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I will have some specifics on why Governor Dukakis doesn't like the new Reagan budget very much. And we'll hear Gary Hart's newest idea. It's something he calls the new patriotism. The 10 o'clock news is made possible by grants from shaman banks, providers of financial services and over 170 locations throughout Massachusetts. By New England telephone, serving New England's communications needs for 100 years. By Nimrod Press, printers and engravers to business, industry and education, and by contributions from you, our viewers. The Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill boycotted President Reagan's budget ceremony at the White House today. Among the Republicans who

showed up, many were skeptical. Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon, a liberal in the President's party, called it a fantasy budget conceived in the land of never-ending deficits. In this opening round of a long fight, Reagan himself said, cheerfully, I'll settle for a tie. The easy target for critics today, Senate Republicans especially, is Reagan's failure to get the red-tied deficit under $180 billion, but he will also use that deficit as in the past to discipline spending. The strength of the Reagan budget in comments today was its candid statement of Reagan's own belief that everything in government but defense and perhaps social security is a cuttable special interest program. This budget cuts programs not just dollars, but it gains some credibility for cutting programs, benefiting Reagan's constituencies, loans for small businessmen and export subsidies for farmers, scholarship class college students, things like that. Congress money, Franks, sarcasm at his constituents in Fall River today was, cheer up, you may be losing police and

streetlights, public transit and development money, but you helped build an airport in Grenada. The unsarcastication of the same point from a White House adviser quoted in the Times this morning was that to Reagan, the well-known state has become a support system for the middle class, now he's trying to pull it away. Endangering the national security. Basically, we're proposing a freeze for the budget, excluding uncontrollable debt costs, and there are a number of problems we suggest cancelling entirely. Some of these, such as Amtrak, could be more efficiently in the private sector. The defense of our nation is the one budget item that cannot be dictated by domestic constituents. There's not President Reagan who turned out our lights will budget in our interview. And if the President were to apply for applause from the Massachusetts State House,

where it's early on tonight for his new budget plan, he certainly governors office. Democratic leaders, including Governor Takas, went right up the wall over the Reagan spending, especially cuts in federal revenue sharing. A few exceptions was Congressman Chad Atkins, who thought some of the spending cuts were in order. At least made little sense to him for the state to have a large federal government to have such a huge deficit. The House today, Dukakis, had an answer for Atkins, and the president. This budget is a travesty. The state's state two or three years ago, we walked in here with a budget of $100,000 in the red. In early 83, we were more fortunate in states. It has been from massive effort on the enforcement and compliance with strong legislators who have left. Would have either had these taxes or slash programs. In Hollywood, Michigan and Illinois, in Pennsylvania, programs were cut. People were left off. Taxes were raised by the police.

Taxes, about $8 billion during the day may give $2 billion back. That's what's happening. And in the face of that, here, we should try to use that as an argument this deficit, I think, is really inconstant. So I'll be doing my best to change a few minds, both inside and outside of the next delegation. Reagan just wrote 40,000 Massachusetts student loan program next year. At the moment, 12,000 students are in college here with loans paying much of their tuition. Meeting of the Boston School Committee may have been historic. Their last session before Judge Arthur Garrett holds his last hearing on the Boston School desecration case. Hope Kelly has our report. It may seem like they've been going further. School Committee meetings to discuss the future of desegregation in the Boston public school. In fact, it has been more than a decade since Judge W. Arthur Garrett placed schools in court receivership. Now that it has passed the 10-year mark,

anticipation, that Judge Garrett and the court will withdraw altogether. A key hearing question will take place in the judge's court tomorrow. But today, it was the school's decision to meet and polish its case last time. The purpose of this meeting, which I requested, was to bring everyone up to speed as to where we were and what was going to be held for the court tomorrow. Last week, the school committee tackled schools and agreed to almost meet Judge Garrett. Today, they unveiled new evidence. Their student assignment proposal, which empathetic voluntary desegregation, can work. Based on a new survey, Polster Tom said most Boston parents now accept if a good education is at the end of the day. I must say that I personally found these very surprising. They underscored to me the extent to which

parent interest in their education right now was focused overwhelmingly on educational values and education benefits. Much more than on questions such as both superintendents Spalain and committee members hope the judge interprets the date the same way. Best cases that he will totally leave us to follow the U.S. constant federal and state laws in our affirmative action. The worst case scenario would be that the judge said no more of this case. I'm gone leaving all 400 orders in place. I would simply hope that his orders will be kind of mandates that allow the system to remain desegregated to achieve the kind of equality for educational purposes that we've sought to achieve with this suit. For the 10 o'clock, I'm Hope Kelly reporting. Judge Garrett, his final court hearing will begin tomorrow. We'll be hearing testimony from all the parties involved. He's expected to have his final

set of orders for the Boston case at the end of this month. The judgment today jumped into the case of five MDC officers angry because a black was promoted even though they all had higher promotion tests. The Justice Department brief filed on their that the case should be heard on its merits. The District Court in Boston had refused to consider it. It turns on last year's Supreme Court decision that the City of Memphis could not keep black firefighters on laying off whites who had more seniority. According to the Justice Department, that decision should require a look at the MDC case. This may be our last crystalline moon that for a spell tonight will be very cold, lows dropping to trees or so. Tomorrow, the sun will be overtaken by clouds at mid-afternoon highs in the mid-twenties. Tonight, the storm moves in. We'll like to bring several inches of snow and frigid temperatures near 20. Wednesday until now, we'll see sleep, drizzle, freezing rain, and high temperatures in the thirties.

The 10 o'clock news is always on at 10 o'clock, if not on channel two on channel 44. Depend on it. Emerging from the tragedy of an Arctic winter den, Polar Bear Cup turning into spring. Their playground off the coast, Varianna Soviet Union's Wrangle Island, was magnificently captured during its springtime transition by Soviet cinematographer Yury Lethman. This unique Soviet program on what life preserves is shared with Americans for its time in the land of the Polar Bears next time on Nova. Tuesday night at eights. Peruvian authorities have blamed the Maoist so-called shining path for tonight's Arctic attempt to thwart Pope John Paul's arrival. The guerrillas are said to have dynamited

electric powers outside of Lima, cutting off power to the capital and to the airport runway, just as the Pope's plane was supposed to arrive. The jet landed safely anyway, police report, and the Pope went on a date from a balcony equipped with its own electrical generator to the crowds that had gathered in the capital city darkness below. Two huge hammer and sickle shining path symbols were set of blaze on mountain sides north of Lima, apparently signaling the guerrillas' rejection of the Pope's appeal for an end to the shining path guerrilla cause. In the last four years, shining path violence is said who have claimed at least 4,000 lives. The Tinder box town of Ramallah on the West Bank exploded again today into violence with the assassination of an Israeli soldier on guard duty. It was believed to be the first time a soldier had died from somewhere shooting at close range and for no apparent reason. Most previous deaths have occurred during fights between soldiers and demonstrators. Ramallah was placed under curfew for several hours while the military search for the attacker, but no arrests have been reported yet. The shooting is expected to

increase pressure on the Perez government to clamp down tighter controls on the West Bank. Perez has been planning to appoint four Palestinian mayors in the West Bank to replace Israeli military administrators, but there's been no word on when or whether that plan may be announced. The biggest trial in Italian history opened in Naples today in a prison courtroom the size of a soccer field. The defendants, numbering 640, are accused of belonging to the local mafia called the Kamora. Only 153 were present in the courtroom today in a collection of 20 cages. Two of the cages protected the gangsters who had turned state's evidence from the rest of them. All are charged with criminal association, a charge used to prosecute suspected gangsters. Some are also accused, specifically of drug trafficking and extortion and could be sentenced to life in prison, if convicted. The trickle of coal miners returning to work is beginning to turn into a flood in Great Britain. More than 2,200 striking miners gave up today and went back to their jobs. The strike began almost a year ago in a dispute

over plans to close Great Britain's unprofitable mines. We have two reports from the BBC. It was a noisy return for many miners in Yorkshire and the frustration of the ticket spills onto the road outside Charleston Colory, where there had been a prediction of a mass return through the pick gate. The search back spread across the coal field. An extra 21 miners were in the protected buses of Charleston, where the 47 returned it killingly and 25 at Dennington. As the tickets left Dennington Colory, they crossed the path of the working miners and the clash was vocal. In the northeast there's been what the coal board describes as a dramatic surge back to work. It's a record, the highest number of men returning on one day, beating the previous tally of 666 on January the 21st. Now almost 7,000 are working in the northeast.

This was the scene at Ellington Colory in Northumberland, where 194 men returned for the first time. Ellington, the world's largest undersea complex, now has half its men back and the coal board says the county as a whole is rapidly approaching the figure of 50 percent of the workforce back. Miners leaders went into a cast to try to salvage something after the breakdown of talks with the coal board. The union is still repeating its offer of negotiations without preconditions. Union leader Arthur Scargill said the miners are determined to save their jobs, coal pits and communities, but the latest round of talks broke down last week and if another 30,000 miners go back to work, the strike will effectively be over. The Manville Corporation, Longfamous for dominating asbestos production, will also be remembered for its adroit maneuvering to escape damage claims against what turned out to be a lethal product in the face of multi-million dollar claims Manville put itself into chapter 11 bankruptcy three years ago. Today it agreed with

three of its insurance carriers that they are responsible for 112 million dollars worth of the damages. Senator Gary Hart unveiled another of his new ideas at Fannie Wohall today, one we didn't hear in 1984, but may hear a great deal in 1988. As Christy George reports, the speech not only looked ahead four years, it also echoed 1776 and 1960. Three months after one presidential election may seem awfully early to start the next, but not to Democrats who've seen November's defeat as a directive to realign and redefine the party for Massachusetts Senator Paul Song has introduced Gary Hart today is the candidate for 1988 with the party platform for 1988. He came through the campaign of 1984 as a person who

was capable of understanding the need for new ideas and make no mistake about it even though this is a non-partisan forum. He is the leading Democratic candidate for the nomination in 1988. That was a terribly unkind dispute, Paul. If Hart hopes to inherit any mantle, it's John Kennedy's. Hart's speech redefined patriotism as excellence, justice, and community. Virtues combined in every American's daily life by what he called commonplace courage. Hart quoted Kennedy directly and indirectly. Listen to the echoes of Kennedy's famous line, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Genuine patriotism must appeal to the deep sense in all of us that each of us can do better at our chosen tasks, that our nation can do better at home and abroad, that there is a higher

purpose for a great nation than outdated political arrangements on the one hand or self-interest, materialism, and selfishness on the other. Hart's newest idea today was the concept of community, something he said is missing in the Republican Party's definition of patriotism. I believe patriotism, true patriotism, is also built upon a sense of community. Today, the pressures of what we call success, the attractions of materialism, the fragmentation of society into interest groups, have all made us into free agents. Modern pressures are towards atomization, insularity, and a go at alone mentality. We clearly lack a feeling of fellowship and concord. We are no longer an American family. A new patriotism requires that we reestablish the ties of a common cause. The notion of community is one aimed right at the young entrepreneur class,

the so-called Yuppies, that liked Hart in the primary season, but voted for Ronald Reagan in the final. These young affluent independent voters can be wooed back to the Democratic Party, Hart seems to think, by reminding them they were once part of the Woodstock generation. Each generation, one way or the other, is tested for its courage. For one generation, it may be an active commitment to civil rights. For another, it may be dedication to equal rights for women, or the achievement of a healthy environment. For other generations in the past, it was the sacrifices to defeat fascist aggression. I believe a new patriotism for our age will call forth courage. Starting two centuries back, Fannel Hall has been a sought after stump for Woodby Presidents. Last year saw John Glenn and George McGovern deliver major speeches here. Walter Mondale was already laying groundwork for 84, way back in 82. And of course Edward Kennedy kicked off his 1980 presidential campaign here. Kennedy's trip to South Africa last month put him back in the public eye,

and the elevation of Kennedy's former aide Paul Kirk to chairman of the Democratic National Committee last week helped spark speculation about Kennedy's plans for 1988. The question was, is that why Hart came here today? Well, I'm not here to pre-empt anyone. Senator Kennedy, Senator Kerry, or very good friends of mine, is Senator Sangus. And this is a state where I have many friends and have spent a lot of time. So there's no political calculation involved has. Gary Hart ran as the candidate of new ideas, but he lost the nomination to the man who won over labor, women, blacks, the disadvantage, all the traditional blocks of the Democratic Party. But in the soul-searching since the Democrats' defeat, party leaders have rejected that strategy. Let me be frank, we panned it to every conceivable interest group last year. And we got them all on our side in last 49 states. There's a lesson there. Sangus Kirk and Hart all say that party must broaden its base and recapture the debate over ideas.

Both Kirk and Hart also say they're counting on intellectuals within the party to help. And just like John Kennedy, Hart's personal think tank is based in Boston. No matter what the most hardened political cynics may say, Gary Hart's speech here is not simply about furthering his own presidential ambitions. After last year's crushing defeat, the Democratic Party is in the dump psychologically and in disarray, ideologically. It hasn't even been three months since that election. But if the Democrats are to reshape and rebuild the party in time to win three and a half years from now, there isn't any time to waste. I'm Chrissy George. Next on Frontline, he's a convicted murderer.

She's a prison volunteer. They're in love. The chances of my successfully being a part of society are good. If I were listening to my story from somebody else, I would think they were crazy. A special international broadcast. Watch the LIPR and the lady on Frontline, television for our time. Tuesday night at nine. Back to the Reagan budget, which like every budget is more about choices than numbers as much about politics as economics. Our guests are a political economist and a sometime politician. Roger Brenner is the chief economist of the forecasting firm Data Resources, Inc. of Lexington. Hendrick Hertzberg at Harvard's Kennedy Institute formally edited the New Republic magazine. Before that, he was Jimmy Carter's chief speech writer.

Start with you, Roger. The rhetoric in this budget is let Reagan be Reagan. What's the real economics in it? Economics is that we'll have a deficit that's about $200 billion for every year into the foreseeable future. That requires us as a nation to take out a second mortgage this year to pay for. The interest on last year's debt plus to expand that debt next year or third mortgage, the following year or fourth. Interest now almost 15 percent of the whole federal budget. That's correct and going up. The interest burden is getting increasingly dear as the lenders are saying you're borrowing too much and we need much more than just inflation. Now lenders are asking five, six, seven, eight percentage points above the rate of inflation. That's going to have to be paid back on very dear terms abroad as well as at home. And yet Reagan in the past has always used this cutting too much, this inadequacy of revenues as a very effective lever with Congress against spending.

It's a stalemate budget in that President Reagan has decided taxes cannot be raised. Cap Weinberger has decided that defense cannot be cut. The Democrats have said that you embarrassed us so badly in the election that we won't touch Social Security unless you're the clear leader. So there is no easy way to reduce the deficit below $200 billion. Where else do the Democrats go with Hertzberg especially in an acutely self-conscious moment for them about special interests to begin with? Well, the Democrats in Congress don't have a great deal of choice. They have to, they cannot support any kind of raise rise in taxes. So they've got to go along with some kind of budget cutting. So the idea is to focus for them is to focus on the Reagan budget, not to let it be killed the way the Republican Senate wants to do. And try to shift the debate to spending priorities.

Explain that about the Republicans in the Senate. The Republicans in the Senate have been further out front against this budget. Well, they've been declaring the budget dead on arrival. And that's the whole debate here has been between Republicans. And it's been between, it shows how totally the Reagan agenda dominates our political culture now. Because the whole debate is between Republicans who favor cutting all spending and Republicans who favor cutting all spending except defense spending. So I still don't know really clear about what the Democratic opportunity there is. Well, it's really to, it's really to, to, tactically, it's just simply to lay back for the time being. Let the Republicans, let the Republicans set the terms of debate and then come in in favor of some of reductions in defense spending against this transfer of $30 billion from domestic to defense spending,

which is what this budget really means. Why has Washington seemed so responsive to Cap Weinberg? Or why has his buffing been so successful? It's very difficult to oppose national security. The House Democrats have also stayed out of the debate because they face a rather interesting problem. They're on a two-year election cycle. And almost any step that a congressman takes to correct the budget deficit through increasing taxes or cutting expenditures will have its biggest negative impact on the economy two years after they take that step. That's when you'll get the worst hit in the economy. So you have to ask an awful lot of courage from a congressman to say for the national long-term interest, raise taxes, cut spending in your state, and don't worry, two years from now the economy will feel that most strongly when you're up for re-election. That's a pretty tough economic challenge for a politician. Is that why Tipo Neal wasn't there today?

Tipo Neal is going to make Reagan crawl on his knees and beg for unpopular programs if there's to be any deficit correction action and President Reagan isn't going to crawl on his knees for anyone. But he's not going to. Tipo Neal is not going to go to the wall for programs like the Small Business Administration and the UDAC grants and all this whole array of economic development programs the Reagan is proposing to cut. That wouldn't be such a bad thing for the Democrats to see some of that underbrush clear it away so that when the Democrats come back in in four years they'll be some room for creativity. If, on a more general level, if Reagan didn't exempt the military from his classification of everything's a special interest and everything is subject to cutting, wouldn't most Americans like this approach? I think most Americans would like to see

the deficit problem cured without raising their taxes. That simple statement can be made. I don't know that most Americans feel that federal employees are so overpaid that they should have a pay cut. So I don't know that there's immense popularity for all the programs that Reagan is proposing to slim down. It's not a very aggressive budget so I don't think it's going to attract either animosity or affection from the American population. It's going to challenge him. And I'd put this particularly to Rick on this notion that all government is essentially expendable and targetable. Well, the Democrats have to do over the long term is challenge the first principles of the whole Reagan approach. They have to keep on pointing out that the reason we have this deficit problem is because of an enormous tax giveaway to the rich, that's the source of these huge deficits.

And we've been continually transferring funds from the poor to the rich, from the public sector to the private sector. And as far as its effect on the economy is concerned, it doesn't matter whether you have a tax increase or budget cuts, it's the same thing. Thank you for the moment, Rick Hertzberg. Roger Brown. Thank you. Good evening, I'm Christopher Lighton. Where am I? On the Reagan budget that makes special interest out of all of us, I guess of the... I think we're just going to say goodnight. We're going to start over again at 10.30. Hope you can be with us. Good night. Clock Muse was made possible by grants from New England Telephone,

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Why was it blown? Is it an accident? It's an accident. Why was it blown? Is it an issue in the pre-existent? Why was it blown? Because the Democrats thought and the Mandel campaign felt that if they wanted to press the peace button, they just said nuclear freeze. That's not the way to talk about peace. That's not a bad idea. This show would have increased. Yeah. Walter Mandel didn't know how to talk about peace in a meaningful way or how to talk about Central America. In the second debate, he came on at a very moment when something had been disclosed about the performance of American agents in Central America in Nicaragua which was a subject I should have thought of shame for most Americans. It was a softball over the plate that any competent candidate could have knocked out of the park. And he went for the butt instead. And he went for the butt. Hold it. Thank you. Thank you. Ray Shammy, the Republican candidate for the Senate

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