Democrats Walter Mondale and congresswoman ferraro in the general election, winning the popular vote 59 41 . Ms. Ferraro was the first woman nominated for the vice presidency by a major party. This debate from philadelphia is just under an hour and a half. [applause] dorothy good evening. Good evening from the civic center in philadelphia, pennsylvania. I am the president of the league of women voters, sponsor of tonights Vice President ial debate between republican george bush and democrat geraldine ferraro. Our panelists for tonights debate are john mashek, National Correspondent for u. S. News world report, jack white, correspondent for time magazine, norma quarles, correspondent for nbc news, and robert boyd, Washington Bureau chief for knightridder newspapers. Sandra van ocher, Political Correspondent for abc news, is our moderator tonight. Sandy. Sandy thank you, dorothy. A few words about the order of the format. The order of questioning was determined by a toss of the coin. Con
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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Were march against the monarchy in thailand and thats amounts for political reform the protests have been the biggest in years so what can the government do to quell this growing anger what does this mean for thailands king this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im how he had seen a wave of protests as gripped thailands since february its been led by the young mostly 1st time voters who say they want to modernize them on a key over the weekends tens of thousands of people in the park used for one of the ceremonies and they cemented a plank in the grand palace that expresses what they say is the peoples will the protesters also hands its over a letter with their its a monster to the boil guards well these demands include the removal of Prime Minister. Hes a former army general who came to power in a coup in 2014 and wanted to spaces election last year they also want to parliaments dissolves and new elections to be held there demanding that the constitution which was draf