This program is 28 minutes long
#138633
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Karen Burnes) Leaking of radioactive materials from a Russian submarine that sank off the coast Norway in 1989 featured; underwater video shown of the sub, which carried two nuclear missiles and a reactor. [Admiral Vladimir SEMOYLOV - (thru translator) comments.] [Submarine designer Nikolai NOSOV - (thru translator) says Cesium-137 has been detected; predicts when the plutonium will start coming out of the hull.] [Naval engineer Captain Tengiz BORISOV - (thru translator) says the region will be polluted with plutonium next year.] America scientists noted invited to Russia to review the data. [Woods Hole Institution Dr. Charles HOLLISTER - describes the speed of the current by the submarine.] Six American and Soviet subs recalled having sunk.
#138636
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Albany, Georgia: Jim Wooten) Senate runoff race in Georgia between incumbent Wyche Fowler and Paul Coverdell featured; negative television ads shown. [President-elect Bill CLINTON - campaigns for Fowler.] Barbara Bush and Vice President-elect Albert Gore noted already campaigning in the race; scenes shown from Albany, Georgia, of Clinton playing saxophone in a high school band.
#138637
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Story in "Washington Post" that ten women claim Oregon Senator Bob Packwood made sexual advances toward them reported.
(Capitol Hill: Cokie Roberts) Change in the view toward the sexual escapades of Congressmen after the testimony by Anita Hill in the Clarence Thomas hearings featured; cases of Wilbur Mills and Wayne Hayes and more recently, Senators Brock Adams and Daniel Inouye recalled. [Senate-elect Patty MURRAY - says a Senate policy on sexual harassment is needed.]
#138638
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigation reported finding no evidence of an "October surprise" in the '80 campaign; details recalled of charges that President Ronald Reagan's administration made an agreement with Iran to delay the release of hostages until after the election.
#138639
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Agreement by the accounting firm of Ernst and Young to pay the government millions following charges of improper audits of savings and loan institutions reported.
#138642
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Series of tornadoes through the South reported; maps shown; scenes shown of damages in Hillsborough, North Carolina, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
#138643
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Seattle: Brian Rooney) Concern in Seattle about a series of arson fires featured; scenes shown of buildings ablaze. [Burned- out homeowner Debra SILVESTER, RESIDENT, battalion chief Mike JOHNSON - comment on the fires.]
#138644
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Lifting by the AAA of its warnings to avoid Interstate 295 around Jacksonville, Florida, reported; shooting and rock throwing there recalled.
#138645
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Merger of Martin Marietta and General Electric aerospace operation reported. "Stock Market Report".
#138646
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Death of country singer Roy Acuff reported; several scenes shown of him singing.
#138648
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Berlin: Jerry King) Right-wing attacks in Germany on foreigners featured; scenes shown of fatal fire bombings in a Turkish neighborhood. Announcement by the federal government that it would take over the investigation of the neo-Nazi attacks noted. [Turkish COUNSEL - comments.] [GERMAN - (thru translator) comments.] Spontaneous demonstrations against the violence shown.
#138649
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Refusal by the United Nations Security Council to lift the economic sanctions against Iraq because of human rights abuses and the fact that not all the weapons have been destroyed reported; scenes shown from the UN.
#138650
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Decision by the Australian government to allow homosexuals in the military reported.
#138651
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(London: Ron Allen) Debate in Britain over whether Queen Elizabeth or her subjects should pay for the restoration of burned- out Windsor Castle featured. [National heritage minister Peter BROOKE, member of Parliament Dennis SKINNER - debate the issue.] ["The Royal Fortune" author Phillip HALL - says monarchs used to pay taxes.]
#138654
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Weekly story on how our tax dollars are spent introduced.
(Liberty State Park, New Jersey: John Martin) The funding of part of the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey by federal tax dollars featured; scenes shown of exhibits in the not-yet-completed museum; details given of how the federal funds were allocated.
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Other ways in which the 15 million could be spent outlined.
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