This program is 28 minutes long
#123168
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Crash of United Airlines plane Flight 232 in Sioux City, Iowa, reported; map of plane's route shown. [Voice of witness Tracy HAUSWIRTH - describes watching plane crash.] Description of available information about crash given.
(Studio: Peter Jennings ; DC: Jim Slade) Description of what happens in hydraulic system failures like that affecting downed plane; details given of previous crashes of DC-10s; scenes shown from Mar. 1974 and 1979 crash sites.
#123171
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Moscow, USSR : Rick Inderfurth) Efforts by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to get striking miners back on job in USSR featured; details given of Gorbachev's appeal. [At parliament session, GORBACHEV - (thru translator) comments on coal miners' strike.] Labor situation in Siberia, USSR , and Ukraine, USSR , described; scenes shown of miners' sit-down strikes.
#123172
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Wojciech Jaruzelski reported gaining election as new pres. of Poland.
#123174
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(San Francisco, California: Ken Kashiwahara) Drug czar William Bennett's role in President Bush's administration's war on drugs featured; scenes shown of Bennett on the road; details given of Bennett's proposed plans. [BENNETT - talks about spending money on war on drugs.] Issue of financing these programs mentioned.
#123175
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Monthly figs. for consumer prices and housing starts given. Stk. Mkt. Report
#123177
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Boston, Massachusetts: Tim Johnson) Findings of study in "New England Journal of Med." about role of aspirin in preventing heart attacks in American men reported [Brigham and Women's Hospital's Dr. Charles HENNEKENS - says his doctor prescribed aspirin for him.] [Mt. Sinai Med. Center Dr. Valentin FUSTER - expresses cautionary note about aspirin use.] Animation shown. [Brigham and Women's Hospital's Dr. Marshall WOLF - talks about risks of heart attack.]
#123178
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Bellingham, WA: Gary Shepard) Salmon poaching in Pacific Ocean by Taiwan, Japan and South Korea featured; scenes shown from Coast Guard film of Taiwanese fishing boat that was fishing illegally. [Coast Guard Captain Nick SCHOWENGERDT - comments on case.] [SEACOM spokesperson Warren BALLARD - says fishing treaties say migratory salmon belong to US.] [Fisherman Richard GEORGE - discusses losses.] Coast Guard's role in combatting salmon pirates reported; scenes shown.
#123181
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Tenth anniversary of Sandinista revolution that overthrew Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua reported; scenes shown of celebration in Managua, Nicaragua.
(Moninbol, Nicaragua: Peter Collins) Review of the revolution in Nicaragua featured; scenes shown from town of Moninbol, Nicaragua, in which revolution started. [Resident Rogelio GUZMAN - (thru translator) says people have been dying from hunger since the revolution.] United States role in political events in Nicaragua recalled; details given of Sandinista revolution and subsequent war between Sandinistas and US-backed Contras. [President Dan. ORTEGA - (thru translator) says we are still here 10 years later.] [For. min. Alejandro BENDANA - comments.] Econ. and political situation in Nicaragua reviewed.
#123183
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Crash of United Airlines plane in Sioux City, Iowa, reported; map of plane's route shown. [Voice of survivor Melanie CINCALA - describes plane crash and fire.]
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