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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(West Palm Beach, Florida: Mark Potter) Not guilty verdict in the rape trial of William Kennedy Smith featured; scenes shown from the courtroom. [SMITH - expresses gratitude.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Reaction from the accuser's lawyer David Roth quoted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: George Strait) Congressional hearings on the lack of progress in the fight against breast cancer featured. [Before committee, National Breast Cancer Institute Ruth SPEAR, Breast Cancer Coalition Dr. Susan LOVE, General Accounting Office Richard LINSTER - talk about areas of research.] National Cancer Institute statement mentioned.
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Abilene, Texas: Chris Bury) Screening for breast cancer among women with no health insurance featured; scenes shown from Abilene, Texas, where there is a federally funded program for free checkups. [High-risk group woman Mary CARTER, Texas department of health Barbara REILLEY, medical care mission Dr. John HARPER, president's cancer panel chairman Dr. Harold FREEMAN - comment on breast cancer and funding.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Graph on rates for lung, colon and breast cancers shown.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Cleveland: James Walker) Hospital care for children and adults without health insurance featured; scenes shown from neonatal care unit and emergency room in Cleveland's University Hospital, which is trying to maintain the level of care in the face of financial pressures. [Chief of pediatrics Dr. William SPECK - talks about children's illnesses.] [University Hospital executive director Farah WALTERS - comments.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Findings of ABC News/"Money" magazine poll on consumer confidence in the economy reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Speculation that General Motors Corporation will close several plants and eliminate jobs reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Orion movie studio reported filing for bankruptcy.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Moscow: John Donvan) The power struggle in the USSR between President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who announced that the republics of Armenia and Kirghizia have agreed to join Russia, Ukraine and Byelorussia in a new commonwealth to replace the union, featured; scenes shown from Moscow. The future of Soviet armed services in a union or commonwealth examined.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report by United Nations inspection team that a workshop for making chemical weapons was found in Iraq noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Likelihood that United Nations will repeal its resolution equating Israel's Zionism with racism reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Jackson, Mississippi: Linda Pattillo) Effort by Jackson, Mississippi, organization, Parents for Public Schools, to reverse 20 years of white flight from the public schools featured; scenes shown from 1971 protest against court- ordered desegregation. [Parents for Public Schools Sandra MURLEY, Gerald McWHORTER - promote integrated education.] Group's ad campaign and scenes from integrated elementary schools shown. [School superintendent Benjamin CANADA - talks about the changes.] [Parent Anne ROBERTSON - talks about shifting her children to public schools.] [Parents for Public Schools founder Dick MOLPUS, CANADA - comment.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(San Francisco: Ken Kashiwahara) Revival of the California gray whale featured; scenes shown from off the coast; details given of the issue of whether or not they should be removed from the endangered species list. [Marine Mammal Fund Stan MINASIAN, Greenpeace Ben DEEBLE - talk about whales' recovery.] [NOAA Nancy FOSTER - says the goal is to get them off the protection list.]
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