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(Moscow: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Brit Hume) The US-USSR summit featured; scenes shown of Presidents Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev in various Moscow locales. Bush said stating he will ask Congress to grant USSR most favored nation status. [BUSH - makes speech listing demands for Soviet reform.] Bush shown with Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
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(Moscow: Peter Jennings) Agreement between President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian President Boris Yeltsin on a system to collect taxes which takes the central government and nine of the republics closer to a new union treaty reported.
(Moscow: Jim Laurie) Yeltsin's actions on this summit day featured; scenes shown of Yeltsin in Moscow. [YELTSIN - (thru translator) responds to Gorbachev's opposition to his ban of the Communist Party in the workplace.] The need that both men have for each other reiterated.
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(Moscow: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Barrie Dunsmore) Cooperative effort by United States and USSR to co- sponsor a Middle East peace conference featured; scenes shown of Secretary of State James Baker with Soviet foreign minister Aleksandr Bessmertnykh. [BAKER - comments.] Baker noted trying to get Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir to commit Israel to a peace conference, while the Soviets are trying to get PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) leader Yasir Arafat to aid in keeping the Palestinians as flexible as possible.
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(Moscow: Peter Jennings) News from Iraq reported; details given of Iraq's latest attempt to get sanctions lifted.
(Sulamaniyah, Iraq: Jim Bittermann) Movement of frightened Kurds into the hills of northern Iraq once more featured; scenes shown from a tent city and of new refugees passing old refugees, who are returning from Iran. [Kurdish WOMAN - (thru translator) says she does not trust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.] [UN High Commission Carrel FOUBERT - comments.]
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(Moscow: Peter Jennings) Promise from South African President F.W. de Klerk to stop all secret funding of any political parties reported; scenes shown. His demotion yesterday of two cabinet members who provided secret funds to a black organization that opposes Nelson Mandela's African National Congress noted.
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(Moscow: Peter Jennings) Two Yugoslavian government jets reported bombing Croatian town.
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(Studio: Diane Sawyer) Two liberal groups, People for the American Way and the Women's Legal Defense Fund, reported announcing their opposition to the Supreme Court nomination of Clarence Thomas, while Labor Secretary Lynn Martin announced she is heading a women's group that will support the nomination. Report introduced.
(Washington: Tim O'Brien) Criticism of Thomas' management style while he headed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under President Ronald Reagan examined; details given of charges by EEOC district director Lynn Bruner against Thomas. [Representative Tom LANTOS - defends Bruner's role as whistle-blower.] [Former EEOC officials Ed VALENZUELA, Frank QUINN - say they were demoted following criticisms.] Judge Robert Schnacke's ruling in favor of Quinn quoted.
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(Studio: Diane Sawyer) Federal appeals court reported upholding the conviction on tax evasion charges of hotel queen Leona Helmsley.
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(Studio: Diane Sawyer) Home sales figures for month cited. "Stock Market Report".
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(Studio: Diane Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Stockton, California: Brian Rooney) Danger to the delta smelt fish from pumping of fresh water out of California delta waters featured; scenes shown. [Biologists Dale SWEETNAM, Peter MOYLE - comment.] Description given of this classic ecological battle between man and nature. [Los Angeles metro water district Duane GEORGESON - expresses concern that drinking water supply may be interrupted.]
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(Studio: Diane Sawyer) Suspension of six Los Angeles police officers for watching the beating of Rodney King reported.
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(Moscow: Peter Jennings) A trip up the road from Moscow to Leningrad, USSR , featured; scenes shown of farmers selling foodstuffs on the roadside and from town of Solizhnagorsk, USSR . [Two FARMERS, three WOMEN, two MEN - (thru translator) complain about their income, shortages, costs and President Mikhail Gorbachev.] Scenes shown from another small village in "timeless Russia."
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