make an inviting target. But as CNN's Anderson Cooper reports, security is extraordinary for the dignitaries, as well as the average pilgrim.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

COOPER (voice-over): It's a seemingly endless stream of people as the faithful file past the body of Pope John Paul II. Outside, a sea of humanity, stretching more than a mile down the road that leads to the Vatican.

They wait, sometimes for more than eight hours, often breaking into song or shouting the pope's name and applauding. According to the Vatican, 18,000 people pass through the doors of St. Peter's every hour. More than a million will have seen the pope lying in state by the end of viewing tonight.

The crowds have been calm, but they keep coming. And their sheer numbers have already presented logistical problems for the city of Rome.

LUCA ODEVAINE, DEPUTY MAYOR OF ROME: Biggest problem we have is transports, because people are coming in Rome, and we have to get them to the Vatican. So probably transport is absolutely (UNINTELLIGIBLE) now, because people -- 500,000 people came in the morning. And the underground and buses are full of people coming.

COOPER: But Friday's funeral will present an even bigger challenge, how to protect the more than 2 million mourners and 200 dignitaries. President Bush will attend. So will former president Clinton and Prince Charles.

GEORGE BAURIES, CRITERION STRATEGIES: The problem is that there are so many people in such a small area that basically time and distance are your best friends in these kinds of events.

COOPER: Not surprisingly, the Vatican, a sovereign nation, has its own security force, starting with the Swiss Guard. They may look like they're in place just for show, but the 100-strong military force is sworn to defend the pope to the death, and in the past, they have.

There's another 200-person security detail comprised of bodyguards and a special corps from the Italian police.

Vatican security, however, doesn't stop there.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The dignitaries will not be exposed to any potential person coming in from the crowd. There's going to be a buffer zone or a protective area. But you need to allow planes or, you know, rockets or anything like that from coming into the area. And that's where there'll be coordination with security services, as well as military components.

COOPER: Metal detectors surround St. Peter's Square, and the carabinieri, paramilitary police, patrol the streets outside the Vatican.

By Friday, a more obvious security presence will also be in place. More than 6,000 extra Italian police, including snipers, bomb disposal experts, and motorcycle escorts will be put on patrol. Fifteen hundred officers will watch over the dignitaries, and the Italian interior ministry says it will provide armored cars for all of them.

Then there's the security we don't see.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vatican has its own intelligence capability. It's a small service, not well known, but they have the internal capability to monitor intelligence issues, which, to their benefit, allows them to basically function the same way the Secret Service is the lead agency when the president comes.

COOPER: For now, the crowds keep coming, filled not with fear but with grief, less concerned with security than with saying good-bye to the much-loved church leader.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: We'll have more coverage from the Vatican tonight on "ANDERSON COOPER 360," 7:00 Eastern right here on CNN.

SANCHEZ: Other stories we're going to be picking up for you, the Iraqis have a newly elected president. More on this historic step and how long it took to get there, when we come back.

KAGAN: And Clint Eastwood goes to Japan. We'll tell you why he's making their day, coming up.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: We've been telling you some about this helicopter crash in Afghanistan. Now we're just getting these pictures in. Nine people killed Wednesday, when a coalition helicopter, traveling in severe weather, crashed in Afghanistan. This is according to the American military. It's a CH-47 Chinook helicopter. It crashed near Ghazni. That's about 100 miles southwest of Kabul.

The chopper apparently was one of two Chinooks returning to Bagram Air Field from a routine mission in Southern Afghanistan. The second helicopter did arrive safely at Bagram. Once again, nine people killed Wednesday when a coalition helicopter -- with these pictures that we're just seeing now here on CNN -- crashed about 100 miles southwest of Kabul.

KAGAN: And now to Iraq. Leaders taking historic step today on the road to establishing a new government. The Transitional National Assembly elected Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as president. Talibani spent years battling the forces of Saddam Hussein and now takes on the title that the deposed ruler once held. The election of Talabani is a poignant and symbolic moment for the Kurds. They were persecuted as second-class citizens during the Saddam Hussein era.

SANCHEZ: Here's a story that is making news overseas. In this morning's "World Wrap," militants attack the tourist center in Kashmir today. One died in the attack, which led to a huge fire there. Kashmir is a disputed region claimed by both India and Pakistan. The militants were trying to intimidate passengers on a new bus route. It begins service tomorrow between the Indian and Pakistani controlled sectors.

South Koreans protested new Japanese history textbooks today. Protesters says the books whitewashed the Japanese atrocities on the peninsula on the first half of the 20th century. Seoul summoned Japan's ambassador to register a formal complaint.

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams (ph) is calling on the Irish Republican Army to quit its arms struggle. He wants the IRA to join him in a political solution. The IRA has long refused to lay down its weapons, and that has hindered efforts to revive Northern Ireland's power sharing assembly.

Also, movie director Clint Eastwood is in Japan today. He's asking for permission to shoot his new movie about the battle Iwo Jima on the island. The film, due in 2006, is based on the book "Flags of our Fathers."

KAGAN: It is a story that almost unbelievable. An inmate escapes prison with the warden's wife. Did it more than a decade ago. Well, guess what? He was captured yesterday. Here what the prisoner has to say, as well as the role the women play.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SANCHEZ: A decade-long man hunt from an escaped killer from Oklahoma is finally over. The escapee and the woman who vanished with him turned up this week in Texas, alive and well and hiding in plain sight. CNN's Soledad O'Brien with this remarkable story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RANDOLPH DIAL, INMATE: I regret to say that I was the hostage- taker. And I -- I'll probably live to regret it.

SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): 64-year-old Randolph Dial now in custody nearly 11 years after escaping from an Oklahoma prison with a deputy warden's wife as his hostage. Based on a tip given to the TV show "America's Most Wanted," police found the convicted killer at a chicken farm in east Texas on Monday, where he was living and working with Bobbi Parker, the same woman he's believed to have kidnapped back in 1994.

The couple had been living together in virtual seclusion under assumed names near the Louisiana border. In a jailhouse interview, Dial said that despite living with Parker for 11 years, the woman remained a hostage.

DIAL: She was living under the impression that if she ever tried to get away, I would get away and I would make her regret it, particularly towards her family.

O'BRIEN: Randolph Dial was serving a life sentence for a 1981 murder. After nine years in an Oklahoma prison, the accomplished painter and sculptor earned special privileges, including working at the deputy warden's home.

In August 1994, he escaped, reportedly taking the deputy warden's wife at knife point. When police arrested him, authorities found a copy of the book "At Large," written about Dial's escape.

DIAL: You read that book and you get the impression that if you -- if you cross me, you will rue the day. And I think she believed that, and I think she still believes it. But she didn't have anything to do with me getting caught, so she's not in trouble.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

SANCHEZ: As you just heard, it was a tip to "America's Most Wanted" that led to Dial's arrest. John Walsh, the host of the popular TV show, spoke earlier on CNN, and here's what he had to say about this case.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JOHN WALSH, HOST, "AMERICA'S MOST WANTED": He said that the murder he committed in 1981 was a hit. He said he was a paid hitman for the mob. And I believe he terrorized Bobby Parker and said, look, if you try to tell anybody who you are, I can go back and kill your two daughters or kill you. And so, you know, he had that credibility of being a hit man.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SANCHEZ: By the way, authorities now say that Bobby Parker has been reunited with her husband.

KAGAN: On to your daily dose of health news, longtime ABC News anchor Peter Jennings is scheduled to begin chemotherapy next week after he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Jennings told viewers last night about the diagnosis in a taped message at the end of last night's newscast.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PETER JENNINGS, ABC NEWS ANCHOR: I've been reminding my colleagues today, who'll all been incredibly supportive, that almost 10 million Americans are already living with cancer, and I have a lot to learn from them. And living the key word. The National Cancer Institute says that we are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

(END VIDEO CLIP) KAGAN: Jennings says he will continue to anchor the broadcast, but he does acknowledge there will be days when he's not up to it, also said his voice won't always sound like that every day. Lung cancer is difficult to detect early. It's also difficult to treat once it's detected.

More on that now from our medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Peter Jenning's prognosis largely depends upon two things, what type of lung cancer he has and how advanced it was when his doctors found it. He says he does intend to keep working while he's undergoing treatment. He says he's going to start chemotherapy on Monday.

The side effects of chemotherapy including a drop in blood pressure, gastrointestinal problems, mouth ulcers and hair loss.

Other treatments can include surgery and radiation.

Now of course many people are wondering, can he beat this cancer? It of course depends on type of lung cancer he has. But let's look at survival rates for the most common type of lung cancer. Unfortunately, these are not great numbers. According to the American Cancer Society, six out of 10 people die within the first year of being diagnosed with lung cancer, and seven or eight out of 10 people die within the first two years.

Now there are some new treatments that can help improve those odds. First of all, combining radiation and chemotherapy together, particularly just before performing surgery, can help. There are also some new chemotherapy drugs out there, and there are also some new forms of radiation, and that helps some people get a little bit more time after their diagnosis.

Elizabeth Cohen, CNN.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: For the latest medical news online, log on to our Web site, CNN.com. You'll find a wealth of information, including links to a health library.

SANCHEZ: Boy, and we certainly wish him well, don't we?

KAGAN: That we do.

SANCHEZ: If there's ever been anyone who was cut out of a model to be used on the screen to do television news, it's Peter Jennings.

KAGAN: He does it well.

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(COMMERCIAL BREAK) (WEATHER REPORT)

KAGAN: Going to do it for us.

SANCHEZ: Time to go.

KAGAN: Time to go.

SANCHEZ: Wolf Blitzer taking over from Washington D.C.

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Aired April 6, 2005 - 11:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Americans returning home from Canada, Mexico or the Caribbean will have to have a passport by 2008. The new security rules will be phased in over three years, starting at the end of this year. Until then, a driver's license or a birth certificate will work.
And one of America's most influential writers of the twentieth century is dead. Nobel and Pulitzer Prime-winning novelist Saul Bellow was 89. His greatest critical success came with "Humble Gift" in 1975. Death and immortality themes ran through many of his books.

RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: New details have been coming out throughout the morning that we've been sharing with you about what's to come at the Vatican in the days ahead. Thousands upon thousands of mourners still lining up to pay their last respects to Pope John Paul II. The wait to get inside St. Peter's Basilica can take up to 12 hours in some cases, depending on when you're there. The Vatican says more than a million mourners viewed the pope's body in the first 24 hours. The cardinals have read the pope's will. It is Polish. The document will be made public tomorrow once the translation is complete.

And the cardinals have chosen April 18th as the start date of their conclave. Behind the closed doors of the Sistine Chapel, they will decide who among them will be the next pope.

Well, this new pope is going to face many challenges when he is sent to the throne of St. Peter. Let's talk about some of those now with Monsignor Kevin McCoy. He's a rector at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.

And I'm reading some information about you here, and it says, monsignor, that you're in charge of training future American priests. To that end, I wonder, given all the public lift that the death of this pope has gotten, and all of it favorable, most of it certainly deserved as well, do you think that will improve the recruitment of priests in the future, given that it's been down something like 26 percent since 1980?

MSGR. KEVIN MCCOY, PONTIFICAL NORTH AMERICAN COLLEGE: Well, certainly. This Holy Father has been very influential in basically being the best vocation director the Roman Catholic Church has had in a good long while. He's inspired the vocations of many young men. We have 150 young men preparing to be priests for service as (INAUDIBLE) and priests back home in the United States. And Every one of them -- we had a chance to visit with so many of them last night -- they speak of how he inspired their vocations, and just what hope and what promise he's given to them to be the new evangelizers, to be, really, as he was, an apostle for Christ Jesus.

SANCHEZ: In the meantime, though, because there has been a shortage, the time that I've attended mass at different churches, be it in Florida, here in Georgia, or New York, I notice that there's more lay involvement now. You're seeing more deacons. You're seeing more nuns taking part. In the past, as a kid, I remember that being basically being done by priests. Is that a welcome change?

MCCOY: Well, I think THAT there's no question there's a welcome to that. I point out at that the deacons themselves are of course part of the clergy. We were experiencing that since 1972 under Paul VI reign, when the Deacada (ph) was restored, and then we had the married deacons work in the church today to continue to help the priests in their sacramental role. And indeed with the introduction of new catacus (ph) laity, it's a great help, and it's going to be one of the vital ways that a priest can continue to give attention to the essentials of his ministry, is that sacramental ministry, that prince for others in the world today.

SANCHEZ: Is this moment a very positive one in the church, in your estimation, undoing the negative with molestation trials and the stuff that we've heard of in the past, or is it countering it? Where would you say we are?

MCCOY: Well, I would really think that what this moment really shows is you see literally millions of people coming to Rome to pay their final respects to John Paul II. They felt that he's reached out in all of his generosity to bring healing to people, and I think this is a positive moment for the church. And it really will help -- if we follow in his example, we'll continue to bring healing to many people.

SANCHEZ: If you were recruiting me or someone listening right now and saying maybe you should consider a life in the priesthood, how would you use this pope, the reference of his life, as an example to set in that recruitment?

MCCOY: Well, you know, what I would say is this pope, first and foremost, what he is a man of faith, and he's a man that lives that eucharistic reality, that he saw that Christ died to bring redemption to all people, and to the world. And I believe that young people, especially young men, would like to be a part of that.

SANCHEZ: Monsignor Kevin McCoy, a pleasure talking to you, sir. Thank you so much.

MCCOY: Thank you so much.

SANCHEZ: Appreciate it.

MCCOY: All right, Rick. Thank you.

KAGAN: We have breaking world from the world of sports right now. Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona has been taken to a New York City hospital complaining of tightness in his chest. Of course the Red Sox are the defending world champions in baseball, the new season just under way. The Red Sox are at New York City playing a three-game series, trying to avoid a sweep by the New York Yankees. Once again, Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona taken to a hospital in New York City, complaining of tightness in his chest.

Other news, 200 world leaders are expected at St. Peter's for Friday's papal funeral. Such a large number of VIPs in such a small space would make an inviting target. But as CNN's Anderson Cooper reports, security is extraordinary for the dignitaries, as well as the average pilgrim.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

COOPER (voice-over): It's a seemingly endless stream of people as the faithful file past the body of Pope John Paul II. Outside, a sea of humanity, stretching more than a mile down the road that leads to the Vatican.

They wait, sometimes for more than eight hours, often breaking into song or shouting the pope's name and applauding. According to the Vatican, 18,000 people pass through the doors of St. Peter's every hour. More than a million will have seen the pope lying in state by the end of viewing tonight.

The crowds have been calm, but they keep coming. And their sheer numbers have already presented logistical problems for the city of Rome.

LUCA ODEVAINE, DEPUTY MAYOR OF ROME: Biggest problem we have is transports, because people are coming in Rome, and we have to get them to the Vatican. So probably transport is absolutely (UNINTELLIGIBLE) now, because people -- 500,000 people came in the morning. And the underground and buses are full of people coming.

COOPER: But Friday's funeral will present an even bigger challenge, how to protect the more than 2 million mourners and 200 dignitaries. President Bush will attend. So will former president Clinton and Prince Charles.

GEORGE BAURIES, CRITERION STRATEGIES: The problem is that there are so many people in such a small area that basically time and distance are your best friends in these kinds of events.

COOPER: Not surprisingly, the Vatican, a sovereign nation, has its own security force, starting with the Swiss Guard. They may look like they're in place just for show, but the 100-strong military force is sworn to defend the pope to the death, and in the past, they have.

There's another 200-person security detail comprised of bodyguards and a special corps from the Italian police.

Vatican security, however, doesn't stop there.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The dignitaries will not be exposed to any potential person coming in from the crowd. There's going to be a buffer zone or a protective area. But you need to allow planes or, you know, rockets or anything like that from coming into the area. And that's where there'll be coordination with security services, as well as military components.

COOPER: Metal detectors surround St. Peter's Square, and the carabinieri, paramilitary police, patrol the streets outside the Vatican.

By Friday, a more obvious security presence will also be in place. More than 6,000 extra Italian police, including snipers, bomb disposal experts, and motorcycle escorts will be put on patrol. Fifteen hundred officers will watch over the dignitaries, and the Italian interior ministry says it will provide armored cars for all of them.

Then there's the security we don't see.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vatican has its own intelligence capability. It's a small service, not well known, but they have the internal capability to monitor intelligence issues, which, to their benefit, allows them to basically function the same way the Secret Service is the lead agency when the president comes.

COOPER: For now, the crowds keep coming, filled not with fear but with grief, less concerned with security than with saying good-bye to the much-loved church leader.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: We'll have more coverage from the Vatican tonight on "ANDERSON COOPER 360," 7:00 Eastern right here on CNN.

SANCHEZ: Other stories we're going to be picking up for you, the Iraqis have a newly elected president. More on this historic step and how long it took to get there, when we come back.

KAGAN: And Clint Eastwood goes to Japan. We'll tell you why he's making their day, coming up.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: We've been telling you some about this helicopter crash in Afghanistan. Now we're just getting these pictures in. Nine people killed Wednesday, when a coalition helicopter, traveling in severe weather, crashed in Afghanistan. This is according to the American military. It's a CH-47 Chinook helicopter. It crashed near Ghazni. That's about 100 miles southwest of Kabul.

The chopper apparently was one of two Chinooks returning to Bagram Air Field from a routine mission in Southern Afghanistan. The second helicopter did arrive safely at Bagram. Once again, nine people killed Wednesday when a coalition helicopter -- with these pictures that we're just seeing now here on CNN -- crashed about 100 miles southwest of Kabul.

KAGAN: And now to Iraq. Leaders taking historic step today on the road to establishing a new government. The Transitional National Assembly elected Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as president. Talibani spent years battling the forces of Saddam Hussein and now takes on the title that the deposed ruler once held. The election of Talabani is a poignant and symbolic moment for the Kurds. They were persecuted as second-class citizens during the Saddam Hussein era.

SANCHEZ: Here's a story that is making news overseas. In this morning's "World Wrap," militants attack the tourist center in Kashmir today. One died in the attack, which led to a huge fire there. Kashmir is a disputed region claimed by both India and Pakistan. The militants were trying to intimidate passengers on a new bus route. It begins service tomorrow between the Indian and Pakistani controlled sectors.

South Koreans protested new Japanese history textbooks today. Protesters says the books whitewashed the Japanese atrocities on the peninsula on the first half of the 20th century. Seoul summoned Japan's ambassador to register a formal complaint.

Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams (ph) is calling on the Irish Republican Army to quit its arms struggle. He wants the IRA to join him in a political solution. The IRA has long refused to lay down its weapons, and that has hindered efforts to revive Northern Ireland's power sharing assembly.

Also, movie director Clint Eastwood is in Japan today. He's asking for permission to shoot his new movie about the battle Iwo Jima on the island. The film, due in 2006, is based on the book "Flags of our Fathers."

KAGAN: It is a story that almost unbelievable. An inmate escapes prison with the warden's wife. Did it more than a decade ago. Well, guess what? He was captured yesterday. Here what the prisoner has to say, as well as the role the women play.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SANCHEZ: A decade-long man hunt from an escaped killer from Oklahoma is finally over. The escapee and the woman who vanished with him turned up this week in Texas, alive and well and hiding in plain sight. CNN's Soledad O'Brien with this remarkable story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RANDOLPH DIAL, INMATE: I regret to say that I was the hostage- taker. And I -- I'll probably live to regret it.

SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): 64-year-old Randolph Dial now in custody nearly 11 years after escaping from an Oklahoma prison with a deputy warden's wife as his hostage. Based on a tip given to the TV show "America's Most Wanted," police found the convicted killer at a chicken farm in east Texas on Monday, where he was living and working with Bobbi Parker, the same woman he's believed to have kidnapped back in 1994.

The couple had been living together in virtual seclusion under assumed names near the Louisiana border. In a jailhouse interview, Dial said that despite living with Parker for 11 years, the woman remained a hostage.

DIAL: She was living under the impression that if she ever tried to get away, I would get away and I would make her regret it, particularly towards her family.

O'BRIEN: Randolph Dial was serving a life sentence for a 1981 murder. After nine years in an Oklahoma prison, the accomplished painter and sculptor earned special privileges, including working at the deputy warden's home.

In August 1994, he escaped, reportedly taking the deputy warden's wife at knife point. When police arrested him, authorities found a copy of the book "At Large," written about Dial's escape.

DIAL: You read that book and you get the impression that if you -- if you cross me, you will rue the day. And I think she believed that, and I think she still believes it. But she didn't have anything to do with me getting caught, so she's not in trouble.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

SANCHEZ: As you just heard, it was a tip to "America's Most Wanted" that led to Dial's arrest. John Walsh, the host of the popular TV show, spoke earlier on CNN, and here's what he had to say about this case.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

JOHN WALSH, HOST, "AMERICA'S MOST WANTED": He said that the murder he committed in 1981 was a hit. He said he was a paid hitman for the mob. And I believe he terrorized Bobby Parker and said, look, if you try to tell anybody who you are, I can go back and kill your two daughters or kill you. And so, you know, he had that credibility of being a hit man.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SANCHEZ: By the way, authorities now say that Bobby Parker has been reunited with her husband.

KAGAN: On to your daily dose of health news, longtime ABC News anchor Peter Jennings is scheduled to begin chemotherapy next week after he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Jennings told viewers last night about the diagnosis in a taped message at the end of last night's newscast.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PETER JENNINGS, ABC NEWS ANCHOR: I've been reminding my colleagues today, who'll all been incredibly supportive, that almost 10 million Americans are already living with cancer, and I have a lot to learn from them. And living the key word. The National Cancer Institute says that we are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

(END VIDEO CLIP) KAGAN: Jennings says he will continue to anchor the broadcast, but he does acknowledge there will be days when he's not up to it, also said his voice won't always sound like that every day. Lung cancer is difficult to detect early. It's also difficult to treat once it's detected.

More on that now from our medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.

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ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Peter Jenning's prognosis largely depends upon two things, what type of lung cancer he has and how advanced it was when his doctors found it. He says he does intend to keep working while he's undergoing treatment. He says he's going to start chemotherapy on Monday.

The side effects of chemotherapy including a drop in blood pressure, gastrointestinal problems, mouth ulcers and hair loss.

Other treatments can include surgery and radiation.

Now of course many people are wondering, can he beat this cancer? It of course depends on type of lung cancer he has. But let's look at survival rates for the most common type of lung cancer. Unfortunately, these are not great numbers. According to the American Cancer Society, six out of 10 people die within the first year of being diagnosed with lung cancer, and seven or eight out of 10 people die within the first two years.

Now there are some new treatments that can help improve those odds. First of all, combining radiation and chemotherapy together, particularly just before performing surgery, can help. There are also some new chemotherapy drugs out there, and there are also some new forms of radiation, and that helps some people get a little bit more time after their diagnosis.

Elizabeth Cohen, CNN.

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SANCHEZ: If there's ever been anyone who was cut out of a model to be used on the screen to do television news, it's Peter Jennings.

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