The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

ers ers good evening here are today's top stories in a nationwide tv address president reagan says the us must eight el salvador to stop the spread of communism in this hemisphere martin feldstein again in disagreement with the white house announced his resignation as chief economic advisor to the president

bulgaria joined moscow's olympic boycott gary hart says two primary victories yesterday mean his race with walter mondale is wide open mondale disagrees jim lehrer is on vacation today workers in washington the story gets special attention on the newshour tonight outgoing reagan economic adviser martin feldstein joins us to talk about is too turbulent years of the white house veteran political observers john sears and alan baron analyze the fallout from yesterday's democratic primary is one the home and reports on a strike force that made its target not on the toxic waste and in the aftermath of the soviet pullout from the summer olympics a sports writer tells us the impact on the competition among athletes eller the macneil lehrer newshour is funded by at and t the corporation for public broadcasting and the station and other public television stations

president reagan went on nationwide television tonight and called on the american people to back more aid to stop a soviet directed effort to spread chaos and anarchy in central america the president indirectly attacked his democratic opponents in congress talking a wishful thinking and new isolationist you said the late president kennedy would be appalled at the gullibility of some who invoked his name today appealing for public and congressional support for stepped up military aid to el salvador with reagan said that tonight they're young salvadoran soldiers in the field facing the terrorists and arose with the clips in their rifles the only ammunition they have air excerpts from the president's address the issue is our effort to promote democracy and economic wellbeing in the face of cumin and nicaraguan aggression aided and abetted by the soviet union it is definitely not about plans to send american combat in central america the defense policy of the united states is based on a simple premise

we do not star wars we will never be the aggression we maintained our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression to preserve freedom and peace we help our friends defend themselves central america as a region of great importance to the united states and it is so close san salvador is closer to houston texas in houston is the washington dc central america is america it's at our doorstep and it's become the stage for a bold attempt by the soviet union and cuba and nicaragua to install communism by force throughout the hemisphere problem i suspect is not the central america isn't important but that some people think are administration may be exaggerating the threat we face but that's true but me put that issue to rest the role of cuba's long performed for the soviet union is

now also being played by the sandinistas they have become cuba's cubans weapons suppliers and funds are shipped from the soviet bloc to cuba from q in nicaragua from nicaragua to the salvadoran guerillas these facts were confirmed last year by the house intelligence committee the sandinista regime has been waging war against its neighbors since august of nineteen seventy nine this has included military raids into on doris in costa rica which to continue to be in a democratic response that immediately follow the president's speech maryland congressman michael barnes didn't take issue with mr reagan's description of the communist threat in central america that barnes said the best way to help the countries involved is through political and diplomatic means and not through the emphasis on military force that you said has been stressed by the reagan administration what may be in fact about one point the democrats in congress are prepared to support president reagan or any president when the president's policies make sense and advance

the interests of the united states for example when president reagan proposed his caribbean based initiative for central america in the caribbean it was the democrats in congress to provide the leadership to pass it what democrats have not supported have been actions of the administration that tend to widen the war increase the tensions and americanized the conflicts in central america certainly we shouldn't and we must tell our friends and central america and elsewhere democrats stand ready to do so the foreign assistance bill that we spent all day today debating and we're still debating in the house tonight include substantial military and economic assistance for our friends in central america it supported by the vast majority of democrats as history has shown the democratic party will support the use of force when necessary to protect our nation but democrats believe that where diplomatic options exist for achieving our objectives we should use those first in the past united states military and paramilitary

involvement in central america as really backfired and worked against our interests that's why the democrats' position is that there must be reasonable limitations on direct united states military intervention one day after he disagreed openly with the white house and the cause of higher interest rates the president's chief economic advisor announced that he has submitted his resignation but martin feldstein told reporters that the timing of his departure separate why the tent had nothing to do with his latest dispute with others in the administration he said it was simply the time he had planned to go since he had never intended to be away from harvard where he had been teaching for more than two years on capitol hill the chairman of the house ways and means committee dan rostenkowski commented that feldstein was about the administration's last link the economic reality feldstein called his sometimes rocky two years in the reagan white house a unique experience he told reporters he wasn't bitter about any of his disputes and said that he would advise any other

economists too had a chance for the job to take it robin as judy said mr feldstein announced his resignation the day after another of the public policy disagreements that have marked his two years at the white house when leading banks raised their prime interest rates yesterday white house spokesman larry speaks blended on the federal reserve board's control of the money supply mr feldstein said later the fed decision to tighten credit conditions somewhat in march was not an appropriate and they said the fed is pursuing a right kinds of monetary policy for healthy economic expansion mr feldstein is with us this evening mr voss trying to court <unk> rostenkowski are you the last link of economic reality in the white house no not at all and there will be another economist to follow me in my current law first big city mayor resignation as a routine matter is it certainly is in the sense that when i came two years ago when the president invited me to take this position i told him that i could only stay for two years because our universe it as a hard and fast

rule that you have to come back at the end of two years or resign and so we i knew that i was going to go back to cambridge the summer howe wondered announced today no particular reason it's two months before him planning to leave i thought that was an appropriate amount of time and actually going out of the country now has an oecd meetings and i wanted to have that done before i left town said today that when your time's a bigger partner rather than one of the wire services that you were that you told reporters you resigning before the president knew about ms parker no that's not correct the president knew about it yesterday afternoon and i told some reporters about it this morning what i did read in the new york times was served at an official carol white house official quoted as saying mr feldstein supported the statement ordering responsibility for the rise in the prime rate on the fed correcting to what you

said about it that was not correct and who said that but i hadn't expected never actually read the full transcript of larry speaks discussion of the press yesterday i think her it's been exaggerated licenses has been no change in the administration's attitude towards appropriate federal reserve policy is true that the fed has been increasing the money supply at the very bottom of the range indeed slightly below the bottom of the range of that may have been what mostly mine but i expect it will come back toward the middle of that rain don't think there's been any attempt by the fed to tighten up explicitly and get down to lower below the bottom of the story of grey the yard canadian finance minister mark the law and commenting on the horizon us primaries yesterday in saying that it was going to adversely affect recovery and every other country the united states said that that they for the

administration to appeal to the fed to loosen its control meant the administration is beginning to be worried about the economic recovery it's not true that we've not appeal to the fed to loosen their control there's no request by the administration for the fed to change policies and perhaps a minister long thought about only half of the equation has viewed by other countries interest rates are one part and certainly right that higher interest rates make their recovery tougher and slower but at the same time the dollar has responded as it has in the past to those higher interest rates us dollar is stronger now and that makes it easier for our trading partners to increase their exports to the rest of the world won't but if the white house the president's official spokesman says that it is fed tight control of the money supply which is driving interest rates up recently a corollary of that saying they wish they were somewhat control and the

owners richard lugar well i will only issue interest rates are low no quarrel about that we also think though it's very important that the fed maintain and a policy that's not gonna let inflation get out of control and yet that provides enough money for solid economic growth over the year that may as i've been saying for weeks that kind of a policy may bring with a somewhat higher short term interest rates and that's an unfortunate consequence of the pressures of predicament but it's not a reason for the fed to change its policy well since it's unusual for the white house to rebukes the fed quite so directly on how you read that was not just a political statement by the wagons i don't know i really think you have to ask blair speaks that question but i don't regard it as any request or any attempt to interfere with the fed's basic policy i think he said and that in a short statement is that i read we want the fed to pursue the kind of policies that will produce five percent real growth in five percent inflation and we leave it to them to work out

techniques and dealing with that you said it i was quoted as saying yesterday that you expect interest rates to rise significantly what i what i think i am i know what i said he gave a talk to her yesterday and in the prepared text i said that the financial markets relation between short rates low rates and the futures options for interest rates well that was pointing to higher interest rates about a percent have been treasury bill rates over the next year to eighteen months what do you expect to happen to this and is that what you expect to happen you're losing the market expects editor richard that happen i don't think you can be at all sure that i wouldn't be surprised if we saw that kind of increase i think that given the pressures from both private and public borrowing that that's not just an unrealistic assumption about what can happen to short write what i hope is that loan rates will come down or will not rise in line was sure great once this budget deficit reduction package

that we propose to congress gets past which i think is going to happen soon and the financial markets don't understand the significance of that package phillips wrote an influential wall street official and wall street bankers said yesterday on this program that anything that congress and the white house might do in a way a deficit reduction measure would be merely cosmetic you agree with him well no i don't at all and surprising i would say that the downpayment package that i think will come out of congress will be about a hundred and fifty billion dollars it will start small but after three years in the nineteen eighty seven fiscal year amounts to about seventy five billion dollars that's about a third now the job that needs to be done so i caught a good solid downpayment and are cosmetic in iraq are you do you feel after two years of often baffling as one understands a behind the scenes to get the dangers inherent in the federal deficit recognized within the administration you'd feel vindicated you feel you

you've won an important battle well i think they are recognized i think that there's no doubt a lot of people in the administration but now the president tended to try to push the deficit away and forget about it all but i think now it's quite clear that everyone in the administration prepared to recognize that we can grow out of this deficit that is a serious problem and that we need to tackle that guy a package like the downpayment package that the president proposed the sheer and then to fall again after the election with an even more substantial reduction in future budget deficit mr feinstein thank you thanks for inviting me the cloak of boredom that has surrounded the democratic race for president lately dropped away somewhat today gary hart surprising win over walter mondale in the ohio primary yesterday plus another narrow victory in indiana was just enough to breathe new life back into the hard campaign which hundreds were on the

verge of writing off after a string of major losses to mondale mondale did when two of the four contests held yesterday in north carolina and maryland by impressive margins but he lost both indiana and ohio to heart begin by just two percentage points in each state jesse jackson came in third at all yesterday's primaries except maryland where he came in second i had a part where these results and all the others that have been tallied until now we have the three candidates in terms of delegates looks like this month they'll still maintains a formidable we he was nineteen hundred and sixty seven needed to nominate he has fifteen hundred and eighteen delegates art is a distant second with eight hundred and eighty six back further still jesse jackson with three hundred and three three hundred and thirty nine delegates are in the uncommitted column even so yesterday's results were obviously goes to senator hart talked about the significance of the results of the news conference today response of voters very gratifying response in both ohio and indiana

last night indicate several things that said last night i think first and foremost that indicates and a sense that this race in this debate is over is so it's not acceptable to those voters i think the same is true of the voters of nebraska warden california new jersey and the remaining states i think there's a very strong sense in this forty eight that in many states in many districts which are swing districts that i would run more strongly those with the mondale that is a combination of a actual data which which on a national opinion polls suggest that also individual polls taken in those districts and states but also kind of a common sense a practical judgment that in a contest with mr reagan i wouldn't have to answer for the policies of the past the last administration i wouldn't be on the defensive responding to charges about high interest rates or inflation or something else i can take the case of mr reagan i can put him on the defensive as i intend to do and that i represent a fresh start for this party

the candidate in the lead walter mondale took the day off today as the results were coming in last night mondale told reporters that he had hoped to do better in the ohio and indiana races he called his wins in north carolina and maryland a step forward in the race for the nomination we we just picked up where two hundred and one delegates this evening a half we had two very solid winds hour three weeks ago people and expect this to win north carolina we did and did well i didn't buy a large march we carried in maryland overwhelmingly now although he lost ohio and indiana was almost then the unveiling of the lifetime of elements of there and i think we're moving down the road i will continue to make my case for change with the reagan administration will continue to draw contrasts with that much heart and jackson were indicated and i will continue on as a half the former vice president did say there was a good chance the democratic contest will continue until this summer's convention in san

francisco one man in charge of making sure there is more than a good chance to mondale prediction of the convention battle will come true is senator hart's campaign manager oliver hancock is typical was witnesses say thank you for being with us the first of all this is the first primary that was the heart is what kind since having marks the twenty seventh why the turnaround well there are several reasons for the turnaround we had an opportunity over a longer period of time to get here is a message across to the voters of ohio and indiana specifically his economic message and he was able to draw more clearly than he has before the distinctions between himself and mr mondello in terms of economic policy for this country now why is that last illinois new york pennsylvania texas what's the difference well there are a lot of things that are different about ohio and indiana is well it's a rather staid her sister stayed in and there are a lot of the similar demographic characteristics of those two states but first of all intent and maybe fundamentally or states are very independent voters have a historical political

tradition of being independent and that means being independent of their political leadership as well as their labor leadership and as you know we were balking as considerable odds in ohio and it was able to get his message across and people even people who have suffered the most economic distress over the last several years came out very heavily for various you know that's all well and good but as we now must mondale is just about four hundred and fifty delegates away from syncing the nomination ehrhart has more than one hundred delegates to go to win the nomination well i don't want to quibble with the numbers that you showed earlier in the program today they're not quite as bad as they appear on i think and in your projections of the fact the matter is that that this year unlike four years there is much more volatility and the delegate accumulation than there has been before there are more unpleasant uncommitted delegates them that have been in the prior three or four conventions there is no robot rules so that there's no telling a

delegate who must vote for the candidate for your shoes elected on the first ballot but there are only three hundred and some i think i'm committed one <unk> mondale has i think what over eleven twelve ct forty nine delegates walked out he has a dozen or fourteen hundred dollars lot those are projections they're only out maybe eight or nine hundred of those delegates who are actually identified what what services have done has rejected reasons why they project it out of the caucuses the number of delegates that they anticipate that mr mondale and senator hart will get along with reverend jackson but an example of how these changes is last weekend for example when we pick up while delegates through the caucus conventions as those caucuses continue through the second and third years before the actual delegates are selected at least a conventional one question about the kind of book that you'd been getting twenty five percent of the voters i think voted for mr harden twenty in it in ohio said that in the fall they would vote for mr reagan these bees are independents

how do you expect to use these voters out to make your case the thinnest margin in the nomination up i think that those who mentioned that they would vote for mr reagan yesterday will have an opportunity once gary was nominated to hear what he has to say and contrasted with the reagan administration and we feel that because of a very significant differences between the two and because barry so stan goes so so clearly stands for the future and president reagan stands for the past we believe that this country is prepared to challenge the future take all of it get it under control rather than refer to failed policies of the past which we feel at the hallmark of this administration doing california i think who in california and i thank you for the northern securities around here the reverend jesse jackson was in washington castigating the news media for failing to cover a minority americans adequately or to hire them he told the american society of newspaper editors that because he is black he's covered differently

than other presidential candidates now he plays together a moral challenge and accepted my presence in this race haven't heard my views of the problems of america would you allow a fan of reflect both you as an american political process and the media i believe i've earned the right to the right i mean it's all been betrayed minorities as less intelligent less hardworking less concerned about all americans or less universal less patriotic or more violent than we all have all been rejected as less dedicated to the mission of winning the democratic nomination for president and i have been my days of non black support has been cost a liberal or that haunts non white base but you'd never know what no one knows for certain the one hour the democratic convention all that is as white and

speculations although we really know the use of austin easy out of the way and in nineteen eighty four now a brief look at what yesterday's voting showed about the candidates appeal to different voting groups in all four states monday about the highest vote from union households in north carolina and maryland because of the heavy blow support jackson came in second and in the union vote and heart a distant third in the two states hard one ohio and indiana both more industrialized heavily unionized aids heart scored much better with union voters and came closer to mondale and all four states with primaries yesterday heartbeat mondale for the votes of people who call themselves independents not democrats fifty three to twenty seven percent in ohio fifty to thirty one in indiana forty the thirty three in north carolina thirty seven to thirty two percent in maryland the same cbs new york times polling showed hard outgoing mondale among younger voters aged eighteen to forty four in all states except

maryland won mondale won the vote of those forty five and older mondello also had the edge among voters in households with someone unemployed in the past year except in ohio where hard to go beyond the numbers now to examine where last night's results leave the presidential contest we turned to political analyst john sears who has former reagan campaign manager and alan behr and democratic analyst and editor of the political newsletter the bear report response to sears gary hart is back in the race but can he take the nomination with walter mondale well at this point it has to be done within hours it could happen but it happens as you know sound very well it's never over until it's over is illegal to swans and it's not overreact i think this is kind of terrible experience for mr banville he had a whole lot of data being have this nomination behind him into serious business of unite his party and getting everybody used to the idea that his nominee this fall now at the very least says he's got another month

and they're probably two months before it can get to those shorts people stop asking mr hart what he's getting out of the race because it's obviously no reason why shouldn't the moment mr harken sweep through here decisively win in this last round of primaries it will seriously interviews the subject of whether mr mondale can weather that might upset the convention ellen barry what you think the odds are that gary hart can take away from london well i think the odds are pretty long very hard to take away from london life and mama will probably be the nominee i suppose there's a slight chance he will i think the what the syndicated in a state like ohio and indiana as an overall with some forty percent i guess of the votes have gone all the primaries three or four percent more than heart after spending twenty million dollars and with all the endorsements and everything else is that mondale is still not getting a convincing message out to people and i think that and mondale's problems in ohio and indiana were not a

reflection of gary hart's a brilliant campaign in the last few weeks they were i think they were flexing of mondale's continuing weakness and continuing inability to make his own case and it i think that's the problem but mondale has won big states is one texas has one illinois new york pennsylvania and you're telling me that is that we can play it well i have to say this i agree with allen said what we've seen here are starting in new hampshire where most of mondale's to have an overpowering lead coming into new hampshire event in illinois when mr hart seem to be the front runner now hear again after texas coming in ohio and indiana when mr mandela was one step away from winning the nomination you is it every time now each of these people seems to be about the only other decisive blow it is not able to convince enough voters that is entitled the nomination but they do not rise up and strike a vacuum that happened for the second time it is insane that the voters that feel like oh i think they're well i think it says that the electorate isn't too enthused about me the one on public opinion polls when you find whole split fifty

fifty it's often a case of not people sharply divided the people actually i'm very much and i don't think that the people are strongly motivated by either one i think that's happened because mr mondale has been running for the president has been running for the nomination the day before the primary leaker when elliott tells the iowa said that mondale victories and vindicated labor's political strategy this year it would seem to me the latest political ad steady will be vindicated are not in november and that mondale hasn't been focusing on giving people a reasonable run for president he simply play tactical politics and that's what parts of the play about a month or two ago to fight within what business on monday and they do do and what congress and what is mr hart need it was either one of them need to be deported well in terms of violence before them right now jurors in my mind becomes a very important states when i say that because i think mr hart does have an edge coming into california the surprise nothing is not when the california primary was at the polls before yesterday i think it's

climate seminary in the country that he's got some natural advantages and in what way well in the fact that he is a westerner that i think the democratic voters all the vote in california is less controlled and there for this special interest that mondale as behind in motion not workers much in california as they have in some other places how to test your heart that when the new jersey i think that would seriously remember the question about whether the party and at least to take a stronghold once again the foreman hadn't nominated mr monday when he'd be another contest the convention so then we have a contest to fight all at the convention floor and what is the flavor the chances of the democrats in november no matter who i don't think that i don't think that you can have a fight at the convention you didn't always nineteen sixty three beta one between kennedy and johnson but it isn't so much the issue the issue is in new jersey or california texas are our main where we're talking about the issue as people

are waiting for one of these candidates to say here is the kind of presidency i envision i'm not running for president texas i'm not ever present ohio i'm not running for president of the american federation of teachers i'm not running for president of hispanic americans are learning prefer the united states use what i want to do here is why rao reagan's program isn't turning things around in his mind isn't until one of them doesn't they can continue fighting near this kind of a sandbox fighting each one that grabbing a it's full of sand and throwing it to the other and if that continues to fill it the convention and then the people i think will make a judgment that perhaps that that has either one of the baby boy has been taking shots at mr reagan i mean this in mondale's been criticizing this rating on foreign policy economic policy hardy's address concern about alternatives to write in and not simply attacking now rated obviously ronald reagan attacked jimmy carter but he simply didn't just attacked jim carter he had a program he had an idea and he said here something let's drop

people weren't sure it works a cartoon for would know it and unless the democrats and provide a cohesive ideas that works for all people that did not have an alternative parade well i do i do and i mean you know the pivotal moment that each of them had the opportunity to seriously address this question as they you know were ahead chemistry mondale coming into their actions are part of illinois an amalgam <unk> mondale since his manhattan they have failed to go beyond what they have done before you know we're behind you can run negatively and everybody puts up with that because they know that your job when you're ahead you have to address the question of what kind of president even if you don't you open the avenue for your opponent and that's what's happening just days spend a second on jesse jackson where disney factory known as what's his role from this point forward well as the race becomes closer and closer as it is today closer than he was on monday his influence and whatever you have to do with only increases you have to bargain with him my resume as a

bargaining power goes up if you have to deal with a man that's a more difficult task because not only half true in the process win the nomination but you've got to show that even a tumultuous support i think we we can i think it sounds trite but i think we can all were to emphasize the degree to which jesse jackson controls not only his delegates but his people i don't think that for example as any flexibility in terms of the state supporting our regular staying out in november he's representing his people are but you know it isn't he isn't mayor daley he doesn't have is voters that he can deliver it pretty sophisticated voters the choice which in george wallace and walter mondale he would be getting his vote they go well what they think is best like you know america john sears once again for joining us robin there was another analysis of the democratic race today by a highly experienced observer of american politics former

president richard nixon speaking to the american society of newspaper editors mr nixon said he thought walter mondale would be nominated on the first ballot and would choose gary hart or texas senator lloyd bentsen as running mate he summed up where you thought the toughest fights would be in the bigger states in the fall campaign ohio and pennsylvania are states for mondale would have a pretty good chance because of double digit unemployment it is a major battleground will be illinois your texas taxes you would assume normally would be right a texas you find there the black vote will be ninety five percent were for mondale also mondale i noted with some trepidation was enormously popular among hispanics the black vote the hispanic vote and very disenchanted former board in texas makes it very very close to coming out of them i think it's going to be a close election and many the oculus project of the campaign committee on americans i believe

i believe that reagan when i think you win because i think is the better candidate sort of odd that i know what the bass can do for a candidate like that in utah there will be debates and i would predict at this time mondale will probably win the debates but wait and when the audience and so i did it way down victor in november the coastal i won best election but i would that the main house and us economy goes down i would be best outhouse on monday is and and

in quebec city a man with a gun was under siege by police this evening on suspicion that he was the sniper who inflicted minor wounds and two people on the street this morning only yesterday three people were killed and fourteen were wounded in the sensitive when a canadian soldier invaded the provincial parliament building with a submachine gun the day the suspected sniper was tracked one thousand an old section of the city near the sidelines forever the other members of the family left the house and the police told underweight and negotiate there's a report from john kennedy of the cbc in a standoff since before eight this morning police barricaded several blocks and specialist movie and houses were evacuated nobody could get near at one point police brought members of the man's family and he told them to leave the police believe the man has several weapons

concerned enough that only this robot clothes police are using it to negotiate it's no coincidence that this is happening just twenty four hours after the national assembly seats today's gunman is a longtime psychiatric patients are told negotiators he was extremely disturbed by what happened yesterday colonel moammar gadhafi the libyan leader charged today that the united states britain and sit down during the man who tried to kill him yesterday in an attack on the barracks where he lives in tripoli but the french newspaper le monde quoted gadhafi is saying it was the muslim brotherhood an extreme fundamentalist organization that carried out the attack it was the muslim brotherhood that assassinated president anwar sadat in egypt your organization is banned in libya because it has criticized ghadafi for maintaining close relations with the soviet union attempting to modernize life in libya and for granting rights to women

the dow chemical company today denied a news story that it was suing the federal government to recoup its share of the one hundred eighty million dollar agent are in settlement that was announced monday on that day dow and six other manufacturers of agent orange agreed to the out of court settlement with vietnam veterans who believe that they've been harmed by exposure to the herbicide it's afternoon now issued a statement saying that it was filing know sightseeing but he didn't rule out the possibility of filing one against the government later dow has argued along with the other companies involved but they were only following government specifications when they made agent orange for uses a defoliant in vietnam however the government was not a part of the settlement that was announced monday american industry has generated more than seventy billion gallons of toxic waste last year in one of every seven of those industries disposed of the waste illegally that's the assessment of the environmental protection

agency says that the illegal dumping of toxic waste has become an almost everyday occurrence as a result neighborhoods have been evacuated drinking wells have been shut down and sewer workers have been killed by poisonous gasses army home and found one city that has taken an aggressive role in dealing with its toxic waste dumping problem is big i am in los angeles salt lake city employees to be on the job but this isn't an ordinary city sanitation these men are working for the los angeles hazardous waste he's been tracking this poisonous solvents chemicals they believe are being dumped illegally by a nearby company the strike forces led by barry grove one of the goals of the strike forces to send the clinton's message tower which is that we want the risks of illegally disposing to be too high they were doing and no we've

really will do that by setting people in jail and according to grow and most it is illegal doctors aren't worth buying in los angeles they're considered criminals in its first two years the strike force was sent or company executives to jail they can consciously understand that the risk is a heavy one thing that we probably any at least in a way because we've sent a number of individuals to jail at the top level at nothing decided to get tough with polluters one toxic dumping seem to be getting out of hand a series of incidents affected residential communities for example in nineteen eighty eight the drinking wells in the country had to be shut down because of chemical contamination and in another incident of this large residential east los angeles one weighs all allegedly buried cancer causing chemicals these acts and market in my opinion are crimes against the community a larger mean they are

infringements or basic rights are drinking water our air our land so given an arson already the other crimes which the researchers penalties as the strike force actively seeks evidence of illegal don't want to pursue a pumping station where they're looking for an noxious gases the strike poses fbi style investigations the nickname after it go out looking to washington as lionel richie <unk> factors facing the residential areas paid leading into the river is an industrial area he sees things it's curious a lot of them are coming from companies that stored elsewhere along the fence and belgian only lately as the strike force doesn't always

find polluters by snooping around they also relied on informants like red camera work maintenance of precision specialty metals cameron gave the strike forced the inside information they needed to go after this polluter the copycat reinstall a fairly sophisticated system that was able to divert waste hundreds and hundreds of feet to county sewer and dispose of the town that's where it was obvious that it was illegal they just totally not tell anybody the company was dumping an estimated two thousand gallons of acids and chrome into the stores every day wasted officials feared could eventually make its way into the water system of southern california state assembly when cameron took off the strike force they went to were monitoring the nearby store then using a video camera to document the illegal vote i mean the strike forces raided the plant and videotape and

retrieve evidence of chemical dump and the company's vice president is now serving a four month jail sentence he declined to be interviewed but other business persons have been openly critical of the strike force one of those is david pierce who was sentenced to ninety days in prison and a one hundred thousand dollar fine for dumping calmed down the sewers we were operating with in these years of loss and it is possible to have over and for that perhaps the fine is justified however the fact that what they had never site is for anything type and all of a sudden criminal prosecution that is not right it's not fair it's not just other business persons were concerned about the strike forces tactics include these numbers of the little menacing associate you're concerned

about is whether or not the strike forces now applying criminal violations to companies who made in fact be doing everything they possibly can with respect to baritone with your expense to comply with the regulations and they are being subject to criminal violations for minor infractions do we feel we are criminals and i have you have no we do not believe we have a criminal the head of the metal finishing association of southern california is how old coombs he believes that companies should first be given a warning before legal action is taken if a company can't be a will say is known to be in violation we're calling this repeal of the first activities should be the loan industry for blunt talk to those people and to voluntarily make changes that's not what the system is geared to do i mean when somebody should somebody or like the building on fire we don't say sorry we like to see next time that you don't do it that way

the city hopes its new get tough policy will make businesses think twice before dumping hazardous waste illegally and have the attitude of businessman david pierce's any indication the plan is working and because of what has happened to me have become acutely aware of environmental laws i have a prolific that the publication the cases of today and law that had been passed and we watched them like a heart because i never want to have to go through again will we had to go through before we are talking squarely with these companies now and you know were out there and they're much less likely today to discourage illegal activity in the city than they were before it's one strike force and to me that is an indication of success bulgaria today joined the soviet union in saying it would not come to the los angeles olympic games president reagan said he was gravely disappointed by moscow's decision saying it was unfair to the young people would've been waiting so long to participate in those games the president of the international olympic committee juan antonio samaranch will go to moscow on friday

to try to persuade soviet officials to change their decision in washington the state department made clear the united states was not planning to offer any concessions to lure the soviets back department spokesman john hughes said we told the soviets privately that every possible security precautions being taken i think we feel we've done all we could possibly be done another state department official said were not going to beg them there were reports in europe that the soviet union and its allies might organize a rival red olympics somewhere in eastern europe but this was not confirmed one independent minded communist nation romania said it would come to los angeles what was clear in the comments in sport circles everywhere today was that the absence of the communist nation's would have an important impact on the quality of their athletic competition at the games charlayne hunter gault has more on that john and the soviets and then in a word big powerhouses they first competed in the nineteen fifty two summer olympics so in helsinki because

of the american boycott in nineteen eighty the last olympic competition between american and soviet teams was in nineteen seventy six so in montreal and facts and these were the results the soviet fled all countries with one hundred twenty five medals overall followed by the united states with ninety four east germany with ninety west germany with thirty nine and romania with twenty seven of the next five finishes four countries were soviet allies in the nineteen eighty moscow games which were boycotted by the united states japan and west germany the results were predictable the soviets and their satellites rolled up the most impressive totals in fact the total for the soviet bloc countries four hundred and fifty one was more than twice the total medals run by the refs so the world sports experts have said that the soviets and their friends have strong national teams again this year and that they're pull out will have a major impact on the quality of the games here is

a report by john hail of this means the decision to boycott of angelica could mean that the europeans love like dominic i think you have a model for them it became a pop culture go with an audience favorite about four hundred and eight hundred meters and now likely that the prague government will follow the example one of the main thirty eight hopefuls are bold without a paper thin and co world record holder at the super heavyweight class and without major sporting think about it and then an additional in fact all over the world with her gift to find world championship last year when i jump out the moderate ago the equal of the world that's a good looking for a good deal of a clinical probability event live interactive leave the door open for with german and american life in the poll that they give me the breath of gold from vladimir putin called for the winner of the moscow games that it's women been in fine form in nineteen eighty looking to thicken than fifteen hundred

meter freestyle records fb ad the german point of the game though the nod and felt with that never been mapplethorpe that happen to athletes were expected to do particularly well they're unbeaten women's relay team go he had to if there's further the impact is peter carey assistant managing editor of sports illustrated magazine where he heads up the magazine's olympic coverage know how much do you think the absence of the soviets' will affect the quality of the gains will you what you just saw him a tape mr allen trolling for the free on the montreal games which really last time anything approaching a full four olympics was held they're a hundred ninety eight gold medals awarded and of those hundred and ninety eight of those eight hundred nineteen hundred mating went to eastern bloc countries now we have reasonably that the remains be coming and they will included they recorded nineteen eighteen but i think its results but that none of the

rest of that total pierced so the world dennis olympics in a broad sense the tremendous depth of talent that the eastern europeans and the cubans who for a recent conversation we should call eastern europeans would bring to gamble to mention that way games also be diminished inside really absence of a number very big stars alec off was just mention that tape was sort of being described as the next mark spitz if you will he's not only in having this one and he's now a powerful freestyle or who would win several miles was a very glamorous looking guy with very attractive at the korean war civil setting was very well received us only set a world record in the olympic pool know when you think of the games will be hurt the most and which events would be we'll see the effects most likely this but if you look upon arrival point american audience the gale big games we heard mostly in the most no swing women's track where ten of the fourteen war records or which given what twelve fourteen will record the hallways to

europeans your two world records in olympic events would be one of the milder words nowhere wanted for the united states a hundred meters and woman and will act as a fan who's the javelin chant in swimming in nineteen eighty two world championships east german women one ten of the fourteen events you can see the two glamour sports in the woman's side of them to glamour sports middle of its swimming and track will be diminished on beyond repair what about gymnastics i heard that this was a day that will be i think it's certainly a list of of the most prominent sports be damaged the war and world champions in both the men's and women's division will or soviets there's this one place with a romanian decision to come to the games is good news the la organizers this the remains are also quite good at what the russians are extremely strong some chinese americans surprise nina may do well but their models and be tarnished by the absence of the year if they were mostly college by the

absence of the soviet spy attention to what that is curable planning has ahead as cuba i hadn't seen at an answer that plants this as we rolled out from anything we can understand that the two key countries beyond soviet union which are east germany and cuba or going on a boycott caught and cuba hasn't been boxing champion you can but it is named by those led by name and see if the man in fairfield stevenson whose won several gold medals before he's the heavyweight boxer and he's analyzed glamorous figures we mix a mix a missing from the game's excuse me beyond that both the soviets and the cubans have very good overall teams and they it's a figure of a bigger gap between the i can send those to eastern powered very very much again diminishing the kind of viewer spectator interest in the games because he's been through what that basketball uk basketball the russian women were favored very strongly they have a seven foot two two hundred nathan center of the united states had some hopes are against isis whimsical it will

be a tarnished you recommend heavy favorites with i think the american audience loves to see him onstage when the soviet union team sports or what happens in iran picture with italians are probably the second strongest team not to not the soviets but the competition can be severely diminished because the third hand has been a major boycott of these games what kind of impact do you think that's going to have on the whole idea of olympic the competition especially the motivation of the young people isn't going to have some kind of them i don't know and what a winning the family want to understand an effect beyond all the economic issues in weather anybody can scrape together where it'll put the olympics on the way we run on fortune and unaccustomed and they i think are the athletes themselves then they start focusing more heavily on the world championships in their sports they just can't afford psychologically to keep depending on this every four year event and many of them came the hole was a little compare

life in one olympics and know that i can sing though in your resume about your own coverage it has this plan affect your plants love sick until someone we would we were planning our coverage on the olympics based on the notion that this was the biggest warning then probably would ever answer when the biggest one ever held the united states and would probably retain that title for quite sometime it's still a very big sporting event but it's not nearly as big as it was and whether it's bigger than the super bowl world series and that's sort of that that sort of thing is now more open to question were before was the undisputed champion now it's a maybe has two challengers and where do you think the russians maintained their mind no accurate thanks for being with us alas look now at today's top stories president reagan made a televised speech to the nation he urged support of the administration policy in central america the president accused the sandinista government in nicaragua of

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