Nominee. applause for the next 90 minutes we will be questioning the candidates following a format designed and agreed to by representatives of the two campaigns. However, there are no restrictions on the questions that my colleagues and i can ask this evening, and the candidates have no prior knowledge of our questions. By agreement between the candidates, the first question goes to gov. Dukakis. You have two minutes to respond. Governor, if Kitty Dukakis were raped and murdered, would you favor an irrevocable Death Penalty for he killer . No, i dont, bernard. And i think you know that ive opposed the Death Penalty during all of my life. I dont see any evidence that its a deterrent, and i think there are better and more effective ways to deal with violent crime. Weve done so in my own state. And its one of the reasons why we have had the biggest drop in crime of any industrial state in america; why we have the lowest murder rate of any industrial state in america. But we have work to
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Well. San francisco was the sight of the signing of the it is an appropriate place to hold this debate, the subject of which is foreign and defense issues. The questioners tonight are max trewhitt, and richard valeriani, Diplomatic Correspondent of and be seen news. News. The ground roles are the same questions will be alternated between candidates. Governor carter will take the first question. Each question sequence will be as follows. The question will be asked and the candidate will have three minutes to answer. His opponent will have two minutes to respond. Prior to the response the questioner may ask a followup question to quote clarify with up to two minutes to reply. Each candidate will have three minutes for a closing statement at the end. Resident ford and governor carter do not have it prepared remarks with them this evening but they may take notes during the debate and refer to them. Mr. Frankel, you have the first question for governor carter. Democrats last ran our Foreign
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Rally the troops. Taiwan has good reason to worry facing its giant neighbor across a narrow street of water. This year chinese warplanes have flown close to taiwan over and over again probing the product until taiwanese fighters intercept. And out at sea chinese warships to the sense of constant threat. Because i one has lived with that threat for more than 70 years but now its rising to a new level and the world needs to pay attention. Under president Xi Jinping China has been flexing its muscles more and more openly not just on occasions like it 70th Anniversary Parade this year in one of the most remote places in the world chinas mountainous border zone with india out of the blue a sudden escalation in tensions between chinese and indian troops left dozens of people dead chinas Defense Ministry published videos of its forces training in tibet the message seeming to be were ready for anything the relations with the United States have soured to the brink of imbue cold war with donald