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from san francisco site of the nineteen eighty four democratic national convention living for robert macneil and the rest of us involved in covering the democrats nineteen eighty four adventure that i was one day with debates and votes on the way are mostly fine print issues is to be jesse jackson's a bank his primetime address being the major event of the nighttime meanwhile back in washington president reagan match the democrats for headlines sign a new hotline do with the russians and a new law aimed at stopping those under twenty one from drinking alcohol well the bulk of the news hour is devoted to the democratic convention charlayne hunter gault gives us the rest of the news and examines today's hardline agreement with assistant secretary of state richard barrett in san francisco judy woodruff reports on jesse jackson's day in the sun is this the end of his reign and we analyze all this with our resident observers democrat alan bannon and republican david gergen how the macneil

lehrer newshour is funded by the tnt the corporation for public broadcasting and the station and other public television stations walter mondale consolidated his leadership of the democratic party denied by defeating three jesse jackson platform challenges and agreeing to compromise two others one with jackson one with gary hart mondale ended a long battle that lasted right through the primaries with gary hart over the use of american military force before the convention voted on a minority platform plank brought by the hot forces in essence he agreed to compromise about it rejects the use of military force by the united states unless on diplomatic efforts haven't made a result of the spill despite this major concession hard to not have a roll call vote this was his only opportunity to test his delegate strengthen the floor of the convention before the voting on the presidential nomination tomorrow evening michael made it known that he still considers them our language vague and would issue clarifying language of his own later that was gary hart's

only challenge to the majority platform jesse jackson ran for challengers onto he was defeated outright convention rejected his suggestion that it demands substantially lower military spending and accepted the majority position to reduce the rate of increase in military spending the convention also rejected jackson's intent to make the party adopted right now a policy of no first use of nuclear weapons it accepted the mondale position of working gradually towards that principle on affirmative action mondale forces compromise with jackson calling for goals and timetables in pushing affirmative action and eliminating any mention of quarters on jackson's fourth and most important challenge the convention voted down jackson's demand to eliminate all run off or second primaries and instead accepted the majority position of eliminating only those found to discriminate against minorities john throughout the campaign jesse jackson raised the issue of dual primaries arguing they discriminated against watson other minorities and urging the national democratic party committee itself to

their elimination but others including the new mondale campaign shape or glance of georgia i argued against that on grounds majority rule is basically an electoral democracy visiting the jackson position was argued by victor mcteer a jackson mississippi lawyer all atlanta mayor andrew young spoke formed the majority or mondale position here's an excerpt from each and it's interesting that's low that's c said to you you have given us much at odds that once we know that it was that the sec will not come back and that we'll second primaries must have seven cameras must say we are in the

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is new jackson delegates booing and shouting at andrew young the mayor of atlanta but it was the young or mondale position that finally prevailed on the issue of dual primaries and a in an impressive show of strength by the mondale forces judy woodruff on the mosque on a convention center have more on that now jim i'm here with bob mondale's campaign director let me ask you know jesse jackson last night andre platform plank city had said were very important and no first use of nuclear weapons against cuts and doing away with jessie jackson to react why oregon primaries or something

now i lost on and i actually saw it surely raise the issue to model for the convention but i suspect that they knew that going in that they didn't have the votes to carry this but there is a spirited debate has raised the issue and my guess is away so the last time we are bedded down for a convention are what about the affirmative action language no known as the mondale decided to come from i can you explain what the compromise language is well the compromise i am which is the jackson i'm guessing are women that this all through the night and has changed somewhat that they came with the weather on affirmative action applied today which did not contain no quotas and a person i didn't use the words that we've found to be a good acceptable words end of their fallen marines have told her index and we imposed owners and we do it is still not in our lives not in there but it's a good solid affirmative action clanking that when gasoline is it's a side says well it essentially the point is though the goals and timetables and their

families but to ensure an equal opportunity and affirmative action and i think that's a very funny is that going to be enough to satisfy well for a fact i don't the absolute rejection couple times a day and he said i think his he has been less than a couple of weeks trying to be when we hear the same thing you know only a time that the us government action he's always wanted that weakens connections unified i think we're either learned over the years i would never try to guess we're just hoping and gary hart know you want your campaign has decided to compromise that he supports a determining the conditions under which the united states intervene militarily

perhaps rightly so why did you get greeted the heart language there well i think that you know this is a process going through five minority report an invention like this is a process of getting taken i think there are aspects of that minority plank we did not liking are going to register as a listener we get donation to nurture williams a nominee biologists are causing concerns about possible to say about that but we thought that it was in the best interest of grand bargain that we recorded when he modifies the version on the platform in a question and you say well i don't know where the hot people are still insisting that we understand in ways they want to show us

yes investors are left our trailer that would move forward and i don't have a problem with how we are hard people is you know are still going around the city in this convention floor saying there less than a hundred votes away from benign <unk> mondale the nomination on the first ballot just like dreaming anyone's was widely read all of those salvation of a lot of rumors around today and i think and strong reasonably the reasons to suspect that women's nomination mark what about the reports that hispanic delegates are saying that they're not well i mean there's not really

i think and certainly if you're going to win this one you know you never seemed uncertain about is that i would wager everything that i've probably had and if we didn't have probably need to think very hard is when you think he's going to hold out until the last minute expected to drop that make a concession speech and what's your thought on that idea sen harkin the last night was harmonious mean through buying i suspect as senator mark martin is people who are very good workers with a speculative is how much of the landmark by this whole landscape well we're not a citizen of that no matter what i think it's now behind his on your level of a weather acting iraq war the democratic

candidates went through one more set in their unity square dance today last night they all came together in a one hour meeting which did not erase all differences are produced a symbolic picture of unity at the end then the three and clasped their hands and danced a way to continue their competition until unity finale that's considered inevitable after mondale was nominated mondale made only one public appearance and retired to private meetings as his aides continue to try to compromise out the remaining sources of friction in the platform with his running mate geraldine ferraro mondale appear today san francisco junior high school where they get the kind of civics lesson ms ferraro also addressed more substantive politics the problem she faces in the south where her presence on the ticket is seen by some politicians as a negative speaking to a caucus of southern governors and democratic party chairman nasrallah tackle the issue directly and promised to play it singing trying to

find me i think we all care about the same things we hear they are strong or curate that our kids we care about whether or not the clean urine clean water we do that with future equally and i went there out kids the artisan about their colors their hours to make a better future but that's what this whole campaign's i were coming to any state we want to organize on around where i have total confidence and in his ability to get our campaign movie i will do whatever is necessary of the nixon nine days if you want me i'll come and if you think i won't help along do whatever is necessary for us to work together to me in november as the only moments of real contest of his convention the votes on the monarchy plan form plaques approached gary hart and jesse jackson turned on a little last minute competitive pressure both candidates appeared before the important ohio delegation

was one hundred seventy five members are split at won mondale at heart and eleven jackson with three uncommitted that's enough for a first ballot vote to send a message hard pressed his argument that he is more electable in london the issue really is not working the issue is who and eleven and we're going to be rolling it might have seen all this morning and this nation that fb the pain he's been playing the piano no

this is and it is the pain today has been artificially designated jesse jackson's time in the conventions son gary hart comes tomorrow tonight in primetime jackson gets forty five minutes or so to speak is pizza mondale forces among others pray to the democratic god's his messages while political piece of a couple people here who'll listen with an even larger interests they're jesse jackson supporters at this convention judy woodruff has been talking to many of the men here is judy from the mosque on a convention center today

mrs magician it was a new conciliatory jesse jackson wind power broker with top officials of the mondale campaign there was just a few minutes later mason leaving the senate it was the old jesse jackson sounding ready for month for intonation well they want to retain their right to be here or millions of this phenomenal both dating success in democratic primaries jesse jackson as ba mom in recent days the biggest question mark of this convention almost everyone seems to be asking really continue to open as his energy outside the political system of the wall with his demands or really play ball with the established party leadership the answer that's becoming more and more obvious is that he's

trying to do both juan williams has been covering jackson's campaign for the washington post he doesn't want to be seen as someone who's a maverick within the party as it goes into sort of wants to be in the same time jackson isn't about to abandon the people in my area to make up his power base that's what's creating a major test or members of his rainbow coalition are not all she would they want by working david jackson delegate from philadelphia was just one imagine a commitment to social programs we're females no longer vice president candidate that the hispanics that they playing in alabama nobody plays you know that not been included in the bubble and it was not that we committed just

justice be exactly it just no one justice there were no deal just want justice lawyers basically that we went to as the victor mature delegate from mississippi says it wants don't get what they wanted this convention and may warm a third party yeah but your support but in one in ten thousand candidates of all kinds of races all over the south although not we have a chance of understanding it back now with the cross fertilization that we have one with the other that we can build a particular policy under jackson supporters many of them alike that officials are insecure were like california state assemblywoman maxine waters rose years behind or in democratic party politics they are prepared to get less than what they claim it is no different when you have people who dared talk about change on the coalition's and

talk about the sharing about why i'm easy people don't understand as fast as we would like them to weiner says she'd be satisfied simply didn't have a public debate on the issue that mattered of the jackson or six other members of the black establishment white birmingham mayor richard harrington and mondale supporter say jackson and most of these people have no choice but to go along with forming a third party is not a real option work i mean this is it's in this political system justice

jackson la city councilman banks situation isn't so simple snowe said sure no work democratic ticket this fall but not with the same enthusiasm wouldn't have jackson about all he asks or when the mondale route this week and on the jackson has in the situation is that oftentimes you'll get a constituency in other times a constituency with him here at the convention for example they can suggest so far has been interesting outcome of him leadership the solution

jackson seemed to have just that in mind last night that mondale and hart talk about their differences over the us moral or earlier in the evening and almost sounded like jesse jackson responding to the poll and the dreams of the rainbow coalition the weekend that he sees his role as keeping one foot inside the democratic party establishment and the other outside those who observe them for a long time saving his

constituents let him get away with that playing the insider occasionally because they know his primary role is on the outside juan williams the washington post reporter points out that jackson was just about the last civil rights leader to realize that public policy and politics in where where or where the game is played robin an interesting bit of coincidental timing the reagan administration back in washington chose today to make some news and one of the areas that democrats speak most harshly about the talking and making deals with the soviet union a day in agreement was signed to upgrade the hotline between washington and moscow a white house spokesman larry speaks also said it might be all right after all of jesse jackson went to moscow to seek the release a dissident under a sakharov and his wife yesterday here in san francisco jackson said he's been officially invited by the soviets to make a visit charlayne hunter gault from new york has the details on todays washington moscow developments challenge six days was in fact a year in the making and signed today by undersecretary

can damage the number two official at the soviet embassy in washington victor either cough the ceremony was private and reporters that only a fleeting glance of the soviet negotiators as they let the state department except for calling the agreement a beginning us officials were almost equally tight lipped referring all inquiries to the white house they're deputy press secretary larry speaks said it was the soviets who had insisted on the whole matter of being low key what was not low key however was that warren word that has been heating up in recent days between the two countries shortly after the hotline finding president reagan issued a statement expressing disappointment over the soviet union as intransigent on disarmament this followed a blast from the president yesterday in which he denounced the communist totalitarianism of the soviet union as the greatest challenge to human rights in the world today he also demanded to know the whereabouts of soviet dissident under a sakharov and his ailing wife elena bottom part the soviets today accused the president of defending renegades and traitors meaning the sakharov

and the communist newspaper pravda accuse the united states of stubborn and willingness to reach some control agreements what this is all about and why it's suddenly heating up now is what we try and sort out what the key state department official he is richard burt us assistant secretary of state for european affairs and a key architect of us arms control policy what is the real significance of the hotline agreement charlayne in a narrow technical sense the significance of the agreement is simply that in times of crisis when the hotline is used when the heads of government the united states and soviet union need to communicate with one another they will be able to do this more quickly more quickly they will be able to provide a more information than we have in the past for example this will speed up why factor of three the communication of documents to the soviet union it will allows for the first time to send maps were graphics to the soviet union and this could be quite useful in a

crisis situation say in the middle east because we know that the hotline was used in the nineteen sixty seven middle east war in nineteen seventy three middle east or so we hope that it will improve communications and build confidence between the two countries there a significance to the fact that it would find on the second day of the democratic national convention not not all we would have like to sign this agreement as quickly as possible he pointed out that it took us nearly a year to negotiate that's mainly because there are a variety of difficult technical questions to resolve that we would have signed a girl last week or next week it's just completing a ring did those in fists on the secrecy in and all of this is it because they didn't want to get involved in that domestic american politics well they sometimes do like to get involved in domestic politics for example in nineteen eighty three they intervened in a very plain way in german domestic politics the election then i think we just have to recall that the soviet union is not an open society they like to

deal confidentially are negotiations and this is not the first secret negotiation or confidential negotiations conducted with the soviet union normally our discussions are in fact confident that the whole idea that the united states the soviets have reached an agreement on something of me doesn't that fit in with the strategy that the president this week to emphasize keith instability and fell i mean it doesn't fit desmond well we think that the four years of the reagan administration had made the world a safer place which they were stronger than we were before and we think that from this position of strength that we can negotiate agreements with the soviet union the president in his statement today said this was a positive but modest that that's how we that's how we view it it's the beginning of a process would like to reach additional agreements with the soviet union to build confidence for example we as the soviet union to think about the establishment of communication links between the two ministries of defense the department of defense the pentagon and washington and their ministry of defense we think that increase

communications can only be good so there was nothing political in this and nothing is just coincidental are absolutely we proposed over year ago a series of confidence building measures with the soviet union four to be exact we drew on that work and the studies done on capitol hill by a bipartisan group including senator jackson the late sen jackson senator warner's senator nunn and we began this process as i said a year ago and we're happy that we were able to wrap up one of these agreements today i do think that the president said that this was a modest but positive foreign relations between the us and the soviet period except that in the last couple of days particularly the rhetoric between the two countries that escalated dead to a higher level than it has been in recent days i mean how can you have a on the one hand the president blasting the soviets for a communist totalitarianism and complaining about the five fourth and what's what's the

strategy there are our rhetoric has has escalated the president has always spoken very candidly about the soviet union the soviet union is a totalitarian state and this isn't just the president's words a notice that last night governor cuomo i referred to soviet totalitarianism he also referred to andre soccer often the president is not afraid to speak out about these issues but i think that if we're going to have a sophisticated mature approach to the soviet union we have to be able to recognize that there are areas where we can make progress when we can reach agreement where it's in our mutual interest like or deterring nuclear war building confidence so that they are not douglas calculations stakes and at the same time we have to recognize there are real differences between the two sides in one of the most basic differences and political ideology and we believe and the president believes that we shouldn't be afraid how to talk about those differences i don't think his comments were bellicose instead he was staying over important difference

one that we all recognize is there any political calculation perhaps in sending a tough message is the president did yesterday and today i'm back to the soviets and at the same time delivering a quite a different message perhaps for domestic internal consumption i don't think so again i think that we have to be aware of too much simplicity and our overall approach any relationship with the soviet union is going to be a complex relationship if it's going to be an honest relationship i think we have to talk about those aspects of soviet behavior performance that that we don't like that threaten our interest but at the same time we have to attempt to make progress and that's precisely what we're trying to do you think they've given how everyone to characterize it the rhetoric the exchanges between us and the soviets over the last couple of days i mean how does that affect the prospect of serious arms

control negotiations over the space weapons and everything else come september mean is it likely that that's going to happen before the lamb well we hope it will you know we hold the soviet union that we are ready to meet them and began in september we're also prepared to meet them after the election that that set their preference we would like to get those un negotiations going we have no preconditions the soviet sub are saying publicly that we haven't been responded positively to their offer i don't know what drove the soviet attitude is but i can tell you what our attitude says they were prepared to go to vienna we're prepared to negotiate any satellite weapons and though we also would like to get the soviet union to discuss other issues including offensive nuclear arms are you you said the president was blasting the soviets for being intransigent but i think we shouldn't forget that it was the soviet union that walked out of the start the strategic arms reduction talks it was the soviet union left the intermediate range nuclear weapons talks and we think they should get back to the negotiating

table so we can negotiate nuclear reductions were prepared to do that before the election and after the eye chart richard byrd thank you very much for being thank you roben actually jump for today's events into a sharper political perspective now we have our resident expert observers democrat alabama republican david gergen mr gergen was communications director in the reagan white house and going up earlier this year to join the american enterprise institute and to study and to write our man former a former campaign director as the weekly political newsletter the barren report first david gergen you think politics at anything at all the new with a hotline announcement today well it's hard to know three thousand miles away with wash away the video it just burned his word that that this of moving on a diplomatic track and i have to say that i think from a new standpoint of my been bitterly said next week when the last democratic news newsweek capture more tension it's a secondary story of food as

its value well i think at the height of the treaty was politically long range of avoiding a worsening maps over instantaneously is not a major thing i think until the timing it i guess is that politically having been there you and amos yee was known to sell that day and that just happen probably by coincidence it just gets lost over the soviet union in what are now dr jackson just they said did say of a fermentation so it's for us in that in that context the white house responded today i suppose everyone would treat with a great deal of interest and if you went there for our collections and for an uncertain factor in the us and we would he doesn't get nervous well jesse jackson is in the news today the census is vatican speak later tonight thirties had his run on his platform issues what does his day today me well i think that that if

which i think will be the case he's fairly conciliatory and supporting the party nominee and announcing his intention to work for the nomination and sticking for the nominee is sticking to the issues he will help his image in the party there are times in the last few weeks when they even among black leaders that i've talked to at what supporting him aside for mothers he was starting to look a little petty and impersonal like why was my considered for vice president i think he's going to try to two in the speeches restore his image to being out of someone who is fighting for his convictions and blues and but at the same time he's a team player and so i think that in the last twenty four hours an important pieces of fallen into place for most monday after a weekend he had a very very good rounds in the standoff last night mr cuomo there is unity meeting and then today's been mostly a day of unity on the floor we just don't have a while ago and there's reason for unfortunate moment i think when andy young with both the first

president i think for someone listening with history and credentials and so reiss area and it is worse along so ordinary boston a poignant and very sad moment and then afterwards are some freedom and his friends that this was unfortunate the leading that i think basically this has been a very good day for the democrats because a large resolving all the issues america they are reaching the kind of harm you had hoped to reach this convention the jury that the you know the way the mondale as hannah will platform issues today they can a deal here when the twenty and exercise clapping been in la land let my other boats in and work on that this is a very positive thing well i think that you believe that you know when you get compromised really stun on fighting on a couple of the issues i think that was a smart thing i think he was wise not to compromise on average that has been your portal that that that's been that longer needed to pakistan and somebody needed to say no to

somebody else any candidate well you did get something that's really an exception to the bottom and i would open lots more yes that's for president because i think his case on the bill primarily is very good i don't think jackson's a position on the bill primarily is advantageous to the time politics jackson once i think it would if you've you allow candidates was simply a plurality to be nominated it's not simply lacks be nominated orval faubus with the governor of arkansas is day x might be mayor of boston and he and all of the political process especially a one party system basically a candidate with twenty six percent of women vets if that's what was happening in america today i was there something on the floor that gary hart had thrown his support behind jackson when the runoff primary issue but that might've begun monday alone the underworld last one and early twenties to the national convention a muslim oud part chose not to fight so again that suggests that they're they're trying to get come together i don't think that's

also elected from the platform there about and i think it's going to prove troublesome lower down the road well i think it's a basically a lot of people as they get into this platform we're going to find that the earth warmed over jimmy carter and many respects there's a long laundry list to demand by special interest groups are counseled her quite close in that regard the big issues it hits it's quite flatly that it doesn't really savor and watch rushes on a platform even stand londoner can swing a chance then i would put it slightly different perspective i don't think that the platform i think islam or very good area where you only get but i think the platform is approaching the mayor of where the democratic parties at which is the inability to really come down and stay we have these two israel for priorities that will fight for and they're avoiding big controversial issues it i imagine for example that the platform and doesn't say anything about palestinians or whether or not that that's a problem in the middle east but it does talk about moving the embassy for mattel of east jerusalem or

thoughts about exactly that the pollution standards and twelve million whatever the admission standards and the talks about tax credits for solar energy for new residential housing would be double what it doesn't discuss or a domestic content store or big issues that divide because they took all the big issues remaining vague language and then i want these images to visit the merciless now the little things that nobody knows anything about them and will throw me and as we do every year for the cost on some reasons will cost about will be abundant the elite model but i guess that you know a lot of platforms are ignored in nineteen eighty or eliminating cabinet departments education and energy in the republican platform and i kept waiting for david to announce it when they hit the army he campaigned on and so we worked on that it would be this planet i'm really a visit to announce the weinstein archivist this platform is open to attack and they say that they tried to solve a problem cause i dropped the language of pools of their platforms

of what they've left been with american goals and timetables and most people been following civil rights congress inched an american goals and timetables or another form of records now that is going to be open to attack the party's committed itself to that yes they avoid the word court but they have adopted basically a liberal platform is more liberal than the country and he may run away from it but then it's really worthless i think the democratic platforms were built on the country and i think that the republican platform the issue will be more conservative and in nineteen eighty would be considerably more conservative than the country sixty percent the country are still favors the ri two thirds of the country does not believe that all abortions that should be illegal well what i'm saying in the end but the platform will not leave the country but the people vote on the candidates i don't think they'll like that right because of his views i think when it comes down to the presidency people are very pragmatic and they look at how the men will handle the platforms one person who had never voted

forty one i recognize i went the next as you mentioned strike today in the convention and it defeated a number plucked from charges or jesse jackson get on perhaps the one that was always the most danger to him no one by gary hart on the use of american military force is the compromise mexican heart language instructor development song the only issue on which art could've had a test of delegates tried before the voting tomorrow night powwow to be the government has it's over well i think on the issues where he stood a chance to lose because you see on the economy are resolution heart would have picked up some summer league mondo people and you would have i don't know what their exact protocol would be good at the jackson people and the piano part people plus some of them are no people are very a nuclear freeze our enemy mondo put these on his slate some of the very strong very

devilish people in central america a nuclear freeze in the whole foreign policy it so there was a chance he could lose and that he didn't want a fight and beauty a little easier to beat a jackson because it's seen as very left and that he did the same thing by the way with domestic politics what was a bigger issue between heart and mondale in the primaries protectionism and that was a clear cut issue and mondale made it a bottom line issue saying the party's not for american workers and use that as a litmus test issue and then when i was ready to go on the platform the heart people packed the viola part pollster they were so excited oh they were going to have a national debate on protectionism in on the fact that these quotas increase the cost of japanese cars thousand picking underdogs more here than anywhere else well banville full the domestic conflicts so when i was a dangerous fight i think he the image that's going out of the democrats' in another sense about last night's speech by americorps which to many uses and highlight and killed jesse's picks later the subject as we've heard this evening a very effective

speech many thought taking math and india rapidly emerging image of geraldine ferraro david broder said today the washington post political columnist that there was a very clear and certain logic and what monday was doing and that is trying to recapture the ground on religion and ethnicity that ronald reagan had preempted before divas what would you see i think that's absolutely true because we're the most important things is going on right now at this convention it's very clear in looking back and that monday i was very excited in stand to live by mario cuomo as early as icann rules were running for governor of new york and he gave his inaugural address in early nineteen eighty three a monday and i was told that i was tough it fell in love with that speech and a week later a major speeches are criminal which picked up many of the themes those same progress that we lost during the course the primaries but now he wants to return to the army asked mario cuomo to come here and give the keynote address with that in mind we know now that his job was for or with those things in mind and clearly he wants to emphasize traditional rives family neighborhood workplace and the like and as peterson

it is the same ground mr nickson has to raid and captured the nineteen eighty eight republican convention that you see well that frankly i think that's exactly to tactically but i think that the fundamental things people look for the president i don't think they're hiring their moral leader other minister or their symbol of the nation and their elected in a state their hiring someone can solve problems you know the congresswoman ferraro said that ronald reagan called himself a good christian it does not she later i never written columns love a good question and certainly a i don't think he's been elected as it as a symbol of a moral leader and i think this is something that sometimes politicians stereotype people out there is they want someone who will keep the peace that will stand up to the russians will provide jobs when grover cleveland for president he i'm not that look at this pro wrestler randy president he was accused of having an

illegitimate child and asked him if the militias and he said well she may be but if everyone who's committed a similar transgression vote for me i'll wait they did it and he won and i'm not suggesting that is a point i think the point is the people want somebody who will create jobs and there's and the competition for headlines today the reagan administration did not restrict its activities to the hot blind it was obvious there was also signing into law they most popular piece of legislation we return now charlayne hunter gault in new york for that and the rest of them on democrat news of this day it's right back in washington president reagan signed a bill today that will deny a portion of federal highway assistance to states that do not raise the minimum drinking age to twenty one the president really originally took the position that state should be free to set the drinking age as they see fit but today he said the bill reflects the

will of the people the bill were gathered to sign today reflects the will of the american people it takes the battle to stop drunk driving one crucial step further we know that america has a clear stake in making certain that her sons and daughters so full of vitality and promise one of the crippled or killed this problem is bigger than the individual states is a grave national problem that touches our lives with a problem so clear cut and a proven solution and we had no misgivings about his judicious use of federal power negotiators for the nation's postal workers union broke off contract talks today they said they would not return to the bargaining table and on the postal service is willing to discuss the union's economic proposals and ends its insistence on a wage freeze president contract expires this weekend and a strike would be illegal but union officials say a strike decision would be made possibly win that postal workers could begin in mid august in hanoi the remains of

eight american soldiers missing in action since the vietnam war was shipped home in flag draped wooden boxes the enemy's officials disclosed the identity of only one set of remains sergeant dominic sense only of new york city jail december tenth nineteen seventy four when his transport plane crashed in a mountain near done any us technicians in hawaii will try to establish the identities of the arrest and send them on to relatives in france president francois mitterrand called war ended feed the resignation of prime minister pierre mr roy and his cabinet the president then as the ministry of industry and research prof beatty is to form a new government here is a report from john simpson of the bbc problems build up in april and may last year when right wing students in this other district are terrorists attacked the government's seal making private and religious education more open and democratic rights undermines the position of the education minister and he began to collapse of the government today by resigning isn't it all has already

tried to diffuse all the criticisms of his administration by announcing a referendum on the plan for education but the milan government began its final downward spiral after the success in last month's european elections of the far right wing leader monsieur le pen the communist party of george marsh a which has a small share in the government did really badly in the elections are now as of a real dog has to weather the communists will keep their place in the new government the man who will head that government last five years is thirty seven the youngest prime minister since to go change the constitution and there's no doubt that as the nato is hoping devoutly that you can give a new fresh milk to what is becoming three years of very tired gum and then color the government said it will grant amnesty to some political prisoners in honor of the fortieth anniversary of communist rule on july twenty second there are about six hundred and sixty political prisoners in poland but the government did not say how many they would fit free june it's rolling back in san francisco the candidates there was not all meetings and caucuses

last minute strategy talks weiner won mondale and is running a geraldine ferraro took some time out to visit a local school where with the media in attendance they talked some civics and some politics spencer michelson public station kqed reports the mondale ferraro forces because junior high school in a foggy san francisco neighborhood for a visit designed to show the democratic team communicating with young people also the one thousand students here are attending summer school because they flunked the minimum standards tax candidates entered a classroom it used to be a crawl whole of course has been eliminated by budget cuts besides thirty five students chosen for this event to make a cross section of his it was also watched by double that number of tv cameras mondale tailored some his remarks to the students and others directly from his campaign speeches he says prof the trial has resulted in a few hundred

were building more spending much more money we're not say they're supporting enemies of one of the things that i feel strongly about purely for reasoning minister and negotiations are or under control ferraro told the kids she used to teach second and fourth grades and is in her other campaign appearances she played a role as a woman on the ticket a lot of jobs have opened up that they never fully won many eritreans the state was wonderful that at long last on the women of this country are going to have an equal stake in what's happening in the nation so we do need a there were parties it

for as he loved mondale told the students to watch his acceptance speech and gave him a gray the students didn't need to wait till thursday they were raided grey the democrats now it's a minus e e hansen a lot of these classes for mondale it was the kind of electric he'd like to have in november how many of you do you think if you could vote today would rate you're welcome

a worker correspondent spencer michaels we close tonight with an ethnic story as you may have heard geraldine ferraro soon to be the first woman nominated for vice president of the united states is of italian heritage and so is the man who keynote at the convention last night new york governor mario cuomo last night the two of them were among those interviewed life or italian television from the most county convention center here without translation is now where so i'd sit on the new season of possible of the music and that that was a it's a tsunami i quit your

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