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#106827
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(DC: Sam Donaldson) Pre-summit maneuverings by Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan reported [REAGAN - respects Gorbachev.] Gorbachev's interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw noted. [GORBACHEV - (thru translator) says let's be allies.] Reagan shown speaking to Jacksonville, Florida, high school students. [REAGAN - says USSR must leave Afghanistan and other ntns.] [GORBACHEV - (thru translator) says threat to United States from Nicaragua's Sandinistas not serious.] [REAGAN - doesn't resent Gorbachev's popularity; mentions acting with popular actor Errol Flynn.] Reagan's role during pre-summit maneuverings detailed.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Moscow, USSR : Pierre Salinger) Attempts by Mikhail Gorbachev to change USSR society featured; details given, scenes shown. [Soviet dissident Andrei SAKHAROV -(thru translator) discusses new economy and soc. measures in USSR .] [Soviet poet Yevgeny YEVTUSHENKO - doesn't think "perestroika" and "glasnost" could be stopped now.] Gorbachev's economy and openness policies detailed. Impact of glasnost on poetry, films, artists, rock music and news media noted.; scenes shown. [SAKHAROV - (thru translator) says media can now describe life in USSR .] Econ. policies allowing more free enterprise detailed. Limits of reform policies reported ["Glasnost" editor Sergei GRIGORYANTS - (thru translator) says changes not as great as wished.] Econ. problems detailed; scenes shown. ["Pravda" editor Viktor AFANASEV - (thru translator) says economy as whole not changed.] Pol. opposition to Gorbachev's economy policies noted. Removal of Boris Yeltsin from political post recalled. Result of former premier Nikita Khrushchev's attempts at reform mentioned. [Khrushchev's son-in-law Aleksei ADZHUBEI - (thru translator) discusses Khrushchev's reforms.] Traditional Soviet response to change noted. [AFANASEV - (thru translator) discusses "perestroika."]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Tomorrow's segment on Gorbachev announced.
#106831
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Atlanta, Georgia: John Martin) Contd. negotiations between fed. authorities and Cuban prisoners still holding hostages at Atlanta penitentiary reported; details given, scenes shown. [Justice Department spokesperson Patrick KORTEN - discusses negotiations.] Miami, Florida, archbishop Agustin Roman reported replacing Cuban-Americans considered too close to Reagan administration in negotiating role. Dangerous criminal Thomas Silverstein reported turned over by prisoners to authorities. Beginnings of revolt said discussed by recent parolee. [Steve HART - says guard taunted Cubans.] [Wife of detainee Janet LUGO - says guards harassed Cubans.] Hopes for agreement reiterated.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) State Department warning Americans against travel to Haiti reported United States call for arrest of those involved in election violence in Haiti reported Report introduced.
(Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Peter Collins) Return to normalcy in Haiti in wake of election violence reported; details given, scenes shown. Americans shown leaving Haiti. [Opposition political leader Jean-Claude BAJEAUX - responds to elec. violence.] Role of army in violence and in future elecs. here noted. Haitian feelings toward United States said mixed. United States support of Francois Duvalier and US role in deposing of son Jean-Claude Duvalier recalled.; scenes shown. Problem of illegal Haitian immigration to United States reported; scenes shown. [BAJEAUX - says Haitian people need help.] United States options in aiding Haiti outlined.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(United Arab Emirates: Jim Hickey) Possibility of sabotage causing crash of Korean plane near Burma-Thailand border reported; details given, sketches and map shown. Couple reported leaving plane at Abu Dhabi, in United Arab Emirates, while plane continued to Bangkok, Thailand and Seoul, South Korea. Couple reported taking poison capsules today after being detained for questioning in Bahrain. Link of couple &pro-N. Korean organization in Japan and to dissident groups wishing to disrupt 1988 Olympic Games in South Korea noted. (Artist: Gerald Andrea)
#106836
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Seoul, South Korea: Mark Litke) Sec. precautions in South Korea featured; details given, scenes shown. Sec. threats to South Korea from North Korean commandos, from tunnels running into South Korea and from hydroelectric dam being built by North Korea along river running into South Korea reported; described. Simulations of North Korean dam and flooding from it shown courtesy South Korean TV. [S. Korean government spokesperson SHIN Young Gook - considers dam threat.] Protests rallies against North Korea shown. [MAN - explains South Korean counter dam plan.] Bombing of South Korean government in Rangoon, Burma, in 1983 recalled; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Environmental Protection Agency plan to freeze production of chemicals deemed dangerous to ozone layer announced. Report introduced.
(DC: Bettina Gregory) Impact of chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) on ozone layer of atmosphere featured; details given, scenes shown. Resulting increase in skin cancer, cataracts and other diseases due to breakdown of ozone layer noted. Satellite photos of ozone layer shown. [EPA administration Lee THOMAS - says don't have substitutes for these chemicals.] Environmental Protection Agency plan to cut down on CFCs over decade outlined. [Natural Resources Defense Council spokesperson David DONINGER - says Environmental Protection Agency plan won't work and ozone depletion will get worse.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Decision by India government to charge Union Carbide Corporation and its execs. with homicide over gas leak in Bhopal in 1984 reported Failure to reach out-of-court settlement noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Contracts offered by government to McDonnell Douglas Corp., General Elec. Company, Boeing Company and Rockwell International Corporation to build orbiting space station reported; animation shown.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Index of economy indicators for October reported; role of stk. market problems noted. Stk. Mkt. Report
#106845
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Bill Blakemore) Death of author James Baldwin reported [PBS, 1986, BALDWIN - talks about black experience in US.] [Columbia Univ. Prof. Robert BONE - discusses Baldwin.] Baldwin's literary career detailed; photos shown. [NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) president Benjamin HOOKS - discusses Baldwin.] Baldwin's books listed. [BALDWIN - says will die writing.]
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