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#148796
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Map shown of the area flooded from both the Mississippi River and the Missouri River.
(Saint Charles County, Missouri: Kathy Wolff) The overrunning of the levees by high waters featured; scenes shown from Saint Charles County, Missouri. [County sheriff Ray RUNYON, two sandbagging VOLUNTEERS - comment.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) The only open bridge over the river at Quincy, Illinois, and flooding in Fargo, North Dakota, from the Red River shown.
(Des Moines: Judy Muller) Cleaning up in Des Moines, Iowa, featured; scenes shown of Nick Bredus' self-contained water pumping system for household showers. [Nick's NEIGHBORS, BREDUS - comment.]
#148799
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: Bob Zelnick) The challenges from Senator Sam Nunn and Representative Barney Frank to the compromise plan for gays in the military that is before President Clinton examined. [NUNN - says the grounds for discharge should remain.] [FRANK, ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) William RUBENSTEIN - raise doubts about the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.] View of Attorney General Janet Reno that the plan is constitutional noted.
#148800
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(White House: Brit Hume) The controversial nomination by President Clinton of Joycelyn Elders for the Surgeon General post featured; scenes shown of Clinton jogging. [White House communications director Mark GEARAN - says Clinton will support Elders.] Statements from the White House in response to questions about her personal finances noted. [Senator Don NICKLES - calls Elders' agenda extreme.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(No location given: Rebecca Chase) Positions taken by Elders in her job as Arkansas health director on condoms, abortion and sex education examined. [ELDERS - talks about her policies on condoms and preventing unplanned births; says the federal government is unfair to poor women.]
#148801
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Four-page memo written by President Clinton's economic council chairman Bob Rubin about the economic plan outlined and quoted.
#148804
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Ron Claiborne) Linking of white supremacists arrested yesterday for plotting to start a racial war in Los Angeles to the White Aryan Resistance, a group founded by anti- black, anti-Jewish leader Tom Metzger, featured; scenes shown. [Anti-Defamation League Tzivia SCHWARTZ - comments.] The suspects' discussion of killing well-known blacks and Jews, like Rodney King and Louis Farrakhan, outlined. [FBI Charlie PARSONS - comments.]
#148808
(Studio: Peter Jennings) New pledges to support the United Nations relief life line in Bosnia reported; scenes shown from Geneva.
#148809
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Decision in Britain to change the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace to every other day, instead of daily, reported; scenes shown from London.
(London: Mark Litke) The pressure on British military tradition that is resulting in the phasing out of famous regiments featured; the history of Gordon Highlanders regiment that will be merged with another to save money reviewed. [Veteran Douglas ROBSON - comments.]
#148810
(Studio: Peter Jennings) The first photographing of a director of Michigan-5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency, as part of British Prime Minister John Major's plan to make the government more open reported; scenes shown of director Stella Rimington.
#148813
(Studio: Peter Jennings) An excerpt from the documentary "The River", made in 1937 by filmmaker Per Lorentz, with music by Virgil Thompson, presented.
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