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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Tokyo: Bill Redeker) The controversy over the possible purchase of the Seattle Mariners baseball team by Japanese investors from the Nintendo Company amidst the "new Pacific war" between the United States and Japan examined. [Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi MIYAZAWA - (thru translator) says Japan will cooperate with US.] [Nintendo Company president Hiroshi YAMAUCHI - (thru translator) says the deal is up in the air.] [Foreign ministry spokesman Masamichi HANABUSA - (thru translator) comments on the deal.] Scenes shown from Japanese television of Americans smashing a Japanese pickup truck at an American dealership in Detroit. [Two JAPANESE - (thru translator) comment.] Feeling in Japan that America is schizophrenic about Japanese help outlined.
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Complications hampering a decision by a small New York town to buy an excavating machine from John Deere despite a cheaper Japanese bid cited.
#137596
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Detroit: Chris Bury) Struggle between the two cites of Ypsilanti, Michigan, and Arlington, Texas, one of which will have its General Motors Corporation plant closed, featured; scenes shown to illustrate the campaigns by states of Texas and Michigan to retain its plant. [Governors Ann RICHARDS, John ENGLER - comment.] Impact of a plant closing to both cities outlined. [Arlington Mayor Richard GREENE, Ypsilanti city manager Herbert GILSDORF, Willow Run workers Bob and Jessie HALL, Texas workers Brenda SIMS, her HUSBAND - comment.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(State Department: John McWethy) Impact of military cutbacks in Russia on the future of the former Soviet union's nuclear scientists featured; details given of attempts of the scientists to get out. [Argonne National Lab Alexei ABRIKOSOV - talks about the food shortage in Russia.] CIA's concern that desperate nuclear scientists will sell their expertise to Libya and Iran unless United States and Germany can come up with a better offer noted. Secretary of State James Baker's position on a "brain drain" cited.
#137601
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: Bob Zelnick) Pentagon's plans to revise the way it offers government defense contracts examined; details given of impact of such a change on contractors and their workers. [Electromagnetic Sciences John PIPPIN, Defense Budget Project Gordon ADAMS - give contractors' side.] Likelihood that government will have to subsidize weapons manufacturers to maintain the defense industrial base noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Sentencing in El Salvador of two soldiers for the murder of six Jesuit priests reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Demonstration shown in Capetown, South Africa, by blacks protesting South African President F.W. de Klerk latest promises about the nation's constitution and political rights for blacks.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Poll said showing that Governor Bill Clinton is leading the Democratic pack in New Hampshire prior to the primary.
(Manchester, New Hampshire: Jim Wooten) Implications of the media perception that Clinton is the front-runner featured; scenes shown from the campaign trail. [Clinton's New Hampshire campaign manager Mitchell SCHWARTZ - analyzes the support.] [CLINTON - denies extramarital affair rumors.] [Senator Bob Kerrey's campaign manager Paul JOHNSON - talks about Clinton.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Statement from Australia's national Olympic committee that there will not be a boycott by its basketball team despite team members' concerns about getting AIDS from Earvin "Magic" Johnson reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Minneapolis: Dick Schaap) Pass catchers James Lofton of the Buffalo Bills and Art Monk of the Washington Redskins, who will face each other in Sunday's Super Bowl game, profiled; game scenes shown. [LOFTON, MONK - talk about football preparations.] [Former Redskins' quarterback Joe THEISMANN, Redskins player Mark RYPIEN, coach Joe GIBBS - praise Monk.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Retiring sportscaster Howard Cosell profiled; scenes shown from his career. [COSELL - reviews his career, getting educated in the law, baseball player Jackie Robinson, his support of boxer Muhammad Ali.] Cosell's background reviewed; photos and film shown. Cosell's key role in the success of TV's Monday night football noted. [ABC News president Roone ARLEDGE - talks about Cosell's role.]
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