This program is 29 minutes long
#435001
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(Los Alamos, New Mexico: Charles Zewe) Continuing efforts to fight the fires around Los Alamos, New Mexico, where 260 homes have been damaged featured; details given of the suspension of controlled fires. [US Forest Service director Michael DOMBECK - announces the controlled fire suspension.]
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(Studio: Carl Rochelle) Evidence that weather forecasts warnings against setting fires in New Mexico were ignored reported.
#435002
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(Freetown, Sierra Leone: Ben Wedeman) Telephone report on the continuing violence in Sierra Leone reported; details given of funerals for 19 unarmed civilian protestors and plans to send more United Nations peacekeepers; scenes shown from Freetown.
#435003
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(Chegutu, Zimbabwe: Nic Robertson) Calls for an end to violence in Zimbabwe from President Robert Mugabe reported; details given of plans to redistribute white-owned land to blacks; scenes shown from a white-owned farm. [Security consultant Charles PICKERING - says there is no confrontation in the region.] [Farmer Ben FREETH - says the issue is two million votes.] [Commercial Farmers' Union William HUGHES - says the land problem must be sorted out together.]
#435004
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Censorship of segment by Sri Lanka government noted.
(Colombo, Sri Lanka: Satinder Bindra) The attack of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, by Tamil Tiger guerrillas reported. [SOLDIER - says we are ready to fight.] [Former Tamil Tiger Pharmalingam SITHARTAN - says the situation becomes more serious each day.]
#435005
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) The signing of a three-month cease-fire between the Indonesian government and Aceh province rebels reported.
#435008
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) A ruling that the coup which ousted former Pakistani Prime Minister Nahwaz Sharif was justified reported.
#435009
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(Studio: David Ensor) Questions about the interpretation of photos showing Chinese air bases and the strength of mainland China's air force reported; satellite photos of China shown. [American Federation of Scientists John PIKE - says he asked where the planes were.] [Rand James MULVENON - says the photos can only tell so much.]
#435010
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Clashes between Palestinian protestors and Israeli soldiers in the West Bank; the continuing hostage crisis in the Philippines involving 21 captives held by Muslim rebels and Pope John Paul II's visit to Portugal reported; scenes shown.
#435013
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) The 1998 student protests in Indonesia featured; footage shown. [In 1998, Reporter Maria RESSA - says some students have been killed and injured.] [Hong Kong bureau chief Mike CHINOY - says Indonesian President Suharto ruled with an iron hand.] [PERSON - says the students are not guilty.]
#435015
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(Atlanta: Pat Etheridge) The upcoming Million Mom March IN Washington, DC, for gun control reported; details given of the story of one grieving mother. [Mother of murder victim Brenda MUHAMMAD - talks about her son Norbren's death; talks to students.] [STUDENT - says his grandmother was killed.]
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