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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Tim O'Brien) Government's decision to drop charges against Oliver North for his involvement in the Iran/Contra case featured; details given of reasons for reversal of North's conviction. [NORTH - comments.] [Independence counsel Lawrence WALSH, Senator Howell HEFLIN - comment on immunity issue.] Implications of today's decision for case of John Poindexter and other Iran/Contra figures outlined.
#136938
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: John Martin) First day of confirmation hearings for CIA director nominee Robert Gates featured; scenes shown from hearings focusing on Gates' knowledge of the Iran/Contra events while he was number two man at the CIA. [Senator Bill BRADLEY - comments.] [GATES - reads statement; answers questions from Senator David Boren about role of Clair George in diversion of Contra funds.] Committee's plans to attack Gates on his personal assessment of the USSR that caused unnecessary military expenditures outlined.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Fifth and final day of Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas reported; scenes shown; findings of ABC News poll outlined on screen.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Opening of prosecutor's case against Manuel Noriega reported; details given of effort to link Noriega to Medellin drug cartel.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Findings of ABC News poll on President Bush's decision to delay aid to Israel outlined on screen. Report introduced.
(Jerusalem: John McWethy) Emotional opposition in Israel to positions of Bush and visiting Secretary of State James Baker on United States loan guarantees for Soviet Jews featured; scenes shown of anti-Baker protest. [BAKER - talks about his discussions with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir.] Need to resolve this dispute quickly noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) President of Kazakhstan reported telling visiting Secretary of State James Baker that he will insist on sharing power with the Soviet central government.
(Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan: Jim Bittermann) History of Soviet rule in the republic of Kazakhstan examined; scenes shown of the Kazakh people and of the Aral Sea, poisoned in an ill-conceived Soviet plan to grow more cotton. Extent of pollution-related illness in Kazakhstan detailed. [Former soldier at nuclear test site Anatoly GEVCHENKO - (thru translator) says we were frightened to talk about the dangers of working there.] [Kazakhstan President Nursultan NAZARBAYEV - (thru translator) says Moscow had treated us as a colony.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Resignation of Swedish Premier Ingvar Carlsson following yesterday's election reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Judy Muller) Accusation by actor Brad Davis, who died of AIDS, that Hollywood has a double standard about AIDS featured; scenes shown from last night's fund-raiser. [Davis' WIFE - quotes Davis' manuscript; talks about his AIDS.] [AIDS Project Los Angeles Mark SENAK - says Davis was afraid to file insurance claims.] [Casting director David GRAHAM - says actors with AIDS will have to keep it a secret to get jobs.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Boston: Barry Serafin) Investigation by International Wildlife Coalition of toxic waste dump in the ocean at Massachusetts Bay examined; underwater scenes shown. [International Wildlife Coalition project director David WILEY - comments.] Fisherman noted getting their lines tied up in the barrels dumped there. [Fishermen Steve LOZINAK, Salvatore LAGRASSO - comment.] [Man who did dumping in 1940s and 1950s, "the atomic garbage man," George PERRY - describes his disposal technique.] Site of Perry's dumping shown on map. [Fisherman Frank MIRACHI - backs Perry's site.] Discrepancy between where dumping is being investigated and where Perry claims to have done his dumping examined. [EPA regional administrator Julie BALLOGNA, Representative Gerry STUDDS - comment.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Suspension of Atlanta Braves player Otis Nixon for failing a drug test noted.
(Atlanta: Dick Schaap) Baseball's first place team Atlanta Braves featured; scenes shown from games and of governor leading fans in the "tomahawk chop." [Governor Zell MILLER, Atlanta columnist Furman BISHER, players Steve AVERY - comment.]
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