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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Mike Lee) Statement from President Mikhail Gorbachev that he will stay in power to help overcome the crisis in the USSR as the new commonwealth emerges featured; his position on maintaining central control of nuclear weapons and other issues outlined. Gorbachev said criticizing both the United States for stabbing him in the back and the West for moving slowly on economic aid. Prediction by Russian President Boris Yeltsin on future course of the economy under the commonwealth noted; Moscow scenes shown of demonstration against planned food price hikes. The high price of free market reforms in the Soviet union reiterated.
(State Department: Rick Inderfurth) Reaction to administration's call for an international conference to coordinate humanitarian aid to the USSR featured. [German television Peter FREY - says United States help is too late.] [On December 12 "Nightline", Republican presidential candidate Patrick BUCHANAN - says United States should deal with its own problems.] [Senator Richard LUGAR - says President Bush should act boldly with regard to USSR .] Secretary of State James Baker noted heading for USSR to talk about aid issues.
(Studio: Carole Simpson) Coverage of demise of USSR on "This Week with David Brinkley" announced.
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Walter Rodgers) The drug problem in the USSR examined; scenes shown from Moscow of young addicts. [TEEN - (thru translator) says drugs are good business.] [Heroin addict "SVETLANA" - (thru translator) defines her addiction.] [Hospital administrator Andrei DANILENKO - explains how serious the drug problem is.] Raid on an opium center in Georgia shown. [MUSCOVITE - (thru translator) comments.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Russian government reported allowing aged former East German leader Erich Honecker to stay in his refuge until Monday when he must return to Germany; scenes shown of demonstrations against that decision.
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Criticism of President Bush's handling of the economy by '92 Democratic presidential candidates Senator Bob Kerrey and Paul Tsongas reported; scenes shown from state party convention in Orlando, Florida. Photo shown of Bush with Mexico's President Carlos Salinas de Gortari at Camp David, where they renewed a free trade agreement.
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Washington: Steve Shepard) Retailers' efforts to get shoppers to spend this holiday season featured; scenes shown of various promotions and services to lure customers. [American Enterprise Institution Martin KOSTERS, SHOPPER, Bloomingdale's president Jeff SHERMAN, SHOPPER - comment.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) 200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights noted; American Bar Association survey finding that most Americans do not know what it is cited.
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Honolulu: Ken Kashiwahara) Warning from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the Nature Conservancy that the battle to save Hawaii's flora and fauna is being lost featured; scenes shown of Hawaii's environment, where civilization has encroached on wildlife preserves. [Nature Conservancy Kelvin TAKETA - labels Hawaii the extinction capital.] [Hawaii department of land and natural resources William PATY - talks about the losses.] Efforts of biologists to fight extinction detailed; various endangered species shown. [Fish and Wildlife Service Robert SMITH - comments.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Studio: Ray Gandolf) Highlights from pro football game between Chicago Bears-Tampa Bay Buccaneers shown. Announcement by Kareem Abdul- Jabbar that he might come out of retirement to play basketball so that some of his salary could go to help former teammate Earvin "Magic" Johnson with AIDS research reported. Lighting of the Olympic torch in France for ceremonies preceding the '92 games in Albertville, France, shown. American fencing champion Peter Westbrook profiled; scenes shown from his New York City fencing school for inner city kids. [WESTBROOK, three KIDS, sixth grader Langston GRIFFIN, GIRL - talk about the sport.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Salisbury, MD: Jed Duvall) Joseph House Village, which helps those who are homeless or close to it, featured; scenes shown from Salisbury, MD, residence complex developed by a Roman Catholic nun. [Resident Gina COPELAND, manager Richard DINGES - talk about the program.] [Builder Sister MARY Elizabeth - talks about the village complex as an alternative to welfare and about her own simple life.] [Resident Mary Ellen MATAT - comments.]
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