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seemed assured a huge victory in the illinois primary with a democratic race tight and president reagan repeated his call for the ouster of panama leader man well noriega all of the details in our new summer in a mall the shrine hunter gault is an er to not so i have to the news summary we look at us options on noriega with a panamanian opposition leader and a us senator then with hollywood director peter berg down a bit and producer david brown a debate over how much control phil martin should have over their works and finally a roger rosenblatt essay on how the american electorate has changed eleven utilities provide delight is the 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 the voters in illinois we went to the

polls today in a primary that effectively wrapped up the republican presidential nomination network projections unofficial returns all say that vice president george bush scored a fallen when senate minority leader robert dole a distant second ball who spent the day campaigning in wisconsin refused to quit saying that race has just begun and their heels stay in at least until next month's wisconsin vote the other republican in the race pat robertson also repeated his intention to stay in the race even though his campaign was lagging roberts met today with republican party chairman to discuss his role at this summer's convention and beyond on the democratic side the race was tight between the two favorite sons senator paul simon and jesse jackson that network projections show simon slightly ahead simon when into the race saying he would quit if he didn't win his home state jesse jackson would get a ballot

initiative called shelby lynne and a northern industrial primary democratic national front runner governor michael dukakis finished third listener al gore and congressman richard gephardt far behind jim president reagan said again today tijuana general manuel noriega out of there a panamanian military leaders under us indictment on drug trafficking charges and at the white house this morning reporters asked the president about the noriega situation right here this week house speaker jim wright to reporters after a bipartisan congressional leadership meeting with mr reagan that he supported the administration's efforts to oust noriega as well panama today the noriega government ordered a us

iaea official out of the country and forty eight hours parents need all is the official us spokesman at the embassy in panama city a state department spokesman in washington said the order would be ignored there was also more rioting in panama city police used tear gas water cannons and shotguns break up a demonstration the public employees demanding their way protesters including doctors nurses and hospital workers for us financial crisis made it impossible for the noriega government need if they were all back at the white house today president reagan and his national security adviser told a group of congressional leaders that the nicaraguan contras are in trouble a white house account of the meeting said that national security advisor collin powell told the congressman the sandinista government was preparing an all out death blow on the country's president reagan asked the congressional leaders to consider new aid for the contras after a package of humanitarian assistance was rejected by the house earlier this month house speaker jim wright spoke to reporters after the meeting

we have tried a wide range of member democratic and rejected solid why is this an opposition on the third of this month that we would think that rather than they were vying for testing it also said it would be impossible to get a new vote on contract aid this week as the president requested this was the first serious day in the shamir schultz talks about the middle east peace negotiations the israeli prime minister and the us secretary of state not for three hours this morning at the state department afterward shamir spoke of the differences over an international middle east peace conference in other issues in the shields peace proposal and sheltered knowledge they had not made much progress we haven't found our way to bridge all of the differences that i think

speaking for myself i see quite clearly what the nature of the differences aren't what they are slowly worked out ways to deal with the underlying problems and in that sense i felt that the discussion of the roulette corporate we as the united states government and business activity in looking for other ways to get these unplanned knows the prospects for peace in our area shamir also met today with members of congress and other us officials to miley sits down with president reagan at the white house in the israel to more arrows were reported killed today as the government imposed a ban on palestinian travel in the occupied territories the ban is intended to prevent agitators an anti israeli propaganda from circulating between the west bank and the gaza strip the

band followed new disturbances triggered by a nighttime curfew imposed on arab residents in the gaza strip in addition to today at least twelve other palestinians were wounded in clashes in the two occupied areas israeli radio wanted that five hundred arab policeman had resigned under pressure from the plo but say forty later returned to their jobs the final figures on the nineteen eighty seven us trade deficit were and a day and there were the commerce department said the number was one hundred and sixty point seven billion dollars the highest it has ever been an increase of thirteen point seven percent over the previous year there was also a new government report out today about the protective ozone layer over the united states a report from nasa said the layer had shrunk two point three percent since nineteen sixty nine and said the major cause we're chemicals used in song aerosol sprays just yesterday the senate ratified an international agreement that would limit the use of those chemicals convicted

murderer william dodd and was executed in florida's electric chair this morning the fifty four year old daughter and was accused of the nineteen seventy three murder of a furniture store owner dodd and maintained his innocence during a fourteen year battle to overturn its death sentence i last minute appeals yesterday from international figures such as andre sakharov and democratic presidential candidate jesse jackson the us supreme court rejected darden's appeal president reagan and they asked for clemency for six south african black scheduled for execution friday white house spokesman ron phipps waters and the president had made the clemency request for the so called sharp until six on compassionate and humanitarian grounds here's a report on the case by graham leaked to the bbc shah poor township september third nineteen eighty four the day on which south africa's nationwide violence exploded an early victim michelle fields black deputy in their rented by activists a stooge of the government's he was stoned that's because despite the

killing as gruesome and that evil and barbaric the actual killers were never felt watched the trial judge ruled that the shop till six were to varying degrees associated with the crowd involved in the murder the six were convicted because they were judged to have had the killings the families and lawyers of the six known to the local and international campaign to seek support for the plea of clemency which was sent to president gore's britain and other common market countries supported the families outside pretoria central prison where the shop till six are on jethro lawyers and relatives emerged from that first prison visit since the execution orders was served one of the accused steve mcqueen the youngsters about twenty four years old recently said they can kill me but they were not a misprint mr diaz said the six were resolved to die convinced that the common purpose will have been really apply it was they were not directly responsible for the brutal killing of a shop that officially opened president

botha has rejected all bid for clemency but he said today he would meet thursday with members of south africa's parliament who are opposed to the execution method for the news summary still ahead getting rei about hollywood goes to washington and rosenblatt essay on the american electorate general manuel noriega will not leave panama despite a most unusual public campaign to as president reagan says get him out of there that business and political leadership of panama has demanded his departure so are protesting teachers doctors and other public employees so has every official and political part of the government of the united states which has indicted noriega for drug trafficking and put such a financial squeeze on noriega he could no longer meet his government i roll what is going to take to get this man out of power and out of his own country is what we explore tonight first with roberto eisenmann publisher

the opposition panama paper what president he joined us from a studio in miami and the senator richard luger republican of indiana who is chairman of the senate foreign relations committee when the united states facilitated axis of ferdinand marcos from the philippines and john claude evaluate from haiti he joined us from the senate gallery senator lugar the comparisons are being made between what happened in the philippines and i am at and now the noriega thing of those ballot neither no comparisons there about the situation the case of the marcos michael has called a snap election the food that he had authority and asked for a high level delegation to come over and witness the elections and is worried there's the trends but in filipino democracy and really by invitation of michael was of course the case of violent situations one of extreme jeopardy for the ruins family and he asked for asylum or persistence to get out the case of the general noriega clearly he is not asking for our assistance getting out is resisting

of art attempts to give him the word in the in fact the words coming strongly as you point out from panamanians audience and how different case do you support what the administration of the line and trying to get my other yes i think the administration and that the congress at work together really well in a bipartisan way which has followed the lead of president of it and we recognize an ambassador so so we recognize we have been following instructions or requests that they have made it as important a state and that is one strong reason why the panamanian people while large are behind our efforts and encouraging us to do more and why essentially the uae governments for a weapon so that way the thais him and why then does noriega remain lonely well i think jim to be a basic difference between the other examples that we've talked about an audience is the ingredients of what we have called narco militarism

i think that what might be playing very hard in libya as mine is what happens to his security once he leaves in the government of panama he is still an asset for the narco mafias out of power he becomes a tremendous liability and we all know that the narco mafias ever very long arm no matter how much money he might have to protect himself i think that that is what's playing very hard in his mind it probably holding they're holding him out the last straw more so than than they are the prospect of his being extradited them to the united states to stand trial on these drug charges well i think it's pretty clear after the reagan administration made its announcement yesterday that though the us is willing to consider not asking for his extradition such as spain is willing to consider taking him the opposition has

announced that they will not klayman spain for having taken him so i think that the infrastructure for his exit is there the problem i think is the other ingredient that he threatened to kill exactly that up to you know as i get makes very good sense but i think he's in great danger and that along i mean i'm not certain narrative or a guy would would choose to stay in panama and definitely even if you had a recording of a military people around him seems to me at some point it has to take a look at the possibilities in the two we've been wise than in people been wise to leave an exit this summer douglas prisoner of care situation with united states today and noriega's let's say that the junior correct that noriega's real fear is a somewhat has been issued one is the narcotics bodies and i stayed says ok there goes spain will protect you from the narcotics of mafia mean can we get into that no we can't we shouldn't and eventually he has to make a

decision says situations is made from cell we ought not to be involving offering protection of all i'm saying is that would appear the least an avenue of escape is present for him and i think that's a really are with that we have to offer but the point is that if if you're all right and what you normally write a minute they think he's going to kill individually the middle of his chances than an animal that thrives in a new great well i i do agree with senator lugar that he also has a risk with in panama now he's he's almost in a total political vacuum now the only thing he had left that were the public employees and now they have turned on him for a lack of payment so right now the only thing he has going for mother fifteen thousand rifles of the panama defense force and our information is at their major cracks within the defense force showing up now obviously they have not they have not taken any action but those cracks are

very much their we know they are functioning so suddenly he can find himself without the protection of the defence force itself in which he places his health in panama would be very much in question ok so then what happened was well i think that when he is convinced that his danger as an animal are higher than his dangers outside a panama he will make that decision and those gang problem was probably a visitor fail a visitor rating senator lugar that the deal has been great for him to go to spain not necessarily but it options there i would say the date this may seem far fetched to both general and others to assume that he has an option really becoming the united states is standing trial i suspected these really worried about physical jeopardy there is one way out of the situation what does senator based on your experience and used to innovate they don't relate directly as you say that they're kind of similar in your view very knowledgeable about your boss a very novel about animals situation

what what does your are what your heart i do think the senate resolve itself on land well i believe that events will continue to be a very grim but the people with them all were increasing numbers indicated that general but he's got to leave and even more importantly as my calling the program and eyes pointed out to the military will make that option for the mortgage as anyone to leave at some point i'm hopeful that i can be facilitated smoothly so that there's no bloodshed that process night picket candy ultimately as as you know the case of the valiant marcos they did ask for assistance the united states was able to help facilitate those exits ms reisen mcmanus and i had used a lie i most definitely feel that the fact that spain offered itself probably means that some overtures were made from libya toward spain

before they would take a position of outwardly supporting his exit towards their country and i also feel that the reagan as the administration stands yesterday allowing that exit without looking for extradition also means that there's some seriousness in that possibility and i quite frankly feel that things will continue as they are there will be more demonstrations in the street i expect a lot of violence from the material forces i expect no violence from the opposition forces who have learned quite clearly the value and the hauer of nonviolence and i expect the country to just become totally ungovernable from earlier obviously the less costly out would be for the defence force to cleanse themselves so to speak an exit money on their own but if that does not happen although the defense force will be

risking their self destruction i think modi has no this exit is just a question of time if i had to guess i would say a maximum of weeks and most probably were talking about days for a final crisis that senator lugar are you at all are uneasy about the fact of the us government and such an overt was a moving to oust the head of a song and by the propositions nots there's the ousting of the no noriega who is really not the head of the saddam government is not elected by anybody's self appointed himself in this situation what we're looking for are states in the panamanian people stakes are development of democratic institutions noriega will go in due course but that will not solve the problem there will have to be the restoration of the cost issue and government via government and then subsequently elections which i suppose the panamanians and we hope will leap for stronger political

parties really stronger institutions altogether and development of a democracy or c which we can take hold in that country now we're a much more sophisticated operation after the crisis noriega than then even this one man requested mr eiserman i as a panamanian and somebody was very much opposed to noriega has been for for many years i guess now do you think the united states is don't have proper role in in such a public way putting the squeeze on this man yes it is important to understand it questions of the interventionist doctrine with regards to panama i personally as a good latin american are very much holmes to intervention by the united states in our matters because we have suffered many interventions in the positive light left very important problems and international of these

bats in this case we have a new phenomenon this is not just the question of a dictatorship it's not merely a political question it's not even an ad a logical question it's a question of this new phenomenon that we've called narco military's whereby a narco mafias takes over the off already in the military institution of our country and then takes over the country as such and this is the kind of problem that panamanians on their own can solve alone we are doing everything we can we are doing everything we can of the risk of life every day but we do need the solidarity of all decent and democratic countries in the world and the intervention of the united states was so overt in favor of material for so many years that

panamanians are not now resenting the intervention yeah financial and otherwise against libya the reaction is more they finally saw the light so to speak and gentlemen thank you both very much steelhead on the newshour hollywood goes to washington and the roger rosenblatt essay but first with this pledge week on public television we're taking a short break now so your public television station can ask for your support that support helps keep programs like this on the air for those stations not taking a pledge to break the newshour continues now with a report on the ozone layer today scientists announced that the ozone layer which shields the earth from ultraviolet radiation had shrunk about two point three percent since nineteen sixty nine experts fear this could mean increased cases of skin cancer

the problem is particularly bad in antarctica correspondent michael tobias of public station kqed san francisco has a report on the ozone research that is gone oh adventurers and explorers have been coming here for two centuries but has only recently that scientists have begun to investigate and our biggest secrets geological secrets frozen in the ice and a vast extremely pristine ecosystem noted for its incredible lack of pollution that pure environment and the many animal species that inhabit it are beginning to feel the impact of human activities on the planet what has most recently attracted international concern over antarctica is the existence of air of a bizarre hole in the atmosphere bozo that not only threatens the celebrated purity of antarctica but could pose a threat to all life on the planet the earth is surrounded by a protective shield of ozone layer of the atmosphere

roughly ten miles up that acts as a filter against the sun's deadly ultraviolet radiation doctor david hoffman is an atmospheric physicist from the university of wyoming who is spending the antarctic summer researching the ozone what we have learned is that to do was on cavity is a region and a third one in revenues miles for this discussion that starts at about eight miles and ends at about thirteen miles it's all about a five mile thick religion emphasizes or flu continental proportions is in another phenomenon where the confusion in the coldest in the antarctic springtime august and september that county is surrounded by little remaining rose up in as few as two weeks nearly ninety percent of the total ozone has been shown to disappear from the upper antarctic atmosphere it corporate appears to be the invisible

chlorofluorocarbons or cac is found in a variety of manufactured products from industrialized nations north of antarctica stratospheric winds quickly that you see at sees around the planet the sudden concentration of these molecules over the high forbidding mountains and glaciers in antarctica baffled scientists but it may have something to do with the fact that the southern continent is so cold and its clouds frequently freeze in mid air the csc molecules might somehow gravitate to those frozen clouds and they're initiate unique chemical reactions responsible for the extreme ozone depletion that's one of several theories currently being examined by american scientists in the fall of nineteen eighty six teams of those scientists came to mcmurdo station the main us antarctic base their data collection which began in august of nineteen eighty six when the ozone hole was at its worst involved a series of balloon borne ground based

atmospheric experiments but we've learned that completely unexpected just in the last two three weeks is that the depression occurs in small some regions the best example is that look like swiss cheese in this cabin scott holes in it where there's almost no ozone and all work will be much more difficult in an explanation such powerful sunlight resulting from the antarctic ozone hole is dangerous a spokesperson for the national cancer institute estimates that of a similar ozone hole appeared over the united states the incidence of skin cancers resulting from exposure to ultraviolet radiation could jump as much as eighty percent over current rates yesterday the senate voted eighty three to zero to ratify an international agreement which would limit the use of the chemicals that are causing the ozone depletion now it's up to president reagan to sign the treaty

the legendary mr smith went back to washington today only this time jimmy stewart went as himself rather than the fictional senators flaherty played in the nineteen thirty nine movie classic that then stewart's character dave impassioned speeches to affect the senate vote today jimmy stewart was re living that moment for real as a leader in a lobbying effort by several of hollywood's biggest names i director peter berg out of that an actor burt lancaster at issue whether congress should pass the bills giving arteries more control over their products the hollywood lobbyists are especially upset about new car ride versions of black and white as well as heavy handed editing of movie classics i wanted a mission in which the story as the storm season and cut out

that loses a great deal of this meaning a great deal of its emotional impact because it's confusing and yet my name is on it and the name of the other actors in the film i think to myself what are they going to be what gives him the right to do this to me they can't do that they don't only the male in the picture causation has just one development that has split the movie industry into two camps the artist on one side the commercial interests on the other in a moment we'll have a debate between director peter berg down a bit and producer david brown but first we have a background report from correspondent human self remember me jimmy cagney originally sang the song in black and white it was nineteen forty two and patton won an academy award but in nineteen eighty six the yankee doodle dandy got a

facelift a paint job every day that day and the colonized version that the highest rating in something shown on the turner broadcasting system in one of the most acclaimed the mysteries that remain loyal to south korea this nineteen twenties called on some of hollywood's best known directors saw a red i would say that it's a it's a philistine notion conceived out of pure venality with total disregard for the oddest and total contempt for the audience it's dishonest in every way no matter what touches audience creator doesn't

matter everybody's being had in the process you mutilating wonderful body of american films destroying them by comparing them and in these films are for cultural heritage that's a popular cultural heritage but some of them all works of art in the arm but they're killing themselves and he said sure last time i checked there were my fill that argument is not satisfy many directors or the directors guild i think the question of ownership is a key one if someone buys a work of art by picasso that doesn't mean that they have the right to mutilate it simply means they only in terms of taking care of it the fact that ted turner has brought these films my opinion doesn't allow him to vandalize them this great power over them and emulate them to whatever extent he wants china argues that nothing is being

destroyed because the original black and white film will be preserved nonetheless many directors feel it's a moral issue turner isn't convinced you obviously a lot of advantages to being able to colorize black and white films more primetime exposure for classic fill more viewers than ever reform and of course more revenue on every side roger mayor is president of turner entertainment company and is in charge of the mgm library which turner bought for a billion dollars he says turner is trying to make good on his investment and give new life to many films that would otherwise just gathering dust on the shelf there's a tremendous limitation in our ability to market the black and white films on television particularly is rather i'm interested in them were saying that in order to get a sufficiently large audience to look at most of these pictures certainly not the black and white pictures of woody allen but most of these pitches particular ones from the thirties and forties

and we have to put them in color in c still the same old story plus a conflict between artistic integrity and financial gain but no one disputes that the polarization business at ted turner plants black and white films in the next several years but between the two film libraries he owns auntie anne's and warner brothers he has about twenty remember how many of those can be candidates for polarization in the future while turner has taken most of the flag other movie companies have to paint brushes into their archives as well walt disney gave the absent minded professor of color left in nineteen eighty five and twentieth century fox to the same strict it was the highest rated syndicated movie in nineteen eighty five nathan says film is giving it a new interpretation that he

says has been happening in r for centuries and i think that we are entitled to attempt to make a version that would attempt to experiment in the same way directors demand that night in connection with the novels that they buy some place that they buy and when they want to turn those around change the title change the characterization cut out large parts of it and change the vision of the often they do not hesitate for a moment and then they come up with their vision and that's fine what's the difference between causing a black and white film and making a movie version of the book good point good point and wage raise and the major difference is that when you transfer a play into a movie only transfer novel into a movie when you make a plane to a ballet which you doing is making a different work of our indifference plastic work of art it is of summer we're going to take one day's journey into night and make at an oil painting which you doing

is translating that work through an artist's processed into a different work of art is it but as to the question of artistic control we have two parties to the conflict david brown along with his partner richard zanuck have produced such films as jaws the scene the verdict and cook and peter about damage director of such films as paper moon and the last picture show for us humans to bed down in a chair you want congress to pass legislation that will protect the moral rights of artists to control their own work what is moral right mean here well it basically means that when we make a film a certain way if it stays that way we have an obligation to ourselves and to the audience too preserve the integrity of what we meant the work to be on

the look of the picture winner isn't black and white or color i have to be preserved because that's that's probably a seventy percent of what work of what we're doing besides colorization what other areas do you want this legislation to address well it has to do with anything that was materially changes to work for example deny ways of speeding up the film slowing down the film of a handstand for for wide screen pictures so that you you lose the median the correct image there is i'm told is even technology and in the works that could take one actor and taken out of the picture for another actor in his place they can put in different music in a picture mean where does it stop we've week we've had many years now of films being interrupted by commercials and and being the scenes cut out and sequences cut out this happens all the time it has happened for many years and i

think finally of the directors guild a lot of actors and writers with the colorization of foreigners ok that's enough it just too much and in the end in brief what would that legislation faith or do it it makes it impossible to do this kind of thing without the permission of the the director or the writer of that of the regional arms around the song well what's wrong with that my opinion is that the principal writer who's usually credited by the writers guild and may not be the principal writer at all it may be an un credited writer and the director are in many instances not the author or creator of the failed in the case of most of these old films have been cholera has for example more of them have been the products of the moguls who thought up the idea is for the film and hired the writers and the directors in more recent times i can cite any number of examples of films in which a producer or even a producing company

actually gave birth to the idea of the film and assembled all of the others is true the director's vision is a dominant vision but there's no question that a motion picture on like a symphony by strauss or painting is a fusion of a great many talents so your problem with the legislation in wood beam where my problem is that in the first place the principal writer and the director should not be the sole arbiters of what could be changed after the film has released another problem may be sort of sacrilegious for a film produced to say this i don't think most movies are hard for them more i don't believe that the artist is the one who proclaimed something off that is the public prisoner i can just i won't take a second in the new republic recently there's a statement on this as you are especially public art is not the sole reserve of the artist does

something for interpreted market and given meaning by society as a whole the free market has operated in the art world without apparent call for disaster for centuries largely because it recognizes that fact terrible images go back in is an advantage on the point that this is the fusion of the great many talents and therefore it's not the proper it's not the art of business oh i think that david is right that many movies and i agree with i agree that many movies are the main reason they were the producer is the dominant figure however when we're trying to come to a conclusion that like this i think you have to go to the the ideal situation and when you talk about the work of the great filmmakers whether it's john ford or a john houston or howard hawks or or or charlie chaplin i mean these are the people who did create those films of alfred hitchcock now for example in the

fifties john ford who was the most honored american directory one academy award six times he won the national medal of freedom he would do a film and in in black and white and then he would do a film in color and then he would do a film in black and white he chose his medium depending upon his story now i asked him once about why he did one pitcher like what one picture and color and he said well a black and white is effective for a dramatic story of a dramatic story black and white is that is what sells it the best what gets across the best value if any a basic point here is is that it should be left up to the artist who has a minute when we we look at will which i always find exceptions to everything in every situation including symbolism papa's knee of our mistake or the ideal situation generally speaking those films that are that are considered classics are the vision of one than one dominant personality

and what happens when i agree with peter on that they're completely but art is not destroy you can paint a mustache on the mona lisa but it isn't going to do any good because nobody's going to recognize this you can desecrate john ford work or big advantages i hope we never do that but in the end the original vision will persevere i'm not making easy statements such as the negatives are still here but the fact is that these films will be seen by film scholars they will be seen and revival houses in their original pristine form and by the way the original intent of most of these great works of art was never to be shown on a small television screen in the first place that's an alteration to start with but back then the oil region known for being there for people to think that well it's tough enough to see pictures of all these days it's tough to see in a classic picture you know you can go to ease the house using modern art and if it's not easy

now it's true and this is a better with david says that that you can have that movies were meant to be seen on the small screen any way that that's true they were meant to be seen on a big screen in a theater with a lot of other people in and in the end in the darkness so what we're doing showing the film and television is already way way far away from what it was supposed to be but by cauterizing by planning scanning by cutting sequences we are reducing more and more and more and more the the visceral experience that the filmmakers wanted to achieve some point but burt lancaster made a few moments ago the day that the meaning that the emotional impact is being destroyed by all of these things i mean i came agree with you more and the answer to that is not to pass a law that but to deal making factual requirements woody allen and steven spielberg and george lucas

admittedly are able to get that kind of protection and they can and we're trying to get the protection for ninety five percent of their deals but this is a subject for collective bargaining an individual bargaining and the directors guild writers guild are very big boys they have high price war is why should the federal government have to get into this why does only if that land because we're not just dealing with the upcoming product or pitches that stever either woody can make were dealing with a heritage as woody said in one of your clips were dealing with the past and how how we going to protect john forte how we going to stop somebody from color eyes in the grapes of wrath or protect orson welles was dead and so was jack well i have confidence in that we must protect our when it becomes when it is art but somebody coming out of film school doesn't have to be protected it may not be on the may not be art yet polarization is a moot issue

now because most films are in color and i think that it's not necessary to to pass two more legislation i think we're well protected i know that speaks to the familiar refrain of people on my side but i prefer to see this go case by case and i don't believe that were barbarians or corporate cases i think we all have an interest in or for a very simple reason why is very good business as well as good society has an advantage why the prospects of getting a third of legislation in brief but i think it's going to be difficult somebody asked is that the press conference today week we caught a line from a jimmy stewart friend kept his fiction mr smith goes to washington maybe it's a lost cause that the fall of the causes most were fighting for the lost causes in all i would like to fight to protect those great filmmakers from the past who've made great

pictures of an image to all our lives and left us with a heritage an american heritage and i don't think we should allow their work to be displaced what thank you very much for being with us and it's a crime finally tonight on this night of the illinois presidential primary some electorate thoughts run as a us roger rosenblatt for the candidates polling for i mean which america other voting for america changes so quickly and completely but the public the candidates court only four years ago as part of the same public today some historians to these changes is typical liberal conservative private interests of public welfare in one election like ike unlike jack then vick then jimmy and running every shift signals a change of priorities of moon was

known as if the entire country were reborn each new america like the candidate himself seeking acceptance admiration and david so who are they voting for these presidential candidates what is america in nineteen eighty eight more sober that seemed so more sober more staid remember four years ago at why price the pride of that warning americans for years ago even two years ago that we could not get enough of war so let's hear it for the statue of liberty at but definitely for the bride never goes away the horns are quiet and the flags are still more somber less reckless to americans seem a

more cautious line in nineteen eighty eight and we did at the time of the last election the iran country's mess may have had something to do with that the stock market crashes well perhaps we've come to realize that the economy is permanently past its soaring days the american manufacturing may recover a bit but not entirely an american farming may come back but never all the way first the high about the economy than a low we seem to have settled on a plane and modest expectations invest in bonds not stalks don't write too many things are you sure you can afford their house less belligerent as well it's hard to tell how belligerent americans ever are but there were signs a few years ago that we're recruiting for a fight a tornado much vital national anger over lebanon syria iran a general steaming over the soviet union now the soviet union has flown over for other freedom if

congress says firmly it is a chance in central america all in all about armor plates think some see this as a return to values that americans however else they change of always kept the same set of values returned the thoughtfulness perhaps a country in the mood to think things through so far the several candidates have said very little of their substance to that country the irony of this election is that the candidates may be confronting a more alert and inform the electorate that have been addressed in at least twenty years an electric more aware of the specifics of issues more aware of reality is more aware of prior successes and failures and government more aware of conflicting ideas and america with real question i mean the congress the white house with a court

how far should we go to defend our hemisphere what are our responsibilities to our allies where's the money coming from poverty programs and education in america ever stop drug trafficking how high will taxes go the candidates to start talking turkey on such issues maybe into two surprises countries prepared for clarity and clarity may just get one of them elected the america that a candidate vote for will vote for him once again today's top stories in illinois network projections in early returns show vice president george bush the winner by a big margin over bob dole in the republican presidential primary on the democratic side a far closer race with paul simon in the number one spot just ahead of illinois other favorites on the reverend jesse jackson michael dukakis's number three with al gore and richard gephardt both

trailing far behind and late today the nicaraguan government confirmed a us claimed of a major offensive now going on against us backed contras in that country that our newshour for tonight i'm charlayne hunter gault thank you and goodnight combining everything everything everything funding is also provided by the station and other public television stations and the corporation for public broadcasting thank you

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