This program is 27 minutes long
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Chicago: Jim Williams) Bad weather for holiday travelers featured; scenes shown from the Chicago airport and bus station. [In Chicago, TRAVELER, airlines WORKER, Greyhound terminal manager Greg GRAFEMAN - comment.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Holiday retail sales noted; scenes shown from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(White House: Ann Compton) The nearing deadline for Attorney General Janet Reno's decision on whether or not to name an independent counsel for Democratic campaign fund raising featured; details given of the issue of Reno's credibility and the political attacks by Republicans. [Senators Robert TORRICELLI, Orrin HATCH, Arlen SPECTER - offer their view on Reno and the independent counsel.] [March 3, Vice President Al GORE - defends fund- raising telephone calls.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Likelihood that the United Nations will renew the deal allowing Iraq to sell oil for food and medicine reported.
(Baghdad: Gillian Findlay) The anti-American mood in Iraq featured; scenes shown from Baghdad, where the people are blaming economic sanctions for the death of children. [Iraqi MAN - blames the US, not President Saddam Hussein.] The United States view that sanctions will end when the United Nations determines there are no more biological and chemical weapons noted.
(Studio: Carole Simpson) Statement from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan that the US, not Iraq, is to blame reported. [US ambassador to the United Nations Bill RICHARDSON - says Farrakhan cannot visit Iraq.] [FARRAKHAN - responds.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Tomorrow's summit meeting in Kyoto, Japan, to discuss the issue of greenhouse gases and global warming reported.
(Kyoto: Mark Litke) Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan, visited; scenes shown to illustrate the loss of cultural heritage to the advance of economic development. [Foreign artist Mark KEENE - laments the cultural decline in Kyoto.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) NASA's decision not to have the crew of the space shuttle Columbia rerelease the satellite reported.
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Marysville, MT: John Miller) Montana's move to offshore banking to attract foreign investors explained; details given of how the banking would work. [MONTANAN, Montana department of commerce director Peter BLOUKE, state senator Michael SPRAGUE, Treasury undersecretary for enforcement Raymond KELLY - comment on the plan.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) The official end of the United Nations peacekeeping operation in Haiti reported.
(Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Anderson Cooper) The role of Haitian-American police officers in a United Nations mission to train Haiti's police force featured; scenes shown from Port-au-Prince, where the police force is supposed to be the vanguard for democracy. [New York City POLICEMAN - comments on the job and the corruption in the local police force.] The difficulty in dealing with the Haitian police mentality in which they are the absolute authority outlined. [Haitian policeman Hamilton TAYLOR - (thru translator) comments.]
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(Studio: Carole Simpson) Report introduced.
(Beverly Hills: Judd Rose) Lavita Forbes, publisher of "Beverly Hills 90212", a magazine celebrating socialites, who is a resident of south central Los Angeles, profiled; scenes shown of Forbes mingling with Beverly Hills high society. ["Talk of the Town" host Toni Holt KRAMER - praises Forbes.] [FORBES - explains why she lives in black Los Angeles; talks about the black upscale community.]
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