This program is 28 minutes long
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(London: Peter Jennings) Day's events at the London economic summit reviewed.
(London: Brit Hume) Completion of US-USSR strategic arms deal featured; scenes shown of Presidents Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev posing for pictures; details given of the START treaty that will be signed at Moscow summit. [BUSH - says arms deal was not a set deal.] Issue of economic aid to USSR mentioned.
(London: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(London: Jim Laurie) Gorbachev's meeting with the Western leaders featured; scenes shown. [GORBACHEV - (thru translator) says there are difficult times at home.] Western package of technical assistance to USSR outlined. [BUSH - comments on the aid issue.] [British Prime Minister John MAJOR - says USSR must create an environment for change.] Likely response at home for Gorbachev noted. [Russian deputy foreign minister Andrei FEDEROV - comments.] Gorbachev's need to mobilize the political forces to make economic transformation a reality reiterated.
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(London: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Leningrad: David Ensor) Leningrad, USSR , as a case study of how the Soviet system works presented; city scenes shown; details given of how the Communist Party officials act as a shadow power to frustrate reform. [Mayor Anatoly SOBCHAK - comments on the restrictions.] The unwieldy nature of the city council cited. [Council member Kiril SMIRNOV - comments.]
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(London: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Tel Aviv: Dean Reynolds) Reaction in Israel to letter Syrian President Hafez al-Assad sent to President Bush agreeing to peace proposals for the Middle East examined; scenes shown of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, who has reacted to communique from the London economic summit on the issues of the Arab boycott and Israeli settlements in the occupied territories. [Israeli deputy foreign minister Benjamin NETANYAHU - comments.] Israeli accusations against Bush's positions reviewed.
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(London: Peter Jennings) Report on completeness of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's United Nations list of Iraqi nuclear weapons reported.
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(London: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: Bob Zelnick) Controversial black and white photograph that may or may not show American MIAs in Vietnam examined; photograph shown of picture purporting to show Colonel John Robertson, Major Albro Lundy, Junior and Lieutenant Larry Stevens. [Barbara ROBERTSON, assistant Secretary of Defense Carl FORD - talk about photo's authenticity.] Evidence that picture is phony detailed.
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(London: Peter Jennings) Agreement between United States and Philippines to keep its Subic Bay Naval Base, Philippines, for another ten years reported. Decision to give up Clark Air Base, Philippines, due to damage from Mount Pinatubo, Philippines, volcano noted.
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(London: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Capitol Hill: Cokie Roberts) Vote in Senate to overturn the ban on family clinics that receive federal money from telling women about abortion examined; scenes shown from Senate debate. [Senators Orrin HATCH, George MITCHELL, John CHAFEE - comment.] President Bush noted promising to veto the bill.
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(London: Peter Jennings) Decision by American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) to settle discrimination suit involving women who were forced to quit their jobs with Western Electric, now part of American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T), after becoming pregnant in the 1960s and 1970s reported.
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(London: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: George Strait) Study in "New England Journal of Medicine" that exercise can prevent diabetes examined. [University of California Susan HELMRICH - talks about moderate exercise.]
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(London: Peter Jennings) Death of artist Robert Motherwell, founder of abstract expressionism, reported; scenes shown.
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(London: Peter Jennings) Consumer price and housing starts figures for month cited.
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(London: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Fort Worth, Texas: Al Dale) Community organization project to fix up houses abandoned due to failures of the savings and loans that foreclosed them featured; scenes shown. [Liberation Community executive director Bryan STONE, new homeowners Nathan STANDERFORD, Debra MOSELEY - comment.]
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(London: Peter Jennings) Agreement by United States and USSR to eliminate their nuclear weapons, pledge to President Mikhail Gorbachev from the G-7 leaders and problems Gorbachev may face back home reviewed; scenes shown of Gorbachev with the Western leaders.
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