Tagged: 2000

December 22, 2000

Download Audio INTERNATIONAL REACTION TO BUSH FOREIGN POLICY President-elect George W. Bush this week took major steps towards forming his foreign policy team, nominating General Colin Powell to be Secretary of State and naming...

December 8, 2000

Download Audio FLORIDA POLITICS AND THE ELECTORAL ENDGAME On Thursday morning, the Florida Supreme Court was once again the focus of the nation’s attention as it considered the Gore-Lieberman campaign’s appeal of state judge...

November 24, 2000

Download Audio FLORIDA ELECTION UPDATE A dizzying array of decisions – in court and on local Canvassing Boards – dominated the third Week of the Post-Election situation in Florida. As the world waits on...

November 17, 2000

Download Audio DISCRIMINATION AND THE FLORIDA VOTE The Presidential Election may – or may not – be officially over this weekend. For the past 10 days, the nation’s focus has been on Florida, and...

November 3, 2000

Download Audio AS ELECTION NEARS, CANDIDATES TARGET WISCONSIN With only two percent of the nation’s electoral college, the state of Wisconsin is hardly the place one would expect to find presidential candidates in the...

October 27, 2000

Download Audio CIVIL UNIONS DIVIDE VOTE IN VERMONT Vermont is experiencing one of the most contentious election seasons in its history. The state is deeply divided over the issue of civil unions. A law...

October 20, 2000

Download Audio MIDDLE EAST CEASE-FIRE CRUMBLES Any positive effects of the cease-fire brokered by Israeli and Palestinian negotiators at Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt earlier this week may soon be erased by a resurgence of violence....

October 13, 2000

Download Audio REPRISAL AND ESCALATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST Tension in Israel and the Occupied Territories reached a new level on Thursday as Israeli military helicopters attacked the offices of the Palestinian Authority in...

October 6, 2000

Download Audio PEOPLE POWER IN BELGRADE In Belgrade, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators demanding the ouster of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic overwhelmed riot police and took over the city’s most important sites. Protesters stormed...