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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New York City: John McWethy) USSR foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze's United Nations address, following President Reagan's yesterday, as well as unscheduled meeting with Secretary State George Shultz, featured; details given, scenes shown. [SHEVARDNADZE - (thru translator) is optimistic Daniloff affair will be solved; claims he offered new proposal.] For. minister's United Nations speech described, quoted. [SHEVARDNADZE - (thru translator) criticizes Reagan's speech, strategic defense initiative (SDI or Star Wars); is encouraged at progress of United States-USSR arms talks.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Govt. said successful in getting delay in setting trial date for accused Soviet spy Gennady Zakharov.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(DC: Sam Donaldson) President Reagan's criticism of House defense budget bill examined; details given, scenes shown. [REAGAN - claims bill will undermine arms negotiators and imperil national security; attacks nuclear test ban sections; promises to veto defense budget as it now stands.] President's remarks about USSR treatment of Nicholas Daniloff mentioned.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) USSR reported retrieving garbage from USS Constellation in Gulf of AK; details given.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Lawrence Livermore Lab., California, said determining radiation released from Chernobyl, USSR , nuclear power plant was greater than all previous nuclear explosions and atomic bombs; details given.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Wright City, Missouri: Ron Claiborne) Missouri manhunt for escaped fugitive Michael Jackson, believed responsible for several murders, examined; details given, scenes shown. [Police ofr. Roland CLEMONDS - describes encounter with Jackson.] [Witness Pamela GARRETT - describes Clemonds' shooting.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(DC: John Martin) Further evidence presented by World Jewish Congress indicating Austrian president Kurt Waldheim's role in Nazi war crimes examined; details given, scenes shown. [Congress spokesperson Elan STEINBERG - reads pamphlet urging murder of Jews, distribution of which was approved by Waldheim.] Response of Waldheim's office quoted on screen. [Former Justice Department spokesperson Alan RYAN - cites legal implications of documents.] Significance of documents considered.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Israeli air raid near Beirut, Lebanon, reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Death toll from latest series of terrorist bombings in Paris, France, reported; details given.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Former Pentagon official Noel Koch reported claiming 1983 bombing of Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon, was result of United States military infighting and cmdrs. ignoring warnings of anti-terrorist specialists; details given.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(La Paz, Bolivia: Peter Collins) Status of joint United States-Bolivia operation against cocaine mfrs. and traffickers examined; details given, scenes shown. [United States ambassador Edward ROWELL - claims success.] [PEASANT - (thru translator) cites fear of authorities.] [Planning minister Gonzalo SANCHEZ de LOZADA - explains government's decision to attack problem.] Econs. and pols. involved described. [Dr. Max FOREMAN - explains leaving Bolivia now.] [SANCHEZ - opposes United States troop pullout.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(San Francisco, California: Jim Laurie) Philippines President Corazon Aquino's visit to Filipino community here and incrd. sense of nationalism as result featured; scenes shown. [VENDOR - cites popularity of bagels in community.] [Filipinos in America Fndn. spokesperson Dennis NORMANDY - thinks American Filipino community will help Philippines economy as American Jews do Israel.] [Businessman Victor ESCLAMADO - explains moving back to Philippines.] [Store owner Eddie MACEDA - disagrees.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(NYC: Dan Cordtz) Expected impact of proposed tax reform legislature on cities and states examined; Washington cited as example Scenes shown. [John TEUTSCH - expects to have less spending money.] [Governor Booth GARDNER - criticizes discrimination against sales tax.] States depending on sales tax revenues illustrated on map. OR's situation compared to WA's. [OR state economy Ann HANUS - notes tax reform will benefit state.] Findings of National Govs. Association study outlined. [National League of Cities spokesperson Frank SHAFROTH - explains implications of loss of bond exemptions.] NYC's bond situation cited as ex. [New York City financial commissioner Abraham BIDERMAN - comments.] Overall effect on cities and states described.
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Part III announced.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) August consumer prices reported Stk. Mkt. Report
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) June Scobee, widow of Challenger shuttle commander, and other Challenger families reported raising funds for Challenger Center for Space Science Educ.; details given, scenes shown.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(DC: Brit Hume) Congress's approval of rose as national flower featured; details given, scenes shown. History of movement reviewed. [Senator Everett DIRKSEN - favors marigold.] [Senator Howell HEFLIN - reads poem.] [PEOPLE - comment.]
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