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(White House: Brit Hume) President Bush's address to Congress tonight previewed. [Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Colin POWELL - says military buildup needs to continue.] Problem with budget deficit noted. [In car, Representative Silvio CONTE - says agreement is not near.] Bush's foreign policy goal of a new era in which United States and USSR cooperate to make the United Nations an effective force for peace outlined.
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Tonight's coverage of Bush's speech and the Democratic response previewed.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Senator Sam Nunn's criticism of role of Arab nations in the Persian Gulf crisis mentioned.
(Saudi Arabia: Bill Redeker) Role of Arab multinational force along the front at the Kuwaiti border featured; scenes shown from deployment area; details given of criticism of their potential as a fighting force. [Saudi Arabian army Colonel MOHAMMAD - comments.] Importance of images in this standoff with Iraq explained.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: Bob Zelnick) Question of what the military knows about what is going on inside of Iraq and Kuwait addressed; details given of recent incident in which United States intelligence lost track of where Iraqi troops were located. Implications of Air Force decision to deactivate the SR-71 Blackbird spy planes used in intelligence gathering detailed. [Senator John GLENN - explains how SR-71 fills in material gathered by intelligence satellites.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Countries of Austria, Bangladesh, Czechoslovakia, Greece and Switzerland reported pulling their diplomats out of Kuwait. Changing diplomatic relations between Iran and Iraq updated.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Stephen Aug) Report from General Accounting Office that FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) fund that protects bank deposits is weak and near bankruptcy examined. [US Comptroller General Charles BOWSHER - says bank failures could exhaust fund.] Scenes shown from Senate Banking Committee session.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Boston: Tim Johnson) Study in "Journal of the American Medical Association" about health care in hospitals for insured versus uninsured patients examined. [New England Medical Center Dr. Mark WENNEKER - says uninsured and Medicaid patients don't receive some procedures.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Jim Slade) Prize-winning tomatoes grown from seeds that orbited on space satellite featured; scenes shown. [Teacher Roger HOFER - says his tomatoes won fair's blue ribbon.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Crash of Peruvian airplane in Atlantic Ocean reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Barrie Dunsmore) Debate in USSR over how to restructure the weak economy featured; scenes shown; details given of endorsement by President Mikhail Gorbachev of a radical economic program proposed by economist Stanislav Shatalin and supported by Russian federation president Boris Yeltsin. [GORBACHEV - (thru translator) backs Shatalin plan.] [Economist Alexei IZIUMOV - explains the plan.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Oxnard, California: Carole Simpson) The paper chase in the bureaucracy of the welfare system examined; scenes shown from welfare office in Oxnard, California. [Carmen SANCHEZ - explains her needs.] Dehumanizing aspects of the welfare application process cited. [Ventura County welfare department James ISOM, Lupe SALDIVAR, Estella DURAN, supervisor Madge SCHAEFER - comment on threats, paperwork and the process.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Tomorrow's segment on welfare system in Delaware previewed.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(No location given: Linda Pattillo) Single parents in the military who have been, or may be, sent to the Persian Gulf featured; scenes shown from Saudi Arabia; three cases detailed. [Denise O'HARA - talks about leaving her daughter with relatives.] [Eight-year-old and mother Antoinette and Scarlet WILLIAMS - comment.] [Single father reservist Phil MEYERS - talks about possibility of being called up.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Tonight's special on the gulf crisis previewed.
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