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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Decision by the Supreme Court not to review a case in which a self-insured company decided to cut off catastrophic health care for its employees reported.
(Washington: Tim O'Brien) Implication of the court's ruling for AIDS patients examined; case involving John McGann, whose employer, H&H Music, dropped its coverage when he got AIDS detailed. [Lambda Legal Defense Fund Suzanne GOLDBERG - comments.] Question of whether these people are now eligible for benefits under the new Americans with Disabilities Act noted. (Artist: Carole Kabrin)
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New York: Bob Jamieson) Exemption of self-insuring companies from state laws regulating health insurance featured. [WORKER - comments.] [Self Insurance Institute George PANTOS - defends liability limits.] Coalition of groups reported pressing Congress for federal regulation of self-insuring companies noted. [American Medical Association chairman Dr. Raymond SCALETTAR - comments on the coverage.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Transition Watch story introduced.
(Little Rock: Jim Wooten) President-elect Bill Clinton's day featured; scenes shown of Clinton with Vice President-elect Albert Gore, jogging and at the state capitol in Little Rock, Arkansas. [Clinton's adviser George STEPHANOPOULOS - fields reporters' questions.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(State Department: John McWethy) Foreign policy issues that Clinton will face featured. [Syrian negotiator Mouffaq al-ALLAF - hopes the new administration will be committed to the Middle East peace talks.] [Constitutional scholar Elizabeth McCAUGHEY - says he will have to be a foreign policy president.] The threat of starvation due to civil wars in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Somalia, the economic and political problems in Russia, and the threat to world trade talks reviewed. [Former State Department official Winston LORD - cites the importance of trade talks.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Meeting of leaders of the European Community to try to avoid a trade war with the United States reported; scenes shown from Brussels, Belgium. Announcement last week by President Bush's administration of new tariffs on European farm products in an effort to get Europe to reduce its high subsidies to farmers recalled.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Signing of a friendship treaty between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and British Prime Minister John Major reported; scenes shown of the ceremonies in London.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Naming of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and former President Ronald Reagan as honorary citizens of Berlin on the third anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall came down reported; scenes shown from Berlin.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Reading of the names of Americans who died in the war at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, on its 10th anniversary shown.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: George Strait) Postponement of the date for putting new nutrition labels on food due to the dispute between the Agriculture Department and the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) featured; details given of the opposition of the meat industry to the labels proposed by the FDA. [Shopper Cissy YEATES, Grocery Manufacturers Association Sherwin GARDNER, Public Voice Ellen HAAS - offer differing opinions on the labelling.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Agreement by General Electric to notify its customers that its new low-cost, low-energy bulbs are dimmer than regular bulbs reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New York: John McKenzie) Arrest of chief judge of New York state Sol Wachtler on charges that he blackmailed his former lover Joy Silverman featured; newspaper headlines shown. [NYU law school professor Stephen GILLERS - comments.] The use of 75 agents on the case after Silverman went to FBI director Williams Sessions detailed. [US attorney Michael CHERTOFF - comments on the arrest.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Keith Meinhold, Navy man who announced he was gay, reported trying to go back to work; scenes shown from Moffett Field, California.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Tokyo: Bill Redeker) Life in Japan, where personal satisfaction has not kept pace with economic growth, featured; scenes shown from Tokyo to illustrate the way of life there. [Matsumishi and Hiroko TAKAHASHI - compare life in the United States and Japan.] Takahashi's daily schedule in Japan outlined. The government's efforts to improve the workplace, the school schedule and living conditions noted. [TAKAHASHI - calls for a change in priorities.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report on how the American tax dollar is spent introduced.
(Washington: John Martin) Plans for an American-funded project to construct 16 radio transmitters in the Israeli desert to broadcast into Soviet central Asia, where Western signals had been jammed by the Communists, featured; diagram and scenes shown of the site. The Board for International Broadcasting said wanting to continue with the 250 million project despite suggestions from a US commission that Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty be phased out now that the Cold War has ended. [Broadcasting board chairman Malcolm FORBES, Junior - defends project.] [Retired American diplomat Walter ROBERTS - offers an alternative.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Other ways in which the 250 million could be spent outlined on screen.
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