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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Bettina Gregory) Release of documents by Dow Corning Corporation about the safety of its silicone breast implants featured; details given of memos indicating defects in the implants over a 20-year period. [Dow Corning Wright Robert RYLEE - defends company.] [Public Citizen Research Group Sidney WOLFE - says they have covered up reports of problems.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Capitol Hill: Sheilah Kast) Agriculture Department fund to help sell American farm products overseas featured; list shown of companies benefiting from the program. [Representative Richard ARMEY - calls this corporate welfare "shameful."] [Sunkist Growers president Russell HANLIN - defends this investment.] [Institution for International Economics Marc NOLAND - says large companies can do their own advertising.] Support in Congress and from President Bush for promoting exports noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Scenes shown from Frankfurt, Germany, of crates of Western aid that will be transported to the former Soviet republics. President Bush quoted about United States commitment to help.
(Moscow: John Donvan) Reaction of Russia to the United States aid program featured; scenes shown from Moscow. [Russian aid commission Gennadi CHUKOV - says United States comes in 11th in aid.] Aid in tons from various nations listed. [Moscow Police Hospital Dr. Dmitri ALEXANDROVICH - (thru translator) comments.] Efforts of Germany and United States in figuring out the best ways to help the people compared. [German aid organizer Jost HASSELHORN - comments.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Return by United States Coast Guard of more Haitian refugees reported.
(Miami: Mark Potter) Evidence that some refugees who returned to Haiti have been threatened, arrested or tortured by government authorities examined; scenes shown of refugees returned home by the US last November on the grounds that they were economic, not political, refugees. [Refugee advocate Ira KURZBAN - calls allegations disturbing.] [State Department spokesman Richard BOUCHER - says there is no evidence of persecution.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Fact that the Iowa caucuses will only be significant if Senator Tom Harkin does badly mentioned.
(Manchester: Chris Bury) Campaigning by Democratic presidential candidate Paul Tsongas before the New Hampshire primary featured; scenes shown from the campaign trail. [TSONGAS - comments on his campaign; talks about the middle class tax cut issue; jokes about his media consultant.] [Four PEOPLE - back Tsongas.] [WOMAN - doubts Tsongas is electable.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Milwaukee: Tim O'Brien) Ongoing sanity trial of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer featured; scenes shown from the Milwaukee, WI, courtroom. [Defense psychiatrist Dr. Frederick BERLIN, court-appointed psychiatrist Dr. George PALERMO - testify on the sanity issue.] Wisconsin law regarding sanity/insanity outlined on screen. [State's insanity law drafter Stephen GLYNN - recalls Dahmer's handling of the police.] [Marquette law school professor Thomas HAMMER - comments.] Use of insanity defense by serial killers John Wayne Gacy and David Berkowitz and by John Hinckley reviewed.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Summing up by defense and prosecution today in boxer Mike Tyson's rape trial reviewed.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(East Lansing, Michigan: Armen Keteyian) Problem of eating disorders among female college athletes examined. [Female ATHLETE, Michigan State University volleyball player Susan SPANIOLA, Michigan State Dr. Lonnie ROSEN - talk about athletes' losing weight.] Disorders of anorexia nervosa and bulimia explained. [Triathlete Beth JABIN, SPANIOLA, former swimmer Nancy HOGSHEAD - talk about food and the concern about their weight.] Excerpts shown from NCAA video about eating disorders. Treatment program at University of Texas explained. [University of Texas STAFFER, Michigan State University volleyball coach Ginger MASON - say coaches can no longer control athletes' weight.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Death of writer Alex Haley, who wrote the novel "Roots" upon which the television miniseries was based, reported; several scenes shown from "Roots". [HALEY - talks about the genesis of his book and coping with its success.]
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