Monthly Archive: July 2001

July 17, 2001

Download MP3 THE DEBATE OVER IMMIGRATION POLICY Robin Urevich reports from Los Angeles on the response of immigrants and immigrants rights activists to the competing proposals to overhaul U.S. immigration policy.  The Presidents of both...

July 16, 2001

Download MP3 RUSSIA & CHINA GET FRIENDLY Phil Ittner reports from Moscow on today’s signing of a strategic friendship pact between Russia and China.  Both say the treaty of friendship and cooperation is not a...

July 13, 2001

Download MP3 NOTORIOUS LOUIMA CASE COMES TO A CLOSE Geoff Brady reports on the $8.75 million settlement in the civil rights case brought by Abner Louima.  The settlement closes one of the most notorious examples...

July 12, 2001

Download MP3 NAVY DROPS PLANS TO BOMB TEXAS Robert Knight reports that the Navy has scrapped its plan to moving its bombing range from the Puerto Rican Island of Vieques to Padre Island in...

July 11, 2001

Download MP3 LOUIMA SUIT YIELDS NINE MILLION DOLLARS, BUT FEW REFORMS Geoff Brady reports from New York on the 9 million dollar settlement reached in the civil rights lawsuit filed by Haitian immigrant Abner...

July 10, 2001

Download MP3   SHOULD THE SALVATION ARMY BE ALLOWED TO DISCRIMINATE Ellen Ratner reports from Washington on a front page story in today’s Washington Post on the Salvation Army which states the Bush administration...

July 09, 2001

Download MP3 CHILEAN COURT RULES PINOCHET UNFIT FOR TRIAL Host Verna Avery-Brown speaks with Joyce Horman, widow of Charles Horman, who was allegedly killed by the henchman of Augusto Pinochet.  A Chilean court has ruled...

July 06, 2001

Download MP3 U.S. MILITARY TURNS OVER SOLDIER CHARGED WITH RAPE IN OKINAWA Host Verna Avery-Brown speaks with Chalmers John, President of the Japan Policy Research Institute, about the U.S. military’s decision to turn over...

July 05, 2001

Download MP3 IDAHO JUDGE BLOCKS MEDICAID ABORTION BAN Leigh Robartes reports from Idaho on a state judge’s decision to block a new law which would have banned state Medicaid funding of abortion to protect...