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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(White House: Brit Hume) The political battle between the Congress and President Clinton over the budget as the deadline for the shutdown of the federal government when funds run out nears featured; scenes shown of Clinton golfing. [CLINTON - says Republicans must keep the government running.] [White House press secretary Michael McCURRY - comments.]
(Capitol Hill: John Cochran) The positioning of both sides on the budget issue noted. [Representative Robert LIVINGSTON, Representative Newt GINGRICH, Senator Bob DOLE - criticize the president for going golfing.] [Representative Sam GIBBONS - criticizes the Republicans.]
#157298
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: John Martin) The administration's criticism of Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary for spending thousands in tax dollars to rate reporters covering the Department of Energy examined. [O'LEARY - comments.] The response from Carma International president Albert Barr, head of the research company, quoted. [White House press secretary Michael McCURRY - calls it a stupid mistake.] [O'LEARY - says she has been woodshedded.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New York: George Strait) Australian research discovery of a new weakened strain of the AIDS virus and its implications for the possible development of a vaccine in ways paralleling the development of the polio virus examined. [Social worker Jennifer LEARMONT - talks about finding people with HIV who did develop AIDS after a decade.] [MacFarlane Burnet Center Dr. Nick DEACON - comments.] The skeptical reaction of American AIDS researchers noted. [National Insts. of Health Dr. Anthony FAUCI - offers a warning.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Arrest of a sixth man in connection with the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin noted.
(Tel Aviv: Bill Redeker) The debate in Israel over whether certain forms of expression produced a climate of violence featured. [Columnist Uri AVNERI, newspaper editor Yoel ESTERON - react to government warnings on what can be said by the media.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) The disciplining of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for failing to prevent last week's attempt on the life of Prime Minister Jean Chretien reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Preliminary agreement between the Bosnian government and the Croatians at the Bosnian peace talks noted; signing shown.
(Sarajevo: Hilary Brown) The uncertain future of Sarajevo, divided physically by the war, featured; scenes shown of the city's great buildings in ruin. [Moslem economics PROFESSOR, MOSLEM, CROAT, SERB - say Sarajevo must be unified, not divided.] [WOMAN - says life cannot be like it used to be.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(San Francisco: Ken Kashiwahara) The new crime of garbage theft because of the skyrocketing price of recyclables featured; scenes shown from San Francisco of midnight scavengers hauling off trash that was to be recycled. [Scavenger DAVE", Sunset Scavenging Company Bob BESSO, recycling center Kevin DREW - talk about this crime.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Environmentalist, poet and playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was hanged by the military government of Nigeria, profiled; scenes shown. [SARO-WIWA - reviews the development of oil fields by Shell.] The movement by Saro-Wiwa and his Ogoni people to battle for Ogoni self-determination and an environmental cleanup of the mess left by Shell detailed; scenes shown of the results of the military government's crackdown that led to Saro-Wiwa's arrest and death sentence.
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