of massachusetts asking to change in law -- a l so that the is no vacancy the senate seat before specia election. ho was behind e change? edward kennedy. his letter was touching, t his hypocrisy is staggering. the tradition in massachusetts had always immediate appointment. you don't have a vacancy and you go ahe. as aay to keeand romney from appointing auccessor to esident kerry, kennedy wasthe one wh changed the law. all of audden he has discovered theirtues of having twseats occupd at the same time. >> it does notook good at ts point because the democrats are sullen and the repubcans are cring about this. but he wants to make sure that massachusetts has o senators -- >> hdid n care about that four years ago. >> now, he did notbut now he do. >> he could n go t his sister'suneral, seeming to be an iication that he ll never get to washingt to cast a vo. when we say the democrats need 60 votes, thould do without kennedy's votes long as they could pick up republican vote or two. >> snowe and collins, maybe. in kabul, there were counting ballots this by -- despitehe talin's best efforts to

they overwhelmingly voteto deny the gernor the appointment and have a specia election.hey're only 59emocratic setors with senatorçennedy's debt and they want to feel that that the magic number is 60. why all of a sudden is t gislatureanted to change it so the governor camake this inton appointment? >> i am shocke they are reluant at first to do this. >> there is great tension between the goverr and legislure. legiators do not like the governor, the governor doe not like the legistors. the queion is,ill there be ough of a demand to force the legislature to do something other than change the ripe? >> there really is away to finesse the issue and to keep from having to change the law with the change of the governorship i think what they ought to in massachutts is simply pass a law tt says, the governor will appoint successor if the senator dies in offe if the gornor is a democr. otherwe, if he is a republan, there will be a special election than they do not have tchange the law again. [laughter] >> i do not thi that will be a problem. >> i think the people of massachusett

but as "worldfocus" specia correspondent mart seemungel first repoed last year from kenya and tanzania, cha's influence is much broader. >> reporter: these young kenyans already eak english. aegacy of the british emfire africa but now they have decided learn -- chinese. this is theconfucus institute nairobi university. for these stents taking chinese is, as they say, no-brainer. >> this language is important. because of eir -- because china growi so much. and the influenc of china in africa and most of the wld is higher than it was lt year. >> reporter: africa's one benet of chin's economic boom. the cinese are bullish on africa. they want the raw materials to fuel their raveus econoy. one-third ofwhat's exorted from afrca tohina is oil. bumore and more goods are moving in the other direction. from china to afra. arriving, as it were, rht on thecontinent's doorstep. all the gds that come from china to east afca arrive here at the port of momba. in fact, the msive cranes unloading the containerships are also made in china. it is just the first ue of the china nnection. the mombasa to na

is coming from the central committee, a th killg squads were administered by something called th specia orgazation. they let out some 3000 prisonersrom jails, and organized them into killing bands. and it was pretty innovative idea. again, i think tha in som ways this can eve foreshado it's nazies had the killing squads in the riod before theamps became t focus of mass killg. >> rose: were one million people killed in a year? >> i think a million people were kied between1915 and the spring of 1916, and another 200,000 ma kered in the syan deserts of 16 i we know b the end the summerf 191, we have at least 1.2 millioneople murdered, and it's two-thirds of the armenian population of turkey living on thr historic homelands. >> rose: what role it it play in turkish politic >> well, the armenian sen is it side todayas become an almt obsessive issue fo the turkish government i mean, they are spending millions of llars a year engiering campaigns of propaganda to deny, to undermine to sitize,o try recruit mystery. and it has become a lightning rod inside of turkey because pele who want to speak

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in helmand there a go ance that enough pling stations will ho to make it, as richard holbrooke specia ambassador t this regionas said, acceptable enough to most the people. but there's talkf as much as 25% of the polli center ultimatelynot beingvailable the people. so a lot of people pobably i thosereas won'tbe able to vote. >> brown: can you tll how much those liban threats against ople, how much fear that'stirring among potential voters? >> i thin people as i talk to ople and talk to elders who have come in t kandahar, people ar scared. it's alittle hard to te, though, becse in different communities the eder are urging peopleo vote. i kn in the eastern partf the country, which is also -- a lot of ede are asking thir people to come ou, and people wl go along wi that. they feel a sense of security by their own people. but i think pople in kandahar, ifou were 20 mil outside of kanhar, and it very much contrled by i b, i thinkeople will have sond thoughts. ts election is not as exciting ashe first election when peoe voted overwhelmingly, in site of a cetain fear of the taliban. this s s

said he suorts a proposalhat would allow him to make a temporary appointment i wholly support the speciaelection and the demratic procesto fill the remaining two years of senator kenne's te. but i wi continue to work with the legislature on legistion thorizing an interim appointmt to the united states senate for the five mont until that special election happs. this is the only way tensure at massachusetts is fully represented until the ters of the state elect our nextenator in juary. >> lehrer: t governor also sa kennedy's widow, victoria reggie kennedy, was t inrested in the inrim posion. margaret warner has mo. >> warner: as massachuses law now stan, senator kennedy's death lees senate democrats shy their 60 seat filibuster prf majority until the special election in nuary. at could affect votes on key issues like heth care and climate change kennedy himself recogned the potential rafications. in a recent tter to the govern and legislature, kennedy urged state law amended to allow an interim appointmenuntil a special election occurs. some republicans are crying foulnoting it was democra

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they wil still have that specia ectio which will take place sometim ithe third or 4tweekfanuary of nextear, t having an interim appotee becae decratsee evy tehean geto get health ce pass. stiahead, our interview with micel ckson's father, joe cksonpeaks out for the fit ti sce his son death >>three men rcued aft theiboat capzes. >> tir sto after youloca ne. the 89-year-old was later indicted in july on seven counts, including first-degree murder. his arraignment is wednesday on u.s. district court. if convicted, he could face the death penalty. >> we'll take aome ome ba >>> good morning. cloudy and cool. we have a little light rain south and east of washington. temperatures in the 50s and 60s. how is traffic? >>> typically, heavy and slow. 66 headed for the capitol beltway. wilson bridge, no concerns and quite slow along 270 and several significant stretches. barbara, back to you. >>> tonight on "news 4 at 5:00," the redskins patriots game is ♪ >>> 7:30n thi monday matt lauer and his family. , those are the brady bch ki onhe successfu sitcom. th door sinng andancing on t ort-lived bdy bu