This program is 27 minutes long
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Washington: Jim Angle) Move by the Federal Reserve Board to contain inflation by raising interest rates featured; new bank prime rate and home equity loan rates cited. [Economist David JONES - analyzes the move.] [Senator Byron DORGAN - opposes rate hikes.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Capitol Hill: John Cochran) The health care debate in the Senate featured. [Hillary CLINTON, Senators Christopher DODD, Judd GREGG, John KERRY - talk health care.] The likely role of Senate moderates in getting the Senate out of gridlock by cutting a deal with George Mitchell and his plan outlined.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Capitol Hill: Cokie Roberts) Moves by President Clinton's administration to put pressure on Congress for the passage of a crime bill featured. [Vice President Al GORE, Representative Cleo FIELDS, White House Chief of Staff Leon PANETTA, Representatives Thomas FOLEY, Cass BALLENGER, John MICA, Senator Joseph BIDEN - offer views on crime legislation and the politics behind it.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) The wildfires of the West updated.
(San Luis Obispo: Brian Rooney) The explosion of a wildfire in California featured; aerial scenes shown of the blaze and the firefighters battling it in San Luis Obispo, California. [California forestry division Chuck HOWELL - says the fire was set by a device.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) The weakening of tropical storm Beryl as it passed over Florida reported; scenes shown from Tallahassee, Florida.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) The debate in the Senate over the Dodd amendment in the health care bill featured. [Senators John ROCKEFELLER, John GLENN, Christopher DODD, Dave DURENBERGER, Nancy KASSEBAUM - offer views on the Dodd amendment.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(No location given: Tom Foreman) Talk radio's coverage of the health care reform debate featured. [On the radio, Rush LIMBAUGH, Atlanta's Neil BOORTZ, Chicago's Roe CONN, Philadelphia's Irv HOMER, Family Research Council Gary BAUER, Jim HIGHTOWER, White House health adviser Walter ZELMAN, Hillary CLINTON - offer views on health care.] The actualities of some of the claims voiced on talk radio about health care examined one-by-one. [Health policy consultant John SHEILS, Annenberg Public Policy Center Kathleen Hall JAMIESON - offer analysis of the radio claims.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(No location given: Al Dale) Tornadoes in South Carolina featured; scenes shown of the destruction in and outside Lexington, SC. [Store employee Roger BEEBE - describes what happened.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Moscow: David Ensor) Seizure in Germany of more weapons-grade plutonium smuggled in from Russia examined. ["Nucleonics Week" editor Mark HIBBS - expresses concern.] United States hopes that Russian President Boris Yeltsin will get involved in halting the smuggling. [Russian interior minister Alexander DEMENTIEV - (thru translator) defends Russia's guarding of its arsenal.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) The courtroom exchange in France between the judge and the captured terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal, reported; scenes shown.
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