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mm hmm. Mhm. Mhm, mm hmm. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Hello, I'm Jim Miller and this is Eyewitness News 2000. The news of his follows nuclear blackmail in Asia. The south Asia coalition has demanded Russian food supplies to cope with mass starvation, the threat food or bombs,

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a disturbance in progress at the Villa May food outlet here in san Francisco over the real food issue. We'll have live coverage from there in just a moment. We also have word from Sequoia National Park where last week thousands of Los Angelenos arrived searching for a

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new city. Plus we'll take a look at a new kind of car in California and visit the last small farm in the san Joaquin valley. Our mobile sports desk is at the Bear Valley Athletic training farm and our weather watcher is 6000 miles above us to

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describe things from the Kansas Zaroff space station. Tonight's electronic poll. Question should the United States except that the Association of third world governments offer of trial membership, The 80 W. G. has grown to almost twice the size of the United Nations but hasn't been willing to

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consider United States membership until this year. You can get all the background on this issue on your home data board by tele coding 99 au G 15 then vote yes with tele code 99 Y es 22 or no with tele code 99 N. 0. 26. Be

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sure and vote within 20 minutes we'll have poll results at the end of the program. Some excitement tonight. The san Francisco poor people's union is in the midst of another anti Mayor Devonshire rally brad, hodge kisses at the villa mane market right now, brad. Can you

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hear me? Yes, jim, I can. Things here are rapidly getting out of hand. This crowd started small, but it grew very quickly so far. No police have arrived. A store window has been broken, but there isn't any looting yet that I can see now there are

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customers inside the store. I don't know how many or what they're doing to protect themselves. I just can't get close enough to see anything. Excuse me. Do you think the people inside the store are in any danger not for me? All I want is real food

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for my family. That's all food from this store. Is that real food? Period? Real tomatoes, not fake tomatoes, real milk and not powder corn starch. Is that why you're here in my neighborhood? You can't buy real food. You realize my three year old kids never had

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a fresh vegetable in his life and he deserves to have real food just as much as those people that shop in that store over there, you can't afford to shop in a store like this. You and I both know if you don't own a bank that

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came by a head of lettuce, you realize the only kind of food my kids and stuff that comes out of boxes and cans and believe me baby that is not aware of that. Thank you very much. Well there's the issue. People feel very strongly that the

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present system of food distribution does not what where they've surrounded a car. I think apparently it's got a shopper in it. My God, jim. This is getting ugly. There are young Children in that car. Get the camera to see if we can brad brad. Are you

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still there? What happened? Is it here or there? Well, we'll try and find out what happened to our mobile unit. Maybe we can reestablish contact in any event. We'll have some other news on that story and perhaps some reactions to it later on in the program.

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In the meantime, as we've been reporting all day here on channel five early this morning, the parliament of the South Asia coalition meeting in New Delhi took what can only be described as desperate action in an attempt to feed its people in an unprecedented worldwide broadcast

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coalition. Premier SIA Con threatened nuclear retaliation Unless the Soviet Union fulfills its food delivery contract within five days. Con charged that quote, the food rich countries had written off South Asia and if his people had to die in a nuclear holocaust, it was preferable and more

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honorable than a slow death by starvation. In a surprisingly conciliatory response carried this afternoon by inter tell from Moscow premiere kostikov explained that the recent drought had made it impossible for the USSR to fulfill its contract almost as an afterthought. He reminded the coalition that neither

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of their people could win a nuclear war on the other side of the world. Mala tambon. Oh, head of the 12 Nation Alliance of African States said the South Asia Coalition's demands were more than justified and pledged support. Of course, they also have a small nuclear

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capability. Diplomats from both the Association of Third World governments and the United Nations are holding crisis meetings at the International Conference Center in Mexico City. Immediately following this newscast, there will be a saddle com special report from there. Mhm Dangerously polluted air and disease carrying water

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supplies continued to force thousands of urban dwellers to leave their homes early last week. A group of 850 refugees from Los Angeles state to claim in Sequoia National Park and vowed they'd stay there until the government did something for them. But the demonstrators round up with

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wasn't state aid but more refugees. A flood of them. This is Sequoia Park from up here, it looks as peaceful as ever. But on the ground, it's a different story. What started here as a poorly organized band of protesters has turned into a mass of nearly

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4000 men, women and Children whose numbers are growing every day. Perhaps no one has been as surprised by this instant community as the original group itself. This is john Dunbar Ex social worker and one of the original 850 who came here last week. Well, the reason

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why we came up here is to attract some attention to ourselves and to our problems. You know, you came up here as more or less as a publicity stunt. Yeah, that's it. We figured somebody in the government ought to be paying some attention to the people

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that need to leave. Didn't have a way to do it. You sure? Don't think we came here to live? What happened when you got here? Well, all these other people from Los Angeles started coming out. You just blew us away, man wandering in here asking where

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is the new town? What'd you tell them? What what you talking about? You know? But the idea in your head is a town here. What happened? Sounds more like lemmings than people. Yeah. And there's, I can figure the rumor got started that we're gonna come up

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to sit quietly and build a Newtown for the city people. It's crazy. I don't know. I guess things get bad enough. People believe anything. This is Joy Truitt who arrived here yesterday. Well, I um, I honestly thought there'd be something here for us. I've gotten sick

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two weeks in a row back there. So I knew I had to get out. It seemed like the answer to my prayers. I wanted to be among the first, So I'd get a good place. Joy Truett and thousands of others were grasping at a straw in

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the wind when they made the long trip here. Many of them on foot. Now their misplaced victims of the power of desperation, ironically they can't leave here as easily as they came. Their energy is low, their resources gone. Many can't even walk much further. I've got

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blisters over every inch of my feet. I'm not going anywhere. I'm stuck. Hey mom, mm hmm. For most this instant city is worse than the old one park food supplies have run out and familiar problems are growing including pollution and disease. As a result, authorities are

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more concerned about getting the people out of Sequoia than helping them while they're here. When that happens, this place will be restored to normal. The lives of the migrants however, may never be normal again. This is Bill Avery Sequoia National Park State Police announced a little

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while ago that the park has been closed to traffic until further notice. Well, the Sequoia demonstration may have backfired, but that doesn't leave urban migrants without a spokesman. Larry Rhodes, once a prominent L. A. Used car dealer recently turned benefactor to city refugees was in san

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Francisco. Today he spoke not only of the plight of the migrants but of the power they represent as well. Now these people may be poor but they're also just the tip of a very large and powerful iceberg. They stand for a whole new spirit that's going

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all over this state people and I'm one of them are growing sick and tired of human beings being at the bottom of the totem pole, as far as business and government goes. And I know I and I don't mind reminding you that I've personally supervised the

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relocation of over 10,000 people to where they can survive the air and the water. I know, but there's a lot of Californians who are disgusted that there isn't one government program to help the people in Los Angeles and San Diego and Richmond to get out and

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pretty soon they're going to do something about that. They are this state and something must be done. Roads had other news. That was something of a surprise. Well, my plans as of right now. Okay, well, I don't mind saying that. I have been asked by the

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american Restoration Party to head their ticket next fall, a firm offer for governor. Well, it does involve running for governor. Yes. Well, the migrants aren't the only victims of spreading urban pollution. The State Department of Health announced it's going to expand its network of emergency emphysema

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clinics to deal with a steady increase in that disease. These new clinics Are now being set up in communities as far from downtown San Francisco as 100 miles where air pollution is increasing at a record rate. People in places like napa and Altamont aren't used to

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foul air that makes them especially susceptible to lung disease. That accompanies the smog that's creeping outward from the cities emphysema in Napa is up 97% this year and everybody knows why. Okay. Mhm, mm hmm. The Health Department says it will open about 100 of the new

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clinics this year, 71 in the Los Angeles Metro District and 23 within smelling distance of the bay area, the cities aren't the only problem. Areas for americans California suburb will soon be wiped off the map with almost no one left to mourn its loss. Margaret lambert

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reports. The first to go is Levittown pennsylvania once a model for the new american way of life. But when the middle atlantic coalition restricted auto use to the point that commuting long distances by car became impossible suburbs without a real economic center or good mass transit

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such as Levittown became ghost towns. Since then, Levittown has been put to a different use. The houses were torn down and the area is being strip mined for cold Verde Canyon will be another place missing from next year's maps. It was built out here 65 miles

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from Los Angeles in the late 1970s as a model location for middle-income city, people looking for the good life. Now it's nearly empty California is searching for water like pennsylvania's for minerals in places no one thought to look a few years ago, verde Canyon is such

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a place and within a year it will be covered by the waters of a new reservoir. One of the 20 being planned to meet ella severe water shortage, Ironically, almost no one will be affected when these 85 homes are flooded. Only three families lived here when

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the eviction notices were sent out. This is tom and Betty and is one of the last families to leave verde Canyon. Are you sad to be going? Not really. We're just as sorry. Where you ever came? Why? I guess bad timing. We moved here to have

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Children but getting back and forth place has got to be so expensive so fast. We couldn't afford to stay here ourselves, let alone have kids. All the money went into cars and gas. Now I need a new car just to stay here and it costs just

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as much to buy a new car as it did to get this house. Why didn't you move before? We've been hoping I guess that maybe something would change. We worked so long to move here Now the thought of going back to L. A. into one of

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those new 60 story apartment houses, it just makes me sick. Do you have to go to L. A. I got to be right next to my job. I just can't commute anymore. We'll never raise kids there. That's for sure. That place makes me too nervous to

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even think about Children. Did you lose anything on your investment here? Everything just about the whole works. They didn't give us much for the place. It's not worth much verde Canyon will be the first California suburb to disappear entirely. But given the severity of the water

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crisis and the problems with commuting, it probably won't be the last. This is Margaret lambert. Remember all those aluminum throwaways, foil and cans and all that Well. The Bureau of precious metals has announced that our reserves of bauxite, the main ingredient in making aluminum are nearly

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gone. They estimate that within two years this country will be totally dependent on other nations for its aluminum production. That probably means another world currency of the aluminum dollar within a year. Better check your attic for that forgotten stash of old beer cans. More demands today

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for a congressional investigation of bio spec that huge and often controversial international drug company latest charges no less than genocide. They were made by Nobel prize winning environmentalist dr Alexis Daw on channel five V. I. P. News baker five news broadcast this morning. I want to

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know why the U. S. Institute for World Health has been subsidizing the bio spec corporation to the tune of almost a billion dollars a year without congressional approval. I also want to know why the bio spec chemists are given access regularly to the food shipments to

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Nicaragua and Costa rica. As I have been led to believe that they have most importantly, I want to know why the birth rates in both Nicaragua and Costa Rica have mysteriously dropped 80 In the last 28 months are we making Guinea pigs out of entire countries

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out of people whose leaders have to sacrifice their national birthright in order to obtain the food they need to survive. I don't care how drastically overpopulated we have allowed our world to become. We must not sacrifice ethics to solve our problems. There are ways to approach

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birth control without international foul play unless population reduction is not what we want, but genocide. Well there you have it The First Segment of Our Dramatised Newscast of the Year 2000. It's really not a very pretty picture, is it? Drug companies charged with experimenting with mass

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birth control people being driven out of the cities because of pollution, other people being forced back into the cities because cars and gas are too expensive. But please remember what we're showing here is only a possibility. It's not a prediction in any way of anything that

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we can't change. And remember too that the purpose of the we the people project is to give you a chance to create a new future. That's different. And hopefully a lot better than the one we're reporting in this newscast Later on in the program. We'll tell

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you how to be a part of this process. But right now, let's return to an eyewitness news cast of October 27 the year 2000. Right after these messages, I'm told now that we're back in contact with brad Hodgkiss at the food riot at the village shopping

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center. What's going on down there now brad lots happened. Jim that trap card that we saw before did manage to get away by driving through the demonstrators and I think there were a lot of serious injuries. Then we moved our unit behind the store, right? Where

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another group, this one began attacking a grocery truck that was waiting to be unloaded. Are they including what? No, they're destroying the food, not taking it? I don't know. Let me see if I can find out. Hey, what's going on? Get that thing out of here.

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Wait a minute. Isn't that what you're here for? Yeah, but more than one lousy truckload food all the time where we live in a place where we can afford to keep it ourselves. Yeah, but is that realistic in view of the national and the statewide food

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shortage? Listen, plenty of real food comes to san Francisco. If Mayor Devane childcare for anybody else but his rich friends, there'll be enough food to go around. But what about the shortage? All over the state? All over the country? That's because all the farms have buildings

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and country clubs on them. The mayor and the governor's rich friends ruined the breadbasket Now they're telling us we gotta eat recycled horse manure, but there's starvation. What they're here. The police troops are here and I think they're going to make a sweep. I've been told

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they've got sound guns. Oh my God, there go the guns sound. Let's get out of here. That was live coverage apparently from the looks of the situation, that's all we're going to get from here, am I right? Okay. That was brad Hodgkiss reporting live from the

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scene of the food riot that started as a demonstration by the san Francisco poor people's union. Coming up in a few minutes, we'll have live comments from Mayor Devonshire. He's been targeted by the PP you as being responsible for high food prices and low supplies. We'll

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see what he has to say to that. Just as soon as we can get a connection. Schools are in the news again, only this time ones opening instead of closing a cynic corp, the world's largest credit corporation is going into the school business right in the

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middle of the worst enrollment and financial crisis. The san Francisco's public schools have ever seen, Margaret Lambert reports. This is the cynic or world headquarters building built in 1994 as san Francisco's 100 skyscraper. It is also the site of cynic or academy, an unusual educational facility

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located underneath this financial district landmark. More than 500 students have enrolled here, many of them Children of Sina Corp's managers. Sina Corp Academy is an impressive alternative to the city's crumbling public schools. In fact, it's the best equipped school in town from a glamorous, one mile

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indoor track to sophisticated teaching equipment and all hooked up to Sin accords. Giant computer, this is mel johnson, an instructor of mathematics, Jacqueline, you have the wrong program for that problem. Now you're two digits off. Do you think you can find the error? You mean an

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inter program nine compound interests on the right. You want to do that problem again? How's it going? Mel real great this place is the the answer to a teacher's dreams. How does it all work? Well the access to the computers gives these kids a real break.

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My students can handle the most difficult problems in their field as easily as they can program it. How much of their time do they spend at the computers? All they could get the best. They're spending about 56 hours a day at their consoles except for a

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couple of discussion classes. They never need to see a teacher at all unless they run into some kind of snag. The citicorp Academy is definitely a showcase but it is not without its detractors. Some people don't like the way the cynic or project is draining still

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more students from the city's public school population pushing the cost per student still higher. Others have different complaints. This is san Francisco superintendent of schools. Dr Frederick mason. There's no liberal arts influence there. I mean how can you teach literature on a computer? What it boils

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down to is the fact that the school is improperly licensed, nobody's monitoring what they're teaching or who's teaching it. It's a case of influence peddling if the corporations can push the federal government around the way they do. You know, they won't have much trouble getting anything

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they want from the State Department of Education. But dr joseph Howe managing director of the Sina Corp Academy is unabashedly optimistic about the school. Our curriculum is built straight around what kids need to know in the year 2000. It's a real world learning program. No matter

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what anybody says, we've got the finest school in san Francisco here and I think it's just the beginning of a whole network of citicorp schools. The big companies are in much better position to build schools like this than anybody else. The public schools can't compare. That's

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the ones who count, that's the kids. I'd say it's definitely better than public schools. I like the efficiency here. Like last year we had to study a bunch of stuff that nobody even cares about anymore. But here you get to work more with the computers makes

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a lot more sense. I guess it's great. My dad works at the top of the building, we take the helicopter and together and as you know the gross national product works as a barometer and reflecting a country spirit so that in the case of brazil for

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example the school is just as popular with area parents who can afford it. The number of students turned away this year due to a lack of space makes it almost certain that they will soon be other corporation academies here in the city and this is Margaret

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Lambert reporting from Sina Corp headquarters. And now let's get caught up with the latest news from the world of competitive athletics. We'll switch to john McKay at the mobile sports desk. Where are you now, john hi jim. This week we're at the fabulous athletic training center

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here in Bear Valley. We brought the sports desk here to take a look at some of the real biggies and we're going to do that in just a 2nd 1st though, let's take a look at some of today's global scores in football. The only corporation action

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was between IBM and General Motors in that game Detroit. I saw the executives squeezed by the wheelers 19 to 18, even though it was close, the wind will keep the exacts at the top of the corporation heap in the Civic League. Portland beat Mexico City 14

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to 6 and the South Los Angeles Masters topped North Hollywood nine to nothing. Well, you know, professional athletes are much different from you and I and the more and more vigorous the games get, it takes better and better players to play them. Today's pros are probably

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the most perfectly developed specimens. The world's ever seen. One of the ways they stay in shape is by living in a place like the one we're visiting the athletic training center here in Bear Valley California. This is quite a place here, athletes live in isolation from

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distractions, concentrating 100% on their development. I bet it's the dream of every youngster in the country to visit a place like this and meet the people who stay here, which is just what we've been doing today. We taped some remarks with a couple of the most

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exciting players in the Corporation Soccer league. Jimmy Butterfield and Ron pyro. Mm hmm. While we listen to some of what they had to say. We'll take a look at these guys in training on one of the most sophisticated machines ever developed for physical fitness. The computerized

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isometric charger that analyzes muscle tone and reaction capacity and then feeds the artificial brain waves to muscles shaping them up. While the sportsman lie back and take it easy. Ron you're just about to hit the road for another season. Are you going to be with this

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year? I'm with IBM john last year I spent the season with General Dynamics. I think the change will be a good one for me. I'll be playing out of Cairo instead of Geneva. And I'm looking forward to that. What position they're gonna put here. I'll be

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different this time. I got a lot of goals last season when my managers want to balance out my record. A little jimmy butterfield, One of the best physical specimens in the league was with Arco last year I asked him who he'd be playing with this season.

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Oh, I'm staying with the company john. But they're moving me out out of Dallas and over to Shannon Ireland, you know, for the north europe league, we'll miss you jimmy. You're happy with the switch. Well, you know, pretty much so. I mean the game is the

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same anywhere you play it. And for me, you know, that's what counts. I mean, I'm in the best shape I've ever been in and I'm looking for a real good season wherever it is. Yeah, yeah. Well, you know, those guys sure have a lot of fans

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wherever they go and you can be sure with the training and treatment they get right here at Bear valley California. They're going to be developing some of the world's most advanced form of soccer. Tomorrow we're going to be moving to the shadow of mount Shasta California

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where we're going to take a look at the Civic Football League to show you some of the real headliners in that sport. Until then this is john McKay, what thanks john and be sure and watch monday night soccer on KPI X next week when Ron and

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jimmy will be featured in a preseason action and on opposing teams. And now it's time for our nightly trip to the big eye in the sky, the Kansas or off weather control and analysis station in orbit, 6000 miles above us. Our weather analyst is engineer Doris

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weber Hello san Francisco and the bay area. Here's the worldwide weather report relatively normal weather patterns for this state in both hemispheres except for southern portions of Australia, where that arctic air is still playing havoc with their summer. The massive frontal system in Siberia is headed

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toward the Asian coast. Now bringing storms with it, European Jill Guard system continues to keep winter temperatures there in the comfort zone 18 of course their season's second harvest in the US last week's significant snowfalls in the rockies have been matched by some significant snowfall in

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the New England Mountains and temperatures in all the major urban areas will remain pleasant infrared analysis shows no major earthquake activity anywhere on the continents. Bay area weather will continue with low night and early morning overcast and moderate temperatures. By the way, all of us up

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here in Kansas are have decided that san Francisco is about the easiest job on the station. I hope all those mild days and cool nights are as pleasant for you as detailing them has been for me. We have a schedule change coming up tomorrow, which means

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that Lieutenant Engineer Bill Everett will be talking with you on the next broadcast. So bye bye Bay area and happy weather. There's sort of a modern day race between the horse and the locomotive going on at the Census Bureau These days one futurist computer against a

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giant pack of census taker. The computers forecast of the us population figure for the year 2000 was released today a full three months before census takers even begin the actual head count. Its prediction show a United States population of 263 million twice that at 1950 A

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California population of 27 million more than doubled since 1950. And most startling a bay area population of more than 6.2 million people up from 2.7 million in 1950. We'll know next year at this time how accurate those figures are. In the meantime, it's no wonder things

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seem a little crowded these days. There may be more people than ever, but fewer of them are voting In New York special gubernatorial election last month. Only 9% of eligible voters went to the polls. Harvard sociologist Amos Blood well says that's due to a feeling of

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powerlessness among people who see a single vote meaning less and less. As population figures rise In Cleveland, Ohio City fathers have succeeded in attracting a record number of voters 87% in the last election for mayor. Their secret is an electronic balloting process similar to that used

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in our home opinion poll that lets people vote from their living rooms As a drawback. However, Cleveland's new mayor is the third in 10 months. The new voting system apparently gives voters so much to say that it creates political chaos How to solve that problem. The

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city government in Cleveland has launched a $2 million dollar public relations campaign to get the voters to ease off using that voting button quite so often the percentage of Californians who own cars is going down tougher and tougher emission standards, astronomical fuel prices and heavy taxes

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have put cars far out of the reach of more and more and more people. An unexpected result of all this has been the emergence of a new breed of car in the California scene. The so called black market auto. Our investigative reporter Jan Stratton has been

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digging for the last month to find out what they're all about. This is where they come from. Some of them at least it took a while to talk them into letting us film here. I promised not to reveal the company's name or to show the faces

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of any of the employees here. The fiberglass bodies are being built that will fit snugly over the frames of outdated cars. Only the insides are the same, including old engines that still spit out illegally high amounts of noxious gasses. These black market cars look for all

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the world like new ones. They aren't exactly dirt cheap, but at around $9,000. They're less than half as expensive as anything new and legal. What are black market cars like, Just ask the man who owns one. Do you have any problems? A lot. It's not easy

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getting gas for one thing. I have to go to truck stops and other places where they have industrial fuel. This thing won't burn. What the other ones do you know, how much does your gas cost? No $5 or $6 a gallon plus a little extra to

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the dealer and not much more than regular fuel. Is it worth all the trouble? Why did you buy it? I need a car. They can say what they want about the busses and rails, but they're still not as good as they should be. Did you ever

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try to see four clients a day on inter metro? But what about the traffic? It's a nightmare. Sure. Sometimes it takes me an hour and a half in the middle of the day to get from pacific into South san Francisco. But it's better than busses. Don't

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you feel guilty about polluting the air with that old engine? Why? Because they made it so that only the rich can own cars. There's more cars than ever. More smog until they make it better. I got to compete. Why should I feel guilty just because I'm

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not rich. He's got a point so far are attempts to limit autos have only limited them to the upper-income brackets. And California still has more than 20 million cars to cope with this year. That plus a mass transit system that for many is too little too

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late is enough to make a lot of middle classes who are tired of waiting for the bus asked why not? This is jan strapped well despite cries and sighs from a lot of old timers. The bay area's inter city council today approved plans for residential high

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rises in two locations. The Presidio and Daly City. The two projects are vastly different. The procedural complex will consist of nearly 100 condominium apartments in three buildings. Each apartment will have a price tag of between $300 and $450,000. The Daly City project, on the other hand,

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will be modeled after similar buildings recently built in Los Angeles middle income rental housing for almost 30,000 people. Some planners are now predicting that Palo Alto and Mental Park will soon yield to the crunch with big buildings of their own. One small item with a big

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story behind it was the announcement today by Unocal, the United California Farming Association that it's purchased seven more farms in the san Joaquin Valley. Nothing too unusual about that. Of course, corporations have been consolidating farms for half a century, but after yesterday's sale, only one farm

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in the entire valley is left in private hands. Today, I visited John McKenzie, owner of that last 400 acres of land. Here's what I found He drives a tracker that's more than 30 years old. Like most of his equipment. It dates from another era in farming.

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Mackenzie used to be one of hundreds of independent farmers in this fertile valley. Now. He's the only one. The others have all been squeezed out by mounting pressures on farm production that made machinery like this cracker Hopelessly obsolete. I guess. I run a sort of museum

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here, not a farm, the place hasn't paid for itself in about 15 years. My real income is from some money I made back in the late 80s when I sold off 500 acres Because he doesn't depend on making profits. McKinsey still operates his farm much as

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he did 25 years ago when he bought most of his equipment. I asked what he thought about the changes in farming. Since then. Very expensive farming has gotten to be something it never was when I started in it. Now, it's like a factory job taking care

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of automatic planters and tenders and harvesters and all, personally, I'd rather grow food than fixed machines. That's why I'm still farming. Of course, a lot of other people used to live around here would like to have stuck to it too. It's too bad. So many of

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them got pushed out by the companies, but I guess there's nobody to blame for that. We need all the food we can get no matter what it takes to get it. Mckinsey also blames the developers for killing the family farm and causing the food shortage. Even

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after food started getting scarce, they kept building on the farmlands around here. That's where the pressure came from. It's just plain stupid. You can't feed more and more people with less and less land despite his harvest of dirt grown food. Mackenzie is feeling the effects of

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the food shortage. The main thing stealing people who don't like fake foods hell I can't blame him. But when they come around here, I can't let them have my produce either. I hate to do it. But shooting at an armor leg every now and then keeps

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things pretty much under control, John McKenzie is 76 years old. He figures he won't be able to farm much longer. I'd like my son to take the place but he don't want it. I'd hate to see it. Go to the company's though. Maybe I can make

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it into a real museum. You know, show kids what things were like before farming got turned into an assembly line won't be many places left where they can see it soon. The family farm, like so many other american traditions will be lost in history. But in

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the meantime john McKenzie will keep that tradition alive. We'll be back with more news in just a moment. Think about it. The last small farm in the san Joaquin valley Vanishing ways of american life. You know, watching this fictionalized newscast from the year 2000 has a

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special impact on somebody like me who reports the news on a daily basis. It kind of reminds me of what a pessimistic view of the world we get from a single newscast really, we like to report the positive things, the new developments but a typical news

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program is made up of problems and crises and catastrophes and people in one kind of trouble or another. Of course in our newscast of the year 2000 we could have predicted automated highways, a cure for cancer perhaps. Or even that minorities were finally getting their rightful

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share of the American pie. But if you're like me, you might have sat back and said, great. So things are all going to turn out alright time, technology, government or some person behind a computer is going to solve all of our problems. Unfortunately, most of the

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experts we talked to really don't believe it's going to happen quite that way. And that's why we chose the predictions and the stories we did really not to depress you, but to try to get your concern and hopefully involved. I'll be back to tell you how

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to put that concern into action after this final installment of eyewitness news, year 2000 coming right up after these announcements. Mhm, mm hmm. Mhm. We've established our tell a killer hook up now with san Francisco Mayor Horace, Devonshire. Devonshire. Yes. Jim, I'm ready. Go ahead. Your

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honor. Are you aware of the events today at the Villa Mane market? Yes, I am. What's your reaction? I was appalled Jim. Is that all at the moment? That's enough. It was a totally unnecessary event that damaged people and property. Any comment on the poor people's

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union charges that you could get real food to them. I'll comment instead on that phrase. Real food. Every person in this city has access to 100% of the nutrients required for human health, anybody or group that tries to imply that factory produced foods are inferior to

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dirt grown foods is wrong. And in the case of the so called PP you maliciously. So could you comment on the use of the sound guns a few moments ago by the police? Let me have a chance to study the reports before I say anything about

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that. Well, haven't those guns been proven to cause permanent hearing damage? I'll comment when it's time. Jim did you know the police were going to use them against the PP you today? I'm the mayor, not the chief of police. Perhaps you'd better ask him questions about

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that or talk to the people who were terrorized by those marauders so they can tell you more about what happened down there than I can. I have no further comment. Jim Goodnight. Well, it's uh been a kind of a jumpy night for remote coverage. We've we've

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had a few surprises and I I guess we might have a few more in a couple of minutes. We'll have another live hook up this time with liberal congressman James Blackburn. The financially strapped inter metro Transportation Authority has announced another rate increase despite the protests of

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millions of families for whom the system is. The only means of transportation. The increase will bring the cost of the shortest ride to almost $2. Yet it will still leave a system deficit estimated at more than $3 million dollars this quarter. And now we're going to

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switch to the newsroom at the north san Francisco airport in marin county where congressman James Blackburn is giving a statement of some sort on this afternoon's food riots. And I've said before that ever since san Francisco ran out middle class residents with high taxes and that's

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exactly what happened. The gap between rich and poor there has been wider than in any other bay area city. So in that regard the poor people's union as they were cut out for them. But and I must be brief my friends. The plane is waiting on

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me. I'm afraid the PP US off based on this real food business, those people eat something, whether it's the best or not. Don't they realize that 27 million people in South Asia have died so far this year from having nothing to eat. They starve and nine

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million more in South America and still more in africa. Our citizens are fortunate to have any food at all right now. Given and history of mass starvation the world over. Thank you for giving me a chance to comment. Sorry, no more time. Other politicians around the

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country respond more positively than he did Chicago area. Inter borough President Rodney Springer called the Maley quote, the latest outcry of one quarter of the american people who deeply resent another basic human right access to real food, becoming the exclusive property of the wealthy in greater

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new york. Council of Mayors. President mildred Addington said the disturbance was quote more than justified by san Francisco's widening gap between rich and poor and its failure to deal with the problem of the people who have no political voice. Well, fish and birds are now just

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about the only pets left for san Franciscans. The city Health Department yesterday added turtles, hamsters and guinea pigs to the long list of disease carrying or food consuming animals that can no longer be bread or maintained privately. In the city, the city zoo has added the

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species to its museum of domestic pets where pet lovers such as these Can still share a moment or two with a kitten or a puppy. The results of our electronic poll is in and it looks like a mild thumbs down for United States entry into the

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Association of World Governments With 172,000 viewers responding to the question, 53% said no. These results of the poll will be verified and sent to the National Bureau of Opinion for those who voted thanks for taking part. Now there's a lot to comment on on today's news.

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It's almost too much the possibility of a nuclear confrontation over food. People having to leave our cities because the air and the water are unfit for humans shortages and everything from real food the box side and gasoline plans to build high rises in the procedure. I'm

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not going to give you my two cents in any of these directly. Instead, I'm going to take a few moments to mention a personal anniversary. You know, it's funny how we we take arbitrary times like New Year's or anniversaries or something or another to take a

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few moments out of the rat race to think however fleetingly of where we've been and where we might be going This year 2000 has been such a time for our country Looking forward to the 21st century. The last one I can remember it was my first

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year in the news business, A small television station in Columbia Missouri 25 years ago. Remember that was the United States 200th birthday. There was a lot of looking back to Independence Hall and Valley Forge and the founding fathers. But there was a lot of looking forward

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to but I'm afraid we as a country didn't listen to the forward looking for the forward lookers as we should have. There were people around who were saying the right things, but we just didn't want to hear them. They told us that we were running out

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of resources to filing our environment all in the name of growth and that we were going to have to tighten our belts, do more with less think of the real environmental and human costs of things. They told us we needed to decide on priorities. Make plans

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and look at the whole problems instead of little isolated segments of them. They made some impact, but but not enough. And we as a country and as a world have muddled through. We haven't blown ourselves up yet. Which is amazing. But there's a lot of the

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items on the news run down tonight that just didn't have to happen if we had built that mass transit when we should have instead of waiting until the car strangled us to death if we well, I could go on and on. It's easy with the virtue

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of hindsight to see where we went wrong. Well, we've got a harder job facing us now. We have the 21st century to plan. So this time let's listen to the experts with their computers and their optimistic forecasts. But you and I have to get involved too.

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Tell those experts, thank you very much for your educated guesses. But we the people will set the priorities, make the plans and most importantly, the value judgments about what kind of world we want for our Children and ourselves. I'm jim miller for eyewitness news. Good evening.

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Well there you have it. One version of what life could be like in the year 2000. This program was one of the hundreds that could have been written really all based on some expert guesses about what is possible, what could happen in the next 25 years.

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We believe the future really is the same way. But there are still countless tomorrows we can create and that's what this we the people project is all about. It's based on the hope that if we can get together now and work together on the problems facing

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us, then we'll be able to make that essential first step towards finding some of those solutions. After the first broadcast of this program, last october hundreds of letters from you told us about what you thought were the major challenges facing us here in the bay Area.

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They are the economy, the environment, education and crime and criminal justice. Each week, during the month of january, we're calling it we the people month on KPI X. We'll examine one of those challenges in a primetime television special and those programs will try to present several

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possible solutions in ways of attacking those problems. And then Channel five along with the League of Women voters, the California Council for the Humanities and Public Policy and a steering committee literally jam packed with community leaders, will sponsor a series of town meetings throughout the bay

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area. At those meetings, you'll be able to learn more about the problems and you're also going to be asked to vote again. But this time on the solutions either the ones brought out in the television programs or maybe your group will come up with a better

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idea of your own. If you'd rather have a small meeting in your home to watch the programs and fill out the ballots with your neighbors. Well that's fine too. After we get that second set of ballots will report on what you have decided and then and

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this is the important part will help you take action. Will it be a bill that needs to be introduced a new way to save gas? Who knows? Frankly, we don't really know how it's all going to end, but it'll never even get started if you don't

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participate. Now, let me be just a little bit more specific on what's coming up and how you can get involved personally. First of all the next we the people broadcast on Channel five will be next Wednesday january 14th at eight p.m. The topic is the economy

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and the environment, invite your neighbors to join watching these programs and have an informal discussion in your home. Then on thursday night go to the public meetings in your area to discuss and maybe hone down some workable solutions. If you want to know where these meetings

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are being held in the nine Bay area counties. Call this number 543-7000 people are standing by those phones right now. You'll also be able to get background packets of the program, topics free of charge. Now, as I mentioned before, there's one more important way for you

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to participate, especially for those of you who cannot attend the public meetings. We want you to pick up a ballot and vote on the policy choices set forth in each of the upcoming programs. There's a ballot printed in next week's tv guide. You can pick one

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up at any of the Kentucky fried chicken, Imperial savings and broadens locations. It might help you if you have a ballot in front of you when you watch the program next Wednesday night at eight o'clock and fill it out and mail it to we. The people

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Box 500 san Francisco California, ZIP code 94101. Then keep watching Channel five each week. The other programs on education and crime, we'll be reporting the results of our balloting and what happens next in March. Let's celebrate the bicentennial together with a big step forward in our

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country's long march toward a government of by for we, the people. I'm stan borman, Good night everybody. Mm hmm. Mhm. Mhm. Okay, mm hmm. Mhm. Right, mm hmm. Has been working. Mhm, mm hmm. Yeah. Mm hmm, mm hmm. Mhm. Yes. Okay.