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2000
DECEMBER
December 22, 2000
Foreign
Correspondence
Margaret Warner talks with Indira Lakshmanan, Asian Bureau
chief for the Boston Globe, about the latest developments in Korea.
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December
22, 2000
Newsmaker:
Richard Holbrooke
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke
talks with Terence Smith about a new plan to pay the overdue American debt to
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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 12, 2000
Presidential
Debate
After excerpts of last night's debate, Ray Suarez discusses the candidates'
positions on foreign policy with Jim Hoagland of The Washington Post, Trudy Rubin
of the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Fareer Zakaria of Foreign Affairs. |
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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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September 19, 2000
Light
On Down Under
Australian Thomas Keneally, author of "Schindler's List," and
American Bill Bryson, author of In a Sunburned Country, share their vision of
the life and people of Australia. |
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September 8, 2000
Millennium
Summit
Over 152 leaders from around the world met in New York for the United
Nation's Millennium Summit. After a background
report, Ray Suarez leads a discussion of the policy issues discussed by the
leaders and the summit's historical significance. |
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AUGUST
August 16, 2000
Sunken
Submarine
A report on the struggle to save those trapped in a sunken Russian
submarine. |
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JULY
July 21, 2000
Reaching
Out to Refugees
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata
discusses her recent trip through six of the countries hardest hit by the Africa's
refugee crisis. |
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JUNE
June 20, 2000
Human
Cargo
Mary Robinson, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights;
David Bachman, chairman of the China studies program at the University of Washington;
and Demetrios Papademetriou, co-director of the international migration policy
program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; discuss the causes
and implications of smuggling humans. |
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June 9, 2000
Conversation:
Catherine Bertini
Executive Director of the U.N. World Food Program discusses
the threat of famine in the Horn of Africa, and Ethiopia in particular. |
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June
6, 2000
Global
Threat
The National Commission on Terrorism sends Congress strong recommendations
for fighting terrorism. Paul Bremer, chairman of the commission, and Larry Johnson,
a counter-terrorism expert who served in the Reagan and Bush administrations,
discuss the growing threat of international attacks. |
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MAY
May 18, 2000
Keeping
the Peace
In the second part of a NewsHour series, Correspondent Tom Bearden
reports on the difficulties of keeping the peace in a deeply divided Bosnia. |
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May
16, 2000
Newsmaker:
Richard Holbrooke
The United States representative to United Nations will
discuss his recent trip to Africa and responses to crises across the continent.
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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 9, 2000
Peacekeeping
Perils
John Bolton, assistant secretary of state during the Bush administration,
Chris Fomunyoh, regional director for the National Democratic Institute's African
programs, Alec Morrison, a former official at Canada's mission to the U.N., and
Sir Brian Urquhart, former undersecretary general of the U.N., discuss the dangerous
responsibility of peacekeeping in hostile lands. |
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May 4, 2000
Crisis
in Sierra Leone
Colum Lynch, U.N. correspondent for the Washington Post, and
Ibrahim Kamara, Sierra Leone's ambassador to the United Nations, talk about the
peacekeeping crisis in Africa's Sierra Leone. |
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May 4, 2000
Arms
Control, Again
Edward Warner, assistant secretary of defense and the Pentagon's
senior representative to the arms control talks with Russia; Stephen Cambone,
director of research at National Defense University; and Bruce Blair, president
of the Center for Defense Information; give three different perspectives on upcoming
arms control negotiations with Russia. |
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APRIL
April 17, 2000
Global
Views
Part three of our look at the IMF and the World Bank meetings causing
concern among international economic and financial circles. In our roundtable
to cover these concerns is Joseph Stiglitz, special advisor to the president at
the World Bank, Allan Meltzer, professor of political economy at Carnegie Mellon
University and chair of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission,
Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics and Bob Hormats,
Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, International. |
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April 14, 2000
Global
Views
Part two of our look at the IMF-World Bank meetings and the protests
they have spawned. Vandana Shiva, director of the research foundation for science,technology
and natural resource policy in New Delhi, India and Juliette Black,economic rights
coordinator for Global Exchange, a San Francisco-based international human rights
organization, will discuss the reasons various groups are protesting these meetings,
and how these protests differ from Seattle. |
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April 13, 2000
Global
Views
The IMF and the World Bank are about to begin meetings this week in
Washington and protesters are making their concerns known. James Wolfensohn, president
of the World Bank and Stanley Fischer, the acting managing director of the IMF
will discuss what these two organizations hope to accomplish. |
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MARCH
March
22, 2000
Cycle
of Destruction
Correspondent Fred De Sam Lazaro of Minnesota Public Television
reports on how one Indian state is recovering from a massive cyclone. |
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FEBRUARY
February
7, 2000
Newsmaker:
Madeleine Albright
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright talks about Russia
and other developments of international interest to the United States. |
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JANUARY
January
20, 2000
A
World of Trade
Michael Moore, the head of the World Trade Organization, talks
about running the WTO, the events after Seattle, and the future of the organization.
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January 11, 2000
Rebuilding
Haiti
Senior Correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth gives her second report from
Haiti. This report focuses on the effort to build a new police force and reform
the judicial system. |
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