DISCRIMINATION ALLEGATION IN L.A. FIRE DEPARTMENT; IRAN ANNOUNCES IT HAS ENRICHED URANIUM; GAME OF SHADOWS: STEROIDS IN PROFESSIONAL SPORTS
DISCRIMINATION ALLEGATION IN L.A. FIRE DEPARTMENT
The Los Angeles Fire Commission held a public hearing Tuesday regarding City Controller Laura Chick's audit of the LA Fire Department. Larry and his guests discuss the hearing and the audit, which found cases of discrimination against women and people of color within the LA City Fire Dept.
IRAN ANNOUNCES IT HAS ENRICHED URANIUM
Defying international will, Iran is moving toward large-scale uranium enrichment. Iran insists it's interested only in nuclear energy but the U.N. Security Council has demanded that it stop all enrichment activity, suspecting the program really aims to make nuclear weapons. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said today the U.N. Security Council must consider ``strong steps'' to induce Tehran to change course. At the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said he would not engage in ``fantasy land'' speculation about a possible U.S. attack on Iran, though he said the administration was concerned about Tehran's nuclear ambitions. ``The United States of America is on a diplomatic track,'' Rumsfeld said. His comments came after a flurry following a story in this week’s New Yorker magazine by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. Hersh wrote that despite public claims of a commitment to diplomatic solution to the Iran problem, the Bush Administration has secretly intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Larry Mantle talks with experts about the pros and cons of different diplomatic and military approaches to the Iran problem.
GAME OF SHADOWS: STEROIDS IN PROFESSIONAL SPORTS
In December 2004, after more than a year of investigation, two San Francisco Chronicle reporters, Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, broke the story of BALCO. The Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative was a nutritional supplement company that, according to sworn testimony, was supplying banned drugs to elite athletes. The exposes led to Congressional hearings on baseball’s drug problems. Larry talks with Williams, co-author of Game of Shadows; Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports about the investigation he and Fainaru-Wada undertook and what they discovered.