The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS) - 1999-10-07

Name: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS) - 1999-10-07
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[0:03] [music]

[0:10] Good evening, I'm Jim Lara. On the

[0:12] NewsHour tonight, Ray Suarez talks about

[0:15] telecom mergers with FCC Chairman

[0:18] William Canard. Susan Denser updates the

[0:21] House votes on healthc care legislation.

[0:23] Margaret Warner interviews UN official

[0:25] Mary Robinson about war crimes in East

[0:28] Teeour. Spencer Michaels reports on

[0:30] Lanford Wilson's new play and poet

[0:33] laurate Robert Pinsky notes the 150th

[0:36] anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's death.

[0:39] It all follows our summary of the news

[0:41] this Thursday.

[0:45] [music] The biggest obstacle to feeding

[0:47] the world is not the food supply. It's

[0:49] just politics. Who is dedicated to

[0:52] opening the borders [music] to get food

[0:54] to the people who need it?

[1:05] >> [music]

[1:07] >> This program is made possible in part by

[1:09] a grant [music] from Travelers Insurance

[1:14] and by the Corporation for Public

[1:15] Broadcasting and by the annual financial

[1:18] support from viewers like you.

[1:20] >> The House passed a patients rights bill

[1:23] today. It includes the right to sue a

[1:25] health maintenance organization for

[1:27] denying care. It was advanced by a

[1:29] Democrat and a Republican and backed by

[1:31] President Clinton. It won over three

[1:34] Republican alternatives. The vote was

[1:36] 275 to 151. We'll have more on the story

[1:40] later in the program tonight. The

[1:42] Clinton administration continued to

[1:44] press for ratification of the nuclear

[1:46] testban treaty today. The president and

[1:49] secretary of state Albbright spoke out

[1:50] for CTBT as it's known. Albbright was

[1:54] before the Senate Foreign Relations

[1:55] Committee. She said the treaty was

[1:57] without question in the national