This program is 27 minutes long
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Map shown of states having strawberries tainted with hepatitis A.
(Los Angeles: Judy Muller) The potential epidemic linked to a strawberry dessert featured; details given of actions taken by school districts across the country. [Louisiana school district Dr. Helen DuPLESSIS, county health department Dr. Shirley FANNIN - comment.] Hepatitis symptoms listed.
(Washington: Lisa Stark) The question of the spread of hepatitis and how the Mexican-grown strawberries got into school lunches examined; scenes shown from Andrew and Williamson Cales Company plant in San Diego. [Eiptope, Incorporated, vice president Matthew KRAMER, Agriculture Department Maryann KEEFFE - comment.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Hospitalization of people in Fort Worth, Texas, from fumes in an office building reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(White House: John Donvan) The role President Clinton played in campaign fund raising as evidenced in White House documents examined; memos from deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes quoted about the urgent need for fund- raising calls by the president, Vice President Al Gore and Hillary Clinton. [CLINTON - doubts he made telephone calls.] [White House special counsel Lanny DAVIS - says coffees were not fund raisers.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New York: Aaron Brown) Indictments against a Russian mob for a stock swindle involving fraudulent securities examined; details given of the creation of the Globus Group company. [Former FBI official James MOODY, investigator Peter GRINENKO - describe the role of Russian organized crime in sophisticated fraud.] Other Russian schemes and FBI estimates of the number of Russian crime groups cited.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) The weekly look at how the government spends taxpayers' money introduced.
(Washington: John Martin) The estimated income the federal government could get by auctioning off high-definition television frequencies instead of giving them away examined. [Common Cause president Ann McBRIDE, Public Citizen president Joan CLAYBROOK - oppose giving away television rights.] [FCC chairman Reed HUNDT - cites income from telecommunications auctions.] The position of the television industry noted. [National Association of Broadcasters Eddie FRITTS, Senator John McCAIN - offer differing opinions on whether the industry should and will get the rights for free.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Three more examples of Middle Eastern unrest on the West Bank and Gaza shown.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Rescue of a boy pinned under the ice in Regina, Canada, shown.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Death of Japanese film maker Tomoyuki Tanaka, who was the father of Godzilla, reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New York: John McKenzie) New medical uses for decompression chambers featured; scenes and animated diagram shown of hyperbaric oxygen treatments for cancer survivors and other medical conditions. [Jacobi Medical Center Dr. Michael TOUGER, hospital technician James TYRRELL - comment on this pressure therapy.] The use of the portable chamber to prevent strokes explained. [Bowman Gray School of Medicine Dr. James TOOLE - comments on giving hyperbaric oxygen at the start of strokes.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) The number of medical centers having decompression chambers mentioned.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Gillian Findlay) Russian President Boris Yeltsin's signing of a decree that all government cars must be Russian-made Volgas featured; scenes shown of the reporter driving a Volga. [Two Russian DRIVERS - (thru translator) complain about their Volgas.]
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