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Folks, looks like it's gonna be a long Monday...My computer is on the "fritz" as they
say...I'm having internet issues so forgive me if I don't get all the stories you
want...Should be another great show though...We'll get the latest out of the Middle
East...One of my guys is working on guests for that...
We'll also do the Philippines bombing story in A..."Philippine police seized two
Muslim guerrillas Monday and said they expected to arrest more suspects behind the
weekend bomb blasts claimed to have been set off by a group linked to al Qaeda."
(Reuters)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020422/ts_nm/philippines_bomb_dc
Plus, Kuby will hit this piece..."Calling himself a 'slave of Allah,' Zacarias
Moussaoui, the French citizen charged with conspiracy in the Sept. 11 attacks on
America, asked a federal court on Monday to be allowed to fire his court-appointed
lawyers and hire his own or represent himself." (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20020422/ap_on_re_us/lindh_moussaoui_6
We'll have Bauer and Ralph Reed on these two pieces..."Bush Faces Sustained Dissension
on the Right....'A Sense of Disappointment Is Spreading'" (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25616-2002Apr21.html
"Gary L. Bauer, the Christian conservative who grew up as a janitor's son in Kentucky,
and William Kristol, the scion of New York Jewish intellectuals, long ago forged an
unlikely but close friendship as warriors of the right." (NY Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/21/politics/21RIGH.html?pagewanted=print
We're efforting Evan on this piece: "A Street Fight...The CIA was in serious trouble.
Then came September 11. How it�s getting in the game�in Afghanistan and beyond"
http://www.msnbc.com/news/741516.asp
Dickey will do the French election and anti-semitism in Europe..."Jam Jar
Politics...Jacques Chirac may be sympathique. But let�s look at the record"
http://www.msnbc.com/news/741616.asp
Michael Elliot will be in that block too to discuss his Time mag piece "Why Europe
Sides Against the Jews...Why do so many Europeans reject America's view of the Middle
East?" http://www.time.com/time/columnist/elliott/article/0,9565,232725,00.html
"A wave of anti-Jewish attacks � ranging from hate mail and graffiti to stonings,
shotgun blasts, gasoline bombs and synagogue bombings � has swept Europe from Britain
to Ukraine as the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians worsens in the Middle
East." (The Washington Times) http://washingtontimes.com/world/20020422-41009042.htm
We'll do the Jimmy Carter editorial in the D block "America Can Persuade Israel to
Make a Just Peace" (NY Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/21/opinion/21CART.html
We've got Ira Stoll from The New York Sun...That's the new paper from, you guessed it,
New York..
U.S. envoy meets Arafat...A U.S. envoy met Monday with Yasser Arafat to try to resolve
the key dispute holding up the start of cease-fire talks - standoffs between Israeli
troops and wanted men in the Palestinian leader's West Bank headquarters and
Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/677951.asp
WashPost: Children are in Bethlehem church...The Palestinians barricaded inside the
Church of the Nativity include two 10-year-old boys and dozens of other youths who are
being isolated in the cave where Jesus is believed to have been born, Israeli military
officials said Sunday.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/741852.asp
"Israel's foreign minister yesterday confirmed a report that Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon wants to annex up to half of the West Bank." (The Washington Times)
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020422-8855812.htm
"Israeli tanks clanked out of the center of two major West Bank cities today as Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon declared 'we have finished this stage' of the military
operation. Palestinians said they found the buildings that had been occupied by
Israeli soldiers ransacked, vandalized and looted." (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25727-2002Apr21.html
"The effort to obtain information from al Qaeda and Taliban fighters detained at the
U.S. Navy base in Cuba has been hampered by inexperienced interrogators and linguists,
military bureaucracy and squabbles among private language contractors, according to
sources familiar with the government's mission there." (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22119-2002Apr20.html?referer=email
"Demonstrators took to the streets of Paris and a clutch of French cities late on
Sunday in protest at the shock triumph of far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen in the
first round of presidential elections." (Reuters)
http://webcenter.newssearch.netscape.com/aolns_display.adp?key=200204212031000256573_aolns.src
"Defeated French presidential hopefuls on both left and right on Monday rushed to
endorse incumbent Jacques Chirac for the second-round vote � a concerted effort to
keep power out of the hands of extreme right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen." (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20020422/ap_on_re_eu/france_election_119
"Greeted by a media scuffle, Boston Cardinal Bernard Law arrived in Rome Monday along
with other American cardinals for talks this week with Pope John Paul II and other
Catholic Church officials." (MSNBC) http://msnbc.com/news/732931.asp?0dm=C11SN
"Storm clouds roiled the sky above the dome of St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday
afternoon, perhaps reflecting the mood inside the Vatican as American cardinals began
arriving here for an extraordinary meeting to discuss the sex abuse scandal rocking
the Roman Catholic Church in the United States." (Chicago Sun Times)
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-rome22.html
"In their sharpest clash since the 2000 campaign, President Bush and Al Gore are
giving dueling Earth Day speeches � Bush touting his plan to combat air pollution and
his former rival contending the White House is sabotaging environmental protections"
(AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20020422/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_environment_11
"Potential Democratic presidential contenders are competing to succeed former
President Clinton as the party's "fund-raiser-in-chief," hoping their efforts on
behalf of other candidates will pay off in 2004." (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20020422/ap_on_go_co/presidential_hopefuls_3
New bin Laden tape found in Kabul...A newly found videotape of Osama bin Laden made
public Monday shows the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks again urging all
Muslims to join him in a holy war against the United States.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/738848.asp
"Heroin paraphernalia was found with the body of the singer of grunge rock group Alice
in Chains, police said Sunday. Layne Staley's decayed body was reported found Friday
in his north Seattle apartment." (AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/2002/2002-04-22-staley-heroin.htm
Opinion/Editorial
The Washington Times: "Hatefest on the Mall...When does anti-Semitism become an even
darker form of Jew-hatred? If this weekend's demonstrations in downtown Washington
D.C., particularly those on Saturday, didn't answer that question, they demonstrated
the thin line between dark and darker."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20020422-547712.htm
Understanding Arafat...Yasser Arafat wasn't crazy to reject the land-for-peace offer
at Camp David in the summer of 2000, writes Robert Wright in Slate.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/741015.asp
Clift: "Why Is Ralph Nader So Happy?...Because he just won a Campaign 2000 lawsuit�and
because anti-Bush voices are rising both in and out of the Beltway"
http://www.msnbc.com/news/741066.asp
Bartley: "Engaging the Irritating Europeans...America must tell the world that the
rules have changed." http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/rbartley/?id=105001961
Novak: "The people vs. cloning"
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak22.html
Mugger: "Let Sharon be Sharon"
http://www.newsandopinion.com/cols/mugger.html
Arkin: "The Rules of Engagement... To bomb any Afghan target deemed 'sensitive,'
commanders in the field must get permission from officials in the U.S. Welcome to the
new age of military micromanagement."
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-000028306apr21.story
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/viewdb.cfm?uc_full_date=20020422
Mallard http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
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