November 3, 1995

    All Things Considered
    (entire program)


    • News Updates (5:00)

    • Republican leaders are struggling to entice conservatives to go along with extending federal borrowing authority, which is expected to run out this month. The leadership is considering adding riders that House conservatives like, but the President -- and many senators don't. Peter Kenyon reports. (3:30)

    • Sylvia Poggioli reports from Warsaw on presidential elections in Poland this coming Sunday. The most recent polls indicate the reformed Communists will win the first round, but not the necessary 50 percent for an out-right win. That means a run-off will be needed in two weeks. (5:30)

    • Noah talks with Bob Lipton of Vero Beach, Florida, about the Scrabble tournament underway in London. He's currently in second place. The championship is on Sunday. (4:00)

    • News Updates (5:00)

    • Richard Gonzales reports from San Francisco that while the three leading candidates are Democrats, that's where the similarity ends. The incumbent is an ex-police officer, while his challengers are a seasoned African-American state politician, and a former Clinton official and who happens to be a lesbian. She insists that in a city where nearly 20 percent of the voting block is gay or lesbian, this race is not about sexual politics. (10:00)

    • Elissa Ely recounts memories of growing up with her sisters, or who she refers to as her sister pups. (2:00)

    • News Updates(5:00)

    • Robert talks to Marshall Goldman, Associate Director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University, about the health of Russian President Boris Yeltsin and how the Russians are being very candid about his condition. (5:00)

    • President Clinton attended a memorial service today for the 270 victims of the Pan Am flight 103 disaster. He helped dedicate a memorial cairn at Arlington National Cemetery -- a stone monument donated by the people of Scotland. (3:30)

    • Trevor Rowe reports on how punitive U.N. economic sanctions against Serbia have helped bring the Serbs to the negotiating table in Dayton, Ohio to try to find a way to end the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. (4:00)

    • News Updates (5:00)

    • Wendy Kaufman highlights the battle in Washington State over a property rights referendum that's up for a statewide vote next Tuesday. The measure would require local and state government to compensate property owners for land value lost due to environmental and other regulations. Opponents warn that the measure would lead to handouts that could bankrupt government. (5:45)

    • Stage, screen and television actress Rosalind Cash died this week of cancer. Her career spanned some 30 years and included an Emmy Nomination for her work in the public television production "Go Tell It on the Mountain". She was a founding member of New York's Negro Ensemble Company. Rosalind Cash was a serious actress whose refusal to keep her mouth shut or alter her dreadlocks to suit a producer probably lost her a few roles. But as Vertamae Grosvenor recalls Rosalind Cash had other reasons for being an actress. Her final role was as Mary May Ward in the TV soap "General Hospital". Rosalind Cash was 56. (3:30)