This program is 28 minutes long
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Statement from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that Secretary of State James Baker should come to Iraq as a negotiator, not a policeman, reported.
(State Department: John McWethy) Baker's testimony before Congressional committee about United Nations policy in Persian Gulf featured; scenes shown from Capitol Hill. [BAKER - says Hussein shows no sign of complying with United Nations resolutions; talks about how force would be used.] [Senator Christopher DODD, BAKER - debate issue of talks with Iraq.] [Senator Paul SARBANES - says sanctions policy should be sustained.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Buenos Aires: Brit Hume) President Bush's comments on gulf situation during his visit to Argentina on his South American tour featured; scenes shown from Buenos Aires, Argentina. [BUSH - says there will be no concessions in talks with Iraq and it does not seem Saddam Hussein is ready to comply with United Nations resolutions.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Meeting of Hussein, Jordan's King Hussein, PLO leader Yasir Arafat and vice president of Yemen in Baghdad shown. Report introduced.
(Baghdad: Karen Burnes) Groups of Americans and Britons who went to Iraq to bring hostages home featured; scenes shown. [Hostage wife Dawn BAZNER, hostage daughter Peg KEEGAN, her BROTHER-IN-LAW - explain why they came.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Death of British hostage in Iraq reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report prepared for House Banking Committee reported finding that buyers who want to take over assets seized from failed savings and loans are finding themselves snarled in red tape.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Granville County, North Carolina: Linda Pattillo) Update given on ingenious plan to prevent state of North Carolina from taking over land to build a toxic waste incinerator; scenes shown from Granville County, North Carolina. [Community activist John PIKE, MAN, county board of commissioners Michael WARREN - comment on their plan and state's selection of alternative site.] Failure of this unusual citizens' rebellion reiterated.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Findings of study from American Psychological Association on women and depression reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Plans to screen blood donors for AIDS and fact that people from Haiti will no longer be automatically barred from giving blood reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Warning from doctors in Cincinnati, Ohio, that sniffing butane and propane gas has caused deaths of 20 teenagers reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Panama City: Beth Nissen) Panama's government reported calling upon US military to help in case of former chief of police Colonel Eduardo Herrera, who escaped from prison and took over police headquarters in Panama City, Panama; scenes shown of American soldiers arresting his supporters.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Near-collapse of trade talks in Brussels, Belgium, aimed at reforming the world trade system reported; details given of Europeans' position on agricultural subsidies.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Impact of Iraqi agreement to hold talks with United States on oil prices noted. "Stock Market Report".
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Challenger Anatoly Karpov reported winning chess match with champion Gary Kasparov to retie the series.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) President Lyndon Johnson's launching of war on poverty recalled.
(Washington: Rebecca Chase) Talk of a new war on poverty by conservative Republicans, led by US Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp, and liberal Democrats, led by Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, featured; poverty scenes shown; details given of emergence of this new consensus. [KEMP, MOYNIHAN - comment in detail on battle against poverty.] Need to strengthen the family, to demand responsibility for the welfare system and to reward work cited as factors in war on poverty. President Bush recalled naming Kemp to head a new anti-poverty program.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Retiring top crayon maker for Crayola, Emerson Moser, reported to be partially color blind.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New York: John McKenzie) Collection of toy trader Ira Gallen, who buys and sells playthings from the 1950s and 1960s, featured; scenes shown of toys and of commercials used to sell them. [GALLEN - says baby boomers buy these toys because they remind them of the past.]
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