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October 31-November 4, 2005
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Friday, November
4, 2005 |  |
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Forgotten
Victims
Jonathan Miller of Independent Television News provides an update
from Pakistan on the desperate effort to reach remote mountain
villages hit by the earthquake nearly a month ago.  

War
Plans As the debate rages on over the decision to go to war in Iraq,
Ray Suarez speaks with former retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief
of staff for Colin Powell, about the Bush Administration’s Iraq policy -- both
in the run up to the war and in its aftermath.   Then,
Margaret Warner leads a discussion about Wilkerson’s charges against the administration
with Randy Scheunemann, private consultant and former president of the Committee
for the Liberation of Iraq, and David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation. 
Shields and Brooks
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss
the handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence, the Libby arraignment, the Alito nomination
and other political developments of the week. 
Conversation: Witness to AIDS
Jeffrey Brown talks about the tragedy of AIDS in South Africa with author Edwin
Cameron.
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Thursday, November
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Date Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff,
pleaded not guilty today in the CIA leak investigation. Jeffrey Brown discusses
this morning’s arraignment with Carol Leonnig, federal courts reporter for The
Washington Post.  
Political
Fallout Jim Lehrer discusses the political ramifications of the CIA
leak case with Samuel Skinner, professor of management and strategy at Northwestern
University and former White House chief of staff under the first President Bush
administration, and Leon Panetta, head of the Panetta Institute for Public Policy
at California State University and former White House chief of staff during the
Clinton administration.  
Growing Pains Ray
Suarez reports on the problems that Brooklyn faces with a proposed billion dollar
residential and commercial center that would tear down a mix of derelict storefronts
and empty lots.
Tough Talk
Betty Ann Bowser provides a background report on the threatening words towards
Israel from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. 
Then,
Margaret Warner leads a discussion about Ahmadinejad's comments with Shaul Bakhash,
history professor at George Mason University, and Abbas Milani, co-director of
the Iran Democracy Project at the Hoover Institution and professor and director
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Monday, October 31,
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Nominee President Bush nominated federal appeals Judge Samuel Alito
Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday. Jeffrey Brown provides a report. 
Margaret Warner discusses
the nomination with Douglas Kmiec, professor of constitutional law at Pepperdine
University Law School, and Pam Karlan, professor of public interest law at Stanford
Law School. 
Shields,
Lowry and Beschloss Syndicated columnist Mark Shields, National Review
editor Rich Lowry and presidential historian Michael Beschloss join Jim Lehrer
to discuss President Bush's leadership and strategy in recent challenging political
situations.  
Series: 30th Anniversary
Twenty-two years ago, nearly all the residents of rural Dwight, Neb. turned out
for the funeral of a young man who, along with 240 other American servicemen,
was killed in the terrorist attack on the Marine barracks at the Beirut Airport
in Lebanon. Kwame Holman returns to talk to the residents of Dwight about the
impact of the Iraq war on their community.  
Paying Tribute
The NewsHour airs excerpts from Monday's service honoring the late civil rights
heroine Rosa Parks. 
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