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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Capitol Hill: Tim O'Brien) Final preparations for Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas featured; details given of areas in which he will be questioned; scenes shown of Thomas visiting senators. [Representative Tom LANTOS, Harvard Law School Derrick BELL - explain why Thomas is not qualified.] [Senator John DANFORTH - backs Thomas.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings; Capitol Hill: Cokie Roberts) Extent of the opposition to and support for Thomas discussed.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Declaration of independence by republic of Tadzhikistan noted. Report introduced.
(Moscow: Jim Laurie) President Mikhail Gorbachev's search for a solution to the economic woes that threaten to overwhelm the USSR this winter featured. [Deputy presidential spokesman Igor MALESHENKO - talks about the republics.] [Economist Jeffrey SAChigh school - says Soviets do not understand the American economic system.] Impending fuel and food crisis due to production, transportation and distribution problems noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: Bob Zelnick) Issue of defense spending in light of the declining threat from USSR examined. [Secretary of Defense Dick CHENEY, Representative Les ASPIN - comment on the defense budget.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Statement from President Bush that the US will not negotiate further with the Philippines over the lease for Subic Bay Naval Base, Philippines, reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Decision by President Bush's administration to provide aid to help children and other victims of the war inside Cambodia reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Decision by Cuba to ration cigarettes and cigars reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Malibu: Judy Muller) Effort by group of Californians to keep their beaches free from pollution featured; scenes shown from Humboldt County, California, where chemicals from two pulp mills pollute Pacific Ocean surfing area. [Surfrider legal director Mark MASSARA, Surfrider Foundation president Robert CAUGHLAN - cite pollution.] Resulting out-of-court settlement detailed. [Teen surfer Nick DEWITT - says surf in Malibu, California, is getting more polluted.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Grand jury indictment of boxer Mike Tyson on rape charges reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Debate in England over the cause of circles in the western English farm lands examined; aerial scenes of crop circles shown. Explanation for phenomenon from two artists detailed; scenes shown. [Douglas BOWER, David CHORLEY - comment.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Hollandale, Mississippi: John McKenzie) Decision by some black families to evacuate their children out of the inner city and send them to live with relatives in the South featured; scenes shown to illustrate the harrowing living conditions on Chicago's west side as compared to those in rural towns, like Hollandale, Mississippi. [Chicago mother Bobbie Jean PORTIS - explains why she sent her kids away.] [In Hollandale, kids Cedric and Anitra PORTIS - comment.] [Simmons Elementary School Robert WOODRUFF, school superintendent Harold SANDERS - talk about discipline and safety in the schools.] [Former city teens Shanna REED, Ned CURTIS - comment.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Death of Belinda Mason, only member of President Bush's National Commission on AIDS to have the disease, reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Odessa: Jim Bittermann) The Jews of Odessa, USSR , featured; scenes shown. [Returning Jew Aleksandr TUBIS - talks about the changes in Odessa.] Attempt to revive the Jewish community spirit in Odessa that has been suppressed by World War II, Communism and emigration of Jews noted. [New Yorker Stuart SAPPER, Odessa JEW - comment on conditions here for Jews.]
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