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I'm live Garcia Navarro good morning the Democrats are the latest party to deal with sexual harassment while Republicans fight over Senate candidate one more fitness for office will all these scandals affect the polls though I will ask a senior political writer for 538 dot com Also we'll talk to a young man who lives on 100000 dollars a year sounds sweet right turns out not if you are saddled with student debt we'll have his story and we'll look at how the proposed g.o.p. Tax plan could affect private university endowments some with billions of dollars it's Sunday November 19th and the headlines are coming up next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington and Giles Snider Simm Bob Noyce rulings on a p.f. Party is asserting itself the party voted this morning to replace President Robert Mugabe as party leader with the country's fired fice president ever someone Agoglia Mugabe had sacked Monaco Well last week while Gabi still holds the presidency but the pressure to remove him from office is growing the B.B.C.'s Andrew Harding reports it's not clear though how that will happen there is a very keen desire had to have the thought of veneer of legality in all this and it's fascinating to see how people are trying to find the right words to explain what is already simply a fact Mr Mugabe has been kicked out and the law and the political process has still to catch up with that so he could be through impeachment it could be that Mr Mugabe simply resigns or it could be a more long term process of popular pressure political pressure and eventually he simply becomes irrelevant to the B.B.C.'s Andrew Harding in Harare the ruling party Mugabe once led has given him until noon tomorrow to resign the presidency or face impeachment the commander of u.s. Nuclear forces says he would refuse a presidential order to launch nuclear weapons if there were was determined to be illegal to incur Project reports or comments were made during a panel discussion this weekend at the International Security Forum and Halifax u.s. Air Force General John Hiten says he's discussed the issue with President Trump about what would happen if Trump asked him to carry out a nuclear strike believed to be illegal under international law provide advice to the president he'll tell me what to do and if it's and if it's illegal guess what's going to happen I'm going to say Mr President so we're going guess what he's going to do he's going to say what would be legal and we'll come up with options of a mix of capabilities to respond to whatever the situation is and that's the way it works heighten says he's trained each year in the laws of armed conflict and guided by principles that include necessity. When he says he would not obey an illegal order to do so would mean jail for life in the event of war heighten would command all u.s. Nuclear forces for n.p.r. News I'm Dan carpenter to Turkey now prosecutors investigating u.s. Attorneys trying a Turkish Iranian gold trader on charges of conspiring to evade u.s. Sanctions on Iran N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon reports the Istanbul prosecutor's office is opening the probe into the American prosecutors who built the case against raises a robin others who allegedly enable Turkey to evade sanctions on doing business with Iran Turkey's president has called the case political and former justice minister bigger both says x. New York u.s. Attorney Preet Bharara is an ally of u.s. Based cleric fit to live Glenn The government accuses Glenn of backing a failed coup last year as Arab and other defendants including Turkish bankers in the former finance minister could face prison terms of up to 15 years if convicted Peter Kenyon n.p.r. News Istanbul and this is n.p.r. . Arab foreign ministers gathering in Cairo today for an emergency meeting amid the political crisis in Lebanon they're holding a meeting at the urging of Saudi Arabia regional tensions have spiked between Saudi Arabia and rival Iran or Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri is resignation also the conflict in Yemen the people of Chile going to the polls today to elect a new president in P.R.'s Philip Reeves says they are choosing between 8 contenders this elections to decide who will replace chill Ace 1st female president Michelle Bachelet she's held the office twice and can't run in this contest because Chile's Constitution forbids consecutive terms the presidency was model over the last few years by a sluggish economy and a scandal involving her family politically on the left surveys suggest Chileans could now be about to tilt once again to the right the clear favorite is the conservative billionaire businessman Sebastien Pena who's already served one term as president and in 2014 posters place the 67 year old Pineda well ahead of the 7 other candidates he may not have enough support though to secure an outright victory which would mean a 2nd round next month Philip Reeves n.p.r. News German Chancellor Angela Merkel making what's being described as a final push to form a new coalition government miracle's conservative bloc holding talks with 2 smaller parties today an alliance would allow Americal to govern for a 4th term after her conservative suffered losses in September's the Lakshman Thursday's initial deadline passed without an agreement sticking points are said to include migration issues and climate change and night are n.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include the Jack can cook Foundation providing scholarships throughout the nation to exceptionally high performing students with financial need from middle school to college more information about Cook's scholarships is available at j.k. C.f. Dot org. As the Republican Party decides what to do about Roy Moore faces an important question What has higher standard of behavior the u.s. Senate or an Alabama shopping mall in the 1900 metres say We'll explore that existential dilemma with Paula Poundstone Mo Rocca and special guest panelists John Hodgman and this week's wait wait don't tell me the news quiz from n.p.r. This morning in 9 a 91.5. Southern Colorado's n.p.r. Station. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Luke Good morning Republicans and now Democrats are grappling with claims of sexual misconduct in their ranks Meanwhile the largest overhaul of the tax code in recent memory is rapidly moving through Congress these are both hugely important issues and to talk about them we have Claire Malone She's senior political writer for 538 dot com Claire Welcome to the program Good morning great to be here so I'm going to start with Roy Moore the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama right now there are several polls that show that Democrat Doug Jones is ahead so with the caveat that polls have been known to be misleading. Just a little didn't Roy and more allegations come far enough before the election to swing the vote or people just not telling pollsters the truth because to loaded subject. Well I think that Roy Moore was already pretty unpopular with a certain part of the Republican electorate and Alabama so yes solid support among people who have known him for years and like what he's doing but if you're a Republican who voted for Luther Strange who is his primary opponent you you might be making the choice of Do I sit at home or do I go out and vote for Doug Jones and I think what I'll really you know and upswing in the election these are these Republican voters who really just find what more did a bridge too far they already didn't like and now this is just beyond the pale for them so I do think you know in the polling average. It's not great for for really more at all so we might definitely see a change and I think Alabama being rated a toss up is kind of a crazy thing to see yeah from a political point of view deep red state All right let's talk about the Democratic side of this issue a Senate Democrat Al Franken accused of groping and forcibly kissing Leeann Tweeden a radio news anchor Frank in the sense apologized and called for an ethics investigation of himself there's been widespread condemnation are the Democrats dealing with this differently than the Republicans. Well they you know the national the national public and party has condemned Roy Moore and Democrats haven't gone that far obviously Al Franken and Roy are cues to doing very different things and Democrats you know he's a sitting senator there I think there's some sense of collegiality that is felt and so they've while leading Democrats have said you know this is wrong we think that there should be an ethics investigation they haven't called for Franken to resign right which I do think is is quite interesting I mean I also say I kind of thought well maybe given the Roy Moore allegations in the current climate in the country they might say he should resign we've got a Democratic governor in Minnesota they can take moral high ground Yeah but that's that's not that's not what's happening and I think you know one thing we are seeing in the. Very partisan times is that sometimes you want your team to win and you know there's there are certain you want you want to maintain calm in the Senate I think that's a little bit what is what is going on is allowing Franken to stay even as there might be some some doubts about you know the morality of that among Democrats Ok Let's talk taxes the latest g.o.p. Tax plan sailed through the House of Representatives this week it's now in the Senate what will be the greatest challenge there could it fail there or is it likely to pass they need it when well they already have the Republicans already have some problems going on because with even some of the most conservative members so you've got Ron Johnson from Wisconsin who's already said I won't vote for this bill in the way it stands someone like Susan Collins objects to the fact that the repeal of the individual mandate health care mandate has been attached to this bill so while it passed through the house pretty easily the Senate is an incredibly different climate you people like Bob Corker and Jeff Flake who are a little bit of you know they're sticking in the craw of Republican leadership because they're not doing their Yeah yes yes they're saying hey this is not going to reduce the deficit why are we going to vote for this so right yeah they don't want to see this necessarily pass either yeah it's also an incredibly unpopular bill with the public you know it's seen largely is not helping the middle class and polls and so I think you know the fact that the individual mandate was attached to this bill means that Republicans are cognizant that they need to do something to sort of. Get their base to to accept it a bit more but I think it's a bit of a slog and they they feel like they need to pass this in order to satisfy their donors but they're also facing the fact that their voters might not really like this tax bill just briefly we'll have a few seconds but if you had to say if this bill does not pass how how how much of a how much is it going to hurt the g.o.p. I think quite a bit there's already a bad atmosphere for Republicans going into the midterm elections and I think the fact that they haven't accomplished a major piece of legislation will really hurt them quite a bit all right that was clear Malone senior political writer for 538 dot com Thanks Claire thanks so much Bill and Hillary Clinton returned to Little Rock this weekend to the place where Bill Clinton claimed victory in the 3 way race for president 25 years ago but as Bobby Amazon from Arkansas public media reports all anyone talked about was the most recent presidential election and most recent Democratic candidate. Bill Clinton's presidential campaigns for forever be connected to Fleetwood Mac's $977.00 hit Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow. I think Saturday night though suggests the Clintons can't stop thinking about last year Bill and Hillary Clinton recalled both elections and his presidency alongside moderator James Carville before a crowd of several 1000 inside Little Rock's convention center Here's Hillary Clinton speaking about her husband's involvement in the Irish peace process he asked George Mitchell to be the negotiator It went on for years there was nothing fast and easy about it he didn't tweet about it he got to work about it and he actually got it was Clinton got several barbs in a President Trump though she didn't say his name you know I want to keep speaking out apparently you know my former opponent is obsessed with my speaking out. Apparently there was another Somebody told me tweet today in the audience that Chicago mayor and former Clinton staffer Ron. Emmanuel Clinton White House political director Craig Smith and photographer Sharon farmer and a few former cabinet secretaries were there too both Clintons reflected on Bill's political legacy but it was Hillary who did the lion's share of the speaking and got the most enthusiastic attention from Carville the 92 campaigns chief strategist so. I think it is an elephant. Carville was referring there to last year's election loss but a few reporters said afterward they hope the elephant in the room was Bill Clinton's past specifically his sexual misconduct which roared back into the American consciousness last year during the election and it persists to this day following new stories in allegations targeting other high profile politicians Republican and Democrat alike but the Clintons didn't take audience questions or make themselves available to the press and many supporters said afterward they didn't think the night's q. And a would broach the topic the Clintons made no mention of their political plans for the future Hillary Clinton has formed a political organization and were together and the couple expects the Democrats to surge during the 2018 midterms just as the Republicans did in Bill Clinton's 1st term as president for n.p.r. News I'm Bobby Amazon in Little Rock political violence continues in Kenya 4 people were killed overnight and a member of parliament was shot in the leg today in confrontations with police it all comes just a day before an important Supreme Court decision about the country's presidential election and p.r.s. Joins us now from Nairobi Good morning good morning Lou All right let's start with this violence what do you hearing a bad night from again the country because it's just really tense I mean overnight there were 4 people killed in an area that opposition heavy and this morning we heard accusations that they were shot to death because of their tribe the police chief says that's just not true and that politicians are using that to incite violence but either way the killings have unleashed riots in some parts of Nairobi . The people have set cars and buses on fire and in some other areas there's looting and some residents have set up checkpoints where they're asking for id basically trying to confirm tribe so there's running battles right now with police and a member of parliament from the opposition party was shot in the leg during one of those confrontations and that's just likely to inflame tensions even more right and of course this is coming before this very important case before the Supreme Court this is the 2nd time the Supreme Court is deciding on a very important issue whether or not to nullify the election again right yeah if you remember this same court threw out the 1st presidential elections back in August and they said that they found too many irregularities so they ordered new ones those were helpless month and now the court is deciding whether that election met the constitutional standards there's a lot of questions before the court but the central one has to do with violence the Kenyan constitution says that elections have to be held in an atmosphere that is free from intimidation and free from violence but just before these elections the opposition leader pulled out of the contest and on election day itself a lot of his supporters boycott it but they also threw rocks and they intimidated people coming to the polls it was so bad in about 10 percent of the country that polls didn't even open so it's clear there was violence and there wasn't imitation but the government is asking the court not to throw out these elections because they say it will set the country on a path to a perpetual election season and we've already been at this for 3 months and the lawyer for president who was declared the winner in both of these elections also is arguing that it will send a message to the opposition that they can use violence anytime they want to invalidate elections do we have any idea which way the chordal come down on this no I mean not really we are in uncharted territory here in Kenya. When the court threw out the 1st case it was the 1st time an African court threw out the victory of a sitting president so you know this court has shown courage and independence but the ground has shifted the judges have been openly intimidated and one of their bodyguards was shot last month so they're under intense pressure and who knows how they will rule I think what we know for sure is that whatever they decide it's bound to have serious consequences on the streets That's N.P.R.'s 8 approached to in Nairobi thank you so much thank you look. You're listening to n.p.r. 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There's a growing number of Defense Industry insiders lending top jobs at the Pentagon some happened to be from the Pentagon's biggest customers and that led to a bipartisan beating up at a confirmation hearing this week and P.R.'s David Welner has a story John Rood is a senior vice president at Lockheed Martin international charged with boosting the company's sales abroad so at Rude's Thursday confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee to be the Pentagon's top policy official Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren wanted to be sure he would steer clear of Lockheed you've signed the White House ethics pledge which requires you to recuse yourself from all matters involving your former employer Lockheed for 2 years but the ethics laws currently in place permit you to apply for a waiver from that recusal So will you commit not to seek such a waiver during your time in office Roods reply was neither yes nor a no I plan to live by that very scrupulously by the ethics agreement of sort of the Office of Government Ethics will you agree not to ask for a waiver that agreement that I've signed at the office of government if they're going to take that out as Warren went on to note that Ruud would be overseeing policy on foreign military sales the kind of sales he sought as an executive at Lockheed Roods answer got him in deeper trouble I will of financially divest it myself of all financial I'm I'm asking you the Ashton will you recuse yourself from policy discussion route I was rude I suggest you change the question to this Senator yes yes you Mr Chairman that was Committee Chairman John McCain joining the fray Warren again try getting an answer from rude and she was clearly not satisfied I don't understand when the answer isn't just yes or no do I suggest you answer the question or you're going to have trouble getting through this committee. It was obvious the Arizona Republican added that rude was ducking warns questions I don't like your answers most of us don't like your answers will be given you written questions and I suggest that you answer them thoroughly and completely Ok yes sir with that scolding McCain turned to his Democratic colleague and thanked her center warn I am glad you raised it because one of my major concerns has been the big 5 and the rotating back and forth between government and business Lockheed Martin is the biggest of the big 5 firms selling arms to the Pentagon Raytheon is also in that group and yet on Wednesday McCain voted to confirm Raytheon's top Washington lobbyist Marc esper as secretary of the army at espers confirmation hearing earlier this month McCain noted that esper had unequivocal a promise to have nothing to do with his former employer I appreciate your commitment not only to recuse yourself from matters related to the Raytheon company but further not to seek or accept waivers to your recusal obligation John Rood might well heed those words if he's to save his troubled nomination 70 percent of the Pentagon's Senate confirmed positions remain unfilled 10 months into the Trump presidency David Wohl n.p.r. 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Congress has been working on an extensive overhaul of America's tax system one question at the heart of the tax debate is which Americans need the most help who should get tax cuts last week we brought you the 1st in a series of conversations about economic life in America today we've been talking with people who make $100000.00 per year an amount that might seem like a fortune but as we heard from Teresa Haar and many others it can still be hard to feel financially secure I want my children to be able to access a few of the better things in life I don't expect them to be rich but I would like them to not be poor I see that my daughter and her husband are also struggling and that their main struggle is that they have student loans and those student loans are crippling Americans have almost $1.00 trillion dollars in student debt and average student loans are in the tens of thousands of dollars that means that even if you're a single person just out of college making an excellent salary what Taylor Haiti is about to say might feel very familiar that fear was so real for me and there's this is now on to a pile of debt and not knowing if I was ever going to pay you know Haiti is 26 he lives by himself in Seattle and makes around $100000.00 a year selling scientific equipment he knows it's a lot of money because he hasn't always had as much it's been a big lifestyle change having grown up in a small rural Texas family. So does it feel like you're making enough money what's it like to live off that kind of money in Seattle I feel like I'm doing fine I pay my bills I meet my basic needs if you rent I can eat there of course things that still get me as I like buying a home or paying off debt like student loans or making friends and day and that you know still keep me up at night. Let me sort of understand have a picture of your life. What does your lifestyle cost you your young guy obviously you want to join life right so I've become a unique job a travel for a living I've spent maybe 150 nights in hotels this year alone so my apartment is just a place a very expensive storage unit and I'm home I don't cook things go bad in my refrigerator when I moved to Seattle I searched for days I went to every apartment building I could and walked in over 40 of them to ask what apartments they had available and I found the cheapest one and it's very small and I'm paying 650 in rent and because I have a car for work I pay $250.00 a month for a parking spot so tolls out to about $900.00 a month. What makes you feel that you're sort of squeezed What is it that gives you that anxiety for me is not being able to save at the rate that I want to say that it still feels like that account balance never grows and I felt like I hadn't Has it really grown since I moved to Seattle and there is this big Supreme desire for me to stop what feels like dumping money down and do a trash can and paying rent but never being home to buying and even to take advantage of certain tax saver abilities like the mortgage interest deduction things like that that can change your financial situation as time goes on so you mentioned soon learn so much of a chunk is that I was very lucky I got out and 4 and a half years with only about $35000.00 in student debt my minimum payment when I started was around $450.00 to $500.00 a month and now I'm only sitting at about $20000.00 into loans but that's still a lot it's very scary when you don't have job security my company recently went through a vertical merger and having my mom gone through that when I was a kid and been laid off though she was a v.p. Level type person fear was so real for me and there's this this noun thing pile of debt and not knowing if I was ever going to pay it off it was very very scary so what tax issue you most focused on in this bill. This is such. This is so challenging you know like I said having grown up in rural Texas there's this internal conflict to me in being intoxicated with financial success or my financial situation of having grown up in rural Texas and experienced real financial hardship and not knowing your parents and knowing how they were going to put food on the table and now I'm one of those coastal elites a term you know that people in Middle America use and it feels like betrayal but what I've learned in moving to the coast is there is real inequality and the biggest driver of that inequality is the tax code and the biggest social welfare has been to the rich and powerful giving them loopholes and abilities to keep money from the government and keep money from the rest of us that was tailor havey of Seattle Washington and next week we hear from a dad in St Paul about how budgeting for a family of 5 forced a tough decision have 2 incomes and one is essentially dedicated to daycare or have one income and a stay at home parent. The tax plan passed by House Republicans on Thursday would tax large endowments at private colleges last year university endowments the money that universities raise an investor secure their financial health grew on average by almost 13 percent fewer than $100.00 schools would be affected by the provision but they include many of the country's most recognizable including Harvard Yale and Princeton and tiny Grinnell College in Iowa it's a liberal arts school with $7800.00 students and a $1800000000.00 nest egg I'm joined in the studio by Raynard Kington who's president of canal thank you for being here thank you for inviting me so you have come out publicly against taxing endowments make your case well 1st of all I think it's based on sort of an incomplete notion of what we used endowments for what do you use and for so good now over half our budget 55 percent of our budget comes from on down so we use our environment to actually reduce the costs to students and I think there's this impression that schools with large environments are exclusive elitist schools often New England and and actually we're a very diverse group of schools and many of our schools on that list are one among the most prestigious and productive and. Intellectually among the leading institutions in the world so that's one too many of those institutions many answers including We're now have made extraordinary progress in providing aid to students so while the the sort of official price tag on many this of the schools is pretty high when you look at the net price many of the best value schools the schools that every year are listed as best values on that list and why are they on the list because they give lots of aid so how much aid do you give for example last year we gave almost $50000000.00 of our internal resources for aid so . Between 25 percent and a 3rd of all of our students had enough grant aid from the college for 4 to 8 should be free why is that possible because we have this and damage that we use to underwrite the cost and to provide opportunities for students Ok you have as you mentioned and the Roman of $700.00 students with an endowment of $1800000000.00 that's more than a $1000000.00 per student the government only wants to take 1.4 percent in this proposal Well 1st of all 1.4 percent may seem like a small percent but but that is every dollar there takes dollars away from students it takes away either from the quality of education experience or from our ability to offer aid and we do this as a public good we do it for students from all over the country we have met need blind so we have met students without even considering how much they can pay and we're able to do that because of these resources and we're not unique right but you know if you look at something like Harvard and Yale they have an endowment of a combined $60000000000.00 I mean that's an astronomical amount of money and in fact by being tax free Aren't we the taxpayer subsidizing these elite universities that are hardly hurting for income I mean we all paying for it you're all paying for it and you're also getting all the benefits how so many of these institutions there are 2 groups one are the research in terms of institutions and those resources are used to get medical cures to train lawyers and teachers and social workers so you're you're investing in addition to training those people you're underwriting the costs of research that takes place in those institutions as well so I think the American people get a great bargain with these and down but isn't there something broken in the system or the business model that a tiny liberal arts college can only be competitive because of its $1000000000.00 endowment. And other small schools like McIntosh have to close there's no question that many of our schools are facing real challenges of the basic business model and we have a lot of resources but most of our resources came from investing well and not spending over a long period of time other schools have different patterns so the with us it allows us to provide a 1st rate world renowned education of small classes extraordinary teachers and then allows us to make that education available without regard to ability to pay and to students who have huge needs so it is is it is this ideal circumstance I don't know but it's the world that we have now and it allows us to take those resources way just doesn't make sense it really is taking away resources that vet benefit the public Rainer Kington is the president of going to college thank you so much for coming in at my pleasure to be here. 'd 'd And you're listening to Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News. And 8th grade class trip to Washington d.c. Can often be the highlight of great school see the White House Member of Congress but students from North Ridge will City school district outside of Cleveland Ohio were notified recently their d.c. Trip was canceled administrators called it off because of fears of a terrorist attack or a mass shooting District Superintendent Jim Powell had to make the decision and he joins us now from even Ohio to talk about it welcome to the program thank you so that must have been a tough call very tough Yes Can you give us a sense of why you decided to make it. Start of the school year we had parent meetings and we had several parents express concerns about the safety of the trip you know it's an 8 hour trip sending kids away from from their homes he was going to be on a bus by road yes on a bus on the road so we had a lot of parents expressing concern over the safety of the trip is this unusual though I mean I'm imagine that these class trips take place every year why are so many parents deciding that their kids shouldn't go. The other issue that has come up the incident in Manhattan where the person drove up on the walking trail down near the World Trade Center Yes You know as students walk in Washington they walk along the road and there's nothing keeping them from. From the traffic so our teachers were concerned about that mask use or is this the 1st time you've ever had to cancel a trip like this of these fears it is not one I was not superintendent I was actually the system superintendent. That was I was in a different district at that time but yes a lot of districts canceled trips for students back when 911 occurred right after September 11th and yeah terrorist attack yes ma'am. We've seen incidence can occur just about anywhere whether in a small town or a big city and they're not just about terrorism you know in California just this past week a shooter got into a kindergarten and what saved the kids was that they had a protocol that they went on lockdown do you do you have those protocols in place in your school district we certainly do yes yes is there a sense though that this really could happen anywhere. Certainly have that sense and I worry about it all the time. It's a little easier to control if they're in their home where there are typically at whether that be the school or either their home environment but you're exactly right were you surprised that this should come up now I mean is the world so different today than it was a year ago 2 years ago that people feel the need to really hold or kids at home keep them safe. I'm not judging anyone enough if they feel that way they feel that way it's surprising to me I've gone to Washington d.c. And I've taken all my kids so it's I think they feel like this is my responsibility as a parent I'll do it at least I know my kids are safe and it's not falling on the responsibility of people that are not not their parents so if that's their choice I totally understand that Jim Pal is the superintendent of the North Ridgeville school district in Ohio thank you very much for joining us today you're very welcome. This is n.p.r. News. 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I'm Joel Snyder with these headlines voters in New Orleans have elected the city's 1st woman mayor returns from this weekend's election show Democratic city council member Latoya Cantrell won the race to succeed term limited Mayor Mitch Landrieu voters in Chile are choosing a new president today there are 8 contenders with the favored being former president Sebastian Pinera But polls suggest he will not win enough votes to avoid a runoff and the Irish politician Gerry Adams says he will step down as leader of Sinn Fein and will not run in Ireland's next parliamentary election Adams announced his decision of the party's annual conference in Dublin this weekend. On Trial smiter n.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from this station and from Carnegie Corporation of New York supporting innovations in education democratic engagement and the advancement of international peace and security more information is available online at Carnegie dot org from c 3 i.o.t. Enabling corporate and industrial digital transformation with artificial intelligence cloud computing and Io t. Big data software solutions learn more at c 3 dot com and from the listeners who support this n.p.r. Station. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm the Garcia Navarro Thanksgiving is just days away and there's a lot of shopping and dusting and defrosting to be done before the rest of the family come over for the big feast so much on the To Do list but let's just pause for a moment take a breather and of course play the puzzle. Joining me as always is Will Shortz he's puzzle editor of The New York Times and Weekend Edition's puzzle master Will good morning good morning Lou So remind us of last week's challenge Yes It came from listener Steve bagus in Arlington Massachusetts I said take the name of the u.s. State capital immediately to the right of it write the name of the world capital and if you have the right ones the name of a u.s. State will be embedded in consecutive letters within that letter string what 3 places are these well the answer can start either Dover or Denver either one is a state capital you add Montevideo from your guy in right in the middle there is Vermont we received over 7800 correct responses and our randomly selected winner is John Feal of Kansas City Missouri or Missouri depending on where you're from congratulations thank you how do you say it Missouri or Missouri I say Missouri Ok I'm with you on that I vote I vote Missouri How did you figure out the answer I looked for state capitals with the last syllable or 2 that could possibly start a state name. Or look for a mont to go with it all right are you ready to play the puzzle. I'm ready. To get away with sounds tentative well done today's theme is The World Boxing Association the w a b a every answer is a compound word or familiar 2 word phrase in which the 1st word starts with w. And the 2nd word starts be a for example if I said long ago you might say way back. So here's number one small card with handles that a gardener pushes. Wheelbarrow That's correct number 2 top of a pair of pants that might be elasticised waist band or a round white Toyah with holes that you hit with a bat whiffle ball or a missile in a summer fight that lands with a splat. I love it with water balloons water balloon is it a person who talks talks talks. Wet. Not aware. Nurse And it just goes on and on and on and another blank I'll give you a sound effect the 1st word is. What makes it sound . What is it that blows during a storm. When we have is it Ok you get audio clues for that one. All right here's your next one a container for indoor trash waste basket that's it and here's your last one a sport for the New York Liberty and Los Angeles Sparks. Boy I'm not good at sports. You don't have to be good at sports to know this actually Well 1st of all what's a game where you dribble basketball that's it and what goes w. In front of the New York Liberty or Los Angeles Sparks had w. . What could it possibly be basketball with a w. In front of it. Following. The go ahead look like the w. Outside of a washroom women women. Women's Basketball is it good job you were really good how do you feel a little nervous about a couple of them but. Good for playing our puzzle today you'll get a Weekend Edition lapel pin as well as puzzle books and games you can read all about it at npr dot org slash puzzle John what member station do you listen to k.c. You are in Kansas City John wiil of Kansas City Missouri thank you for playing the puzzle Thank you Will what is next week's challenge you know take these 6 words 1st is a do a d i e u as in French for Goodbye amazed bureaus b u r e a u.s. The late head on and c.n.n. Is sie n n a s besides the fact that each word contains the letter e. What highly unusual property do they share so that's 6 words do you amazed bureau's the late head on and c.n.n. Is besides the fact that each word contains the letter e. What highly unusual property do they share when you have the answer go to our website N.P.R.'s org slash puzzle and click on the Submit Your Answer link just one entry per person please our deadline for entries is Thursday November 23rd at 3 pm Eastern and we all know what day that is so that might be right when your Thanksgiving turkey is. Taking it to the tables if you're the winner we'll give you a call and you'll get to play on the air with the puzzle editor of The New York Times and Weekend Edition's puzzle master Will Shortz will thank you so much thank you Lou. More than 6000 years the women and children were kidnapped raped and slaved under the Islamic states control when it took over parts of Iraq the z.t. Are an ancient minority ethnic group with deep roots in the country in a book with ashes on their faces Kathy often tells the history of the z.t. And the personal stories of the women who faced all odds in the face of ISIS Kathy joins us now from Manchester Welcome to the program thank you very much tell us the story of one of the women you encountered when you were doing your reporting on this so I met a lot of women during the reporting for this book but I think some of the stories that I really wanted to bring out in this text were the stories of how women had not only suffered and been victimized but also resisted and shown courage and strength when they're in ISIS captivity so there's a section of the book when I talk about some of the ways that. Women tried to escape or Sabet their captivity when they were in an underground prison in Iraq these women were abducted from Iraq and then transported to rocka that's correct in that prison $150.00 not thousands of women were kept together in a horrible horrible conditions sewage around their feet and crammed they can lie down there was no sunlight and I spoke to women who had done things like cut the hair of young girls that they were with to try and make them look like boys so they wouldn't be taken I met a woman who had sewed the names of family and friends in their phone numbers on the inside of her underwear with a needle and thread that she'd snuck into captivity and with the same needle she tattooed the name of her husband who is missing on the inside of her in case she was killed and they wanted to find her body what I wanted to try and understand is when you. In 2nd stances of such horror what is it that keeps you going with their it's religion noise love its children and its hope I would do they say what makes them carry on what were the things that they were holding precious to them in these horrible horrible conditions. Well often it was about their religion so they would remember the special things that make their faith different from other faiths they would hold on to sacred bulls of thought bracelet so that was a spiritual element of this survival it was often like it would be for most of us I think it was about family and friends and the hope a loved one was still surviving that a child would be able to go home in the future and these stories I found had also been told by previous generations of u.c.d. Women they'd been passed down from persecutions hundreds of years ago because this is not new for these people what is life like for these easy women who have escaped and are trying to reintegrate into society I think reintegration is very difficult but the z.t. Religion has been able to adapt and change there is a baptism ritual that is now done for women when they come home because they've been forced to convert to Islam and they've been raped they can do this and that marks the beginning of theri entry into the community psychologically is hugely important for them. But we see the ongoing displacement of these eighty's as a real continuation of the genocide and really I don't think we can talk about recovery until they feel safe again and I think that's the same with a lot of people a lot of people who have become refugees that the trauma remains It's about dealing with it that until you feel that you're in a safe and secure place you can really begin to process what's happened. When you've spoken to these women what do they say that they're looking for what are their. Hopes now after this very traumatic period. When I spoken Do you see the women in the hopes easily to find their loved ones also just to live normal lives to be able to go to school to send children to school which is impossible as the displacement continues so the priority is to get their missing relatives back and their children to find out what happened to loved ones but also about justice you know you write an introduction to your book that the idea of justice for this group looks a long way off what would justice look like. Most easy it is that I have spoken to say they want international recognition for what happened but these C.D.'s do tend to have a lot of faith in the Iraqi justice system so that's why they're putting a lot of faith in the hope that some international courts or mechanisms could come together to try and give them a sense that the world is listening and that would be repercussions for what happened to them Kathy Auton is the author of With Ash on their faces thank you very much thank you very much 'd 'd. There's a neighborhood in d.c. That's pretty near n.p.r. It's walkable kind of area with flyers on lamp post looking for a lost cat or selling a used couch and the other day we spotted something a little different kind of old school Steve in Milan was looking for someone someone he thought he felt a spark with after they shared a ride on Halloween night he came into the studio and I made him read the flyer he posted in the neighborhood out loud misconnection if you went as a low effort lumberjack on a Saturday on holiday and weekend Hi I'm the Pennywise Are you sure that you were home with at 3 am I realize that we both live roughly on the corner of 1st and Adams Honestly I thought you're really cute and I sort of regret asking for your number. To be fair I was just the demon clowns not my most attractive moment I want to have coffee I gave him a couple options to respond to obviously take were well sure why not I'd love to and my phone number on that one no thanks but i thanks for asking Have a nice day no phone number I miss it no no phone number not what I think of rejection you know this is weird who post things like that's going to enter honestly that might be one of my wrist. Bonzes of I want to see this flyer so I gave them the option to respond that way as well. And I want to give the community a chance to respond also so the last often says wrong person dude I'm just some random person who lives here but good luck though why did you decide to go analog It seems pretty old fashioned put up a flyer I got to say To be honest. The new fashioned ways of dating are just a little bit exhausting there are so many so many apps with so many different options and you're just put into a giant pool full of so many other people who are judging all of your flaws and if your profile is not perfect it's an immediate slight they're wrong direction and I do the same thing when I'm on those apps and it's just a hard to meet people in person I've been a bit wanted by something different all right so we brought you in because we wanted to help you make a connection but our producer that brought us this story got an email from you last night and the person contacted you and they decided to come in with you and we're going to bring them in right now. Hello welcome welcome welcome of. Tell us your name my name is Robbie Ravi Ok Robbie pick up the story when did you hear about the flyer or see it well one of my housemates that lives in the area sent a snap chat to me and went You are the lumberjack. It was an incredible realisation because there is no other in the world that had the Pennywise and the one but absolutely no doubt about it and here we are and we should say that you are straight and you told him that right so this was a missed love connection but as the sign identified it was a missed connection for a host of reasons but the fact that we're here right now means it was not in vain. I want to ask you both you know you were talking about how hard it is swipe left quite right you know to find that human touch. The spark that comes with meeting real people in the real world I guess is important the thing that I find so funny is I've been telling this story almost every day because it was just so silly and innocent but also really wholesome and when it happened to me I went you know it I've got to reach out because they put in the effort they put in the time to this and you don't see that very often anymore especially in this digital somewhat. Degrading dating world that we're living and I'm glad to hear that you appreciated that too because I like the idea of a genuine connection that you kind of get in person I think that we live in a city where a lot of people really make connections for self-serving reasons and I like the idea of kind of breaking out of the box and putting us about there in different ways you might be able to make the connection that is just genuinely to meet someone else not all connections or love connection there yet another great love story ruined by heterosexuality. There you go out on that note thank you both so much for coming in and cheering us on thank you for having us to. Say. That was Steven Milan and Robbie dealy And if you want help with your Missed Connections e-mail us a voice memo with your story your dresses weekend npr dot org. And by some I was telling me what. I think. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News connecting you to the world and this is questionable. Support for n.p.r. 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