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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Jim Laurie) The new political order in the USSR after President Mikhail Gorbachev cajoled the Congress of People's Deputies into accepting a union plan featured; scenes shown; details given of how the interim government will work. [GORBACHEV - (thru translator) says the old congress must make way for a confederation of sovereign states or disband.] [Soviet Congress deputy Georgi SHAKNAZAROV - (thru translator) talks about the transition period.] Questions raised about whether the central government or the republics will control the currency, the military etc. [USA-Canada Institution Viktor KREMENYUK - says it is unclear what currency will be used.] [Soviet defense minister General Yevgeny SHAPOSHNIKOV - (thru translator) talks about the armed forces.] Adjournment of the People's Congress for the last time noted.
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Tonight's town meeting with Gorbachev and Russian President Boris Yeltsin announced.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(In the independent republic of Dnestr: Jim Bittermann) Ethnic problems within the newly independent republic of Moldavia featured; scenes shown from the breakaway region of Dnestr within Moldavia; map shown. [WOMAN - (thru translator) comments.] [Dnestr's acting government HEAD - (thru translator) hopes for help from Moscow.] Concern that independence may bring conflict and chaos noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Miami: Mark Potter) Opening of trial of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega on drug charges featured; scenes shown; details given of cases to be presented by the prosecution and defense. [Defense attorney Frank RUBINO, former federal prosecutor Richard GREGORIE - talk about jury selection.] Prosecution witnesses drug pilot Floyd Carlton, former Panamanian military commander Luis del Cid and Noriega's BCCI banker Amjad Awan named.
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Money laundering charges in the BCCI bank scandal case and the link to Noriega mentioned.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Providence: Bill Greenwood) State commission report in Rhode Island accusing political leaders and bankers of using inside information to get their own money out of banks and credit unions that had their accounts frozen featured; scenes shown from protest at the state capital. [Chief investigator Jeffrey TITES - says insiders knew RISDIC was sinking.] [Depositor Jane TENBERG - criticizes governor.] [Governor Bruce SUNDLUN - responds.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Announcement by Procter and Gamble that it made an error in judgement by having police search Cincinnati, Ohio, phone records to find out who leaked company information to the "Wall Street Journal" reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Agreement by makers of pesticide parathion to cuts its use in response to Environmental Protection Agency efforts to get it banned due to possible links to deaths of farm workers reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Death of swing era band leader Charlie Barnet reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Tel Aviv: Dean Reynolds) Push by Israel for United States loan guarantees to take care of Soviet immigrants despite pressure from President Bush's administration to link guarantees to a Middle East peace conference featured. [Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak SHAMIR - comments.] Arab concern that loan would enable Israel to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied territories noted. [Israeli journalist Akiva ELDAR - says Shamir would choose settlements over money.] Shamir's belief that pro- Israel lobby on Capitol Hill can override the White House noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Company in Taiwan reported manufacturing the first edible dinnerware.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Fort Wayne, IN: Beth Nissen) Status of President Bush's administration's campaign against illegal drugs examined; scenes shown from Fort Wayne, IN, to illustrate facets of its drug problems. [Drug czar Bob MARTINEZ - says we have made progress.] [Fort Wayne police officer Jerome BOSTIC, resident Carolyn Densley REEVES - talk about drugs in their city.] Lack of adequate drug treatment programs noted. [Recovering ADDICT - comments.] The drug politics between Congress and the president reviewed. [Senator Joseph BIDEN - says Bush has to act.] [BOSTIC, REEVES - say solutions are needed.] [Mayor Paul HELMKE - says help is needed in the war on drugs.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Debate in USSR over what to do with the body of V.I. Lenin noted.
(Moscow: Sheilah Kast) Historical place of Lenin's tomb examined; historical and current scenes shown. [PEOPLE - (thru translator) debate issue.] [Lenin's niece Olga OLEANOVA - (thru translator) says he should not be moved.]
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