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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Tampa: Rita Braver) Bond hearing for aide to Manuel Noriega, Colonel Luis del Cid reported; details given of his role in Noriega regime. [Del Cid attorney Samuel BURSTYN - comments on case.] Bank of Credit and Commerce International reported pleading guilty to money-laundering charges; details given of bank's laundering of Noriega's drug money; Noriega's banker Amjad Awan mentioned. [Senator John KERRY - explains Awan's role in Noriega drug operation.] Awan's attorneys quoted regarding their defense strategy. (Artists: Jeanne Boggs and Jane Rosenberg)
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Terence Smith) President Bush's son Neil Bush reported under investigation by federal investigators regarding failure of Silverado Savings and Loan in Denver, Colorado; details given; scenes shown. [Office of Thrift Supervision Rosemary STEWART - comments on penalties that Bush could face.] [Former federal bank analyst James MORONEY - says Bush's connections saved him from more thorough investigation.] [On December 7, 1989, Neil BUSH - says he never received special treatment.] [Representative Charles SCHUMER - says Silverado managers made risky investments.] Investigators reported to reach decision regarding Bush role in Silverado failure in near future.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) President Bush and US Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp reported appearing at Alexandria, Virginia, housing project in which residents staged sit-in against drug dealers who operate from this area; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Bruce Morton) Anniversary of schoolyard shooting spree in Stockton, California, noted; resulting debate regarding sale of assault weapons and President Bush's ban on imported assault rifles reviewed. [Handgun Control, Incorporated, David MENGEBIER - says assault pistols should be banned as well.] [Heckler and Koch Marvin WAGNER - defends sale of these pistols.] [Gun dealer Paul LaVISTA - says assault pistols sell well.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Barry Petersen) Kremlin reported ordering more USSR troops into Armenia, USSR and Azerbaijan, USSR , fighting zone; details given of continuing ethnic violence resulting from both sides' desire to control Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, USSR ; scenes shown from fighting. President Bush quoted regarding his sympathy for President Mikhail Gorbachev. Pro-Armenian demonstrations reported in Moscow, USSR ; scenes shown. [WOMAN - (thru translator) describes fighting in Armenia.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Coal miners' reported striking in Poland; details given of difficult economic changes there. Poland and other Eastern European countries reported requesting economic aid from US. Report introduced.
(Washington: Bill Plante) President Bush's administration and Senate leaders reported planning how economic aid to European countries and Panama should be allocated. [Senator Robert DOLE - proposes new foreign aid plan.] [American Jewish Committee Ira SILVERMAN - says aid to Israel should not be reduced in order to benefit Eastern Europe.] [State Department Margaret TUTWILER - asserts United States stance on issue.] White House aides quoted regarding situation.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Czechs reported gathering in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in memory of student Jan Palach, who burned himself to death in protest of USSR invasion of his country; details given; scenes shown. New President Vaclav Havel noted attending ceremony; disbanding of secret police noted.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) United Nations security council reported proposing peace plan for Cambodia; details given.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Mark Phillips) Environmental group reported asserting that many United States companies are still depleting ozone layer of earth's atmosphere; details given of study; scenes shown. [Natural Resources Defense Council David DONIGER - comments.] Study results outlined on screen; several ozone-depleting companies listed on screen. [Industry spokesman Paul CAMMER - defends industry.] Scientists quoted regarding increasing number of skin cancer cases.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Fog reported causing closing of Chicago area airports; details given; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Supreme Court reported deciding whether or not people charged with child abuse have right to face their young accusers in court; details given.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Phil Jones) Supreme Court reported deciding whether or not political patronage practices violate Constitution; historical information regarding patronage reviewed. Former Chicago mayor Richard Daley mentioned. Cases of Illinois employees Cynthia Rutan and James Moore outlined; details given; scenes shown. [RUTAN, MOORE, attorney Mary Lee LEAHY - comment on situation.] Justice Byron White quoted regarding discrimination against these people. [Attorney Thomas SULLIVAN - defends system.] (Artist: Don Juhlin)
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(Studio: Dan Rather) American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T)'s computer problems recalled disrupting telephone services across country; situation updated.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Wisconsin: Frank Currier) Wisconsin's controversial program, "learnfare," examined; details given of effort to hold parents accountable for their children's school attendance; scenes shown. [Welfare recipient Dennis FENGIER - says he did not get his check because his child skipped school.] [Teen Erin FENGIER - says state should punish her and not her parents.] [Governor Tommy THOMPSON - says if these children stay in school, they may not end up on welfare.] [Family Service America Geneva JOHNSON - opposes program.] [Wisconsin Legal Action Pat DeLESSIO - says program is discriminatory.] Program noted keeping some teens in school. [Teen mother Yolanda SCOTT - says she would not be in school without program.] [WI Welfare Reform Silvia JACKSON, TEACHER - comment on program.]
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