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this program was also made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to pbs stations from viewers like you thank you the warring factions of the reform party open separate conventions today in long beach calif split became official after several hundred opponents of pat buchanan tried to enter the original convention security guards turned them away so they started their own meeting at a nearby hotel they also asked the federal election commission and what you can learn from receiving twelve point six million dollars in matching funds the money goes with the reform nomination we'll have more on this story right after the news summary vice president gore and senator lieberman focused on the south today they attended a rally in atlanta before southern democratic governors and they dismissed republican charges of the clinton gore administration squandered opportunities on social security and other issues or said

the economy's performance shows the administration has not been posted instead of that unemployment we've got the lowest african american unemployment ever measured the lowest in hispanic unemployment ever measured twenty two million new jobs higher standards of living our incomes are private homeownership rates and officially the strongest economy in the entire two hundred twenty four year history of the united states of america events goran lieberman where to go next to philadelphia then they'll campaigned separately heading to los angeles for the democratic convention will look at that city's convention preparations later in the program tonight on the republican side a day george w bush was joined in california by senator john mccain they made their first appearance in salinas mccain said the clinton administration had

conducted a photo op foreign policy it said that would change it bush's elected but in turn had high praise for mccain if former rival for the republican nomination the game make them up my life that with a primary in a big employer that way that drew a middleman here so this is done at sea bed hey momma better candidates than about your book of the john mccain were better part of the john mccain we're a better country go to john mccain bush and mccain will move on oregon and washington bush's vice presidential running mate dick cheney was in ohio today on the second day of a three day midwestern to president clinton spoke today about the monica lewinsky scandal he was asked about it at a conference of the evangelical ministers in south barrington illinois he said he believed he had gained some measure of

forgiveness he called the affair a terrible mistake that said he feels much more at peace now i wake up every day no matter what anybody says or what goes wrong water with this overwhelming sense of gratitude because it may be that if i had been not bannon the well was and forced to come to grips with what i'd done in that and the consequences of it in such an awful way i might not ever have had to really deal with a hundred percent the president also said no fair minded person should blame vice president gore for this camp in france today investigators offered siri on the crash of an air france concord a plane went down july twenty fifth near paris just after takeoff a hundred and thirteen people were killed the transport ministry said a piece of metal on the runway apparently slash retire with that heavy chunks of rubber slammed into fuel tanks and

touched off a fire the origin of the metal strip remains unclear the investigation continues and that's it for the newshour tonight now it's on to the split of the report of the reform party los angeles gets ready for the democrats united airlines troubles summer and the world of jules pfeiffer this is being used the reform party form parties and two conventions today the regional convention site in long beach california was taken by supporters of former republican patrick buchanan no they insist he will be declared the reform party's nominee when the results of the mail and vote are announced and ross perot were blocked from entering while insisting that buchanan

forces are committing fraud table and backers convene a rival meeting down the street factions are competing fiercely for the right to have the reform party ticket in the november presidential election for the right to twelve point six million dollars in federal funds to finance the campaign it's just i've been clashing all the beginning tuesday when hayden an ally was burning was blocked from entering the meeting main m continued yesterday as both sides say the credentials committee is to certify you could vote at the convention that's important because under party rules the two thirds majority of the delegates could overrule the results of the malan vote the question what happened to pat buchanan wins the popular vote on the mail in ballot it's already been determined by the executive committee and affirmed by the national committee yesterday pat buchanan has disqualified

himself from receiving any verifiable both whatsoever you can and meanwhile despite the disarray of my friends got a long thick that her nomination because of what you for more on the happenings in long beach were joined by washington post correspondent thomas insel what hamas make sense of this what's the state of play right now now pat buchanan and as people have control of the party of the mechanics and most importantly both security and money woes of the two basic power workers here they controlled the police who were sort of comes in and comes out and they have to be too unhappy anbar is roughly that the federal government gives the party proponents convention that gives them a lot of leverage they have is that they're effectively is there any doubt that he will be declared the winner of this melee in this national mail and power one that's been revealed

tomorrow i will depends on how you do the counting the executive committee this fall for dominated executive there you are and that you can damage the committee has ruled that is disqualified as a candidate they actually did that and it is balanced and they lose its most people did not think he would lose if all the ballots are counted on top of that he's got the convention itself where he has more than two thirds of the us seventy percent of the delegates that takes two thirds vote to overturn or to assert any kind of like marijuana may and with that kind of power to do it even if it was the pilot where the dnr laws on what basis to behave when forces can can but you can enforce its of committing fraud was going through a hurricane event they're all the debates you are you can't be they claimed that only certain people can be submitted as requesting balance those people who actually supported sign petitions

voted and members of the reform party various qualifications they claim that you can while over two hundred thousand names of people really were just has the owners republican activists probably from conservative than it was i and there is some evidence that there are people at the white ear or no interest in voting in the us have been getting ballots ii the problems of the reform party people themselves also added names that did not qualify under their own rules and that becomes a two sides fighting each other and what the limits of strangers but the cannon is being attacked for what really amounts to find that had the whole number of people participating in a party that claims to want to have more people participated for romance and one more person dealt with what happened last couple is widen the headland forces stay within the regular convention and try try try you know i have lots of it not the votes needed for a loser that they came here prepared to

walk out they had another run rabbit for the national committee meeting then another room rented today for their convention over the los angeles performance in front of me right now i say it but they really came here about two in order to build a case that there was some they have to go through all the motions of holding their own convention it's a bit of a strain for them television coverage so that means is that raises to the money the all important plot point six million as you mentioned we mentioned earlier in the show heglund forces said file a complaint with the fec the day what's the state of play there who's can get the money and wham well what's going to happen as both sides of the older conventional boat one side is going to nominate pat buchanan the other side to nominate john hager once they both will file to the fec and the ftc lot of the term and that's not a

clear although you would think the odds would be on pat buchanan the fec is actually a split republican democratic commission and the republicans on the commission may not want pat buchanan in this race at all on the theory that it would hurt george bush and then they holed up there but they're going to be court action whoever loses that both veterans will file suit and they're kind of quite quite quite how long that's pat buchanan to say there should be a matter of days however the reports of an old apple watch discount of germination you've been covering this fight for weeks what you think it's really all about is it simply about how our isn't about it's different direction he wants to take the party and on social issues i think it's more about two thirds of a one level it is our moral people who've run this party it's their baby they felt that built up over a year as you can and came in here david evans of the plate

i they know that they could face a situation where two thirds of the convention could overturn the ruling and they decided we're going to win when thirty percent we're going to win at least two thirds of the delegates that got a lot of and state conventions they are the real party our ideological positions statement of his moral principles he says his documentaries the platform this year but he does want to issue a statement declaring that he is still very committed as an anti abortion anti gay rights they've done for this book called your moral values candidate that's the part of his campaign's own words and he is the worst that hard the other side the leader of the anti putin forces or an intervention or who is a today california uses words that there is a cultural

and ideological battle taking place here in the long run what really is the libyan side of his head there being a conservative really right wing populist party in america doesn't that likes pat buchanan this year if it gets that money but assad now where is ross perot training city implements the arab world and so far as this guy was ron was then in riyadh residents and workers doing all of that money is going to a lot of his opponents all have been sitting on his hands as though nothing that no appearances go on that night for a guy to round of those martin says as baby kai is where is orphaned and that has left the air on the doorstep live and this one of you may well party is there a concern in at this convention was supposed to be the reform party's moment in the sun between the two major party conventions when you talk to people there are they concerned that

their squandering it that the making themselves a laughingstock though with the bad publicity i i think well it is a momentous on the larger environment mormons but they identify these are not your normal politicians a lot of them live on the nomination they had all feel that they were that label and benjy of forces marched down and sang we shall overcome and in fact the whole that was orchestrated the planet of the tv cameras but other people played along with it to get out of the way so that would be any more bloodshed they had their people are clear the haul out so that of course is the board ruled that the volvo the inventor of a lot of it is that these guys what they are what they're violent tom enjoy the rest of that fly thanks very much as

meanwhile los angeles prepares for the democratic national convention there pre k of casey et los angeles river or la staple center is where the official business of democrats get done next week but this week as technicians wound up elaborate preparations in sight the state was also being set outside as planners protesters politicians and corporate sponsors old jockey for their place in the media spotlight right here in the sunshine states about post apartheid after a beach press conference that was terry mcauliffe democratic party fundraiser in chief and head of the party's convention getting on and falling off the sofa or the company of the champions so for football across town fellow protesters painting signs and making huge projects to help get their points across that barrier

to stage the convention planners have raised forty eight million dollars in cash goods and services most of the contributions have come from private donors and some from the city of los angeles that's in addition to the thirteen million provided by the federal government the same amount of tax money that went to the republican convention as los angeles paints cleans up towards the fence is off and prepares to face the onslaught of next week's four day extravaganza host committee co chair eli road a billionaire insurance mogul says even his own focuses more on events outside and inside the convention hall i think it more important what goes on in staples hall itself why not me because again it's the ability to show people what los angeles is about it hopefully will increase cultural tourism it'll increase people that want to do business here and for the businesses themselves that they'll be i mean that the shooting is an

important factor will shortz restaurants hotels movie studios museums and private homes around los angeles art books for more than three hundred are his receptions and fundraisers that will take place during the convention week on here says grijalva dr than a half when president i believe it's a saturday at someone's residence broach has a forty inch binder of the invitations he has received i mean you've got paul lack of like an oddball that we call our diana ross hate it to get this out of this mess does cost and i forgot what it is i think they get tickets from one thousand to twenty thousand dollars each i don't think that they had lived as the lines that one local companies used to be expensive tastes of hollywood's literati are getting ready to accommodate political celebrities and their

patrons mary meeker which is along comes mary productions cages and plans lavish parties through the course of the week i would say will be in plainclothes two thousand people is a lot of people oh she's actually more than that probably by the time it's all said and that was the fifteen hundred make food she estimates her company will serve twelve thousand people convention week event for one one dot com will cater to less than half that number it's really the only type of event planning tool that enables you to communicate with such smart route people at one time the company is providing software for convention delegates and plan is to use free of charge diaz is one of many non monetary contributions businesses are making in the hopes that the exposure will help them company ceo stephen cole tried believes the convention is worth more than a thousand tv commercials once they say once they've use your tools to write the

ideas was not go home and they'll go back to their respective walks of life and they'll say hey we ought to have an event planning and coordinating website for this particular event i call you and call the intersection of influence money and politics is emerging as a flashpoint of controversy here in los angeles as it was at last week's republican convention in philadelphia the road to donate generously to both republicans and democrats makes no apology clearly a large contributors have much easier access to elected officials in our contributors are there are natural beauty you get a lot of a lot out of that shirley are getting money host committee doesn't get you very far if you wanna have greater access should give directly to elected officials in their campaign to get the democratic national committee and likewise in mosul for say we should give him greater access to elected officials and those that don't

as it was in philadelphia the power of corporate patrons will be a rallying point for protesters gary grew weise a spokesperson for one of the many disparate groups planning to demonstrate says that's one issue that unites the disaffected but the current state of things what we see is that on corporations and people are large amounts of money are able to influence politicians play given him campaign contributions and i am through sort of revolving door policy isn't giving artisans jobs after they get out of office and they both have a lot of influences a former department store just west of downtown organizers are gathering to plan demonstrations with a different theme for each day unity equality justice and peace some hoped to embarrass the democrats by bringing attention to a labor dispute and resort beach hotel with ties to jonathan take a prominent conservative vice president al gore some unions planned

demonstrations outside the convention although most labor leaders have agreed not to protest demonstrators who will be on the streets say democrats have ignored their pleas to put social issues about profits the reality is that the causes of the democrats have not been supportive of people in this country of common people instantly they've been supportive of people around the world but the chairman of the democratic national convention terry mcauliffe says the protesters' concerns will be addressed inside the convention hall we always talk about issues democratic party unity health care the economy social security environment climbed all those key issues out there that affect america's working families we're going to talk about inside but certainly will be engaged with demonstrators yet while providing an unstable center a parking lot across the street from staples has been designated a main protest area demonstrators plan

several marches a day to the site but many businesses in the neighborhood are fearful of violence and are boarding up their windows many shops in the jewelry district are closing for the week as seen in this los angeles police department video more enforcement has been preparing to deal with protesters at the same time transporting three hundred lost loads of conventioneers across la sprawling geography creates major challenges for police as does the fact that protest sites could be far and why according to police commander david kailash and philadelphia convention was actually held outside of downtown with water on one side and at this and the other here are convention is right in the middle of a living breathing vibe and city that's the complexity of our responsibility to ensure public safety and to maintain order

in the department has been quietly gathering intelligence information about protests is prompting a threat and lorson convention related festivities and protests start this saturday so to come on the newshour tonight problems and the friendly skies and a conversation with jules pfeiffer but first this is public on public television were taken a short right now so your public television station can ask for your support that support helps keep programs like ours on the air for those stations not taken a pledge break the newshour continues now with a second look at one of the readings from our favorite poem series that was the project of them poet laureate robert pinsky asking americans to read their favor coal still says my

name's john already come from trying to massachusetts political and i'm a construction worker for the boston best looking at we do outside construction work providing natural gas for residents of businesses the satisfying thing about the job is to work with a dangerous element really so it's important to be exact in everything you do so we don't want to leave an internal gasoline behind so you know you have to be careful their tension poetry was definitely intimidating initially it just looked like a lot of words and that were out of water and out of place and that did not belong to get our stance that's the challenge of it just takes a lot of reading and re reading to grasp but what did you want to come to

understand that you achieve something so now you feel good song was oklahoma i thought we had a lot of difficulty understanding the first time and there were certain lines that caught me and that i liked and when i got to the very end of this very long poem the last half dozen lines are so encouraging heat and the last few lines whitman tells you what you're thinking he says that you probably didn't understand we just red but stay with it and you will and you love it ends so it felt like it was speaking directly to me when i first read it and they get the lines in mind no matter what i read now that much i feel with walt whitman's poems on myself is not due to the fact that he talks about neighbors physical labor working outside in like in

common working american that's a nice touch and it of course but i enjoyed it for its it's uplifting this it's this ability to inspire me in this and see things in life on an everyday existence that i hadn't noticed before taking for granted before saw myself by walt whitman there is that in me i do not know what it is but i know it isn't wrenched and sweaty calm and cool and my body becomes i sleep i sleep long i do not know what it is about name is a word un said it is not in any dictionary utterance symbol something it swings on more than the

earth i swing on to get the creation is the friend who's embracing awakening perhaps i might tell more old mines i plead my brothers and sisters do you see all my brothers and sisters is not chaos death is formed union plan that is eternal life is happiness the last couple of day old got to flee with my likeness after the rest and there was an enormous shadow while coaches meet a vapor in the dusk i depart i shake my white locks at the runaway son i have used my flesh and eddies and drifted lacey jags i bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass i love if you want me again look for me under your boot soles you will hardly know why him oh what i mean but i shall be good health you nevertheless and filter and

five e of one failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged missing the one place search another i stop somewhere waiting for you airline troubles at united airlines and ray suarez united canceled hundreds of flights last weekend and two hundred and forty more on monday chicago o'hare international airport it was a repeat of a familiar scene in the summer have been record numbers of delays and cancellations unhappy united fans waiting on long on sleeping on floors relaying the bad news on cellphones and complaining for tv campaigns it's their problem and i

remember this in july united the world's largest carrier reported almost six thousand cancellations three times the rate of other major airlines the airline has announced it will cancel almost two thousand more flights in september it blames bad weather in parts and an acrimonious labor dispute since april united and its union have ten thousand pilots have been squabbling over a new contract management says pilots are deliberately refusing over time and calling in sick to bring pressure on the company union spokesman captain herbert hunter says his pilots are not in the midst of any job action your work style the union says we're using overtime is the members' right united real problem is too few clients airline recently raised its hiring for one

thousand a thirteen hundred bucks angry passengers and corporate clients are dropping out united has already reported second quarter losses of fifty million dollars and estimates are the airline could lose another one hundred and twenty two hundred and fifty million dollars in the third quarter united's problems of raised questions about a merger with us airways announced last may more and other concerns for next week's democratic national convention in los angeles tonight the convention officially over for more i'm joined by julius maldutis global aviation analyst and managing director at sea idc world markets at canadian imperial bank of commerce and mark or wall managing editor of travel and leisure magazine julius maldutis you've heard suggestions about whether about air traffic problems about disputes with the pilots are all of these contributing to unite its current problems yes i think they all are contributing but i think the primary factor is that you have to labor unions

whose contracts have expired and they are very unhappy at the slow progress and that is the primary reason for all the flight cancellations that we are seeing both of the union speech she lists and the pilots are part owners of united airlines it's the largest employee owned company in america how is it that the owners are at war with themselves and while they're not at war with themselves in a sense they're more at war with the current management and unfortunately there's no statesmanship on anybody's part here and that's why we have the problem mr gore walter let's look at this from the point of view of the passenger is this the kind of problem that overtime is bound to cause shrinkage for united airlines and the trouble to get those people back i don't think so the year loyalty when it comes to air travelers is very limited in fact vacation travelers the average leisure travelers a pretty fickle person when they call a travel agent to book a trip there was a button and

united airlines they say put me on the cheapest flight he could find so six months from now a year from now united has the best there's i think those leisure travelers of the onion it as far as a frequent travelers the business travelers many of them have thousands of miles not hundreds of thousands of a frequent flier miles invested in the airline they can afford not to fly on united era course that's if they can actually get on a flight to use those miles julie's number has limits on do you agree with marc also diagnosis they had a long time this doesn't really hurt united that monk well i think you have to take a look at what happened to northwest airlines in september of nineteen ninety eight here we have a company that suffered a two week strike lot of fit in one point eight billion dollars in losses and it took them all were year to win back their frequent flyer business passengers so it really depends on now what united does it after the strike and i'm hopeful that the right after labor day we're

going to see a settlement and what kind of shape does this leave the proposed merger with us airways is that in trouble by as a cause as a consequence of this united airlines prop well i think that's a very critical question because of the pilots were unhappy over the fact that they have no assurances of what their romp roll is going to be in a merged company so i think management is going to have to resolve that issue if the company is going to go forward with the merger also keep in mind the fact that we are having a presidential election and i think no party will want to antagonize organized labor so the marriage issue really is going to be decided next march or april margot wants phil united is able to ramp up its hiring of new pilots until it's able to make peace with its union what should the flying public know about its rights in the near term when you're standing there in the terminal if you're actually in the terminal and you look up on

the year of the flight's status board news he canceled or you see delayed your your rights are pretty limited diet if their cars if the delay or cancellation is caused by bad weather if they can attribute it to a labor strike or any kind of act of god or the force majeure of that really the only thing the airline owes you in that event is a refund on the unused portion of your ticket and they try to get you on another flight that if the flight delay or cancellation is caused by any other reason like the machinery problem let's go as scheduled the regularity in that case the airline is obligated to put you on the next available light or if that's not satisfactory to the bridge on the next flight out even on a competing airline so it's it's important for you to find out what the cause of the delay is you know that's often hard to do in our report you may have heard that frustrated passenger expressing a bit of suspicion of the airline's information street they said they told us

one thing they've told us another thing well an airline in effect say it's one thing that leaves it less exposed when the cause of the cancellation might in fact be another thing well you know i think it was very telling that in the public apology made by the president of united airlines on monday that right up there at the top of the apology he stated that we're really sorry about all of these delays that were caused by labor problems and by bad weather too wood rebel force majeure events so he got that ride out the public right away and i don't think that was just by accident that that happened and indeed the interpretation of what is the actual cause of it the way you walk you could take it to court and you could talk about a debate about it for hours and hours and hours if the airline is an upfront with you then you gotta get to la or to four other to europe in the next six hours you don't have time to wait see relying on good faith that you have another life just in the past day the illinois attorney general jim ryan and several members of congress

from western states have suggested that they want to look into the airline's practices and procedures should united fear that the brilliant a can of worms being open by this kind of scrutiny oh i would think so this is just going to keep the whole issue in the public eye even more than it has been since last week of course this is nothing new and here is your initial reports pointed out this week the number of cancellations and delays has been an ongoing issue since the contract expired contract expired last spring the the data whether the the work the refusal of pilots to fly over time really brought before and i think if the congressional investigation if they bring it through to a deity investigation just going to keep it before the public i think people are going to be reluctant to fly united and those things resolve says could have long term implications and the investigation by my duty if that happens and the complaints by these politicians can keep the fire live in the future julius maldutis

so anyway in on that same issue from a business point of view was certainly united stock has been taking a terrible beating that the last i think you've seen today a number of analysts including myself we reduce our third quarter forecasts hopefully this a dispute gets resolved by the end of this month or early into the next month because the longer it lasts the greater will be the damage to united airlines but i am hopeful that we can resolve this issue you noted somewhat amazing that in the nineteen seventies there was a mutual aid package which level the playing field between management and labor it's unfortunate that a bit the negotiating power is all with labor as i indicated before no airline today can sustain any kind of job action or a strike american

airlines last year suffered a sick out which caused damage so there's got to be eight and a way to resolve these labor difficulties and i hope the new administration whichever it is makes this a significant priority on the secretary of transportation's table that there's got to be a mechanism because it is the traveling public who is the ultimate loser julius maldutis mr gore well thank you both as violet i'm not a conversation about politics with editorial cartoonist jules pfeiffer and the media correspondent karen smith at seventy one jules pfeiffer still enjoys causing a star withers and this summer he announced it was closing down his weekly strength a cartoon conversation that has been syndicated in newspapers for decades while pfeiffer says he won't miss the deadlines he is sorry to

have to retire his famously limber dancing from pfeiffer introduced his running social commentary in the village voice new york's liberal alternative weekly in nineteen fifty six just five years later he won an academy award for an animated version of his short story munroe it was not long before he began drawing for bigger publications and targeting bigger fish among them the american presence in nineteen eighty six he won the pulitzer prize for editorial cartooning he has also written for the stage and screen including the nineteen seventy one hit carnal knowledge pfeifer of former democratic convention delegate has not retired his political cartoons altogether he's just one monthly on campaign two thousand and other contemporary topics we discuss politics and lives tribulations in an interview in his apartment on manhattan's upper west side

deals letter welcome thank you not long ago you had a cartoon in which you followed edmund morris is lead an approaching of politics and politicians telling them well i did a cartoon actually during the primary season say i couldn't get a grip on a campaign and couldn't get interested in any of the people running so i totally from mr his book then the bowery and then i made myself a candidate for president but a cartoon character approach and then i was running in the democratic party left of al gore and little cartoon character even bought a slippery also that my triumph was that i gave welders level sons i have a suspicion looking at some of your more recent carter is that today you actually deciding to give that part of it up because campaign two thousand seemed to doll campaign

that's true the leaders of the two parties are so and scary that you and so dull and so don't tell me about the underdog or al gore hold in the first a budget on that he's running for during the primary cycle and ignore as a superhero it's in superman on the gore was somebody who looks like a superhero is built like a superhero and never fails to disappoint amenities people that there are expectations low enough for him not to suppress what you want in these guys as fictional characters and as president for that matter is something larger than life but not less meaningful than life and what you get in the door is can you be larger than life less because that's what he essentially as a weapon what the bushes is somebody who just you know he doesn't give a crap with a word is a lefty use your friends about yourself go to that you know it is there is no place that i know

and i am a lawyer so looking for a place for a leftist no longer there maybe i'm looking for an allusion of all the topics are subject you've talked about the people the politicians in a way that was that it seemed to me the most impressive president say that in my time with those nine months from november twenty third nineteen sixty three until lyndon johnson won the presence a re run for himself and those those nine months the past a poverty programs voters' rights activists all rights programs and sort of thing as simply couldn't be done and through his determination was this extraordinary period of dream legislation which made and so good that it was a lovely thought that it was only after he ran it as a pew's carroll it became a war criminal that i went to work on it and i mean that i never felt so betrayed by anyone as a divided lyndon johnson explained attract people used to say you must take nixon i never had to had somebody there has to be some

element of that pursell disappointment some trust has been displaced in johnson's case it was it was very much so in nixon's case i kind of adored mexican he was always let's just say they were already i mean these guys a wonderful characters jimmy carter never got to be interesting and for years it was just one big and i drew him as it is to say in disappearing ink and that the image on the paper and would tend to vanish like the cheshire cat will just go away but will it be left with piety should a political cartoon draw blood yes yes one of things that always an arrangement and cartoonist was doing this trip say on the president and them being flattered when the white house calls mostly regional it means you failed the senate you have appeared in newspapers most of your life and your characters are awful watching television as talk about those two things about journalism about

television television detective denise and i don't watch the news anymore or partly washington and when i don't feel as if i have to know i mean it's you don't feel as though you were raising him i'm sure i'm missing something but i don't think i'm missing much when i use racial or political cartoon was aimed at certain people for certain regions and on certain issues but now it seems that attitude has replaced politics are is responsibility and any kind of loss of its work dutch and smugness and i'm cool and you're not and i know more than you do and end up another with attitude which will stop you from asking questions lose listeners yes yes i think so and once he's everywhere and dispiriting is tomorrow and when i discovered the courtroom back in the fifties the response i began to get from readers was not how good the work

was loyal funny or help but how did you get away with that and predict how did they let you say that because what i was being told was that i was representing my readers and they didn't think their views were allowed in the newspaper how much of the banks that you have portrayed so wonderfully is your next well it is a state i mean how much i love what you draw comes from inside all that reflex mayhem reflects what i think but the words the characters use they will have nothing to do with what i would say would know there's no character in any player britain who says directly what i have to say what i would say in a private conversation or don't think there's and so it is with a carter well i don't think in terms of images i think in terms of language but the depiction of language the body english that people use is very

important we learn about the misuse of language and how words mean something other than their intended not from a press conference or a statement from this a bureaucratic error but at our mothers me when mom sold as one thing when she means something else and we learn how to read that go on every level there is it's about power who hasn't doesn't have it how you use it it is a well is it as normal we seem to be these days ago to humiliate i got you go and enemies are permissible to finally let's look at a little bit at that jules pfeiffer is scheduled for the next the current decade with who whatever what's it plays will salas and enjoys look that iowa state did recommend a coma which is called some things are scary by a wonderful year old ordinance was bury it and a gaming more fun in growing about ten years what is it about an audience of children that as attractive to you well having it was the month of one

generation getting a show in its seventh and there's so there's a feedback one gets from kids as you read to them say in a bookstore in a class of my go to is that the questions are yes the excitement that it's all about feeling a lot of them relating to an audience that matters and i think you met hours of snapp was a is not the sole voice the fall over again is not that i can play you have the same offerings is something quite a lot of that and then i'm getting involved there yet which is me to my detriment but it is a form i love and after ten year hiatus and twenty one play on that commission to a new playful lincoln center near guarantee up an end look for the beginning or cut so there's a lot i wanted to end but the one of footage of the dancer cells a very busy retirement it was not a retirement isn't just as a refocusing i need time to work on these other things you know threw him to build up such a lot when i myself i can finally mr brecher thank you

and again the major stories of this there's that the warring factions of the reform party open separate conventions of long beach california on the campaign trail vice president gore and senator lieberman focused on the south and george w bush was joined in california by senator john mccain will say you online and again here tomorrow evening with shields and ego among others i'm jim lehrer thank you and goodnight modern practices that made america in particular this is

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he's an atm at evening and tomorrow on the newshour tonight margaret warner with homicides or the washington post report the fractious opening of the reform party's convention jeffrey kane chronicles los angeles's preparations for the democrats race war as looks at united airlines summer of discontent and karen smith talks to the retiring man of ideas and cartoons jules pfeiffer and all fall is also really knows this there's because of the go to feeding the world they're not just content dedicated opening the borders and the people need as bell

this program was also made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to pbs stations from us like you thank you the warring factions of the reform party open separate conventions today in long beach calif split became official after several hundred opponents of pat buchanan tried to enter the original convention security guards turned them away so they started their own meeting at a nearby hotel they also asked the federal election commission to block buchanan from receiving twelve point six million dollars in matching funds the money goes with the reform nomination we'll have more on this story right after the news summary vice president gore and senator lieberman focused on the south today they attended a rally in atlanta or southern democratic governors and they dismissed republican charges of the clinton gore administration squandered opportunities on social security and other issues or said the economy's performance shows the administration has not been posted

instead of that unemployment we've got the lowest african american unemployment ever measured hello as the hispanic unemployment ever measured twenty two million new jobs higher standards of living are in gowns are private homeownership rates and officially the strongest economy in the entire two hundred twenty fourteen