Writers Guild of America Calls A Strike; Pakistan In Turmoil; Al Qaeda And The Road To 9/11; Red White Black and Blue
Writers Guild of America Calls A Strike
Writers and producers gathered for negotiations Sunday, at the request of a federal mediator, in a final attempt to settle their differences. The two sides met for nearly 11 hours, but at the end of the day the Writers Guild announced the strike had begun. In Los Angeles, writers have plans to picket 14 studio locations in four-hour shifts from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day until a new deal is reached, beginning today. Writers' demands for a bigger slice of DVD profits and revenue from the distribution of films and TV shows over the Internet has been a key issue. Larry talks with Brian Watt, KPCC reporter, Marc Lacter, contributor to Los Angeles Magazine, and Jack Amiel, television and film writer.
Pakistan In Turmoil
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has imposed "emergency rule" in Pakistan and thousands of protestors have been arrested and taken into custody. The Bush Administration has urged a return to civilian rule, but the call is being ignored. What is happening in Pakistan, and how will it affect U.S.-Pakistan relations. Larry talks with Laura King, L.A. Times Bureau Chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Philip J. Crowley, Senior Fellow and Director of Homeland Security at the Center for American Progress, and Don Belt, senior editor and international correspondent at National Geographic.
Al Qaeda And The Road To 9/11
The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright's gripping narrative spanning five decades, explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of Al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author follows FBI counterterrorism chief John O'Neill as he uncovers the emerging danger from Al-Qaeda in the 1990s and struggles to track this new threat. Just published in paperback, The Looming Tower was a National Book Award Finalist, a Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. Lawrence Wright joins Larry Mantle to talk about the history of Al-Qaeda and the events and personalities that led to the 9/11 disaster.
Red White Black and Blue
A very small percentage of Americans have heard of Alaska's Attu Island. Fewer still know that on June 7, 1942 the island was invaded by Japan. The following year U.S. troops attempted to take it back. Sixty years later Bill Jones and Andy Petrus, two of the men who served on Attu, traveled back to the Aleutian Island battlefield with filmmaker Tom Putnam. Larry talks with Putnam and Bill Jones about the brutal 19-day battle that the American government kept secret.