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(Studio: Susan Spencer) Report introduced.
(Columbia, SC: Eric Engberg) Vice President George Bush's victory in South Carolina primary reported [Last night, BUSH - says South Carolina win will have impact on "Super Tuesday"] Vote totals for South Carolina outlined on screen. Severity of loss for Pat Robertson's campaign reported; scenes shown. [On February 16, ROBERTSON - says he'll win in SC.] [Last night, ROBERTSON -says we didn't come in first.] Robertson's campaign mistakes reviewed. Prospects for Senator Robert Dole analyzed. [On "Face the Nation", Dole campaign chairperson William BROCK - says Bush has the lead.] [Representative Jack KEMP - says we'll continue.]
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(Studio: Susan Spencer) Standing of Democrats in Florida publisher opinion poll reported Democrat campaign on "Super Tuesday" featured. [Gephardt campaign Donna BRAZILE - says it's an organizational nightmare.] Democrat strategies for "Super Tuesday" described; scenes shown from campaign trail. campaign. targets for Governor Michael Dukakis, Representative Richard Gephardt and Jesse Jackson detailed. [Democrat consultant Greg SCHNEIDERS - says there isn't time or money to make converts.] Democrat TV ads. shown; ex-Representative Thomas O'Neill shown endorsing Dukakis. [Democrat pollster Peter HART - analyzes "targeting" strategy.] [SCHNEIDERS - says unelectable cand. may be nomination] [HART - refers to "Super Tuesday" as Noah's Ark coming down once only.] "Super Tuesday" coverage announced.
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(Studio: Susan Spencer) Beginning of Los Angeles, California, marathon shown; winners Martin Mondragon &Blanca Jaime named.
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(Studio: Susan Spencer) Two more Palestinians reported killed by Israeli soldiers in West Bank. Report introduced.
(Ramallah, West Bank: Anthony Mason) Confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli forces at hospital in Ramallah and in Gaza reported; scenes shown. [SOLDIER - asks reporter to close camera.] Crackdown on media access to Israeli-occupied territories described; scenes shown of CBS broadcast from February 25 in which Israeli soldiers beat Palestinians. Mtg. of Israeli cabinet to discuss Secretary of State George Shultz's peace plan rptd; Israeli Prime Min. Yitzhak Shamir's position noted. Scenes shown of Palestinians' "flag day" demonstration.
(Studio: Susan Spencer) Report introduced.
(DC: Jacqueline Adams) Letter from 30 Senators to Shultz expressing dismay at Shamir's rejection of territorial compromise aspects of Shultz plan reported; details given. [Senator Lowell WEICKER - says Shamir should listen to peace plan.] [B'nai B'rith International president Seymour REICH - calls letter premature.] Possible impact of pressure on Shamir detailed. [American Univ. professor Amos PERLMUTTER - predicts Shamir's actions.] [Brookings Institution Judith KIPPER - says United States needs to help move toward a peace process.] Admin. hopes to keep peace process going without offending anyone noted.
(Studio: Susan Spencer) Response of Syria and Jordan's King Hussein to Shultz peace plan reported
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(Studio: Susan Spencer) Iran's firing on United States helicopters in Persian Gulf reported Attacks by Iranian missiles on Basra, Iraq, and other cities reported; scenes shown from Iraqi TV.
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(Studio: Susan Spencer) Ethnic unrest involving Tartars in Crimea region of USSR reported; deportation of Tartars to Crimea by Joseph Stalin during World War II recalled. Report introduced.
(Moscow, USSR : Bert Quint) Current problems resulting from ethnic nationalism in USSR featured. [While reading from textbook, Russian GIRL - (thru translator) says people of Soviet republics live as one big family.] Soviet news report from Mar. 4 about unrest between Armenians and Azerbaijan detailed. [Columbia Univ. Jonathan SANDERS - says Armenian unrest shows what happens when central government is concerned with internal problems.] Background to Armenia-Azerbaijan territorial dispute detailed. Other areas of ethnic problems described; case of continuing resentment of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia of Stalin takeover in 1939 stated. [SANDERS - says government will deal with these ethnic problems, but they are serious problems that spell difficult times ahead for Mikhail Gorbachev.] Issue of Gorbachev's approach to problems noted; possible impact on his reform programs discussed.
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(Studio: Susan Spencer) Eruption of rioting in Lhasa, Tibet, against China's rule reported; details given of yesterday's incident.
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(Studio: Susan Spencer) Proposal by South Africa for direct deal with USSR to set up neutral government in Angola to settle guerrilla war there reported
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(Studio: Susan Spencer) Report introduced.
(Johannesburg, South Africa: Martha Teichner) Nature of health care for blacks in South Africa featured. Operations to separate black Siamese twin babies in black hospital in township of Soweto in South Africa reported; scenes shown from Wits Univ. TV. Scenes shown of overcrowded conds. in Baragwanath Hospital for blacks in Soweto contrasted to conds. in Johannesburg white hospital. [MAN - says health care is separated along racial lines according to apartheid policies.] [Baragwanath Hospital administration Daan KIRSTEIN - says blacks want to come here.] Protest of hospital conds. by medical staff recalled. Problems in medical treatment for blacks in South African homelands reported; scenes shown. Life expectancy for blacks and whites in South Africa contrasted.
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(Studio: Susan Spencer) Shooting incident killing one and injuring several in church in Emporia, Kansas, reported
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(Studio: Susan Spencer) Report introduced.
(Huntsville, Texas: Gary Reaves) Overcrowding in Texas prison system featured; scenes shown from Fort Worth jail. [Texas jail standards commission spokesperson Robert VITERNA - says conds. will get worse.] Prison legislature detailed. [MAN - describes sentence.] Cutting of sentences to make space in jails and prisons reported [MAN - describes sentence.] Soaring crime rate in Dallas, Texas, reported [Travis Cnty. sheriff Doyne BAILEY - explains overcrowding.]
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(Studio: Susan Spencer) Soviet emigre Mstislav Rostropovich shown conducting National Symphony Orchestra, which played new work by Soviet composer. Report introduced.
(Moscow, USSR : Bill McLaughlin) Celebration of millennium of Christianity in USSR featured; details given, scenes shown from Russian historical film from 1917; Joseph Stalin's religion policy noted. Use of church by Mikhail Gorbachev in his social policies detailed; scenes shown from churches. [Archimandrite TIKHOV - (thru translator) explains church ideals.] Russian churchgoers profiled. [Formerly imprisoned Christian, Alexander OGORODNIKOV - (thru translator) says young people are turning to religion] Detente between church-state relations noted. Art restoration efforts at Danilov Monastery in Moscow shown. Many churches in USSR reported remaining closed; scenes shown. Gorbachev's "glasnost" policy mentioned.
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