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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(State Department: John McWethy) Announcement by President Clinton's administration of its new, but still limited, policy on Bosnia featured. [CLINTON, Secretary of State Warren CHRISTOPHER - comment.] United States plans to use military power to enforce a peace agreement, tighten sanctions on Serbia and send more food and medicine to Bosnia outlined. [CHRISTOPHER - says the US is not the world's policeman.] Difficulty for the United States to take more positive steps as long as Europe is not ready to do so reiterated.
(Studio: Peter Jennings; Kiseljak: Tony Birtley) The situation in the former Yugoslavia for Bosnian Moslems, the position of the Serbs and the message from Clinton's policy to both the Serbs and Moslems discussed.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Mt. Clemens, Michigan: Brit Hume) President Clinton's plans to cut cabinet support jobs, as well as White House jobs, featured; areas that will be shut down noted. [CLINTON - opposes government waste.] Comments from cabinet members Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt about their cafeterias noted. [BABBITT - comments on food and "pony perks."]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New York: John McKenzie) Public apology by NBC to General Motors Corporation during its "Dateline NBC" program about the crash tests used to determine if the General Motors Corporation pickup trucks with side-saddle gas tanks caught on fire examined. [NBC's Jane PAULEY, Stone PHILLIPS - offer regrets for inappropriate demonstrations in their report.] [Media Affairs Center Robert LICHTER, Columbia University Everette DENNIS - analyze NBC's apology and GM's ferocious attack.] The concern of television news that doubts will spread to other news programs noted. [LICHTER - cites the pressure on the media to relax journalistic standards.] The issue of the recall of the GM trucks mentioned.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Announcement by Ford and General Motors Corporation tomorrow of their 1992 losses reported. "Stock Market Report".
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report in the "New England Journal of Medicine" that the AIDS-like illness talked about at last September's AIDS conference is not a form of AIDS reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Decision by New York City not to rehire school superintendent Joseph Fernandez, who had supported a plan to distribute condoms to high school students and backed teaching elementary students to be tolerant of homosexuals reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Dushanbe: John Donvan) The civil war in the former Soviet republic of Tajikistan featured; scenes shown of the fighting between former Communists and Moslem fundamentalists and from the capital of Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Tajikistan's increasing reliance on Russia for help noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Advice from French President Francois Mitterrand that the United States should lift its trade embargo against Vietnam reported; scenes shown of him visiting Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam, the site of France's military defeat.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Deal in Norway in which blood donors could get free tickets to "Dracula" reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Santa Rosa, California: Carole Simpson) The problems for women trying to make it in the male-dominated construction industry featured; scenes shown. [Foreman Clay LAVIGNE, construction manager Jim MANNING, painter Phil PEZZOLA - list the complaints about women on the job.] A program to help the acceptance of women and minorities at Pacific Gas and Electric Company cited as an example. [PG&E supervisor Felice LEACH - talks about her job and harassment by men.] [PG&E chairman Richard CLARKE - comments.] [In group session, construction worker Jody AGUILAR, foreman Bob BAKER - talk about harassment.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Tomorrow's segment previewed.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Richmond: Dick Schaap) Funeral service for Arthur Ashe, who died this weekend of AIDS, featured; scenes shown from Richmond, Virginia. [Richmond Mayor Walter KENNEY, former ambassador Andrew YOUNG, Commerce Secretary Ron BROWN, New York Mayor David DINKINS - eulogize Ashe.] Remembrance by fellow tennis player Yannick Noah noted. [Governor L. Douglas WILDER, former tennis player Charlie PASARELL - remember Ashe.]
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