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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(White House: Brit Hume) President Bush, the Democrats, the Republicans, the budget and party politics featured. [Representative Newt GINGRICH - criticizes Congressional Democrats.] [Representative Silvio CONTE - says we are facing a crisis.] [Representative Charles SCHUMER - says Republicans are trying to pull us into a hole.] [Representative Robin TALLON - tells budget summiteers to get back to work.] House noted voting for record spending since budget summit talks began.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Allan Dodds Frank) Review given of government's program to sell off real estate of failing savings and loan institutions; details given of investments by Ford Motor Company and men like financier Ronald Perelman, Texas billionaire Robert Bass and former Treasury Secretary William Simon in which they bought up S&Ls in turn for billions in tax breaks. [Yesterday, former Federal Home Loan Bank Board chairman M. Danny WALL - explains these transactions.] [Resolution Trust Corp. chairman L. William SEIDMAN - cites costs.] [Senator Don RIEGLE - says there was no risk to investors.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Decision by Senate to ban outside speaking fees reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Port of Spain, Trinidad: Peter Collins) Ending of hostage crisis in Trinidad with surrender of Moslem rebel leader Abu Bakr and his men featured; scenes shown from Port of Spain, Trinidad; details given of breakdown of siege when Prime Minister Arthur Robinson was released. [REBEL - comments.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Meeting of Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze for talks on United States technical assistance to the Soviet economy and on settlement of war in Afghanistan reported; scenes shown from their Irkutsk, Siberia, USSR , fishing trip.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Forming of joint committee by President Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin to make basic changes in Soviet economy reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Bob Zelnick) Housing problem in USSR that is exacerbated by return of many thousands of soldiers and their dependents from Eastern Europe featured. [Military OFFICIAL - (thru translator) says government is to blame for the housing problem.] [Soldier and wife Nikolai and Marina SOBLIN - (thru translator) talk about their living conditions.] [Anatoly SCHERBA - (thru translator) says many want to resign.] Possibility that disgruntled young officers will become another force for instability in USSR noted. [USA-Canada Institution Andrei KORTUNOV - says they may turn to nationalism or radicalism.] Need for big dose of Western aid to solve housing problem noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) USSR reported placing two cosmonauts into space as replacements on the Mir Space Station; scenes shown of launch.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Breakdown in talks between Iraq and Kuwait over oil claims reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Filing of murder charges in Philippines against three American drug agents detailed.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Winds from Hurricane Bertha reported causing keel of Greek freighter Corazon to break resulting in crew deaths; photograph shown from New England coast.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Galveston: Linda Pattillo) Weekend spill of oil from two barges in Galveston Bay, Texas, featured; scenes shown of oil slick in bay and from bird-nesting island. [Texas parks and wildlife department Larry McKINNEY - says oil is toxic to animals.] [Texas water commissioner Buck WYNNE - says it is a mess.] Impact of spill on area's wildlife predicted; further scenes shown. [US Fish and Wildlife Department Dave PETERSON - says marsh is in ruins.] Plans to use oil-eating bacteria against oil noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Florida Governor Bob Martinez reported releasing Roswell Gilbert, who had been imprisoned for murdering his wife who suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report in "New England Journal of Medicine" of use of interferon in treatment of hepatitis B outlined.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Decision by administration to fund research into "opportunistic infections," the diseases that AIDS patients usually die from, reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(University of Illinois: Bill Blakemore) Teaching of illiterate adults to read featured; scenes shown of adults practicing reading. [Three MEN - explain why they never learned to read.] [University of Illinois professor George McCONKIE - emphasizes repetition.] Teaching techniques reviewed and shown. [Two MEN - comment on learning.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Ninetieth birthday of England's Queen Mother featured; historical scenes shown from World War II of king and queen amidst London's rubble and of "Queen Mum" among the people later.
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