... FARNSWORTH, NewsHour Special Correspondent: Hi, Margaret. MARGARET WARNER: You were at the Pinochet funeral today. What was it like? Set the scene for us.ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Well, it was held in the military academy that's right across the street here. You can still see some Pinochet supporters and mourners ...
... between East and West, secularism and Islam. His latest is "Istanbul: Memories and a City," a book of history and personal reminiscence.In 2002, Elizabeth Farnsworth profiled Pamuk for the NewsHour in his home city of Istanbul. Here's an excerpt.ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH, NewsHour Correspondent: Turkey's leading novelist, Orhan ...
First of all Chile in the '90s is completely different form the '70s - because of dilemmas and challenges. Some are the same and some are different. First of all, we recovered democracy. We have to develop democracy, the institutions, freedoms, etc.. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: But it was interesting what you were ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: You mean that's how Nixon Administration saw it -- as communism? MICHELLE BACHELET: Yes but it was a long period when you divided the world between those who were that color and that color and I think life is much more complicated than that, and Latin America has ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Yeah. Man and women vote in separate places. If their polling place is the same place, they separate them by a long way. And this because when women got the vote -- and this was so ironic yesterday, a lot of women, you know, referred to this, because they ...
JIM LEHRER: And before we go, a few words from Ibrahim Ferrer, who died this weekend in Havana. He was a founding member of the Cuban music group known as the Buena Vista Social Club. Elizabeth Farnsworth spoke with him in 1999 after a documentary film made the group internationally ...
... committee -- give the answer, not him. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Can you tell me what the answer is? WALID SALMAN: If she leaves the first man -- ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Yeah, she leaves her lover. WALID SALMAN: Okay. You can forgive for her. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: By 11:00 A.M. when we visited the ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: This was a theme we heard over and over: That Iranians had suffered enough in the past quarter century. They've been through a revolution and an eight-year war with Iraq that filled this country's graveyards. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians were killed in that war ...
... States. And I thought Bush well and correctly shot down that whole thing. JIM LEHRER: Take what David said and put it in what Elizabeth Farnsworth had in her report, where these reformers were saying, hey, this is okay, but don't help us too much, we can handle this ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Gauging public opinion here can be tough. Polls show wide support for the government on the nuclear issue. IRANIAN CITIZEN (translated): We are not pursuing for the military purposes like the United States, British, French and China. They have the bombs, so why in the world -- nobody asked ...
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