This program is 28 minutes long
#128210
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Stephen Aug) Decision by President Bush's administration to take Japan off the unfair trading list because of Japanese promises to modify trading practices examined. [US trade representative Carla HILLS - says United States is solving trade friction with Japan.] [Senator John DANFORTH - says decision means administration will be satisfied with promises, not performance.] [Vice President Dan QUAYLE - comments.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) gross national product figures for last quarter cited. "Stock Market Report".
#128212
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Houston: Jim Slade) Review given of day's work on space shuttle Discovery and mission control in getting Hubble Space Telescope working featured. [NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Steve TERRY - explains what happened.] Scenes shown of view from shuttle and inside spacecraft. [Astronaut Steve HAWLEY - talks about finding watch lost on a previous mission.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Description from Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov of preconditions for talks between Lithuania and Soviet government noted.
(Vilnius: Jim Laurie) Impact of President Mikhail Gorbachev's economic sanctions on Lithuania featured; scenes shown of blockade in Vilnius, Lithuania, USSR , by Russian truck drivers and of draft card burning rally. Restatement of political positions on independence issues by Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis and Prime Minister Kazimiera Prunskiene outlined.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Doctors' discovery of growth on vocal cords of freed hostage Robert Polhill reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Barring of tourists from religious sites in East Jerusalem to protest Jewish settlement in city's Christian sector reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Return to South Africa of five exiled leaders of the African National Congress to prepare for talks with the white minority government noted; scenes shown from Capetown.
(Johannesburg: Richard Sergei) Growing white extremism in South Africa in wake of release of Nelson Mandela featured; scenes shown from town of Welkom, South Africa. [Gun shop owner Anton BOTHA - says no more guns are available.] [Black WOMAN - describes conditions in town.] [White woman Sue JEWELL - describes picture she took of black man being beaten.] [White MAN, white security Hennie MULLER - comment on blacks.] [Ministry of law and order Brigadier Leon MELLET - says radicals can cause damage.] [Afrikaner resistance movement Peit RUDOLF - says we will have to resort to the bullet.] Courses of action open to white extremists reviewed.
#128220
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Jeanne Meserve) Problems with automated machinery used by United States Postal Service examined; scenes shown of high-speed sorters that cannot read stamp denominations. [Assistant postmaster general Arthur PORWICK - says machines cannot be modified.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Cotulla, Texas: Linda Pattillo) Solution to overcrowding prisons by building of jails in small towns featured; scenes shown from town of Sneedville, Tennessee, which is making a profit by keeping out-of-state prisoners in its county jail. [Sheriff Gene GIBSON - talks about the economics of keeping prisoners.] Building of a jail in town of Cotulla, Texas, to make money noted; scenes shown. [Mayor Bill COTULLA, La Salle County, Texas, sheriff Darwin AVANT - say we need jobs.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(No location given: Jackie Judd) Dolphin swim programs featured; scenes shown of people swimming with bottlenose dolphins. [Two WOMEN - comment.] Opposition of some environmentalists to these programs explained. [Ron CANNING - says dolphins are symbols of freedom.] [Trainer Joanne HAYES - talks about what we can learn from dolphins.] Government noted planning to decide whether or nor these experimental programs can continue.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Lava from Kilauea volcano reported claiming more houses in Hawaii; scenes shown from Kalapana, Hawaii.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Photojournalist Igor Kostin, who photographed the devastation at the site of the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl, USSR , profiled; his Chernobyl photos shown. [KOSTIN - (thru translator) says Chernobyl is like a magnet to me; describes his feelings while there and the suffering that happened.] Kostin's own radiation poisoning noted. Kostin's background reviewed; his photos shown.
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