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(Studio: Peter Jennings) The ongoing budget standoff between the Representative Congress and President Clinton examined. [Representative Newt GINGRICH - wants Clinton to commit to a 7-year-plan to balance the budget.] [CLINTON - responds.]
(Capitol Hill: John Cochran) The state of government operations due to the budget debate examined; Republican passage of another temporary spending bill noted. [CLINTON - promises to process Social Security and Veterans Administration claims on Monday.] [Senator Bob DOLE - calls for commitment to a balanced budget bill.] [Representative John KASICH - comments.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(White House: Brit Hume) The controversy over claims by Representative Newt Gingrich that President Clinton snubbed him on the Air Force 1 flight to the funeral for Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin examined; photos shown from on the flight. [Voice of GINGRICH - says the snub led to a tougher budget resolution.] [On the floor, Representative Luis GUTIERREZ - satirizes Gingrich's tantrum.] [Today, GINGRICH - recounts "lost opportunities."] [CLINTON - offers to apologize.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Closing of the Grand Canyon for the first time due to the federal government shutdown reported.
(Washington: John Martin) The question of which federal services should be shut down or kept open examined. [Pensions and Welfare Benefits Administration investigator Norman RIVIERA, furloughed supervisor Robin PEARL - lament the shutdown.] [Senator Bob DOLE, Heritage Foundation Mark WILSON - wonder if the Labor Department is needed at all.] [Brookings Institution Thomas MANN - talks about the public's expectations from the government.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Tel Aviv: Bill Redeker) Israel's reenactment of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by his killer, Yigal Amir, featured; scenes shown from the Tel Aviv square where the crowd hurled insults while Amir showed how he shot his victim. [Israeli police spokesman Eric BAR-CHEN - explains how important this video will be in court.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) The issuance by the war crimes tribunal of more indictments against Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his military commander Ratko Mladic regarding massacres in Srebrenica, Bosnia, reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Seoul: Mark Litke) The bribery scandal in South Korea involving former president Roh Tae Woo featured; details given of his admission that he accepted illegal funds from business leaders in exchange for favors. [Seoul National University professor LHO Kyongsoo - says this is part of the transition towards democracy.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Brian Rooney) The decision by the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles to give a police station to the city, which could not afford one itself, featured; community scenes shown. [Restaurant owner Daniel Ohio, police sergeant Ron BATESOLE, Koreatown public safety association Yohngsohk CHOE - talk about the Koreatown police project.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Signing of a deal in which Bud Adams will move Houston Oilers pro football team to Nashville, Tennessee, reported; scenes shown of Adams with the mayor.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Disclosure by Attorney General Janet Reno that she has Parkinson's disease noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report in "Science" magazine on AIDS drug research with monkeys reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New Orleans: Jim Wooten) The gubernatorial race in Louisiana between Republican white candidate Mike Foster and black liberal Democratic Representative Cleo Fields, who has no party support and no chance in the election, featured; New Orleans, Louisiana, campaign scenes shown. [FOSTER, FIELDS, "Louisiana Political Review" John MAGINNIS - talk about the election.] The trend in which whites are leaving the Democratic Party and the steady resegregation of politics outlined.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Case in Canada in which real life imitated the movie "It Could Happen to You" in which a patron tipped a waitress with a lottery ticket share that turned out to be a winner featured; scenes shown from the bar. [Customer John STEELE, waitress Tracy DALTON - react to the news.]
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