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#140310
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Indianapolis: Armen Keteyian) Sentencing of boxer Mike Tyson for rape of Desiree Washington featured; statements from Tyson and Judge Patricia Gifford quoted. [District attorney Jeffrey MODISETT - comments on sentence.] (Artist: Lynn Thomsen)
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Quality of rehabilitative help for imprisoned rapists examined; details given of Vermont prison therapy program. Absence of a specialized treatment program in the prison that Tyson will go to noted.
#140313
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: Bob Zelnick) Appearance by Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney before Congress to propose cuts in the military reserves featured. [Representative Sonny MONTGOMERY - links closing of armories to continued recession.] [CHENEY - responds.] Approaches of Pentagon and Congress to military cutbacks compared. [Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Colin POWELL - talks about National Guard units and combat readiness.] [Representative Robert ANDREWS - comments.] Issue raised of the politics of military cuts.
#140314
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Denver: Tom Foreman) Plea bargain agreement by Rockwell International in case involving its illegal storage of radioactive hazardous waste at Rocky Flats, Colorado, featured; scenes shown. [US attorney Mike NORTON - says nuclear production overrode environmental compliance.] [Rockwell's Mary Lou KROMER - comments.] Energy Department, which oversaw Rockwell, noted immune from prosecution.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Justice Department said confirming Representative Tom Foley's denial that his wife Heather Foley is being investigated. Many House members said questioning whether Foley should stay on as speaker in wake of the bank and post office scandals at the House.
#140316
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Results of President Bush's annual physical reported; scenes shown from Bethesda, Maryland.
#140317
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Critical reaction from AIDS activists to President Bush's administration's public service announcements designed to heighten awareness to AIDS among women and in rural America reported.
#140318
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Jim Slade) Education Department's national report card on teaching of science in the nation's public schools examined; various classroom scenes shown. [Acting commissioner on education statistics Emerson ELLIOTT - gives example.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Findings by bipartisan national commission that health care for children is improving faster in other countries reported.
#140320
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Fort Lauderdale: Mark Potter) Issues of medical ethics and law in a Florida case in which parents of a baby born without a brain want to donate the baby's organs for transplants examined; scenes shown. [Grandmother Susan CLARK - says baby's organs are fine.] [Medical ethicist Arthur CAPLAN, circuit court judge Stella MORIARITY - comment on the case.]
#140322
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Request by Libya to the International Court that it not have to turn over two men implicated in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 reported; scenes shown from The Hague. UN Security Council said planning to call for economic sanctions against Libya.
#140323
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(In Alexandra Township: Don Kladstrup) Month-long racial unrest in Alexandra Township, South Africa, despite the national peace accord aimed at ending the violence featured; scenes shown of march that turned into violent exchange between protesters and police. [South Africa police Colonel Frans MALHERBE - comments.] Various scenes shown of victims of violence. Role of tribal rivalries in Alexandra between residents loyal to African National Congress president Nelson Mandela and Zulus loyal to Inkatha leader Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi outlined.
#140324
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Government's revision of its GDP figures for the last quarter of last year cited. "Stock Market Report". Impact of clerical error at Salomon Brothers brokerage firm on the stock market mentioned.
#140326
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(No location given: Tim Johnson) Reasons why American heart attack patients are not getting clot busters, drugs that break up the clots that cause heart attacks, as often as patients elsewhere examined. [Brigham and Women's Hospital Dr. Charles HENNEKENS - says clot busters can prevent deaths.] Legal case involving the treatment of heart patient Sonia Williams, who suffered a stroke after not being given clot-busting drugs, outlined. [Husband George WILLIAMS - comments.] [University of Massachusetts Medical Center cardiologist Joel GORE - says now doctors' failure to use clot busters could lead to malpractice.] Cost and effectiveness of two clot-busting drugs, TPA and Streptokinase, compared. [Cardiologist Dr. Gary HANOVICH - talks about the cost factor.]
#140328
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Lexington, Kentucky: Al Dale) Auctioning of race horse breeding stable Calumet Farm featured; scenes shown of farm and Calumet Kentucky Derby winners. [Calumet veteran employee Herschel LATHERIE - talks about the farm.] [New owner Henryk de KWIATKOWSKI - says farm will remain as it is.]
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