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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Reports introduced.
(Billings, MT: Dean Reynolds) The third disruption of court proceedings by Freemen LeRoy Schweitzer and Daniel Petersen featured; courtroom sketches shown; details given of their ranting and threats. [Court-appointed attorney Kelly VARNES - comments.] [Militia's Steve McNEEL - says the two were tricked into surrendering by supposedly friendly FBI men.] (Artist: Roxanne Doke)
(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Jordan, MT: Barry Serafin) The continuing standoff at the Freemen compound in Jordan, MT, featured; scenes shown of FBI agents stopping vehicles to keep outside sympathizers away from the ranch; map shown of the wheat farm known to the Freemen as Justus Township. Several Freemen on the ranch named: brothers Emmett and Ralph Clark, son Edwin Clark, Ebert Stanton, movement guru Rodney Skurdal, chaplain Dale Jacobi, Russell Landers and Dana Dudley and James Edward Hantz. [Brother Alvin CLARK, Clark family friend Virgil HELLYER, Stanton's best friend Denham HELLYER - talk about the men who are holed up on the Freemen ranch.] The apparent FBI plan to wait the Freemen out noted.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Washington: George Strait) Changes at the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) to change the pace at which it approves new cancer drugs featured. [President CLINTON - says "the waiting is over" because red tape will be cut to help cancer patients.] [Senator Dan COATS - comments on the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) reform.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(New York: John McKenzie) Research findings published in the journal Nature Medicine as to why some people prove resistant to the AIDS virus examined; details given of experiments being conducted. [Exposed to AIDS, research volunteer "ERIC", research scientists Bill PAXTON, Scott MARTIN - comment on the project to identify immunity.] The findings that cells immune to the HIV-virus produced high levels of chemokines noted.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Department store fire in Bogor, Indonesia, reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Accidental bombing of Russian troops in Chechnya reported.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(Washington: Michele Norris) Report from Texas state attorney general Dan Morales about the pressures on him not file the lawsuit against the tobacco industry to recover the cost of smoking-related illness examined; details given of the industry's telephone survey tactics that planted misleading information about Morales. [MORALES - says the industry is up against the wall.] Special issue of "Mother Jones" magazine said detailing threats against other state attorneys general moving against the industry. ["Mother Jones" editor Jeffrey KLEIN - comments.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Congressional passage of a stop-gap measure to keep the government operating reported.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report on the increase in compensation for top US chief exective officers noted.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) The view from the space shuttle Atlantis as it left the space station Mir shown.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Report introduced.
(East Rutherford, New Jersey: Armen Keteyian) The high cost of tickets for the NCAA college basketball tournament's "Final Four" games examined; scenes shown from the Meadowlands Arena in New Jersey, which only seats 19,800. [Ticket broker Jeff GOBY - cites the cost up to 7500!.] [New Jersey Governor Christine Todd WHITMAN - notes the calls for the tickets.]
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) Announcement that the new pro football team will be called the Baltimore Ravens, after author Edgar Allan Poe.
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(Studio: Forrest Sawyer) San Francisco's Richard Avanzino, the protector of lost and found pets as head of the city's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, profiled. [AVANZINO - talks about the bond between people and pets; opposes euthanasia of adoptable animals.] The SPCA's smart marketing tactics to find homes for all stray and abandoned animals outlined.
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