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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Statistics on Americans living in poverty cited.
(Boulder, Colorado: Tom Foreman) State of the economy for consumers examined; case of one family cited. [Denver schoolteacher and wife Donald and Barbara McGREGOR - talk about their economic lifestyle.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Unemployment benefits claims noted.
(New York: Bob Jamieson) Reluctance of banks to lend money to businesses featured; details given of the impact of the credit crunch. [Builder Tom LAPOVITZ, Bank of Boston Wayne AYERS, economist Edward HYMAN - comment.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher said calling on Federal Reserve Board to lower interest rates to generate business.
(Washington: Stephen Aug) Push by Democrats for public works programs to end the recession featured. [Senator Paul SARBANES - comments.] [MOSBACHER, economist David WYSS - talk about interest rates.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(UN: John McWethy) Stalemate between Iraq and United Nations inspection team holding documents on Iraq's nuclear weapons program featured; details given of compromise agreement about those documents. [US ambassador Thomas PICKERING, United Nations Security Council president Jean-Bernard MERIMEE - comment.] [In telephone interview, United Nations inspection team's David KAY - comments.] Iraqi President Saddam Hussein noted dragging his feet as UN tries to strip his arsenal.
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(In the Persian Gulf: Bill Redeker) Another United Nations inspection mission to destroy Iraq's weapons featured; scenes shown of supergun cannon. [Team leader Doug ENGLUND - talks about the gun.] [UN operations chief Alistair LIVINGSTON - comments.] Contingency plans for American forces noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Algiers: Pierre Salinger) Decision by the Palestine National Council to move forward in joining an Arab-Israeli peace conference examined; scenes shown from conference in Algiers, Algeria. [PLO leader Yasir ARAFAT - comments.] Lessening of role of hard-liners, such as Abu Abbas, noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Continued demonstrations in Romania led by coal miners demanding a freeze in prices and an increase in wages reported; scenes shown from Bucharest, Romania.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Likelihood that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas will be confirmed by the full Senate reported. Senator Howell Heflin said deciding to vote against Thomas.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: George Strait) Congressional testimony by AIDS victim Kimberly Bergalis urging AIDS testing of health care workers featured; scenes shown. [BERGALIS, father George BERGALIS - testify.] Opposition to testing by health care workers noted. [Former nurse Barbara FASSBINDER - comments.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Federal Communications Commission crackdown on 900-telephone numbers services reported; new regulations detailed.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Miami: Mark Potter) Today's development in the trial of Manuel Noriega on drug trafficking charges featured; details given of testimony by star witness drug smuggling pilot Floyd Carlton linking Noriega to the Colombian drug trade. (Artist: Carole Kabrin)
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Opening of trial of nine members of the Salvadoran army on charges of murdering six Jesuit priests and others reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Tucson, Arizona: Barry Serafin) Beginning of two-year experiment in which eight people will be sealed in the self-contained world of Biosphere 2 featured; scenes shown from Arizona of the ecosystems inside the Biosphere. [Financial backer Edward BASS, crew member Mark VAN THILLO - talk about the project.] Question of whether the project is really science noted. [Forest ecologist Dr. Donald DAHLSTEN - calls it an adventure.] [Ecologist Dr. Thomas LOVEJOY, project DEFENDER - offer differing opinions on the project.] Project's marketing success with tourists noted. Link of project to cult figure John Allen, who preached a philosophy of ecology and doom at his Synergia Ranch, reviewed. [Former Allen follower Kathleen BURKE - talks about Allen.] [Biosphere projects Margaret AUGUSTINE, BASS - dismiss cult allegations.]
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