The World and Everything in It: March 22, 2023

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MARY REICHARD, HOST: Good morning!

Former President Donald Trump may or may not be indicted. Is this about a district attorney exploiting his office or something else? We’ll talk about it.

NICK EICHER, HOST: That’s ahead on Washington Wednesday.

Also today, news from around the world on World Tour.

Plus a shop teacher challenges his students to become global problem solvers.

AUDIO: These kids were just passed on and moved up. Nobody’s ever really championed them and showed them they can change the world. They can change their lives.

EICHER: And the difference between praying as a duty and praying with expectation.

REICHARD: It’s Wednesday, March 22nd. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

EICHER: And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

REICHARD: Now news. Here’s Kent Covington.

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR: Putin-Xi » In Moscow, Chinese leader Xi Jinping walked up the opulent red-carpeted staircase of the Grand Kremlin Palace on Tuesday in a pomp-laden ceremony.

XI: [speaking in Mandarin]

He later sat down with Vladimir Putin in front of a row of cameras signing joint declarations vowing to strengthen their economic and military ties.

That will include more cooperation in energy and high-tech industries.

PUTIN: [speaking in Russian]

And they’ll step up joint military exercises, though there was no mention of China supplying weapons to Russia.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby called it a marriage of convenience.

KIRBY: In President Putin and Russia, President Xi sees a counterweight to American influence and NATO influence. In President Xi, President Putin sees a potential backer here.

And he said Putin’s government doesn’t have many friends these days.

Putin praised China’s proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine. But the White House says a pause in the fighting would only buy time for Russia to reload for future attacks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his government has sent a peace proposal to Beijing, but so far, no response.

Japan PM to Ukraine » Meantime, in Kyiv Zelenskyy welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida who made an unannounced visit.

Kishida said he could see and feel the horror of Russia’s aggression in Ukraine.

KISHIDA: [speaking in Japanese]

His visit included a trip to the nearby town of Bucha where officials found mass graves of civilians killed by Russian troops.

Kishida pledged $500 million in support to Ukraine for energy and non-lethal equipment.

Japan will not send weapons due to its largely pacifist constitution.

US trying to speed delivery of tanks » The Pentagon, however, is sending more weapons to Ukraine, including Abrams tanks.

But instead of sending new units, the US military will send refurbished models to speed up delivery.

Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Pat Ryder:

RYDER: We’ve been committed to exploring options to deliver the armored capability as quickly as possible.

The American Abrams tanks will arrive at the battlefield in 8 to 10 months…which is much sooner than the 1 to 2 years officials said it would take to build and ship newer models.

France protests » More chaos in the streets of France last night. Some protests have continued to turn violent. WORLD’s Josh Schumacher has more.

SOUND:  [Activity in France]

JOSH SCHUMACHER: Flames and smoke rose into the night sky over Paris with some protesters setting fire to garbage piled in the city streets after sanitation workers went on strike.

They’re protesting President Emmanuel Macron’s move to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. That’s a move he says is needed to keep the pension system from going broke.

Paris police prefect Laurent Nunez said the violence was caused by groups of up to 300 people quickly moving through the capital.

For WORLD, I’m Josh Schumacher.  

East Palestine health » Residents of East Palestine, Ohio are reporting health problems after a train derailed there last month spilling toxic chemicals.

Dana Linger lives just outside of town. After the derailment, she described her symptoms to WORLD’s Carolina Lumetta.

DANA LINGER- Nasal, sinuses, I have a cough when we were down in the area where we could smell the chemicals, we were getting dizzy, tingling fingertips—those kind of symptoms.

So far, most of the nearly 500 people surveyed reported headaches, coughing, or irritated skin, among other symptoms.

I’m Kent Covington. 

Straight ahead: The tenuous legal grounds for indicting former President Trump.

Plus, 3D-printing prosthetic limbs. This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: It’s the 22nd of March, 2023.

Glad to have you along for today’s edition of The World and Everything in It. Good morning, I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Time now for Washington Wednesday.

First up, the potential indictment of a former president.

On social media over the weekend, former president Donald Trump predicted that on March 21st he would be arrested. That was yesterday and it didn’t happen.

But it still could, any day now.

Because a grand jury in New York is looking into money Trump allegedly paid to silence claims about extramarital affairs. Some say those payments may have violated campaign-finance law.

REICHARD: Trump denies the encounters occurred and says he has done nothing wrong.

The former president also says the entire investigation has been politically motivated. And even Trump’s potential 2024 Republican rivals seem to agree.

Former Vice President Mike Pence:

MIKE PENCE: I’m taken aback by the idea. Indicting a former president of the United States at a time when there’s a crime wave in New York City, the fact that the Manhattan DA thinks that indicting President Trump is his top priority just tells you everything you need to know about the radical left in this country.

EICHER: And Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis accused Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg of politically weaponizing his office.

Here to help us understand what’s going on and what it all means is Marc Clauson. He is a professor of History and Law at Cedarville University in Ohio.

REICHARD: Professor, good morning!

MARC CLAUSON, GUEST: Good morning.

REICHARD: Well, first of all, let's talk about this what this potential charge or charges might be. Let's assume for a moment that the Manhattan DA does indict Trump, the person who allegedly arranged those payments was Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen. He was convicted of campaign finance violations in 2018. Marc, does that make it more likely that Trump could also be convicted?

CLAUSON: Probably doubtful. I think Trump's particular situation is independent of any other situations that the the district attorney's office is concerned with. So I just don't think they're interested in him. I think they're interested in Trump, and they're focused on Trump, and that's not going to make a difference to them. If they think they have a good case, and that's the key. Do they have a good case?

REICHARD: If the Manhattan DA does indict Trump, what is the burden of proof here for prosecutors? What do they have to prove?

CLAUSON: Well, here, here's the problem they face. There are actually two charges. One is a state charge, based upon a misuse or lying on documents relating to this payment. The other, which is the strangest part of this case is, maybe now he may change his mind, the district attorney may change his mind. But the second one was going to be at least an indictment based upon federal election law violations, which of course, doesn't make sense for a state official to be able to do that at all. So that's that that's still up in the air. But the burden of proof for the particular violation depends upon the discretion of the district attorney, whether he wants to indict Trump, I should say, for a lesser crime misdemeanor or a felony version of that, if he chooses the felony version, which he seems inclined to at this point, he has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, which is a difficult standard to prove in this case, because you have to prove an intent, you have to prove particular actions on the part of the President that would, that would at least give an indication of an intent to deliberately mislead or to lie or to, in some way, doctor a document something like that. So it's not going to be an easy situation for the prosecutor.

REICHARD: Mmm-hmmm. I’m not asking you to politically prognosticate here, but if Trump is running for president under an indictment, how could that change his campaign or his candidacy? Have we ever seen anything like that before?

CLAUSON: Well, no, you haven’t! this is this is the first to indict a president, in particularly in this way, is something totally new. It's hard to say how much it will affect him negatively or positively. There are those who argue, and I think they have a fair argument that because they perceive this is so politicized, that will actually give Trump support from his base, at least, and for many other people to think he's been treated unfairly. There are others who believe that if he's indicted, then this just shows that he's a shady character, he doesn't deserve to be in office. We shouldn't elect him, we shouldn't vote for him. And he'll get defeated in the primaries. At this point, it's so early that it's hard to tell which way that could go. And in part, it also depends on how Trump campaigns based upon this, he could make a big deal of this indictment and really try to draw his base in Will it work? We'll have to wait and see if he doesn't make a big deal of it. Will that work? So right now, too early to tell.

REICHARD: We got confirmation bias going both ways, don’t we?

CLAUSON: Yes, yes, we do.

REICHARD: Republicans note that the Department of Justice passed on prosecuting this case. Why is that, do you suppose?

CLAUSON: The Department of Justice had a very weak case, and theirs was based on federal election violations? Or would have been based on federal election law violations? Here's the problem. It apparently didn't take place from what we know right now, the facts during the actual campaign are very either either that or very early. And secondly, it's not illegal to pay somebody with a nondisclosure agreement. It's legal to do that. You have to you have to have a lot more proof to make the causal nexus between the payment and what you are hoping to do with it. And even if you do that, there's no guarantee that a jury is going to say, Well, yeah, that proves that you violate federal election laws. It doesn't at all prove that necessarily. So, you know, I think they thought they had a very weak case. So they're gonna let it pass district attorneys at the federal level just like they are at the local level are very sensitive to their ability to win a case or not. So not going to waste their resources and time in pursuing cases they don't think they could win.

REICHARD: Republicans also charge that Alvin Bragg, the D-A, has boasted about downgrading felonies and has been soft on crime. They say it makes this potential indictment all the more clearly political in nature. What do we know about the Manhattan DA?

CLAUSON: He is soft on crime. At least standard crime, right, things like theft and murder and so forth. He's very soft on that kind of thing. We already know that through his actions and in bail reform, and in trying to lessen the charges against people who have committed violent crimes. He's already been involved in that he's, and some of his cases have been pretty glaring in that respect. And in on the in the contrast to that, then we have his desire to prosecute Trump for a felony, apparently, which is what he seems intent on doing at this point. Which makes no sense. Why would you why would you prosecute somebody for a felony, when this is such a relatively minor offense anyway, if it is offense at all, that's the one thing or as these other offenses are directly against people and property themselves, which is certainly more than just minor.

REICHARD: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced over the weekend that he’s, I’m going to quote here, “directing relevant committees to immediately investigate if federal funds” have been used to, these are his words … “subvert our democracy by interfering in elections with politically motivated prosecutions."
What does that mean and what action could House Republicans potentially take?

CLAUSON: Well, first of all, that just means that he's, he's very interested in finding out what people like Alvin Bragg are up to with regard to Trump and it won't be just Alvin Bragg. There's a case in Georgia, there's one in another state, where these district attorneys are interested in prosecuting Trump for various offenses. And their perception, at least in Congress in the house, is that this is highly political, politically motivated. And it does have all the earmarks of political prosecution. So he wants Congress to get down to the heart of that to, to get to get Bragg in there and testify to, to subpoena documents from his office, take a look at what he was saying between himself and his attorneys to find out basically what he was trying to do and why he was trying to do it. Again, what can come of this? That's a whole different question. Most of these kinds of hearing situations where you call in the person that you want to grill, and I say grill because it's mostly grilling, you want to grill the person and you want their documents. It just blows over. It's mostly just show. And that's true for both parties. Unfortunately. Now, it might be different. In this case, they might actually try to get to the heart of substance. But it's hard to say that it would go much further than that, because Congress really doesn't have the ability, the power to interfere in this local prosecution. They can put pressure obviously on Alvin Bragg. And he says already, he's not going to be pressured, he's shot back at the house and said, Look, you're not going to pressure me into giving in just because you don't like what I'm doing. So it's hard to say that much will come of it.

REICHARD: Professor Marc Clauson with Cedarville University has been our guest. Professor, thanks so much!

CLAUSON: Thank you. Good to be with you

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: World Tour with our reporter in Africa, Onize Ohikere.

ONIZE OHIKERE, REPORTER: Rwanda-UK plan — We start today’s rundown in Rwanda, where Britain is planning to deport asylum-seekers.

SOUND: [Braverman arriving]

British Interior Minister Suella Braverman this weekend toured the centers where Rwanda plans to hold the resettled migrants.

Under the controversial plan, the U-K will send migrants who cross the English Channel to Rwanda for processing. Those granted asylum will remain in Rwanda. But the plan stalled last year after facing criticisms and lawsuits.

Interior Minister Braverman:

BRAVERMAN: We are absolutely delighted and excited about our partnership with Rwanda to be creating a vibrant community here. To be a positive, secure, beautiful haven and home for many thousands of people.

More than 45,000 people arrived in Britain by boat last year, an increase of more than 50 percent over the previous year.

Sudan transition government — We head over to Sudan.

SOUND: [Meeting room]

The country’s political factions are set to form a new civilian-led transitional government next month.

Representatives from the military and pro-democracy groups plan to sign the deal by April 1. They will approve the constitution days later.

The transitional government is expected to include nine members of civilian pro-democracy groups, one member from the army, and one from a powerful paramilitary group. Some rebel leaders and grassroots political players still oppose the deal.

AUDIO: [(Arabic) It was expected that some of the non-signatories to the framework agreement would join this meeting.

Khalid Omer Yousif of the Sudanese Congress Party says some of the other factions expected to attend a meeting in support didn’t show up.

Sudanese political groups have tried to reach an agreement since a military coup in 2021. The leaders are under pressure to reach a democratic arrangement that will allow much-needed aid into the country.

Ecuador earthquake — Next, to Ecuador.

SOUND: [Community]

Residents are burying the dead and trying to rebuild after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the coastal Guayas region on Saturday.

At least 14 people died in Ecuador. Neighboring Peru reported one death.

More than 120 people sustained injuries. Officials say hundreds of schools, homes, and health centers are damaged.

AUDIO: [Speaking Spanish]

This resident says everything fell apart, and she only survived by God’s favor.

Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso expressed solidarity with the affected families.

Iraq anniversary — We head next to Iraq, where Monday marked 20 years since the U.S. invasion. The war brought down longtime dictator Saddam Hussein.

SOUND: [Speaking Arabic]

Hussein Ali Taher, a tuktuk driver in Baghdad, says one tragedy after another followed the fall of Hussein’s regime, dashing hopes that the country would get better.

In 2019, security forces and militiamen cracked down on protesters angry with the ruling political class. The protesters decried corruption and called for better public services and economic opportunities.

Some 2,500 American troops remain in the country. They are supporting Iraqi forces in keeping back the Islamic State.

SOUND: [Arabic]

This Iraqi musician says the aftermath of 2003 had many people wishing for the old days. But he remains hopeful for better days.

Niger rescue — We wrap up today back in Africa.

An American aid worker kidnapped by Islamist extremists in Niger more than six years ago has regained his freedom.

Armed men riding in a pickup truck seized Jeffery Woodke at gunpoint from his home in October 2016.

The 61-year-old worked in Niger for more than three decades, partnering with a local affiliate of Youth With a Mission. The group serves ethnic Tuareg and Fulani herders in the central Abalak region.

SOUND: [Speaking French]

Speaking in French, Woodke says here that he thanks God for his freedom as he also thanked the governments of the United States, Niger, and France.

U.S. officials on Monday said he was released outside of Niger in the Mali-Burkina Faso region. French journalist Olivier Dubois, who was abducted in Mali in 2021, was also freed.

Woodke’s freedom comes after U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken visited Niger last week and pledged $150 million aid to the Sahel region. Blinken thanked everyone who worked to secure Woodke’s release.

BLINKEN: Tireless efforts. And I'm very pleased that we are now seeing that come to fruition today.

Nigerian authorities say Woodke and Dubois were held by an al-Qaida-linked terror group active in West Africa and the Sahel.

That’s it for this week’s World Tour. Reporting for WORLD, I’m Onize Ohikere in Abuja, Nigeria

NICK EICHER, HOST: The Better Business Bureau receives more than 150-thousand complaints a year, and a quarter of them do not get resolved. Do the math and that’s a lot of unhappiness in the world.

BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU: There are a lot of things to keep in mind to make sure that the process runs smoothly.

EICHER: That’s a how-to video on the BBB site.

But some people feel like they don’t need the instruction. They know how to complain. Perhaps you’ve met someone like this.

Turnabout is fair play and the BBB has some complaints of its own: So it released a list of what the BBB regards as silliest complaints of the year.

Like the person who complained that a packet of ramen noodles didn’t have enough seasoning.

Or the one who complained that a bar of soap that wasn’t foamy or bubbly enough.

Or, here we go, the person who went in for an oil change and said the mechanic didn’t smell good.

(Maybe it was the foamless, bubble-free soap!!!)

Maybe. But the complaint was very specific. The mechanic smelled like, and I quote, “a dead cat in an alleyway.”

The BBB says it checks out every complaint that comes in. See, it’s the last one I’m hanging up on. I just don’t see how you verify such a thing!

It’s The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Today is Wednesday, March 22nd. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST: And I’m Nick Eicher. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: problem solving on a global scale.

In the developing world, an estimated 30 million people need prosthetic or orthotic devices.

Unlike amputees in the western world, traumatic injury, landmines, and diseases like leprosy often result in amputation. And nine out of ten of those have no access to any form of prosthetics.

REICHARD: Well, there’s a high school teacher in Alabama who challenges his students to become global problem solvers and turn those statistics into opportunities to serve. WORLD’s Myrna Brown has the story.

ANNOUNCER: Come to the front office for dismal please.

MYRNA BROWN, CORRESPONDENT: It’s the end of the school day at Chickasaw Middle/High School.

SOUND: [STUDENTS WORKING]

But students in Brian Copes’ classroom are just getting started. They’re busy putting pins in ankles and assembling legs… prosthetic legs. Copes is their Career Tech or Shop teacher.

BRIAN COPES: If you look at my classroom, we do have hand tools, we do have power tools, but we also have computers. Not only computers, we have 3D printers. And we’re using 3D printers in the classroom to actually 3D print prosthetic legs.

MYRNA TO COPES: This is where it starts? This is where it starts.

In 20-20, the city assistant school superintendent recruited Copes to come to the small, poor, urban community.

BRIAN COPES: The kids were really never engaged. Nobody's ever really championed them and showed them they can change the world. They can change lives. She said I need you to bring your projects here to Chickasaw and help change a community.

So Copes started the after-school club called Lifechangers. Every Tuesday and Thursday Copes transforms his classroom into an assembly line. Many of his students had never even held a power drill before. Today, 17-year-old Benjamin Cruz is Copes’ helper, teaching a 12 year old how to build legs.

BENJAMIN CRUZ: So, at the moment he’s pushing in our little pins to be inside our rubber, basically what would be the cartilage in your ankle to be able to move.

and how to build character.

BENJAMIN CRUZ: He’s just a seventh grader. Most seventh graders are just playing on their games, just hanging out. He’s doing stuff to help people.

On the other side of the classroom, standing near one of the school’s 3D printers, Copes teaches other students about additive manufacturing. It’s a process that creates a physical object, like a prosthetic leg, from a digital design.

BRIAN COPES: So what we’re seeing here… we’ve got two components for a leg set being printed. We’ve got both a lower knee and an ankle. It uses onyx, which is a carbon fiber reinforced plastic. The other printers will print the upper knee and the foot.

After that dose of Engineering 101, Copes then explains why the same verse is always 3D printed on every prosthetic leg.

BRIAN COPES: We have Isaiah 40:31 which says, "They will run and not be weary and they will walk and not faint." Here in a public school, I’m not allowed to preach, but I can share Christian values. We’re told to share Christ the way that we live.

After the legs are assembled, students get them ready for travel. But they aren’t just shipped off to distant locations on a map.

BRIAN COPES: We just got nine more videos. Nine. We’ve got about 35 people in Tulum, Mexico that want new legs.

In three days, Copes and his students will be in Tulum, Mexico. The team will meet and fit amputees with the prosthetics they built with their own hands.

BRIAN COPES: We’re trying to teach the kids how to be productive citizens. How to give of themselves to help others.

Benjamin Cruz remembers his first trip with Mr. Copes to Honduras. There, he watched a 25-year-old walk again.

BENJAMIN CRUZ: I’ll give him this, he didn’t cry. He was very thankful, but he didn’t cry. A lot of people who have walked have cried a lot.

Student Amoriey Davis Hicks remembers the tears of joy shed for a young girl she met while in El Salvador.

AMORIEIY DAVIS HICKS: We were all busy fitting people and all caught up with that. And you just heard this hopping, coming into the church and all of a sudden we all turned around and it was an 11-year-old child.

The little girl was named Natalie. When she was nine, part of her arm and leg were severed in a car accident on her way to school.

AMORIEY DAVIS HICKS: And our first initial reaction was that we weren’t going to be able to help her at all since all of our legs were mainly for adults. But at the end of the day it was a complete miracle that we were able to help her.

But 15-year-old Ariana Campos says, not all of their stories have happy endings. Campos grew up in Mexico. She also speaks Spanish and English, so she helps translate on the trips, explaining to people what they’re there to do. But sometimes, the prosthetics don’t fit properly.

ARIANA CAMPOS: So I have to talk to those people that we can’t fit and I have to go through this process of helping them understand. Some people get mad. Some people get really sad.

Campos says those conversations are preparing her for a future in mental health.

ARIANA CAMPOS: When they ask me, like what do you want to do when you grow up, I always say psychology. I want to do psycholog.

Already this year, the Lifechangers club has delivered 50 prosthetic legs. They’ve traveled to Guatemala, Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador and Honduras. Four more trips are scheduled before the end of year.

We have sixteen minutes, so get ready to put stuff back and clean up before we leave.

Back in Mr. Copes’ classroom, Benjamin Cruz takes a moment to reflect as he packs up the last prosthetic leg.

BENJAMIN CRUZ: Truthfully, I wasn’t excited to go to Chickasaw when I moved here. It wasn’t a great school.

But today, proudly wearing a sweatshirt with the word Chickasaw across his chest, Cruz says he can’t imagine being anywhere else.

SOUND: [CLASSROOM ACTIVITY]

Reporting for WORLD, In Chickasaw, Alabama. I’m Myrna Brown.

MARY REICHARD: If you’d like to see Brian Copes and his students in action, Myrna produced a companion piece that also airs today on WORLD Watch, our video news program for students. We’ll post a link to that story in today’s transcript.

https://school.worldwatch.news/programs/teaching-young-creators

NICK EICHER, HOST: Today is Wednesday, March 22nd. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: And I’m Mary Reichard. Here’s WORLD Senior Writer Janie B. Cheaney on expectations in prayer.

JANIE CHEANEY, COMMENTATOR: Sometimes a single word can throw a whole new light on a subject you’ve struggled with all your life. Take prayer, for instance. How do you keep your prayer life fresh and meaningful? How do you avoid rote phrases and fake emotion?

Here’s the word: expectantly.

Psalm 5:3 reads like this in the ESV: “O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.” I’ve marked this verse in my Bible, memorized it, and recited it before prayer times. It’s striking and beautiful in the ESV—motivational, too, or it should be. But here’s how the verse reads in the Christian Standard Bible or CSB:

At daybreak, Lord, you hear my voice;
At daybreak I plead my case to you and watch expectantly.

The same meaning, obviously, but the CSB renders it more personal and urgent: Here’s my case, Lord. I know you hear me, and I know you’re going to do something.

Whatever it is, will be surprising, or frightening, or gratifying, but always glorifying—and exciting. To pray expectantly is like sending party invitations and waiting for the guests to show up. Or packing for a dream vacation. Or even watching anxiously for the cavalry to arrive when you’re in a tight spot. Knowing that something will happen makes all the difference.

That certainty is often lacking in my prayers. I pray dutifully, not expectantly. I know God hears but I don’t always know that he cares. I imagine him listening dutifully, not expectantly. Of course he knows what I’m going to say, and he knows even better what I need, and won’t he provide my needs regardless? It’s the old Calvinist dilemma: why pray if it’s all preordained?

But prayer is the mainspring of the drama of the Christian life, an invitation to participate in the grand story of redemption. I recall a pastor several years ago preaching that God builds his church through the prayers of his people. In the same way, he builds our lives. I’ve tried to take this seriously but then fall back into old patterns: duty, rote, resignation to “Thy will be done.” What if every prayer came with expectation? What if every time I brought a request, even one I’ve made literally thousands of times, I brought anticipation along with it? Here I am. Here’s what I’m asking. I know you’re listening, and I know you will act. You are acting right now. I can’t wait to find out how.

Of course, I usually have to wait—that’s the hard part. But I’ve offered the sacrifice, and as fragrant smoke rises to heaven, so does my expectation. He will act; he has acted; he is acting now. It may take some time to see it, but I’m watching.

I’m Janie B. Cheaney

NICK EICHER, HOST: Tomorrow: Chinese President Xi Jingping is in Moscow with Vladimir Putin…what’s at stake for Ukraine and the US?

And, analog synthesizers used to be the big thing in music and now they’re coming back … we’re going to take you to the place where they’re made.

That and more tomorrow.  I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD: And I’m Mary Reichard.  The World and Everything in It comes to you from WORLD Radio.

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