MARGARET WARNER: So even though Khatami is considered a moderate, did it sound to you as if he's just as supportive as hard-liners in that government about Iran's right to continue their nuclear program, to enrich uranium, in fact? ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Yes. He said -- it's interesting ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: I know that, but it's a different model. It's a more inclusive model -- what he's suggesting. DR. MOHAMMAD REZA KHATAMI: Yes, it's very interesting for us and I said that this model that he suggested in Iraq and possibly he supports in Iraq -- has ...
GWEN IFILL: Finally tonight, we remember writer and human rights activist Susan Sontag, who died today of leukemia. The author of 17 books translated into 32 languages, she sat for a conversation with our Elizabeth Farnsworth in 2001. Here's an excerpt from that talk. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Susan Sontag's ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The files include testimony from eyewitnesses, habeas corpus petitions, almost always turned down by the courts, and other important documents that assure that current trials have contemporaneous evidence and don't rely only on faulty memories. John Dinges was in Chile last month for the publication of the ...
... torturing of people, well, he showed his temper, and as has always been, "Look, I don't have anything to do with those things." ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The judge ordered medical tests of Pinochet, and studied a controversial interview with reporter Maria Elvira Salazar of Channel 22 in Miami late last ...
JAMAL JUMA'A: The place that used to take from you like one hour start to came -- to take from you three hours, to go from place to another. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Near Qalqilya, we could see the fence as it wound into the West Bank on a path aimed at ...
... are no headquarters for the security, for the police force even, they've all been bombed and shelled and the prisons are being destroyed. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: So how could they ever get control of Hamas and Islamic Jihad? HANAN ASHRAWI: Not through security. They cannot.... ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: They have to ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: What about the other factors that might have led to the building of the barrier? Is the wall a symbol of failure of the policy of occupation? YARON EZRAHI: The wall is a result of many forces and many factors. On the one hand, it's certainly an ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: So this discussion about unilateral separation that's gotten a lot of attention in the press, as you know in the States, we should not consider a fait accompli? Is that a proper assumption on my part? SILVAN SHALOM: Most of the international community, most of the countries ...
ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Okay, some Israeli leaders say we are for a two-state solution. That's why we're building the barrier. It makes it possible for Palestinians to have a state. Your reaction? SALIM TAMARI: Well, at the moment, everybody is for a Palestinian state including the most extreme ...
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