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Air Exodus Begins: 75 Cuban Exiles Arrive in U.S.
The Wings of Freedom. The first Cuban refugees to be airlifted from Castro's Cuba arrive in Florida, the beginning of what may become the greatest exodus in history. There are only 75 in this first group, but they are the harbingers of an estimated three to four thousand a month who will be flown to freedom by the United States. LSs crowds gathered on balcony at Miami International airport. TLSs - Cuban exiles embarking an Pan American commercial jet airplane. TLS/MSs -refugees milling about tarmac. TLS refugees boarding buses. MSs young female refugees sitting on bus, one woman wiping tears from eyes. Nice MS - American flag flying from flagpole. MSs refugees in immigration office, immigration officers filling out forms for young women tending to small children. MSs - refugees at impromptu dinner celebration; includes nice shot of father holding young daughter with lollipop.
Landmark Destroyed: Historic NY Church Gutted by Fire
Landmark Destroyed: Historic NY Church Gutted by Fire. The sounding of five alarms can't save the Church of Saint Matthew & Saint Timothy on New York's West side. 120 children were at Bible classes when the Sexton discovered smoke. They were safely evacuated, but the flames quickly spread through the 72 year old structure, a Victorian Gothic structure that was tastefully ugly. TLS/MSs - smoldering ruins of church. MS - firefighters using fire hose, fire hydrant in BG. High angle. LS - fire trucks & police cars parked in narrow street. Nice MS - five firemen wearing helmets & oxygen tanks walking along sidewalk, away from camera. Panning TLS - fire hose mounted on ladder squelching smoldering fire. TLS - five white men standing on roof of adjacent building, watching firefighters, one man filming event with small camera. H/a LS - spray from fire hose on church fa ade. TLS - eight firefighters pushing street-parked car away from scene. TLS - firefighters using fire hose from sidewalk. TLS - fire in church archway, tilt up ruins.
August 1, 1994 - Part 9
(23:15:29) Ms. HANsON. Sir, as I have stated, this letter was drafted very quickly, late in the day, on March 2, 1994, by Mr. Altman. This letter was only intended to respond to the Senator Bond question of how the White House was notified. This was not intended to be an answer to the other question that we've discussed here, relating to all contacts. Senator GRAMM. That's not what it says. Did you believe this was true when you read it? Ms. HANSON. What I understood and, frankly, I will tell you, what I particularly focused on, is the sentence describing the conversations, but I understood this letter to only be responding to the Senator Bond inquiry as to how the White House was notified of criminal referrals. That's how I understood this letter. Again, as I say, my understanding, and my intention, was that there was going to be a full review of the record. The questions were going to be received, every single question would be answered, and all these conversations would be described in detail. That's not what this letter was and that's not what I understood it to be. Senator GRAMM. You meant, here, to tell us only about what was going to be in the paper the next day and, therefore, the fact that it was incomplete, the fact that it was invalid, was OK, because it was later going to be supplemented. Is that Ms. HANSON. That's not what I've said. I'm saying-I have said, at that time, I still didn't have the transcript before me. I still hadn't seen the question that you asked. I hadn't seen it. Senator GRAMM. You had watched this on tape. You had watched the Ms. HANSON. I watched the only the Senator Bond questions on the tape. That's all that I watched of the tape. That's all that I watched of the tape, that's what this letter was designed to do, and that's what I understood of it. Senator GRAmm. Mr. Chairman, I want to say for the record, it's very interesting that when Mr. Podesta put in the file at the White I Ouse the transcript of the February 24, 1994, hearing, he didn't get it from us, he pulled it off of the Federal News Service. That ]Federal News Service is available in any Federal office. It's tied into their computer. 196 The CHAIRMAN. Senator Gramm, your time is up. I'm going to give you another round, if you need it, but Senator DAmato lad a couple of questions. Senator GRAmm. If I could, I'd like to go ahead and get finished if that's all right. Senator DAmATO. Go ahead. Ms. HANSON. Could we take a brief break, sir? The CHAIRMAN. Sure. (23:18:21) [Recess.] (23:18:25) Commentary of hearings hosts NINA TOTENBERG and DON BODE, they also interview Senator AL D'AMATO
August 1, 1994 - Part 9
(23:28:12) Hearing resumes: Senator SARBANEs. Ms. Hanson, are you ready to resume? I think Senator Gramm said be had a couple more questions he wanted to put, and then I think he will have concluded. Ms. HANSON. If I could, before Senator Gramm begins, I would like to make clear, for the record, this March 2, 1994, letter. This letter, to my knowledge, was-and to my state of recollection-, was correct, was accurate at the time that it was written.. The paragraph says, "When Senator Bond asked me, at that hearing, whether an other communications had taken place between the RTC the White House, my response was not to my knowledge." I and still have no knowledge that any such discussions occurred, and that was correct. That is correct, to my knowledge. The CHAIRMAN. Wait a second. Let me just stop you there, because this goes right to this dilemma of you being two people at once. I mean, you're the Treasury Counsel, but you're carrying this RTC load at the behest of Mr. Altman. He detailed you to do RTC activities, so when you go over to the White House, you don't go over as 100 percent of Treasury and 0 percent of the RTC. You go over as a mixture of both, so when the point is made that there's no RTC contact, that, then, makes a reference to you in a context that's not accurate. Do you see the point? Ms. HANSON. I understand that point, sir, but this goes on to say, "But I have learned, today, of two conversations which did take place between Treasury staff and White House personnel on this matter." That was intended to answer Senator Bond's question of how the White House was notified of the referral, so, whether I was there in an RTC capacity or a Treasury capacity, that question was answered, and was intended to be answered, in this letter. As I've stated, it was not the intention of this letter, and I didn't understand this letter, to be trying to be a full description of every conversation that had taken place, which was the question that had to be answered asked by Senator Gramm. That's not what this letter was intended to do, but it was accurate, to my knowledge and to my state of recollection, when it was written.
Wading Bird - Great Blue Heron
07:21:28 3 young great blue herons preening 07:22:01 Great blue heron sunning, wings are drooped 07:22:45 Young great blue heron begging for food, adult regurgitates 07:24:54 Great blue heron and chick in nest 07:25:02 Great blue heron arrives and feeds 2 different size chicks ON PART ONE
Wading Bird - Common Egret
Common egret breeding display ON PART ONE
Wading Bird - Great Blue Heron
07:30:25 Great blue heron arranges sticks on nest 07:33:53 Great blue heron stands on nest 07:34:30 Great blue herons mate arrives, greeting ceremony 07:35:38 Male grt blue heron gets a twig for the nest 07:35:36 Male grt blue heron brings a twig to the nest 07:37:06 Great blue heron and young at the nest 07:39:51 Tug of war between male grt blue heron and young over a snake 07:43:00 Female great blue heron pulls big snake out of young's throat and swallows 07:45:32 Female great blue heron and young ON PART ONE
Wading Bird - Common Egret
Common egrets copulating ON PART ONE
Wading Bird - Great Blue Heron
07:46:16 Great blue heron and half grown young 07:46:48 Grt blue heron and young 07:47:06 Male grt blue heron comes to nest and regurgitates food for young ON PART TWO 07:49:18 Grt blue heron young just out of nest and practicing flying 07:51:04 Grt blue heron returns and feeds young
Wading Bird - Common Egret
07:52:48 Common egrets at nest 07:53:49 Common egrets at rookery, cattle egrets coming in too 07:55:21 Common egrets displaying ON PART TWO
Wading Bird - Great Blue Heron
Great blue heron flying from nest ON PART TWO
Wading Bird - Common Egret
07:57:47 Common egret flying from nest 07:57:58 Common egret flying to nest with a twig 07:58:23 Common egret flying and snatches a twig from the water 07:58:41 Common egret flying from the nest 07:58:49 Common egret flying to nest ON PART TWO
Wading Bird - Cattle Egret, Snowy Egret
Cattle and snowy egrets in rookery ON PART TWO
Wading Bird - Black Crowned Night Heron
Black crowned night heron scratches, itches ON PART TWO
Wading Bird - Great Blue Heron
08:18:52 Great blue heron female being bred by 2 males, neither is her mate. They leave and mate returns 08:19:46 Great blue heron looking for sticks for nest ON PART TWO
August 1, 1994 - Part 9
(23:30:30) The CHAIRMAN. Senator Gramm. Senator GRAmm. Mr. Chairman, I would go back and make the same point 100 times, but I think the point has been made, and I'll just leave it to impartial observers. Had there been no threat of a press leak concerning the RTC re- ferral, would it have been ethical or you, Ms. Hanson, to have told Mr. Nussbaum about a referral that related to the First Family? Ms. HANSON. It's my understanding--I understand the ethics rules to require a legitimate governmental purpose. 197 Senator GRAMM. Let me go back and ask my question again. Had ou not been told by somebody that there might be a press leak, ad you never received that communication, quite aside from evaluating its accuracy, but if you bad never received it, would it have been a violation, a breach of ethics I for you to have told Mr. Nussbaum, who was the General Counsel to the President, that there are nine criminal referrals and that at least some of them referred to the President and the First Lady? Would that have been a breach of ethics? Ms. HANsON. Sir, it would have depended on the facts that existed. The fact of the matter is, there were imminent press leaks, and that was the governmental-there has to be a legitimate governmental purpose, and that was the governmental purpose. So, if the question is, if there is no governmental purpose, would it be a violation of ethics? There has to be a proper governmental purpose. Senator GRAMM. You are the General Counsel of the Treasury Department of the United States of America. I'm asking you, in that capacity, had there been no rumor of a press leak, would it have been unethical for you to have told Mr. Nussbaum, who is the General Counsel to the President, and is an employee of a person who was referred to in those nine criminal referrals, would that have been a breach of ethics? Could I get you to say yes or no? Ms. HANsON. It depends on whatever other facts existed. In this particular case, there were press leaks. Senator GRAMm. I'm asking you, as the Legal Counsel of the Treasury Department, a matter of policy concerning ethics, and you're supposed to be an overseer of this activity. Had there been no rumor of a press leak? Ms. HANsON. If there had been no rumor of a press leak, sir, I would not have had this conversation. Senator GRAMM. I didn't ask you that. Would it be ethical? Ms. HANSON. If there was not a legitimate governmental purpose, it would not have been ethical. Senator GRAMM. Can I go back and change my question? Had there been no rumor of a press release or press leak, would it have been ethical to have told the counsel to a person who was referred to in at least one of the nine criminal referrals? Ms. HANsON. We may be just talking past each other here, sir, and it is very late and don't mean to be argumentative. What I'm saying is that you can communicate that information if you have a legitimate governmental purpose. Press leaks, and dealing with the fallout from press leaks, is a legitimate governmental purpose. Senator GRAMM. If everything else had been the same Ms. HANSON. If everything else was the same, and there had been no press leaks, I wouldn't have done it Senator GRAMM. I'm not asking would you have done it. Would it have been ethical, in your opinion Ms. HANSON. I don't believe so. Senator DODD. Could you yield for just one second? The CHAIRMAN. "I don't believe so" is your answer, though? Ms. HANSON. I don't believe so. Senator DODD. Just on that point, and I just read this the other night. It may be interesting, and I'll ask with unanimous consent, Mr. Chairman, to include this in the record. The facts are substan- 198 tially different than the facts before us here, but there was a Subcommittee investigation by the Judiciary Committee in 1980, as between Benjamin Civiletti's communication to then-President Carter about his brother and the possibility of some dealings with Libya and the like. The communication was directly to the President, and the Subcommittee then, and this was a different matter, I admit, but the Subcommittee then concluded that it would not have been improper for the Attorney General to advise the President of significant information received by the Department of Justice, in this case, about Billy Carter's activities. As pointed out below, the President should receive significant information, relative to the constitution, of the exercise of his responsibilities, in this respect to foreign affairs, because it involved Libya and law enforcement. There may be other facts that would warrant- the point I'm making-I understand your point and
Hippoptamus
01:33:33 Zoom Out from Hippo's buttocks. 01:35:19 3 hippos submerged, their eyes peaking above the water. 01:35:44 6 hippos submerged in lake. 01:36:30 1 hippo yawns in water.
Elephant
Elephant
Hippopotamus
02:27:55 Parent hippo and baby hippo in water. 02:30:05 Group of submerged hippos. 02:52:01 Birds-eye-view of hippos on beachfront.
Elephant
01:32:59 Elephants 01:33:26 Elephant tracks in the dust
Rhinoceros
Tape 2 02:06:56 Black rhino fighting, bluffing. 02:17:08 Good side view of both rhinos together. 02:17:37 Both jog towards passing safari jeep. 02:21:39 Rhino rests behind 2nd rhino. 02:24:16 CU Side of rhino's face. Flies are getting into its eyes. 02:27:00 MS Rhino with symbiotic birds on back.
Rhinoceros
Tape 1 01:36:50 Black rhino walks toward camera. 01:38:21 Rhino walks past long-necked bird, and gazelle-like animals. 01:42:09 CU Rhino.
Elephant
01:42:51 Elephant with egret on back walking through deadfall. 01:43:47 Elephant's buttocks between two dead trees. 01:43:54 E scratches against trees. 01:44:39 E picks from dead tree limbs. 01:47:01 CU pan across elephant's body. 01:47:26 Elephant walks past car. 01:48:14 Elephant trekking across veldt, faithful egret follows avoiding the massive feet. 01:49:46 Dusty elephant drinks water. 01:51:55 E walks toward camera with broken left tusk. Egrets follow. 01:52:41 E smacks egret away, seems annoyed. 01:54:21 LS of elephant and egrets crossing veldt.
Black Rhinoceros
(Tape 1) 01:56:26 Black rhino with oxpecker birds - symbiosis 01:57:24 Black rhino coming head on and feeding 01:59:43 Black rhino and safari car 02:03:30 Black rhino showing aggression and running 02:04:38 Black rhino fighting and bluffing 02:06:43 Black rhino fighting and bluffing and charging against almost grown.