The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

the that evening leading the news this thursday forecasters nino drought relief for at least a week key figures in the pentagon bribery investigation of offered to cooperate with prosecutors the white house predicted faster economic growth and forecast for nineteen eighty eight we'll have details in a news i'm judy woodruff is in washington tonight after the news summary we devote most of tonight's newshour to the drought how bad it is and what can be done about it first the documentary look at the problems facing won iowa corn farmer then the weather forecaster agriculture secretary laying iowa governor branstad and senator patrick leahy join us along with a nasa official who sees evidence of a dangerous global warming trend charlayne hunter gault has a newsmaker interview with australia's prime minister robert hawk and finally essayist and my wallet on what

glass nosed has done for soviet art you know news is the combining everything people like about telephones with everything they make everything about information at mt funding is also provided by the station and other public television stations and the corporation for public broadcasting despite a cold front headed south from the great lakes area only scattered showers are predicted to bring any relief from the drought that is much of the nation and its grip iowa agriculture affairs officials say that there is no rain in the next ten days half the state's corn crop would be lost the national weather service predicted that the hot dry weather could last at least that long a forecast of the end of june call for below normal rainfall from the central plains to illinois and indiana also today crews worked around the clock on the shrunken mississippi river trying to

free hundreds of backed up barges meanwhile nine midwest governors met with us agriculture secretary richard lang in chicago to discuss the situation in illinois governor james thompson said solution must first be found he used to barge jam on the mississippi the nation's commerce must be kept moving into is not moving on the mississippi river the mississippi river is for all practical purposes shot the only hope of opening the mississippi and the other rivers for the corps of engineers titian the united states supreme court to allow temporary diversion of lake michigan in chicago in a controlled fashion to move the barges down our waterways as we seek ways to help our drought stricken farmers we must also remember those farmers who were attempting to get product to market governor thompson said that his state soybean and corn crops would be lost without substantial rainfall in the next thirty days governor

george center of south dakota said that seventy percent of his state's grain crop is already lost robin justice department official said today that several key figures in the pentagon bribery investigation have offered to cooperate with prosecutors in return for leniency recording as reuters news agency said one them is believed to be james games the deputy assistant secretary of the navy he was among the officials reassigned away from contract work this week another is victor cohen the director of tactical weapons acquisitions for the air force president reagan was asked again today about the investigation during a partisan but what else to contain examination investigation but we know they are the ones that

i mentioned have a flute with you the government today projected that the nation's economy will grow at a faster clip than they had predicted earlier forecast is that the gross national product will increase by three and a half percent barrel sprinkle the president's economic advisor also predicted that inflation would hold steady this year at four point three percent but he was disputed by private economists who said the drought and other factors are sure to push prices higher reagan administration plans to speed up procedures for filling civil service jobs by eliminating written examinations constance porter director of the office of personnel management said the present testing procedures were so slow and cumbersome but many of the best candidates went elsewhere in the future the civil service would rely on college grades

or job related skills ms lerner said in a speech that over the next decade the pool of young workers available or shrink to the law since the nineteen thirties and government had to change its criteria to compete with private industry in croft and kentucky thousands of residents were evacuated from their homes after a chemical leaked from the train derailed phosphorus leaked from one car burst into flames can spread a toxic cloud across five counties fire burned itself out shortly after dawn today the cloud began to dissipate officials of dc's x transportation corporation which owns the train says the crew did not see a ten mile an hour speed limit sign was traveling at thirty five miles an hour the us had strong words again today for haiti's new government came as the military regime has reportedly arresting a growing number of members of the deposed civilian government and their families the associated press and former president leslie manigat who was deposed by

the military on sunday said twenty of his supporters have been jailed united states' protest of the arrests at least two of them believe to involve us citizens we have delivered a strong protest to the regime concerning the detention of these former members of the government we believe that there really is no adequate response to that protest other than the immediate release of those arrested so we continue to press the regime on the particular issue concerning whether or not the americans we understand that several of the rest of my gun supporters may be dual nationals but we all have privacy act waivers to discuss those cases in public but the embassy will continue to look into this canada day expelled two more soviet diplomat says the spider out between the two countries escalated earlier this week canada's said it had uncovered a major soviet spy ring and expel seventeen diplomats moscow retaliated by asking three canadian diplomats to leave canada today called that and justified and ordered the soviet military attach in ottawa and a

former embassy secretary to leave the country in the soviet union the problem news agency reported today that soldiers have been sent to several cities where ethnic violence has continued since february the territorial dispute centers on a region inside the southern soviet republic of azerbaijan armenians consider the region part of their homeland and want to return robert seddon general strike along with daily meetings and demonstrations is continuing reports said the situation has become more tense in the past few days but john paul the second got off a plane in vienna today and stepped back into the controversy over austrian president kurt waldheim's world war two activities it was the pontiff second visit to austria in five years and he was met on his arrival by world organizations such as the world jewish congress have criticized the visit because of all times alleged complicity in nazi atrocities during or john paul meet tomorrow with representatives of austria's twelve thousand member jewish community and pay a visit to the site of the march thousand concentration

camp as many as three hundred people are feared dead in northern turkey today after huge mudslide crashed in the house's stories of school and a restaurant filled with people stranded by a previous mudslide the tragedy occurred in a mountainous region near the black sea three hundred and fifty miles northeast of anchorage rain continued in the area today rescue workers have to move slowly for fear of more slides that wraps up our news summary just ahead for the drought and the greenhouse effect australia's prime minister and so the art first tonight we focus on the drought which has grown steadily more serious all week the number of states with crops affected by the scorching weather has grown from nineteen to twenty seven and the national weather service today said there's no relief in sight in a moment we'll talk to a weather forecaster and a scientist who studies warming patterns

then we examine what government can do with the secretary of agriculture a key senator and governor first this report from heart hackett at waga tv in madison wisconsin who visited a farmer across the state border in iowa a pretty secure walgreen qaeda regard i will begin this week by ripping off what was left of forty acres of grain sorghum new plan to vermont to go green sorghum was a short grassy plant which can be harvested to provide feed grain the future for the fed statement annandale i lost more sharing intelligence process that there were more ancient mother's day here this is the first year here is planted grain sorghum which is also known as milo instead of corn he did so because my was more drought resistant than corn but not this drought resistant this year there wasn't enough moisture in the soil to allow the plant's to germinate all that came up was a

field of weeds it's a scandal and a climactic think the last three weeks have been pretty stressful more fluent now i'm going forward oh candy bar last quarter percentage mr cropp and the others know that it's almost like it's over with for me and i'm still anticipating try to get some gray now but i know that the big the big crop is gone it's been clear which way it was going more miles because there was half an inch of rain for the first in the march over last weekend he decided to take a second shot by reporting that they're going to find ways in my city again our emr so i don't have that expands again and pour more fuel into a ball

just really early no question within one the drought of nineteen eighty eight is not that it's dry that something that farmers are used to control the problem is that he became dry so early in the growing season well cameron his sons and clinton showed me yet another field with the drought is taking the top fifth of the golf ball will thoughts my next three years later on next these fields were supposed to provide a crop of oats and alfalfa the alfalfa would've winter over to provide another crop of hate next spring and unlike the field of milo there's no possibility of replanting a very inspiring i don't even know for them urge that was so dry and dusty in the end of the so much heat and as you see it's his file emerged that they don't have very healthy

and a fearsome here that are very stern will really small plants in fact lose if this scene that for me that in fact even be felt much longer than the miles that the skin and the skin and made me forcefully liquidate my countered by lucius reagan years eighty year old father and likens this year's crop of the ones he went through in the nineteen thirties he wonders if this isn't the beginning of a major shift in weather patterns run into a dry periods each year but no laws barred the last years of their excessive a weapon in a recently built with seventy dollars are you going to have more dry period i think it's a lot rarer and devastating greg kinnear and his wife kathy are

survivors of the foreign debt crisis they avoided the big debts that took so many out of agriculture but as the fields have turned brown vacancy the dominos started to fall the gears cattle normally would be fed by grazing them on these pastures this time of year but the pastors are drying out the cattle are now being fed on hay that normally would be no winter if the alfalfa doesn't come up you will be able to restart the one in the pool scene of the shortage of the rise in some farmers are selling already would cater doesn't want to i've been artificially raise cattle and then i think we're going to try to hang on to possibly come fall they'll reward iranian descent ought to make the decision with cattle prices just dropped tremendously these cows while four hundred dollars a head last week in her dishes go wait to see games to athens this week are your supposed to the

pressures lot of people selling thousand don't have the form the one of the day for solar and a solar thousand and simplifying out peter wonders of selling out now and setting it out will actually solve any problem now all of you would have grain storage this trial might drive up the price of the number of central crowds of the loose and just recently saying our income is down but we are there saying that modernism about to resurface there are few signs of hope the water

tank for the cattle is not re filling the daytime meant the number three the planet that feeds the tank is down over six feet with the pastures surrounding its so dry it will take many heavy rains to bring the level backup the day gregg cater replanted was the first day of summer that's good and bet he says usually there's a wet storm around the time of the summer solstice footage usually followed by the driest part of the year for a look at why this drug is persisting and what the weather has in store we turned to gale martel an agricultural meteorologist in milwaukee for sure some lemon happen a national brokerage firm she joins us from chicago where she's been attending the governors' conference on the drought

ms martell is there any change in sight now i'm afraid there really isn't a fundamental change in the weather pattern and we have a map here and we saw last week how this high pressure area is stalled has reduced all over the center of the country can you explain what is still keeping installed there how well it isn't at all isn't exactly one position at the moment it's moved a little bit closer to the plane's allowing some cooler air to filter down from canada across the great lakes into the midwest the day still is definitely in the planes and the rocky mountain area and the indication is that it will expand back into the midwest as we move into next week bringing some heat and dryness back into the area so when the problem is it's been somewhere in the north american continent for months now and it is the reason for the drought i exactly why it's tall bear i think it is a very difficult question to

answer i it's the reason that we get droughts it every now and then in north america it's the reason that we saw the drought conditions in the fifties and in the thirties what would cause you to move that hasn't happen well i think too were changed this pattern that you might have a couple of options a couple of things that would have to happen about one thing is that we're looking at is the possibility of injecting this very stable warm dry air mass with a lot of moist air tropical air such as a hurricane moving up out of the gulf of mexico and into the midsection of the country that would tend to de stabilize it and weaken it it's just the beginning of a hurricane season right and even if there were such development there'd be no guarantee that it would move into the gulf and the nation's midsection and rather than up the atlantic coast for example other second thing as if we had a strong enough weather system coming along to dislodged that large high pressure and so far we've seen only feeble are very weakly defined weather systems and it

seems that these weather systems come off the pacific move into the pacific northwest and produce ample rainfall there they spend most of their energy in the pacific northwest and as they emerge into the middle of the continent that gave emerge in a much weaker form there isn't a lot of cold air for the storms to work with and that they just they haven't been able to penetrate that large rich now there is color you mentioned coming in through the midwest and eastern part of the country are forecast for this weekend why isn't that ringing line with it well though the cold air is the traffic you saw that charge in the east you're in the northeastern part of the country so we have a trial for rage trial for orientation across the continent and as these weather systems move eastward they pick up more energy and produce much better rain fall again in the northeast part of the country the problem is that as we move up an over the top of their age in the middle portion of the time in turley and penetrating the major agricultural areas in the united states are set in canada

considering how many more days to do you can you safely say jusino sizable rain in sight well viet national weather service has issued its latest six to ten day forecasts showing no major changes also the recently released a thirty day outlook for an agent in mid july and i would agree wholeheartedly with both of those outlooks it just doesn't look like much change overall i'm not sure what is your most pessimistic what is your most optimistic on your based on your own reading of those forecasts what is the earliest that you can see one could expect any room perhaps early july it i don't feel real comfortable going out thirty days i think that you know that forecasts carries a fairly high risk but i think it's safe to say certainly through the end of june and into the beginning part of july help so that served ten days to two weeks what will that on top of the eco damage already done to the crowds what will that do to more

week to ten days to two weeks of more drives well i think it depends on the crop you're looking at i think court has already been seriously damaged and will only get worse over time the nation's corn crop is in the midst of this rapid growth phase of development when mice to requirements increased dramatically so corn will be using upwards to a quarter or even a third of an inch of water per day and if the crop is stress during that time the size of the developing years will be impaired and so you're naturally building and lower yields i have this trial as we continue another two weeks i would imagine that you'd be losing about one third of the nation's potential corn yield well thank you very much for joining us and we're going to commit to a little like julie next we turn to the question of what can be done to help farmers like greg koger when president reagan was asked two days ago about a government response to the drought he had this to say we have a task force out there taking a look a firsthand look at the

situation and we're going to have to see what we can do we don't underestimate the seriousness of this at all and i'm here in the summer they're out they're finding out and outside of praying for rain reasoning i can do until we hear from them to discuss what that panel did find and what action the government is or should be taking we talk with agriculture secretary richard lane and senate agriculture committee chairman patrick leahy he joins us from studio on capitol hill we also go to iowa governor terry branstad who joins us from the governor's drought conference in chicago governor you were the closest of this situation how long before syria's damage is done to the crops in your state in the neighboring state on socially they crop yields go up as ariz severely damaged and as has been mentioned earlier every day that goes by without rain were losing yield on the corn soybean crops so

that a severe problem and it's getting worse as each day goes by secretary wang what about from your perspective you added what a hundred more counties to data that disaster list is that the queen are well over four hundred dollars for in some states and simone that showed seems to me the sunni is quite accurate has described a grim distressing and disturbing situation which kind of armor is is hurt worse we've already heard the president mention a hate crime well the livestock farmers the one who suffers the quickest and these matters and that's where he comes in and pastor holmes and we've taken a few steps to try and help out in that area as time passes their livestock producers though is sure we're there maybe for seducing liquidation there may be forced to move color or shape or or close to some other location were trying to help on some

of those things but as time passes if this thing continues and not just the livestock people and we're just one kind of form or another they'll all be in trouble in those states and incidentally we have difficulties in every state in the union now as senator leahy you've already said that there's potential for another farm depression is it that serious it is as serious were no unable to take the steps necessary to shoppers some of these costs are the cushion some of these cost you have an awful lot of people who went through a third of our past five years to escape and a lot of activity around the fighting there are fighting to come and anger hit with this really this situation the government's in that is in a position where we have to tell umm look we'll give you a reason to try to keep you whole and the drought task force that would together with members of the house the

senate sector doing has been a lot of time with this bipartisan task force to try to get the kind of consensus that we can save them would keep the whole otherwise otherwise riverhead thousands of farmers out of business at the end of this year i want to ask about that just one of the governor branstad back to you what can you and other governors do at the state level about the situation how much indeed well i want to rise that the hangover the roadsides jason the farmland and we do appreciate what secretary wang has done is authorizing hague raising it set aside acres and the thirty day opening of the crp all for the livestock producers mind that that turns the arctic well it's the it's a conservation reserve program the ten year set aside but the farmer has to pay twenty five percent of the annual rent payment from the federal government back in order to be able to do that and that's just for ah the next thirty days we think that's an extent we like to see of also the mercy feed grain program available two are farmers and i think we're gonna need an authorization of

additional income protection to the great producer if this drought continues to sail one is lucky there secretary len you just mentioned three things you'd like to see the government do we have one of the prospect as the governor knows i agree with him that there's going to be new songs on the need for additional income i think that's what the summer away was saying and we've talked about how to do this i think the government or whether it's the congress and the administration whether it's republicans or the democrats will agree that this is too big a thing to be here you have to play politics with business planted smear working together i met with the president today and the vice president with we were over this all of this what i would ask about something you said to the press and there was a wire service report out late this afternoon that quoted you as telling the

president that it's too early for emergency measures that if we had rain fall in the next two weeks that this could alleviate much of the problem is that an accurate representation of what he told the president we were talking about whether or not one could determine the exact amount of losses or come close enough to begin to arrange for reimbursement of arson losses are all losses i said it's a bit too early for that i think that as i look at the crops and as i talk to farmers i don't know that there are an overdue and i think the owners just too soon to come along so that the corn crop is wrong get that iran's data course on saturday night there are some things a candidate at this point in the sector has taken some reserves at one of course of the people were produced livestock and that's when the standout i don't think they've moved quite rapid outlaw people are selling their the hurdles of their foundation heard those

allergic need to make sure there was not this year next year years to come is that still have you know now we find that the thousands of counties are hundreds of calories as you well over a thousand now have the ability to open on conservation reserve so that they didn't lose hey op they get good feed for that well that wasn't that was a very serious situation and it has to be acted on right away what else do you see right now that needs to be done or that we have to be able to tell people on things like the old laws are made to them in that typical term we have to be able to do to tell people that they're going to get payments out of that they're unable to plant because of this drama that as of yesterday these sectarian made up twenty counties in three states idaho nevada south dakota eligible for this program an additional states that have sought out whether they should be made eligible as soon as possible is that governor branstad is that they are the sort of thing you're looking for

yes we need him to protection of these farmers many embedded efficiency payment the spring because the price has gone up now in grain they might have to pay that back week we can't afford to have farmers have to pay that back when they don't have income because i don't have a crop and also the livestock producers are going to need an emergency grain program because even what the sector's already done which is helping some is not adequate enough in my state and many other states in this country what exactly are you asking for we're asking for a loser a minute to program at the center of mansion were asking that the divisions that an atmosphere like it income protection to the farmers at lose their crop so they don't have to pay this money back they would normally receive that the federal government budget for any way but because the price is gonna do the drought they would not have to pay back the secretary landed this is no real controversy here too to forgive they advance of

mississippians and that's a problem that we will run into one c four nineteen eighty six we did and the congress changes the law that we're now though that is bare the meetings that we have with the congress would indicate to me oh and the song on their part to do that again those cell that that is not going to give any immediate relief to and for hours and i'm sure it will be done within the style quite uncertain role is a voter says there will not be one of the season continues to defy ever invited just the one out there and really we were all somewhat retired right number of different things in many areas where and regrettably not agree with the secretary rice's escambia price emissions that have republicans and democrats work together and sit inside the house and with the administration but the big thing he had to do to design these programs that people were facing bankruptcy disaster right now though that they hold off and that

will make them whole if we don't do that this disaster victims in words because next spring when we come around when it rain or not we have thousands of less farmers league and this country can avoid that got a grant to the farmers and i will feel that insurance now now and we need that insurance because we have a farm credit crisis the federal was two years late and acting on and we can afford it i kind of the latest and we need action when you'd quickly and it's made on a bipartisan basis the governors want to do our part to work with the congress and the administration to get action quickly for the farm secretary wang one last thing is there any way this could have been foreseen obviously there's no way to predict a drought that would get is there way that planning could've been in place for the government to deal with this no really because you could never anticipate this route this is the worst drought that this time of the year by far that we've ever suffered actually the drought started in march in the pacific northwest and we started a drought task force at the department of agriculture and there eight years ago and we accomplished

all i think we move very quickly is as though the governors said neither presented a ruler that we loathe about as quickly as we possibly could as astronomers as devout this is impossible they had to solve these terrible problems that will have to do is the senator and the governor have suggested week or rather all of that and an effort to do healthy at these farmers with their income so we're not growing our heroes in any way would do whatever we can secretary richard langley thank you for being with us senator patrick leahy a governor branstad in iowa thank you all this is not an isolated event or is that old farmer in iowa just wandered the beginning of a major shift in weather patterns joining us now is dr tommy dunne jenny allen nasa scientist astounded possible changes in climate produced by the so called greenhouse effect the pagoda near works at nasa goddard institute for space studies in new york city joins us

tonight from washington a canadian government meteorologists said today that these this drought could be a dry run for many more droughts in the future as this greenhouse effect it becomes felt more do you agree with that i think that's certainly up us with a case we know that globally the four warmest years of the past hundred have all come in the nineteen eighties and we know that the first five months of nineteen eighty eight globally make it out to be the warmest year on record since we start observing searchers so again the four warmest years in the last one hundred have been in the nineteen eighties that's right we've been measuring temperatures recording stations around the world for about a hundred years or so and in all that time the four warmest years or nineteen eighty nineteen eighty one nineteen eighty three and nineteen eighty seven and the first five months of nineteen eighty eight are warmer than any similar five month period in history no you attribute that warming trend to encircle greenhouse i really believe that

the global signal of the greenhouse effect is now getting to the point where we can take that warning that global warming and ascribe it to the greenhouse effect would you describe the greenhouse effect you're saying simple terms yes what happens is that there are certain trace gases gases which exist in my new quantities in the earth's atmosphere such as carbon dioxide water vapor methane nitrogen oxide scs sees the things that cause the ozone problem all of these gases are very efficient at trapping heat and so they are the less of than you have in the atmosphere the less trapping heat you get as man burns more fossil fuels puts morsi of seize into the atmosphere carbon dioxide levels increase its as if you're throwing on extra blankets to keep warm at night more blankets you throw on the warmer you get by putting all these gases into the atmosphere we're essentially throwing more blankets on the problem is we can't take these blankets off in the morning they're here to stay and is it your

how close would you come to saying that the present drought were feeling has anything to do with this greenhouse effect well there's a difference between attributing a particular regional heat wave and drought of greenhouse effect in saying that we've seen the signal that globally now the analogy that i would make is to rolling a loaded paradise if you're all the dice once and a particular number comes up you can't really tell anything from that if you're old and ten or a hundred times all of a sudden you start to know certain numbers come up more often than others were startled suspicious well that's how you have to view individual weather episodes like we're seeing this here in the midwest or last year in the south east looking at an isolated regional episode you can't say that it is due to the greenhouse effect but what we can say from our computer simulations of how to bring us what is going to take place is that there are certain regions in the world that are going to be more susceptible to heat waves and droughts than others and indeed

in our computer simulations southeastern united states and midwestern united states are two of those regions that are susceptible so while we can't identify this particular drought and heat wave with the greenhouse effect we would say that it's unlikely you're going to be seeing more of these things happening in these regions as we entered the nineteen nineties in the next century is the greenhouse effect fixed roof on that new project what is going to be the effect on our climate and our lives well more jobs you just said that that that's only one thing he'd be a practical impact so you talked about the un cultural impact but also the year increased energy demands of course especially during the summer to to put it into context i and as we go into the nineteen nineties we would project that the number of days on which the temperature exceeds ninety five degrees will increase by about fifty percent over most cities in the united states can't produce extra demands for energy in a large part of the united states and the problem with that is that those extra demands for energy

involved burning more fossil fuel which puts more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which just exacerbates the proms you get into a vicious cycle or positive feedback and physical dr and tell us at a meteorologist who deals in day to day and weekly and pepsi then annual projections now there's this talk of the greenhouse effect us it with you and your colleagues well i know that we've had some very hot summers in the past nineteen thirty six actually is the hottest summer on record for the midwest and i believe that that's before the carbon dioxide buildup has been documented so there are these incidences where we do if he did apparently it's not related to seo tool in the atmosphere of course i can quarrel with anything he said because i have not done the kind of global temperature studies that did he talked about here so what about that that you can have the words were not the green necessarily that's true we've had droughts and he weighed before and will have them again whether or not we have a greenhouse warming my statement though was that i'm

nineteen eighty eight is the warmest year globally that certainly does not mean that you can get isolated heat waves and droughts in any given year that have nothing to do with the green as that doesn't mean that the drought and heat wave this year is due to the greenhouse effect we could easily get a heat wave next year in another part of the world that is not particularly susceptible to them in the long run in the midwest next year could be a cool and rainy that's certainly possible when you look at any particular year in any particular region what we're saying is that if you look over a span of many years ten years twenty years thirty years into the future certain of these regions are going to become more likely to experience these events than others were darker german <unk> for journalism is more intelligent next tonight a newsmaker interview with the prime minister of

australia robbery hawk charlayne hunter gault is in charge of shoreline getting the prime minister is visiting this country for political and trade talks with the reagan administration but his visit is also a part of a worldwide celebration of australia's two hundredth birthday australia began its two hundredth birthday party in january with reminders of its british colonial pianist but aside from the occasional royal visit the commonwealth nation is now much more closely tied in defense matters with united states and in trying to western europe and asia changes have now is constantly australia's alliance with the united states especially allowing nuclear armed ships to port there has drawn protests from the left including members of prime minister bob talks labor party oh my neighboring new zealand which broke its defense alliance with united states over the nuclear issue australia still considers itself a major pacific

ally of the united states the two countries jointly operate satellite tracking facilities to miers soviet compliance with arms control agreements the australian farmers have protested the loss of their land despite pressures in his own time offers taken a hard line on what he sees as threats of soviet expansion in the south pacific especially in newly independent pacific states hoff says it is his fourth to this country in his five years as prime minister and he's the first australian leader to address a joint session of congress as the head of a country highly dependent on farm exports we emphasize the principal purpose of his visit to continue his fight against agricultural subsidies in this country and elsewhere that undercut australian boot sales abroad this is not be applied in the mike they tout represent typhoons about particular export commodities would be violently

here in congress everything that within our otherwise excellent life and ship tribe is not an area very real concern to us and i should say it in with a frankness which i five is permitted to a friend that some of the decisions night in washington intended to defend the interests of americans turned out in fact that this violence in particular spite of crimea produces unsubsidized and are among the most efficient in the world and yet we're finding ourselves played out of mac by practices which distort price of the level of production and agriculture we find ourselves caught in the crossfire are by destructive and counterproductive transatlantic subsidies war with us now is the prime minister and mr prime minister welcome you just heard yourself talking about half hour practices are hurting australians came to decisions that we've made a herding australia's could you be more

specific decisions by home and how are they hurting our sentiment decisions live the body and uninspired scientifically on the olympic sport enhancement program this program was not intended that this trial and it was introduced the sense of frustration that the actions of the european community when i had you know heavily subsidize private and i have ten from the world's largest importer of tempered and cotton products and the world's largest exporter titled collision economic incentive right now because you're going to introduce it wouldn't have been pride in that that would be subsidizing our allies subsidize other lies that and increase the new double will markets at the subsidized price is the statistic i used mostly to the congressmen got to wait in the period over the operation of your expletive husband program in honest i cheer over the world with mac has gone up from twenty nine the forty three percent and that the europeans but it's gone then seven and a four nine percent of their shares

been knocked from twenty ten to twelve percent they've been pinned voters liked that but as i said he had yet again he played with a bullet it doesn't help much to the top arms are wooden thing that ability and will it's just as much will you vote with president reagan this afternoon attack is is that what you tell them and what did he say i've told the president not tolerable interviewed ministration and i accept integrity work by side of my having intended to hurt us and i've been the kind of comedy that i will watch typically carefully to say that our interest i watched in the future but what specifically if anything did you ask of the president in this regard all week like the long term of blood movies we want success and uruguay around a dash actions of terribly n a y side that they will lee i cuddle in niger and subsidies by year europe by the artist that's about japan either it's the last three years the subsidies have cost two hundred billion dollars per annum

its economic incentive a that doesn't achieve the social objectives of which the images of an intricate when you raise this with the president did he say well were clearly causing this to prime minister etc will think about or that's a good idea i will do about what what candidate has done much better than that they've just returned from the trial by summit where he took the lead in an aging brood of seven at the put this issue at the top of their agenda and that the midterm review in december in montreal a midterm review of uruguay around that baby agreement to achieve total elimination of the subsidy by the year two thousand we support what he's signed we congratulate him i write to him before some of the unthinkable and what i've said and he put the case i can rattle it a problem essentially look when the united states it's when the europeans how serious is this problem i mean you did say before the congress this afternoon that you are

being treated as first class citizens in terms of being allies with the united states but as second class citizens in terms of that trading which does suggest that you have some concern about what the united states is doing and how serious is this problem various eras in economic terms of what i've liked in the congress and i had the united states is that when you like your assistant of the damage been caused by these policies or you need to get beyond the economic assistant what i've said is that this is a riding the confidence of the people aspire in the night to the relationship the most conservative elements in the style of politics the farmers want to come inside we want a lead i'm out on lies joint facilities the mind gap and sell that's wrong but that's a sort of big impact but these policies which are also getting hit from the left as well mean last week your party face some serious opposition to your decision to maintain us satellite tracking stations and you've been repeatedly challenge

on your position to allow american warships access to your reports is it possible that it could come down to that that this quid pro quo that that there will be a quid pro quo there you have it like calypsos within tightly along a lot of the opposition were not within that very quickly but this is where you can get an unholy alliance for me explain lifting want some of whom are part of the plymouth in my country then allied with the one drug called extreme right there the conservative farmers would then you can have a joint nato advisors a left and the right that's crazy they could any do you see a real possibility that this this this could be threatened this alliance this relationship because of this unholy alliance like a threat and no personally i would take the constant linkage i'm simply sign honestly an objective way that if they were to billion increase in this adverse impact on our farmers who are

unsubsidized in the most efficient in the world they will wait i'd rise of resentment and that is not really against our interests it's against the united states' interests and wrote that has them in an impossible cause adverse consequence well i will resist as isi the concept of linkage when the existence of the joint facilities is right because i thought i have applied and then apply and even more important role in the verification prices is which are essential to the operation of the new treaties of the inmates than the ones that are in contemplation felony wall add two word i've them or facilitate the politicians in the game can't resist the will of the people know one of the people is clearly at this time that the joint facilities be kicked in their ports be the shooter do not it's like you met with vice president bush this afternoon in your meeting with mr dukakis this evening is this the point that you are

oppressing with them and did you do do you expect them at well this is the point you're present them on citigroup said to george bush and i'm not get them at the carcasses i'm living in and also people are the son comes to him and what it is devoid say mr bush understand that i think supports my position do you do you do you have any indication as to do couple of of the position and the city packers might pay not yet but that i would be disappointed if he didn't adopt the sun position where mr prime minister thank you very much for being with us the law plays a fake it happen with the coming of glasnost or openness in the soviet union soviets themselves had begun questioning the value of the art official and unofficial created there since the revolution and they're about to test that value in the old fashioned way we have an essay for new york newsday art critic and my wallet

you know for decades she lived in a tin can then along comes a man named gorbachev and chanting glasnost glasnost like a mantra he pries open the can you stumble to the agent here over what are you to make of what you find and what are we to make of you that's roughly the situation now s o b artists of every stripe service in soho gallery is washington museums and that most capitalist of our world writes a saw that these auctions needless to say there's never been a international auction in the soviet union before the one to take place july seventh in moscow stars painters too until a year ago were even allowed to show there sotheby's made the choices this time and the artist

traditionally showered with honors at home are missing from the auction its previewing on a world tour there are exceptions mr of a member of the union of soviet artists and glazunov who is often called the andrew wyeth of the soviet union because while critics near five hundred thousand people will line up to see his paintings of a deal russia that never was but it's the artists who were called underground in the fifties and unofficial in the seventies who are the new darlings of the world our market and in the interests of international goodwill and hard currency the soviet union is giving them its blessings and temporary exit visas for exhibitions of their work in new york missouri and paris the brave new breed of outsider artist that we're finally getting a glance that have names like yucky nasty come across the car off cubs can't he come across his fifty four the car off his twenty

nine they're the real inheritors of the spirit of revolution that inspired the old russian out on guard to actually invent abstract art for the rest of the world some seventy years ago for over fifty of those years the russian avant garde has been banned in the soviet union what survived is only beginning to emerge from museum storerooms now yelling he lets the cobbler coffin their hero of the underground friends have had to take their ideas where they could find them in whispers or hear in the air are illustrations from smuggled art magazines and too often it shows younge us he chose to be ignited by the torrington surrealism of the thirties with a bit of minimalism thrown in come a cop however stuff so many whole areas sad absurd ideas into the rickety communal rooms he has constructed in the feldman gallery in soho and he gives hope to the soviet art of the future he's as playful

as a pop artist but what is plainly it is the gap between the perfect world proclaimed on soviet billboards and real life as it's lived every day in moscow which is precisely what's gotten him into trouble at home all this oddly assorted group of painters really has uncommon aside from their courage is what they don't do they don't do socialist realist painting to make it fairer let alone be shown before glasnost an artist has to depict the soviet union is the best of all possible worlds in a style even a bureaucrat could love right now the soviets are showing off three of their top socialist realist at the corcoran gallery in washington and the soviet as tibetans are enough to make a grown critic cry it's not because the show's dreary which it is it's because of a wasted

talent will go offshore could paint in nineteen sixty for those red cups breaking out of a marvel backgrounds ought to have been the start of something they instead he subsided into law of the land impressionism a hundred years too late was cynicism or despair their stop taking going on in the soviet union right now the artists say they're not so sure anymore what's good what's bad and what's ugly sounds healthy to me and once again the main stories of this thursday forecasters see no drought relief or at least the week wire service reports a key figures in the pentagon bribery investigation and offered to cooperate with prosecutors the white house predicted today that the gross national product will grow an annual rate of three and a half percent

that is faster growth than earlier estimates and late today the writers guild of america announced its members voted down a new contract aimed at ending a sixteen week old strike in iraq and that's the newshour tonight and tomorrow robert mcneill good night combining everything people like about with everything they make everything about information at mt funding is also provided by the station and other public television stations and the corporation for public broadcasting it's been

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