[WILL-AM] All Things Considered rundown (June 5)
Denise Perry
FR: NPR News / All Things Considered / Cater
DT: Monday, June 5, 2000
RE: 20000605.ATC First Rundown, ATC Monday, 6/5/2000
Host: Robert Siegel
Newscasters: Craig Windham, Ann Taylor and Corey Flintoff
[WILL-AM/580 airs the second hour of this program at 4PM (CDT);
followed by the first and second hours from 5-7PM (CDT)]
HOUR ONE
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1. TERRORISM REPORT -- NPR's Steve Inskeep reports Human Rights
advocates are questioning the conclusions in a Congressional
commission's report on how the US can better fight terrorism.
The commission urged the CIA to drop restrictions on using human
rights violators as informants. It also recommended that the
government spy on US residents suspected of terrorism. (3:30)
2. TERRORISM AND MISSILE DEFENSE -- NPR Senior News Analyst
Daniel Schorr wonders how wise it is to continue with plans for
a national missile defense system, particularly in the face of a
growing terrorist threat. (3:00)
3. BUSH - FOREIGN POLICY -- NPR's Ted Clark reports on questions
raised about presidential candidate George W. Bush's
inexperience in foreign affairs. Foreign Policy rarely is a
major factor in the electorate's choosing of candidates and, so
far, Bush's lack of experience in this area has not hurt his
ratings. (5:30)
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4. RAY LEWIS CASE -- Joshua Levs of member station WABE reports
prosecutors in Atlanta today dropped murder charges against
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis in exchange for his
testimony against his two-co-defendants. Lewis also agreed to
plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of obstructing justice.
Lewis had been charged with murder for his alleged involvement
in the stabbing deaths of two men outside an Atlanta night club
after a Super Bowl party in January. Prosecutors began the
trial with little direct evidence connecting Lewis to the
stabbings and testimony by prosecution witnesses was not seen by
court observers as bolstering their case. (3:45)
5. CENSUS - WEALTHY -- Robert talks with Kenneth Prewitt,
Director of the U.S. Census Bureau about the difficulty in
getting census data from wealthy neighborhoods. He says this
year in some parts of the country it has been as hard, if not
harder, to get information from upscale neighborhoods than from
poor neighborhoods. In Dallas, Texas, for example, more census
door-to-door workers were needed in the richer areas because
fewer people there turned in their forms. He says they have had
similar problems in Chicago and Philadelphia. This was
unexpected. (4:15)
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6. "HELLHOUND ON MY TRAIL" -- NPR's Peter Breslow talks about
how the song "Hellhound on my Trail" had a profound impact on
his life. It was his first exposure to the blues, and the
beginning of his lifelong appreciation of blues music.
"Hellhound on my Trail" was written by Robert Johnson and
recorded in 1937. Robert Johnson is a mysterious figure in the
realm of Mississippi Delta blues musicians. He only recorded a
few songs, and very little biographical information and
photographs exist. But there are plenty of myths -- that he
sold his soul to the Devil to play the guitar better than anyone
else, and as his fame was spreading, he was murdered, or a
victim of black magic, in 1938. Johnson's song is part of the
NPR 100 -- the 100 most significant works of American music from
the 20th century. (12:30)
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7. CELL TOWERS -- Jeff Brady of Oregon Public Broadcasting
reports on the tensions that arise in small communities over new
cell phone towers going up across the landscape. In rural
Portland, one landowner had five shots fired into his house
after a new cell tower went up on his lawn. (4:00)
8. BEAR CHIROPRACTOR -- Robert talks with Montana chiropractor
Kyle Goltz about his recent treatment of a 700-pound grizzly
bear, whose neck was out of alignment. Goltz has treated a cat,
a dog, and horse before, but this was his first bear. (3:30)
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HOUR TWO
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9. GRANDPARENTS -- NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's
Supreme Court decision that grandparents can't sue for visits
with their grandchildren. The court ruled against a Washington
state couple who wanted more time with the children of their
late son. The court said that when parents are adequately
caring for their children, the state should not force itself
into private family decisions. (4:30)
10. GRANDPARENTS REAX -- Do grandparents in other states see a
broadening of their visitation rights as important? How does
the Supreme Court decision to invalidate the Washington state
law strike some of the 60 million grandparents around the
country? Mark Moran of member station KJZZ in Phoenix visited a
retirement home in nearby Mesa, Arizona. (3:30)
11. WEB HUBBELL -- NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on today's
Supreme Court decision wiping out a guilty plea by presidential
friend Webster Hubbell. The justices ruled that prosecutors
could not bring tax charges against Hubbell based on documents
he surrendered after being granted immunity from self-
incrimination. The prosecutors argued that they didn't need
Hubbell to tell them the documents existed, as most business
people keep such records. But the justices said the grant of
immunity did cover the documents. (4:00)
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12. PRIVACY -- Robert talks with Jeffrey Rosen about his new
book, "The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in
America." It's about the legal, technological and cultural
changes that have affected the amount of people's personal
information now available to others. Rosen is a legal affairs
editor at "The New Republic" and an Assistant Professor of Law
at George Washington University. (7:30) STATIONS NOTE PUBLISHING
INFO: "Unwanted Gaze" by Jeffrey Rosen, is published by Random
House.
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13. CLINTON IN KIEV -- NPR's Mike Shuster reports from Kiev that
President Clinton wrapped up his European tour today with a
quick stop in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine. Addressing
thousands of Ukrainians at St. Michael's Square in Kiev, Mr.
Clinton stressed America's commitment to Ukraine's independence,
and he acknowledged the road to a market economy has been
difficult for Ukraine. Mr. Clinton won a commitment from
Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma to shut down the Chernobyl
nuclear power plant -- scene of the world's worst nuclear
disaster -- by December 15th. (4:00)
14. ALBRIGHT - BARAK --- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
met Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak today as part of a new US
initiative to speed up the peace process. Albright, who will
meet Tuesday with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, is reported
to be urging the convening of a Camp David style summit to
finalize a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
NPR's Jennifer Ludden covers the story from Jerusalem. (3:30)
15. AFRICA PIPELINE -- NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that the
World Bank will vote tomorrow on whether to finance a
controversial oil pipeline project in Chad and Cameroon that
critics say would harm the environment and displace thousands of
inhabitants. The pipeline's developers, an oil consortium that
includes Exxon Mobil and Chevron, contend the project will be
safe and alleviate poverty in the region. Environmentalists and
human rights activists say these are the kinds of projects
motivate the opposition to World Bank policies. (4:30)
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16. SCREW TOPPED WINE -- Over the weekend, The PlumpJack Winery
unveiled its 1997 Reserve Cabernet. The Northern California
winery is selling the reserve at $135 a bottle, and it will be
capped with a screw-top instead of the traditional cork. It's a
bold move by the company -- most people associate screw-tops
with cheap wine. But the winery's owners say screw-tops are
superior to cork. Robert talks to John Conover, General Manager
of the PlumpJack Winery in Rutherford, California, about the
company's decision to go corkless. (4:00) STATIONS NOTE: More
information about PlumpJack Winery at www.plumpjack.com
17. PASSION VINE -- Commentator Bailey White relates a story
about a gift she received of a passion vine root from near Hank
Williams home in Alabama. It defied transplantation, much to
White's disappointment. She had fallen in love with it. (3:15)
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