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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Capitol Hill: Tim O'Brien) Senate confirmation hearings on nomination of David Souter to Supreme Court featured; scenes shown. [SOUTER - responds to questions from Senators Joseph Biden, Howard Metzenbaum and Edward Kennedy about abortion and civil rights issues.] [National Abortion Rights Action League Kate MICHELMAN - comments on Souter.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Former President Richard Nixon's comment about Supreme Court quoted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Warning from Iraq that the Arab masses may carry out terrorist attacks against United States reported. Report introduced.
(Saudi Arabia: Bill Redeker) Tightening of security at United States military facilities in Saudi Arabia featured; scenes shown to illustrate procedures being taken to protect against terrorism. [Military security police commander Colonel Tom PACK, Captain Lisa CHRISTIAN - comment on terrorism and security.] [Three SOLDIERS - says they are not worried.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Colin Powell shown visiting the troops in Saudi Arabia. Statement from commander of US forces in the gulf, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, about the US military buildup to protect against Iraqi attack against Saudi Arabia reported.
(Pentagon: Bob Zelnick) Iraqi military buildup along Saudi Arabia border, gulf coast and Kuwaiti border reviewed; various military scenes shown.
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Head of United Nations committee on economic sanctions Marjatta Rasi reported accusing Iraq of using food as a weapon by withholding it from foreign nationals stranded in Kuwait.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(State Department: John McWethy) Secretary of State James Baker's proposals to Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze on how to increase the pressure on Iraq through the embargo examined; scenes shown of Baker's meetings with Shevardnadze and President Mikhail Gorbachev and his later visit to Syria. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein mentioned.
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(White House: Brit Hume) President Bush and diplomacy with Iraq featured; details given of his views on success of embargo; scenes shown of Bush and of Iran's Ayatollah Mohammed Ali Khamenei, who called for a holy war against the embargo. [Deputy secretary Lawrence EAGLEBURGER - tells Iraqi ambassador that United States would like to see Bush's address shown on Iraqi television soon.] [Iraqi ambassador to United States Mohamed Sadiq al-MASHAT - responds.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: John Martin) Attempts by Israel to censor "By Way of Deception: The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer", a book critical of the secret police, the Mossad, examined; details given of claim that Israeli agents withheld information that might have prevented the 1983 bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, Lebanon; scenes shown from bombing site. [Author Victor OSTROVSKY - details the court-ordered restrictions placed on him.] [Attorney to the state of Israel Jonathan LERNER - says Israel is concerned that information in book could lead to identification of its Mossad agents.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Johannesburg: Don Kladstrup) Continued black-on-black violence between Zulu group Inkatha and African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa featured; scenes shown of massacre on commuter train outside black townships near Johannesburg. [Two WITNESSES - comment.] [Nelson MANDELA - says government could stop the violence.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Announcement by Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher and United States businessmen of joint ventures with USSR partners reported; scenes shown from Moscow. Report introduced.
(Moscow: Jim Laurie) Problems Western firms face in doing business with USSR , a country unfamiliar with capitalism, featured; scenes shown of United States business signs in Moscow. [Soviet economist Rair SIMONYAN - says it is hard for an entrepreneur to operate in USSR .] Pizza Hut company's venture cited as an example. [Pizza Hut manager Andy RAFALAT - says the concept of business does not exist.] [Soviet business student Anatoly DEVATCHINSKI - (thru translator) says you can't rush USSR into a free- market economy.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New York: Jeff Greenfield) Crisis of crime in New York City examined; scenes shown from film "On the Town" and of crime stories on New York television news programs. [Three PEOPLE - say the city is going downhill.] ["Newsday" columnist Jimmy BRESLIN - says it's "murder."] [Mayor David DINKINS, Governor Mario CUOMO - comment.] Statistics on crime in major cities outlined on screen. Reasons why crime and media coverage of crime is different in New York detailed; scenes shown from the city streets.
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