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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Barrie Dunsmore) Compromise to end President Mikhail Gorbachev's economic blockade of independence-minded republic of Lithuania examined; details given of linking of compromise with plan for a new treaty of union for USSR . [Soviet presidential spokesman Arkady MASLENNIKOV - comments on the compromise.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Response from President Bush's White House to news of end of blockade noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Soviet Parliament reported approving President Mikhail Gorbachev's latest plan to overhaul the economy and planning to debate the issue of raising bread prices.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Move by police in Romania against demonstrators who have been camped out in Bucharest, Romania, to protest presence of former high-ranking Communists in the new Romanian government of President Ion Iliescu reported; scenes shown of street violence.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Demonstrations in both Yugoslavia and Bulgaria protesting elections reported; scenes shown from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where protesters called for free elections, in republic of Serbia, Yugoslavia, and in Sofia, Bulgaria, to protest last week's elections.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Capital Hill: Jim Wooten) Speech by Senator David Durenberger before Senate Ethics Committee, which is investigating him for financial improprieties, featured; scenes shown from meeting. [DURENBERGER - says he acted in good faith.] [Committee's special counsel Robert BENNETT - says he keeps blaming everyone else for his unethical acts.] Choices open to Ethics Committee reviewed.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Constitutional amendment to make flag burning illegal reported clearing House subcommittee with a recommendation that the amendment be rejected.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Galveston: Al Dale) Reports from Coast Guard on status of fire and oil spill from the damaged oil tanker Mega Borg featured; scenes and diagram shown. [US Coast Guard Captain Tom GREENE - explains what will happen to oil slick.] Description of what happened on ship from Captain C.M. Mahidhara quoted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Retail figures for month cited. "Stock Market Report".
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) University of Kentucky reported hiring first female coach for a male basketball team; details given of naming of Bernadette Locke as assistant to head coach Rick Pitino.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Statement from Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that there will be no talks with Palestinians who demand an independent homeland of their own noted. Report introduced.
(State Department: John McWethy) Calculated challenge by Secretary of State James Baker to new Israeli government featured; scenes shown from speech. [BAKER - says there will be no dialogue or peace with this kind of attitude; recites White House telephone number.] Speech noted indicating that Baker and President Bush have given up trying to bring Israel and Palestinians to the bargaining table.
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Statement from Israeli embassy in Washington quoted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Story in "Los Angeles Times" that Israel has become the principal arms supplier to China reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Statement in the "New England Journal of Medicine" from a group of doctors and scientists that United States immigration policy of restricting travel of anyone with AIDS virus will add to spread of AIDS because it will discourage travellers from being tested reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Slaughtering of porpoises by Japanese fishermen because there is no longer much killing of whales reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Tim O'Brien) Issue of death with dignity and the law featured; details recalled of case of auto accident victim Nancy Cruzan, whose parents are seeking to shut off her life support system if Supreme Court allows them to do so. Some states noted allowing a person to appoint a personal representative with "durable power of attorney" to make life or death decisions for him. [ABA John PICKERING - lists who can be appointed.] [Society for the Right to Die Fenella ROUSE - says rights to refuse treatment are needed.] Concept of the "living will" explained. Criticism of the right to die stated. [Anti-Euthanasia Task Force Rita MARKER - says it is a right ......
to kill.] [Presbyterian minister and his wife Harry and Jackie COLE - talk about her miraculous recovery.] Cost and anguish of keeping someone in a brain-damaged, vegetative state detailed. [Society for the Right to Die Rose GASNER - comments on choice.] Distance between law and technology on right-to-die issue noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Steve Shepard) Air Combat USA, which provides simulated air combat experience for novice flyers, featured; scenes shown of dogfight flights through the California hills. [Air Combat USA founder Mike BLACKSTONE - says it is close to real air combat.] [Combat instructor Greg SLOAN - says it's safe.] [Two PARTICIPANTS - praise the experience.]
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