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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Jackie Judd) The issue of former President Bill Clinton's clemency of four Hasidic Jews who are in prison for stealing millions from the government, rumors that Hillary's brother Tony Rodham may have been paid for help with clemency requests, questions about whether pardoned drug dealer Carlos Vignali paid brother Roger Clinton, too, and legal work done by Hillary's campaign treasurer for pardons examined; details given of suspicions that Clinton granted clemency to the Jews in return for political contributions and neighborhood votes for Senator Hillary Clinton. [January 29, Hillary CLINTON - says she never made her views known.] [In Florida, Hugh RODHAM - refuses questions.] Statement from Roger Clinton in the Los Angeles Times quoted. [Representative Dan BURTON - raises the money issues.] [Hillary Clinton treasurer William CUNNINGHAM - comments on Hollywood figure Harry Thomason's role in the pardons.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: John Cochran) The troublesome background of the Clintons' relatives Hugh and Tony Rodham and Roger Clinton reviewed; specifics detailed. [Former Clinton aide David GERGEN - says the president must set high standards for his relatives and aides.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: John McWethy) Indications that the Navy will place the blame for the collision of the USS Greeneville with a Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru on the submarine's skipper Captain Scott Waddle examined; details given and diagrams shown of specific criticism of Waddle's commands during the surfacing including the conclusion that civilians impeded work in the control room.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Pierre Thomas) The security alert in government agencies following the espionage by FBI agent Robert Hanssen featured; details recalled of the scandal surrounding the Aldrich Ames CIA espionage case that broke in 1994. [Former senior FBI counterintelligence agent Harry BRANDON - comments on security.] [Former FBI counterintelligence agent Robert BLITZER - talks about how much Hanssen knew.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) The first meeting of President Bush with British Prime Minister Tony Blair reported; details given about what they discussed.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Secretary of State Colin Powell's visit to the Middle East to mark the 10th anniversary of the Persian Gulf War to drive Iraq out of Kuwait reported.
(Baghdad: Jim Wooten) The supreme rule of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein a decade after he lost the war featured; scenes shown from chaotic Baghdad, including Saddam firing rifles; details given of how Saddam has taken advantage of changes in the region and of the violence in the Palestinian territories.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) The impending sale of the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington, which has been on loan to the Smithsonian Institution, reported.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) President Bush's education proposals noted.
(Butler, Alabama: Jeffrey Kofman) Public school funding problems examined by looking at Choctaw County in Alabama; scenes shown from the Butler Elementary School, which faces budget cutbacks. [Two STUDENTS - comment.] [County education superintendent Vernon UNDERWOOD - talks about the mandated budget cuts; says the public school system has become a whipping boy.] [Alabama Governor Don SIEGELMAN - says he will not sign tax increases.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Teton Pass, MT: Judy Muller) The story of an orphaned black bear cub who survived last summer's fires in Montana's Bitteroot Valley featured; scenes shown of the recovering burned bear at the shelter that returns orphan bears to the wild and of the manmade den for the hibernating bears in the Teton Pass. [Veterinarian Julie KAPPES - talks about the bear's injuries.] [Montana department of fish, wildlife and parks Ron AASHEIM, Steve McMORRAN - talk about the bears.]
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