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good evening i'm robert mcneill in new york and on july in washington after our summary of the news this wednesday we look at the pennsylvania primary results with david gergen and mark shields and what they are now calling the year of the woman the democratic senate nominee landy a call and former senate candidates linda chavez and harriet woods and ron kramer of time magazine ponders the future of nasa funding for the macneil lehrer newshour has now

at it can communicate and that a corporation for public broadcasting and viewers like you a california jury has acquitted four white police officers charged in the beating of black motorist rodney king the charges included assault with a deadly weapon and use of excessive force the jurors remain deadlocked on one excessive force charge against officer lawrence powell and the judge declared a mistrial on that count but the jurors delivered not guilty verdicts on all of the other charges against pao sergeant stacey june officer timothy when an officer theater presented the beating of rodney king took place in march nineteen ninety one after a high speed chase in los angeles citizen videotaped the incident and it was shown repeatedly on television causing a nationwide

furor over police brutality we'll have more on the story after the new senate bill clinton was on capitol hill today shopping for support he defeated jerry brown yesterday in the pennsylvania primary by a fifty seven that twenty six percent margin around his plans only remaining opponent for the democratic presidential nomination clinton's private meetings today are thousands of democrats are aimed at winning endorsements from those who attend the democratic convention as so called superdelegates he held a news conference with democratic congressional leaders reporters asked if the so called character issue is now behind it not all these people know me and one of the reasons i came today was so that they could get a better feel for what sort of person i am what kind of governor of them were kind of work i've done the way i relate to other people i think the reason that i'm in this race today and a preview position

is that the people who do normally don't know my character president bush was also a big winner in terms of i know he won seventy seven percent of the vote a pat buchanan's twenty four eight established all the gas at a republican fund raising dinner was not in washington he intended to win it big in november an unexpected winner in pennsylvania was democratic senate candidate clinical she was a political unknown until just days ago her success was attributed campaign tv ads in which he criticized the republican incumbent senator arlen specter for his interrogation of anita hill during the clarence thomas confirmation hearings we'll talk with clinical garden in jails and others about yesterday's vote after this news summary the house of representatives is expected to vote tonight on how to respond to a justice department subpoena for house buying records the special counsel appointed by the justice department to look into the bank scandal issued a subpoena last week it requires information on all bank transactions during a thirty nine month period including those of members who did not bounce

checks yesterday republican leaders said they would support turning over the records democratic leaders met today for two hours but afterwards did not announce a position as bigger thomas farley has previously said the summons was too broad and raised constitutional questions in economic news today the commerce department reported personal income rose point six percent in march it was the second straight monthly increase the ford motor company reported a three hundred and thirty eight million dollars profit for the first three months of the year for the last almost nine hundred million dollars over the same period last year president bush announced a four month extension of his moratorium on new federal regulations he said he was expanding to help the economy recover from a recession an amtrak train bound for new york slammed into a dump truck this morning in newport news virginia the engine and all five passenger cars were derailed the driver of the truck was killed fifty three of the nearly one hundred passengers on the train suffered mostly

minor injuries the national transportation safety board sent a team to determine the cause of the accident the crash occurred at an intersection marked with warning signs but no gates are flashing signals divers in north carolina surged for bodies in the wreckage of an air force c one thirty plane that crashed in a late last night all nine people aboard were killed and air force officials said the cause of the accident was on no witnesses said the plane circled the lake for nearly fifteen minutes before rolling over and plunging into the water the control tower had not received any emergency signal the national cancer institute today announced the first large scale test of a drug to prevent breast cancer drug is called tamoxifen it is the world's most widely prescribed drug for the trip but of cancer researchers believe it might also prevent the development of breast cancer in high risk when the project will take five years and study sixteen thousand women afghanistan's most powerful guerrilla leader auckland shamas through triumphantly

entered the capital of kabul tonight leading a huge convoy of tanks and troops masoud is now defense minister in afghanistan's new islamic government earlier today ordered again to return to the city as the last pockets of resistance were wiped out the new government held its first formal meetings and vowed to bring peace to the country after fourteen years of civil war the yugoslav federal army launched new attacks today in the republic of bosnia herzegovina the fighting came after the serbian land and they refused to withdraw from the now independent bosnian states army mortar shells felon at least one bosnian town and clashes between them namely serbian army and muslim and grow up malicious about three hundred people have been killed in an estimated four hundred thousand left homeless by the fighting began two months ago when bosnia's muslims and croats voted for independence the director's idea the i am the cia said today industrial spy and was an increasing threat to the us economy fbi director william sessions and former east bloc

nations and western allies were engaged in such spying he warned that former soviet republics may take advantage of joint business ventures with us companies to steal advanced technologies they cannot afford to buy cia director bob gates said russia was the republic doing the most mind they spoke before the house judiciary committee you would appear to us that most of the operations we see our continuation of operations that were underway prior to the coup attempt in august of nineteen ninety one it may well be that the political level and moscow does not even know that these activities are taking place this was always our hair was for many many years of sanctions will test one of the top priorities if not the top priority of the kgb in the old union was to collect technology in and there is a certain sense in this rolling forward gates said about twenty

countries were engaged in economic espionage against the united states in one form or another and that's it for the newshour tonight now it's on to the politics of pennsylvania and of women and to the future of nasa we go now to the verdict in the trial of four los angeles police officers charged with the beating of motorist rodney king charlayne hunter gault has this power sharing it was a trial unlike any other in that most of america saw the central piece of evidence the videotaped beating of rodney king over and over on television for white los angeles police officers were found not guilty of assault in the case here is what happened in the court as the jury deliberated verdict this afternoon the first count was assault with a deadly weapon with a jury found all four defendants not guilty the second count was use of excessive force three of the defendants

probationary officer timothy when officer theodore pacino and sergeant stacey june were also found not guilty after three days of deliberation on this count the jury remain deadlocked in officer lawrence howell's case and the judge declared a mistrial howell was ordered back to court on may fifteenth on top police admission of of falsified police reports officer powell was found not guilty on power for falsifying a police report cited stacey june was found not guilty on the final count accessory after the fact sergeant stacey clooney was found not guilty for more on the trial now we talked to newshour correspondent jeffery k a public station case et los angeles who's been covering the story since it broke last year jeff was this verdict a surprise i think for many people it was shall i particularly young people here who placed most of their

opinions on the very dramatic videotape there was stunned silence in the press room many people i think were shocked and maybe still are shocked about what this is going to be politically when this really settles into those people been saying all along that you can get justice and this is the main entrance of that dramatic very dramatic videotape the i mean i guess that means that the body jerry bock the argument that rodney king with the rapper i think they said he was in office a setting without teeth ep whenever you see the thing that was so was never proven effective he did not have any traces of pc pianist lot when it was analyzed with the officers contend all along the king himself was assaulting king was a threat and where the us military may have come into play and of course we don't know yet until the jury's tell us they're still having holding a press conference so very very shortly brought is that the defense was able to do was to

cave in slow motion and when you do play in slow motion you get a difference back as they played it they were able to put on their brother experts and the defendant's father who took the jurors through the tape at one seconds of that bit by bit frame by frame and when i asked the question was rodney king complying here with orders to lie down they kept saying no harm and through the tape you just keep thinkin raising an arm raising up try and according to the officers to get out and possibly to attack them so that the fence was that they never really knew what type of threat kinko's and in fact they thought he'd pose a substantial threat and obviously the jurors jury went along with that now count involving officer powell deadlocked jury with deadline for three days what's the count and what eu exit have youth no idea if it will have to find out what the jurors

say about that far the accounting of the recount was enhancement great bodily injury assault on the color of a fire at the arm as to what's going to happen and that the district attorney could make the decision to go for a week and prosecutors are so large how low are not forget to wait to hear what he has to say officer powell was the officer who did deliver the most closed to change it if they want it with being in the videotape most prominently most prominently delivering close out the other one was that the rookie officer timothy when loesser found not guilty scott who was fired by gates of the police chief of los angeles shortly after this when he was a rookie police officer so he could fly away and be the others have all been suspended with without paying right now you alluded earlier attempts to the political reaction to this decision i mean political emotion i mean what are you expect the reaction to be out there particularly in the black community is black leaders

have been meeting for weeks to talk about calling the community down in the event of this kind of a good in fact just yesterday he a black community leaders i understand met with police officials and ask the police officials to get them to the er farting if they could have the latitude to go into areas that they considered hotspots before the police officials before the place and the police said no clearly the police are worried about this as a black community officials think it's anyone's guess is what's going on they are very cool heads so far they've been meeting they've been trying to calm the community down farm but any anyone's guess as to exactly what what what's going to how is the complexity of the jury and is this likely to be any issues then i thought well ok so ugly many people would've stoked about one of the jurors was with his black are six men six women moms and joe is it an issue are people going to be racing this i think so far this is a trial that was held out in ventura county just east of

los angeles a mostly white mostly white arab was moved out because it was pre trial publicity something that very rarely happens certainly people get irritated that it was impelled in in los angeles but i think the overriding thing to keep in mind is this that this case regardless of the outcome what it did initially with galvanized least opponents and lead to some very dramatic reform is still taking place in the police department the los angeles marriott gavlak thank you very much for that report we love politics presidential and otherwise is a major focus tonight president bush and bill clinton won solid victories in yesterday's pennsylvania primaries presidents when gives a majority of republican convention delegates are sharing his re nomination clinton beat is only remaining active opponent jerry brown fifty seven percent to twenty six percent with the pennsylvania victory

strengthening his grip on the democratic nomination clinton called on capitol hill today to unify the party behind him we get some analysis now of the latest twists and campaign ninety two from our own team of guardian in jail that's david gergen editor at large of the us news and world report and syndicated columnist mark shields mr shales if the pennsylvania when forgers bush over in fact in delegates doesn't first clinton or psychologically bill clinton psychologically is the nominee of the democratic party foreign divine intervention of some cataclysmic event because i know that he is for all practical purposes the nominee of the democratic party that grandma has gone out of the democratic race debut agrees that all over for attempts to stop you know it is not it may not take divine intervention or hover there could be an event wasn't alive but i do think it's over for all practical purposes a jerry brown is this yours as a serious contender it even if brown

were to win a couple primaries between now and the family of convention the nomination what went into new york this summer there is this reverse clinton's downward spiral in the two weeks before pennsylvania it was extremely negative for clinton starting with the literally negative photograph on the cover of time magazine and all the commentary about he can't win mark including pennsylvania governor cases saying you couldn't win against president bush does pennsylvania reverse this downward spiral for you it certainly is a big help but stopping that at the year we made we made much of the exit polls in new york which showed democratic primary voters had doubts and reservations about bill clinton's honesty integrity and character in pennsylvania yesterday he got high marks at that those negatives dropped considerably with that affiliated not been a negative campaign it was a campaign where he appeared far more relaxed there weren't negative commercials used against them i think to a degree the the senate campaign in pennsylvania which diverted so much energy attention as well as the ross perot

candidacy a wood began to see which presented and then he jerry brown finally get your microphone camera we help build clean you think the interest his downward spiral i don't think so at the store are you invited bill clinton has really emerged and there's a robin as the political rise building of our time and he's had more strikes at him and people come out and he seemed to buy thousand doesn't keep coming back yet again credit for a gerbil that he began to turn around the last few days than your campaign would challenge brown to a series of debates and then gave a foreign policy speech was very substantive he finally got issues and go away from character questions that he had after new york he had what can only be called a very fortunate case of laryngitis dod ought to have learned to have more often because of the event a pause to his race and anthony sadler disappeared for word that our spotify from television and he's been in effect a vote of again re introducing himself to the american voter and so far it's been a very possibly sticking to you she's talking about things that matter and i think that as a result of that people at least offensively and i think around the country are having a more positive

press conference stay on his wavelength he will be a stronger candidate against george bush the fall than people in the last couple weeks have assumed you might be given an awful lot of people were saying he can't possibly win with all this baggage market like you're beginning to think that perhaps wrong well i've always thought that he was stronger than he looked as long as he didn't have another revelation that there that it came out of nowhere that we didn't know about and pennsylvania robin in and a pennsylvania poll about three or four weeks ago was shot about a ten point lead on bill clinton after the two have a particular plot gone campaign in pennsylvania for three weeks he managed to close that gap and about four points in a straw poll of the group to him against each other so i feel that if you will be a stronger candidate unless something collapse and again we do not know how to associate really the seriousness of the potential ross perot candidacy remains a serious for a wildcard in some states were present as texas and california recent polls have shown that her for a war in the race

he draws pretty far down he would come and sectarian first how this point and strike you in mocking hours candidate against or should he give democrats hope that they really got somebody there well sure i mean he's he said come through a variant of the tough tough lesson of the fight state to get war ii as a time to reject davidson early and metaphoric rasping i mean come on it like allam the mohammad ali the combat in highgate lamott us a little bit more attractive and appealing than rasputin's the diabolical russian mark over was this invaluable of these are his family radio address because of that music for a florida no thought of bill clinton bill clinton and the jihadist in this very homey analogy about this race and that was i would compare it to the duke kentucky basketball game for the east regional finals in nineteen eighty two there was a sense if you watch a game a perfectly played basketball game between two wonderful themes that it would have had the ball last week on the web the last line that's the way it worked on this race

george bush a year ago today was it was actually the forty percent approval today the nation by four to one margin that were born in the wrong direction this is a race that is going to be one bite whoever the focus is on not on last letter words of america people look and enjoyed bush an historic ship them out that at this point certainly there's a bill clinton made an exchange with pretended to me if they're concentrated bill clinton's alleged the real effects of whatever else then that then with george bush will drive my name it is to keep attention focused there then then bush has a shot david is right i do get credit one think that for all thing is while it's a wild card and the fact that are always is climbing in the polls while the other two were descending reflects that your interest if we change and how worried are the worst coral people are all phenomena now they're much more worried about their parole phenomenon at the moment than they are about the oakland they feel that the roses that is a factor that no one knows quite how to measure

that iraqi potentially could be it could take away a couple of states that are very painful for the attacks is the third largest labor union fifty of ross perot or when that miniseries ahead of course in the straw poll of that about ten days old that would deny the president's electoral votes were critical for a minute in the fall that's george bush's part of his base calif another pivotal state where pros doing pretty well so that they're taking a very serious a very interesting enough for robin one of the other people in the bush entourages they have the most seriously george porter jr of course it isn't steve do you think now he was said mark couple weeks ago that role was going to be a much more serious falling unmanned probes and people in washington thought could probably elected marketing be elected president of the us if he could be in the end in each year i think that she is story at unpredictable and volatile place the year is

nineteen sixty eight was nineteen sixty eight we had the evidence all about war that the cities there in campus is in their in flames are in riot and the assassinations of martin luther king or canada but this year there is that there are forces at work in this country it's a sense of pessimism is a desire for change and who ever put presents a minute we suddenly naples race yesterday in pennsylvania which side and carol moseley braun and in illinois was seen elsewhere the outsider the candidate was seen is that related to change and it has an enormous advantage people want changes were your word to david's opinion could be elected president bashir yes after market and sell to duke and kentucky by comparing this race for the best and i do believe he's right about ross perot years nonesuch and twenty five has a larger chapter of him that he could possibly have a threat of the race run the house of representatives something we have not seen in this country since nineteen twenty four mr bush clinton as mark has said was not the only story from yesterday's pennsylvania primary there was also when the

ankle she is the fifty year old professional fundraiser who in her first run for public office defeated a heavily favored opponents to become the democratic candidate for the us senate she will face in november her main target republican senator arlen specter overwhelmingly won re nomination yesterday vehicle victory was being touted by pundits today as further evidence that nineteen ninety two is shaping up as the year of the woman named yigal joins us now from philadelphia what your own analysis of why you won and congratulations by the way oh i think there are a combination of things that out of all came together one is that the people of pennsylvania are looking for new leadership i think i think that people are fed up with politics as usual and that they saw in me and someone who isn't a change agent and also has a demonstrated track record of commitment to families in pennsylvania and i think that all of those are our qualities that the voters are looking for do you believe that if somebody male

running as you did the same time campaign said exactly the same thing as you said starts with the same things you said would have won out i think that being a woman in nineteen ninety two and is definitely an asset because i think women are seen as change agents as people who work who can be trusted that there is i definitely a recognition that we don't have adequate representation of women in the united states congress with only two women in the hundred member senate i think that people have realized that's just not really appropriate for fifty two percent of the population and so it definitely helps to be a woman in this year and you saw evidence of that in your race specific evidence of people voted for you because you were a woman i don't know that they voted for me because i was a woman pena i heard over and over again that it's time for more women in washington it's time to

have some new voices it's time to throw the rascals that some in all of those things combined and that the message that i kept receiving which really is the exciting message is that people of all ages races and genders across the state said to me thank you for running you've given us someone to vote for and not against bashir and that that's very important to me to speak innovate against you made a big point and they have to play in your toe your famous television commercials of the of senator specter's questioning of the yale in the clarence thomas hearings which your own view of how important that was well that was important to me because that's the reason i entered the race it was the combined in recognition of the composition of the judiciary committee as being you know fourteen men aren't that brought home to me and i think millions of americans the fact that women are not represented in the senate and it was arlen specter's performance as he interrogated anita hill i'll which embarrassed me made me very angry and i felt humiliated women around the country

so it was that that really led me to enter this race i'm so i think the issue in this race and now that we're into the general election is arlen specter his voting record and his track record here in pennsylvania you think that you got vote yesterday on that issue alone i think i got votes because people are angry with arlen specter and then people recognize that i was the strongest candidate in the democratic field to challenge him and i received the endorsement of all the major newspapers intense again it was a five way primary and i think that that people across the state recognize that i presented the greatest challenge to arlen specter and the voters of pennsylvania are angry with him and i think that they're looking for new leadership and looking for new united states senator so if you had you receive the endorsement of all the major newspapers in pennsylvania maybe he was only people outside of pennsylvania that were so surprised and by your victory is that is that what you're suggesting as well well i think the people of pennsylvania were somewhat surprised too because it happens so quickly and i

announced my candidacy on february the sixth so we've had a relatively short campaign which by the way i think is a very good idea i would be in favor of shortening the campaign sees as for all the people running for political office but i think it caught fire very quickly and i was frankly aware of how well i was doing it long before the polls showed it because i could feel it as i traveled to pennsylvania and i saw that my candidacy really had caught the attention of the people and i think that that there's something about having someone who is enough snyder who is very clear and committed on issues on the ferry gives hope to people and makes people think that maybe there is the chance for change and a chance for new leadership it was a very spirited and very exciting campaign and one that i think was the the celebration last night really well why let's bring into additional perspectives on this nineteen ninety two is the ear for women

harriet woods is the former democratic lieutenant governor of missouri who twice ran unsuccessfully for the us senate she's now the president of the national women's political caucus linda chavez was executive director of the us civil rights commission in the reagan administration she was defeated in nineteen eighty six as the republican nominee for the us senate in maryland she's now a senior fellow at the manhattan institute the year that when the nineteen ninety two when a chauvinist many women are going to do well to share and i think it is in part because they are perceived as outsiders i think it's not talked with events that mystical was in fact a non politician in the person she'd he was the lieutenant governor of the state and i think that went on her behalf you agree well yes i think that in fact i think the clip that she is strongly hearings and specter was more than on the hot button for women i think it it evokes for a lot of voters in this country a

sudden primetime knew they had what they saw was the ineptitude the political circus of those who were supposed to be making national policy and i think they said you're right it is time for a change all these presidential candidates are running around saying i have cyber operation of change and i think they're saying we don't believe you guys but yeah a woman who's at the basic fair do you think to live a show there's that debt that people are saying hey this country is being run very well right now and they look is oh my goodness it's been run by men and so you think people are cautiously making i just you know i think i think there is some of that comes into play now ironically there were two senators and senate judiciary committee who ran against women both of them were democrats they run against republican women and those republican women did not tie get elected i don't know that this is a partisan issue and i guess i would disagree with both with mystical and also i harriet about the impact of arlen specter's role in the clarence thomas hearings and if it's a mistake to put too

much emphasis on that i i have a feeling that that's not going to be a big issue in the campaign as it unfolds well first of all if you look at public opinion polls most women in fact believe clarence thomas not i need a hero and i think that people keep forgetting that that the public opinion weighed in on clarence thomas' behalf i don't think that it's fair to assume that women are simply going to vote for another woman because they think sexual harassment is an issue and even if he didn't think back on the clarence thomas are issuing and decided on that case what is a what is the evidence thus far i would just on the question of women voting their gender riding them they're paul political police otherwise i think that's right fascinating change from ninety two from when i ran eighty two that really has always been what we call the last decade was a gender gap but it's really been an issue gender gap in other words women voted for men or women

who they saw as giving a prior into domestic issues that that's they voted for democrats largely in illinois for the first time i think we saw women of both parties margins are now mostly on an end just said where are the women's names because it wasn't as carol moseley braun it was a nominee for the state supreme court was when the legislators of both parties just said it's time you know and i think that we thought that might be a fluke but with lenny ago and she's a wonderfully qualified candidate who can represent all kinds of issues that in fact there were three running in the democratic primary their views weren't that different than the two of them rather well known but they said wait a minute various were going to chose this one kind of assemble both of our anger when you're speaking of the women in terms of what they felt was the lack of sensitivity to their life concerns by the guys there and i think the voters generally the issue of

as i said we want someone different layers busy a clip bob on that point that the legacy of the three candidates or three of the other candidates opposing do work they were pretty they were there was not much disagreement with you on some of these issues where there aren't there are some significant differences with regard to economic physicians and that sort of thing but i really think that it was the fact that that i had the strongest positions on the clearest the best run campaigning this was not really a miracle or an accident it was really a very hard earned victory and i but i do think that i did present the clearest alternative to arlen specter and that people really are angry with him not just because of anita hill i really need to say that but because of his voting record and his youth being part of the reagan bush era and the failed economic policies of that era and that's really going to be the theme of the general election campaign you're shaking your head as well first of

arlen specter is the moderate republican he has been a tremendous supporter of women's issues he's been a supporter of civil rights subject line part of the right of arlen specter in civil rights issues i often disagreed with him because i thought he wasn't supporting president reagan and president bush enough so i don't think that's going to be the deciding factor what mystical has going for her is that she's an outsider she's not well no voters seem to be gravitating to people that they don't know very well the sheriff do you find in the republican conservative well we know the republican party a willingness of women to say hey wait a minute also that maybe we should try women even though i might not agree with me that someone and maybe a little more liberal than i am haunting people vote their gender i had a tremendous gender gap in my own ten senate campaign in nineteen eighty six they did very poorly among women primarily because of my position on issues women i think it's harriet suggested woman running as berman calls immigration and she was had a very liberal

voting record i and i was running as a conservative republican i did very well among white men in fact i carried the white male vote for the state but women it in general do tend to vote on domestic issues i think more than they do in foreign policy and in fact here away from voters or from candidates who appear to be very strongly pro defense so i think that that is not that doesn't go in your favor with women voters don't want to lose the fact that this is a year because of some very positive things that qualified women can bring to as candidates that they are going to have a better chance i think we're talking about women who who genuinely are offering a strong choice issues that people care about they look like problem solvers in areas education health care people are just fed up with a government that can't seem to make national policy they do look like outsiders but more than that maybe for the first time this is a year when incumbency is a disadvantage and i think of senator specter who yes has an excellent record on

reproductive rights but it does have to carry the baggage of the failure of existing national government to deal with a lot of things that are creating the anxiety people are feeling about their future it's going to have to answer for that and if there's a candidate likely going to get a deal could be a male yes but with this case with a strong female candidate who can present people with a real choice but also strong positions about things that they think matter to them i think she has to choose between a one word also that the composition of my vote yesterday and while the idea certainly was steve at the great majority of the women's vote i also received forty percent of the men spoke which was more than either of the other and then running in the race so i think it's really important that we recognize that out while my gender may have been an issue is a positive issue for the male voters as well as a female voters this spring two males back end

of this mark and david you always said this was a year of the check where what where where would you put this this the women issue of the woman candidate issue is for its importance the support nationally of enormous importance at outsider the year the degree that it is a desire for change in the party like because is profound and obvious at this point in the presidential year that a woman candidate is argued by definition morally just so fact only one echoes of that the harriet they would say nobody will run and win a contested race in nineteen ninety two on reelect old gary smith died nine good terms deserve one more experience counts cause it really does to a generic assumptions the boat start with about one one is that women are more honest he argued that it's a generic assumption into a more compassionate at a time when we don't need to have the perceived need for a strong defense in the world or outside threat

and compassion issues and honesty and then that if you're talking about incumbents and people in power being in trouble they have more incumbents are men and women so obviously they're going to be more up reich absolutely of them going back to furious on clarence thomas was just the specter of performance that security police thought republicans are those displays more democrats called many americans was to look at the composition of the judiciary committee itself and the sea twelve white male faces adversity and then making the decision vs in making all the decisions and there are only three women in the senate today and there were like twenty or the twenty eight women in the house representatives at a time when all of america's change in when we want to be more attentive only women who applied some of the minority groups i think there's a desire for change that you do this since nineteen eighty for national policy question would the country be better governed more women held office twenty percent said yes we're here

is because reporters to explore the sensitive question number twenty percent to sixty one percent getting his bill clinton could get reverse coattails bill clinton's candidacy it is time right now very important and that is the only patient in the april figures until the democratic convention in july probably to rehabilitate refurbish to establish a message that in november the excitement generated by akin to see when you come as an outsider into carol moseley braun brings back to nineteen forty five harry truman won the presidency by actually running on the coattails of paul douglas and adley stevenson in illinois really considerably ahead of running for governor and senator and frank ocean life of ohio is good how this could affect the presidential race well i think it's probably not going to affect the presidential race that much i think what's going to happen is that people are satisfied with the choices before them is getting very low turnout i'm not i don't think it's going to help out fires i anymore than it is going to help an incumbent that was

illinois which is always been a critical state and i think of the coalition of interests blacks and women than ever that women are fifty four percent of the registered voters in a higher percentage of the registered voters turnout and i look at illinois and think of the impact of the carol moseley braun running at the head of the giza united states senate candidate yes i think it could have an impact on the presidential race in pennsylvania len nichols i think it's definitely going to be a factor in that there's a lot of interest and excitement that is already become apparent about this particular senate race because it's going to be closely watched in the choices are going to be quite clear i think so i think it will have to have a lot to do with that with the presidential race here as well and you think and in what way and how will that you usually do you agree that that you might help clinton and other words if he's the nominee i think i might i mean if my campaign is strong enough to clear that spirit that i had found in the primary race catches on in the general election and people are looking for home looking for positive new leadership

looking for change and then looking for political outsiders as the embodiment of that then i think that if i'm running strong that will help both bill clinton although he won pennsylvania takes so you know maybe that will do it for a tether mr tim russert said on nbc this morning that of ross perot's of only would be shoo in for president gary knell be a great first for olivia nine no sir i don't think that the problem that women get aids in the past an independent reckons there is executive level positions and i think when you when you're picking a senator be picking a member congress and the compassion fact it is more important to the commander in chief and thats whats been a sticking point the past are deftly victor thank you all very much we're nasa is the question we ask him try to answer next tonight nasa is the

national aeronautics and space administration it's under a new leader who must steer a course between ambitious programs and austere budgets in the post cold war era drew kramer has been covering aeronautics and space for time magazine and prepared this report as bad as bob america's nineteen sixty one years later neil armstrong walked on the moon and is suing twenty years now source patients forty six times lord only once for the tragic loss of the challenges of those successful launches allowed manned

space exploration become a continuing source of national pride according to a recent ankle which poll lately gas has fallen on some hard times and spent more than a billion dollars on the flawed hubble space telescope its much ballyhooed galileo probe is crippled and sending back a little information to earth and mass is director of popular admiral richard truly was unceremoniously dumped last february in a political dispute with the bush administration over the direction of mass the project barely survived a congressional vote last year traditionally members of congress have been enthusiastic backers of nasa but now they ask whether the huge costly programs like the space station can be justified in times of fiscal restraint this is a space station in search of the mission it is lost in space mr chairman this is not a good expenditure at this time with the four hundred billion dollar deficit for us to be spending money on the space station remains a jobs program for the aerospace

industry and that is about the sum total of his contribution to america's space program i'd like to quote dead janis joplin and kris kristofferson after losing so many of its functions one thing you can say about freedom is the freedom is just another word for nothing like the movies vice president dan quayle who heads the national space he is the administration's cheerleader for space exploration you're not going to deny the american people that they say can happen we'll go out and to explore and to be pioneers that frontier last frontier perhaps the pioneer and the last frontier to be explored on permanent basis this space it is ours is america's and we will lead the effort america's space every center onto costly program proven space shuttle and the proposed space station critics say the shuttle never fully delivered on its promise to transport material into space cheaply and frequently each launch still cost more than five hundred billion dollars robert parker's professor of physics at the university of

maryland the shuttle which in all honesty is probably been one of the great technological blunders of all time not that the shuttle didn't function it flies beautifully about of course it flies very expensively and a far more extensively than anyone had imagined when they embarked on that program so it's so what hasn't had been intended as a cheap access to space has turned out to be incredibly expensive if you could and transmute lead into gold by simply carrying in orbit and bringing it back it wouldn't pay us to do it with a shot just ashes city's borders say the shuttle was essentially worth the cost that allows a man to travel safely and comfortably in the lifeless environment of space among the experts are scenes no doubt that man belongs in space the question is to what degree representative george brown chairman of the house committee on space and

technology says that for some missions humans are not essential i've got a present that we have including the landing on the moon that actually contributed to the advancement of human knowledge on any other the goal that you can quantify most people forget but the same time when the russians the robot been brought back the same rocks and give the same analysis the astronaut robert park says he's torn between manned and a manned space efforts as i watched on my television the images of the strange blue planet neptune has as are unmanned spacecraft would dash i felt as much excitement as i felt when the apollo astronauts landed on the moon you're

seeing a strange new world if we had waited for a man to go there it would have never happened but still there is the romance and fall of man being in space we're a people that has been weaned on star trek and a and that's going to be very hard to overcome vice president of oil climbs the roman carries a risk worth taking points pray to god that we don't have another tragedy like we did with challenges but look there's a risk there's always a risk safety is our top priority will be the best that we possibly can but i can't promise she'll risk free environment i wish i could masses other huge program space station freedom was first introduced in nineteen eighty four and cost estimated then of eleven billion dollars now depending on the model an options government accounting office studies but the cost to closer to forty billion final operational cost can sort or hundred and eighteen billion and congress has grown increasingly skeptical says this encounter last spring i'm on a

plane i'm just trying to find out what the costs are out in the future decide that yes the thirty billion dollars pace for the development the reserves of operations to get a permanently manned capability for the trouble you're talking about the total cost of the program which now the sense is that there'll be a program for the gao says the three hundred and eighteen billion dollars deal agreed to disagree because i can project all separately and so far into the future you're robert parr warns of the space station like the shuttle will gobble up too much money at the expense of small but important science projects it's the shuttle program all over again and as in the shuttle development program it brought our space science program to a halt for years

because its swallowed up more funds than anyone had projected and the space station is going to do exactly the same thing so if if we really embark on the space station and in fact we begin to see it last year it's going to start cutting heavily and harsh sentences and his vision of big science big programs swallowing up to the small firms know i wouldn't call this one big science but got there but certainly big technology swallowing up sign change proponents of smaller science projects advocate less costly and more frequent and manned launches over the years satellite probes have transmitted vast amounts of data about the solar system a relatively modest cost senator albert gore feels information gathering should be redirected lee is chairman of the senate subcommittee on space top priority must be mentioned the planet earth we now have more accurate top of graphical maps of venus and we do have over that's literally true and now that we face and the global

ecological crisis there is the most serious challenge human civilization has ever faced we need to take advantage of nasa is unique capacity to help us gather the information about our own planet are and what we're doing to it i think that the fundamental problem is the contrast between the programs that nasa wants to do big expensive guaranteed to run for a long time first as the ones that the public is interested in or that the congress or the white house is interested and finally available faster maybe a little more successful on a little less expensive there was a time of course when money for space was no object called sputnik we know ahead of us the nineteen fifty seven launch of sputnik made it clear the us was in a space race for the soviet control of the heavens be launching rockets and moon landings matters of patriotism and national security who is the crumbling of the

soviet union all that has changed you recently a group of former soviet space scientist testified before the senate that they're willing to share everything from heavy lift rocket to escape yeah very close to having a joint projects joint ventures and i would expect that phone out american companies are forming a joint ventures or opec nation is a former soviet union is based on the news there is a president for cooperation with our former enemies in space in nineteen seventy five american astronauts and soviet cosmonauts circled the globe in those apollo soyuz project major space efforts in the future such as a trip back to the moon and the planet mars could benefit from such cooperation soviet rockets are far more powerful than any of us now is using they could put a station in orbit in much less time piecemeal troops by the show the russians now

are offering to sell rent or least acknowledge it could save us billions and give russia so much needed hard currency i think it's a win win situation that we get space capabilities with the russians that we couldn't get our own animals abused russian aerospace complex something to do besides plotting to overthrow yeltsin are trying to migrate to libya plays vice president quayle has reservations about the limits of such cooperation you're getting into a very complicated technical area especially dealing with the technology but let's face it it is the world that needs to pioneer space and then let's ask the question who is going to be the leader in the world as we pioneer space and explore space the united states isn't and in japan isn't and in germany is in the russian united states of america is now for human space exploration and we need to maintain that promotes space exploration enter gore criticizes the white house for failing to take advantage of what he calls the other great space program under

the bush administration is missing an historic opportunity nasa wants to have engineered engineer conversations the bush administration has said no you cannot do except for two programs all the others they can't talk to him about that crazy no matter how much help the russians ultimately provide it's clear that the easy part of space exploration is over travelling to the moon in a decade with a doable technical achievement for traveling safely to mars and beyond will require massive commitment on the part of taxpayers and politicians that will truly a former nasa chief says political cooperation will be to accomplish those goals it is a national political decision to to explore space we we don't have to do it and therefore to have a long range goals you need not only on a bright nasa

administrator but you need a white house congress and public that coalesces together what those goals should be true successor at nasa daniel goldin agrees i contend that nasa will have to work in concert with the american taxpayer and not say give me money now and maybe i'll give you a program thirty years from now the war will give the vision i will say these are intentions will track what the milestones and as we meet the milestones that will say we said well we're going to do we get what we're going to do an hour and go to the next step but right now to lynn's first death is convince congress and the american public masses visions of the future in space justify the extraordinary cost of getting there again the main stories of this wednesday a california jury tonight recorded for los angeles police officers in the beating of black motorist rodney king the jurors were deadlocked on one count of excessive force charge against one police

officer and the judge declared a mistrial in the count one democratic front runner bill clinton went looking for endorsements on capitol hill following his big pennsylvania primary win over jerry brown and the commerce department reported personal income rose six tenths of a percent in march that's the newshour for tonight will do that tomorrow night i'm robert macneil the ninth well and viewers like you video

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