January 2000

Gore's Past -- Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that the Vice President, on the defensive and eager to avoid alienating potentialvoters, has been rewriting the history of some of his positions.(2:30)

Chile -- Ricardo Lagos -- a socialist -- won Chile's election for president yesterday, pledging to speed Chile's economic recovery, and fight crime. NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says he finds it ironic that after three decades of dictatorship in Chile, supported by the US government, the new democratically elected president is a socialist. (3:00)












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