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#103682
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(DC: Steve Shepard) Joint US-Bolivian military operation against cocaine mfrs. examined; details given, scenes shown. [Vice President George BUSH - cites US ints. in helping Bolivia.] Parameters of operation explained. [Representative Don. EDWARDS - considers plan illegal.] [Representative Thomas DOWNEY - disagrees.] US reduction recently of economic aid to Bolivia due to latter's lack of effectiveness in halting coca production recalled. [Ambassador Fernando ILLANES - cites cntry.'s national security ints. in halting narcotics industry]
#103683
(Studio: Peter Jennings) South America's role in providing cocaine to US detailed; related statistics listed on screen.
(DC: Barry Serafin) United States government's ongoing war on drugs reviewed; scenes shown. [November 1982, President REAGAN - announces his plan.] [Drug Enforcement Admin. deputy administration Thomas KELLY - praises authorities' efforts.] Status of international drug war outlined and cntrys. involved listed. [Representative Charles RANGEL - cites supply-and-demand concept involved.]
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#103686
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(London, England: Barrie Dunsmore) Indications of possible movement in United States-USSR arms control negotiations examined. [For. minister Eduard SHEVARDNADZE - (thru translator) announces United States-Soviet agreement to resume talks on banning nuclear tests; notes Mikhail Gorbachev's desire for productive summit.] Prime Min. Margaret Thatcher mentioned, shown.
(DC: Sam Donaldson) Deputy press secretary Edward Djerejian's announcement of qualified agreement to discuss nuclear test ban with USSR outlined on screen, discussed. [State Department spokesperson Bernard KALB - explains United States stance on test ban.] Conditions for United States-USSR discussions of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II cited. [Former arms control negotiator Ralph EARLE - explains maneuvering tactic for each side in such announcements.]
#103687
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Senator Robert Dole said claiming US-USSR summit climate may improve with United States offer of grain sales to USSR .
#103688
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(DC: Jeanne Meserve) State Department interview with President Reagan's nominee as new ambassador to South Africa, Robert Brown, noted; scenes shown. [BROWN - hopes to make a difference.] [Jesse JACKSON - questions if Brown's appointed signals change in United States policy toward President P.W. Botha's apartheid regime.] [Clothing and Textiles Union spokesperson William PATTERSON - explains irony in Brown's appointed] Brown's role as labor relations consultant with Sara Lee, owners of Hanes textiles recalled.
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Botha's response to new United States pressure described; details given, scenes shown.
#103689
(Studio: Peter Jennings) South African government's account of latest death rate under state of emergency reported
#103692
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Boston, Massachusetts: Dr. Tim Johnson) Mammography's ability to detect breast cancer and medical community's relative lack of its use examined; scenes shown. [Diane STEPHENS - notes her age made her subject for test.] [Betty GRAHAM - cites family's history of cancer.] [Dr. Wende West LOGAN - outlines results of Swedish study involving mammography.] [Dr. Myron MOSKOWITZ - notes. number annual deaths from breast cancer averted by mammograms.] [LOGAN - explains reduced radiation risks.] [LOGAN, Dr. Robert McLELLAND - blames physicians for technique's lack of use.] [STEPHENS - praises low cost.] [Dr. Richard BIRD - explains findings to Frances Kirby.] Outcome of Kirby's case reported [KIRBY - notes mammogram discovered her cancer.]
#103693
(Studio: Peter Jennings) NASA's shuttle rocket program director Lawrence Mulloy reported resigning in wake of Challenger disaster.
#103696
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Detroit, Michigan: Chris Bury) Municipal workers' strike in Detroit, Michigan, examined; details given, scenes shown. [STRIKERS - cite their demands.] Impact on city described. Philadelphia's legal maneuver to force striking city workers back to work discussed; scenes shown.
#103697
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Atlanta, Georgia: Rebecca Chase) Midwest farmer Peter Owenson's aid to drought-stricken South Carolina farmer Tom Trantham examined; details given, scenes shown. [On phone, OWENSON and TRANTHAM - discuss situation.] [Illinois Governor Jim THOMPSON - asks state's farmers to donate surplus hay to S.E. peers.] [TRANTHAM - responds to offer of help.]
#103701
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Petit Manan, ME: John McKenzie) Fish and Wildlife Service's poisoning program to lower New England's seagull population in effort to aid tern population examined; details given, scenes shown. [College of the Atlantic spokesperson Matt DRENNAN - defs. program.] [Fish and Wildlife spokesperson Tom GOETTEL - agrees.]
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