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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(NYC: Richard Threlkeld) Sentencing of Ivan Boesky for his insider trading activities on Wall Street reported; details given, sketches shown. ["American Lawyer" editor-in-chief Steven BRILL - says Boesky got good deal.] [US attorney Rudolph GIULIANI - comments on Boesky's cooperation.] Impact of Boesky's trial on Wall Street noted. [MAN - says things have changed.] Efforts by stk. market and Congress to prevent further illegal insider trading detailed. [New York Stk. Exchange vice president Don. SOLODAR - says better chance of catching criminals than last year] [MAN - says business goes on.] [May 18, 1986, BOESKY - urges graduates to seek wealth.] Scenes shown from "Wall Street", movie inspired by Boesky case. [BRILL - says Boesky gets to keep most of money.] (Artist: Aggie Whelan Kenny)
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(DC: Ann Compton) Refusal of President Reagan to sign Congress budget without inclusion of aid to Contras in bill reported [Senators Robert PACKWOOD, Robert DOLE, Representative Jim WRIGHT - discuss Reagan's threat to veto bills.] Impasse on language of Senator bill giving aid to Contras and allowing CIA to deliver weapons reported [Representative David BONIOR - says bill would undermine peace process in Central American] [Representative Robert MICHEL - comments on bill.] Reagan's opposition to broadcast fairness doctrine include in bill noted. OMB plan in case government ofcs. close due to budget problems noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) White House spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater's response to stmts. by independent prosecutor Whitney North Seymour accusing Reagan admin. of being too tolerant with influence peddlers reported; Michael Deaver mentioned.
#106988
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Gaza Strip: Dean Reynolds) Continuing violence between Israeli and Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territory of Gaza Strip reported; details given, scenes shown of soldiers ordering journalists away. [PALESTINIAN - describes shooting.] Israeli attempts to keep press from telling story of Palestinian unrest reiterated.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Attacks by Iranian gunboat on Norway-flagged tanker and by Iraqi boat on Maltese tanker in Persian Gulf reported; scenes shown.
#106990
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Drop in world oil prices due to oversupply reported Report introduced.
(NYC: Dan Cordtz) Impact of oil imports on United States balance of trade reported [Goldman Sachs spokesperson Robert GIORDANO - discusses issue.] Oil imports from Saudi Arabia noted. Impact of low oil prices on United States oil industry detailed. [Harvard Univ. Bijan MOSSAVAR-RAHMANI - says United States energy security threatened due to dependence onimports.] [Energy Secretary John HERRINGTON - discusses important of Arabian gulf oil.] Impact of lowered oil prices on gasoline prices and automobile industry noted. [Presidential cands. Representative Richard GEPHARDT, Governor Michael DUKAKIS - discuss oil and energy issue.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Consumer prices for last month given; Stk. Mkt. Report
#106993
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Student protests against election of President Roh Tae Woo in South Korea reported; scenes shown. State Department reported finding no evidence of election fraud.
#106994
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(DC: John Martin) Complaints to State Department and Justice Department about conditions in prisons to which Cuban prisoners were moved after recent prison riots in Oakdale, LA, and Atlanta, Georgia, reported; details given, scenes shown. [Cuban Coalition of Atlanta spokesperson Gary LESHAW - discusses plan.] [Wife of detainee, Maria HERRAN -describes conditions at Fort Gordon, Georgia, where husband held.] Map shown of relocation sites for Cuban detainees. [Wife of detainee, Carmen LINARES - discusses husband Jose's case.]
#106997
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Seville, Spain: John Laurence) World chess championship between Gary Kasparov &challenger Anatoly Karpov featured; details given, scenes shown. Match said seen as struggle of old versus new in USSR . [KASPAROV - comments.] Personalities and background of both players detailed. [KASPAROV - discusses approach to chess.] [KARPOV - discusses chess.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Condition of boy, Alvaro Garza, who survived immersion in icy river in Fargo, North Dakota, reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Story of AIDS victim Ryan White featured. [WHITE - tries to think about other things.] Honoring of White and Arcadia, IN, classmates by Governor Robert Orr noted; scenes shown. White's not being allowed to attend school in Kokomo, IN, recalled; scenes shown. [School superintendent J.L. SMITH - describes keeping White out of school.] [MOTHER - says kept daughter out of school.] [MAN - says children could die.] Issue of AIDS-induced panic syndrome discussed. [Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett KOOP - discusses AIDS and hysteria accompanying disease.] [WHITE - discusses being kept out of school.] White's relocation to Hamilton Heights high school in Arcadia reported [ORR - praises community.] [WHITE - hopes for end to discrimination against AIDS victims.] Media's role in White's story mentioned.
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