COMMUNITY CONCERNS
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Democracy Now! July 30, 1997
Campaign Finance Abuses; Colombia; Landmines |(14 Minutes) Campaign Finance Abuse Report on yesterday’s Campaign Finance Hearings. TAPE OF: Hearings. FBI agent Jerry Campane, Dick Durbin (D-IL), Bob Smith (R-NH), Yue Chu and Xiping Wang. (19 Minutes) Colombia Right-wing paramilitary group forced a human rights commission, to leave a region of northwest Colombia under threat of…
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Democracy Now! July 31, 1997
Tobacco Deal; Tobacco; Campaign Finance Abuse; Suicide Bombing; Cambodia |Tobacco Deal The Institute for Policy Studies and the Stakeholder Alliance have released a new study regarding the tobacco industry’s proposed settlement prior to Senate hearings. GUEST: Sarah Anderson of the Institute for Policy Studies. Tobacco A new scientific study regarding hazards ammonia and nicotine have…
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Democracy Now! July 28, 1997
Goodbye to Justice Brennan; Goodbye to Grandmother Goodman; Campaign Finance |Goodbye to Justice Brennan Look at life and career of Supreme Court justice William Brennan who died last week at the age of 91. GUEST: Joshua Rosencrantz, co-editor of Reason and Passion, Justice Brennan’s Enduring Influence. Goodbye to Grandmother Goodman Amy Goodman remembers her grandmother,…
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Democracy Now! August 8, 1997
Police Accountability Conference; Hiroshima/Nagasaki Anniversary |(31 Minutes) Police Accountability Conference Annual conference of the National Coalition on Police Accountability. Speakers this year were Congresswoman Maxine Waters, the chair of the congressional Black Caucus, and Journalist Gary Webb. TAPE OF : Gary Webb, reporter for the San Jose Mercury News. TAPE OF: Representative Maxine Waters (17…
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Democracy Now! August 13, 1997
CIA Documents; Domestic Violence; Moon and the Republican Right |(14 Minutes) CIA Documents CIA coming under fire re: stonewalling the release of decades-old documents. It is making an official US diplomatic history the target of ridicule and scorn. GUEST: Warren F. Kimball, prof. of American diplomatic history of Rutgers University. He is the head of…
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Democracy Now! January 19, 1999
Y2K and Nuclear Weapons; Massacre in Kosovo; Clinton’s Defense Team |Y2K and Nuclear Weapons Millenium approaches and anit-nuckear activists around the world are sounding alarms at the possibility that computer malfunctions caused by Y2K could jeopardize public safety. The Defense Department announced that all its computer systems deemed critical to national defense are safe. Activists…