The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour

it's both good evening i'm judy woodruff in new york and i'm joe miller and washington after our summer the news this tuesday roger mudd reports on a mock political convention and washington and lee university david gergen mr shiels examines super tuesday and nobel laureate paul samuelson dissects the us economy tending to the macneil lehrer newshour has been provided and communication and that a corporation for public broadcasting and viewers like you this is super tuesday another major stop on the nineteen ninety two race for president

on the democratic side there were eight primaries three caucuses bill clinton was expected to win all except those in massachusetts and rhode island for paul tsongas was favored there were a mostly southern republican primaries president bush was favored to win the all against tv commentator pat buchanan war activists new summer gig a north korean fighter suspected of carrying scud missiles for iran or syria has reached the uranium sort of on their own boss despite reports that the eu's intended to challenge the vessel the ship is believed to be carrying sky and sea missiles which have a longer range are more accurate and can carry heavy or warheads in the scuds used by iraqi during the gulf war pentagon spokesman pete williams said today us naval forces had not place the highest priority on monitoring the freighter and in fact had lost track of it those forces are based in the region to intercept shipments bound for iraq

williams briefed reporters at the pentagon we we were aware the show we were certainly out looking for it i don't know why i don't know why we never found that say upset the heavily trafficked region and remember that the critical test but that what we're talking about here is is not some abstract embargo on shipments to a rand there isn't one it's not some abstract embargo on shipments from north korea there isn't what we're talking about is the maritime intercept operation which is focused on iraq that is the standard under which we would have conducted in the intercept operation we were aware of the ship curious about where was going but there's a limit to what we can iraq's deputy prime minister today called on the united nations to lift sanctions against his country to re cousins made that statement after meeting with the security council president in new york council is reportedly considering new penalties against iraqi which has defied un demands that it destroyed weapons of mass destruction

as he is will address the security council tomorrow nato foreign ministers met in brussels belgium today whether old enemies the occasion was a conference on security with leaders of them former soviet republics announced a european effort to end fighting in armenia and azerbaijan secretary of state baker call on the parties to peacefully settle their conflict the fighting is over a disputed region and it continued today we have a report narrated by the ways base of worldwide television is as any forces prepared for a further assaults an armenian positions near i'm down a brief brisk night before the main thrust elsewhere the guns weren't so quiet in a book about the mania armenian fast around something quite days of bombardment azeri armored units are smoking out isolated pockets of resistance armenian positions may be reinforced through the capital separate

occurred despite the battering the village's taken the armenian defense minister says they'll be no surrender and ask around and eight there was all the villages and i jump or may not be so strong at least eleven people have been injured in the bombardment from a nearby as area town and the mutilated body of the village are abducted by as areas was laid to rest more than one thousand people have been killed and four years of fighting between these areas and the armenians secretary state baker also held separate thoughts on yugoslavia today with european community leaders afterward he said in a statement the united states would recognize the republics of croatia and slovenia as independent states but he did not say when european community recognized both in january for president richard nixon says he considers the bush administration's support for russia quote pathetically inadequate he made the comments in a memo to franzen foreign policy expert it was reported in today's

editions of the washington post and the new york times in the memo mr nixon said the west runs the rest of snatching defeat in the cold war from the jaws of victory he said the stakes are high and we are applying as if it were a penny ante again president bush said today that he did not take the criticism personally he spoke during a white house photo opportunity i don't think that's an excellent i have any difference on this i thought well yesterday under certain fiscal financial constraints on what we can do that we have a huge stake in the success of democracy in russia an enemy in the other serious countries and so we will be working in every way possible to support the fifties and certainly we've done a lot in terms of supporting the papal letter m barrie who knew what the body of starvation real hunger and somalia medicine so there's a lot of taxpayer money going into this already most lot of invented guaranteed for agricultural products which reserved

for emergency requirements and though we will do what's right in his memo nixon expressed strong support for president right or russian president yeltsin is that yeltsin is swept from power he could be replaced by a dangerous right wing desperate but nixon said the russian people would never again turned to communism both mr bush and former president nixon will speak at a foreign policy conference in washington tomorrow tornadoes storm through mississippi and alabama last night six people were killed dozens of others injured thousands and trees were leveled power was knocked out golf ball size deal fell in some areas forecasters said the region will be hit with an arctic cold from tonight in chicago a winter storm was blamed for temporarily knocking out the radar system at o'hare airport today dozens of flights were cancelled most others were running at least three hours late the nation's private sector savings and loans are

back in the black the government's office of thrift supervision today reported that they earned a profit of about two billion dollars in nineteen ninety one it was the industry's first profitable year since nineteen eighty six the agency's director said the industry was stabilizing but he warned that the cleanup will fail as an owl's was not over yet i mean the polls have just closed in florida the television networks have declared bill clinton the winner on the democratic side president bush on the republican and that said that the news summary to guide now it's on to roger mudd at washington and lee thirteen inch heels on super tuesday and nobel economist paul samuelson on this super tuesday one barometer the presidential politicians have been watching for years takes place at a small university in southwest virginia roger mudd has our report

right right as isn't the same familiar michael dukakis slowly making his way into the convention hall to the surging beat of neil diamond's america how about this will allow the democratic presidential race or dr mario cuomo a spellbinding governor of new york that given his long awaited convention keynote speech those political moments seem like only yesterday in fact they almost were just four days ago washington and lee university in lexington virginia and old aged twenty quadrennial presidential nominating convention with a schedule atmosphere paraphernalia political strategies as accurate as the tradition began in nineteen hundred eight when william jennings brian was correctly picked on the first ballot as the democratic nominee since then

the naacp convention which is always for the party of power as a lasting record of picking the right nominee forty million it's co chairman or to qualify the texans where martin of fort worth and stop posted of his old seniors texas were passed at six months instead of the actual twenty fourteen because washington and lee is not the largest delegations are exactly to have times smaller than the rain you're going to do with the taxes so far the us actually voting we have a local researcher their delegation and we have people underneath him their costly keeping in touch with people back in austin local newspapers used in both houston chronicle and they try to find as much information from thousands of different reasons and that's the hardest part about that is celeste way

a political researcher and myself and the other is under him i've been on the phone with a reduced their prison texas professors political analyst the other reason the democratic committee certain delegates are going to be adventure we've been trying to find out how they are going to vote with the percentages right now or and we base our boat on not only what the percentage is now but what's likely to be in july and more so when the roll is called so how's the texas automobile right now words was still trying to keep in touch with the guy back and also because it's it's changing constantly right now we're looking at thirty eight percent in the state to spend billions all right now we'll look at that thing six convention opened friday morning with a two hour parade down the main street of the shenandoah valley town each student allegation raised enough

money from home state alumni flow virginia of course i'm the father of his country and the benefactor of the college board was authentic up to but not including the wooden teeth from illinois came abraham lincoln on the phone from tennessee although disability and all the texas longhorns lives and through all three hundred euros from the first moment he opened session everything but the age of the delegates seemed authentic from the presentation of the colors through the national anthem to the election of a permanent chair by evening the delegates were more infidel the steering committee have sent word it wanted more standing ovations the house tip o'neill the opening address fifteen thousand barrels a day a subway where you know

written about a rule the new younger generation of democrats dedicated of a job have these challenges that to america all audio essay on repeat what john sees the future because it's real four years ago we can inspire in our young people the same kind of idealism and love of country that we felt a generation ago but it won't be the republican party that does that they're too tired they're too cynical they're too exhausted and less ideological battles over who is more conservative than the next year and the american people know that the american people know that that's why they're ready for new blood

and for new leadership at sixty minutes later i'm at work rory was everyone knew only a warm up for saturday's el general of texas delegation or at least the leaders of that caucus saturday morning to go over last minute details and give out appreciation bottles of texas wind robyn oliver social chairman your party's what mostly market homestead one of the strike the delegation of the twenty thousand dollar keynote speech that governor cuomo will be delivering that morning oregon yesterday well whenever mario has a bloodline races there is the truth is that we the politicians with the help of our business leaders are the ones who betrayed responsibility in this country we made this problem we

must solve it and led by a democrat president we will solve it and we'll begin with one plea allowed new giant let's do less blaming and more building a half we need new leaders have now stepped aside mr boyce you let it operate now we plan for an even greater and more all beautiful lawn the poem is bigger today here in virginia we select a person who will lead us on the triumphal march and throughout all the hard struggle that will earn it a democrat to return america to its greatness let's get on with it a new america awaits you have to pay

but even though he did not meaningless conventional whole role for the money available to end its violent armed with twenty five state of delaware the second smallest state union the fighting blew hands about a member of the university for our constitution of the united states of america

who likes to cast three words for clinton and fibers response i cannot accept it and most people state duly appoints majority leader george mitchell on to ll bean which incidentally refused to make any bones or this most prestigious at it but his grades it's big it is you

too oh yeah it is and it was forced to close because of the numbers of the double digit growth three big majorities in every southern states a florida the scientists in california and was very competitive against him in the midwest it was really in the northeast lose in massachusetts new york and new

jersey but almost twenty miles away in washington and lee then shows by acclamation mario cuomo the clinton's running mate choice probably not improve on the preventive already this record and picking vice president of them mr whitford right nominee all that's left now is to finish school and wait for the real goal to begin july fifteen eighties and speaking of the real world of politics we have some now those of super tuesday as we reported earlier polls have closed now in florida and the television networks have projected victories there from president bush and bill clinton there were a total of eleven primaries and caucuses today with the three democratic presidential candidates clapton paul silas and jerry brown

eight primaries for president bush and his republican opponent pat buchanan burden and she'll join us now to sort through what we know thus far in mobile space and possibilities are for the rest of the evening david gergen editor at large of us knows and will report syndicated columnist mark shields mark clinton wins big in florida court end of the projections he was expected to do so what's remarkable about what's remarkable about it is that was supposed to be a battleground state with paul saunders concentrated was the effort and the energy that he had it looks right now to bill clinton when he and the league there are put together a coalition of the apparently of of black voters flow white blue collar voters of the elderly are sort of a traditional new deal coalition he assembled it and india in the battleground southern state very impressive victory the one i can be active in the one downside for clinton is the way he won it is what some bitterness in its way and he raised them so security issue scientists and scientists and paul saunders mention that he would

freeze cost of living increases or lose considered for the pot that prince's a population receiving social care unit out of twenty five thousand dollars a year no those are deeply helpful i end that end he's got into a big scare tactic and he also won against assad has witnessed on an honest and critical support the state of israel by ear width of the large jewish population in south florida of questioning whether or sundays was committed to israel's says survival in advance the design is set in la from going into florida did not that i'm turning in outmanned out endorsed and all the things that that that had gone for him however he did his son his did have the freshness of all of that and he got a lot of exposure but it was not but i think that the plane went into florida better organize were more money and a much better understanding of the state and there are a lot of the eu's natural advantages going for one bottle of ourselves

though klan handled scientists in florida he defines on this for the first time this campaign but saunders on the defensive rob saunders of his message so scientists talking about economics and the future of the country had to defend himself on social security on israel on the gas tax all those issues appeal powerful in florida and i think that bill clinton a message to the white house tonight you may think you can be accomplished over in this race but there's a lot a lee atwater and bill clinton used to be a tough campaigner and fall i think he showed that he can be just as tough and me as a lot of republicans have been accused of being in the past he would have he sung on the floor is less violence on this in fact said that about himself that that churches which you decide but he said he got himself in a position where he had to prove that he could counterparts that he could take it out on a great take it from flooding but had to fight back on and the process it last year he's haunted by his haunted by michael dukakis the ghost of michael cox is stalking

this campaign's social songs follow along the way it's really something more than the grid massachusetts he has to prove that he can do it is to fire back and in the process of fun fact he lost his message he gave david david wright and the night and you could tell the tsongas was in trouble in florida by the dialogue he who dominated the dialogue of the campaign and of the candidate does almost invariably wins that campaign high end there was no question the dialogue with being established it wasn't in terms of what was the greater economic plan would add that the recipe a formula for refurbishing america's wellbeing it was he could go to a defense an apology accusation charge countercharge about paulson's is falling the sudden bouts of the republicans in a result they're at here again based on a projection from the year three not words is that there is that george bush president bush won big the exact probably in the high sixties over pat buchanan what's remarkable about that good good solid victory for the president probably notice is remarkable way in terms of

what maybe expect a few months ago but now the president appears to be on his way to heaven a very good super tuesday and i shudder now pat buchanan across the void in state after state i have the ad that i was the good news for the president of the bad news was in the national surveys that an abc in the washington post show the president i his job approval is still continuing just slip down to thirty nine percent eleven percent lower than gerry ford was at the stage in his presidency in nineteen seventy six a while and jimmy carter was in his stated it at both nicholas was the presence of that you're running behind i both paul saunders and though couldn't match ups in the annabel clinical assistant as david pointed out enough water hits in february was probably carry more than is needed chris find a match of thing a match of all the oscar goes to somebody and says mr vernon if the election was today who would you vote for president bush or all sides and in this case on this particular call the

last president bush lost both the scientists and to cut this is for the first time here for the question is always been would you vote for an unnamed democrat versus president bush and the president to lose enough consistently for several months now this is the first time he slipped below two main democratic challenger you see every time something not something new that happens president bush we always ask on this program the two of you discuss a man that everybody else does ok as he bottomed out now and iridium in iraq well the eat as he bottomed out this time kenny stop of all the things i think we can i think and i think this is very significant for the president and that is he appears according to exit polls to have not only big and he can vanquish timber about a lot of the states in the worst may be behind him in terms of the content of history there maybe of pulsating quality of the contenders in empathy and punched through they

apparently louisiana our war ii arrived and when investors are on statins open the win that sarkozy work ethic and can win now i think the white house would be a grievous our relief to buy their housing bubble the bottom nationally jump as his popularity is one indicator of an italian bonds of history to bottom out and the indications are the economy is bottoming out is they are any correlation between buchanan's run against aim and how he's doing in the polls we see the first indications that i think in this vote and this new abc washington post poll and that the president's popularity among republicans has declined significantly in the last few weeks to me that's a direct reflection of the pounding these things that you can't say any david maybe a little overly optimistic about the president's fortunes politically difficult histories of ronald reagan had a core constituency of zealous intense support you could walk into a saloon in the country in eighty two when the unemployment rate was ten percent and sit down its dissonant a shot in there and i'm just out knocking the gipper before somebody would say wait a minute he's my president

like george bush does not have that similar intense support i hate for that reason to it which was more broadly acceptable to more people that i could go ninety percent in the polls of things that is a needed a third of people who thought that he was evil incarnate which is the case with reagan reagan had that that that work wanna support that would never leave a week i was the circumstance of bush's very much david wright a prisoner of events if anything has a good status quo was going george bush the status quo isn't good he is a core constituency could turn out before di's of the iconic kennebunkport with the wails of the cannon person somehow force on our bakery on the show us another began in canada say and he said that the cannon has to be careful that he has to get out at the right time or he courts and so even for ninety six that he does not if he doesn't get out at the exact right time in the republicans will turn their backs on him and that he will have you agree with that david some of the republican party who aren't on water users are

moderate who can cost george bush this election they're doing it very sexy as anybody but the cannon and they will come out of the woodwork to see him that already you're seeing a number of other conservative bill bennett for example the quest for work for vice president for the number of concert know within organized almost an anti buchanan a coalition of conservative to try to find out so this matters beyond the mainstream conservative than make incremental radical and you know pete wilson the governor fell for yesterday said he was conducting an anti semitic racist campaign is this an ideological fight bill bennett and bill kristol the chief of staff of the vice president have designed the ninety six for themselves they don't want that began in iraq this has nothing to do with ideology this scared stiff that that began his interview with bill clinton though bill clinton obviously don't buy the thing that becomes a point we become a nuisance are images of the nineteen forties but these guys on the right there and fight a really elegant if it will allow either parsley about

right still to come on the newshour tonight an interview with nobel prize winning economist paul samuelson but first there's this pledge week on public television we're taking a short break now so that your public television station can ask for your support and support helped keep programs like this on the air for those stations not taking a pledge break the newshour continues now with a report on an innovative technique that is helping hearing impaired children learn how to speak the reporter is rosalind solis' a public station k e r a dallas every morning two year old michael noble wakes up to a world of silence until his mother sure really inserts his hearing aids

michael on this why michael father gary says with hearing aids and special speech and listening therapy michael is doing what some experts said he'd never do talk what most carriers the army your talent they absolutely can sign language because they will they'll be here going under the professional person you're gonna do is michael is profoundly deaf which means that without hearing aids he cannot hear sounds softer than a lawnmower he began learning sign language so did his parents but they didn't stop searching for a way to help their son here we say why well as the vatican lot of hearings on and i would have been much further behind at this time than we are now learn more like i was catching up to twice weekly sessions at a private school in atlanta called the talks center for hearing impaired children attended daniel is the center's director

here are children here are very distorted sound so they need to hear the same word many many times before their brain can pick out the differences between words rape eu and you know what and when the center opened it rekindled an emotional debate over which educational technique is best for hearing impaired children the dallas talked center does not teach or use sign language which is the most common form of communication among hearing impaired people well our experiences is that it takes so much of the child's concentration to make sense out of the distorted sound that they hear that if there's an easier way to get the message across like any human being they will take that easier way firewood is very easy to learn the children are not visually impaired their hearing impaired their vision is their strong sense so if they can get their

communication needs met because i went there really is no reason for them to develop that a very weak sense the goal of the program is for the children to go to normal schools with regular hearing children and that not being in the special education track and many hearings happen top foreign language and speech known as total communication some of them believe the speech and realistic gene car is a hearing impaired engineer he's also vice president of the board of the death action center of dallas resource program for the hearing impaired the car can speak a requested an interpreter for this interview are the options to nor any way they can and that means total communication is best because in the future an example an acute grows up and they can

hear just a little bit growing up and that's when they lose their hearing again and they become totally death and that will happen that will have nothing to establish their communication system on foreign languages i was about that the man i know that's the argument against our victory carp from npr or listen on readers like it with the view that this just opens up his world so much more here he would be able to talk with anyone matt hall or michael goode listening and speech others can understand or take practice with constant counting on his parents' it's part of the auditory horrible method will hold next tonight we continue

our series of conversations with nobel laureates on the state of the us economy tonight we're joined by paul samuelson nineteen seventy nobel prize winner and professor of economics at the massachusetts institute of technology thank you for being with us we're hearing so much about let's talk first about the economy and the campaign what the candidates are saying we're hearing so much in recent days and weeks about tax cuts for the middle class raising taxes on the well to do business against tax incentives for business not requiring businesses for example to retrain workers to with art any of those ideas ideas that are going to help this economy in the state but it's enlightening well i don't think we can give very many surveys to any of the candidates but i'm encouraged because i think the american people are showing an instinct for the golden mean they really are moving towards the center and for my interpretation of economic history that that's a good

thing you have pat buchanan one side jerry brown the other side they're not selling at the discontent and fringe of course likes a but you have a little bit the right of center mr bush and we have a little bit left of center the two candidates song this and the and i think that there there's a certain and rearrange assurance in that aisle as it interpretive dance a lot of bad things happened in the nineteen eighties and we have the legacy of those so i don't hold against mr bush that he's moved away from lee reaganomics i think that's a sign of some progress and reassuring and the election is going to be decided on what the american people think about the candidates now i think of roosevelt here he ran you know in nineteen

thirty two franklin roosevelt a balanced budget and so red rover you're fooling the american people they could figure out who was going to be i'm already spent her in that situation and that's why i think in the end is going to be decisive what is there enough just to take the democrats took that as an example is there not an difference there are enough substance than what any of them is saying that if it's already clear that that their proposals would help most of the election year proposals are not going to go anywhere we have a democratic congress we have a republican white house i don't think that's the worst thing the world because they're seven eleven terrible ideas out there take for example of the middle class tax cuts which is ann and which a lot of democrats who oppose him when you leave your middle

class americans who isn't the middle class but for us to do anything on the fiscal front because the recession which isn't temporary is just turn a worsening war room situation so i said to cheers that the proposal was really going to go nowhere in this year's congress about raising taxes on the wealthy is out there that i i i think that i could stand a thirty six percent you know i was i was paying seventy seven and more about prayer ago and we know that the top one percent of the population in income has been making out i would say like bandits but like very lucky people are so so there is some room their budgets are all clear that you were going to have that and what of faa they own way of proposals to encourage businesses to invest in plants and equipment and so on through the only one of those miles to a hill of beans is a temporary investment tax credit for the fact that his temporary hurry hurry hurry to go do it now you won't get it

there's a more punch which is the exception and tax matters but throughout the capital gains tax reduction woodson president is all added up about one of the democratic candidates as borat i'm for long run reform of that but it's not their mayor a bit for the next six quarters news on the business for the size of the one he's talked about an across the board cap opinion what should they be there anything to that auden glaring out there they are only dealing with their daughter is just so clear to everybody i think the drama of pay homage to the game and i think the big thing right people are talking about is the federal reserve's monetary policy that's our first line weapon for a temporary business recession that's what got us into this too little and too late by dr greenspan and his colleagues and writers were talking it's too little and too late so you continue to cut that

yes abraham lincoln was asked how longshoremen's legs beneath along approves the ground with you ask me how it cuts are necessary for interest rates it's as many as there are weaknesses persisting in the american economy and we know that since last june it's been an abortive recovery i'm optimistic i think that greenspan has the opportunity or the paul volcker had in which paul boger exploited back in nineteen eighty two but instead the chairman of the independent federal reserve plays games with congress she loves me some of the articles won battle over the the pedal and in the meantime the momentum could be going against it but just quickly what about those people on fixed incomes who depend on that interest you to give them a decent i encountered well i'm an old corral a little bit less and my money market fund but my other assets for oscars have been doing very well as very important inflation has been doing well a bias

so this time award for main street it lets talk now for a minute about that about the longer term here we hear so much talk in a new hearing interviews on television read in history americans are really deeply concerned about where our economy is headed in the longer term are people right to be so pessimistic about the longer term is there something deep well on their right to realize that productivity in american economy is growing more slowly than it did in the earlier decades that's not a matter of fault by somebody in government that has to do with technology has to do with the catching up with the rest of the world but they're wrong they think the doomsday is around the corner and they're wrong to think that there's much but the government can do and should do is one thing the government can do want their government should do and that is we should stop running what i've come to call italian style economic member

divorced sometimes violent we've been running economics of times style we are a democracy which under taxes compared to what we appropriate and that's the devil's recipe for a lowe's saving i consuming election we've been doing along martin well i think of the worst in the world would be to move towards a higher plateau of structural reagan o'neill type deficit and we should do anything in the short run of that increase that likelihood for the long run we are the lowest vaccination or just looking up to the numbers of the nations that we profess to envy western germany japan france they're grown faster than us and how we do in earlier times and we are the lowest tax have all those nations so the nose she rewrote the limited capacity one more damning of taxes and weird to point out there is no scientific basis for that

role but when you take a poll americans that cannot be too enthusiastic about having members and i'm with the apple and the taste of food was good lover played the supply side reaganomics of issues expression made the american people taste of apple and we sure have loved it and we actually like as a low tax but as oliver wendell holmes said taxation is a price we pay for civilization but if the american people are now accepted the politicians don't have the courage to raise taxes when what we facing down well i think it's for leadership makes a difference and mr bush regrets because some people on his far right rma quite uncomfortable that he did the sensible thing and tried to face up to this festering problem and now conservative economics this is a real supply side economics its

capital formation the different instruments higher productivity and iranians and we're decimating them by having public thriftiness has put on the back of a very low private savings society which we've become and if it went when people say i'm worried that my children and my grandchildren and even the young people in our society day younger than your yard art and i have the standard of living is that is that we're raising fifteen our grandchildren as a supplement in mr bush's darmon budget and the generational gap and what nestor eisenhower used to worry about our grandchildren having stones on their shoulders is really coming to pass and it's ironic though this is happening under conservative economics the other part of that is what everybody's worried about losing jobs to that you mentioned the germans and the japanese in wyoming raising the wage the wages are lower and we used to have the

american working people used to have kind of a monopoly access disappear america noelle today we have consultants who go abroad people like me read textbooks of broad knowledge spreads and we have lost that monopoly position and it's not that we're doing so badly in comparison with earlier times but the imitators are doing better and that's a fact of life and i may say that manage trade is not going to sell their prom it's only going to by shooting ourselves on lay in having the additional burden of inefficiency you mean a protectionist going to protect religious quickly what what do we do in twenty seconds or less well we've we do we get more of monetary policy we do have only temporary fiscal stimulus and in the long run we do something to increase the public thriftiness by getting weird or by reducing the structural budget deficit professors and

billy thank you so much finally tonight as this and they will fleming with some thoughts about her california hometown many ideas have been coming to this coastline kurds to gaze at the pacific to contemplate it the state of my soul or the beauty of the world or about this is my hometown left palm lined place of soothing views of the day in the mountains as palisades park in santa monica california a small seaside city of ninety thousand in which i was born people do battle through this arc in sleep that judging by the mostly what you see here are all people on the pensions and he's on the weekends or solitary dust time strollers and his number i cannot be counted but what you increasingly see inmates these days are the homeless they're always here in the corner of your eye in every sunrise and every sunset

shuffling along with their worldly goods are sleeping in bundled up keeps some jostling otherworldly some locally as decidedly under over the last six or seven years the park has actually taken on the feel of an unofficial camp grounds for the city's three thousand homeless people a third of whom are mentally ill many of whom are drug or alcohol abuse is prominent part has gone up their drug sales even a couple of drug related murders in a town that is self consciously prided itself on its humane image issue of what to do about the homeless has caused soul searching crisis of conscience over the last stretch of months admittedly santa monica has the luxury of this crisis because i like the sound of me seemingly untouched by the recession there's only about four percent unemployment rate rises at least seven percent the rest of bell it's a kind of golden nugget in the tarnished golden state deplete empathetic a middle class town

of retirees on fixed incomes and young working writers with a smattering of high rolling liberals and the mets in the early eighties a group of grownups sixties kids including tom hayden and jane fonda took over the city government and put in motion a strict rampant along a six story height limit of the new building's a weekly farmers market and community based policing is kind of upscale touches its malls movie theaters and she shops that can fulfill every imaginable women and then some santa monica likes to think of itself as a tolerant unpretentious somewhat tiny town where the police ride around on bicycles and the homeless he didn't reveal every afternoon on the lawn of city hall the food donated by some of the better local restaurants and served up by local students show business people and conscience and business now the city's been a tough and i sort of liked the homeless out of the arts and into shelters where they can be housed

and fed intended and even trained in such a thing as possible no more mass meetings no more tremulous public that's the intent of this recently released sixty seven page call to action is pointedly tender a government document as you're ever likely to read we're the city has to kick in five hundred thousand dollars for the expanded shelters also scavenging for more state federal and even private money not easy in these recession times and the public has to continue to live with the ever present homeless in their mitts that of course is the dilemma facing cities all over that even the bigger part and losing heart over the ever more visible ragtag army of the dispossessed so that we're standing on here is about which one small city is gearing up to try to take back of public places without somehow losing its soul in the bargain i'm ann taylor fun ha

again the major story of this tuesday was the fact that it was super tuesday the networks are projected florida victory for bill clinton and president bush era the latest results and forty nine percent of paul tsongas is thirty one sixteen for jerry brown left with six percent of the vote counted president bush is expected on on the florida republicans there he's got sixty seven percent with two pat buchanan thirty three percent that's also a sense of about abortions i could win all of the eight republican primaries today clinton is expected to win nine of the eleven democratic primaries and caucus with scientists expected to win so massachusetts and rhode island that isn't as airport and i will be back tomorrow night with analysis of tonight's results in an interview with paul sonne son jim lehrer thank you and goodnight well nice nice and that the corporation for public broadcasting

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dave always felt like it i don't think we do back now on the life of a fiddler the buildup of the da do do you think all your goal he was invited to be here his television comes on not giving the babies cry and women they automatically his forget the war this innovative that women shall be in georgia and here's what we feel that way that i'd say with johnny americans feel i think people think the war is over but not too much worried about the kurds the majority yes or some people are better in that country you know what people are concerned

about is the economy and they want something done to solve the economy the depression were in a recession i think it sliding rapidly right i think we're more concerned with that than a moral issue having worn american people are concerned about that they're concerned about what that occurred right now were compassionate people that's what we get into all these things because we're worried about everybody in the world we gave take your people you know what he's using were more algae nobody has said what is the moral position of america did a troubled parts us about the mortality of promising for nearly promising help and then after the other party has starting to contract and back all bets were more elegant into my mind that we're not

talk so loosely about revolution we wouldn't be in this mess we would have a moral obligation to help them as far as giving them food and medicine or gabriel as wonderful as spectacular airdrops of all that it's going to stop going to handle bit of a trickle back down the mountain do whatever is down there and i have only once of what we our moral responsibility has momentum or you morally responsible for the homeless or for the people buying the leisure central america we can hardly ever had to get the paper won the cancer dr invested morally responsible i think we all do which can support of all the only reason we suppose should support them with those i think we led them to believe that we might support so we are encouraged

there's no doubt about that we get it you're never got along over for about a year ago and within seven years of auntie to live that way on top of all that that will be back in another part of it is night air at again the main stories of this thursday president bush unveiled a plan to improve the nation's educational system some congressional democrats said it didn't go far enough attorney general dick thornburgh said the president might accept some form of gun control and getting a seven day waiting period for a hand gun purchases if congress enacts his crime bill going into iraq was a long night with a major discussion of the us decision to come to the aid of the kurds on the wire i thank you and goodnight

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