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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Map shown of route of President Bush's trip to Australia, Singapore, South Korea and Japan, accompanied by a group of business executives.
(Honolulu: Brit Hume) The economic purposes behind Bush's trip featured; scenes shown of Bush at Andrews Air Force Base, MD, and at stopover at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii. [BUSH - says the focus of the trip is jobs and the expansion of trade markets in countries that have been closed to US.]
(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Washington: Stephen Aug) Elements of trade between United States and Japan examined; details given of restrictions limiting sales of American automobiles in Japan. [On December 9, Chrysler chairman Lee IACOCCA - says he wants to sell more Jeeps in Japan.] [Economic Strategy Institution Clyde PRESTOWITZ - cites cost of Japanese inspection procedures.] [Institution for International Economics C. Fred BERGSTEN - says corporate executives may narrow Bush's focus.] Japanese position on trade issues noted.
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Warning from former Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze that nuclear weapons might fall into wrong hands noted.
(Moscow: John Donvan) Summit meeting of the commonwealth states to discuss both the division of the power of the old Soviet army and their economic differences featured; scenes shown from Minsk, Byelorussia. States of Moldavia, Ukraine and Azerbaijan noted wanting independent armies. [Russian President Boris YELTSIN - (thru translator) talks about a compromise.] Russia's plans to lift price controls outlined. [On Moscow food line, WOMAN - (thru translator) opposes price rise.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Borawena, Poland: Jerry King) The road to capitalism in Poland featured; scenes shown from Borawena, Poland; cases of two Poles, one successful, one unsuccessful, under the new system outlined. [Polish investment adviser Ewa PUCHINSKI - lists American companies she works for.] [Farmer Henryk ZUDUNIAK, WIFE - (thru translator) say the free market has not helped.] ["Nowa Europa" editor Karol SZYNDZIELORZ - talks about the Poles' dream.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Opposition forces reported preparing to storm the parliament to oust the republic's president; scenes shown of fighting in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Funerals for CIA chief in Beirut William Buckley and Marine Colonel William Higgins, who were killed while hostages in Lebanon, reported; scenes shown from services.
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Explosion of car bomb in Lebanon reported; scenes shown from Beirut.
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Palestinians reported breaking up a West Bank rally led by Faisal al-Husseini, who helped organize the Middle East peace talks, while Jewish settlers rampaged through the Palestinian town of Hebron, West Bank.
(In the Israeli-occupied West Bank: Dean Reynolds) Week of violence in Israeli-occupied West Bank reviewed; scenes shown of Jewish settlers patrolling the streets and taunting the Palestinians. [Rabbi BLASS, settler Moshe ROBBINS - defend their position.] [Hebrew University Menachem BRINKER - fears revenge on both sides.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Supreme Court ruling allowing Native Americans to set up gambling casinos recalled.
(San Diego: Morton Dean) ABC News investigation into who profits from gambling on Indian land featured; scenes shown from Sycuan reservation near San Diego. [Sycuan tribe Chief Dan TUCKER - defends gambling.] Investigation findings that tribes are being cheated by outsiders detailed. [Former FBI agent Jim ELROY - says the Indian people are getting the shaft.] Control of gambling on the Barona and Viejas reservations by unsavory characters reported; scenes shown. [Barona tribe's Catherine HOLSBO - says tribe is getting nothing.] [ELROY - says there is no control by the federal government.] Supposed role of National Indian Gaming Commission noted. Actions by state of California against casinos on Sycuan, Barona and Viejas reservations noted.
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Springfield, Massachusetts: John McKenzie) Celebrations of Kwanzaa in which African Americans can honor their past featured; scenes shown from festivals in Springfield, Massachusetts, and across the nation. [Two black PEOPLE, Kwanzaa founder Ron KARENGA, black BOY - talk about the importance of Kwanzaa to the black culture.]
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