The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS) - 1999-10-08
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[0:00] WWF.
[0:03] [music]
[0:10] Good evening, I'm Jim Lara. On the
[0:12] NewsHour tonight, Elizabeth Barnworth
[0:14] explores the controversy over a museum
[0:17] exhibition in New York. Spencer Michaels
[0:20] updates the Pinocha extradition story.
[0:23] Mark Shields and Paulie Go offer their
[0:25] Friday night political analysis. Taran
[0:28] Smith has another report on our agenda
[0:30] 2000 mail and SAS Roger Rosenblad talks
[0:34] some baseball. It all follows our
[0:36] summary of the news this Friday.
[0:42] The biggest obstacle to feeding the
[0:43] world is not the food supply. It's just
[0:45] politics. Who is dedicated [music] to
[0:48] opening the borders to get food to the
[0:50] people who need it?
[0:53] [music]
[0:58] >> [music]
[1:03] >> This [music] program is made possible in
[1:05] part by a grant from Travelers Insurance
[1:08] [music]
[1:09] and by the Corporation for Public
[1:11] Broadcasting and by the annual financial
[1:14] support from viewers like you.
[1:16] >> The US unemployment rate remained low in
[1:19] September. The Labor Department said
[1:20] today it held at 4.2%. the lowest rate
[1:24] in nearly 30 years. President Clinton
[1:27] asked the Senate today to delay voting
[1:29] on the nuclear testban treaty. It had
[1:31] been scheduled for Wednesday. He said it
[1:33] did not have the twothirds majority
[1:35] needed to ratify a treaty. He spoke at a
[1:38] news conference with Canadian Prime
[1:40] Minister Jean Cretenne in Ottawa. I will
[1:43] say again, they should put it off and
[1:47] then they should agree to a legitimate
[1:48] process where Republican and Democratic
[1:51] senators think about the national
[1:53] interest that they have total control
[1:56] over when it comes up, not me. If it had
[1:59] been up to me, we'd