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Toy Soldier ish gestures that were the only evidence of his shoot'em and if you had greasy snakes across his skull radio and this is member supported New Hampshire Public Radio WVO eighty nine point one in Concord Manchester operating on translator w 2 1 2 F in Nashua at ninety point three. Stay tuned for New Hampshire daily coming up in just a minute or so. Programming on New Hampshire Public Radio is made possible in part by a grant from the Portsmouth law firm of Boynton Waldron de Lac Woodman and Scot and by a grant from Matthew Thornton health plan and affiliate of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and its family of providers. Here's a look at the weather for this afternoon. Well little sun we didn't see much of this afternoon but tonight will be clear with patchy fog lows around 40 degrees Thursday sunny in the morning and then increasing cloudiness in the afternoon highs 65 to 70 degrees. Coming up later this evening on New Hampshire Public Radio at 5 o'clock as I mentioned just a couple of moments. You

have your daily followed at 5:30 by ALL THINGS CONSIDERED in amongst the stories on today's program. The Florida state Senate kills an anti abortion legislation proposed during a special session on abortion. Also a Nobel Prize winner who doesn't want the award he won for his work in economics and classical bassoonist Daniel Smith takes a break from recording Vivaldi's 37 bassoon concerti to try something with a lighter tone. Those stories and others coming up on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED at 5:30. Here are New Hampshire Public Radio on tomorrow's FRESH AIR. Screenwriter William link. From New Hampshire Public Radio. This is New Hampshire daily for Wednesday October the 11th 1989 I'm Martin Murray. On today's program highway toll rates will increase Monday anti-nuke protesters

charged police with attempting to halt demonstrations. Richard Downes gardening tips in a New Hampshire woman travels to Asia to talk politics. Well I think it's sort of like the old boys network on where a bunch of old girls that have been through it women will vote for women. Everything that the male politician said to us over there are exactly the sort of things that we've all heard in our states for many many years. First though this news. From National Public Radio News in Washington I'm Bill read them. Florida's Republican governor an anti-abortion activists who want to see more restrictions on abortions in their state have been unsuccessful in getting any changes during a special session of the legislature. A key Senate committee today killed more proposed restrictions following the defeat of a number of others yesterday. And the Florida Senate president says the effort is virtually over. The House voted today to lessen restrictions on federally subsidized abortions for the poor on a two hundred twelve two hundred seven

vote the representatives accepted Senate language that allows Medicaid coverage for abortions when the mother's life is in jeopardy or in cases of pregnancy after rape or incest. Since 1981 the law has restricted Medicaid funding for abortions only when the woman's life is in danger. The vote sets up a confrontation with President Bush who has promised to veto legislation relaxing conditions for Medicaid financed abortions in South Africa three of the country's leading anti-apartheid campaigners. Archbishop Desmond Tutu the Reverend Ellen both sac and the Reverend Frank chicane have had a meeting with President F.W. de Klerk the talks in Pretoria came a day after the clerk announced that eight prominent black activists would be released from prison. The BBC's Mike Wooldridge has details of the three hour meeting the president said often with the Beano. Thank you. Depth discussion is key but he also indicated that he had given the judgment of any specific new pledges on the timing of political reforms that the government could not get the kind of what it would be embarking on such a major program. The reaction to that is that what does that mean that the next step would be. I think even

the back side does it. The Mandela's name was not mentioned at the meeting. They said he had no specific to be pleased about that himself. The specific facts that you don't have to treat you actually do. Who among the strongest critics of the talk used to be when all the kids got to themselves help create a climate of panic as the Asians as they were pressing him to do he said the biggest challenge facing South Africans was to overcome the mistrust the BBC is Mike Wooldridge Washington state's governor has all gangs no to storing more nuclear waste in his state from the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. As Carol Levinson reports he says the Hanford Nuclear Reservation has already accepted enough nuclear waste from around the country. The Department of Energy is trying to find some place to store the nuclear waste from the Denver area Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant until the weight can be transferred permanently to a facility being built in New Mexico. The Energy Department is targeted seven states that already have nuclear facilities. Washington State's governor booth Gardner met with the manager of Hanford and talked to President Bush's chief of staff John Sununu today. A spokesman says the governor's

message was the same it's been. That is Washington has already scored two thirds of the nation's nuclear waste and it doesn't want to take on any more. Well no formal proposal was made according to the governor's spokesman. The idea of each of the seven states housing one seventh of the way was mentioned for National Public Radio and Carol Levinson. This is NPR News in Washington. More world and national news later on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. This is New Hampshire daily. A New Hampshire Public Radio Good evening. I'm Martin Murray in St. knew starting Monday drivers on New Hampshire's turnpikes will be paying a quarter more at mainline toll booths. The governor's executive council today approved a new toll schedule that also cuts the discounts for commuter tokens from 50 percent to 40 tolls for trucks will jump by as much as 300 percent. But for the first time truckers will be offered discounts for volume use only Hopkinton Republican Peter Spalding opposed the hike saying it wasn't fair to lower discounts for commuters while offering them to truckers for the first time.

State transportation commissioner Wallace Stickney said that if the toll increases gone into effect two weeks ago as originally planned New Hampshire would have benefit from the thousands of leaf peepers who visited the state. Yes to made it New Hampshire would have been two hundred and fifty thousand dollars richer Stickney said the hike is needed to pay for road improvements and he feels the public for the most part supports that. I don't want to wander through. Feel like I've got the money wisely. The truth will people want. The new schedule means that tolls at Hampton for example will be $1 instead of 75 cents beginning Monday toll plazas charging 50 cents will require 75. This weekend's planned protest at the Seabrook nuclear power plant is still days away but organizers of the demonstration I've already been told will be arrested.

SEABROOK police chief Paul Cronin says arrest warrants have been issued for Clamshell Alliance members Roy Morrison and Paul Gunter for helping to plan a June rally at Seabrook that included civil disobedience and the arrest of more than 700 people. Additionally chief Cronin says clamshell members Diane Dunphy and Kirk Ehrenberg probably will face criminal liability charges in connection with the protest scheduled for Saturday. It's closed almost 12 points. Might be on a tear in people to break and when they do that the responsibility for these people and with the dual Crown says he has not discussed the matter with the attorney general's office and he denies charges by the clamshell that it's an attempt to stifle protests at the plant. Organizer Roy Morrison though says that's just what it is and he believes the arrest threats are a violation of constitutional rights. If the president is now set to make it a crime to organize a civil disobedience action to oppose anything then we will not live in

the kind of country that protects our freedoms that you lose the rights of citizens. As more important. In the interest supply the corporations will the players and the size of the government. Morrison and others on the restless say they'll go ahead with their plans to demonstrate organizers expect thousands of people to march to the gates of the Seabrook plant Saturday and hundreds may scale gates and fences and face arrest. The regional administrator for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said today that he's satisfied Seabrooke nuclear plant officials have begun correcting mistakes made during a low powered test. William Russell and other federal officials met with Seabrook officials today at the plant to discuss a generally favorable written review of the reactors operation management and overall performance over a two year period that ended June 30th. One of the few areas where Seabrook got low marks was for its handling of a shut down during low power test on June 22nd. Russell said the response to the malfunction showed a lack of understanding by operators and management but said he

satisfied with steps taken to make sure it doesn't reoccur a New Hampshire legislative aide. Senator travels to Asia to encourage women there to run for political office. A report is coming up next on New Hampshire daily and programming on New Hampshire Public Radio is made possible in part by contributors to the New Hampshire features fund including audiology and hearing instruments of New Hampshire at 194 Pleasant Street in Concord celebrating 10 years of continuous service to the hearing impaired through hearing testing and hearing aids services. And also black America which proudly sponsors this broadcast on behalf of its employees insurance and financial service agents and the community Asian women in recent years have become active in business and social organizations but they've had trouble breaking into politics. For example in Korea last year all 13 of the female candidates for the Korean parliament were defeated. The few women now holding office in that country were appointed to their positions not elected in hopes of promoting women's participation in politics

and that part of the world the Asia Foundation held a conference on the subject in Korea. Eight female legislators from the United States joined women from Japan Korea and Taiwan for the two week event. Among the participants was state senator Susan McClain of Concord McLean told Cathy McLaughlin why she attended the conference. Well obviously if one is offered a free trip to Korea you don't turn it down. But I have been deeply interested for many years in the whole process of getting more women elected to public office and feeling the need for the voices of women in public service. What is it that you and other women legislators involved in this program felt that you could contribute to women over there. Well I think it's sort of like the old boys network where a bunch of old girls that have been through it we've been through the elective process. We've heard many of the things that political leaders said to us over there. I'm a

feminist but sort of remark. I really would like to have more women but I can't find any that are qualified. Women won't vote for women. Everything that the male politician said to us over there are exactly the sort of things that we've all heard in our states for many many years. Is there a great interest among Asian women to participate in politics. Oh yes. We met in Tasia which is a small community outside of Seoul with the League of Women Voters and we were to speak on running for political office and part of share our experiences. And three hundred women turned up for this meeting. So I think that there definitely is an interest and a dedication among women in Korea. Asian women have always been esteemed within their society for being demure and subservient is their image of

themselves changing. I think so and I think it's changing through education they are a very educated nation. We were interested we went through an electronics factory where they employed 35000 people and they made it very clear that all of the people employed there had graduated from high school and the women that we were dealing with the women that were leaders in the League of Women Voters all had their Ph.D.s they were extremely well educated. And I think that they sort of look at their society now in the past role of women and realize that to get somewhere they've got to get into politics and that politics needs them. But are these women representative of women as a whole in that society. Probably not. I think you still see the subservient woman and you certainly did as the wives of the important men that we met. We went and met with the

president of Korea and his wife was absolutely beautiful in china doll like and she never said a word the whole time while he talked. And that was true of the mayor of Tasia. He was a funny thing he leaned over to get a toothpick. Which is always wrapped in Korea and I assumed that he was going to give it to his wife. He put it over in front of his wife. She unwrapped the toothpick and handed it back to him without a word being spoken. But it was obvious that it was that her role was to open up his toothpicks. If you could compare to what is taking place in that part of the world to a period in our history what period would you compare it to would you compare it to the suffragette movement. Exactly. I I would I was going to say about 1930 women got the vote in nine hundred twenty in the United States. And even now there are less than 5 percent of the members of Congress are women there are

very few women in Congress. So it's a long evolutionary process. And they are back at the beginning. These 16 women that ran for office in this latest election all of them lost. And I think that this is happened as certainly I well know and others do in the United States it's harder for a woman to win. And they know they have now one woman member of the cabinet just an absolutely amazing woman and so exciting to meet. And she is a real pioneer she's the Francis Perkins that we had in the nineteen thirties 1940s. It's amazing to me that a society like Japan or a country like Japan can be so advanced technologically and yet be so far behind in this area. Yes you're right except something very exciting is happening in Japan. We finally a woman is a member is the the

leader of the opposition government in the upper house in the upper diet. And so that I think women are gaining power worldwide. And it was so exciting to meet these pioneers young woman from Japan who was 23 years old when she was elected and she spoke and she was just dynamite. It was just exciting to be in a room with her. And so they're they're out there pushing the same way we are in our country. That's STATE SENATOR SUSAN McClain of Concord. Wales are steeped in mystery and lore. Some of them are also on the brink of extinction. An expert on the large mammals recently visited the University of New Hampshire as the first speaker in a series on marine biology. Margaret landsman Winer reports. Charles Mayo is director of the Provincetown Center for Coastal study and institution on the tip of Cape Cod devoted to North Atlantic whales. His research

focuses on the great whales which are endangered. The last step before extinction. Despite their size some eighty nine feet long they are says Mayo difficult mammals to study. It is that they are larger animals and an extraordinarily large environment. That's the first part of it. It's also for us an alien environment and. The alien in the sense that we don't travel well in it and we don't enjoy being on it for much of the year and so it's not a place that we we can easily get to and it's also for our work virtually opaque so that when I say I look at a whale for an hour what I mean really is that it's on the surface for five minutes of the hour and for the other 55 it's underwater. Much of what is known about the great whale says Mayo is somewhat tentative. This is especially true of the species he's targeted for his research the Right Whale which has dwindled in numbers since it was first hunted centuries ago.

Right Whale. It's always a little difficult for me to believe that our forefathers used the term right meaning correct but it was the correct whale to kill. It was very rich in oil and bone and in the seventeen hundreds and hundreds. It was an exceedingly valuable commodity and those were important commodities and as a consequence they were hunted widely. It was the right whale also because it was very easy to catch in addition to being valuable. And that was all fine and good as long as there were some around but now we're looking at very low populations. It's believed there are almost 250 left today. That's a substantial drop from the estimated 30 to 50 thousand right whales 200 years ago to get the modern estimate May when his colleagues take advantage of the distinctive markings found on the faces of these whales. We simply take photographs at a nickel a piece over their habitat and then a bunch of us of color cells scientists get together and like trading baseball

cards we look at all the different photos and. It's a little more complicated but in its simplest form we simply count up how many we've got and that number comes out right now to be about two hundred and thirty and we're still counting but we're not getting a lot of new ones. That lack of new Wales to the Fuld may be important. Unlike their cousins to the west grey whales right whales have not reproduced very quickly. Mayo says grey whales on the California coast also once numbered in the hundreds. But with protection made a startling recovery its numbers since protection have increased to estimates of over 17000 animals now. And although I can't promise that the accuracy of all those numbers it's clear they have exploded and there's no one who doubts that. The right whale afforded relatively the same protection with the numbers in the hundreds has not come back. And for me there is a

message and that is that something has happened to the right whale or is happening in it. Some difference in its reproductive pattern some difference in its habitat. A whale is not a whale is not a whale explains male right whales contrast widely from their relatives. Right Whales are neither behaviorally nor nor in terms of their population biology nor their distributional patterns at all like the other species there. They are a whole different animal that fills that radically different niche behaves in a substantially different way feeds on food that is totally different from most of the other whales. For example while humpbacks like fish right whales eat so plankton nearly microscopic plants. Mayo has a special affinity to these huge creatures. It's practically in his blood. His forebears 10 generations ago on Cape Cod killed them for money. Well the irony isn't lost on the conservationist male isn't bitter about it.

I forgive my my ancestors and imagine that if I had lived in their time I would have been hunting too. Our family didn't was not very active in hunting right whale hunting was. Sort of a pick up as you went along fishing if you saw a right whale you killed it made a lot of money. I think really all of us would do that. We are conservationists only by buyer education not by something you know or genetics. That's Charles Mayo director of the Provincetown Center for Coastal study. He's the first lecturer in a series on marine biology at the University of New Hampshire for. New Hampshire gardeners of just about called it a year and the right to settle in with some seed catalogues and look forward to next spring's planting. The use of compost will be an important component of next year's garden. In today's commentary Richard Owen talks about one of the most underutilized compost materials.

Even people without gardens generate compostable materials in the off their yards collect fallen leaves. So what happens. Generally the home owner's teenage daughter or son gets told to rake up the leaves and stuff them into plastic bags. And if that job isn't done by 4:30 the kid can't go to the movies that night. But the tale doesn't end there. Those plastic bags invariably end up in the town landfill where they comprise some 10 or 20 percent of the waste stream. Pockets of leaves not only take up much needed space in the landfill they also release methane and can cause the surface to settle unevenly. Clearly these leaves should be composted separately. But you and I know not everyone on that street is interested in starting a backyard compost pile. So ultimately the responsibility for composting leaves falls on them in this civil government. Many cities and towns in New England already do this

and by their example have proven the advocacy of such projects. I have seen large vacuum trucks in West Hartford Connecticut driving slowly down neighborhood streets sucking up leaves residents there and just rake leaves to curbside and avoid the bagging chore altogether. In 1986 Newton Massachusetts started a leaf composting project on top of a capped portion of their landfill. The dumps articulating Lowder formed a leaf windrows 8 to 10 feet high in 12 to 15 feet wide at the base. Over the course of seven months the piles returned seven times always on calm days when the air temperature was above freezing. Treated this way the composting leaves maintain temperatures of one hundred and twenty degrees even through the coldest part of the winter. Since many of Newton's lives were street sweepings the town tested the finished compost for typical road contaminants lead to salt

and cadmium cadmium comes from tires. The lead content was well below EPA limits of 300 parts per million and solving cadmium concentrations were negs negligible. In sum the compost proved to be an excellent soil amendment for use with edible and ornamental crops. In 1907 the following year the Newton project experimented with collecting leaves in large biodegradable paper bags. The bags were collected in garbage Packer trucks which proved to be very efficient since the bags were paper. They composted with the leaves although more frequent turning of the pile was necessary. The municipal composting movement is growing. Last year more than 100 cities and towns in Massachusetts started leaf composting projects. Maybe your town can too. This will be my last gardening commentary for the season. Good bye for now. Enjoy the

harvest and keep your thumbs green. This is Richard don't. You. Richard will return in the spring he tends his garden in Littleton. Business news is next on New Hampshire daily. Good evening this is Jim Dix reporting from PaineWebber in Concord. A gloomy outlook for interest rates and some bad news from the takeover front sent a stock market falling further from its recent. But late buying and some blue chip issues coupled with a modest amount of futures related

program buying allowed the Dow to finish well above its session. The Dow off as much as 27 points earlier called the day off 12 points to 27 73. Stan employs 100 calls at three thirty two point three off one point seven seven and the Nasdaq the next of all the kind of stock flows at forty two point sixteen off one point ninety eight gold in New York closed at 360 want to five off 85 cents and the nationalist active stocks include AT&T forty two and a half off a half digital ninety three in a quarter off a half 64 in 5 8 7 8. IBM one of seven and three quarters off a half public service in Hampshire for an eighth. Tyco 15:7 aids up a quarter life 81 off 3 8 9 x 82 off one American International Group 105 off one in three eights James River twenty nine hundred seventy three a fleet North Star 20 and half off a quarter national Corp. 37 ate up 1 in 3 8 in a skate bank five in seven eights off a quarter in bank east three up in eight. In summary the Dow Jones Industrial

Average closed at twenty 773 twelve point one of one of one hundred sixty four million shares. This is Jim Dixon reporting from PaineWebber incog. Enjoy your evening in business no disconnect Corporation says lower newsprint cost and improved results from its USA Today newspaper helped boost its third quarter profit by nearly 11 percent. Net earnings for the three month period amounted to 52 cents a share compared with forty seven cents during the same period last year. The Virginia based Can it operates in 41 states the District of Columbia and seven overseas locations among other things it publishes 83 daily newspapers operates 10 TV stations and 16 radio stations. The U.S. Commerce Department says U.S. retailers after tax profits fell in the second quarter to an average of one point four percent of sales. That's down from 1.7 percent during the first quarter as a result people who invest in the retail industry realized a smaller return during the April through June period on an after tax basis. The annual rate of return on shareholders equity fell to 9.5 percent. That's down a

full percentage point from the first quarter. Now for a look at whether this weather report is made possible in part by a grant from Johnson and Dick's suppliers of petroleum products throughout New Hampshire and Vermont. Here's Rob Gilman. Good afternoon everyone. Classic October warming trend about to begin. Storm system one now over northern most New England bringing rain to northern Maine late this afternoon with some light showers now ending across central and northern New Hampshire and a secondary storm system off shore. That's what brought the drying more westerly breeze coastal sections. So for tonight it'll turn just even a bill HLA with clearing skies and then the waxing moon showing above that dense fog forming in the valley below visibility near zero by dawn low temperature in the low 40s. Thursday the fog will lift by late morning it's going to turn out beautiful 3 3 and warmer tomorrow. Surprisingly warm

behind a seven day Thursday night fair low in the low 40s and Friday 20 of autumn sunshine a nice afternoon and high near 68 in seven day. Meteorologist Rob Goldman. At this hour mostly cloudy skies over the granite state temperatures range from the mid 40s to mid 50s. In sports news the Boston Bruins kick off a six game road trip tonight in Montreal in a rematch of Monday night's game at Boston Garden that was won by the Bruins two to nothing. The whalers host the Washington Capitals the Rangers host the Calgary Flames and the Islanders play in Los Angeles. Robert perishes contract with the Celtics is in its final year he apparently is not happy with the new offer his team has put on the table. They are seeking a two year contract expansion. Celtics have apparently offered the 7 foot 14 year veteran only one year. The on the upcoming season. That's New Hampshire daily for Wednesday the 11th day of October 1989. The engineer of the show is Bill Rice programming the New Hampshire Public Radio is made possible in part by a grant from Granite State Volkswagen BMW of Concord providing sales leasing an award winning service of

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complete with reviews and suggested reading list. Anybody who is seriously interested in books will have to have it. As an indispensable resource for an emergency and any of the centrists researchers journalists Stu general readers. First this news from National Public Radio News in Washington. I-Man Taylor in a dramatic turnaround from past votes the House decided today to allow federal funding for abortions and pregnancies caused by rape or incest. NPR's Cokie Roberts reports this vote is seen as a recognition of new political realities. Since 1981 Congress has raised.