MONITOR RADIO: DAILY EDITION {ETHNIC VIOLENCE IN SRI
LANKA, SECRETARY OF STATE BAKER TRIP TO
YUGOSLAVIA} (RADIO)
Summary
One in this series of news, culture and human interest magazine programs. Hosts Rob Nelson and Pat Bodnar introduce news reports. News stories include the following: Bodnar interviews Howard Wriggins, former U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka, about a resurgence of ethnic violence in that nation; Jonathan Landay reports on Secretary of State James Baker's diplomatic mission in Yugoslavia, encouraging the six republics to solve their problems peacefully; Beth Germano and Simon Marx report on Mikhail Gorbachev's power struggles in the Soviet Union; Ruth Gruber reports on Yugoslavia's refugees; Chris Ballman offers a historical look back at the German invasion of the Russia in 1941, including interviews with Russian survivors; a remembrance of celebrated pianist Malcolm Frager who died the previous day; Tara Siler reports that the Bush administration is disappointed because Colombia will not extradite drug kingpin Pablo Escobar to the U.S. to stand trial; Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) condemns Colombia's decision; Paul Eisenstein offers a report which traces the 1980's decline and possible resurgence of General Motors; reporter Meredith Lewis profiles an American middle class family which slipped into poverty during the Bush recession; and Danny Lehrecke looks at the International Human Powered Submarine Races. Briefer news updates focus on: Kurt Waldheim's decision not to seek another term of offfice as Austrian president, Iraqi exiles in London who seek to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein; Kristen Broman on Czechoslovakian President Vaclav Havel's assertion that former Eastern European Communist leaders ruined the environment; a failed attempt by hardline communists to seize power from Russian Premier Mikhail Gorbachev; and a phone call between President George Bush and Gorbachev regarding Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin's impending visit to Washington, D.C.
Details
- NETWORK: APR American Public Radio
- DATE: June 21, 1991
- RUNNING TIME: 0:59:45
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R:10372
- GENRE: Radio - Magazine; Radio - News
- SUBJECT HEADING: Austria - History - 1991; Colombia; Iraq - History - 1991; Soviet Union - Administrative and political divisions; Sri Lanka - History - 1991; U S - Economic conditions; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews; Yugoslavia; Yugoslavia - Foreign relations - U S
- SERIES RUN: APR American Public Radio - Radio, 1991
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- David Craig … Executive Producer
- Pat Bodnar … Host, Interviewer
- Rob Nelson … Host
- Jonathan Landay … Reporter
- Ruth Gruber … Reporter
- Chris Ballman … Reporter
- Tara Siler … Reporter
- Paul Eisenstein … Reporter
- Meredith Lewis … Reporter
- Simon Marx … Reporter
- Beth Germano … Reporter
- Danny Lehrecke … Reporter
- Howard Wriggins … Guest
- James Baker
- George Bush
- Pablo Escobar
- Malcolm Frager
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Vaclav Havel
- Saddam Hussein
- Sen. John Kerry
- Kurt Waldheim
- Boris Yeltsin