The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (PBS) - 1992-07-27 (partial)

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[0:06] Good evening. I'm Jim Lara in

[0:08] Washington.

[0:08] >> And I'm Judy Woodruff in New York. After

[0:11] a summary of the news this Monday, we

[0:13] examine Ross Perau's plan to slash the

[0:15] federal budget deficit. He's out of the

[0:18] race, but his economic plan is up for

[0:20] discussion. And we do that with Perau

[0:22] economic advisor John White, Republican

[0:25] Senator Phil Graham, Clinton economic

[0:28] adviser Robert Rich and House Budget

[0:30] Committee Chairman Leon Panetta. Then a

[0:33] unique 1-800 number for information on

[0:36] political candidates and a 20th

[0:38] anniversary look at the law that broke

[0:41] down barriers for women's sports.

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[1:14] >> President Bush today stepped up pressure

[1:16] on Iraq to comply with UN ceasefire

[1:19] resolutions. The Associated Press and

[1:21] Reuters news agencies reported the

[1:23] aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy and its

[1:26] battle group would be sent to the

[1:27] region. It will join more than two dozen

[1:30] warships, including two other carriers,

[1:32] in waters near Iraq. A Patriot missile

[1:35] battery is also being sent to

[1:37] neighboring Kuwait. US Marine, Navy, and

[1:40] Air Force units will reportedly take

[1:42] part in joint military exercises with

[1:44] Kuwait early next week. Yesterday, Iraq

[1:47] agreed to let UN weapons inspectors into

[1:50] its agriculture ministry after a 3-week

[1:53] standoff. President Bush is scheduled to

[1:55] meet with his top national security

[1:57] adviserss at the White House this

[1:58] evening to consider the Iraq situation.

[2:01] Earlier in the day, he spoke about it at

[2:03] a campaign appearance in Grand Rapids,

[2:06] Michigan.

[2:07] >> I have not shifted gears yet from trying

[2:10] to make some good things happen for this

[2:12] country, including yesterday making some

[2:15] decisions about standing up to be sure

[2:18] that Saddam Hussein lives up to these UN

[2:22] resolutions. He's going to do it. He may

[2:24] not know it, but he is going to live up

[2:26] to those resolutions.

[2:28] The Iraqi government today described its

[2:30] standoff with the UN as a splendid

[2:32] victory. The deal to allow UN weapons

[2:35] inspections came only after the UN

[2:38] agreed to Iraqi demands on composition

[2:41] of the UN team. It agreed that no

[2:44] inspectors from nations that fought Iraq

[2:46] in the Gulf War would be allowed into

[2:48] the ministry. Robert Moore of

[2:50] Independent Television News reports from

[2:53] Baghdad.

[2:54] The breakthrough at the United Nations

[2:56] last night came at the same time as

[2:58] President Saddam Hussein was appearing

[3:00] on Iraqi television.

[3:03] >> He was in self-confident, even

[3:05] belligerent mood. Conferring medals on

[3:07] those closest to him, he said that the

[3:10] mother of all battles was not over. His

[3:12] capitulation, like in previous

[3:14] incidents, came at the last moment,

[3:17] involving some lastm minute brinkmanship

[3:19] by the Iraqi leader.

[3:24] >> The state controlled Iraqi press is

[3:26] interpreting the compromise as a victory

[3:28] for Baghdad. There are though elements

[3:30] of farce. For by the time the UN

[3:33] inspectors reach the agriculture

[3:34] ministry tomorrow, any secret military

[3:37] documents that might have been stored

[3:38] inside are likely to have been removed.

[3:42] Ordinary Iraqis had carried on as

[3:44] normal, ignoring fears that another

[3:47] military attack had been imminent.

[3:49] Concern here centers as much on the

[3:51] country's high prices. But the total

[3:53] trade embargo, almost exactly 2 years

[3:56] on, has not had the crushing economic

[3:58] effected. The markets are full. Foreigns

[4:02] are on sale, suggesting that sanctions

[4:04] busting is a growing industry.

[4:06] Democratic presidential candidate Bill

[4:08] Clinton said today he supports President

[4:11] Bush's handling of the Iraq situation.

[4:13] He said he hopes the United States will

[4:15] now pressure Iraq to comply with all of

[4:18] the ceasefire resolutions. But he

[4:20] criticized the Bush administration for

[4:22] not eliminating more of Iraq's war

[4:24] machine at the end of Operation Desert

[4:27] Storm.

[4:28] Clinton also had comments on the

[4:30] fighting in Bosnia today. He blamed

[4:33] Serbia for the violence and called for

[4:35] international air strikes against Serb

[4:37] forces if they persist in disrupting

[4:40] efforts to get relief supplies to the

[4:42] Bosnian people. He said the US should

[4:45] supply air and naval forces to such an

[4:47] operation. UN officials today said they

[4:50] were considering airdropping supplies to

[4:53] citizens of Gazda. An estimated 70,000

[4:57] people are trapped in the city, which is

[4:59] the last Muslim holdout along Bosnia's

[5:02] border with Serbia. Also today, UN

[5:05] officials said they were being

[5:06] blackmailed by Serb forces into shipping

[5:09] Muslim refugees out of Bosnia. They said

[5:12] the Serbs threatened to harm the

[5:14] refugees if they were not removed. The

[5:17] fighting has created Europe's worst

[5:19] refugee crisis since World War II. As

[5:22] Jeffrey Archer of Independent Television

[5:24] News reports,

[5:27] >> on the roads leading to the frontiers of

[5:29] the old Yugoslavia, thousands of

[5:31] refugees queue to get out. Mostly

[5:33] Bosnians, but Serbs and Croatians, too.

[5:36] The flood of victims of the intractable

[5:38] fighting, struggling to find safety and

[5:40] shelter abroad, has opened rifts within

[5:42] Europe over what to do with them.

[5:44] Germany's extended its hospitality to

[5:46] over 200,000 refugees, but countries

[5:49] like Britain and France have taken many

[5:51] fewer, saying it's better they be

[5:53] sheltered as close to their old homes as

[5:55] possible.

[5:57] Within the frontiers of the old

[5:58] Yugoslavia, over 2 million people have

[6:01] been displaced from their homes,

[6:02] refugees in their own lands, but they're

[6:04] surging out of the country now. Nearly

[6:07] 80,000 into the bordering nations of

[6:09] Hungary and Italy. Many more have fled

[6:11] to Germany and tens of thousands have

[6:13] gone further a field to Switzerland and

[6:15] Sweden. About 500,000 have fled the old

[6:18] Yugoslavia. Britain has given shelter to

[6:21] about 1,500 of them. In London today,

[6:25] the leader of the Bosnian Serbs said the

[6:27] refugees away from the fighting is not

[6:29] the answer.

[6:31] >> War should end immediately.

[6:34] Then we should provide possibilities

[6:39] for the refugees to to return.