This program is 27 minutes long
#183005
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New York: Betsy Stark) The state of the economy as indicated by last year's GDP figures examined; details given of reasons for low prices and the housing boom. [Two CONSUMERS, travel agent Sam YOUSIF - talk about American spending.] [Car dealer Pete SMITH - cites car prices.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Congressional Budget Office figures on the projected budget surplus introduced.
(Washington: Barry Serafin) What to do with the surplus examined. [Majority leader Senator Trent LOTT - says it's the people's money.] [President CLINTON - outlines examples of social spending.] [Senator Pete DOMENICI - wants tax cuts.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) How easily government projections can be vulnerable to change examined; graph of the budget deficit for the last decade shown.
#183006
(Studio: Peter Jennings) The recess for the Senate impeachment trial of President Clinton noted.
#183007
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Jackie Judd) A new development in independent counsel Kenneth Starr's investigation of the Kathleen Willey case featured; details given of the role of Nathan Landow in possibly pressuring Willey to deny President Clinton made sexual advances. [Private investigator Jarrett STERN - says he has been investigating Willey; adds he believes a jogger did threaten Willey as she claimed.] Source reports on the nature of Stern's investigation of Willey noted. [Stern attorney Ed BOUQUET - says Stern was uncomfortable with the investigation he was doing.]
#183010
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Travel advisory on the potential of crashing computers in countries not solving the Y2K computer bug noted.
(New York: James Walker) The computer problems in the Health Care Finance Administration, which handles Medicare/Medicaid bills, examined; details given of the scope of the Medicare records problem and the possible consequences in 2000. [Guadalupe Valley Hospital Don RICHEY - says hospital revenue depends on Medicare.] [General Accounting Office Joel WILLEMSSEN, Health Care Finance Administration Nancy Ann DePARLE - say there may be a disruption.]
#183011
(Studio: Peter Jennings) The dedication of the battleship USS Missouri in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as a memorial to the end of World War II reported; scenes shown.
#183014
(Studio: Peter Jennings) NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) threats to settle the fighting in the Yugoslavian province of Kosovo between the Serbs and ethnic Albanians reported.
(Kosovo: Mike Lee) The likely resentment from both sides to the intervention of international troops featured; scenes shown of the front in Kosovo. [American peace monitor Douglas CHAPPINA, Serb political analyst Aleksandar VASOVIC - say there will be resistance.]
#183015
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Pictures of Britain's Prince Charles and his long- time love Camilla Parker-Bowles together shown.
#183018
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New York: Ned Potter) The new technology that will allow consumers to purchase music online instead of at the record store examined. [Forrester Research Mark HARDIE - predicts the percentage of online sales.]
#183021
(Studio: Peter Jennings) The Prohibition era revisited; historical film shown from the "roaring twenties" of the campaign to remove liquor from society. [Craig MITCHELL, Francis Lehman LOEB, historian Ann DOUGLAS, writer Mickey SPILLANE, John MORAHAN, Ernest HELLER - remember elements of Prohibition.] The flourishing of organized crime amidst Prohibition and the repeal of Prohibition in the 1930s recalled.
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