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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 0.000000 3.740000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> rabs and many Israelis think he will lead the country into war 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 3.740000 12.227000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> American air travel in the spring could it possibly be worse than the winter Four major airlines face the possibility of a strike 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 12.227000 21.912000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Second guessing President Clinton on another presidential pardon The man was under investigation for tax evasion and laundering money 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 21.912000 27.496000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> And half a century of letters from President Reagan to the woman in Philadelphia 
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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 spkr_1 31.071000 38.067000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> From A.  B.  C.  News world headquarters in New York this is World News Tonight with Peter Jennings 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 38.067000 82.637000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Good evening everyone One of America's most important allies in one of the world's most dangerous regions has had a dramatic change in government tonight The Bush administration knew it was coming but like most Americans has no idea where it will lead In Israel the former general Ariel Sharon has won a decisive victory in the Israeli elections There is no more divisive figure in Israel and in a part of the world where hatred is a currency the Palestinians hate Ariel Sharon Those Americans who struggle to understand Israelis and Palestinians believe the region may be in for further turmoil Our correspondent Gillian Findlay who is in Tel Aviv tonight has been following the returns Gillian and the violence that accompanied them It was quite an historic day 
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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 gillian_findlay 83.813000 130.746000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> It was an historic day today Peter and already Mr Sharon says  he  has taken a phone call of congratulations from President Bush who he says reminds him of a tour that Mr Sharon gave him years ago in Israel At the time Mr Bush said to him you know one day I will be prime minister and you will be (p-) (%hesitation) I will be president and you will be prime minister Mr Sharon said of course nobody believed him but tonight Mr Sharon is the next prime minister of Israel Earlier tonight Prime Minister Barak conceded defeat I take full responsibility for my policies and  I  am proud of them he said Perhaps the public  was  not ready for the painful price of peace Indeed voter after voter today told us that Mr Barak offered too much to the Palestinians and did not crack down hard enough when the fighting began 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 spkr_2 130.746000 137.416000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> If you will be weak if your army (w-) will be weak the Arabs will conquer us 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 gillian_findlay 137.416000 140.441000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Today there was more fighting 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 gillian_findlay 140.441000 173.719000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Demonstrations against Mr Sharon in several Palestinian towns led to clashes with Israeli troops More than sixty Palestinians were injured To these people Ariel Sharon is synonymous with war the general who made a career fighting Arabs a man who was found indirectly responsible for the massacre of civilians in Lebanon The question tonight is just how tough a leader will he be Mr Sharon said he  will  not even talk to the Palestinians until the violence stops As for peace he has a plan one the Palestinians have already rejected 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 spkr_3 173.719000 189.055000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> He brings the Arabs very close to the wall And when you bring someone close to the wall he can either surrender or kick back And I  do  not think that the Arabs are going to surrender 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 gillian_findlay 189.055000 214.275000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Tonight Yasser Arafat said he hoped Mr Sharon would continue the pursuit of peace In Israel Mr Sharon's opponents have been putting up signs prepare the shelters as in bomb shelters Now Peter tonight Mr Sharon is calling upon his Labor opponents to join him in (an-) a government of national unity This is being seen as a positive step by some people here perhaps a way to moderate some of Mr Sharon's policies 
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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 214.724000 216.408000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> party has said it will think about it 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 216.408000 220.714000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Thanks Gillian very much Gillian Findlay in Tel Aviv tonight where there was this extraordinary change 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 220.714000 244.076000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Now we go to the other big story of the day and it is almost invariably the economy There was bad news for what was a dot com success story not long ago E.  toys says it will run out of cash in six weeks And Cisco Systems the world's number one maker of computer networking equipment is reporting slipping sales Betsy Stark is with us today  It  is the kind of news that gets the President's attention is it not 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 betsy_stark 244.076000 264.433000 <o,female,ABC_WNT>  That  is right Peter because he seems to like to use every new piece of bad news to promote his big tax cut The important thing to know however is that not all the news is bad The President's message today at a Washington area toy store is that businesses and consumers need a tax cut right away He has said it repeatedly 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 george_w_bush 264.433000 270.343000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> The economy is slowing down and we need to act and act as quickly as we possibly can 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 spkr_4 270.343000 271.373000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Okay 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 betsy_stark 271.373000 277.633000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> But today the owner of that toy store told A.  B.  C.  News she sees no signs of a slowdown in her business 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 spkr_4 277.633000 286.068000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> January was a very good month We still are growing (%hesitation) Seems to be so far so good 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 betsy_stark 286.068000 309.020000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Around the country there is growing confusion about the state of the economy and if  it  is bad what to do about it There was news today that layoffs piled up at a record pace in January but a report last week showing the economy continues to create thousands of new jobs The current president of the National Association of Business Economists says manufacturing is in recession 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 spkr_5 309.020000 316.404000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> And we are starting to see the first signs I believe that other parts of the economy are about to join them as well 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 betsy_stark 316.404000 321.352000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> The past president of the association says the economy is poised to pick up again 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 spkr_6 321.352000 328.778000 <o,female,ABC_WNT>  There  is a very high probability that this economy twelve months from now will be in the position of the Fed worrying about it overheating again 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 betsy_stark 328.778000 358.421000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Ultimately the opinion that matters most is consumers Their spending drives the economy And recent surveys show a sharp drop in their confidence about the future But ask consumers how they feel right now and  it  is a different story According to an A.  B.  C.  Money poll released today sixty-five percent give their personal finances a positive rating Which means for all the bad news about layoffs and business failures most consumers still feel good about their own security Peter 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 358.421000 360.806000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Thank you Betsy Betsy Stark on the economy as always 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 360.806000 372.644000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> On Wall Street today the Dow Jones industrial average was down more than eight points to close at ten thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven On the NASDAQ stocks were up twenty-one points at the end of the day 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 372.644000 387.780000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Another of former president Clinton's last minute pardons is being criticized We learn today that one of the pardons went to a wealthy businessman who is still being investigated for financial crimes  Here  is A.  B.  C.'s Jackie Judd 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 jackie_judd 387.780000 415.039000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> In the final hours of his administration President Clinton wiped the record clean for businessman Glen Braswell the founder of a controversial herbal remedies empire who in nineteen eighty-three was convicted of mail fraud perjury and tax evasion But there was more Braswell is under investigation today by federal prosecutors for money laundering and tax evasion Stephen Barrett investigates health care scams 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 stephen_barrett 415.039000 423.516000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> I find it (w-) find it hard to believe that the people who pardoned him knew about all of his activities Of course if they did that would make it much more serious 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 jackie_judd 423.516000 456.163000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Mr Clinton said through a spokesman today he did not know about this latest investigation That could be because the White House failed to give the Justice Department enough time about seventy-two hours at the most or documentation to review the pardon request Why did Braswell's request rise to the top of the pile That is unclear He has no apparent ties to the former president or to the Democratic party The only known connection seems to be that his attorney Kendall Coffey represented vice-president Gore in the Florida recount 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 spkr_7 456.163000 466.761000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> I  have  not seen a justification for some of the pardons that seem to be irregular and if they be forthcoming but in the absence of a justification you have to wonder 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 jackie_judd 466.761000 490.501000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> A spokesman for Mr Clinton said Braswell was viewed as a businessman seeking to clear his slate so he could go on with his business career The pardon does not affect the ongoing investigation so Braswell's business career may still be in jeopardy and Mr Clinton is still dealing with the fallout from his final days in office Jackie Judd A.  B.  C.  News Washington 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 490.501000 491.257000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Thank you Jackie 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 491.257000 512.959000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Mr Gore the (v-) former vice president is in the news today Mr Gore went back to work today Al Gore worked briefly as a journalist before he entered politics and today he taught his first journalism class at Columbia University Class is called Covering National Affairs in the Information Age reporters were not allowed in the classroom today Maybe later 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 512.959000 517.980000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> When we come back why America's airlines may be grounded this spring 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 517.980000 523.032000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> And the woman who corresponded with Ronald Reagan for almost fifty years 
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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 spkr_1 526.677000 531.488000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> This is World News Tonight with Peter Jennings brought to you by Pfizer 
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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 613.053000 627.728000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> As if air travel was not difficult enough in Virginia today President Bush said he is worried about the possibility of strikes at many of the nation's largest airlines With the background to that  here  is A.  B.  C.'s Lisa Stark 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 lisa_stark 627.728000 644.020000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> If you think all the travel delays this Winter are bad just wait until Spring Four of the nation's major airlines Delta American Northwest and United are in the midst of contentious labor negotiations All are facing possible strikes 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 spkr_8 644.020000 649.619000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> If the four major airlines were on strike at the same time the country would come to a halt 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 lisa_stark 649.619000 650.154000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Period 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 spkr_8 650.154000 650.672000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Period 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 spkr_11 650.672000 652.696000 <o,unknown,ABC_WNT> What do we want Contracts 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 lisa_stark 652.696000 664.860000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> The labor disputes involve flight attendants at American pilots at Delta mechanics at Northwest and United All the unions are in negotiations with their companies under the auspices of the National Mediation Board 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 spkr_9 664.860000 672.686000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> The mediation board has referred to (%hesitation) this spring as March madness and I  do  not think they were referring to basketball 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 lisa_stark 672.686000 686.100000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> The last time a number of carriers were shut down by strikes all at once was in the mid nineteen sixties when one mechanics' union walked out on five airlines No wonder the White House is concerned 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 george_w_bush 686.100000 693.526000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> I am worried about (%hesitation) strikes at airlines I think that would be a (%hesitation) (cou-) could have a harmful effect on our economy 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 lisa_stark 693.526000 698.043000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Mr Bush could step in and appoint a presidential emergency board 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 spkr_10 698.043000 707.917000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> It (%hesitation) it  does  not stop a strike it will delay it for approximately sixty days but (%hesitation) it (%hesitation) it  does  not really (%hesitation) help the situation in our view 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 lisa_stark 707.917000 719.172000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> But sources say the airlines are pressuring the President to get involved Given the potential for mayhem he may have little choice Lisa Stark A.  B.  C.  News Washington 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 719.172000 727.738000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> When we come back on former president Reagan's ninetieth birthday  we  will take a closer look at better care for Alzheimer's patients 
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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 858.694000 893.221000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> This is indeed Ronald Reagan's ninetieth birthday and because he believes in making Americans further aware of Alzheimer's disease  we  are focusing for a second day on the disease which is devastating to him and millions of others and their families In a moment  we  will talk to our medical editor Tim Johnson Now the burden of caring for an Alzheimer's patient is huge which is why  we  are going to take a closer look at the first nursing home designed specifically for people whose brains have begun to deteriorate A.  B.  C.'s Deborah Amos reports from Oakmont Pennsylvania 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 deborah_amos 893.221000 900.564000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> At Woodside Place Alzheimer's patients wander without getting lost eat when they want to play when they feel the need 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 anna_scott 900.564000 908.778000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Instead of trying to bring them into our reality we enter theirs (%hesitation) Just (m-) (m-) more dignified humane way of treating people 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 deborah_amos 908.778000 919.261000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Because short term memory goes first residents here are encouraged to live in their past with music and old photographs 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 david_hoglund 919.261000 928.610000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Woodside Place is one of those (%hesitation) opportunities of a lifetime to to rethink (%hesitation) some fundamental truths about how older people are treated 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 deborah_amos 928.610000 947.087000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Architect David Hoglund changed the way Alzheimer's patients are treated by seeing the world from their perspective Alzheimer's patients often lose their sense of time Hoglund added more windows to help them see the time of day  It  is more like home than a hospital residents can wander safely 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 david_hoglund 947.087000 954.745000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> No matter what rooms you walk into (%hesitation) here in the kitchen (%hesitation) (d-) dining room and living room you can actually go into the outside 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 deborah_amos 954.745000 982.518000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> The new design reduces the cost of care  It  is about twenty percent less than a traditional skilled nursing facility  That  is because  there  is less need for medical staff and supplies Woodside residents have a slower rate of deterioration They stay physically active longer spend more time socializing with other residents and their families visit more often John Caliari spends time with his mother in the kitchen a familiar place for both of them 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 john_caliari 982.518000 990.448000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> When she came here she improved dramatically and right now my mom is (%hesitation) living here and I want to emphasize the word living 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 deborah_amos 990.448000 998.715000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Living that is healthier for Alzheimer's patients a relief for their families Deborah Amos A.  B.  C.  News Oakmont Pennsylvania 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 998.715000 1004.251000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> And here is our medical editor Tim Johnson Tim is that as good as it gets for Alzheimer's patients in care 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 tim_johnson 1004.251000 1031.152000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> It is currently Peter and while such efforts are obviously laudable in the future as the number of elderly dramatically increases in this country and the incidence of Alzheimer's also rises dramatically the cost of such care will absolutely overwhelm our health care system and indeed our country so the only real answer long term is for medical science to find answers at the basic science level as to how to treat amyloid the abnormal protein in the brain Unless we find those answers 
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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 1032.360000 1034.881000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> where we are are on drugs and early diagnosis 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 tim_johnson 1034.881000 1058.243000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> (Th-) the current drugs available are really for the most part inadequate They will help memory they treat the symptom for a very short term The optimism in medical science today is that we are understanding the cause and the genetics of Alzheimer's and I have had several experts tell me in recent months that if we spend enough money in the next few years we could have real answers at the basic science level in the next 
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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 1059.577000 1061.583000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> lobby strong enough to get the dollars 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 tim_johnson 1061.583000 1077.318000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> (%hesitation) Currently the N.  I.  H.  spends about five hundred million on Alzheimer's  that  is number eighteen on their list of allocation for diseases We need to spend more money Fortunately private industry is getting involved because they see that drug therapy is going to be the answer and I think we will have 
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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 1078.130000 1089.913000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> question about former president Reagan  He  has always been so vigorous  he  is ninety he just fell and and broke his hip Does Alzheimer's drag the body down or could he go on living indefinitely 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 tim_johnson 1089.913000 1099.692000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> In many patients it does drag the body down but he has always been extraordinarily strong in terms of muscle strength and body strength and I think  he  is going to last a long time 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 1099.692000 1101.803000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Thanks very much Tim Johnson our medical editor 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 1101.803000 1106.184000 <o,male,ABC_WNT>  We  will be back in just a moment with a report from overseas on the dinosaur 
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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 1251.026000 1270.448000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> In other news today the winter storm in the northeast is still causing trouble schools closed from Pennsylvania to Maine and thousands of people without power In Springfield Massachusetts the city was basically shut down so workers could clear the streets The storm dumped three feet of snow in New Hampshire where  they  are somewhat more used to it as it moved on into Canada 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 1270.448000 1292.707000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> In California today the Kaiser Family Foundation confirmed what you already know if you watch a lot of television The sexual content which ranges from flirting to outright sex has increased sharply in the last two years Two out of (th-) every three programs last year included sexual references or behavior Two years ago it was just over half 
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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 1294.986000 1310.785000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> In London at the Natural History Museum they have unveiled a (Ty-) Tyrannosaurus Rex Terrifying or not the roar is actually a human snore slowed down Convincing enough we are told to impress the experts 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 spkr_12 1310.785000 1317.255000 <o,,ABC_WNT> I like it it looks so realistic and the way it moves and the way they made it 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 1317.255000 1325.574000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Everybody loves dinosaurs The twenty-three foot long fourteen foot high Tyrannosaurus cost three hundred thousand dollars 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 1325.574000 1328.169000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> When we come back the great communicator 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 ronald_reagan 1328.169000 1359.744000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Those last few weeks have really been hectic what with Libya Nicaragua and the budget and taxes I  do  not know about you but  I  have been working long hours  I  have really been burning the midday oil I just  cannot wait to accomplish it I will not make age an issue of this campaign I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience 
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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 1478.574000 1524.130000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Finally this evening Ronald Reagan only the third president to reach ninety Listening to the debate in the latest presidential campaign about the size of government and taxes and missile defense systems is to be reminded of how much influence Mr Reagan had on the debate about national life and America's role in the world He and Mrs Reagan have been married for forty-eight years now  she  has been his great protector in so many ways Always such a vigorous man even with Alzheimer's disease and such a long relationship with the public Tonight we hear from a woman who has had as long a relationship as anyone outside the family And we know this because for half a century they wrote to each other  Here  is A.  B.  C.'s Aaron Brown 
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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 aaron_brown 1527.303000 1537.450000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> A half century ago Lorraine Wagner was a kid with a crush and the object of her affection and her considerable attention was a hunky young actor named Ronald Reagan 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 ronald_reagan 1537.450000 1539.141000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Mary 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 aaron_brown 1539.141000 1545.265000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> She wrote a fan letter he sent an autographed picture And did you take that picture to school and show it 
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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 lorraine_wagner 1545.822000 1552.345000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> took it to everybody (%hesitation) that you can imagine Anyone I knew in my life had to had (i-) saw that picture 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 aaron_brown 1552.345000 1563.763000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> So began an extraordinary friendship They exchanged hundreds of letters many of his handwritten some deeply personal like this one on his failing marriage to Jane Wyman 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 lorraine_wagner 1563.763000 1571.011000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Janie is still a pretty sick girl in mind but  I  am hoping that things will be different when she gets over this nervousness 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 ronald_reagan 1571.011000 1574.015000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> Push your fingers Bonzo this may be your last chance 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 aaron_brown 1574.015000 1585.433000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> His letters are an extraordinary window on his evolution from actor to president from liberal to conservative This nineteen forty-eight letter celebrates the election of Harry Truman 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 lorraine_wagner 1585.433000 1594.286000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Yes indeed I was happy about the election  I  am sure Truman with a Democratic congress will do lots to make things better in every way 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 aaron_brown 1594.286000 1604.275000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> A dozen years later Reagan had become a conservative icon At the end of this nineteen sixty-one letter he drops a tantalizing bit of news 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 lorraine_wagner 1604.275000 1614.590000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> Well  that  is my story Best Ronnie P.  S.   I  have been asked to run for governor and while  I  am highly honored I  do  not think  I  am right for the part 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 aaron_brown 1615.525000 1623.319000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> The letters grow less frequent when  he  is elected governor fewer still when he is president He has so little time he complains in one 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 ronald_reagan 1623.319000 1625.977000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> That is the budget signed 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 aaron_brown 1625.977000 1630.294000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> But the letters are always upbeat This is June of nineteen ninety 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 lorraine_wagner 1630.294000 1643.771000 <o,female,ABC_WNT> My visit here with Gorby was short but as usual good He is having some problems back home with the zealots who  do  not want to tone down communism I hope he wins These are White House memorabilia (e-) 
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20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 aaron_brown 1645.206000 1656.964000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> fan letter led to invitations to his inaugural and visits to the Oval Office the Oval O.  he called it A long journey he notes in February of ninety-two 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 lorraine_wagner 1656.964000 1663.078000 <o,female,ABC_WNT>  I  am pleased that you added up our years of friendship  It  has been a happy forty-eight years 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 aaron_brown 1663.078000 1672.479000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> A lifetime Lorraine Wagner and the nation celebrates today Aaron Brown A.  B.  C.  News Philadelphia 
20010206_1830_1900_ABC_WNT 1 peter_jennings 1672.479000 1685.221000 <o,male,ABC_WNT> That is our report on World News Tonight Just one program note This broadcast is now available in Britain through the British Broadcasting Corporation We welcome viewers there and  we  are happy to have you with us  I  am Peter Jennings I hope  we  will see you again tomorrow Good night 
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20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 9.131000 14.382000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Iraq vows to retaliate against U.  S.  and British air strikes near Baghdad 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 14.382000 22.498000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> The U.  S.  Navy locates the Japanese fishing boat accidentally sunk last week by a surfacing U.  S.  submarine 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 22.498000 28.008000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> A boat carrying more than one thousand Kurdish immigrants runs aground in Southern France 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 28.008000 34.353000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> And the investigation into former President Clinton's pardon of a fugitive continues to grow 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 34.353000 37.714000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Hello  I  am Philip Alexio  We  will have those stories plus sports 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 37.714000 39.987000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> a look at the Oscar contender Pollock 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 39.987000 47.652000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> and mapping the human genome on this week's edition of Our World our science and technology program 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 47.652000 51.487000 <o,male,VOA_ENG>  It  is all ahead in this hour of V.  O.  A.  News Now 
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20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 57.018000 60.133000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> First this summary of world news 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 imani_crosby 60.133000 140.064000 <o,female,VOA_ENG>  I  am Imani Crosby V.  O.  A.  News Iraq has responded defiantly to U.  S.  and British air attacks near Baghdad saying it will not bow to what it called criminal aggression An Iraqi statement said Washington orchestrated the attack in cooperation with Israel Iraq says the Friday night strike the first near the capital in two years killed two people and wounded more than twenty others including children Two dozen U.  S.  and British warplanes targeted radar and command centers near Baghdad in response to what was reportedly mounting Iraqi threats against air patrols President Bush says the attacks were a routine mission to enforce a no fly zone over southern Iraq But key United Nations Security Council members are criticizing the U.  S.  and British air strikes Russia's Defense Ministry says the attacks challenge international security and could complicate the resolution of international sanctions against Iraq China says it is opposed to such attacks without authorization from the U.  N.  Security Council France says it was not consulted and is awaiting explanations from Washington Russia China and France are the Security Council's permanent members along with the United States and Britain 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 imani_crosby 140.064000 184.640000 <o,female,VOA_ENG> The U.  S.  Navy has located the fishing ship accidentally sunk last week by a surfacing U.  S.  submarine The Navy says an unmanned underwater craft found the ship late Friday about nine hundred meters from where it was rammed by the U.  S.  S.  Greeneville off the coast of Hawaii Nine of the people who were on board the boat are still missing The discovery follows widespread anger in Japan over the fact that civilians were at the submarine's control positions at the time of the accident On Friday the Navy ordered submarine commanders not to perform emergency surfacing drills with civilians on board at least until the investigation into the incident is completed 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 imani_crosby 184.640000 201.700000 <o,female,VOA_ENG> A cargo ship crammed with hundreds of Iraqi Kurds has run aground near a port on the Mediterranean coast of France apparently intentionally Local authorities say there were fifteen hundred illegal immigrants on the boat as Paul Miller reports from Paris 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 paul_miller 201.700000 249.300000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> French police say the crew of the Cambodia registered ferry East Sea deliberately ran the vessel into a sand bank twenty meters from a beach near the town of Saint-Raphael Police say the crew abandoned the ship its engines still running leaving those on board to fend for themselves An estimated five hundred Kurds managed to escape the vessel swimming to shore or being pulled out of the surf Officials say there were more than three hundred children among the immigrants At least three women gave birth during the passage The ship is thought to have begun its voyage in Greece or Turkey Police say  it  is not clear where it was headed or why the crew decided to run it aground on the coast of France Paul Miller for V.  O.  A.  News Paris 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 imani_crosby 249.300000 279.832000 <o,female,VOA_ENG> Thousands of Serbs in Kosovo plan a protest over Friday's attack on a Serb convoy that killed seven people and injured forty-three others The Serbs plan to rally Saturday in the divided city of Kosovska Mitrovica Yugoslavia has declared Sunday a day of mourning as a result of the attack President Vojislav Kostunica is urging restraint with a warning that the attack may be an attempt by Albanian extremists to prod the Serbs into a violent response 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 imani_crosby 279.832000 316.065000 <o,female,VOA_ENG> U.  N.  Secretary General Kofi Annan says he is concerned about Friday's fighting on the Israeli Lebanon border Mr Annan called for an end to the violence which killed one Israeli soldier Israeli soldiers opened artillery fire in the disputed Sheba farms area after Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon attacked a military vehicle In later violence in the region Palestinian officials say Israeli security forces killed two Palestinians during clashes near Hebron Twenty other Palestinians were reportedly wounded in fighting throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 imani_crosby 316.065000 357.094000 <o,female,VOA_ENG> President Bush has told his Mexican counterpart that he will consider changing Washington's annual certification of Mexico's drug fighting efforts a major bilateral irritant During seven hours of informal talks at (mis-) at Vicente Fox's ranch Friday the two men also vowed to end disputes over immigration and trade in what Mr Bush described as a new day in the relationship between America and Mexico The two leaders also agreed to work to make it easier for Mexicans to get temporary legal work in the United States and reaffirmed their commitment to human rights and freedom throughout the western hemisphere  I  am Imani Crosby V.  O.  A.  News 
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20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 363.876000 376.514000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> It is fifteen hours six universal time and this is V.  O.  A.  News Now  I  am Philip Alexio in Washington Coming up a look at the widening scandal involving Bill Clinton's controversial pardon of a fugitive 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 376.514000 397.545000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> But first we take a closer look at our top story Iraq is threatening to retaliate for the U.  S.  and British bombing raids Baghdad says two civilians were killed in the attack and more than twenty others wounded From our Middle East bureau Dale Gavlak reports Iraqi president Saddam Hussein has declared a holy war against the United States 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 dale_gavlak 397.545000 556.330000 <o,female,VOA_ENG> Iraq's state run television broadcast President Saddam Hussein's emergency session with the country's revolutionary command council following Friday's air raids The Iraqi leader vowed not to succumb to what he called criminal American aggression In his comments President Saddam did not mention Britain saying the strikes were part of a wider American and Zionist strategy that cannot force Iraq to give up its rights He called the bombing a prelude to holy war and urged Arabs everywhere to unite against the aggression Iraq's media Saturday heaped fiery condemnation on the United States The official Qadissiya newspaper said in a front page editorial that the Americans' and Britain's new savage crime would not pass unpunished and without decisive retaliation The newspaper called President George W.  Bush the son of a viper and promised to teach him a lesson that he will not forget President Bush's father George Bush led the nineteen ninety-one Gulf War coalition against Iraq that ended its six-month occupation of Kuwait The government newspaper Al Jumhuriya Saturday described the attack as a cowardly act and another failing action by the tyrant rulers of the criminal American administration It said the strikes were a breach of international law and the United Nations Security Charter Iraqi television showed images of an eighteen-year old woman and a man believed to be in his thirties who it said died in the attack It also broadcast pictures from Iraqi hospitals of children with bandaged legs and feet receiving treatment for their wounds Iraqi Health Minister Omed Madhat Mubarak said women children and the elderly were among those injured He added that some of them were in critical condition The Pentagon says the raids targeted radar and command centers that control Iraqi air defenses farther south in the Western-patrolled no-fly zone President Bush described the attacks as routine and necessary to enforce a no-fly zone over southern Iraq He warned that the U.  S.  will take what he called appropriate action if President Saddam develops weapons of mass destruction The raid is believed to have been the single biggest air strike against Iraq since the nineteen ninety-eight Operation Desert Fox bombing campaign that followed Baghdad's refusal to allow United Nations arms inspectors into selected areas Iraqi citizens said the missiles hit a rural agricultural region though Washington maintains that Baghdad places military installations in civilian areas a charge that the Iraqi leadership denies Dale Gavlak for V.  O.  A.  News Cairo 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 556.330000 571.899000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Mr Bush's saying the mission was routine has some backing among defense analysts here in the United States Michael O'Hanlon is with the Brookings Institution and told N.  B.  C.'s Soledad O'Brien there appears to be no particular message behind the attack 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 michael_o_hanlon 571.899000 599.867000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> I think it was trying to continue the same policy of making sure we can carry out these no fly zone operations without much risk to our pilots Apparently Iraq had developed some new tactics perhaps using two radars in combination with each other so we  could  not figure out (w-) (%hesitation) which one to target or get a track on on (%hesitation) one radar long enough to shoot it and destroy it I think those are the sorts of things that led to this attack and in that sense  it  is really just a tactical modification of the same basic policy that  we  have had for a long time 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 soledad_o_brien 599.867000 603.166000 <o,female,VOA_ENG> Modification of the policy no actual change in policy 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 michael_o_hanlon 603.166000 631.755000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Modification just in the sense of what tactics we will use to keep carrying it out safely but yes no change in the policy There may later on be a change I think President Bush is having a review right now of his basic Iraq policy  They  have got to figure out what to do about getting weapons inspectors back in whether to even try seriously to do that whether to help the Iraqi resistance perhaps even militarily inside Iraq These big basic questions have not yet been answered So for the time being  they  are just continuing Clinton policy 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 soledad_o_brien 631.755000 638.883000 <o,female,VOA_ENG> (t-) The strikes took place outside of the no-fly zone In and of itself is that significant 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 michael_o_hanlon 638.883000 673.520000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Well it was clearly enough to cause consultation with Mr Bush and to create of course this media coverage which I think frankly surprised Mr Bush a little bit I  do  not believe he expected the media coverage to essentially dominate yesterday's news when he went to Mexico But in another sense I would say no  it  is not a big deal (%hesitation) The basic idea is we cannot give Iraq a sanctuary from which to shoot at our planes in the no fly zone region So if  they  are using radars around Baghdad to target our planes that are south of Baghdad then we have to be able to go after those radars even if they are in the you know (th-) the central part of Iraq that we have not been trying to control 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 soledad_o_brien 673.520000 682.513000 <o,female,VOA_ENG> In recent weeks Bush officials have spoken a lot about symbolism when it comes to foreign policy Do you think there is some important component of this that is symbolic 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 michael_o_hanlon 682.513000 702.950000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> I doubt it you know because I (th-) I doubt they want to just be seen as carrying out Bill Clinton's policy as the main way in which they establish themselves There was a lot of criticism of Bill Clinton as commander in chief and this really is not much more than the sort of thing he was doing for eight years So I  do  not think this is the sort of thing they would see as this symbolic definition of the Bush presidency and foreign policy 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 soledad_o_brien 702.950000 706.439000 <o,female,VOA_ENG> How do you think this policy could potentially change in the next weeks or months 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 michael_o_hanlon 706.439000 743.845000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Well in the next couple of weeks not much In the next few months again there is this big question are we going to threaten Iraq with serious force (th-) maybe even several days of bombing if they  do  not let weapons inspectors back in Are we going to revise the sanctions policy to try to get the French and the (%hesitation) Russians on board in a more systematic way because sanctions are starting to fray Are we even going to help the Iraqi resistance get arms and perhaps even support them with air strikes as they try to create (a-) an alternative to Iraq inside that country These are the big questions I  do  not have a way to predict the outcome If I had to guess  I  would say policy will probably change Because all those things I just mentioned are pretty tough to pull off 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 743.845000 750.295000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Defense analyst Michael O'Hanlon of the Washington based Brookings Institution appearing on N.  B.  C.  Today 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 750.295000 774.229000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> A few notes from around the country The U.  S.  space shuttle Atlantis is nearing the end of its latest mission It delivered a sophisticated science laboratory to the International Space Station The new lab will allow the station crew to perform major scientific research The shuttle separated from the space station Friday and is scheduled to land at Cape Canaveral in Florida tomorrow on Sunday 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 774.229000 808.378000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> California governor Gray Davis is proposing to use public funds to help the state out of its energy crisis Mr Davis told reporters Friday that California would attempt to buy more than forty thousand kilometers of the state's network of power lines from cash starved utility companies Also President Bush ordered all federal government agencies that review applications for new power plants to speed up the process and help California get new power plants on line quickly California has been gripped by chronic energy shortages for weeks 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 808.378000 833.463000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> The widening investigation into former President Bill Clinton's controversial pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich now involves the U.  S.  Congress the Justice Department and the U.  S.  Attorney in New York As V.  O.  A.  national correspondent Jim Malone reports the furor over the Rich pardon has angered even some of Mr Clinton's staunchest allies and has put the former President on the defensive 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 jim_malone 833.463000 883.867000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> The U.  S.  Attorney's office in New York is probing whether political contributions from Marc Rich's ex-wife Denise played a role in Mr Clinton's last-minute pardon Since nineteen ninety-two Denise Rich has contributed more than a million dollars to the Democratic party four hundred fifty thousand dollars to the Clinton Presidential Library Fund and more than a hundred thousand dollars to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign Marc Rich fled the United States for Switzerland in nineteen eighty-three He was wanted by the Justice Department on charges of evading more than forty-eight million dollars in taxes and for allegedly arranging illegal oil deals with Iran The lead prosecutor in the Rich case Sandy Weinberg says the Clinton White House made little effort to find out the facts of the case before issuing the pardon on January twentieth Mr Weinberg spoke on C.  B.  S.  television 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 sandy_weinberg 883.867000 901.507000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> (I-) it is particularly troubling that no one that knew anything about this case was consulted (%hesitation) No one from the U.  S.  Attorney's office no one from the I.  R.  S.  not me not anyone that had any knowledge about the prosecution was consulted by the by the White House prior to the pardon 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 jim_malone 901.507000 951.331000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Mr Clinton has denied any wrongdoing in connection with the Rich pardon The former President called C.  N.  B.  C.  talk show host Geraldo Rivera and said there is in his words not a single solitary shred of evidence that I did anything wrong or that money changed hands Denise Rich now says  she  is willing to tell congressional investigators what she knows about the pardon provided  she  is given immunity from prosecution A spokesman for the House Government Reform Committee says lawmakers will hold off on granting her immunity until federal prosecutors in New York decide whether to move forward with their own criminal probe The pardon controversy has tarnished Bill Clinton's political legacy and is drawing fire not only from Republicans but also from once loyal Democrats including Senator Charles Schumer of New York 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 charles_schumer 951.331000 970.257000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> One of the great strengths of our criminal justice system is that it is just that a system By allowing someone to choose to opt out of that system by fleeing and then opt into that system to get a pardon perverts the system entirely 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 jim_malone 970.257000 981.001000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Those  who  have remained loyal to Mr Clinton are hoping the pardon controversy will fade with time Former Clinton White House spokesman Joe Lockhart was interviewed on N.  B.  C.'s Today Show 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 joe_lockhart 981.001000 998.125000 <o,male,VOA_ENG>  He  is going about his business as most ex-presidents do  there  is a new (sta-) ex-presidents (%hesitation) But I think before long  he  is going to get on with (s-) his work and I think (w-) (%hesitation) (w-) (%hesitation) a long time from now  we  are going to look back and say this was the best ex-president in history  He  is young  he  has got a lot to offer and  we  are going to focus on real things pretty soon I hope 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 jim_malone 998.125000 1011.774000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> In the meantime the man who may be benefiting the most from the Clinton controversy is his successor President Bush Joseph From is a veteran political commentator and a guest on this weekend's Issues in the News program on V.  O.  A.  
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 joseph_from 1011.774000 1025.938000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> All Bush has to do is to continue to look respectable and  he  is a successful president Because of the contrast between his behavior now and the continued behavior of Clinton 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 jim_malone 1025.938000 1037.297000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> As for Bill Clinton's political legacy many analysts believe the Rich pardon has already had a negative impact This is presidential historian Allan Lichtman of the American University here in Washington 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 allan_lichtman 1037.297000 1052.498000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> The bottom line for the Clinton administration will be dualism The president who justifiably left office with the highest approval ratings of any second term president and the president who justifiably gets very low marks for his personal conduct 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 jim_malone 1052.498000 1068.906000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> The next chapter in the pardon story could come on March first when the House committee probing the case is expected to ask three former Clinton aides to testify including former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta Jim Malone V.  O.  A.  News Washington 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 1068.906000 1086.584000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> This is V.  O.  A.  News Now It is fifteen hours eighteen universal time  I  am Philip Alexio here in Washington Our top news story Iraq vows to retaliate against U.  S.  and British air strikes near Baghdad  We  will have more on this and other news in about oh twelve minutes from now 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 1086.584000 1095.323000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> After the news Our World This week our (%hesitation) science and technology show will be exploring the mapping of the human genome 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 1095.323000 1100.211000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> And just ahead of that a look at the (%hesitation) Oscar nominated film Pollock 
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20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 1108.040000 1142.350000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Taking a look at sports now American golfer Joe Durant has maintained his three shot lead after three rounds of the Bob Hope Classic in California Durant fired a five under par sixty-seven Friday on the Palmer course one of the four courses used in the five day event His three day total of twenty-three under one ninety-three is a record for the forty-one year old event and was his two day total of eighteen under par Paul Stankowski of the U.  S.  is in second place after sinking an eagle on his final hole 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 1142.350000 1145.842000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> And now with the rest of our sports report  here  is Dave Byrd 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 david_byrd 1145.842000 1237.240000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Organizers of the Athens two thousand four Olympics say that they will have to run a marathon at a sprinter's pace in order to get ready for the games The International Olympic Committee approved Greece's change of venue for several sports as it continues preparations for the two thousand four games I.  O.  C.  coordination commission head Jacques Rogge approved the decision to move Tae Kwon Do handball volleyball and boxing from the coastal area of Faliron to Flisvos and Hellinikon The switch will mean that preliminary round basketball games will also be moved to a new fourteen thousand seat venue made from a converted aircraft hangar On Thursday the I.  O.  C.  coordination commission urged Athens to speed up the construction of facilities Athens two thousand four organizing committee Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki said that preparations are on schedule and that important progress has been made since an I.  O.  C.  delegation last visited Athens in November Meanwhile Greek environmentalists have stepped up efforts to stop construction of a rowing and canoeing venue near the ancient Marathon battlefield A petition signed by eleven thousand people was given to (%hesitation) the I.  O.  C.'s Jacques Rogge by the Worldwide Fund for Nature The fund claims that the building of the venue in Schinias near Marathon will endanger several species of birds and fish However Mr Rogge disagreed saying that the I.  O.  C.  has guaranteed the area's environmental protection and the site is outside the archaeological area of Marathon which is currently an unused wasteland 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 david_byrd 1237.240000 1262.706000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> In Major League Baseball the World Champion New York Yankees have signed relief pitcher Mariano Rivera of Panama to a four-year contract worth nearly forty million dollars The deal makes Rivera the highest paid reliever in the game and takes the Yankees payroll to nearly one hundred ten million dollars Yankees manager Joe Torre says that Rivera has been instrumental in helping the team win three straight World Series titles 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 joe_torre 1262.706000 1274.322000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> (I-) if  he  is not the M.  V.  P.   he  is one of them Even though I I hate to single somebody out (%hesitation) as an M.  V.  P.  but if you look at the teams that have been successful  it  is really tough to win without a closer 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 david_byrd 1274.322000 1279.210000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Rivera says that signing the deal means he will not have to be concerned about his future 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 mariano_rivera 1279.210000 1296.794000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> I have to concentrate on my season and my spring training and (%hesitation)  I  am glad this thing is over (%hesitation) I happy that  I  am going to be a Yankee I can stay forever You know and (%hesitation) that way  do  not have to worry about nothing  I  will just pitch 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 david_byrd 1296.794000 1312.896000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> The thirty-one year old right handed pitcher had thirty-three saves in sixty-six appearances last season  He  has had at least thirty saves in each of his four seasons as a closer Rivera has seven World Series saves and nineteen playoffs saves both Major League Baseball records 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 david_byrd 1312.896000 1343.652000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> On the tennis courts local hero and fourth seed Sebastien Grosjean of France is in the semi-finals of the Open Thirteen Men's Tennis Tournament in Marseilles Grosjean scored a straight set win over Karol Kucera of Slovakia on Friday He faces Max Mirnyi of Belarus in Saturday's semi-final Meanwhile Olympic champion and second seed Yevgeny Kafelnikov of Russia reached the final four with a three set win over fifth seeded Frenchman Cedric Pioline He takes on Roger Federer of Switzerland who beat his Davis Cup teammate Michel Kratochvil 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 david_byrd 1343.652000 1369.329000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> In women's tennis world number three player Venus Williams of the United States has a semi-final date at the Terazura Open Tennis Tournament in Nice France She beat countrywoman Meilen Tu on Friday and takes on Bulgaria's Magdalena Maleeva in the final four Fifth seed Anke Huber of Germany reached the semi-finals with a straight set win over Silvia Farina Elia of Italy She will take on Amelie Mauresmo of France And  that  is sports  I  am Dave Byrd 
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20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 1375.423000 1387.103000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> A provocative and personal film about one of America's great artists has earned best actor and best actress Oscar nominations for its costars Alan Silverman has a look at Pollock 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 marcia_gay_harden 1387.103000 1393.091000 <o,female,VOA_ENG>  You  have done it Pollock  You  have cracked it wide open 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 alan_silverman 1393.091000 1418.758000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Jackson Pollock lived only forty-four years but this turbulent genius helped define American modern art in the middle of the twentieth century Pollock chronicles the final fifteen years of his life from his rise to prominence in the nineteen forties to his death in a nineteen fifty-six auto accident Ed Harris stars as the artist and also directs the film that took him more than ten years to bring to the screen 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 ed_harris 1418.758000 1453.279000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> I  did  not know anything about the guy you know I think I probably knew his name but I  did  not know anything about his work and (tha-) it was My dad sent me a book about him in nineteen eighty-six for my birthday with a picture of him on the cover and said you know you kind of look like this guy Maybe  there  is (s-) something in there (er-) could make a film And then I began to read about him and the more I read the more (it-) it intrigued me and after that point I in my career I  do  not believe  there  had had been any effort on my part to create a project of my own you know I just the more I got involved with it the more I felt like this is something I wanted to do 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 spkr_2 1453.279000 1457.151000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> What  you  are doing is the most original and vigorous art in the country 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 ed_harris 1457.151000 1458.118000 <o,male,VOA_ENG>  We  are broke 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 spkr_2 1458.118000 1459.049000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> You just keep at it 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 ed_harris 1459.049000 1494.213000 <o,male,VOA_ENG>  I  am keeping at it  Do  not tell me to keep at it First of all (i-) I wanted to make a film that was accessible You know I  did  not want to make some obscure film that was so artsy First of all I  do  not think I could have that people  could  not see it and get anything out of you know that  did  not resonate for them in some ways So I wanted to make a film that had some humanity to it but I did feel (as-) a certain amount of (%hesitation) not pressure but (%hesitation) obligation Not so much to the art world per se but to Pollock's world You know it never was meant to be an art history lesson  It  is an emotional journey  I  am just painting V.  
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 marcia_gay_harden 1494.213000 1524.783000 <o,female,VOA_ENG> But what  you  are doing Jackson and  do  not tell me you  do  not know what  you  are doing are you experimenting with surrealism Is this a dream Even if  it  is a dream  it  is still what you see  It  is life  You  are not just randomly putting paint on the canvas  You  are painting something You  cannot abstract from nothing You can only abstract from life From nature 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 ed_harris 1524.783000 1525.825000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> I am nature 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 alan_silverman 1525.825000 1537.219000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Marcia Gay Harden costars as artist Lee Krasner who becomes life partner and muse to Pollock despite his bouts of abusive drunkenness and flagrant infidelity 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 marcia_gay_harden 1537.219000 1584.081000 <o,female,VOA_ENG> She was didactic and I think that made her difficult She  did  not suffer fools and she was she was brave enough to not suffer fools When Lee said no she meant no And that was it And I and I respect that (%hesitation) she owned her power and she owned her strength And while I I loved that she recognized his genius and would nurture and push him what is hard to like about Lee or anybody who does allow themselves to be abused is the part of them that must be so hurt and so afraid and have such low self esteem that they allow that in And they allow it to stay in their lives But they were both two really hurt people (n-) needing approval If you  do  not stop seeing her  I  am going to leave you 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 ed_harris 1584.081000 1585.730000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> You open that mouth again  I  will kill you 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 marcia_gay_harden 1585.730000 1588.682000 <o,female,VOA_ENG> You are killing me You are killing me You are killing 
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20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 alan_silverman 1590.013000 1601.513000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Ed Harris admits Pollock is not an easy person to like or understand But he hopes audiences can study the character as they would one of his splatter and drip paintings 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 ed_harris 1601.513000 1628.248000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> I knew I wanted it to be pretty straightforward I  did  not want it to be quick cuts bam bam bam bam bam bam bam I wanted to let the camera sit and and observe I knew I wanted to spend time with this guy I knew it would probably be boring to some people if you want something to keep you on the edge of your seat all the time you (s-) you know (sh-) maybe you  should  not go to this movie If you want to (g-) get involved with something and and take the time and penetrate it and check out  what  is happening maybe  you  will enjoy it 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 spkr_3 1628.248000 1635.584000 <o,female,VOA_ENG> How do you respond to some of your critics They have said a mop of tangled hair Cathartic disintegration Degenerate What do you say to them 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 ed_harris 1635.584000 1644.795000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> If people would just look at the paintings I  do  not think  they  would have any trouble enjoying them  It  is like looking at a bed of flowers You  do  not tear your hair out over what it means 
20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 alan_silverman 1644.795000 1656.496000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Pollock is a Sony Pictures Classics release and the cast also features Amy Madigan Jeffrey Tambor and Jennifer Connelly Alan Silverman for the Voice of America in Hollywood 
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20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 1699.926000 1754.264000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> Former U.  S.  president Jimmy Carter is asking people in his home state of Georgia to help him furnish his rural boyhood home now part of a national historic site to look as it did in the (%hesitation) nineteen thirties The farm house needs an old icebox Depression era books and games a peanut thrasher and a two horse farm wagon among other things The seventy-six year old former president's request appeared in this past week's edition of the Farmers and Consumers Market Bulletin a publication of the Georgia Department of Agriculture Donors will get a tax deduction and a letter of thanks from the National Park Service but no money Officials at the Jimmy Carter National Historic site found a few items for last November's opening of the boyhood home in the community of Archery but more are needed 
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20010217_1000_1030_VOA_ENG 1 philip_alexio 1756.813000 1765.864000 <o,male,VOA_ENG> It is fifteen hours twenty-nine Stay tuned  we  will have a little bit of news coming up in about thirty seconds 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 0.000000 5.431000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> A co-production of the B.  B.  C.  World Service P.  R.  I.  and W.  G.  B.  H.  Boston 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 10.011000 13.445000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> Today is Tuesday February twentieth  I  am Lisa Mullins in Boston 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 18.246000 23.424000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> Coming up a twenty-seven year veteran of the F.  B.  I.  is arrested and charged with spying for the Russians 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 23.424000 27.836000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> Other Cold War echoes reverberate during President Putin's meeting with the head of NATO 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 27.836000 32.973000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> And the head of Salt Lake City's Olympic committee says he  was  not sure if he could turn things around 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 mitt_romney 32.973000 44.674000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> I had a lot of sleepless nights at the beginning I  did  not know if we could pull off the Games I  did  not know if this community would ever rally around the Olympics again They were so disheartened I just  did  not know if we could overcome that We have and now the fun sets in 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 48.676000 50.410000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> First this news 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 corey_flintoff 54.769000 96.810000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> From N.  P.  R.  News in Washington  I  am Corey Flintoff Napster the internet music swapping service has offered to pay one billion dollars in licensing fees to settle the lawsuits of record companies who accuse it of violating their copyrights Napster officials told reporters in San Francisco that the company is proposing to pay the major record companies one hundred fifty million dollars a year over five years Independent labels and artists would get fifty million dollars a year over the same period Napster has already joined forces with Bertelsmann A.  G.  the huge German media company Officials for the two companies said  they  have called everyone in the U.  S.  music industry to update them on the offer 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 corey_flintoff 96.810000 107.542000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> President Bush said today that  he  is deeply disturbed by allegations that a long-time F.  B.  I.  agent was spying for the Russians N.  P.  R.'s Pam Fessler reports from Saint Louis 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 pam_fessler 107.542000 151.870000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> The President made his remarks aboard Air Force One He was on his way to Saint Louis Missouri to promote his education and tax cut plans But news of the arrest of Robert Hanssen on espionage charges overshadowed the President's trip Reading from notecards President Bush said the allegations against Hanssen were extremely serious and particularly disturbing for those who work for the F.  B.  I.  He said it was quote a difficult day for those who love our country and especially for those who serve our country in law enforcement and in the intelligence community He expressed his confidence in F.  B.  I.  director Louis Freeh and the employees of the F.  B.  I.  but he also warned anyone who had betrayed the United States  we  will find you and  we  will bring you to justice Pam Fessler N.  P.  R.  News Saint Louis 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 corey_flintoff 151.870000 158.992000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> President Bush visited the Midwest today to promote his education agenda Rob Schober reports from Ohio Public Radio 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 rob_schober 158.992000 170.284000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> The President came to an inner-city school in Columbus Ohio highlighting his plan to increase standardized testing The President thinks the tests will increase school accountability and also make sure parents know how their children are doing in class 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 george_w_bush 170.284000 182.143000 <o,male,PRI_TWD>  There  is a lot of discussion about parental involvement and (%hesitation) and and schools  There  is nothing that will make a parent more involved than to know whether or not his or her child is learning 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 rob_schober 182.143000 207.195000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> The President says the only way parents and the country for that matter can really know if schools are doing the job is through standardized testing Under the Bush plan underperforming schools would have three years to turn things around If they fail parents would get a fifteen hundred dollar voucher to send their child to a tutor another public school or a private school The administration hopes to get their education package through Congress by early summer For N.  P.  R.  News  I  am Rob Schober in Columbus 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 corey_flintoff 207.195000 228.950000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Outgoing Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak says he  will  not join a coalition government with prime minister elect Ariel Sharon Barak has been negotiating with Sharon for days over an agreement that would have given him the post of defense minister Barak's Labor Party would also have claimed the job of foreign minister in the new government An aide to Barak said he has decided to step down as party leader 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 corey_flintoff 228.950000 233.571000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> The Dow lost sixty-nine points today This is N.  P.  R.  
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 dave_heller 246.071000 252.889000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Fifty-four degrees in Center City at eight oh four Good evening  I  am Dave Heller with W.  H.  Y.  Y.  News 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 dave_heller 252.889000 259.947000 <o,male,PRI_TWD>  Pennsylvania  is still gearing up for possibility of a drought this coming summer We get the report from W.  H.  Y.  Y.'s Jen Rehill 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 jen_rehill 259.947000 286.975000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> Pennsylvania's Water Use Act dates back to nineteen thirty-nine and strictly limits state authority over how and when water is used Larry Tropea of the Department of Environmental Protection says  it  is time to update that legislation He says under current law the state has no power to take appropriate measures to prevent shortages and drought or to settle disputes over water rights between communities At the moment those arguments are settled by who has the strongest water pump or digs the deepest well 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 larry_tropea 286.975000 304.643000 <o,male,PRI_TWD>  We  have got a set of laws that are are fairly old There are some increasing conflicts We see a whole lot of droughts (%hesitation) in the past six years and maybe  we  will see some more in the future So  we  have got to go out and hear the hear what Pennsylvanians really feel and what they see to be the needs in this particular area 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 jen_rehill 304.643000 322.384000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> Tropea says the Environmental Department will hold public hearings on water management issues this spring to gather more information from local authorities businesses and private citizens The Department will forward its recommendations to the legislature following those hearings In Harrisburg  I  am Jen Rehill W.  H.  Y.  Y.  News 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 dave_heller 323.235000 349.349000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> The Franklin Institute forecast calls for cloudy skies overnight with a shower possible low forty-four degrees Windy turning colder tomorrow morning high temperature in the forties then temperatures will fall into the thirties in the afternoon Clear much colder tomorrow night with less wind low eighteen degrees Thursday cold with sunshine followed by increasing clouds high thirty-three flurries or a period of snow possible late in the day or Thursday night 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 dave_heller 349.349000 352.426000 <o,male,PRI_TWD>  It  is eight oh six This is W.  H.  Y.  Y.  
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 374.622000 412.595000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> This is The World  I  am Lisa Mullins A twenty-seven year veteran of the F.  B.  I.  has been arrested and charged with spying for the Russians The agent Robert Phillip Hanssen was detained Sunday at his home outside Washington after allegedly dropping off a document for his Russian handler Today Justice Department officials said that Hanssen has been passing secrets to Moscow since the mid nineteen eighties They also allege that he betrayed three Soviet officials who spied for the United States Buck Revell is a former assistant director of operations at the F.  B.  I.  Mr Revell first thank you for taking the time to speak to us and we want to listen first to the F.  B.  I.  director Louis Freeh at this afternoon's news conference in Washington 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 louis_freeh 412.595000 447.469000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> It is alleged that Hanssen provided to the former Soviet Union and subsequently to Russia substantial volumes of highly classified information that he acquired during the course of his job responsibilities in counterintelligence In return he received large sums of money and other remuneration including diamonds The complaint alleges that he received over six hundred thousand dollars in cash The full extent of the damage done is yet unknown because no accurate damage assessment could be done during the course of the covert investigation without jeopardizing it We believe however that it was exceptionally grave 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 447.469000 456.765000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> So Buck Revell from your knowledge of the F.  B.  I.  and as you hear director Freeh speaking there what do you deduce from that sort of language when he says exceptionally grave How damaging do you think this case has been 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 buck_revell 456.765000 485.357000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Well from the outset it appears to be very damaging because (%hesitation) of one he had such a long Hanssen had such a long term of assignment in counterintelligence and was operating in areas where extremely sensitive information is dealt with (%hesitation) and of course he was also seconded to the State Department to assist them in creating (%hesitation) their own counter intelligence capability (%hesitation) and and that of course (%hesitation) makes a very egregious circumstance 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 485.357000 493.036000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> And when you talk about intelligence capabilities Mr Hanssen was a counterintelligence expert What kind of secrets could he have passed on to the Russians 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 buck_revell 493.036000 520.821000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Well (i-) in counterintelligence (%hesitation) you are really charged with knowing (w-) what the activities are of your (%hesitation) opposition so he could have passed on (%hesitation) F.  B.  I.  investigations into Russian agents operating in the United States into clandestine (%hesitation) methods and operations of both F.  B.  I.  and U.  S.  (%hesitation) intelligence services (%hesitation) as well as (%hesitation) any sort of (%hesitation) recruitment in place that we might have (t-) the Bureau might have obtained to work against the Russians 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 520.821000 525.420000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> And can you mention specific areas in terms of working against the Russians I mean what are we talking about here 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 buck_revell 525.420000 548.025000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Well in dealing (%hesitation) with the Russians of course the F.  B.  I.'s concern is to counter the intelligence activities the (%hesitation) covert intelligence operations of (%hesitation) the Russians in the United States The U.  S.  intelligence community on the other hand (%hesitation) is concerned with developing information within Russia as to its activities that might be detrimental or (its-) could be of concern to the United States 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 548.025000 552.920000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> So is there a chance that if indeed he is guilty that he has put the lives of Americans in danger 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 buck_revell 552.920000 584.527000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> (%hesitation) He (m-) may well have put the lives of (m-) American double agents other words Russians working for (%hesitation) the U.  S.  government for the C.  I.  A.  or (f-) one of the other intelligence services at risk and in particular if he (%hesitation) was (%hesitation) doing anything with the information (%hesitation) (tha-) (w-) that (%hesitation) Ames was providing to the Russians (%hesitation) we do know that (%hesitation) (%hesitation) at least ten (%hesitation) Russian double agents those working for the United States were executed by the Soviets back in the Soviet era based on Ames' information 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 584.527000 600.210000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> It has been said that Mr Hanssen was arrested after he made a dead drop as they call it of classified documents in a Virginia park which all sounds very Cold War James Bondesque Have things not changed in the intelligence world since the end of the Cold War I mean why are we still spying on each other 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 buck_revell 600.210000 623.036000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Well  we  are still spying on each other because (%hesitation) things happen (%hesitation) (%hesitation) (i-) (i-) in governments that (%hesitation) (%hesitation) other governments (d-) think they need to know about Now sometimes it has shifted from (%hesitation) (%hesitation) political and military intelligence to high technology (n-) intellectual property and (%hesitation) economic issues (%hesitation) as well as of course the traditional (%hesitation) (%hesitation) political military circumstance 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 623.036000 632.038000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> (%hesitation) (f-) Final question There were congratulations understandably all around today at the press conference but (o-) (o-) one question we have is why did it take so long for anyone to realize what was going on 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 buck_revell 632.038000 669.244000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Well (%hesitation) a counterintelligence officer (%hesitation) is probably the most difficult to catch because his job is to catch others doing the same thing so he is aware of the trade craft He knows the methods of operation of the Bureau and the Agency the C.  I.  A.  as well as of course the Russians themselves so a person in counter intelligence as (%hesitation) (%hesitation) Aldridge Ames was is really (i-) in a in a key position to understand how to best go about avoiding detection and they are trained in detecting this type of activity so when they choose to betray their country they are well versed in how to go about that without (%hesitation) being detected 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 669.244000 673.855000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> Former assistant director of operations for the F.  B.  I.  Buck Revell thank you very much 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 buck_revell 673.855000 675.210000 <o,male,PRI_TWD>  You  are very welcome 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 675.210000 697.017000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> Allegations of spying for the Russian government  are  not the only contemporary echo of the Cold War Russia and the West are also tussling over other familiar issues including nuclear weapons and the actions of NATO These topics headed the agenda in Moscow today when visiting NATO Secretary General George Robertson met with Russia's president Vladimir Putin The World's Nened Sebek has more from the Russian capital 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 nened_sebek 697.017000 716.155000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> The visit by Robertson was meant to mark a new better phase in NATO's relationship with Moscow But coming straight after the Anglo American bombing of Iraq condemned by the Kremlin it  did  not look all that promising today Robertson's first meeting this morning with Russia's defense minister Igor Sergeyev immediately snagged on Russia's main problem with NATO 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 nened_sebek 718.025000 760.588000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Defense minister Sergeyev explains that of course the most painful issue for Russia is the eastward expansion of NATO After taking in Poland Hungary and the Czech Republic two years ago NATO now has a waiting list of nine more Central and Eastern European countries The most difficult ones for Russia to swallow are the three Baltic republics Estonia Latvia and Lithuania all of them until a decade ago a part of the Soviet Union But this as well as Russia's objection to Washington's plans to develop a national missile defense system is no surprise Today's surprise came when President Putin urged NATO's chief to adopt Russia's plans for a joint project between Europe's NATO members and Russia for their own missile defense 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 nened_sebek 764.643000 807.427000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Putin said he hopes that NATO's experts will look at Russia's proposals very soon Then he said his military and civilian experts will be ready to clarify any details and what is especially important Putin said explaining to the European public what exactly Russia is proposing Critics say Moscow is trying to take the issue of national missile defense out of the purely diplomatic and military spheres and present it as a major public issue The idea is to win the hearts and minds of voters in Western Europe and erode NATO's support for the U.  S.  missile defense system NATO chief Robertson has invited President Putin to make his case to the alliance at its Brussels headquarters and promised he would consider the Russian proposals 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 george_robertson 807.427000 825.746000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> It was a very good and useful meeting and I was very pleased to get the Russian proposals on (%hesitation) (%hesitation) missile defense here this morning We will be discussing these matters (%hesitation) at a briefing that the (%hesitation) Russians will be giving (%hesitation) in Brussels at a very early date 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 nened_sebek 825.746000 852.363000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> But so far the Russian proposals are short on specifics It would appear that there is one major difference between the American N.  M.  D.  and the Russian plan N.  M.  D.  would act like a huge shield to stop ballistic missiles from reaching the U.  S.  or any other country which is included in the scheme The Russians appear to be looking at mobile systems which could catch the missiles shortly after their launch Russian defense analyst Dmitri Trenin says the Russian plan boils down to a three stage process 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 dmitri_trenin 852.363000 881.082000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> You first (%hesitation) have a joint strategic assessment of the missile environment B.  you (%hesitation) devise strategies to deal with the threats that you identify not only through military means but primarily political and diplomatic means And (%hesitation) C.  if (%hesitation) if you have to build a missile defense system it will have to be (%hesitation) limited to those (%hesitation) (a-) areas or as (%hesitation) the Russians say strategic directions from which missile attacks will be most likely 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 nened_sebek 881.082000 899.758000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> The Russian version would appear to be smaller less complex and cheaper than a continental shield But just like with the U.  S.  national missile defense plan there is no proof that it would work Either way Moscow has launched a diplomatic offensive and  it  is up to Washington to respond For The World this is Nened Sebek in Moscow 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 899.758000 911.145000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> Michael McFall is a senior analyst for Russian affairs with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington Mike McFall explain  what  is happening here  What  is Putin trying to achieve with this diplomatic offensive 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 michael_mcfall 911.145000 944.454000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Well Putin is going back to the old Soviet days of the early nineteen eighties and trying to split the European allies our European allies from the United States over security issues (%hesitation) This reminds me a lot of what the Soviets tried to do in response to Ronald Reagan's strategic defense initiative so called star wars program and in the early (%hesitation) eighties you had a lot of Russian diplomatic offensives towards the West Europeans to say hey our security interests are one and  they  are different from the United States 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 944.454000 951.502000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> Could this be an effective move then given the fact that there is hardly solidarity within NATO toward the United States' missile defense plan 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 michael_mcfall 951.502000 1015.599000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Absolutely not (%hesitation) I think (%hesitation) just as it failed in the early eighties I think  it  will fail again When push comes to shove Russia is still on the outside of Europe people are still suspicious about Russia's future in terms of becoming a real democracy and a real market economy Therefore no Western European country is going to side up with the Russians and begin to build defenses with the Russians against the United States The relationship between the United States and Germany and England and even France is not just about military capabilities  It  is about intentions I  do  not lose any sleep at night over the fact that England has nuclear weapons I  do  not even know how many soldiers Canada has and frankly I  do  not care  That  is because we believe we know what the intentions of those countries are With Russia  it  is very different With Russia  there  is a lot of uncertainty about those intentions and in many ways the the divide between east and west (%hesitation) that was with us through the Cold War still has not faded 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 1015.599000 1029.695000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> What does Russia believe then Does it think Does Vladimir Putin think that the United States will potentially attack therefore it needs its own shield Does it as the U.  S.  does see a threat from rogue nations (%hesitation) such as for instance Iran or North Korea 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 michael_mcfall 1029.695000 1072.826000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Well  it  is a hard question to answer It seems like Mr Putin wants to have his cake and eat it too On the one hand he goes to Europe and meets and (%hesitation) with Western leaders saying that he wants to become part of Europe and bring Russia into (%hesitation) Europe in a more consolidated way On the other hand he goes off to different places (%hesitation) North Korea (%hesitation) Cuba places that traditionally were Soviet allies It seems to me that he  has  not quite made up his mind whether (h-) he really thinks that Russia can make it as a member of the West or whether Russia will be on the outside of the West and that ambiguity I think is reflected in these very somewhat contradictory foreign policy initiatives coming out of Moscow today 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 1072.826000 1077.742000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> Is it serving United States' interests to keep that kind of ambiguity 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 michael_mcfall 1077.742000 1093.382000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> No I  do  not think so I think the less ambiguity the better I think we need to make very clear that national missile defense has very little to do with Russia and has everything to do with rogue states and the sooner we can get to that (%hesitation) agreement the better 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 1093.382000 1100.399000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> So in terms of what  we  are hearing now from Russia do you feel as though that this is (%hesitation) back to the bad old days 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 michael_mcfall 1100.399000 1137.857000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Well it most certainly  does  not sound good at least in the initial stages and with the change of administration here  there  is a lot of reading of the tea leaves in Moscow going on today In the late Yeltsin years when the President was ill the Russian President when he was very cooperative with the United States we got used to a dynamic where we did all the proposing and the Russians did all the reacting Putin has changed that dynamic He is now going out and putting things on the table putting counter-proposals on the table and putting us on the defensive We now have to respond to these new foreign policy initiatives that  he  is pursuing 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 1137.857000 1142.805000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> Michael McFall of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington D.  C.  thank you 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 michael_mcfall 1142.805000 1143.834000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Thanks for having me 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 1162.511000 1167.553000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> Coming up later in the program a hero to Palestinians Saddam Hussein on P.  R.  I.  
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 1253.981000 1289.842000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> This is The World  I  am Lisa Mullins Beijing's mayor had a message today for a visiting inspection team from the International Olympic Committee  We  are ready The Chinese capital is competing with Toronto Paris Istanbul and Osaka Japan to host the two thousand eight Olympic Games The I.  O.  C.  is trying to make the selection process above board unlike the scandal ridden manner in which Salt Lake City was chosen as the site of next year's winter Games In nineteen ninety-nine the city was reeling from revelations of bribery involving Olympic officials but today as The World's Clark Boyd reports Salt Lake City seems ready for the Olympic spotlight 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 clark_boyd 1289.842000 1343.876000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Contrast culture courage  That  is the three word motto the Salt Lake organizing committee has chosen for next year's Winter Games Courage seems especially relevant considering that two years ago the Salt Lake City games were in jeopardy Then sports fans the world over watched in horror as Salt Lake City's Olympic leadership resigned and corporate sponsors threatened to pull out It had been revealed that members of Salt Lake City's bid committee improperly gave gifts and favors to members of the International Olympic Committee in an effort to secure the Games for the city A month after the scandal broke the Salt Lake organizing committee announced that Mitt Romney a Massachusetts businessman and a Mormon was taking over as president and C.  E.  O.  of the organizing committee His task To do some serious housecleaning in Salt Lake City Looking back Romney says he  was  not sure that would be enough to save the games 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 mitt_romney 1343.876000 1366.376000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> I had a lot of sleepless nights at the beginning I  did  not know if we could pull off the games I  did  not know if this community would ever rally around the Olympics again They were so disheartened by the revelations that the people who led the bid had let them down and had participated in the same kind of (%hesitation) scandalous bid process that apparently other cities had participated in That I just  did  not know if we could overcome that We have and now the fun sets in 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 clark_boyd 1369.380000 1383.834000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> The fun has already set in here at the Utah Winter Sports Park in nearby Park City Tucked high in the Wasatch Mountains this new facility will play host to ski jumping luge skeleton and bobsledding or as some call it bobsleigh 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 clark_boyd 1385.588000 1393.981000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> As a Japanese two man bobsleigh team slides by on their heads  it  is clear that the bribery scandal is not foremost on the athletes' minds 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 clark_boyd 1399.244000 1426.103000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> While the Salt Lake organizing committee was repairing the political and economic damage caused by the scandal venue sites like Park City have quietly gone about preparing for thousands of foreign athletes and visitors And while Park City is used to yearly throngs of skiers city officials like Myles Rademan still went to previous Olympic sites to learn how to handle the crowds and the hype Rademan says the ninety-four Games in Lillehammer Norway provided the best model 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 myles_rademan 1426.103000 1444.475000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Lillehammer is a small town of twenty-six thousand people (%hesitation) They were able (%hesitation) you know to portray themselves as what they were a small kind of Alpine village (%hesitation) very friendly They concentrated many of the activities on their main street and we saw that and we said this is what we want this is the image we want 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 clark_boyd 1444.475000 1450.777000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> But the lessons  were  not all just about image says Park City's director of Olympic planning and services Frank Bell 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 frank_bell 1450.777000 1477.279000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> In Nagano (%hesitation) we learned a lot just by being there and how it how the (%hesitation) Games affected the ski business in some of the Alpine resorts in the Japanese Alps and (%hesitation) we learned how the weather affected (%hesitation) ski events (%hesitation) transportation challenges All of these are challenges that  we  have looked at in other venue communities (an-) and I think  we  are much more comfortable with where we are with the Games a year out than we would had we not gone to (%hesitation) visit these other communities 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 clark_boyd 1482.836000 1512.185000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Back in downtown Salt Lake City signs of the impending Olympic invasion are everywhere A new light rail provides transportation downtown and hotels are sprouting up to service the hundreds of thousands of visitors the city expects to welcome Fittingly the organizing committee is promising a Western theme to these Olympics But visitors who expect Salt Lake City to be populated with nothing but Hollywood style cowboys and Indians are going to find something very different says the city's mayor Rocky Anderson 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 rocky_anderson 1512.185000 1533.981000 <o,male,PRI_TWD>  We  have got a huge Latino population  We  are also a major resettlement community with thousands of Bosnians Croatians Somalis (%hesitation)  It  is a very very rich and diverse social fabric in Salt Lake City and we intend to portray that in every way possible during the Olympics 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 clark_boyd 1538.403000 1543.435000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> The Latino influence in Salt Lake City is evident when you stroll down Main Street at lunchtime 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 clark_boyd 1547.973000 1556.985000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> This Peruvian restaurant called (Incantacion) stands next to the old five and dime and hot dog stands are slowly giving way to taco stands 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 clark_boyd 1561.061000 1574.527000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> In some Utah communities the Latino population has quadrupled in the past decade Leticia Medina the director of the state's office of Hispanic affairs is eager for those Olympic generated jobs but knows her office has to do more 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 leticia_medina 1574.527000 1589.811000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> One of the (%hesitation) goals of the state of Utah is not only to create new business but to also maintain economic stability by having those business maintain after the Olympics And so  there  is a big initiative from Utah to make that happen 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 clark_boyd 1595.977000 1630.126000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Salt Lake City is also trying to refute the notion that these are going to be the Mormon Olympics Although the church does influence many aspects of life in Utah church officials maintain that they will not use the Games to proselytize Still church spokeswoman Kim Ferra admits she gets many calls from foreign visitors and journalists inquiring about the availability of alcohol in Utah or wanting to know about polygamy which the Mormon church banned over one hundred years ago Ferra says the church's real goal is to reach out to the city's international visitors during the Games 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 kim_ferra 1630.126000 1651.576000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> Because our missionaries serve in international areas they learn a variety of languages and we put them to good use when they come home So  we  are hoping that when the Olympics come to Salt Lake City that our residents in this area will be of help to those who speak other languages and be able to serve as volunteers to help accommodate the visitors and the journalists 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 clark_boyd 1651.576000 1670.641000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> All in all not many in Salt Lake City or in Utah seem to be dreading the Olympics  That  is a real change from two years ago Still University of Nevada professor Hal Rothman says that if history is any indicator Salt Lake City might try to avoid being over optimistic about the long term benefits of hosting the Olympics 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 hal_rothman 1670.641000 1682.300000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> The Olympics  do  not usually make money they end up being very very expensive They bring a lot of transient people transient labor (%hesitation) vendors other things like that People who come and go and who in essence take from the economy and put relatively little back in 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 clark_boyd 1682.300000 1688.277000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> The result in several Olympic sites says Rothman has been inflated hopes and dashed dreams 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 hal_rothman 1688.277000 1701.964000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Nagano Sarajevo (%hesitation) other places like that where effectively the Olympics came and then left and they  did  not leave a deserted town or anything like that but what they left was a town whose expectations had been raised and whose (n-) and whose realities after the (Olympic-) Olympics did not meet those expectations 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 myles_rademan 1701.964000 1705.557000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> The biggest lesson  we  have learned is you have to manage expectations 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 clark_boyd 1705.557000 1707.973000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Again Park City's Myles Rademan 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 myles_rademan 1707.973000 1729.611000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> You cannot allow the hoopla the hype you know all the things that go with the name Olympics to overwhelm you The reality of Olympics is actually quite different than the mythology or the hype of an Olympics (%hesitation) in terms of who comes what they expect (%hesitation) the kinds of money that changes hands (%hesitation) all those kinds of things 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 clark_boyd 1729.611000 1744.821000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> With less than a year to go Salt Lake City seems ready to play host to the world Now the question is is the rest of the world ready to play in this little corner of the American West For The World this is Clark Boyd Salt Lake City Utah 
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 1759.055000 1762.540000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> Our top news stories are coming up next on P.  R.  I.  Public Radio (I-) 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 ira_glass 1762.540000 1787.511000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> This week on This American Life at the moment Andrews died he did not remember his wife whom he had loved before she exhausted him with her predictability He  did  not remember having his ribs kicked in by police at an anti-war rally He did not remember when it was that everything began to remind him of something else What he did remember and other last thoughts and last words from Tobias Wolff Luke Sont and others This week on This American Life from Public Radio International 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 spkr_2 1788.351000 1791.197000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Wednesday night at ten on W.  H.  Y.  Y.  
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20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 1798.264000 1803.138000 <o,female,PRI_TWD>  I  am Lisa Mullins Coming up on The World Iraq's leader wins friends in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 spkr_1 1803.138000 1812.645000 <o,male,PRI_TWD> Yes of course (%hesitation) my people support Saddam Hussein not for this money now but he always with the Palestinian people 
20010220_2000_2100_PRI_TWD 1 lisa_mullins 1812.645000 1816.458000 <o,female,PRI_TWD> Also coming up the sacred but unwanted cows of New Delhi 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 0.000000 5.175000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Clinton's brother received a substantial cash payment to lobby for a pardon 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 5.175000 10.807000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Secret life New personal details on one of the worst spy cases in American history 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 10.807000 18.103000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> In depth The spy game The F.  B.  I.  wonders how could a veteran agent get away with it for so long 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 18.103000 25.565000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Deep trouble That deadly sub accident What did the crew know When did it know it A big admission from the Navy tonight 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 25.565000 30.835000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> And a good news bear Burned in last summer's wildfire his first steps home tonight 
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20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_13 33.610000 41.865000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> From N.  B.  C.  News world headquarters in New York this is N.  B.  C.  Nightly News with Tom Brokaw 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 41.865000 67.232000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Good evening Tonight President Clinton was forced to issue another explanation in what has become an unending controversy over his presidential pardons Only this one had nothing to do with Marc Rich This one involved money paid Clinton's brother-in-law Hillary's brother Hugh Rodham to help with another pardon and a commutation We begin tonight with N.  B.  C.'s Lisa Myers on this unexpected development Lisa 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 lisa_myers 67.232000 172.971000 <o,female,NBC_NNW> Tom the former president issued a statements only minutes ago revealing that his brother-in-law Hugh Rodham had received a contingency fee in connection with two controversial pardons Now Mr Clinton says neither he nor Hillary had any knowledge of such payments at the time and that all monies will be returned One of the pardons went to a Florida man named Glen Braswell convicted seventeen years ago of a scam involving false pitches that diet supplement pills could treat baldness The pardon was rushed through at the last minute so fast that the President's aides claim they had no idea that Braswell is actually the subject of an ongoing federal investigation into what court documents call a massive tax evasion and money laundering scheme Tomorrow's edition of the National Enquirer reports that two days after the pardon was granted on January twenty-second Braswell wired two hundred thousand dollars to the law firm of Hugh Rodham the President's brother-in-law The other act of clemency for which Rodham received an undisclosed fee was for a big time cocaine dealer named Carlos Vignali His sentence was commuted to time served enraging the judge and both prosecutors in the case One calls it a back door deal rotten Tonight the President says he became aware that Rodham had received fees in conjunction with these matters only yesterday Quote neither Hillary nor I had any knowledge of such payments We are deeply disturbed by these reports and have insisted that Hugh return any monies received There also have been reports that the F.  B.  I.  was looking into allegations that the President's brother Roger Clinton had solicited fees to help people get pardons Now sources say that investigation was dropped after it was determined that would not have been illegal Tom 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 172.971000 183.863000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Thanks very much N.  B.  C.'s Lisa Myers tonight Joining me now is N.  B.  C.'s Washington bureau chief and moderator of Meet the Press Tim Russert Tim this is not the first time that Hugh Rodham has been in the news and in some controversy 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tim_russert 183.863000 231.704000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Absolutely Tom (w-) (w-) back when there was controversy over his involvement in Georgia and and opposing (%hesitation) Mr Shevardnadze who was then the president (%hesitation) And then the President had to apologize for their behavior This one is particularly important (t-) to Democrats down here Tom who  I  have spoken to saying Mr Rodham had to have a contact at the White House Who in fact did he work through at the White House And what did that person know And the second question Tom as you saw in the President Mrs Clinton's statement they said they had no knowledge of payments They did not say they have never spoken to Hugh Rodham about granting these pardons They may have not known about the money but were they in fact lobbied by someone who is a lawyer in Florida who does receive money for his lobbying 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 231.704000 236.147000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> And that Vignali case in California is the one that has a lot of people unsettled Tim 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tim_russert 236.147000 264.140000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Tom the prosecutor in that case in Minneapolis the judge in that case both said they would not recommend a commutation In fact the lawyer who represented Mr Vignali said you have a snowball's chance in hell at getting one How did you get it People kept asking him and he said well the word around the prison was this was a good time to ask the President He was transferring eight hundred pounds of cocaine to be converted into crack This was not a small time drug deal 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 264.140000 273.591000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Just so  we  are (%hesitation) entirely clear on all of this tonight even if Hugh Rodham did take the money there is probably nothing on the books that makes that illegal in and of itself Tim 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tim_russert 273.591000 315.908000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Unless he went to the President and said I want you to pardon this gentleman  I  am getting paid a good fee A quid pro quo But Tom the fact that Hugh Rodham a practicing lawyer (b-) Hillary Clinton's brother suddenly lands two pardons on the desk one which did not go through any of the Justice Department screening and the other when it went through it was vetoed in effect or attempted by the prosecutor and the judge raise an awful lot of suspicion as to why they were given The President could insist it was done on their merits he had no knowledge of fees given to Mr Rodham but the fact is who brought those applications to his desk and did Hugh Rodham lobby the President personally to in fact grant those pardons 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 315.908000 326.335000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> All right thanks very much N.  B.  C.'s Tim Russert tonight By the way Tim's references to Georgia that was the Republic of Georgia the old Soviet Republic now headed by the former Soviet foreign minister Shevardnadze 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 326.335000 362.164000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> And if just half of what the F.  B.  I.  has learned about another big story in Washington tonight the secret life of spy suspect Robert Hanssen If just half of that is true the man who seemed to be a model American law enforcement official trusted with this country's most precious secrets that man was instead a cold-blooded traitorous (dr-) double agent He may have been driven by dark psychological needs rather than by greed It all remains to be settled in court But of course tonight it does appear that he has been a great asset for Moscow  We  will begin tonight with N.  B.  C.'s Pete Williams 
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20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 pete_williams 363.938000 440.400000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> At Robert Hanssen's house in suburban Washington agents today widened their search using rakes and metal detectors to find any possible evidence that might be buried Agents too at the U.  S.  State Department interviewing people Hanssen worked with the past five years building on the astonishing detail about his past revealed in court documents U.  S.  officials tell N.  B.  C.  News today that information comes from the actual Soviet K.  G.  B.  personnel file kept on Hanssen And as former C.  I.  A.  and F.  B.  I.  director William Webster assembles his team for a review of what went wrong F.  B.  I.  officials tell N.  B.  C.  news they already plan one change held off while Hanssen was monitored the past few months Tighter security in the computer system agents use to track sensitive cases The F.  B.  I.  says Hanssen often used it to check whether investigators were onto him by typing his own name and address into the system to see if anything came up or on places he used to communicate with the Russians Investigators say he even typed in the name of the signal sites he used like this one on a busy Washington street His Russian handlers recommend that he stick thumbtacks into this utility pole White as a signal for a drop yellow as a warning to cut off contact The F.  B.  I.  says the system will now alert supervisors if an agent types in his own name or other personal data as a former agent says it should have done long ago 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_1 440.400000 451.344000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> (Re-) repeatedly putting his (%hesitation) name in as alleged (%hesitation) and drop sites over and over again to see what would come up (I-) I find that really hard to believe without him being detected 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 pete_williams 451.344000 465.716000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Intelligence experts say the F.  B.  I.  should also randomly give lie detector tests to its agents in sensitive jobs as the C.  I.  A.  and other intelligence agencies do to spot suspicious behavior An expert on lie detectors says  there  is another advantage a deterrent effect 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_2 465.716000 475.506000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> People suspecting that  they  are going to be tested at random occurrences will not engage in the kind of behavior that they (%hesitation) think is going to be covered by the polygraph exam 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 pete_williams 475.506000 488.379000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> After running the counter spy operation in secret F.  B.  I.  agents can now openly question everyone who knew Hanssen to learn more about why he spied and how much damage he did Pete Williams N.  B.  C.  News Washington 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 488.379000 515.080000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Another embarrassment for our proud American institution tonight the United States Navy and the U.  S.  S.  Greeneville the submarine that crashed into a Japanese fishing boat killing nine and setting off a chain reaction of controversy that continues tonight Now the Navy has admitted the sub in fact knew the fishing boat was in the area And civilians on board were a distraction to at least one sailor N.  B.  C.'s George Lewis remains in Honolulu again tonight George 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 george_lewis 515.080000 535.841000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Tom an admission tonight from the Navy that seventy-one minutes before the crash the Greeneville had the Japanese vessel on its SONAR then lost contact raising many troubling questions Twelve thirty-two the afternoon of February ninth U.  S.  S.  Greeneville detects the Japanese vessel Ehime Maru on its SONAR 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_3 535.841000 539.733000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> This contact was designated as sierra thirteen 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 george_lewis 539.733000 570.946000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Sierra thirteen Navy jargon for the thirteenth SONAR contact that day by the sub's crew Key question number one Why did the U.  S.  S.  Greeneville lose SONAR contact with the Japanese vessel On nuclear subs the fire control technician is supposed to track those contacts But there were sixteen civilian visitors on board the Greeneville And the sub's fire control technician tells the National Transportation Safety Board that they got in the way that he  could  not get to the chart where the contacts are plotted 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_3 570.946000 574.020000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> He did not ask them to move so that he could get to it 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 george_lewis 574.020000 580.866000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> But even so the sub had other ways of detecting ships in the area Mickey Nolan one of the civilians aboard the Greeneville 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 mickey_nolan 580.866000 588.374000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> The captain went through a meticulous search on the periscope (%hesitation) before he went through this maneuver 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 george_lewis 588.374000 601.729000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Key question number two Why did the sub fail to see the Japanese vessel with its periscope The Navy acknowledges the seas were rough and that the Japanese vessel may have been headed directly toward the sub making it harder to see 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_4 601.729000 606.293000 <o,female,NBC_NNW> The periscope could have been higher in the water Other captains would have done that 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 george_lewis 606.293000 625.047000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> But without seeing anything the Greeneville performed an emergency surfacing maneuver similar to this one with fatal results Now the real answers may start coming Monday when the Navy convenes a court of inquiry into this incident The sub's crew and its officers testifying publicly under oath about what happened Tom 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 625.047000 627.839000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Thanks very much N.  B.  C.'s George Lewis tonight in Honolulu 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 627.839000 635.871000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Up next N.  B.  C.  News In Depth the spy game The F.  B.  I.  wonders tonight how did one of its own get away with it for so long 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_5 635.871000 643.913000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> (%hesitation) (g-) You can create all the sophisticated gadgets you want you can put all the safeguards in you want but the bottom line is a good spy is going to get away with it 
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20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 645.136000 651.378000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> The two faces of the accused spymaster Lawman and traitor  That  is tonight's In Depth 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 651.378000 657.828000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> And survivor The bear cub who made it through a terrifying wild fire going home tonight 
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20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 815.205000 853.148000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> N.  B.  C.  News In Depth tonight the accused F.  B.  I.  spy and how he was able to get away with passing secrets to the Russians Robert Hanssen of course is the latest most dramatic example of the the huge business of spying involving governments and (coopera-) (c-) (%hesitation) corporations in this country In fact the F.  B.  I.  says that spy related matters cost America a hundred billion dollars a year Experts estimate the government spends thirty billion dollars a year on spying For Hanssen the F.  B.  I.  says the methods of his damaging double life were deceptively simple But what about the personal side The secret life of Mr Hanssen In Depth here is N.  B.  C.'s Andrea Mitchell 
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20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 andrea_mitchell 855.568000 869.229000 <o,female,NBC_NNW> Across the nation people are asking who is the accused spy Those who know Hanssen and his own letters reveal two portraits To his family and coworkers a devoted church going father of six a true patriot 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_5 869.229000 875.537000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Good father good husband a good professional his sons were very proud of him being in the F.  B.  I.  
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 andrea_mitchell 875.537000 884.970000 <o,female,NBC_NNW> But all the while if the allegations are true a cold calculating double agent driven by ego the need to control and the thrill of living on the edge 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_5 884.970000 889.994000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> (%hesitation) To be successful he would have had to have (%hesitation) convinced everyone that there was nothing else going on 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 andrea_mitchell 889.994000 910.336000 <o,female,NBC_NNW> The son of a Chicago police officer Hanssen gets a degree in chemistry from Knox College studies Russian then dentistry finally gets an M.  B.  A.  at Northwestern Works as an accountant a Chicago police investigator then in nineteen seventy-six joins the F.  B.  I.  Always professional former colleagues say but a loner 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_8 910.336000 914.920000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> (%hesitation) I  do  not recall him having any close friends inside the F.  B.  I.  
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 andrea_mitchell 914.920000 934.720000 <o,female,NBC_NNW> So what could turn this man if the F.  B.  I.  is right into one of America's worst traitors At one point the government says Hanssen writes the K.  G.  B.  quote I decided on this course when I was fourteen years old I had read Philby's book meaning the notorious British spy for Moscow Kim Philby But even that claim likely false 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_9 934.720000 953.672000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> The trouble is that (%hesitation) Kim Philby  did  not write that book until Mr Hanssen was (%hesitation) twenty-four years old in nineteen sixty-eight And (%hesitation) it seemed to me I mean the way I (r-) reacted to that was that (%hesitation) he was simply trying to flatter the Russians and and (%hesitation) show that he had some ideological reason 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 andrea_mitchell 953.672000 989.953000 <o,female,NBC_NNW> When his Russian handlers ignore him for five months he complains quote I get silence I hate silence Adding I have however come as close to the edge as I can without being truly insane Three months later he writes you waste me Is it possible to live that kind of double life without going over the edge The F.  B.  I.  says at one point Hanssen tells the Russians eventually I would appreciate an escape plan Nothing lasts forever Tonight friends say his wife is devastated And his children's schoolmates are attending mass for his sons Andrea Mitchell N.  B.  C.  News Washington 
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20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 990.976000 1000.136000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> For more on agent Hanssen's alleged secret operation and the F.  B.  I.  affidavit laying out the charges against him you can log on to M.  S.  N.  B.  C.  dot com 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 1000.136000 1008.663000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Up next a historic day at the Vatican The Pope putting his stamp on the church for years to come with a new College of Cardinals 
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20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 1175.959000 1209.786000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Some new numbers about inflation tonight catching even experts by surprise The government reporting consumer prices were up point six percent in January  That  is the biggest monthly increase in ten months driven mostly by higher prices for natural gas and electricity Many analysts are saying those inflation numbers are a fluke not the beginning of a trend But still they made Wall Street even more worried about what lies ahead for the American economy as a result The Dow plunged more than two hundred points today the NASDAQ dropped almost fifty points to its lowest close in almost two years 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 1209.786000 1223.688000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> This was an unprecedented day at the Vatican where Pope John Paul the second named new cardinals from twenty-seven countries four of them from America N.  B.  C.'s Keith Miller joins us tonight from the Vatican Keith 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 keith_miller 1223.688000 1297.074000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Tom today's new cardinals are a lot like the Pope himself They are very conservative on social issues very progressive on social issues very conservative on moral issues rather and among them an American priest who few would have thought that he would ever become a prince of the Church In a ceremony marked with centuries of tradition a frail Pope John Paul two creates forty-four new members of the College of Cardinals the largest number ever named the men who will someday choose his successor Among the four Americans honored eighty-two year old Avery Dulles this country's most prominent Catholic theologian now a prince of the Roman Catholic church a role not he nor anyone in his family would have ever foreseen Dulles a name synonymous with power and wealth His father John Foster Dulles Secretary of State under Eisenhower His uncle Allen C.  I.  A.  director For Avery an upbringing of privilege private schools and Presbyterian morals A self-proclaimed party boy at Harvard he  did  not know if he believed in God Feelings of emptiness led him on a search for meaning and to Catholicism a struggle he wrote about 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 avery_dulles 1297.074000 1305.743000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> I came into the church like one of those timid swimmers who closes his eyes as he jumps into the roaring sea 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 keith_miller 1305.743000 1309.138000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> His conversion to Catholicism shocked his family 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 avery_dulles 1309.138000 1318.763000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> I  do  not think they had a very high opinion of Catholicism (%hesitation) Catholics were (%hesitation) lower social class less educated and less affluent 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 keith_miller 1318.763000 1335.452000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> But by the time Avery was ordained a Jesuit priest in nineteen fifty-six his parents fully supported his calling He made front page news in the New York Times Yesterday when he said his last mass as an ordinary priest a new generation of Dulleses looked on proudly 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_10 1335.452000 1340.086000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> I  do  not know that  it  has entirely sunk in yet that he is one of the princes of the Church 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 keith_miller 1340.086000 1354.404000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> But this new prince of the Church will keep riding the New York City subways and teaching classes at Fordham University and pursue his religious study Today the new cardinal was confident his parents would be proud of his achievements 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 avery_dulles 1354.404000 1359.337000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> I hope  they  will be smiling from where they are (%hesitation) 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 keith_miller 1359.337000 1376.001000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> With this new group of cardinals the odds on who will be the next Pope changes dramatically For the first time the number of cardinals from developing countries could change the vote And for the first time tonight here in the Vatican there is talk that the next Pope may not be a European Tom 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 1376.001000 1379.321000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Thanks very much N.  B.  C.'s Keith Miller tonight live from the Vatican 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 1379.321000 1385.352000 <o,male,NBC_NNW>  I  will be right back A real survivor The bear who finally made it through last summer's wild fires 
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20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 1559.553000 1577.207000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Pardon controversy spies crashing subs now a burned bear But wait This one is worth hearing about A bear caught in those terrible Montana fires last summer about to be a real bear again N.  B.  C.'s National Correspondent is Jim Avila 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 jim_avila 1577.207000 1592.266000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> They call him Burny as in burn The six month old bear cub symbol of the Bitterroot Mountain wild fires that destroyed one million Montana forest acres Today carried back to the wild by the humans who saved him 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_11 1592.266000 1601.342000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> I think  we  have created some of the problems that these animals get into We feel  it  is just (%hesitation) our our duty to (t-) to help these animals out 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 jim_avila 1601.342000 1613.430000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Last summer Burny was found stumbling around the firestorm His mother presumed dead His weight down to twenty pounds half the norm All four paws badly singed His prospects grim 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_12 1613.430000 1620.735000 <o,female,NBC_NNW> This is (%hesitation) a wild animal This little guy probably would have starved to death had had somebody not intervened 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 jim_avila 1620.735000 1631.009000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Dr Capp has cleaned his infected wounds changed his bandages weekly and then the real challenge Preparing an injured orphan cub for re-release to the wild 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_11 1631.009000 1642.058000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> As a cub he missed about a year and a half of training Not just learning what to feed on but training (%hesitation) on on how to avoid other predators how to avoid humans 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 jim_avila 1642.058000 1665.244000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> The zoo was never an option There was however a temptation to turn Burny into the next Smokey the Bear But as a living reminder of both destruction and now the healing after the firestorm all agree this bear belongs in the wild So today Montana state biologists snowmobiled him back to the forest for a second chance simulating hibernation in a man-made den 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_11 1665.244000 1666.983000 <o,male,NBC_NNW>  It  is a (r-) really good den site 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 jim_avila 1666.983000 1680.419000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Montana's Second Chance Cubs have done well in the wild Fifty releases forty-four percent survival rate just slightly less than normal Only two of the released cubs returned to populated areas euthanized for causing trouble 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 spkr_11 1680.419000 1683.705000 <o,male,NBC_NNW>  We  are hoping that he you know becomes quite wary of people 
20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 jim_avila 1683.705000 1694.462000 <o,male,NBC_NNW> Put into hibernation with a needle  he  will awake with the other bears Once a creature of Montana's pain today a symbol of its rebirth Jim Avila N.  B.  C.  News Chicago 
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20010221_1830_1900_NBC_NNW 1 tom_brokaw 1697.291000 1705.053000 <o,male,NBC_NNW>  It  is okay Burny  you  are back in the last great place  That  is Nightly News for this Wednesday night  I  am Tom Brokaw  I  will see you back here tomorrow night 
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20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 1.534000 3.655000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> NASCAR drivers get back on track 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 3.655000 6.639000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Powell talks peace with Mid East leaders 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 6.639000 9.632000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> And Marc Rich defends his presidential pardon 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 spkr_1 9.632000 13.561000 <o,male,CNN_HDL> This is Headline News First Watch 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 13.561000 31.029000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Good morning once again everyone From Atlanta  I  am Angela Astore Our top story NASCAR drivers will start their engines today for the first Winston Cup race since the death of Dale Earnhardt Senior at last week's Daytona five hundred John Giannone has a preview from Rockingham North Carolina 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 john_giannone 31.029000 65.998000 <o,male,CNN_HDL> No question for forty-three drivers and their crews a return to the racetrack this weekend means a return to some semblance of normalcy after a week of shock sadness and grief over the death of Dale Earnhardt But the reality of the sport hit again on Saturday morning when Michael Waltrip the Daytona five hundred winner was involved in a practice round accident And that was not the car Waltrip used to win the Daytona five hundred that car is in Daytona U.  S.  A.  museum However Waltrip will use his backup car in the race on Sunday Now despite the accident Waltrip and all the other drivers would agree the best way to deal with this flood of emotions is to get right back on track 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 spkr_2 66.754000 82.857000 <o,male,CNN_HDL> A lot of people ask you know how tough is it to get back in (It-) (Th-)  that  is not the tough part I mean the tough part is realizing that we lost the best guy here (%hesitation) But to be honest when you get back in the car it heals everything I mean this is (o-) this is the only thing we know how to do This is this is our livelihood 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 spkr_8 82.857000 98.887000 <o,male,CNN_HDL>  We  are at Rockingham this week guys If we want to talk about Rockingham stuff  let  us talk about Rockingham Last week was last week and everything  that  has happened over the week is over with now  There  is nothing we can do about any of it  It  is time to go back to to doing what  we  are doing We (e-) (e-) you know the last time I checked my my (w-) watch  did  not stop my clocks  did  not stop at home and the world  did  not stop 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 spkr_3 98.887000 113.719000 <o,male,CNN_HDL>  It  has just been a long week (%hesitation) Just hard coming through the garage and not seeing that black number three in the garage stall and not seeing a great presence like a tower of (%hesitation) intimidation walking around and a lot of us young drivers really looked up to him 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 john_giannone 113.719000 129.590000 <o,male,CNN_HDL> Now the driver who garnered the most attention and support Dale Earnhardt junior he was back in the garage working on his vehicle running some practice laps he then ran a qualifying lap and finished twenty-fifth so he will start on the inside of row thirteen  That  is all for now from Rockingham  I  am John Giannone 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 130.189000 160.326000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Fans grieving over the death of Dale Earnhardt senior are raising a memorial to him at today's race Three time points champion Jeff Gordon said Earnhardt's absence leaves a void at the speedway and honored the Intimidator by wearing a number three hat during qualifying Gordon captured the pole position for the Dura Lube four hundred And more than twenty-three hundred NASCAR fans who  will  not make it to today's race honored the champion driver by forming a human number three The group gathered in Virginia yesterday for a special memorial to Earnhardt 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 160.326000 197.531000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Secretary of State Colin Powell says he  does  not regret recent U.  S.  air strikes against Iraq and acknowledged those attacks could have been better coordinated He made the comments during his ongoing swing through the Middle East Today he heads to Kuwait to discuss plans for dealing with Iraqi president Saddam Hussein Earlier this morning Powell met with Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat in the West Bank town of Ramallah Hundreds of Palestinians are protesting Powell's visit and the bombing of Baghdad Powell met with Israeli prime minister elect Ariel Sharon yesterday Powell says the United States will keep working toward a lasting Mid East peace 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 colin_powell 197.531000 234.914000 <o,male,CNN_HDL> I and so many many people around the world have been profoundly troubled by the violence over the past six months To see so many lives torn by conflict only underscores the imperative of bringing a swift end to this cycle of provocation and reaction The people of Israel have a right to live within internationally recognized borders in security and peace with all their neighbors It is my profound hope that we can bring the violence and suffering to an end so that Israelis Palestinians and others throughout the region might one day live side by side in peace and prosperity 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 234.914000 282.207000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Financier Marc Rich says his last minute pardon by then president Bill Clinton makes up for the past wrongs perpetuated by the United States government Rich went to Switzerland shortly before he was indicted in nineteen eighty-three on charges of tax evasion and fraud  He  has been living in exile ever since In a self-described first response to the controversy over his pardon Rich tells C.  N.  N.  quote the indictment against me in the United States was wrong and was meant to hurt me personally The pardon granted by President (c-) Clinton remedied the injustice eighteen years later The faxed statement goes on to say I do not consider the pardon granted by President Clinton as an eradication of the past deeds but as closing a cycle of justice and as a humanitarian act 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 282.207000 341.859000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Hillary Rodham Clinton's brother says he is finished talking about his involvement in a separate Clinton pardon controversy Hugh Rodham has acknowledged receiving four hundred thousand dollars to help secure pardons for two convicted felons Rodham says he has since returned that money and he says all the facts in the case are already on the table Former president Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton deny speaking to Rodham about the pardons of his clients Carlos Vignali and Glen Braswell Braswell received presidential clemency for his convictions on fraud perjury and tax evasion charges Vignali is a convicted drug dealer Mrs Clinton said she  did  not know that her brother was paid to lobby for the pardons but a new Zogby poll suggests many of her constituents  do  not believe her Fifty-eight percent of New Yorkers surveyed said they  do  not think she was telling the truth thirty-three percent said they think she was being honest As for her approval rating fifty-one percent gave Senator Clinton a favorable rating  that  is compared with fifty-six percent last month 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 341.859000 373.319000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> A naval court of inquiry will look into the actions of the escort officer aboard the U.  S.  S.  Greeneville at the time of a fatal collision The actions of Captain Bob Brandhuber who escorted sixteen civilians on board the nuclear submarine will be examined by the court next month in Hawaii Three of the sub's chief officers are named as subjects of the inquiry but so far Brandhuber has not been named He was the highest ranking officer on board the submarine when it rammed a Japanese fishing boat two weeks ago Nine people are missing and presumed dead 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 373.319000 398.086000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Governors from both political parties are pledging cooperation as they meet in the nation's capital this weekend Maryland Democrat Parris Glendening says there is consensus on many issues including education and healthcare but much debate is expected over President Bush's one point six trillion dollar tax cut plan and his proposed budget Governors will meet with the president tomorrow  they  will wrap up their four day conference on Tuesday 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 398.086000 430.894000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> The White House says informal talks between British prime minister Tony Blair and President Bush were a success Blair and his wife left Camp David Saturday after the prime minister had breakfast with the president It was their first face to face meeting They agreed to stay united towards Iraq and to review current sanctions Mr Bush also agreed to support Blair's push for a European defense force provided it  does  not undermine NATO And while Blair did not endorse the president's controversial plan for a national missile defense system he did agree to discuss it 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 430.894000 458.213000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Former president George Bush is leading top Gulf War players back into Kuwait and receiving a hero's welcome  They  are participating in a two day celebration of the ten year anniversary of the Persian Gulf War and Kuwait's liberation from Iraq This is the first time Kuwait has marked the occasion due to concerns about six hundred people missing since the war Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher and retired general Norman Schwarzkopf are also attending 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 458.213000 467.592000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Flooding in the southern plains rain and snow in the central part of the country  what  is the outlook for your weather  It  is in the Headline News extended forecast 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 spkr_4 467.592000 540.990000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> An ice storm hits you before the end of the weekend in the north east but a warm up ahead of this front should change it over to all rain before temperatures drop again perhaps bringing you right back into snow overnight tonight  We  will definitely have the strong winds even if you  do  not get the snow so near blizzard conditions western Great Lakes blustery and cold to start the workweek in the north east In the southeast we have at least the chance of some rain in parched areas of north Florida while the south west will have a significant round of rain and mountain snow for a couple of days Temperatures range from cold teens and twenties remember feeling much colder than that because of winds in the northern plains for today and then tomorrow gets a little bit colder we even have single digits on the map while the southeast stays relatively mild with sixties seventies and south Florida gets some eighties A big rain event expected Tuesday into Wednesday in the southeast and then  there  is a question mark on how much snow  we  will get in the north east for Wednesday and Thursday but some snow is in the forecast Rain returns to the north west A quick blast of Arctic air comes down through the plains into the Great Lakes before a nice little warm up by about Thursday For more weather information logon to C.  N.  N.  dot com 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 540.990000 567.785000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> People in central Arkansas are cleaning up after several tornados touched down battering the area The twisters destroyed several buildings and injured at least a dozen people yesterday afternoon The most seriously hurt was a two year old boy He was inside a mobile home when it was demolished The storms also knocked out power to some eighteen thousand customers mainly in South Little Rock Utility officials say most service should be restored by tonight 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 567.785000 592.162000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> The same storm system started electrical fires downed power lines closed roads and blew off roofs in northern Texas In west Texas dust storms reduced visibility to half a mile No injuries were reported Severe flooding was reported along the Sabine River it reached ten feet above flood stage near Gladewater on Saturday  It  is expected to remain above flood level for several days 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 592.162000 622.982000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> The second Vermont teen accused of murdering two Dartmouth college professors is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow Sixteen year old James Parker was returned to New Hampshire from Indiana yesterday Parker and seventeen year old Robert Tulloch are charged with first degree murder in the January stabbing of couple Half and Susanne Zantop Prosecutors will ask that the younger teen be tried as an adult Tulloch considered an adult under state law was returned to New Hampshire earlier this week He faces a court hearing Wednesday 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 622.982000 652.078000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Wild fires continue to burn in central Florida smoking out some major league baseball teams in town for spring training Five teams had to cut their practices short Meanwhile fire officials say they are making progress against the fires which have burned more than ten thousand acres much of it rain-starved swampland that could smolder for months A ten mile stretch of interstate four which connects Orlando and Tampa may reopen tomorrow  It  has been closed for more than a week because of all that smoke 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 652.078000 673.159000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Two skiers in Oregon survived a close call with an avalanche last week An amateur photographer caught the escape on tape (%hesitation) The two were in an out of bounds area on Mount Hood Friday when the snow started to roll The local ski patrol says although the avalanche risk in the area is moderate skiers in unmarked areas must still be careful 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 673.159000 704.882000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Emotions will be running high for some Korean families reuniting this week after more than fifty years Hundreds are expected to cross the border between North and South Korea for three days of family reunions  It  is the third round of reunions since leaders of the two countries pledged reconciliation last June Millions of Korean families were separated after the nineteen fifty to fifty-three war Private citizens have been banned from contacting relatives on the other side of the border for the last five decades 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 704.882000 732.067000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Soap opera star Michael Nader is among two dozen people taken into custody in a raid on an illegal social club The fifty-six year old actor was taken to a New York hospital for treatment of an undisclosed illness after the Saturday morning arrest Nader plays Dmitri Marick on All My Children He also starred in the prime time soap Dynasty Nader is among five people charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance Nineteen others were arrested on possession charges 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 732.067000 737.015000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Coming up at twenty-four past the hour the race towards the future takes off and the (s-) 
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20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 836.710000 850.660000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Checking the top stories Secretary of State Colin Powell is heading to Kuwait following a meeting with Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat Powell promised a continued push for Mid East peace during a meeting yesterday with Israeli prime minister elect Ariel Sharon 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 850.660000 860.061000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Marc Rich is calling his presidential pardon a humanitarian act Speaking for the first time on the issue the financier says Clinton's move righted a wrong 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 860.061000 872.939000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> And NASCAR drivers say  they  will feel a void when they return to racing today without the Intimidator The Dura Lube four hundred will be the first Winston Cup race since Dale Earnhardt senior died in last week's Daytona five hundred 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 872.939000 876.427000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> More in fifteen minutes or anytime at Headline News dot com 
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20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 kitty_pilgrim 883.149000 896.658000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Companies are recycling the corner office  I  am Kitty Pilgrim at the C.  N.  N.  F.  N.  news desk in New York During times of trouble some companies are calling experienced C.  E.  O.'s out of retirement Peter Viles has our story 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 peter_viles 896.658000 920.481000 <o,male,CNN_HDL>  It  has happened at Maytag at Xerox and at Lucent Technologies American C.  E.  O.'s are finding they can turn back the clock and go back to their old jobs At least they can if their old company is struggling and the board wants them back Jeffrey Garten author of The Mind of the C.  E.  O.  says the constant pressure from investors sometimes leaves corporate boards feeling they have no other option 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 jeffrey_garten 920.481000 935.891000 <o,male,CNN_HDL>  There  is a sense that (%hesitation) being a C.  E.  O.  today particularly (at-) of a big global company is extraordinarily difficult much more difficult than  it  has ever been before And as a result there  are  not that many people who look like good candidates 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 peter_viles 935.891000 974.819000 <o,male,CNN_HDL> Corporate America's comeback kids include Henry Schacht at Lucent Paul Allaire at Xerox John Pepper back as chairman at Proctor and Gamble Leonard Hadley at Maytag and David Johnson at Campbell's Soup But bringing back the old boss  does  not always right a listing ship Take Lucent and Xerox Both companies were in trouble before they brought back the old C.  E.  O.  and both companies are still in trouble Lucent shares are down forty-two percent since Schacht came back to run the company and Xerox shares are down seventy-two percent during Allaire's second tour of duty Peter Viles C.  N.  N.  financial news New York 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 kitty_pilgrim 974.819000 984.620000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> For the latest trends in business watch the Moneyline News Hour with Stuart Varney and Willow Bay weeknights at six thirty eastern time on C.  N.  N.  
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 984.620000 989.777000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> A battle to the buzzer in the A.  C.  C.  basketball highlights are next in Headline Sports 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 989.777000 993.685000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> And later  we  will show you some brand new ways to interact with your T.  V.  
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20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 ginger_jeffrey 1144.882000 1156.920000 <o,female,CNN_HDL>  I  am Ginger Jeffrey C.  N.  N.  Headline Sports Top ranked Stanford rolls on Jason Collins putting up a career high thirty-three points as the Cardinal beats Washington ninety-five to eighty-seven 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 ginger_jeffrey 1156.920000 1168.170000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Number three Illinois tops Iowa eighty-nine to sixty-three The Illini finished undefeated at home for the first time since nineteen eighty-nine which was also the last year they reached the final four 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 ginger_jeffrey 1168.170000 1176.826000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Fourth ranked Duke had their hands full with number twenty-four Wake Forest Chris Duhon connects from fifteen feet at the buzzer to lift the Blue Devils to an eighty-two to eighty win 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 ginger_jeffrey 1176.826000 1188.958000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Fifth ranked Michigan State puts away Penn State seventy-six to fifty-seven Charlie Bell and Jason Richardson each scoring sixteen points The win puts the Spartans a half game behind Illinois in the Big Ten standings 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 ginger_jeffrey 1188.958000 1198.422000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Texas knocks off number six Iowa State in surprisingly easy fashion Maurice Evans scores twenty-eight to lead the Longhorns to a ninety-four to seventy-eight victory 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 ginger_jeffrey 1198.422000 1207.876000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> In the S.  C.  C.  Udonis Haslam scores a career high twenty-eight points to lead seventh ranked Florida past number fourteen Alabama eighty-nine to sixty-eight the final 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 ginger_jeffrey 1207.876000 1219.767000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Maryland's Juan Dixon scores twenty-three second half points after changing sneakers at halftime he  did  not have any points in the first half He leads the twentieth ranked Terrapins past number sixteen Oklahoma sixty-eight to sixty 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 ginger_jeffrey 1219.767000 1231.605000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> To the pros Charlotte's David Wesley sinks a three pointer with five seconds to play giving the Hornets an eighty-six to eighty-five victory over the Seventy-sixers Allen Iverson scoring forty-seven in the loss 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 ginger_jeffrey 1231.605000 1241.374000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Miami blows an eighteen point fourth quarter lead but still manages to come away with a seventy-five to seventy win over the Nets The Heat end a three game losing streak 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 ginger_jeffrey 1241.374000 1257.687000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> After nearly a week of mourning the loss of Dale Earnhardt Winston Cup drivers climbed back into their race cars Saturday Jeff Gordon claims the pole for Sunday's Dura Lube four hundred in Rockingham Dale Earnhardt Incorporated driver Steve Park qualified second giving Chevy both front row spots 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 ginger_jeffrey 1257.687000 1266.847000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> All Star defenseman Chris Pronger returns to the ice for Saint Louis  He  is back from knee surgery Pronger gets a goal and two assists as the Blues beat the Bruins three two 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 ginger_jeffrey 1266.847000 1279.735000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> And on a sloppy night at Soldier Field New York New Jersey ensures that Chicago is the only winless team left in the X.  F.  L.  The Hitmen win thirteen nothing Ginger Jeffrey C.  N.  N.  Headline Sports 
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20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 1438.979000 1464.410000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> West Wing and Everybody Loves Raymond are tops among readers of T.  V.  Guide The two shows won for best drama and comedy series respectively in this year's T.  V.  Guide awards West Wing's Martin Sheen was named best actor in a drama Raymond's Ray Romano won for best actor in a comedy while Doris Roberts was best supporting actress Thirty million viewers voted for their favorites online or by mail 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 1464.410000 1475.702000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> People in New Orleans are getting ready for Mardi Gras Crowds are lining the streets to watch the parades Six carnival crews were scheduled to roll in and around the city yesterday in advance of Fat Tuesday 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 1475.702000 1494.211000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> The party is also on in Brazil The celebration of life Carneval has begun all around the nation In Rio de Janeiro fourteen big league samba groups are battling for Carneval championship honors The festivities culminate Tuesday just before the beginning of Lent 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 1494.211000 1505.733000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Looking for the latest in high tech trends Tune in to Europe's biggest interactive media show where the future of television is now Rick Lockridge explains 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 rick_lockridge 1505.733000 1531.132000 <o,male,CNN_HDL> The problem with holding Europe's biggest interactive media show in Cannes on the French Riviera under the warm February sun is that  it  is hard to get people to set aside the scenery take leave of the locals and come inside But once inside the exhibit hall you can see the newest games newest gadgets and newest trends such as Europe's embrace of interactive T.  V.  
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 spkr_5 1531.132000 1533.958000 <o,male,CNN_HDL> (%hesitation)  Everybody  is thinking about interactive T.  V.  quite seriously now 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 rick_lockridge 1533.958000 1541.847000 <o,male,CNN_HDL> An I.  T.  V.  screen is always busy the goal is to keep you busy busy watching busy playing busy spending 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 spkr_6 1541.847000 1546.332000 <o,male,CNN_HDL> Domino's pizza service  That  is part of the (%hesitation) Sky digital platform in the U.  K.  
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 rick_lockridge 1546.332000 1566.448000 <o,male,CNN_HDL> This service appropriately enough is called Respond T.  V.  Pop up ads and offers for everything from polar bears to puppy supplies You want the puppy supplies The  form  is already filled out with your info all you have to do is click and send Respond says nearly half its audience responded to this offer during a recent live concert 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 spkr_7 1566.448000 1572.950000 <o,male,CNN_HDL> (%hesitation)  That  is evidence that (%hesitation) people will actually transact with the television  It  is a very trusted media  It  is in every household 
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20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 rick_lockridge 1574.137000 1626.245000 <o,male,CNN_HDL> Also debuting at MELIA the much hyped Grand Turismo Three for Play Station Two Said to be the most advanced P.  S.  two game so far it does things with light and shadow dust and rain that would cause the programmer's heart to well race But Play Station Two might really find its groove with the Jungle Book Groove Party Coming in March this most interactive of video games requires you to dance the right steps at the right times to earn points and praise  will  not it be nice to see kids exercising something besides their thumbs How distant seem the days when there was just a T.  V.  set in the living room Now versatile new boxes promise endless stimulation In the future there will never be a dull moment even if we find ourselves wishing for one Rick Lockridge C.  N.  N.  at the MELIA exhibition in Cannes 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 1626.245000 1636.836000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Financier Marc Rich is speaking publicly about his controversial presidential pardon Hear what he has to say in two minutes  I  am Angela Astore and this is C.  N.  N.  Headline News 
20010225_0900_0930_CNN_HDL 1 angela_astore 1636.836000 1642.036000 <o,female,CNN_HDL> Now  here  is another look at a narrow escape for two Oregon skiers caught in an avalanche 
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20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 0.000000 10.795000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Tells the story The jolting and powerful earthquake six point eight in magnitude that hit and hit hard in the Pacific Northwest earlier today 
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20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 21.352000 99.313000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Good evening It was a long and steady and rolling jolt in some places over thirty seconds in duration The people who survived it said it felt like several hours at the time It left buildings in rubble it left nerves frayed in the Pacific Northwest and in an instant the possibility of an earthquake reasserted itself as part of the way of life in the Pacific Northwest This earthquake six point eight in magnitude took place of course during the television age As you might imagine cameras were rolling in several venues today when the earth started to shake Many people started running out of buildings into the street In a gymnasium in a news room at a Seattle City Council meeting the cameras rolled at ten fifty-four A.  M.  when the earth started to shake in Seattle It actually was felt from as far north as the Canadian border east to Salt Lake City and south to points we are still hearing from tonight Our first report this hour from N.  B.  C.  News correspondent George Lewis will be coming up in just a moment We want to (%hesitation) first pause and take a look at some of the video tape when the quake hit 
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20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 220.205000 238.451000 <o,male,MNB_NBW>  That  is what it looked like  That  is what it felt like to those involved At a City Council meeting the news room of M.  S.  N.  B.  C.  dot com a high school basketball game and the mayor's office just prior to a press conference The governor of Washington tonight putting the damage in the billions N.  B.  C.  News correspondent George Lewis on the assessment so far 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 george_lewis 238.451000 266.451000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> The quake catches everyone off guard At a Microsoft meeting in Seattle as seen on this tape from station K.  I.  R.  O.  the auditorium shakes as Bill Gates prepares to address the crowd The meeting breaks up and Gates is quickly hustled away Cracks appear in the dome of the Washington state capitol at Olympia near the quake's epicenter as inside people flee from the chambers of the State Legislature The authorities begin to tally the damage 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 gary_locke 266.451000 273.344000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> I have declared a state of emergency throughout all of western Washington This will enable all governmental agencies to cooperate help each other 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 george_lewis 273.344000 275.672000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Tonight President Bush promises help 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 george_w_bush 275.672000 282.361000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> We will work with state and local officials to provide whatever help we can to the people of the state of Washington 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 george_lewis 282.361000 299.489000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Somewhat embarrassing to the President the quake occurs on a day when his new budget kills a twenty-five million dollar program designed to help communities prepare for disaster With this earthquake centered so far underground University of Washington seismologist Bill Steele says the region got lucky this time 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 bill_steele 299.489000 310.817000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> The shorter period (%hesitation) high acceleration (%hesitation) energy or waves coming from the earthquake are absorbed to some degree (%hesitation) as it moves up to the surface 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 george_lewis 310.817000 322.916000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Seattle in recent years mindful that this can happen has strengthened building codes to minimize earthquake damage But scientists warn this quake could be just a preview of things to come in future years 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 bill_steele 322.916000 334.129000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> No this is (n-) by no means the big one Off the coast in the Great Cascadia Subduction Zone can produce magnitude nine earthquakes where strong motion will continue for three or four minutes 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 george_lewis 334.129000 361.022000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Tonight transportation is disrupted The Seattle airport open for only limited flights with broken windows in the control tower Amtrak trains stalled south of Seattle and highway bridges damaged The Space Needle the symbol of Seattle was closed for over two hours today as thirty people trapped inside were rescued And if anyone in Seattle thought it  will  not ever happen here they know better tonight George Lewis N.  B.  C.  News Los Angeles 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 361.022000 381.416000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> We are joined tonight by way of explanation by Sue Hough a seismologist with the U.  S.  Geological Survey She is with us from Caltech Pasadena Sue for those viewers who are just now getting home and catching up with this news what did this measure and what is it relative to what they call on the West Coast the big one 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 sue_hough 381.416000 408.776000 <o,female,MNB_NBW> Okay the the magnitude we have now is six point eight it took a little while to converge on that because we really  do  not have (s-) the the same kind of state of the art instruments up in the Pacific Northwest that we do in California (%hesitation) but six point eight is is the good estimate now (%hesitation) (%hesitation) Compared to the potential big one up there (%hesitation) this was moderate (%hesitation) There are some very big faults up there and the big one up there someday (%hesitation) could be quite large As big as magnitude eight point five 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 408.776000 414.793000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> How far down in the earth was the origination point of this one and why does that matter 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 sue_hough 414.793000 429.358000 <o,female,MNB_NBW> It was about thirty miles down The whole fault that ruptured was that far beneath the earth's surface And that just moves it away from (th-) where the people are So by the time the waves get get up to the surface the shaking  is  not nearly as strong (%hesitation) as it would have been if the fault had been more shallow 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 429.358000 438.126000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Are there different kinds of quakes Is there one that rolls and one that produces (%hesitation) a yawning kind of chasm in the earth and what was this 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 sue_hough 438.126000 452.445000 <o,female,MNB_NBW> (%hesitation) There are very different kinds of quakes but the kind of shaking that you feel depends a lot on where you are whether  you  are on hard rocks or in a basin or (%hesitation) exactly where you are (%hesitation) The the details of the quake will take (%hesitation) a little while for seismologists to unravel 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 452.445000 472.186000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> And (%hesitation) when you look at today's (%hesitation) (%hesitation) injury count (%hesitation)  we  are talking at roughly two dozen This quake just became a fatal quake because a heart attack has been attributed to today The damage yes in the billions There are many buildings in rubble across the state How could it have been worse say just fifty years ago 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 sue_hough 472.186000 484.817000 <o,female,MNB_NBW> Well there has been a lot of of work done to retrofit the schools and (e-) and various aspects of emergency planning And those steps have been very very good We just need to continue that (%hesitation) to bring everything up to (%hesitation) modern building codes 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 484.817000 499.141000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Now I have to get you on record when you say (%hesitation) the big one (%hesitation) could be a jolt as big as something in the neighborhood of an eight point five (e-) (w-) what would that do to a city the size of Seattle or Portland 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 sue_hough 499.141000 517.809000 <o,female,MNB_NBW> (hm-) You know I think  it  is hard to imagine The shaking would go on for a long time and it would be severe You would see a lot of damage We  do  not want to scare people with doomsday scenarios (%hesitation) because there really is a lot that you can do to prepare for that (%hesitation) But I think it is sort of outside the (c-) (%hesitation) the experience that any of us have at this point 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 517.809000 531.071000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> And how do you straddle that line as a as a public official between you know (%hesitation) voicing a warning that this could be in our future and scaring people to their core especially on a night like this 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 sue_hough 531.071000 546.301000 <o,female,MNB_NBW> Well  that  is the tricky part and the media plays a role in that  it  is presenting balanced information that this eventually will happen (%hesitation) we  do  not know when but there are steps that you can take as individuals and as (%hesitation) collectively the government can take (s-) to really make a difference 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 546.301000 556.366000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Sue Hough is a seismologist with the U.  S.  Geological Survey  She  has been joining us tonight from Caltech in Pasadena Sue again thank you very much for your contributions tonight 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 sue_hough 556.366000 557.063000 <o,female,MNB_NBW>  You  are welcome 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 557.063000 581.560000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> One of the government organizations that will be moving into place and is right now is the Federal Emergency Management Agency as they have following tornadoes and hurricanes and earthquakes like this one Its last director during the Clinton administration was James Lee Whit He is with us tonight from Washington Mr Whit good evening What is likely going on in the Pacific Northwest where FEMA is concerned tonight 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 james_lee_whit 581.560000 609.694000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Well Brian of course we (h-) (th-) FEMA has a regional office right there in Seattle so I know for (h-) the fact that they are working with the state and (%hesitation) and the governor's office and local communities and will be doing the assessments and (%hesitation) (i-) get a good (%hesitation) (c-) assessment of what kind of damage how much the cost is going to be and and I know Joe Allbaugh is on his way there at (%hesitation) the FEMA director and (%hesitation) so (theyl-)  they  will act very quickly and (%hesitation) help meet the need of the people 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 609.694000 621.481000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Now (e-) same question to you as we just were discussing with the (g-) geologist Where FEMA is concerned how was today's quake different than it would have been say fifty years ago 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 james_lee_whit 621.481000 644.786000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Well I think you can look at (%hesitation) the Northridge earthquake Do you remember that one in nineteen (%hesitation) nineteen ninety (%hesitation) five or nineteen ninety-four (%hesitation) (i-) It was a six point eight earthquake but it was a shallow earthquake and it (w-) had the motion (%hesitation) instead of (%hesitation) the (dow-) it was down deep (%hesitation) The damage was much greater (%hesitation) You know it was something like thirty billion dollars in 
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20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 645.711000 646.563000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> people died Yep 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 james_lee_whit 646.563000 674.752000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Yes  that  is right But in Seattle  what  has happened (i-) the they have been a project impact community for three years now And  that  is the program we started you know in ninety-seven that built a public private partnership at the local level And (%hesitation) that disaster prevention program they were going to celebrate their three-year anniversary today And  it  has really made a difference in the schools and in their hospitals and the city halls and all of the communities there in King and Pierce County and Seattle 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 674.752000 687.686000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> When we talk however about the big one as (%hesitation) instead of a six point eight flip the numbers an eight point six perhaps (%hesitation) (ho-)  that  is almost unfathomable especially for those in the business of public health and safety 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 james_lee_whit 687.686000 723.225000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Well I (th-) I think I think you (c-) you can prepare for any disaster and I think  what  is important is Seattle and that area has (%hesitation) put in some very very good seismic building codes and  they  have enforced those codes  that  is the key The the most important thing is that the life safety codes to protect buildings to keep them from collapsing and  that  is where you save your lives and and injuries And and  that  is what the meeting life safety codes will do and  they  have done a excellent job there in California and all up the coast (%hesitation) or we  would  have seen more deaths in Northridge and even here if they had not 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 723.225000 727.596000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> James Lee Whit the immediate past director of FEMA Thank you very much for being with us 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 james_lee_whit 727.596000 728.424000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Thank you Brian 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 728.424000 751.842000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> A lot of the attention today came when they located the epicenter of this quake at a point between five and ten miles from the capital of the state of Washington in Olympia And a lot of the attention in Olympia was directed squarely at the much revered state (ca-) state house and the dome atop its roof  That  is where N.  B.  C.  News correspondent Shelley Smith joins us from tonight Shelley good evening to you 
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20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 shelley_smith 753.497000 862.541000 <o,female,MNB_NBW> Good evening Brian Well as you said most of the buildings here including the state capitol that you see behind me have been shut down until engineers can determine that they are safe Although you  cannot see it the dome here actually cracked The building has been yellow tagged you see there is yellow crime scene tape surrounding the building (n-) guards are guarding the building all state employees have been sent home Yellow tag means that people were allowed to go inside (g-) get their belongings but they had to leave They were not allowed to stay Throughout the day engineers have been going over all of the buildings here there are still inspections going on right now (%hesitation) Employees tell us that they  do  not expect to go back to work for several days  It  is going to take that long to determine if these buildings are safe In another legislative building  we  are told the sprinkler system (%hesitation) came on causing major flooding They are in the midst of a legislative session here in Washington so there were plenty of people around but fortunately everyone escaped without injury In another building  we  are told there was severe cracking with (%hesitation) fractures up to one inch wide The building was built in nineteen fifty-five and the inspectors told us that they had expected to have some problems with this building if they did have a quake and in fact they did And even the governor is not sleeping in his home tonight  He  is going to be sleeping with friends because the governor's mansion had to be evacuated Now I spoke with Dr Bruce Warden from the U.  S.  Geological Services office in California today They (w-) actually produce a shake map on every earthquake and  we  are told that sixty-eight hundred people logged on to their website to report shaking And of course the heaviest shaking was in the nine eight five oh one zip code and that is the zip code for Olympia  That  is (th-) that was the epicenter and  that  is where most of the shaking occurred (%hesitation) That is the latest from Olympia Back to you Brian 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 862.541000 882.547000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Shelley  it  has been said that we will never (%hesitation) (i-) get around this story fully unless our cameras perhaps spend the night with a local family that this story has broken down family by family people whose confidence in terra firma has literally been shaken tonight A lot of people heading outdoors almost instinctively as the only safe place Have you seen much of that since  you  have been on the ground there 
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20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 shelley_smith 884.063000 893.145000 <o,female,MNB_NBW> There are lots of people here at the state capitol (%hesitation) coming to see the (d-) what damage there is (%hesitation) And perhaps they do feel safer here 
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20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 895.022000 896.965000 <o,male,MNB_NBW>  We  are actually going to be heading over to a shelter 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 896.965000 900.678000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Okay Shelley Smith from Olympia Washington for us tonight Thanks 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 900.678000 904.104000 <o,male,MNB_NBW>  We  are going to take a break in our coverage  we  will continue right after this 
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20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 1086.225000 1125.996000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> A six eight is felt throughout the Pacific Northwest as far east as the great Salt Lake as far north up and over the Canadian border Tonight for a look at what might have caused this  what  is behind it and what may be to come We are joined from the National Earthquake Center in Golden Colorado by Waverly Person who is a geophysicist physicist there (%hesitation) Mr Person it was you who on our air earlier this afternoon correctly called this a six point eight We had been going with seven four initially seven oh How do you determine that and give us something for a base of reference 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 waverly_person 1125.996000 1145.119000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Well the thing about it was we put out (%hesitation) magnitude seven point zero (%hesitation) (r-) right at the onset of the earthquake and we said to everybody it was preliminary After we (%hesitation) looked at our records more closely had more data magnitude six point eight  that  is the (%hesitation) magnitude of the earthquake 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 1145.119000 1159.815000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Another geophysicist (%hesitation) said today and  I  am quoting it is a very very unlikely that there will be any (f-) felt (%hesitation) in quotes aftershock There is a minimal chance of any more damage (w-) (w-) why is that 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 waverly_person 1159.815000 1192.725000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> (%hesitation) This earthquake was (%hesitation) a little bit deeper than most earthquake This earthquake was about fifty kilometers below the earth's surface or thirty miles And usually when we have an earthquake this deep there are very few aftershocks And usually lessen the death toll from the earthquake as compared to what was in California The earthquake in California in nineteen ninety-four was a magnitude six point seven and very shallow it was (i-) (%hesitation) about (%hesitation) ten to fifteen kilometers below the earth's surface and was much more damage and loss of life 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 1192.725000 1202.488000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> So there is no (%hesitation) absolutely no precursor to be found today that could lead you to say well (%hesitation)  there  is a good chance  we  will have another jolt here shortly 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 waverly_person 1202.488000 1224.195000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> No we had no warning the only thing that we did know we knew that this area could have a major earthquake and close to a major earthquake we had one there in nineteen forty-nine it was a magnitude of about seven point three So everybody asks are were we surprised No we  were  not We knew that it could have that earthquake there And people have to remember that all earthquakes do not occur in California 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 1224.195000 1238.496000 <o,male,MNB_NBW>  That  is true and I want you to I want to get you on record on the kinds of faults in Washington State How do they differ from California how great is the danger of earthquake up in the Pacific Northwest when compared to California 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 waverly_person 1238.496000 1262.611000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Well we had known for some years that it was (%hesitation) quite dangerous there The Juan de Fuca plate (%hesitation) has been well known and (%hesitation) people and scientists have said that there possibly was a real large earthquake there way back some years ago maybe as much as a nine But closer to the coast that probably could have generated a tsunami This earthquake is much (%hesitation) more inland and no tsunami was generated 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 1262.611000 1281.570000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> During our last hour we had a seismologist tell us that (%hesitation) not only was this not (%hesitation) the big one the catastrophic earthquake (%hesitation) That one may register (%hesitation) perhaps an eight five Perhaps an eight six What kind of an earthquake are we talking about in that event 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 waverly_person 1281.570000 1305.324000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Well they are saying that looking back at history (tha-) (m-) (%hesitation) they thought they found the indication that that might been an earthquake in that particular area that had been as (%hesitation) high as a nine So  that  is what they are basing it on but no one knows when that might happen or if it may happen but certainly  it  is indication that it has been there and we cannot predict or forecast earthquakes 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 1305.324000 1314.165000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> All right Waverly Person from the National Earthquake Center Thank you sir for tonight's report and for joining us (%hesitation) earlier this afternoon (%hesitation) during such a busy time there 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 1314.165000 1322.438000 <o,male,MNB_NBW>  We  are going to take a break When we come back a report from N.  B.  C.  News correspondent Chip Reid among others in Seattle on the damage so far tonight 
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20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 george_w_bush 1496.424000 1514.727000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> To the FEMA director (%hesitation) he is on top of it  he  is  we  are gathering all the information  He  is in touch with the (%hesitation) officials in the state of Washington I think the  governor  is on an airplane now but as soon as he lands  we  will be in touch and  we  will assess whatever damages  We  will provide whatever resources are necessary to help the people 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 1514.727000 1535.535000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> President Bush went out on the road today of course (%hesitation) chiefly to sell his economic plan that he spoke about in the Capitol last night but ended up reacting to the news of this six point eight magnitude quake today in the Pacific Northwest N.  B.  C.  News correspondent Chip Reid has arrived in Seattle and has a report for us tonight Chip 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 chip_reid 1535.535000 1678.940000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Well Brian there certainly have been quite a few injuries here in Seattle We figure the number at this point reported of people in hospitals is somewhere in the vicinity of sixty-five or seventy At least four seriously injured by falling debris And one person did die of a heart attack but they have not yet determined if that person died as a result of the earthquake But what a lot of people are talking about in Seattle now is not the horror of the earthquake although it certainly did put the fear of God in many of them but how lucky they are (n-) A six point eight earthquake in many parts of this world could have killed hundreds or even thousands Why did they do so Well Well number one about twelve years ago they got a wake-up call here in Seattle The call came all the way from San Francisco Nineteen eighty-nine during that World Series game  you  will remember earthquake in San Francisco very destructive They saw that and they started retrofitting fitting their buildings they changed their building codes They really have been working very hard here in Seattle for (b-) bout (%hesitation) about a dozen years to get this place ready for a big earthquake (%hesitation) And they feel that they have done very well and they feel that that saved many lives Another reason as your experts have been saying this one was fortunate for Seattle about thirty miles underground And that made a huge difference because by the time the vibrations got to the surface they  were  not as severe as they had been down below And the third reason  they  are breathing a sigh of relief is that this was not the big one Seattle is an area that sits near what is known as the Subduction Zone where one fault goes underneath another one And they are capable here of having an earthquake in the range of a nine magnitude That would be absolutely devastating Six point eight is bad but certainly nothing like a nine (%hesitation) And you can bet that there will be some work in the coming years to prepare for something even bigger than this By the way Brian the Space Needle (%hesitation) I think you can see it over my right shoulder here in the studio but it is right across the street from us here and for about two hours today there were about thirty tourists trapped up there as it swayed in this earthquake for at least a short period of time But that Space Needle was built to withstand an earthquake of nine point one (%hesitation) Also to (i-) (%hesitation) withstand winds well over one hundred miles per hour (%hesitation) So they say (%hesitation) officials say that they were very safe up there the entire time and in fact (%hesitation) after about two hours they opened it up again and let people very brave people go back up there and eat dinner 
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20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 1679.686000 1690.695000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> what about an update tonight on things like (%hesitation) telecommunications like electric power What did you see on your drive in from the airport for example  What  is the the state of the city right now 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 chip_reid 1690.695000 1718.178000 <o,male,MNB_NBW> Well believe it or not (%hesitation) certainly there are areas here and there where bridges are out where you find rubble here and there but (%hesitation) it takes a while to find damage from this earthquake and I think that is a testament to how much work they have done in the last dozen years or so to get ready for an earthquake But there is power out in many areas of the city (%hesitation) there were about two hundred thousand people without power at one point today But they say that they expect to have all or virtually all of them back on line by later tonight 
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20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 1718.678000 1730.817000 <o,male,MNB_NBW>  we  are watching this videotape that keeps coming into us of various venues This was (%hesitation) shot by a (%hesitation) home video camera in a residence in Seattle Chip Reid (%hesitation) thank you for that report 
20010228_2100_2200_MNB_NBW 1 brian_williams 1730.817000 1739.014000 <o,male,MNB_NBW>  We  are going to take a break and when we come back there is of course other news from this day  We  will have it for you as our N.  B.  C.  News Special Coverage continues