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as becomes be the pope good evening i'm margaret warner she wears on vacation on the newshour this labor day the us and israel walk out of the un conference on racism how's school superintendents you the latest washington proposal for school reform a controversial plan to relieve congestion at o'hare airport an encore look at the art of wayne thiebaud and hollan a poem by robert pinsky it off hours their summary of the news this labor day major funding for the newshour with jim lehrer has been provided by

imagine that were going on pbs station kuow ashley cleek the united states and israel today walked out of the un conference on racism to protest efforts to single out israel as a racist state at issue was a draft conference declaration promoted by the arab states that criticized israel for conducting quote a new apartheid against the palestinians and engaging in quote the racist practices of zionism in washington secretary of state powell denounced the wording as hateful language and ordered the us delegation home i have taken this decision with regret his statement said because of the importance of the international fight against racism and the

contribution that this conference could have made two at the conference in durban south africa is to continue until friday one in four hundred and thirty refugees were finally taken off the norwegian freighter to date near australia's christmas island they'd been onboard a week after being rescued from a sinking ferry australia denied him asylum but the government agreed to take them aboard an australian troop carrier to other ports in the pacific we have a report from jillion mannion of independent television news in that often in these straitened from footman or appliance with a tampa until harsh and to ship out the asylum seekers began anxious to get the job done before dark the navy decided to use its also the act votes to transfer the refugees from ship to share seven boats packed with refugees wearing life jackets were racing for the whites sometimes drenching the people onboard were bringing them safely to the gangway on the side of the

menorah and a serious accident could have caused an international outcry but the navy did its job well and the treasured menorah will not take the asylum seekers on a weeklong journey to papua new guinea from where they will fly to new zealand and the pacific island of narrow for processing a federal court in no more and still has to rule on a case that could force australia to accept the refugees really could come as early as wednesday into labor day speech is president bush said he's concerned about laid off workers the kind that in his tax cut will help the economy bounced back he delivered that message to the carpenters union gathering outside green bay wisconsin and later to the teamsters picnic in detroit the president told his audience as he was quote confident in the basic underpinnings of the american economy scientists for the first time had turned embryonic stem cells into human blood cells researchers at the university of wisconsin said their work

could lead to a new source of blood for transfusions or treatments but they say they still have years of research and testing to do before these cells could be used in human patients their work will be published tomorrow in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences journal the surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant died sunday after christian barnard had what was described as a fail asthma attack while vacationing in cyprus barnard made history in nineteen sixty seven in cape town south africa when he replaced a fifty three year old man's disease tart with a healthy one from a car accident victim at first recipient lived eighteen days today eighty five percent of heart transplant patients live at least the year dr barnard with seventy eight years so that's it for the news summary tonight now it's onto pulling out of the conference on racism superintendents assess plans for school reform a fight to expand an airport wayne t mozart and a labor day poem now to

today's decision by the us israel to walk out of the un conference on racism pullout capped weeks of controversy over a proposed conference resolution that equates designers and with racism secretary of state colin powell decided late last week not to attend himself but did send a lower level delegation today he withdrew them as well i talked by phone late this afternoon with dyed black man who's covering the conference in durban for the wall street journal deb thanks for joining us to tell us how the conference got word today that the us and israel were pulling out late this afternoon the us representative tom lantos rico fournier are suddenly appeared in the media room here at the conference and an l impromptu press conference saying the us was pulling out and that was another fifteen to twenty minutes after that before secure state powell statement came out from washington and what led to the senate we know there've been efforts to to our come up with some sort of compromise but what wine before he was pulled the plug this in well i told a difficult to say precisely and there's some disagreement about that obviously are just

running dispute has been over language in these resolutions which he equated financially for them and other similar sorts of criticisms of israel out well what happened today was that there was a proposed compromise on the table and the developed by the delegation from norway has been called the norwegian formula that had gotten a good deal of support from the us delegation and also from the israelis it's not clear exactly what that language was but then at some point it actually then obviously the negotiations over the plant which foundered and the us pulled out but you can be really a symbol of that there are a lot of parties to maintain that the us was also concerned about they go into the convention fighting issues having to do with what we were rationing them more about the question out there have also been controversial their country and there are those who charge

that reconfigured holdouts well jesse jackson thing about the open up some us a little bit more about the reaction well tell us about about it obviously and then there's a great deal of time for the united states and also some recriminations among delegates from among the advocacy groups that are here there was a bit of a spontaneous protest made up mostly of americans now right after yeah the announcement was made up those were primarily activists pushing for reparations for slavery to be a part of the conference resolutions and there have been there's been a very strong criticism of the airspace from a number of other national television and several others let's go back to the compromise and foundering the way you described it it sounded as if the us and israel had it were at least ready to

support this compromise and with the arab states that were did you mean to say that is that what happened well i think that we don't know exactly what that compromise was representative one third of that early in the day that he had reviewed the norwegian proposal unfounded satisfactory but that was before that we put at the final language that he could live with a meaning that if there were any change whatsoever so the language that he would be would not support the earth elevation remaining three in the coverage place it in your discussion about the compromise is that if the us couldn't get a compromise that went to an up or down vote the us would have lost is that the case presumably at a very advanced but there's also a symbolic element of this that i think can't be overlooked and that is that the us has made it clear in the months leading up to this past week that it did not wish to be engaged in a kind of open acrimonious debate in which

are the kinds of charges come about the israelis out which have been leveled how were part of the discussion and the us has been harshly criticized by some party out for not a willingness to discuss not just the willingness to consider adopting language and so i think part of it also was with a bit with some symbolism in all of this as well and the us is making a very clear statement that our weather to win a vote or not they were going to engage in a in a continuing discussion in which israelis were being granted the apartheid regime they are again briefly where does the profits go from here and now well it pretty and the and there are another five days another four days of negotiations and directing will happen are entered into that presumably will be a vote on a resolution that idea of a plan of action and all that will not happen without suspicion of israelis or the us

is making it is state education reform will be at the top of the agenda when congress returns from vacation this week on the whole and begins our coverage call them will win however is overwhelmingly endorsed president bush's education reforms the spring it was hailed as proof that democrats and republicans could put aside their differences when it came to education i believe that this bill creates a way more through which we can reach every student id in inner cities to roll student physically challenge to a low income suburb or learning and parents get the bills passed by the senate and the house of representatives mirrored the major reforms president bush called for including the centerpiece we need to

know where the children are learning if you do not love children you will just socially promote them and allow it to go forward and not confront a difficult problem that they're going to hand both the house and senate bills would require annual state designed reading and math tests for children in grades three through eight schools that don't show improvement in scores after one year would get extra federal aid to improve curriculums and train teachers schools that don't improve after two years must allow students to transfer to another public school and schools that don't show improvement in test scores after three years must allow students to use title one funds money directed to schools in low income areas for tutoring or for transportation to another public school wide agreement on those basic principles of reform the house and senate remain a part of a few key issues the biggest is crossed the house called for spending twenty three billion dollars on education during the fiscal year that starts in october but the senate passed

bill with spent nearly twice that much and there are other differences the house wants tougher standards for measuring the school how to sort of group of the senate the two bills also differ on the level of flexibility school districts would have in spending federal dollars ray suarez recently asked for leading educators for their assessment of the proposals in washington now the education reform debate as seen from the trenches joining us so roy romer superintendent of the los angeles unified school district and three state education superintendent elizabeth where master of wisconsin i'm a moment of arizona and linda shrank go of georgia will guess i'd like to start with your general impressions of the bill assuming that the broad outlines can be seen in the house and senate versions that start with you superintendent won't well i think it's very heartening as to what happened for the first time in a long long time if ever the president and congress are senate education at the forefront of a national policy and we need a good

strong national policy but that balance between what the states need and what states or should be doing with its going versus what the federal city which is i think a set of broad policy well why it's important to have standards based reform and i think that's what's happening i think president bush likes of excellent job keeping and superintendent burn aston why believe that the best part of the plan is that it has bipartisan support but the problem is that both parties i have agreed on a plan that is less about leaving no child behind and more about are leaving no child and tested the white house made it clear that the testing provision was really the heart and soul of the plan and here in wisconsin where we have a great educational system and are at the top of the class and we really feel it's more an issue about how we invest our time and resources and

energy and that's serving children and we believe it's best to invest in this small class sizes and quality teachers and strong reading programs are really emphasizing early learning opportunities and parental a community involvement that's the heart with all of the plan and wisconsin superintendent chicago well george is not at the top of the nation and we definitely need the testing to be able to desegregate the information and find out what we need to do to help our children i think the thing that concerns me the most right now is that they're very has a plant there and there are good parts to this plan but we need for the past week we do need for it to be on the president's desk to be signed because for every delay in an education if we don't start at the beginning of the school year we give another years the way so what we desperately need for them to act

and finally superintendent romer helpers development of money in her to make it work the house and senate needs to reconcile at me enough money but secondly testing is a good thing i think that we need to be very careful about adding authentic testing but the consequences are think of a thing we need to really focus on in this bill they get over micromanage it from or should i and i think that the biggest one concrete illustration in both bills they expect states to reach a paid state of proficiency for a hundred percent of students with any the ten years or twelve years in the nail night major annual yearly progress toward that mark the problem is you're never going to get a hundred percent of students to professional if you look at the navy which is an actual test now they're there with what we do well we have thirty to forty percent proficient when i'm saying if you set a standard that is

unrealistic ever to reach then people will simply dumb down the definition a profession and you would've lost something very viable in summary we need to have testing and we need to reach for really high stakes but we ought not have the consequences so severe it you force people of the dumb down the definition of what profession this superintendent well you think of the aroma suggestions admits it's hard to know when you have a diagnostic tool like a test what you're supposed to do with the data once you got well and that's why i think it is important for every state craft comprehensive test policy around with their state standards and there's no question about that and he'd be intimate and inappropriate role for the federal government to come in and said this is how to do it each and every state but i think there's a balance there because if you're committed the standards based reform everything that goes along with that teacher preparation curriculum design an assessment as to be a part of that and you have to have a way of measuring student progress and it's

not it's not all eyes in the school because they have a lot of kids that might be limited english proficient and they might be at a very low level first the more affluent school it's measuring how they gained an yearly basis and athletes themselves into absolutely and so you're not penalize them for having students i might have more such economic problems more societal problems and the things that teachers have to deal with every day but it's really showing how you can get kids to move up not penalize him for a comment but how much they've progressed and i think a mile from a policy perspective that does change a lot of my sense of the analyst in arizona folks are starting to work towards that republicans democrats alike they see that as a a starting point for real reforms superintendent our master do you agree with your colleague from arizona the testing regime would allow that or as the government put some requirements on what to do with that information once you've got it that doesn't allow you to treat different schools in different parts of the state different exactly i i think i wanna go back to how much

testing is too much now in wisconsin we currently test at the third worth eight ten and we're looking to a high school graduation passed and that the plan would require every child every year in grades three through eight it to be tested through a standardized state testing and i think that where we see and testing is important and we do have to have a measure of accountability to know that we are reaching our state's standards but the standardized testing shouldn't ever replace that everyday ongoing assessment and evaluation that goes on between teacher and student in the classroom and are really prepares our students to be are productive and contributing citizens in their community were were not trying to raise i'm a generation of good test takers we want our children to take their knowledge and applied in the real world so

i believe that we have to go back even to the basic question i have how much standardized testing is appropriate how was that standardized testing be used to derive good instruction and those can hear the very basic questions superintendent trego of those questions been answered to your satisfaction by the proposals now before the house and senate i think in the original proposal there was a lot of flexibility for the states to be able to design their own assessment system and it even further to be able to determine what adequate yearly progress is but i agree with governor romer that sound saying that everybody's got a reach that hundred percent is a difficult thing to do but i also know that that when i look a mom in the eye ally taking kids on a field trip and say to the parents out will bring back ninety five percent i don't think we can say that i think we do have to set the high gold with the

understanding that town we might not get everybody there but it's worthwhile saying that that it's a goal that we do so well i think you've anticipated what i wanted to ask you about next or what to do with the lowest performing schools song it in the education community have propose something that's a little less punitive others want to just to break up those schools so what you see coming out of the house and senate conference other gives you guidance about what happens to those schools that after five years after ten years the start before well again i think we are our children's advocate and i don't know how the arrests feel i think public schools do a great job to help kids learn but when a public school fails and for doing what's best for the child and i think that this is this formula that senate bill says that first we provide additional

money is we provide resources the school improvement came to go in and help and if they don't improve it we have some options we can let the parents choose another public school we can close down the school and opened it under new management i think in georgia word i have to use every school building we got so we want the option to open under new management but when we know that our first our first goal has to be that every child learns if they're not learning wing add something superintendent romer yes i think at the first step of putting more resources into trying to help the school raise the skill levels is correct i think if it fails the second option of public school choice works in most places were done in la will have any space we simply can't use it but i think as a substitute greek reorganize the school but total to management new teachers in there if you have a consistent power failure he got to use the building played out started over

and also put a strategy at work which really improves classroom practice i think it that there needs to be real consequences because of a if you don't perform we will not be fooled from people about seven letter on a ruler that i am a little bit reticent to allow the federal government to dictate what kinds of remedies will put in place having that has to be done at the state level what is it in there now federal government to take over what you do with those goals was you know right now it's an ever evolving process of that right now and i think some of the things and i was part of a number of super intense know the president about this and we urge that would be taken into consideration here great and i'm confident that members of congress with maryland i've talked to that they agree that you can have a good federal broad policy but ultimately the states have to take their responsibility and the superintendent are mr what you

do of the low performers well all of my colleagues have pointed out that we must be the chief advocates for children and their education and that it is critical that we hold our schools to high standards the problem that i have with the bush plan is that we are not holding our politicians accountable to the kind of investment in commitment in the things that we know truly make affected schools and we talk about those are class sizes and quality teachers i'd like to see the bush plan take iron more the finding that would be going to testing and invested that in the quality teachers initiative which is very good in the bush plan and the reading initiatives let's put our money where we know it will be effective but their flexibility isn't allowed under the current proposals is that

no it's not and that's what i believe the conference committee is going to have to grapple with and it's important that we do send the message as state superintendents of leaders we are the ones who see what is affective in our schools and we have to insure and speak for the children and our public schools are so that we don't end up with federally mandated run public schools superintendent trego your state is one thats facing some pretty severe teacher shortage is when you think about your colleagues idea well i think it is critical that we have an app and a good quality teacher initiative i like the one in the bush proposal but i think that that paired with that we've got to recognize that title one money is for student reading and there there's a ten percent increase in taiwan that money will be used for reading will be used for math and so i think it's essential that the american public

understand that they are getting their money's worth and they'll only know that if children scores improve so i think the testing is a critical component of accountability for results also written more linear how long is going it's take for these kinds of things to bear fruit when we'd be able to visit phoenix and tucson and say oh here i can see with these programs barnaby elsewhere i think it's going to take awhile and take a long time because a key element i think of this legislation and the things that many people are going across the state cinema we're doing is really taking a long hard look at reading for the kids to know me by the end of third grade government protect academic achievement and a we have to pull more an emphasis on that and that's something that's frustrating because for policy a big bang for the buck in the year two years are actually wants in like six months out but it's a long long process and you have to prepare teachers you have to

really analyze a curriculum you have to make the kind of investments in order to ensure that all trillin no matter where they live and have access to a quality education superintendent thank you all for joining us this week is back to school week on most pbs stations featuring several special programs about education a two part series on public education will be broadcast tonight and tomorrow still to come on the newshour tonight relieving airport congestion artist wayne thiebaud and a poem for labor day now labor day travel story about the growing problem with airport congestion and delay was that bracket a deputy to get you chicago reports on a local fight with national consequences he's a few weeks ago it happened again to rachel rains on august second thoughts

flight delays of up to two hours at chicago's o'hare airport and more than a hundred flight cancellations seventy seven people spent the night in the terminal and status being a campus primarily on friday morning to take two hours and one interview these shared history to many in the airline business the answer is obvious build more runways all there is a major hub in the hub and spoke system for two mega carriers with worldwide operations united and american united's vast operation center vice president peter mcdonald can see the effects of bad weather here or congestion due to an increasing number of passengers show up quickly around the country we are planes coming in are delayed and so most customers minister connection and then the outbound flight is delayed as the imbalance a little ripples through the system the federal aviation administration says eight big

airports around the country have significant delays it runways have often been hard to bill buyer in controversy and the conflicting demands a different political jurisdictions today we are now so it was more than just local news in june when she was mayor richard m daley announced a sprawling multibillion dollar redesign mobile here's one way system that really the elating congestion ball in the air and on the law which led to frequent rare especially during that weather part of o'hare's current problem is it's antiquated layout it has many intersecting runways which slow operations in bad weather the new plan would build one new runway then decommissioned three others building three new parallel runways in their plates that would give all their total of eight runways one more than at present i understand it's also will be debate there will be many many public hearings but i believe that

we must act that our ursula to really build the late and justin they still are in fact chicago invented at o'hare's future for years but with powerful interests on all sides that debate as a stalemated so if we were to have a debate tonight it would be there only one sided it's not the political issues are raised by the community surrounding oil here which stand to lose five hundred homes and apartments under daley's plant in our wildest dreams we didn't believe that we would be seeing six per well runway configuration john dyer of president obama going to bentonville has blocked expansion for years with his constituents in good people like duncan noble she's lived in the same house for more than half a lifetime i thought i could die in the south really i really really get than that and i think an impure you're pretty young person or the person that you are taking a persons life and doug roberts i don't air two cemeteries that would have to be moved one dating back to

eighteen forty nine also makes expansion controversy all the church attack to the senators has already moved in the nineteen fifties and all your first extended ansel has more than one hundred relatives buried here is one of the many parishioners who oppose movie grapes a ceremonial burial a sacred it's a part of life and it's a part of this church they found this cemetery next to the church is always have a connection with those who remembers how can you take them from their final resting place and consider that i describe for people who had your beer i'm the only one with something at stake so are air travelers or power is a bigger problem than one unhappy wife business groups estimate delays ago here cost more than one hundred million dollars in chicago alone the civic committee of the commercial club of chicago

a prominent business group to block ad saying the time to act on all here was yesterday mr ground read the committee's aviation task force says the airport is an economic engine for the region people have obviously lost a tremendous amount of time flying to and from o'hare supplies have not come in to chicago we we don't know how many have not come here we know of businesses here have said they're not going to expand in this area because lady they require at an airport that is doesn't have the constrictions were tourists the mayor also has both united and american usually better competitors visibly working together on his planet americans chairman donald kennedy spoke out recently in washington only will they know everything's bigger runways reduce delays or heroin addict or whether by an estimated nine five percent is with justin earlier and overall the ways of

your four point seven nine percent but also positioned alta to accommodate an estimated eighteen percent increase in air traffic commando here in the coming years john giles agrees there's a problem but says that simply expanded know here isn't the answer to the region's transportation needs this becomes the most expensive public works project in the history of illinois a project that will not meet the traffic demands of the region under any bill scenario i mean i think about fifteen billion dollars and were still short of essence delayed the third airport chicago's second airport in a way that doesn't provide enough really ignites they'll be expanded so for years people have been discussing a new third airport built from scratch in the farm fields here peter o'neill in on a forty miles south of the chicago loop that airport has had many backers

including congressman jesse jackson jr who represents a suburban district near pier tone the people on the north side of chicago have three jobs for every one person and a two hundred fifty six square mile fire represent their sixteen people for every one job with airports come high it and hilton and paramount and u p s and federal express cab drivers with airports given the back at airports are central to the service based economy come the quality of life that millions of americans have come to appreciate but with millions invested in the hub and spoke operations here o'hare united or american express the slightest interest in moving any of their operations to be its own show on your is a senior vice president at united airlines adding capacity is not simply just a zero sum game of adding another airport somewhere within the country need to add capacity where the traveling public housing they wanna fight where there

already is a certain amount of connectivity with other flights of a particular network carriers so that you get the penetration from the largest port collection of traveling people in illinois is in nineteen other states governors have the power to build or block airport projects with the pressure building for an expanded know here in chicago congressman william against the intent is to build it would take that power away from war call politics are it will continue to be a major obstacle to expansion at o'hare despite recent discussions between the city of chicago and the state of illinois i am convinced that nothing is going to change at o'hare unless the federal government gets involved lapinski is the powerful ranking democrat on the house aviation subcommittee he says he already has enough votes to get his bill out of committee where it probably wasn't a coincidence that daley's announcement came just three weeks after lipinski introduced his bill illinois governor george ryan strongly

oppose the bill and enjoy the jackson in arguing that it's unconstitutional all sides and want to raise their profiles and trumpet their arguments in the week since daily introduced his plan that porter's neighbors are stepping up their organizing and now we're here and on the other side i'll and hears from united and american chicago staff that i'm going to a boarding areas that are here to hand out leaflets in soliciting insurers who are arrested or the information they're doing ken rudin thank you airline employees were handing

out cards governor ryan announced it would seek another term next year i will not be a candidate republican nominee many observers think that no political future the governor will find it easier to negotiate some kind of compromise but one thing everyone agrees on there is a problem a downpour that scramble operations at all here on august second with planes for forty percent of the total the way that day around the country now an encore look at artist wayne thiebaud a major retrospective of whose work continues to tour the country and the farnsworth with the first stop in san francisco above all else a retrospective wayne to those paintings currently at san francisco's palace of the legion of honor offers a feast for the eyes a cake with luscious the frosting that looks good enough to go neat rows of super

heated with surprising shadows and swirls of color the show's curator says installing the works reminded him of tito's virtuosity as a painter this is a pretty impressive which you cannot possibly understand an illustration there's no way to get the depth of handling the way the surfaces treated me the incredible richness of paid manipulation in it or the quality of life in the exhibit features works like these pinball machines from the nineteen sixties and a roomful of portraits including this one at his wife betty jean who has posed for him repeatedly over the years in the nineties tivo began painting his series a vibrant landscapes of the sacramento river delta just east of san francisco farmlands are ticked up sometimes seen from above and they're almost abstract and design an effect as are his city states

paintings of the streets and hills of san francisco it is about the rio and imaginary friends and loan is trying to get some of the drama says there are witnessing the war and the reality was one thing but the story is it's the us saying that this means that his twenty eleven that was a futile has a homey in apple's history and one of san francisco's hills but because he has taught since nineteen sixty eight the university of california at davis he's most of the time nearby in sacramento he was a commercial artist before he was a painter working as a layout designer and cartoonist for companies like rexall drugs during world war two he designed posters for the army air

corps at age seventy nine he goes still competes in tennis tournaments every day but he still loves the window displays that inspired his first big artistic success in the early nineteen sixties so when he seen this bass billy crystal been working on more traditional subjects he said i decided to try something different working from preparation for the finish line where your lineup davies was born this week but people didn't take the painting seriously enough

to spend big money for them when they were first shown at the allen stone gallery in new york in nineteen sixty two and their value kept rising this works old in nineteen ninety one to the national gallery of art in washington dc for one million offers some critics have considered tivo part of the pop art movement of his interest in painting ordinary objects predated the emergence of pop art anti those work has never been as ironic or critical of mass culture as much how far it is i spoke to wayne thiebaud in his studio in sacramento why was it risky for you to start painting pies and cakes or celery no sense when you're in the leaders in iran it's a world that they just over issues than abortion as a serious human rights but i think also their approval with humor you're gives us i think a sense of

perspective i think like wc fields and if we haven't ever see ourselves a cartoon character we've not see herself clearly sad sometimes cause it's that's part of human intercourse some people see sadness in the toys and then and the pies and even in that the cityscape to kind of longing oh yes i think i think there's something about or some calls bright paid for those like circus clown toys toys so the toys represent something special either go in a child's toys are a was the grandfather of dreams certain elements of that in terms of our history and our own way we see our revolutionary procedure what about the gumball machines we shot a series that we've been painting and for a

very long time the penny machines really like about those have you seen but as soon as your magical objects an interesting in a very very interesting objects to work on because of the color in a big rumpled so you know it's really a kind of of orchestration of circles a war crimes but a source for over a century it too offers wonderful options for patients like all the flexibility of flour in said before that you don't consider yourself an artist something for other people to make a decision and i think it's just like as i say it's like a priest referring to himself to say the initial to really worry is not one side gets decided apart from you and that's

alicia idiots they are deserving is a rare rare thing there aren't very many people achieve individually going to keep it as a goal in special worked so that it doesn't get all gummed up or dirty or too usual there's to be special and so any seventy percent went against a painter a painter you say that you steal from everybody can win me along the usual band the cisco is it's like anything you do you learn by the whole of other people what they've done how to go about their many people in nevada to people like richard dean corn meant a lot to me in terms of this area tell us about the five seated figures what we're trying to do

why are they all sitting and looking away from each other leader of the message and one woman said that she knew exactly what a romantic but that's not what happens so no smoke and she's willing to try and he says well tell me what this is i don't really i don't know he says c'mon you can tell me i'm a psychiatrist i just the law nor reward that kind of probe and the city escapes and i'd been painting for a long time to see them changing and if so how i think they're selling different from individual repeat yourself the drive to working on one too many feral street and you try to go and maybe a little clearer thing to a greater distance the limit and space is sometimes for a telescopic space sometimes you try to expand the space

of nine and then again but mostly this is really a series of problem sometimes in color and then you decide that you want to not use bright colors but take the register weight of the grace or maybe two a very dark hole was like music where you transpose something into a lower key your differently the delta paintings are tremendously powerful the most colorful i think of least everything i've seen that you've done is there any explanation for that is it just the way the delta is what you wanna do right now with color that happens because of the follow along all of the time span where you see a very seasonal times the winner a darker gray so the color aspect of those overall or in some ways trying to encapsulate aren't all of those authors seasonal

changes tell us about and green river lands what you wanna do what problems you're sopping what you're seeing i think in some ways it's the most extreme it's the most curious one in terms of a variety of points of view omar owed quite quickly as carol do you switch who really are not your combination sort of ground will and highway bill in her eye but that has a lot to do that i think chinese at korean ok where you really saw war scroll afternoon rick allen and maybe a big failure but it was a wonderful thing to try out these various kinds of things that i like i like the idea of extremes i think that's part of how we get to something like our where you try are willing to pushing tree nuts a much needed with rembrandt to make a picture of little

black community just the forehead and those little finger do you have to build trust moore says a little touches of the pieces of the lesley gore shake his days and they would be all those extremes i think to really do wonderful work through do you think as you know some writers and painters and musicians get better the older they get and some don't do you think you've gotten better you're hopeful but you never know i see paintings i think are better than doing at some cases no it's something which i think is not so much i think about us to think about the unknown to one of thing that you can still keep going she's just like an invalid

find up another prince of an enigma bill russell little gravy in a quarterly poll it's overwhelmingly gives away at their thanksgiving because there is so much retrospective away at those where is that new york's whitney museum through september twenty third and to finally this labor day a poem about the labor that goes into a shirt written and read by former poet laureate and is there a contributor robert pinsky the spaces for electronic equipment machinery the past the goalie is housed garment industries which charts as of course many still do mr hall sure that you know the

yardage like the scenes the nearly invisible stitches along the collar turned in a sweatshop like koreans were malaysians gossiping over tea noodles on their break or parking money or politics or one fifth this arm piece with overseeing to the bag of cough a button at my wrist the press or the cut her to reenter the mango the need to the union the trouble the bobbin the infamous blaze at the triangle factory in nineteen eleven one hundred and forty six died in the flames on the ninth floor no hydrants know fire escapes the witness and the building across the street who watch how young man hopi girl to step up to the window so then help her out away from the masonry wall and let her draw and then another as if you were helping them cope to enter the streetcar and not the trinity the summer

before he dropped her for her arms around his neck and kissed and then he held power into space and dropped her almost at once he steps of the soul himself his jacket forward and former cop from his shirt as he came down air filling up the legs of his gray trousers like our cranes to do my chores sure ballooning wonderful other pattern matches perfectly across the pocket and over between fort peck corners of both pockets like a strict rhyme or a major chord prints checks homes tattersall that was the clam perkins invented by new owners inspired the hopes of caution to control their savage scottish workers thing by fabricated heraldry mc gregor baby mcmartin thick chilled devised for workers to wear among the dusty clattering rooms we've means

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again the major story of this labor day united states and israel walk out of the un conference on racism in south africa to protest efforts to single out israel as a racist state will see you online and again here tomorrow evening i'm margaret warner thanks for being with us tonight fb major funding for the newshour with jim lehrer has been provided by imagine a world where no child based on some of the comments in a long time thank you

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good evening i'm margaret warner she wears on vacation on the newshour this labor day the us and israel walk out of the un conference on racism how's school superintendents you the latest washington proposal for school reform a controversial plan to relieve congestion at o'hare airport an encore look at the art of wayne thiebaud and hollan a poem by robert

pinsky it all follows their summary of the news this labor day major funding for the newshour with jim lehrer has been provided by imagine a world that would not diminishing resources do you think the united states and israel to day walk out of the un conference on racism to protest efforts to single out israel as a racist state at issue was a draft conference declaration promoted by the arab states that criticized israel for conducting quote a new apartheid against the palestinians and engaging in quote the racist practices of zionism in washington secretary of state powell denounced the wording as hateful language

and ordered the us delegation home i have taken this decision with regret his statement said because of the importance of the international fight against racism and the contribution that this conference could have made two at the conference in durban south africa is to continue until friday one and four hundred and thirty refugees were finally taken off the norwegian freighter today near australia's christmas island they'd been onboard a week after being rescued from a sinking ferry australia denied him asylum but the government agreed to take them aboard an australian troop carrier to other ports in the pacific we have a report from gillian mannion of independent television news in mid afternoon the australian from footman or appliance with a tampa until harsh and to ship out the asylum seekers began anxious to get the job done before dark the navy decided to use its vast soviet votes to transfer the refugees from ship to share seven boats packed with refugees wearing life jackets were racing through the whites

sometimes drenching the people onboard were bringing them safely to the gangway on the side of the menorah and a serious accident could have caused an international outcry but the navy did its job well and the treasured menorah will not take the asylum seekers on a weeklong journey to papua new guinea from there they will fly to new zealand and the pacific island of narrow purposes a federal court in no more and still has to rule on a case that could force australia to accept the refugees willie could come as early as wednesday into labor day speech is president bush said he's concerned about laid off workers but confident his tax cut will help the economy bounce back he delivered that message the carpenters union gathering outside green bay wisconsin and later egypt's