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good evening for robert macneil the rest of us in dallas for the republican convention that event they get officially underway this morning with the news of the day was dominated by the release of some documents in washington tax returns and financial statements of democratic vice presidential candidate geraldine ferraro and her husband also today new federal figures show the gross national product growing at a healthy seven point six percent rate but without heating up inflation problem protesters closure heads the stories we examine and bit more depth tonight we look at the tax returns with a washington attorney who specializes in tax in real estate law our resident political analyst david gergen an alan baron discuss the political impact on the campaign and turned their attention to the politics of the republican convention we have an interview with one of the leading republican women at the convention and armstrong elizabeth racket reports on one state delegation kansas and texas writer ac grayling looks at the origins of the men who matter and the frosting city of dallas

the macneil lehrer newshour is funded by at and t the corporation for public broadcasting and the station and other public television stations geraldine ferraro and her husband john so caro disclose their financial worth that history today and over the terms congresswoman ferraro the democratic candidate for vice president at an income of three hundred and thirty two thousand dollars in the six years from nineteen seventy eight to eighty four and paid a hundred and thirty thousand plus or thirty nine percent of that in taxes her husband a new york city real estate owner and manager at an income of five hundred and thirty two thousand plus dollars over the same period and by two hundred and twenty thousand plus or forty one percent in taxes they owe fifty three thousand four hundred and fifty nine dollars and back federal taxes and interest due to a mistake they blamed on an account that a disclosure is included the

tax returns the two have filed separately and jointly for the last six years or statements defending various financial and real estate transactions including one that resulted in financing for a path ferraro congressional campaign problem mr auer herself did not appear today but left the disclosure to her tax experts she has scheduled a news conference to add her comments and answer questions tomorrow yesterday she said she hoped the american public would be satisfied in europe was forever remain indoors all day at her home in the forest hills garden section of queens with a kora reporters and television crews camped outside waiting for a statement that did not materialize she was conferring with her campaign manager three lawyers and two speechwriters presumably to prepare for the news conference that scheduled to take place in new york tomorrow afternoon caro also spent the day at home but he did not attend the meeting a few hours after the attack statements were released mondale camp said nothing had come out that undermined

their chores are running mate mondale campaign director jim johnson said ms ferraro and her husband have withstood the test of public trust and public integrity johnson said that when ms ferraro is being considered as a possible running mate campaign officials spent almost forty eight hours reviewing her family finances and concluded there was nothing amiss yeah did a very good job johnson said mondale himself would probably make no personal statement about the for our disclosures until thursday in washington charlayne hunter gault has more on today's announcement and its meaning german and the effort to put to rescue missions about before was a carol finances got off to a shaky start shortly before ten o'clock news conference was scheduled to begin a spokesperson for the mondale ferraro campaign announce so i'm already packed with reporters at the briefing would be delayed until one o'clock reason being or reason given that the xerox machine had broken down and then there was a lot to copy by one o'clock the temperature had written outside and inside the room at the

georgetown holiday inn mondale ferraro campaign spokesman frances o'brien took most of the heat and eighty seven everything is important bat that we weren't that you go through because it's just a relic of all as soon as it's available its release of years after the us invaded their work for our state close to fifteen minutes of that kind of thrilling o'brien announced that happened what had been promised the income tax return the boat ferraro areas of cairo were wearing and so where the media expert estimated it would probably take days to sift through all of the documents but some of the more contentious area thing to be right on the surface for

a closer look at those transactions and other items in the ferraro the current tax returns we turn to a tax attorney with the washington firm of lane and edson he is herb thats stephen's also an adjunct professor of tax law at georgetown university law school says the band's first overall as jim said in broad brush strokes what's your impression of these returns well first you have to understand that these early their individual returns they don't include all the partnership and cooperation returns that would normally be filed and whenever someone holds real state it you should also understand that there's nothing wrong with partnerships and corporations rolling wheels that what you're saying is that we're getting half a loaf is half of the picture happened picture what what what emerges from that half of the pictures from your you been perusing these since they were released this afternoon but what can a picture you getting on i'm very quick service renewed they look as if people are paying a normal non texans on the

primary part that i focused on was on the sale that will stand up to thirty one center state in nineteen seventy eight right let's get to that in just a minute but she said that it seems like their pain the ride and then i mean for about forty percent is what they're paying i mean an eerie and what the fifty percent tax bracket is that when i said they're paying and good actors and that that they're paying an average amount for probably their income whether or not i don't know i think it it what about the check for fifty four thousand dollars for under payment of taxes that was reported today and some of that with penalties twenty three psalm thousand with can you just give me the details of that what's your sense of that transaction sure from the tax returns that they filed with the nineteen seventy eight and then in the amended tax return that they filed today they stated that the nick mrs ferraro purchased a property and nave seventy eight for approximately twenty five thousand in

cash and then on the side should have a mortgage in order to repay the loan from her husband to her campaign in october she sold that property for a hundred thousand dollars in cash plus the seller <unk> also assume the mortgage she had taken now the game there was approximately sixty eight to seventy thousand i guess after expenses at least that's what their amended returns stated today in their initial return file the nineteen seventy eight they had failed to include the amount of the mortgage and the amount they realized from the sale and that's where dr king and so it so it would be the difference in that two in cash terms seen amounted to a difference in taxes owed about twenty nine thousand and a difference in interest that is when they owe taxes in nineteen seventy eight and they didn't pay at the interest penalty starts running in nineteen seventy eight first disney april

fifteenth nineteen seventy nine and then until now have an additional twenty three thousand in and for nearly that the check your bank and blues and they said this was a mistake that beckham made i mean does that sound reasonable to you that is in an era like that could've been made in the people involved particularly a lawyer and a real estate man i didn't get it yet either now at any mistake in retrospect looks down and in retrospect this was that looks down and whose art everybody in our senate will prepare the return on most people have accounts repair their returns trust their accounts to catch things like putting his mortgage and in our lives it's the kind of the point of the gun show that is apparently how came out now than the accounting firm of arthur young who she retained a few weeks ago to look at these apparently caught this mistake and it's not unusual for one account to make a mistaken for another count the ketchup is a real serious is this under an eye wouldn't say it's real serious

if you look at the large bulk of the tax returns and they were over an inch of papers that you had to plow through if you wanted to look at their tax returns on this does not jump out at you like they're a very bad thing i know i know that you're not a specialist in election law but there was another part to that same property that involved are selling their building as you mentioned to pay off a campaign debt to her husband from your proposal of the returns and so and did you see anything improper in that transaction levee break that then the two questions one was there anything improper it in filing their tax return the things that i think the mistake they admitted i don't think if they had intended to not disclose the additional tax than they would've made a specific i think they were simply not reported the sale so you don't think that they didn't pay their taxes was that they were trying to get around now i think if they'd have larceny in their hearts i think they just wanted would've failed

report the sale it's unlikely that the irs would have caught the sale or contract and i'm now the second point on the federal election campaign apparently they he could have under the law nineteen seventy eight and herself apparently he didn't know that and thought it should go through a middle man named <unk> lamb i'm not sure why he thought that that would necessarily help that apparently he did it from from what you've been able to see and i realize these are there are an awful lot of documents that you've roots in a very short period of tam and if you can't get into jon's car in his head but did you see anything in those returns that that would have justified the reluctance that he had in releasing the returns that he's released know i didn't they seemed on a very quick service due to be the kind of returns you'd submit if you're in a business and it didn't look like

he had anything really fun and you don't have any speculation as to why he might've not wanted there is i think a natural up into many of us not to disclose her taxes particularly general in the rules they'd business i you probably don't want or business associates to feel like they are transactions are coming under scrutiny mr stevens thank you for being with us the second portion of the ferraro disclosures is you know were found that this afternoon with the federal election commission and they will be released later this evening to the politics of today's disclosures have just begun of course republican officials are and owls moved quickly to lay out at the theatre walter mondale resins there was this from senator paul laxalt them about a senator who is chairman of the reagan bush campaign crux of the problem is that she and her people have been badly survive than one bill kincaid and a water walk on i think that because they're experts in the situation actually

the frog people means that people owe them so you know just areas that convention in relations unsure about national politics is all about obligation right now is on the mondale people and advocates with fritz mondale critically to seize control of this inflated up i thought this woman survives i hope that this doesn't know create a bad precedent for women the future in politics that doesn't become a chilling factor in the future i hope that we can dispose of this may dispose of it is not our obligation we're not going to characterize it or criticize it or politicize it we thought we played it up what's going to tampa for a first analysis of the political impact of today's for our tax disclosures were joined by our regular pair of analysts they are republican david gergen former communications director of the reagan white house and democrat alan baron editor of the political newsletter the barren report what's your first reaction to

what's been disposed of four oh i think they are the american people are going to take that much less that seriously in the sense that the political community i think it the democrats were very frustrated that some of the things that had me some other people were alleged to do they said that reagan had a tough one quality people didn't believe reagan was it was a crop and i think that's right and i think he's not and i think as they look at this and they understand the unique situation of a husband wife in which psy he says in most families the bulk of the income i think they're gonna conclude that mrs ferraro is it is is not is in a difficult situation and made it in hamlet perfectly but i don't think they're gonna make a bad judgment where's your first impression of whether the majority says the data released that the tax information and make a full disclosure of them or scum and as we just heard it also seems to me that these returns did get her off one hook but she's still dangling from some others mainly at one of the concerns that were being expressed was that there would be a lot of tax shelters revealed in these returns and that there be a lot of income

come into the famine very little taxes paid a government that does not appear to be the case i have a hefty thirty nine forty percent of their income their there rosen and income might have paid even less tax shelters that secular identity heard a lot of people who are in the real estate business probably have more shelters then they revealed in this unease returns on the other hand i think there's still some questions which have not been addressed by these returns there's a question of why she chose an exemption as she did for a number of years in a country that is the question that involves the house ethics committee that's correct your questions about this or as a new york times a day about a conservatory from which he drew tons and tons of questions about to some food and a proper his nineteen seventy nine in nineteen seventy eight the legal issues are still there and i think most important from a political stunt or the support the store is apt to keep rolling i think the press has only just begun to report there'll be a number of days of teacher reporters pouring over these returns and way out in the field in checking all of those

associations in more stories and i think that they're from a political standpoint it's it's up to a lot of economists as i think so i think that we can't discount really when we got a look at it the aspect of her being a woman in this and how it complicates things for example it appears that the original loans were made so that her husband could help finance her campaign we have a male candidate in the traditional american family that's not a problem senator about switzerland in minnesota built up a business his wife stayed home and to give the children sen bass which is running for senator for reelection and pouring in hundreds of thousands of hours of his own money like they did in minnesota democrat is that's acceptable now ms ferraro stays on and raised three children in the way raymond goes out and gets a career and takes a job as a prosecuting attorney and her husband's building up the state he can't continue her campaign if he were running list is a car running he could write a check for a

million dollars or what i don't know what the how the law works for his own campaign so it's it gets very complicated then the question is if he makes a legal judgment wrong on a concert or is it her judgment it's a much more were wearing a new ground and i think it's gonna come out anytime we get into this situation as a husband have to plan his economic activities for ten years to make sure that as the politicians to george bush would've been blind trust and so what if his wife wants a career in public office so it's become a point on their neighbor while ago that may be the public doesn't take this quite seriously as the press and politicians do you said the president to pursue it now avidly what has your attitude of a return so that question of the press and politicians making more overt than the voters would well i think it's a bit we don't really know the answer to that we have we're fragments of information that have come in the mondale ferraro forces are contending that one hand they're do not blame on the press but there still play well in the end the public witness the crowd of twelve thousand associate in seattle out late last week of the regime forces reported that today

how they're tracking polls are now beginning to pick up a lot of negatives on her and that they both have these are our of changing gardner actor as she came into a situation which they almost don't know who who she was and the public is in a process of making up of markets mind about our size in iraq and i think right now the stores are starting to come through our making a difference and that's the reason you see mondale sliding down the poles was fun for an introvert or at night i think there's one thing and that is that between now and the election signal a news conference tomorrow probably and she's going to be debating the vice president bush and the public is that a bailout of attention to geraldine ferraro and they will watch how she answers questions and how she reacts and they will make up their mind just as they watch how when somebody tries to sell a set of encyclopedias or someone tries to teach their children in school or anything else they had gone ahead and i don't know whether she's confident on the truth and then we'll be able to see that and

that's how she handles ahead and comes across it will be far more important than stories about the preseason allowances are full of more importantly we're interpretation of press prints amish in an upstairs i'll call it i think i don't believe in the press's ability to manipulate people nearly as much as it is their effect hero would have to be dealt with and they have not been able to press can actually win the public's going to do and then there were there was one republican leader republican crack today that that now it's time for them to propose to the best of us for the july when i was arrested latino on financial transactions well thank you both for joining us and we'll talk a little bit later i'm still to come tonight the republican convention judy woodruff interviews one of the gop's best known women notable that armstrong elizabeth record energies as the delegation from kansas and ac green else's number one expert on dallas reports on dallas it's

been for republicans and also elsewhere it was a good and busy day continuing attention to the ferraro financial story been part of the reason no doubt another was some good economic news the gross national product grew from april to june had a seven point six percent rate but the inflation rate for the same quarter dropped to three point two percent growth figures came from the commerce department in washington president reagan was away from washington today on a political speaking trip to the midwest his main message walter mondale and the democrats or jerking sunnis around calling for a tax increase was their typical

knee jerk reaction and believe me when their knee jerks you get it i learned it what the other side will do for the people they will and they declared it raise your taxes you know what the robots up again they will provide the kind of leadership to make sure we all those years and feel properly does kind of leadership we'll stop growth and start talking about the age of limits you remember four years ago when they were talking we had to get used to an age of limits things couldn't be as good as they were no thank you the only thing that is limited mr wright it will

become an on the ballots until wednesday has left much of the convention center stage thus far to his vice president george bush his main competition for attention have been the heat it hit a hundred and eight degrees here yesterday as the whole world now knows and went up only to one hundred today for bush it was a day of sight on nbc's today show that he wasn't even thinking about nineteen eighty eight and telling the new york delegation at all was well for nineteen eighty four we come in to dallas with a very different mood very different mood in that democratic convention indeed we now have a chance to shift the focus to the things that are positive about our country for year you had a candidate than five then for what you were carving each other up tearing down the reagan administration and tearing down in the process in my view the united states and now we have a chance to come out of what is a united convention emphasizing the positive accomplishments of an outstanding president and a strong administration the american people are ready

for that this first convention day the republicans are emphasizing women by giving key speech making assignments to united nations ambassador jeane kirkpatrick health and human services secretary margaret heckler and the keynotes marked us treasury catherine ortega it's widely assumed that showcasing republican women was to offset the effects of the democrats running a woman for vice president and the widely reported perception that just to reagan faces an electoral gender gap many republican women continue to be unhappy that the party platform again failed to support the equal rights amendment with one dissident republican woman went further today in criticizing the reagan record cathy wilson chairperson of the national women's political caucus held a news conference and predicted political repercussions in november these days the grand old party is not quite frankly very grand and republican women are finding that we had three very unappealing options we can either fight switch retreat as a

lot of all three going on this year i predict that ultimately many republican women will stay with the party but abandoned the ticket we republican women will go to the ballot booth on november sixth think really pulled the lever for the democratic side is when they're not going to be outspoken critics of president reagan but they will be registering their protest with a powerful gentilly they know that perhaps the only way to save the republican party is to keep it out of the white house to discuss women's issues and other matters facing the party judy woodruff is at the convention center was one of the most prominent women in the party we turn now to someone who has served in three republican administrations and armstrong was the counselor to presidents nixon and ford she was a former co chair of the republican party and ambassador to great britain from nineteen seventy six to nineteen seventy seven she's currently chair of the president's foreign intelligence advisory board is obama's armstrong let me ask you has the has that geraldine ferraro finance

issue become a grand when you fall for the republican party oh i don't think it's a windfall for anybody i hope it can be cleared up i think it's been distracting issues we ought to be addressing i'd like to get on and then probably ms ferraro going to certainly i think the electorate deserves to get along with top of the economy with national security and the other things that weighed heavily i think it's very unfortunate but this is distracted isn't worried the electorate may just think there's something there we may not know about two weeks but don't you think that it that it has become a political benefit for the republicans and it to the extent of the democrats not only way i think any pub and whenever one about an hour i think she's made a good start today on one thing that's interested me that when this on our as you probably know i was on gerald ford's shortlist for well i

like that ronald reagan's long as a vice presidential candidate and in both instances many weeks ahead they asked me for full financial statements for a complete tax returns for myself and my husband we willingly gave them and we would've been happy to have been made public and got a what i would still don't understand is since mondale was very measured and took a long time to choose his running mate and in an unprecedented fashion shows her but in advance of his convention it just astounding to me that he couldn't have researched this and save the electorate always weeks of war do you think he made a serious mistake in not doing that for example we heard in the news that he's saying he just had forty eight hours to look into her back well we all remember him in minnesota and he is by himself and his staff and so sure

i'm taking the guesswork a lot and not to mention that we might've state visits for our family do you think she's a liability based on what we know so far for him i think it's too early to say i mean it's it's just coming out in a should she think about stepping down from the ticket some people would say oh i think that's totally premature out there the first information is just out it's going to be terribly complex i imagine it coming in here to talk with you and only heard that one year and done i just think that certain things that that it worry me the exemption covers person change claims saying that she had no knowledge of her husband's been a business and that she didn't benefit from a well but it is

apparently a problem of state do you what would you think happens from here on i mean do you think that she's got to clear it up today and tomorrow or else are or what you think about that absolutely hazard a guess so i think it's going to take time and there again i'm so sorry because i'd like to get on i think we've got a great story to tell we republicans are about the economy low inflation low unemployment now higher take home pay less government intrusion into our lives canadian more stable world and here alas this it is not what is getting talked about this is not the national debate the days worrying about what is going to be revealed by it was as borrowing is this a current model do you think that because she's the first woman in that position that she's under extra scrutiny do you think that has any part in all of this well i hope to do this

thanks so i mean we had a male congressman trouble not that i quite an all but i hope that's not true but i don't think so at a time you are going to run for vice president united states or president united states the voters to you know make a very serious choice in november i'm gonna wanna know everything that they think there's a on your character your voting record your integrity and maybe this'll be totally washed away but they have a right to know but i just wish we'd get over with and get out with the big issues and let me ask about the women here at the republican convention we just heard i don't know if you heard it and the cathy wilson who is the president the national women's political caucus has held a news conference today and say that she thinks many republican women this fall they're not going to leave the party over disagreements with the play a letter gonna vote democratic we use it i have a few light i think those that put the quote

feminist issues first og er it happen three are a spirit and so free are a puzzle really knew that our twenty years we've become chairman of his campaign in nineteen eighty you don't expect women to work in lockstep with other issues too so why is that they quote used a few voters use a few women voters does that make you feel uncomfortable to that that the party that you've been associated with for so long has abandoned its historic association commitment to the er i'm not happy that i wish i were in our platform but the reason i am so strongly for president reagan and vice president bush is because i think the overarching issues of the rejuvenation of bad economy which really helps women when anybody difficult because proportionally in the past they suffered more than anybody else

and that of course i think he's had a consistent foreign policy that pointed towards levenstein not only jordon has been accused of that but i don't see any belligerent i think our allies know where we are really didn't with the car mondale and so i think this these are the big issues how representative of the delegates at this convention of republicans across the country and as you know in the profile looks pretty conservative it is now a representative of republicans i think is representative of mainstream democrats because i think their mondale ferraro ticket is far to the left of the mainstream democrat in this country and i know we have moderates group of republican moderates going around saying they feel like a vanishing breed i i hope and believe that will be a vanishing breed we better arrive on the stand we've got to say it but i'd never seen the party more united let those because i want him to speak out but

that we're going to have democrats but democrats would be the ones that really elect reagan and bush again and it just i mean in eighty four just as they did in it you can't win with just republicans in this country but what i'm asking is you know time and again during the platform committee meeting that moderates were voted down by the conservative that's right because that is the that is the mainstream feeling of republicans but my point is it's also the mainstream feelings of most democrats in this country you think what's the language isn't the platform represents what most marilyn hack not all of them represented everything i think the trial but i think by larger that a we need to see the excitement at this convention now but my big fight and they are might not be invited to you are addicted are units at is his marbles and that the less so in a party than in the country and as i've told it my feeling is that

what is not just the platform but what which is kind of saying ortega to live in and reagan i've been wishing regulator of course i had but to me that's exciting because it means a country united not just a party that's comparatively minor but a country united going ahead with optimism with thomas instead of all its self guilt that talk of malaise and blaming ourselves bailey on the well sure have a lot of problem lot of people think it's not only that it's not all fire but it sure is a lot better than it was a few years back and he's very exciting thank you dan armstrong for being with us jim when the democrats met in san francisco each day we gave you a running view of the convention from the perspective of one state delegation arkansas all we're doing the same in dallas this time the state we have chosen as kansas and without assignment as correspondent elizabeth bracket was at the dallas convention center

was with probably picked kansas because of the reagan state and it's a state with us our tradition of support for the gop kansas gave fifty eight percent of the vote to reagan in nineteen eighty gerald ford took fifty two percent in his unsuccessful race begins republican party is a right to moderate senators robert dolan andy kestenbaum but even with these two influential leaders we found little resistance in the delegation to the tough positions taken by the party conservatives canvas and sixty four delegates to dallas they're unified in their support of ronald reagan but they do hold a wide range of uses of the party's future one of those delegates is cattle farmer dave cox it is the land that matters to democrats is the fourth generation in his family to farm the same plot of land instead of kansas just north of wichita cox knows the problems of the american farmer has faced tackling those problems like

clarkson the politics and into the republican party but like many farmers in kansas and elsewhere cox question to the government's foreign policy fifty years of government programs what we see in the past that haven't worked and i think we need to have a tall really hassell well what we're going to do in the future and i like this new form for one thing i like to see farm programs to reflect a long term policy rather than a maybe a three to four months of silverware they've taken in the past cox took his concerns to the republican platform committee last week it and felt he was heard by those crafting the party's platform so despite questions over some of the administration's foreign policies says he and other kansas farmers will have no trouble sorting reagan oh i can get along with a file and it and i think we are the things are probably

give us the worst problem right now are high interest rates on fire and public access to markets we dont have markets we should have either domestically or or four markets and this isn't president reagan's problem it says it's a problem of the whole time in the world cup this ability to separate the problems of the reagan administration and the reagan was often evident in our conversations with kansas republican kansas senator nancy kassebaum and home with her father former republican presidential candidate alf landon says support for reagan overrides even moderate republicans dissatisfaction with the conservative party platform a platform kestenbaum says should have included support for the equal rights amendment and opposition to agree on amendments i think if we don't all agree on everything but many say their strong support for president reagan and while i don't agree with all of the planks in the platform nor do i agree with all of president reagan's position i

think a good case can be made for why it's very important to realize that kestenbaum describes the unhappiness that does exist with a conservative shift party is taken as stemming from kansas independent political past though kansas still heavily world state has had a solid republican majority almost from the time it was admitted to the union and eighteen sixty one is a good sci fi novels needy nineties followed by the birth of populism echoes of those times as kestenbaum i still heard today and in many ways it seems to me what has shaped the republican party in kansas fans from the fact that we're in the midwest the pioneer spirit and it's been abroad based individualistic serve concepts we've had populism really started here one of the slogans of the woman who was active in the populist movement was raised less corn and more help though kestenbaum told niiler reporting in black this would not be the convention for

her to follow in the footsteps of those populist women this isn't the time to make the argument for me going to dallas and the convention it's simply to say to president reagan were with him for four more years and her maria like him and get in the base and support the campaign the flights repairing the the philosophy of the party i think will come later i think before aids state party chairman dave owen doesn't plan to rock the boat either but on a banker from stanley kansas is the one area where controversy is likely to occur is over platforms rock hard stance against any tax increase are like that most of us would like to say no tax increase but i also feel so strongly that we absolutely have to get the deficit under control that i am i'm willing to look at any alternative to say that we do it because long run effect of federal deficits at the rate we have them

now is far more detrimental and minor tax increase is not that stand against the tax increase that bothers alternate delegate empire garden one of four blacks in the entire sixty four member delegation is much more upset about the absence of the equal rights amendment from the party's platform i am very disappointed that the republican party does not have that in their plant did not have it in the platform last time had it in for several years and suffered to take about steel bar remains is the question of why a black woman supports the republican party with a question of her own why not a lot of black americans now believed that the welfare system in the past has been the best system for black americans and that's usually what you hear ta da to black americans in terms of the democratic party finally after the months of build up it was

time to head for dallas' gay violent board his flight in kansas city on thursday four delegates far from wichita on friday thanks nina party followed another on sunday as the kansas delegation loosened up texas style of a nineteen fifties rock and roll bar just down from their hotel real business to take place on sunday is kansas delegate settle down for an evening caucus meeting and at this carefully manage convention delegates were instructed on how to answer media questions my delegation chairman mike boyd the man cannot win that argument with a long and so he suggested that the

men not discuss thank you today delegates finally found not much business recession but excitement was evident as the convention there was an excitement that everyone back home in kansas pleased to see that i have a note and large you know i've been a republican convention <unk> ago i'd rather have a good football day but for republican delegates in dallas it's even probably just his head is a football game was a rip roaring attack on the democrats they just heard from a lifelong democrat un ambassador jeane kirkpatrick attending her first republican convention and that's their kirkpatrick delivered a blistering indictment of carter mondale and present democratic party foreign policy

here is an excerpt and then the pain the united states me the carter administration's unilateral restraint in developing and deploying weapons systems was accompanied by an unprecedented soviet build our military and political soviets working on the margins and through the loophole salt one develop missiles

of stunning speed and accuracy and target of the cities of our friends in europe they produce weapons capable of wiping out our land base and with their new identities so these were completed in cuba during those years the redneck soviet nuclear submarines the roma opponents but their neckties to fly reconnaissance missions over the eastern united states and the nfl be an electronic surveillance to monitor our telephone calls and october earlier that the ayatollah khomeini came to power in iran while in the sandinistas developed a one party dictatorship on the cuban model in the nineteen seventies joe

january nineteen eighty one soviet influence expanded dramatically into laos cambodia afghanistan and ethiopia mozambique south yemen libya syria at madagascar station nicaragua and grenada so forth is an advice is sought to guarantee what they call the curators ability of a new found intel and to stimulate insurgency than a dozen other places the soviet union invaded afghanistan and again i guess flee war against the afghan people the american people were shocked by these events we were greatly surprised to learn about diminished economic and military saying we were demoralized by that treatment of our

hostages in iran and we were outraged by the harsh attacks on the united states and the united nations as a result we lost confidence in ourselves and in our government jimmy carter looked for an explanation for these problems and body found in the american people but the people knew that it was the people knew that jimmy carter it's been the plan in a non political news of the day at

dawn to dusk curfew in waynesboro georgia has been eased the curfew was imposed saturday after a local television station reported that a black have died while in police custody that news sparked five fires and rock throwing incident it would let her establish that the victim bodily prostration or running from the police so far our thirty have been arrested in waynesboro the mayor says he thinks the worst is now over and forced the curfew back to eleven pm oversees the heaviest fighting in six week shook beirut lebanon artillery duel between army andrews muslim militias left in some seminars among the buildings that was the presidential palace in the red sea through some had minesweepers enjoying the international search for the industry mines eighteen ships have been damaged by them since early july in northern ireland catholic and protestant protesters attacked police in separate incidents today was the fifth day of violence and protest over police use of informers and united nations issued a grim forecast seven million people face starvation in ethiopia a drought in that african nation has lasted more than a decade

again today's top stories democratic vice presidential candidate geraldine ferraro released her and her husband's income tax return since nineteen seventy eight the couple filing separately paid about forty percent of their income to the government because of an accounting error they owe the government twenty three thousand dollars they've send an object for fifty three thousand four hundred and fifty nine dollars to cover interest and penalties and in dallas it's a grand old time for the grand old party in a grand old texas state the nineteen eighty four republican convention started today with delegates party officials and the press looking to the well planned re nomination of the reagan bush ticket are closing words tonight from dallas are about nelson they're from ac green ac is known to newshour regulars as a reviewer of books but he is also the world's number one expert on doubts about what he sees as of late and he holds up a copy of his new book dallas usa as is pro at any rate the next word you hear will be

hit us is the quintessential modern texas city proud of its texas heritage operated by the tough texas read this is what makes callas take the texans back of its success was taught silly important figures in dallas life brain and her grandfather today's enclosed aircondition shopping mall or senator welcome linda alice nearly twenty years ago was his first a very niche for political purposes of prayer and azure elsewhere in fact you won which are texas background well i was born in boston massachusetts and i moved to dallas in nineteen fifty and therefore eisenmann one of the oldest living texans aero the new hearing your conscience of dallas page from here every day for fifteen years he's been dispensing down homesteads is wisdom he's a little instinctively what people of dallas and texas are

thinking they see understand there's another texan of born in hand alberta canada and a canadian so where i took up on non texans here we are in the newsroom of the dallas morning news moscow will journal in the state of texas because our last word is the most powerful man all this awful job he's the editor to get the news out the lone star state side though or intentionally to get his texas a feisty i was born because i'm trying to be natural but we've been asking the wrong people in our quest for big the texans let's go over the top the man who runs that's right runs bells holding one of the most demanding jobs in the western hemisphere how a city manager charles anderson dr anderson you're the ceo of these huge conglomerate called dallas you have the toughest job in texas and you've got a beta sharpest down the texas political saying tells in what texas town were you born find the job of the city

manager dallas texas the most challenging and i can imagine in the entire united states working texans well it's imported leadership does is leaves us with one last resort joe miller's name at a bargain on a weapon that lets images created every night texas myth making at its peak and here's the man who presides over the whole shooting match joe miller and so joe you had as much to do with the dallas images any man in dallas sure you're a natural born texan or you know you started your tv career right here baby i did indeed i was born and raised in kansas in iraq and i dreamed of the newshour tonight will be back in dallas tomorrow night i'm robert macneil the night the macneil lehrer newshour is funded by at and t reaching out in new

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