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August 8 - 12, 2005
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Thursday, August
11, 2005 |  |
| | Fighting
Terror Dan Rivers of Independent Television News reports on Britain's
latest efforts to fight terrorists, including the arrest and possible deportation
of 10 foreign nationals Thursday. 
Then,
Jeffrey Brown speaks with Robin Niblett, director of the European Program of the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Ken Roth, executive director
of Human Rights Watch, about Britain's new anti-terror laws.  In
John Roberts' Own Words Opponents of John Roberts aired an ad Wednesday
labeling him a supporter of violent actions against abortion clinics. Kwame Holman
looks at what Supreme Court nominee John Roberts said in interviews on the NewsHour
about abortion, affirmative action and several Supreme Court cases. 
Then,
Margaret Warner talks with Douglass Kmiec, professor of constitutional law at
Pepperdine University, and professor Peter Rubin from Georgetown University about
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Monday, August
8, 2005 |  |
| | Nuclear
Negotiations North Korea and Iran are both fighting to keep nuclear
energy for civilian use if they shut down their nuclear weapons programs.
Margaret Warner discusses the latest developments in these negotiations with
Henry Sokolski, deputy for nonproliferation policy in the Office of the Secretary
of Defense during the first Bush administration, and George Perkovich, vice president
for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.   Profile:
Patrick Fitzgerald Elizabeth Brackett provides a profile of federal
prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who has been investigating the leak of CIA agent
Valerie Plame's identity.  
Remembering
Peter Jennings Peter Jennings, the anchorman and senior editor of
ABC's World News Tonight, died Sunday of lung cancer. He was 67. Jeffrey Brown
takes a look at Jennings' career. 
Then,
Jim Lehrer talks to NBC's Tom Brokaw about his friend and former colleague.   Singer
of Stories Jim Lehrer remembers Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer, who died
Saturday in Havana of multiple organ failure.
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