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A couple of housekeeping notes you'll want to know for the upcoming week...We've got a
College Tour double header this week starting with Arnold Schwarzenegger from Chapman
U. tomorrow night...You'll recall we preempted it due to breaking news on the sniper
front last week...On Wednesday we've got Rudy Giuliani from UPenn which ought to be
pretty cool too..
Tonight we're going to do a "super sized" Buzz right off the top for the front half of
the show...Hardball correspondent David Shuster and his producer Christina Jamison
have been deployed to Minnesota to give us an update on the "behind the scenes"
political machinations in that state....We'll lead with a Shuster package and perhaps
some cross talk (that's a technical TV term meaning live, unscripted chat between the
host and correspondent...The term does have multi-contextual applications
though)...We'll then bring in MSNBC/Hotline hot shot Craig Crawford, Former Minnesota
Congressman Vin Weber & Chicago Tribune's Clarence Page & The Washington Times' Tony
Blankley to discuss the political fallout, Walter Mondale's all but certain bid to
replace Wellstone and update some of the other hot races we're tracking this cycle...
Btw, you'll be pleased to know that our Hardball team led by Mr. Washington politics
himself, Howard Mortman, will honcho (efforting if you will) MSNBC's election night
coverage next week...Truly must see TV...
At the half hour (or D block) we'll go one on one with Howard (Fineman, not Mortman)
on his latest piece in Newsweek...The First Families Square Off...It's the hidden
race: Hillary bashes Dubya while Bill and Poppy work the phones
http://www.msnbc.com/news/826669.asp
The dot com hotshots have done it again...Dig this cool election 2002 page
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/election02/guide/
In the Buzz proper we'll talk to Senator Orin Hatch about life in the Senate and his
new tome, "Square Peg: Confessions of a Citizen Senator"
Did you know Chris has a new tome out as well? (Yeah, it's not exactly a "tome"
persay, but it sounds jazzier than simply "book") There's a Little Rick in All of
Us...Slow to anger, the hero of 'Casablanca' is the ultimate reluctant warrior. Why so
many Americans feel the same way. http://www.msnbc.com/news/823303.asp
The Briefing was written, compiled, and edited in Washington, DC by Dominic
Bellone...Weather: cloudy, rainy, 51 degrees...
Fellow senators remembered Paul Wellstone Monday as a man who always followed his
conscience, even if it meant taking the unpopular view or being on the losing side.
(AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=512&ncid=703&e=2&u=/ap/20021028/ap_on_go_co/wellstone_senate
After a weekend of high-stakes diplomatic talks, President Bush returned to the
campaign trail Monday and urged voters to "do your job as an American" and take part
in the Nov. 5 elections. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=544&ncid=703&e=3&u=/ap/20021028/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush
With control of the Senate at stake, former Vice President Walter Mondale is expected
to answer Democratic pleas and run to replace Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota, killed
in a small plane crash last week, party sources said on Sunday. (Reuters)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/4383641.htm
"Mr. Mondale is the choice of the Wellstone family," said Mike Erlandson, chairman of
the state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Erlandson said Wellstone's son personally
asked Mondale on Sunday to take over the race. (MSNBC) http://msnbc.com/news/826011.asp
DFL Party Chair Mike Erlandson announced Sunday that 875 state Central Committee
delegates and alternates will be called to the Historic State Theatre in Minneapolis
on Wednesday night to select a substitute candidate for Wellstone, who was killed
Friday along with seven others in a plane crash outside Eveleth, Minn. (Minneapolis
Star Tribune) http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/3392923.html
It would be unlike any campaign Minnesota voters have ever seen....If former Vice
President Walter Mondale replaces the late U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone on the Nov. 5
ballot, it would pit the state's most revered senior statesman against popular
Republican Norm Coleman, formerly St. Paul's mayor. (St. Paul Pioneer Press)
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/4384620.htm
GOP Takes Aim at Mondale...With former vice president Walter F. Mondale likely to
replace the late Sen. Paul D. Wellstone in the Nov. 5 election, Republicans Sunday
took aim at the Democratic elder statesman.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28274-2002Oct27.html
Inside the Beltway: "Who is this [expletive]?" President Bush inquired during a 1991
reception-turned-grilling with newly elected members of Congress - the first day Mr.
Wellstone, the outspoken Minnesota Democrat who tragically died Friday in a plane
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20021028-22093948.htm
Death of a Senator...Math and Aftermath, Wellstone's Death Clouds Senate Picture (Roll
Call) http://www.rollcall.com/pages/politics/00/2002/10/pol1028a.html
U.S. official shot dead in Jordan...A U.S. official was shot to death outside his home
on Monday in Amman, the Jordanian information minister said.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/826985.asp
Mortman's latest: When national politics goes local...Some races are about which party
should control Congress http://msnbc.com/news/825457.asp
In Washington, actress Susan Sarandon, who supports numerous liberal causes, accused
Bush of having "hijacked our losses and our fears." Sarandon said terrorism could not
be fought with violence and that most Americans did not want a conflict.
"Let us resist this war," Sarandon told the cheering crowd. "Let us hate war in all
its forms, whether the weapon used is a missile or an airplane." (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=564&u=/nm/20021026/ts_nm/iraq_usa_protest_dc_10&printer=1
Gephardt's gamble...His hopes are for a Democratic House-then the White House (US News
& World Report) http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/021104/usnews/4election.htm
The teenage suspect in the Washington-area sniper attacks may have squeezed off the
shot that killed an FBI analyst, a prosecutor said. Meanwhile, in another county the
first charges in the state were announced Monday against the older suspect. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20021028/ap_on_re_us/sniper_shootings
Prosecutors in Virginia said that they had evidence that the 17-year-old charged with
an adult in the attacks was the gunman in at least one shooting. (NY Times)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=68&ncid=68&e=2&u=/nyt/20021028/ts_nyt/evidence_shows_teenager_was_gunman_in_a_sniper_death
You knew it would come to this! http://www.chiefmoose.com/
Story 'Not About Me,' Reserved Moose Says...Chief, Revealing Little, Admits 'Lessons
Learned' (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28524-2002Oct27.html
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan acknowledged Saturday that suspected sniper
John Allen Muhammad is a member of the religious group. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=519&u=/ap/20021027/ap_on_re_us/sniper_nation_of_islam_2&printer=1
Gas proves fatal in Moscow siege...All but two of the 118 hostages who died after
Russian special forces raided a theater where they were being held captive by Chechen
gunmen succumbed to the troops' mysterious knockout gas, doctors said.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/824951.asp
The mysterious gas Russian forces pumped into a theater to end a hostage crisis was an
opiate - a chemical related to morphine, Pentatgon officials said Monday. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=544&u=/ap/20021028/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_russia_theater_raid_10&printer=1
Gas Used in Moscow Raid Killed 115 Hostages...Doctors said that only two hostages had
died from gunshot wounds before Russian special forces stormed the theater and killed
50 Chechen guerrillas, ending a 58-hour standoff. (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28303-2002Oct27.html?referer=email
WashPost: Setback seen for Chechens' cause...The final outcome of this week's
heart-stopping hostage crisis here will be precisely the opposite of what the Chechen
rebels who seized the crowded Moscow theater had hoped, political and military
analysts predicted.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/826868.asp
Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov is prepared to hold unconditional talks with the
Russian leadership to find a political solution to the bloody conflict in Chechnya,
his envoy said Monday. (AP)
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20021028/wl_nm/russia_chechnya_congress_dc_3
A leading Democrat yesterday urged President Bush to get tough with the United
Nations, saying that the United States should go it alone on Iraq if France and other
countries drag their feet. (NY Post) http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/60717.htm
Former President Bill Clinton last night called on the Bush administration to push for
weapons inspectors to go into Iraq before taking military action. (NY Post)
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/60735.htm
U.S. intelligence sources reportedly fear that al Qaeda may soon unleash a new tidal
wave of bombers at American targets in the United States and abroad. (NY Post)
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/60739.htm
Forget mudslinging. Try "cockfight" or "bloodbath" if you want to describe Friday's
fifth - and final - U.S. Senate debate between Democrat Alex Sanders and Republican
Lindsey Graham. (Columbia State) http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/4373331.htm
The battle for control of Congress has grown tighter. More Senate races have moved
into a dead heat, though Republicans are likely to hold on to the House, say campaign
analysts. (The Washington Times)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20021028-88350871.htm
Sammon: White House sees chance to regain Senate...The White House is bracing for
Republican gubernatorial losses in next week's elections, but is "cautiously
optimistic" about defying historical trends.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20021028-69255285.htm
Iowa Could Tip Balance...Iowans, accustomed to playing a prominent role picking
presidents with their first-in-the-nation caucuses, could tip the balance of not just
the House but also the Senate and governorships this year. (The Washington Post)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/826918.asp
Hutchinson Struggling to Keep Arkansas Senate Seat for GOP...Race Against Ex-Senator's
Son Is Nasty, Expensive and Close (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28272-2002Oct27.html?referer=email
Dicker: Key supporters of Carl McCall plan to blame "white racism" for their
candidate's all-but-certain crushing defeat in the Nov. 5 election, campaign insiders
say. http://www.nypost.com/commentary/60706.htm
America's conservative attitude toward marijuana is going up in smoke, according to a
new survey...The Time/CNN poll revealed that 72 percent of Americans now feel that
people arrested with small amounts of marijuana should not do any jail time, while
just 19 percent favored sending pot smokers up the river. (NY Post)
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/60729.htm
Opinion/editorial
Terry: Conservatives Must Support John Sununu
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/articles/10-28-02/jeffrey.htm
Buchanan: Albert M. Nixon...With his speech to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco,
Al Gore stunned his running mate Joe Lieberman, and the editors at the New Republic.
"Speechless" is how the house organ of the Gore campaign entitled its lead editorial.
http://www.amconmag.com/10_21/albert_m_nixon.htmlhttp://www.amconmag.com/10_21/albert_m_nixon.html
Corn: Pat Buchanan, Editor http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021111&s=corn
Ballot-box dilemmas...In 2000, after Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash,
legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar wrote in Slate that election law needs to be re-tuned to
prevent such tragedies from becoming constitutional disasters.
http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_infobeat.asp?/news/826078.asp
The Wall Street Journal: Putin's 9/11...Will the Moscow massacre change Russia's
attitude toward terrorism?
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002536
Will: Life, and death, in an abortion culture
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/will.html
Novak: Left-wing prof loved the game
http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak28.html
Barnicle: No break from fear on mean city streets...In October 1966, I was living in a
small apartment on Southern Ave. in the southeast section of this city. The rent was
$79 a month, and I could barely manage to pay it.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/30329p-28783c.html
Macdonald: CIA director George Tenet warned recently that the threat from al Qaeda is
as high as it was before 9/11. Unfortunately, there is another parallel to the
pre-9/11 environment: Clinton-era guidelines that had paralyzed the county's
intelligence agencies by 2001 - and still govern our anti-terrorism efforts.
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/60567.htm
Doonesbury http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/
Mallard Fillmore http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp
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