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2000
DECEMBER
November 20, 2000
Turning
The Page
Elizabeth Farnsworth leads a discussion on President Clinton's recent
trip to Vietnam
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OCTOBER
October 30, 2000
Newsmaker:
Madeleine Albright
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright discusses her historic
trip to North Korea and recent events in the Middle East. |
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October 13, 2000
Nobel
Prize for Peace
Elizabeth Farnsworth and Selig Harrison, former northeast
Asia bureau chief for The Washington Post, discuss Nobel Peace Prize winner
Kim Dae Jung, president of South Korea. |
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October 11, 2000
Thawing
Relations
A discussion on relations between the U.S. and North Korea. |
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SEPTEMBER
September
19, 2000
China
Trade Debate
Kwame Holman reports on the Senate vote to establish permanent
normal trade relations with China. |
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JULY
July 13, 2000
Opening
Trade with Vietnam
The United States and Vietnam open up formal trade relations
for the first time since the Vietnam War. Outlining the trade agreement, Pete
Peterson, former POW and ambassador to Vietnam; and Charlene Barshefsky, U.S.
trade representative. |
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JUNE
June 23, 2000
Historical
Views
The 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War. A discussion
of the legacy with historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael Beschloss; author
and journalist Haynes Johnson, and James Brady, author of "The Coldest War:
A Memoir." |
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June 19, 2000
The
Legacy of Vietnam
Another in our series of discussions on the legacy of the
Vietnam War. Spencer Michels looks at the lives of Vietnamese immigrants in the
United States. |
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June 19, 2000
Thawing
Relations
The U.S. lifts trade sanctions against North Korea. |
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June 14,
2000
Korean
Summit
The leaders of North and South Korea signed an agreement that could lead to eventual reunification of the peninsula. |
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June 13, 2000
A Historic Handshake in the Koreas
Correspondent Ian Williams of Independent Television News reports on the historic summit between the leaders of the two Koreas. |
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MAY
May 25, 2000
Trade
Offs
Debate whether economic engagement helps advance America's foreign policy
interests. |
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May 24, 2000
China
Trade Debate
The vote comes down to the wire as the House decides whether
to grant China permanent normal trade relations. |
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May 23, 2000
China
Trade Debate
Richard Trumka, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, Harry Wu,
a human rights activist imprisoned in China for 20 years, Christopher Padilla,
director of international trade relations at the Eastman Kodak Company and, Xiao
Bo Lu, assistant professor of political science at Columbia University, discuss
a proposal establishing permanent normal trade relations with China. |
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May
22, 2000
Focus:
China and Taiwan
How will the new president of Taiwan take on old problems
with China? |
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May 19, 2000
Trade Fight
Congress considers legislation next week to normalize trade relations
with China. Chairman of the rules committee, U.S. Rep. David Dreier, R-Calif,
and House Minority Whip Rep. David Bonoir, D-Mich., debate the issue. |
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May
12, 2000
Winners
and Losers
The politics surrounding the upcoming vote on normalizing trade
relations with China. |
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May 4, 2000
The
Legacy of Vietnam
In another of our reports on the legacy of the Vietnam War,
the story of a group of immigrants, the Hmong, who came to the United States from
Laos. Correspondent Fred De Sam Lazaro from KTCA, Minneapolis-St Paul reports.
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May 1, 2000
The
Legacy of Vietnam
Fifth in our reports on the legacy of the Vietnam War, 25
years after the American withdrawl. In 1990, senior correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth
made a documentary about a village near Danang, ten years later she finds a town
still recovering from the war. |
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May 1, 2000
Forum: Remembering Vietnam
The following are selected viewer recollections of the Vietnam War era. |
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APRIL
April 28, 2000
The
Legacy of Vietnam
In the fourth of our series of discussions on the legacy
of the Vietnam War a look at the anti-war movement, the continuing lives of its
participants and the legacy it has left. Haynes Johnson, Pulitzer Prize winning
reporter who covered domestic issues of war in the 1960s and 1970s, Ruth Rosen,
professor of history at U.C. Davis, Chicago Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., founder of
the Illinois state Black Panther Party, Rev. Jim Wallis, editor, Sojourner's magazine
and David Horowitz, head of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. |
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April
20, 2000
The
Legacy of Vietnam
The third of our discussions on the Vietnam War. We examine
the impact the war had on journalism and media. Terence Smith is joined by Christiane
Amanpour, chief international correspondent for CNN, Ken Bacon, U.S. assistant
secretary of defense for public affairs, David Greenway, editorial page editor
of The Boston Globe, and Morley Safer, CBS News correspondent and co-editor
of 60 Minutes. |
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April 18, 2000
A
Delicate Balence
Selling weapons to Taiwan: President Clinton's proposal,
Congress' response and China's reaction. Guests include: Walter Slocombe, the
Under Secretary of Defense, Sen. Jon Kyl from the Senate Intelligence Committee,
Michael Oksenberg, a senior fellow at the Asia/ Pacific Research Center at Stanford
University, Colonel Larry Wortzel, the Army's defense attache to China-1995 to
1997, he is now director of the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation.
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April 12, 2000
The
Legacy of Vietnam
This month marks the 25th anniversary of U.S. withdrawal from that country after the longest war in American history. Gwen Ifill and a panel of experts discuss the war's impact on the military. |
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April 10, 2000
Breaking
the Ice
Joel Wit, State Department Coordinator for the 1994 agreement with
North Korea; Tony Namkung, a consultant who has served as an informal liaison
with North Korea; and Chuck Downs, deputy director of the Pentagon's Asia policy
and author of "Over the Line: North Korea's negotiating strategy" discuss
the upcoming North-South Korean summit. |
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April 10, 2000
Newsmaker:
Tung Chee Hwa
An interview with the Chief Executive of Hong Kong. |
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April
5, 2000
The
Legacy of Vietnam
Presidential Historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael
Beschloss are joined by journalist Stanley Karnow, author of "Vietnam: A
History," Richard Norton Smith, historian and director of the President
Ford Museum and Library, and Jonathan Holloway, assistant professor of African
American Studies at Yale, in a discusison of the 25th Anniversary of the end of
the Vietnam War. |
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MARCH
March 24, 2000
Mission
to Pakistan
Stephen Cohen, a former member of the State Department's policy
planning staff during the Reagan administration, and currently a senior fellow
at Brookings Institute; Selig Harrison, the former South Asia bureau chief during
the 1960s for the Washington Post, and currently a senior fellow at The Century
Foundation; and Samina Ahmed, a political scientist specializing in South Asia
who is currently a fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government;
offer three perspectives on the president's recent trip to Pakistan. |
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March 20, 2000
Taiwanese Elections
Senior Correspondent Gwen Ifill talks with three experts from both China and Taiwan about the revolutionary election results in Taiwan and the role that mainland China has played. |
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March 1, 2000
Forum: President Putin
After several months as acting president of Russia, Vladimir Putin has been formally elected to the country's presidency. Can he bring needed reforms to Russian democracy? |
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FEBRUARY
February 23, 2000
The
Taiwan Question
James Mann, a foreign affairs columnist for The Los Angeles
Times who recently wrote the book "About Face" on the U.S. and China, and Jay
Chen, a Washington political correspondent for the Central News Agency, a wire
service in Taiwan. |
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February 8, 2000
Trouble
in Indonesia
Doradjatun Kuntyoro-Jakti, Indonesia's ambassador to the United
States, Paul Wolfowitz, former ambassador to Indonesia during the Reagan administration,
and Jeffrey Winters, associate professor of political economy at Northwestern
University who specializes in South East Asia, talk about the continuing troubles
in the Indonesian islands. |
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February 3, 2000
Religious
Clash
Ian Williams of Independent Television News takes a look at the sectarian
violence erupting in Indonesia. |
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