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Major funding for fresh air is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. And by this and other NPR member stations. This is NPR National Public Radio and this is members supporting New Hampshire Public Radio WVO eighty nine point one in Concord Manchester operating on translated w 2 1 2 A F in Nashua at ninety point three. Programming on New Hampshire Public Radio is made possible in part by a grant from Shaw supermarkets incorporated providing quality and service in all its stores in New Hampshire Maine Massachusetts and Rhode Island and by a grant from NH savings bank of Portsmouth committed to your growing needs and by a grant from pro con incorporated providing a full range of construction services throughout New Hampshire. Stay tuned for New Hampshire daily coming up in just a moment hosted by Martin Murray at 5:30 it's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. And at 7 o'clock Carlotta Nobby will be in with classical music and then later jazz throughout the evening. Here's a look at the weather tonight occasional snow will be ending then partly cloudy temperatures and teens with light winds Tuesday mostly sunny highs in the lower to mid 30s. 25 to 30 in the

north. And mid to upper 30s along the coast west northwest winds 5 to 15 miles per hour. Tuesday mostly sunny highs in the lower to mid 30s. Tuesday night clear then clouds increasing toward morning lows 10 to 15 15 to 20 along the coast and Wednesday mostly cloudy highs 25 to 30 in the north 30 to 35 in central and southern sections at the mid to upper 30s along the coast for Thursday and Friday. Stay tuned now for New Hampshire daily. It's 5:00 o'clock. From New Hampshire Public Radio this is New Hampshire Danley for Monday January 22nd 1900. Hi Martin. The state legislature will consider another proposal to repeal New Hampshire's statutes that

criminalize abortion that's the subject of today's legislative debate. Richard a letter reveals his duns camp awards program and a construction worker hopes his political inexperience will help his congressional campaign politically. I am the only member that's a member of America's working class. Nobody else is a county holding office for held office in some way shape or form is affiliated with the first new National Public Radio News in Washington I'm Frank stay show. President Bush you sure tens of thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators today that he stands behind their cause. Both follows and supporters of legalized abortion marked the 17th anniversary of the landmark Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision. NPR's Philip Crockett has details. President Bush who is strongly supported politically by the anti-abortion forces talked to the group before the march began. He again stated his opposition to

abortion on demand that opposition he said is shared by millions of Americans. Your movement reminds Americans especially young Americans to self evident curiosity. Option over abortion we should be grateful to the families that adopt babies giving them care and members of Congress who support a woman's right to choose abortion on giving up their strategy and plan to against the midde legislation that would allow public funding for the abortions of poor women in Washington D.C. President Bush vetoed such a bill last year until this Crockett at the White House in St. Louis where the Supreme Court's Webster case originated anti-abortion activists spent the day at the facility which originally challenge Missouri's restrictive abortion law. Jim Dryden of member station KW M U has more. Today's demonstration was described as peaceful as several dozen anti-abortion activists

spent the day protesting and praying in front of reproductive health services in St. Louis. Meanwhile abortion rights activists rallied last night and will meet again this evening to present an award to the director at reproductive health. B.J. Isaacson Jones I think these are very critical and in the history. United States I believe we are doing the distraction of the civil rights movement and women have been pushed back to the Dark Ages while Isaacson Jones received her so-called reproductive freedom award. Anti-abortion Catholics will this evening celebrate a special mass to commemorate days anniversary for National Public Radio. I'm Jim Dryden in St. Louis. Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry flew to Florida for a treatment center today. City officials confirm the mayor left the Capitol for treatment of an unspecified health problem the day after declaring he would take steps to overcome his condition. Barry would not say where he was going. He faces a misdemeanor cocaine possession charge after his arrest last week in a Washington hotel room. FBI agents searched a warehouse in Enterprise

Alabama today in a sweep that officials say could be linked to the mail bomb slayings of a federal judge in Birmingham and a civil rights lawyer in Georgia. The search was confirmed by the county sheriff's department the FBI said it would issue a statement later. On Wall Street the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 77 points the day it closed at twenty six hundred forty five. The Kleins lead advances 6 to 1. This is NPR News. More world or national news later on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED this is New Hampshire daily. Good afternoon I'm Martin Mari. Police report that roads around New Hampshire stayed slick through the day as snow continued to fall. The National Weather Service was calling for one to three inches today after nearly a foot of snow fell in some areas as of this morning. Police say snow related skating accidents continue through the day keeping officers ambulance squads and tow trucks busy but they reported no fatal crashes. Yesterday a three year old Pembroke girl Brittany Thompson died after the sled she was riding slid into the path of a car. Governor Gregg has appointed a panel of state officials to look into why the supply of home heating oil and propane

went down and the prices went up last month. Record cold in December was accompanied by record high oil prices and propane shortages. The governor said some residents were hit with price hikes of about 60 percent. He called it intolerable inexcusable and life threatening. The panel includes the head of the energy office the head of the emergency management the public utilities commissioner and the governor's legal council. It holds hearings on Wednesday to hear from the publican on Thursday to hear from oil and propane dealers and suppliers. The governor said he has appointed the panel to recommend ways to prevent a recurrence of the fuel shortages and price hikes. We'll talk with a member of that panel coming up in just a few minutes. Most car owners in New Hampshire will have to have their exhaust systems inspected. If lawmakers approve an emissions control bill before a House committee Deerfield Republican John Sherborne told the House Transportation Committee that carbon monoxide hydro core carbon and nitrogen oxide emissions from cars are partly responsible for ozone smog which does not meet environmental standards. The bill would extend a law requiring

inspections for cars in the Nashua area Sherborne said emission controls are especially important in the state's seven southern counties. Although he recommended the law apply statewide. No one spoke against the bill. A debate regarding abortion laws that is coming up next on New Hampshire daily. Programming on New Hampshire Public Radio was made possible in part by contributors to New Hampshire features fun including audiology and hearing instruments in New Hampshire at 194 Pleasant Street in Concord celebrating 10 years of continuous service to the hearing impaired hearing testing and hearing aid services. The New Hampshire legislature will once again debate a proposed repeal of state laws prohibiting abortion. Pro-choice advocates want the change in case the U.S. Supreme Court repeals the landmark Roe vs. Wade decision and sends the issue back to the states. The repeal of the state laws was approved last session but was vetoed by Governor Judd Gregg. That issue is the subject of this week's legislative debate between Republican Representative Donna scientific of Salem and Democratic State Senator Wayne King of Romney.

Wayne this week the legislature will take up the matter many members would just as soon have go away. But because of the actions of the Supreme Court abortion has once again become a state issue. House Bill 14:24 would liberalize New Hampshire's longstanding but on enforceable prohibition against abortion. I believe the bill goes way too far and for that reason I'll vote against it. First it would allow abortions for any reason at all up to the beginning of the seventh month. This would permit late abortions for such things as sex selection or birth control or even the convenience. I don't believe the public supports such a wide open law but it gets even worse. The bill would allow abortions even after the seventh month for the health of the mother. Most people don't have a problem with saving the life of the mother but should we allow abortions for a term so vague and undefined as health. This could conceivably include conditions as minor is backaches of swollen ankles. I think this language goes far beyond what the voters would find acceptable. Wayne I'm in favor of birth control. I'm in favor of self control. I'm in favor of adoption but I

don't favor legislation so broad that it permits the taking of a life even on a whim Dhamma debate over a woman's right to choose abortion is the most divisive that we have seen in our country for years. It's already shaken the foundations of political structures and alliances all over the country. And there's much more to come in this session as you've said Representative Peter Burling has introduced a bill which would codified in New Hampshire law the tenets of the Roe versus Wade decision of the United States Supreme Court. And I believe it should be passed. Let's face it the people of New Hampshire don't want government interfering with what is the most difficult and personal decision that a woman will ever have to make. They have made that very clear in every single special election that we've had since the Webster case. And it will be abundantly clear I believe after the next election. But those who are intent upon imposing their religious and personal views on the rest of us will continue with this barrage of bills to limit the rights of others. Frivolous bills such as the bill to allow students to refuse to pay the portion of their health that use for gynecological

services as well as much more ominous bills that will threaten to deny a woman the personal choice altogether. Donna you know as well as I do that laws have never stopped abortions. They only serve to transfer the locale from a safe clean sanitary facility to a back alley somewhere where with the right to life force is one of the leading killers of women in this country was illegal abortion. There is only one position that reconcile these two very divergent viewpoints on this issue and that is the pro-choice position. Those who are opposed to abortion on personal on religious grounds choose not to have an abortion but they do not make that choice for other people. When first of all my opposition to abortion is on scientific and medical grounds not on religious grounds. And I would not be so bold as to try to impose my will on others but in shaping shaping public policy I think it's my responsibility to look at everybody who has to be affected by a law and to concentrate solely on the right of a woman. To choose what is said to be a

matter concerning her own body. I think it's shortsighted. We have to also look at the right of that unborn child. Because there is a person involved other than the woman I believe is an appropriate area for the state to take some measures to look into balancing these two people's rights. I do not think that a woman's right a mother's right should supersede the right of her unborn child. You remember that even our founding fathers said that one of our foremost rights is the right to life. Let's get something straight. Being pro-choice doesn't mean that you believe in abortion as a means of birth control although there are many pro-life forces who would force that result by condemning birth control as well. Although I take it that you're not one of them being pro-choice doesn't mean that you believe in abortion on demand. The primary reason that the that the majority of people in this state are pro-choice is because they reject the absolutist position that it's always morally wrong to terminate a pregnancy.

The Roe vs. Wade decision which we want to codified is a middle ground decision. It says that after the second trimester it is reasonable for government to place restrictions on abortion and I agree with that. But until then the decision must be left to the individual. Pro-choice people Donna come in many shades and colors unlike most anti-choice people. But the bottom line for them is that it must be their decision and not the government's decision. Government interference in such a highly personal decision cuts both ways Don I think we need to remember that a government that can tell a woman that she may not choose an abortion may someday decide to tell her that she must choose an abortion. State Senator Wayne King and Representative Donna scientific debate issues of concern to the state legislature Mondays on. Governor Gregg today named a panel of experts that has been asked to investigate the fuel price increases that hit New Hampshire consumers during last month's cold snap.

Oil and propane supplies were down drastically but have since bounced back. I spoke today with John Osgood director of the governor's energy office and a member of that expert panel. The supply of fuel. Is markedly improved from what it was the beginning of the decade. That's reflected by the price slide nobody's seen in the case of home heating oil down from a hundred dollar fifty to a dollar 14 today. And in the case of propane prices are generally set at the beginning of the month. Based on the formula and we haven't seen a similar decline there but we know that the supply is markedly improved. And what's the outlook for the rest of the heating season any ideas. Well assuming nothing seriously goes wrong it looks good but something very seriously did go wrong in December and we saw that in terms of price increases that escalated beyond anyone's

worst nightmare. Well let's talk about that a bit your panel has been charged with investigating those price increases. You want to hear Wednesday from the public. I'll bet you heard a few stories already they'll have a new horror stories about big bills. The Fallen has been ringing off the hook. People are naturally extraordinarily upset by the price increases that they've seen. The the most dramatic example would come from the case of a heating oil dealer who many would assume would be profiting under these conditions. But I've spoken to a couple of them who are very very upset because they knew. That their customers couldn't pay this sort of price and they and themselves are faced with going to the bank and asking for larger lines of credit and so forth in a time when it's difficult to get just to pay for the oil that they will put in the tanker truck just to pay for the oil that they want to provide for their customers. Well Thursday you'll hear from the oil and propane dealers and suppliers.

I'm sure you've heard stories from them till like you just related concerning reasons for the price hikes. One excuse Mr. Osgood that was heard a lot was that it got cold demand went up supply went down prices went up. Any reason yet to think it wasn't that simple and that there was in fact some price gouging. Well it seems to me that based on my economics education that it was probably in the interest of each rational supplier and an inventory holder right along the line to keep their inventory Feeley low. Been a lot of talk about global warming October in the first part of November will warm and. There was there was concern that prices might suddenly fall and therefore it was in everyone's rational interest to keep their inventory low that it's not mean to say that that work could spirochetes taking place at some level to keep them even lower than they rationally should have been.

Well back to the local level do you have any advice Mr. Osgood. If someone found themselves facing a huge one time fuel bill and they want to ensure that that doesn't happen again is there anything one can do short of installing a personal underground storage tank. Well that's that's a good suggestion right there. The other is taking control of one's own inventory for instance ensuring that the tanks filled up at the beginning of the season. Back in October we recommended that was a wise thing for people to do because we saw the circumstances even without a very cold December that could lead to price and collate escalation. Nothing of the magnitude that we saw. That's John good director of the governor's energy office and a member of a state panel charged with investigating recent fuel price increases. Now panel a scheduled open meetings on Wednesday Thursday and Friday at the state house in Concord. A molten man with a little political experience announced today that he's running for

Congress. Twenty seven year old Chris tribally is self-employed in the construction business and is a member of the moment Beryl planning board. He's seeking the Republican nomination for the first district seat being vacated by Bob Smith who is running for the Senate. Kathy McLaughlin asked trembly why he decided to run for Congress. So when I'm running to win and I think it's a statement really a referendum on whether or not the people are self-governed anymore. You know it's the working class of America that supports this democracy and it's time that we you know the working class America had a voice in Congress. Why do you say that. Don't have a voice now. Oh you know if you look at the list of candidates now on the Republican side as well on the Democratic side I am the only non politically connected bureaucrat. I am the only member that it's a person that is a proud member of America's working class. Nobody else is either currently holding office or has held office in the past or in some way shape or form is affiliated with a politically connected bureaucrat.

Now some people might say that with little or no political experience that might be a hindrance to you and you don't see it that way. No I can't see how that can be a hinderance if you look at the career of retiring Senator Gordon Humphrey he was basically a political outsider and he was successful in not only winning his race but having a very good career. What about your campaign style. You say that you have sort of a common man type of approach. How will that come through during your campaign. Also there are media buys are going to be toward the end of the campaign certainly name recognition is important and you know we're going to spend our money as far as media goes with TV and radio toward the end of the campaign. But really the voter today should not be surprised to see me knocking on their door because we're going to want to get a grassroots organization. We have family and friends that are going to take flyers to doors and and take a moment to speak to the voters and that's really how we're going to run our campaign a lot of bumper stickers pens and signs and knocking on doors. What about campaign funding. Congressional races can cost up to

a half a million dollars or even more in the state of New Hampshire. What are your plans for raising funds. We have several fundraisers scheduled and there will be some prominent people speaking at those fund raisers and more more will be announced about the press in the future as they come together but this morning I had phone calls from local businessmen that have heard about this candidacy wishing to pledge campaign funds and I think that's what our source is going to be it's going to be from the common man the American worker and the small businessman. As far as the issues go what would you say are some of the main issues in this campaign. Well certainly when you go to the data call the Social Security system. You know we when you start telling the American people they're only one hundred fifty two billion dollars in debt when really would two hundred and four billion dollars in debt for last year. You know that's a lie that has stopped being perpetuated. But you have to do is you have to lower the amount of money the government spends You have to downsize government. The more government costs the more cost the working man and

woman because the greatest market in the world is supported on the backs of the hard working people of America so you start telling the truth. Downsizing government so it doesn't cost as much. And that way you won't have to steal from future retirees trust fund. And also future American workers to pay off those IOU's. Now many political observers say that the abortion issue will stand out in this race. What is your viewpoint on on abortion. Well certainly it took 150 years to pass the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. I for one do not believe that that ended when the sufferance or the civil inferiority. I believe it's time for government and politicians to recognize that women are protected by the whole US Constitution and each amendment and like a good friend a good government would never impose its will on another individual. And I'd like to be that friend in Congress. In a word what do you think your chances of winning are very good. This is a democracy. I think our message is an honest message not a message to try and get elected. But a message that is on the mind of every hardworking American. And

I know a lot of working Americans who wish they could enter a campaign like this. Haven't got the opportunity. Well I guess I put myself forward as the candidate of the working class. I want to take that chance. I hope people learn about the primaries and vote for me in the Republican primary Get me out the primary get me to the general election and put me in Congress. I think they will. Crist trembly is running for New Hampshire's first district congressional seat. Another announced candidate is State Senator William Johnson. Others considering running for the Republican nomination include House speaker Douglas Graham and former Commerce Department official Lawrence Brady and Jackson innkeeper William zealots. Well it's that time of year once again when W e O's language commentator Richard water confers the n you dunce cap awards for ghastly grammatical errors. Spell that society for the preservation of English Language and Literature has announced it's nineteen eighty nine dunce cap awards.

Founded in 1984 spell as an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the proper use and usage of our mother tongue. In the service of this lofty goal spell each year confers dunce cap awards on perpetrators of a specially agreed use errors in usage spelling and punctuation inflicted on the public sensibilities. During the past three years I have had the privilege of judging the contest the contest that nobody wants to win. Sparrow looks back on the 1980s as the decade in which the adverb literally came to mean figuratively in which the most memorable statement uttered in the political arena was the reprocessed Where's the beef which you know is Walter Mondale reprocessing a when these commercial and the decade through which slither the non-sequitur. My idea fell between the cracks of. Horse It really fell into the cracks otherwise between the cracks would be its own of the floor itself for everyone the city the 1980s was a

decade or is that were a decade in which we saw further erosion of the distinctions between word pairs such as lie and lay him out number unique in unusual and farther and further the ubiquitous eight items or less signs above the checkout counters in American supermarkets and the release in 1906 of a little golden book for children called 10 items or less. Further blur the important difference between less. That is how much and fewer How many. It seems sadly fitting then that the 1980s should have ended with a film titled Honey I Shrunk the Kids which as the fourth most popular film. Home of the summer of 1989 growth in excess of one hundred and ten million dollars. Spell finds the verb in the title to be exceedingly gross and confers on the collective heads of Walt Disney Pictures an Amblin Entertainment and the nineteen eighty nine dunce cap award in one swell foop. These entertainment giants

threaten to erase centuries of development of those strong irregular verbs whose internal vowels inflect so slee. The sequence of the verb shrink is shrink shrank shrunk and the proper past tense in the title of the film is of course Honey I Shrunk the Kids. Yes 1989 honey was a year in which we shrunk the language. So let's look for a few more language atrocities contributed by spell members. The most important part of your sexuality is that you and your husband discuss any concerns about sexual relationships with your doctor. And that's. Syndicated column in The Seattle Times tax increases that only whet the appetite of congressional revenue junkies. He should be w h e t because the metaphor is that of the Whetstone that sharpens the knife of the appetite. And finally this one teacher's compromise our largest employee group. That's from a

member of the Board of Education in Pontiac Michigan. Well time for a few more. Once they are fully appraised of the situation and that is from the mayor of San Francisco just the closing thought and that is take the name Manuel Noriega take the last name take the first four letters and reverse them and you'll get I r o n take the last 3 and reverse them. Sort of a double palindrome when you get a g and that's iron age I think perfectly B fitting the kind of primitive rigidity of that Panamanian Ach. This is Richard Lederer and if you have a question or a common language write to Richard a letter W E v o 26 Pleasant Street Concord New Hampshire zip code 0 3 3 0 1. Business news is next on New Hampshire daily. Good evening this is Steven McRae reporting from the offices of PaineWebber unconquered the

stock market's latest attempt to snap out of its January slump gave way to its shoppers decline since mid October. Futures related program selling repeatedly battered the market as the Dow Jones Industrial Average which finished let's finish last week with its first back to bag gains this month plunged 77 points to two thousand six hundred. There were two hundred sixty two issues advancing one thousand three hundred thirty eight declining and three hundred sixty three unchanged volume totaled one hundred forty eight million shares compared with one hundred eighty five million on Friday. Looking at stocks of local interest American Telephone 40 and a half down one in five eights GTI sixty one in five eights down two in three eights job 93 in a down one in three eights and James River 25 in a quarter down seven eights and summary the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at twenty six hundred down seventy seven points on a volume of one hundred fifty two million shares.

This is Steve McRae reporting from PaineWebber in Concord. Have a nice evening. Now for a look at whether this weather report is made possible in part by a grant from Johnson and Dick's fuel core suppliers of petroleum products throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. The snowfall of this morning gradually gave way to cloudy skies this afternoon with a few flurries lingering here and there. New snowfall accumulations range from one to two inches in many areas a few higher amounts reported for the seedling it'll be cloudy with scattered flurries and perhaps a brief period of steadier snow in some areas then drier air will begin to work its way into the state bringing partial clearing after midnight tomorrow look for mostly sunny and milder day. Temperatures will range from the upper 20s to upper 30s from north to south on the weather map low pressure and southern Canada will pass to our north this evening as a ridge of high pressure moves in to bring fair weather on Tuesday from a system approaching from the west on Wednesday will increase clouds once again with a chance of rain or snow late in the day. So our extended forecast for the state fair skies expected on Thursday

except for a chance of morning flurries in the northern mountains. Fair skies also expected on Friday. Cloudy in Concord 20 degrees. Portsmouth cloudy 19 Manchester Nashua 21 degrees. Lebanon in the upper valley 25 degrees. What Conium Lakes region cloudy in 15. In sports the Boston Bruins have announced agreement on a contract extension with newly acquired center Dave Pullen It comes nearly a week after Pullen was acquired from Philadelphia for can when the Bruins play tomorrow and come back to the Celtics next play Wednesday night in the garden against Miami. That's New Hampshire daily for Monday the 22nd of January 1990. I'm Martin Murray the engineer is Paul Jimerson programming on New Hampshire Public Radio as made possible in part by a grant from Smith children rug Certified Public Accountants and management consultants offering accounting expertise in strategic business consulting services with offices in New Hampshire and Vermont. By Randall Benteen associates providing organizational development consulting throughout New England helping people become more effective and by Lampa

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Foundation the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for coverage of health care issues and Jennifer and Ted Stanley. Stay tuned for all things considered. It's 5:00 5:30. Killings in Kashmir. In this half hour of All Things Considered. Indian Muslims defy a curfew and battle security forces the government of Haiti suppresses the opposition and the diplomatic aftermath of the US invasion of Panama. Also Argentina's new president is losing popularity as he tries to implement his campaign promises and Henry Petroski an engineering professor at Duke University has written what he calls a history of design and circumstance.

It's the story of the pencil that's always on the set that was simple and reproducibility so that when people pick up a number two pencil it's the same as the number two pencil they put down last week. All that and more in this half hour. First news. From National Public Radio News in Washington. In the face of growing instability in East Germany the prime minister has now appealed to the nation's opposition to join his government. NPR's Mike Shuster has more on the story. Mr. Hunt's Motorola made the offer to the opposition this morning in the East German Roundtable a meeting of all the political parties and groups in the country. Oh said the Communist Party is willing to give up some of the 60 seats it holds in his 27 member cabinet. Yes the opposition to submit a list of leaders who might take over the government positions by the end of the week. And he indicated a willingness to form a grand coalition government next week. But the opposition reacted with caution and suspicion. At least one small opposition party expressed interest in Mojo's offer. But the prominent movement new for us was unwilling to commit

itself if the opposition does join the government. It could make the Communist Party of minority party in the East German government for the first time in 40.