The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS) - 1999-10-04
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[0:00] did. He said what?
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[0:12] Good evening, I'm Jim Lara. On the
[0:14] NewsHour tonight, Gwyn Eiffel and Jan
[0:16] Crawford Greenberg of the Chicago
[0:18] Tribune preview the new Supreme Court
[0:20] term. Terrence Smith interviews Edmund
[0:23] Morris, author of Dutch, the new book
[0:25] about Ronald Reagan. Margaret Warner
[0:27] then runs a discussion about the book
[0:29] among NewsHour regulars Doris Karns
[0:32] Goodwin, Haynes Johnson and Michael
[0:33] Bloss and Christopher Layman Hop of the
[0:36] New York Times. And Ray Suarez explores
[0:39] the legacy of Akio Marita, the man who
[0:42] founded Sony. It all follows our summary
[0:44] of the news this Monday.
[0:49] The biggest obstacle to feeding the
[0:51] world is not the food supply. It's just
[0:53] politics. who is dedicated [music] to
[0:56] opening the borders to get food to the
[0:58] people who need it.
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[1:11] This program is made possible in part by
[1:13] a [music] grant from Travelers Insurance
[1:17] and by the Corporation for Public
[1:19] Broadcasting and by the annual financial
[1:22] support from viewers like you. The US
[1:24] Supreme Court opened its new term today.
[1:27] All nine justices were present,
[1:29] including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
[1:31] who was released from a hospital last
[1:33] week after after colon cancer surgery.
[1:36] The court immediately turned away nearly
[1:38] 1,800 appeals that had accumulated over
[1:41] the 3mon summer recess. One case
[1:43] involved schoolordered drug testing for
[1:46] teachers, which the court upheld. We'll
[1:48] have more on the court's new term right
[1:50] after this new summary. President
[1:52] Clinton and his national security team
[1:54] met today on how to win approval of the