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(Studio: Dan Rather) Reports introduced.
(Beijing: Bill Whitaker) Chinese Premier Li Peng reported revoking martial law order in Beijing, China; details given of response to revocation, scenes shown from Beijing. [SOLDIER - (thru translator) orders soldiers from Tiananmen Square.] [LI - (thru translator) comments on situation.] Last summer's massacre in Tiananmen Square and subsequent government crackdown recalled. [Student leader WUER Kaixi - (thru translator) comments on lifting of martial law.] [International lawyer Matthew DERSANI - says China needs resumption of foreign investment.]
(Washington: Lesley Stahl) President Bush's response to China's lifting of martial law examined. [Vice President Dan QUAYLE - praises decision.] Representative William Broomfield quoted on screen regarding situation. [Representative Nancy PELOSI - comments.] [State Department's Margaret TUTWILER - asserts United States stance on economic aid to China.] [National Committee on Chinese Student Affairs HAICHING Zhao - questions administration's China policy.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Lithuania: Barry Petersen) Lithuanian desire for independence from USSR reported mounting as President Mikhail Gorbachev's visit to republic approaches; details given, scenes shown from demonstrations. [WOMAN - (thru translator) says Lithuania will be free like United States one day.] Examples of changes in Lithuania given. [Lithuanian independence movement leader Romuldas OZOLAS - (thru translator) demands freedom.] Lithuanian leader Algirdas Brazauskas discussed.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Problems within East Germany's coalition government discussed; details given.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Susan Spencer) Government study results regarding effects of low dose lead poisoning given. [Dr. Herbert NEEDLEMAN, Environmental Defense Fund Karen FLORINI, Dr. Paul MUSHAK - say children who are exposed to lead are damaged for life.] Outlawing of lead paint recalled; scenes shown of inner city dwellings covered by lead paint. [Baltimore, Maryland, public housing official Jim McCABE - comments on problem.] HUD's lead study discussed. [Assistant US Housing and Urban Development Secretary John WEICHER - comments on impossibility of removing lead from all houses in US.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(New York: Richard Threlkeld) Case of New York Dr. Veronica Prego, who contracted AIDS when she was accidentally stuck by AIDS-infected needle, reported going to trial; details given of Prego's lawsuit against hospital in which she was infected. [PREGO - testifies.] CDC's data regarding AIDS cases among health care workers outlined on screen. Precautions taken by health workers discussed; scenes shown from operating rooms. [Dr. Lorraine DAY - says health care workers are not being protected.] [AIDS rights advocate David BARR - fears that Prego case will generate more discrimination against AIDS patients.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Space shuttle Columbia reported deploying communications satellite; details given, scenes shown from space.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Rita Braver) Supreme Court reported ruling regarding Yonkers, New York, desegregated housing case; details of case reviewed, scenes shown from demonstrations in 1988. Ruling of Federal Judge Leonard Sand recalled. [Solicitor General Kenneth STARR - comments on case.] [Yonkers Mayor Henry SPALLONE - praises ruling.] Chief Justice William Rehnquist's majority opinion and Justice William Brennan's dissenting opinion quoted on screen. [Yonkers NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) attorney Michael SUSSMAN, Yonkers city councilman Edward FAGAN - comment.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Doctors at Mayo Clinic quoted regarding rapid growth of seven-year-old boy from USSR , Igor Leiden; details given of his pituitary condition, scenes shown of boy on September 19, 1989.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Jerry Bowen) Floods and rainstorms reported in Washington state and Oregon; details given, scenes shown from Lewis County, WA, and Oregon.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) New York authorities quoted regarding collapse of school wall during tornado in Newburgh, New York; details given, scenes shown from collapse in November 1989.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Burlington: Richard Roth) New parents' dilemma of whether to use convenient disposable diapers or protect environment by using cloth ones examined; details given, scenes shown of Bellinson family in Burlington, VT. [Mother Maureen BELLINSON - says she likes to use disposable diapers.] Number of parents who use disposable diapers estimated. [Governor Madeleine KUNIN - wants to ban disposable diapers in Vermont.] [Burlington city engineer Steve GOODKIND - says wastes with chemicals in them are more harmful than diapers.] Jerome Gravel's diaper service discussed.
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