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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(London: Pierre Salinger) Disclosure that top British defense factories and arms dealers supplied weapons to internationally known terrorists investigated; details given of joint research by ABC News and London's "The Sunday Times" that BCCI was aware of the deals by account holder Samir Najmeddin, the top business operator for the Abu Nidal terrorist group. Role of British arms dealer John Niden, who ran a company called Titan International Freight, and dealt through BCCI to sell arms to PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) in Yemen and the IRA (Irish Republican Army) outlined.
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Arrival of new United Nations team in Iraq to inspect its nuclear installations shown.
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Resignation of President Mikhail Gorbachev's adviser Aleksandr Yakovlev, the "godfather of perestroika," reported. Agreement by Communist central committee to Gorbachev's latest reform program noted.
(Moscow: Rick Inderfurth) Gorbachev's efforts to demilitarize Soviet society examined; scenes shown from Sverdlovsk, USSR , tank factory that is supposedly being converted from making tanks to making washing machines. [USA-Canada Institution Sergei ROGOV - says the military-industrial complex remains a state within a state.] Development of the first supersonic business jet by a former military plane maker cited as an example of conversion.
(Studio: Carole Simpson) Interview with Gorbachev on Monday's evening news announced.
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Havana: John Quinones) Promise from Cuban leader Fidel Castro to keep his country on the Communist path featured; scenes shown from his speech; details given of life in Cuba as the ties with USSR are waning. [CASTRO - (thru translator) says we will never return to the past.] Economic problems outlined. [WOMAN - (thru translator) says there is scarcity.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Statement from confessed mass murderer Jeffrey Dahmer that he killed his first victim in his Bath, Ohio, hometown noted.
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Rise in number of claims for unemployment benefits noted.
(Capitol Hill: Sheilah Kast) Plans for Congress to pass bills extending unemployment benefits featured; scenes shown from Washington, DC, protest by people whose benefits have run out. [Unemployed Rick NEILABOVICH - comments.] [Council of Economic Advisers chairman Michael BOSKIN - opposes spending increases.] [Political analyst Kevin PHILLIPS - says the Democrats are saying that to win in campaign '92 they will have to back populism.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) South Africa's largest labor organization said threatening to strike to protest clandestine payments by the white government to a rival union affiliated with Inkatha. Report introduced.
(Soweto: Richard Sergei) The children who work in South Africa's coal yards featured; scenes shown from Soweto. [Soweto civic leader Dr. Nthato MOTLANA, photographer Peter MAGUBANE - describe this way of life.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Studio: Ray Gandolf) Highlights from the introduction of Jan Stenerud, Earl Campbell and John Hannah into the pro football Hall of Fame, from the Hall of Fame exhibition game and from a horse race won by Lost Mountain shown. Report introduced.
(New York: Armen Keteyian) Football player Art Schlichter, who was thrown out of the NFL (National Football League) for compulsive gambling, profiled; game scenes shown of him in the NFL (National Football League) and now playing arena football. [SCHLICHTER - comments.] The business of sports gambling outlined. [Psychiatric Institution Dr. Ralph RYBACK - talks about Schlichter's drug medication that calms him.] [California assemblyman Dick FLOYD - says he does not believe in evils of gambling.] [NFL legal counsel Jay MOYER - responds.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Judy Muller) The life of pets in Los Angeles featured; scenes shown of various doggie services. [Steve MAY - shows earthquake kits for pets.] [Waterbeds for pets Val SWAYZE, animal behaviorist Richard POLSKY, dog owner Gilda LONGER, pet psychic Lydia HIBBEY - comment on dogs.]
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