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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Chicago: Sam Donaldson) Recommendation by the Commission on Presidential Debates to exclude Ross Perot from the debates featured. [Commission's co- chair Paul KIRK - says Perot does not meet the criteria.] [Perot's running mate Pat CHOATE, presidential candidate Bob DOLE, President CLINTON - offer views on the commission's decision.] The history of the one-on-one presidential debates briefly reviewed. Clinton's support for having Perot in the debates noted.
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Interview held with Commission co-chair Frank Fahrenkopf about the decision to exclude Perot. [FAHRENKOPF - defends the decision.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Justice Department report on the drop in violent crime cited. [President CLINTON - says we are moving in the right direction against crime.]
(Phoenix: Jim Wooten) Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole's effort to reclaim the crime issue featured; scenes shown of him campaigning in Arizona. [DOLE - downplays the Fraternal Order of Police's support for Clinton; promises to be tough on drugs and crime.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Barry Serafin) Minnesota lawsuit claiming that tobacco company officials destroyed documents featured; details given of a 1977 Philip Morris memo on the withdrawal affects of nicotine and another handwritten document about destroying documents quoted. [Minnesota attorney general Hubert HUMPHREY III - comments.] [Earlier this year, Former Philip Morris researcher Philip DeNOBLE - explains why tobacco research was done overseas.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Lisa Stark) Warning about the dangers to children from passenger-side air bags examined; scenes shown of how air bags work. [NTSB chairman Jim HALL, Vernon ROBERTS - offer testimony on the dangers and the need for the restraints to go off with less speed.] [Air bag victim's father Robert SANDERS - wants a warning label.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Santa Monica: Ken Kashiwahara) The first day of the civil trial of O.J. Simpson reviewed; scenes shown from outside the Santa Monica, California, courtroom while the differences between the first and second trial and evidence excluded by Judge Hiroshi Fujisaki are outlined. (Artist: Bill Robles)
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) American Bankers Association report on credit card debt delinquency rate reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) The problem of treating burn victims outlined.
(Boston: John McKenzie) A revolutionary new product that helps the body regrow its own skin examined; how this solution mimics the cell's own natural environment by providing a scaffolding for new inner skin detailed. [Massachusetts General Hospital Dr. Richard BURKE, Dr. Colleen RYAN, burn victim Jim BEAUREGARD - comment on the technique.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Tomorrow's problem and solution previewed.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Ceremony in which 10,000 immigrants became citizens reported; scenes shown from a Dallas stadium.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: David Ensor) Documents showing that President Dwight Eisenhower knew American servicemen were left behind in North Korea after the armistice ended the Korean War in 1953 examined. [Former Eisenhower aide retired Colonel Phillip CORSO - testifies that sick and wounded troops were not exchanged.] [Czech defector General Jan SEJNA - says American captivess were experimented on.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) The reaction of Senator John McCain to President Clinton's briefing of Congressional leaders about what he is doing with Iraq presented. [McCAIN - says Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is better off than he was two weeks ago and has split the coalition.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Excerpts from the scathing report from an independent commission on the bombing at a United States military housing complex in Saudi Arabia reported; scenes shown from the bombed-out building in Dhahran.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) The discovery of a long-lost American movie classic, which has been buried in the basement of the house of retired film projectionist Bill Buffum, featured; excerpt shown from the 1912 silent movie version of "Richard III". [American Film Institution Jean FIRSTENBERG - says the oldest surviving feature film has been discovered!.] [BUFFUM - comments.]
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