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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Capitol Hill: Bob Schieffer) Negotiators for Congress and President Bush reported close to agreement on budget; details given of new taxes and spending cuts.
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(White House: Lesley Stahl) Bush's address to joint session of Congress and television audience tonight about Persian Gulf crisis and summit with USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev previewed. [Representatives Craig JAMES, Carroll HUBBARD - complain about lack of burden-sharing among allies.] Bush noted videotaping a message to be broadcast on Iraqi television.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: David Martin) Defense Department update on Persian Gulf area operations and cost reported; threat of Iraqi terrorism noted. [Colonel John PETTYJOHN, United States forces in Saudi Arabia Commander General H. Norman SCHWARZKOPF - comment on terrorism threats.] [Senator Sam NUNN - complains about lack of Arab support.] [Secretary of Defense Dick CHENEY - responds.] [Senator William COHEN - says Arab states' funding is being generated by oil price increase.]
(Studio: Dan Rather) Efforts to improve United States mail delivery to soldiers in Saudi Arabia reported. Flight for up to 800 Americans and Britons out of Kuwait this week noted. Report introduced.
(Baghdad: Doug Tunnel) Freed Westerners reported saying Kuwait still unconquered; details given; scenes shown from amateur videotape of Kuwait City, Kuwait. [AMERICAN - comments on Iraq forcing Kuwaitis back to work.] Arrest and detention of citizens from Great Britain, France, West Germany, Japan and United States for "human shield" use noted; raid last week from which wounded American Miles Hoffman was trying to escape detailed.
(Studio: Dan Rather) More details given of raid and human shield installations.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) USSR Russian federation parliament, led by Boris Yeltsin, reported voting to adopt radical economic plan; details given; President Mikhail Gorbachev quoted as favoring plan; scenes shown from Moscow.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Terence Smith) Government auditors reported warning that some of biggest commercial banks and FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) are in troubles similar to those of savings and loan industry; details outlined on screen. [Comptroller General Charles BOWSHER - testifies.] [Senators John HEINZ, John KERRY - comment.] FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) chairman L. William Seidman quoted on issue; Congress noted authorizing doubling of insurance premiums paid by banks.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Susan Spencer) Report released from two advocacy groups showing poor care for seriously mentally ill examined; state-by-state findings outlined on screen. [Public Citizen Health Research Group Dr. E. Fuller TORREY, Dr. Sidney WOLFE - comment.] American Psychiatric Association response noted. [Community Outreach, Dallas, Terry PAUL - comments on lack of doctors.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Rita Braver) Corruption within United States Agency for International Development (AID) examined; details given of humanitarian aid. Washington, DC, federal court reported sentencing businessman George Krauss for bribing officials; scenes shown from January 13 surveillance tape. [AID assistant inspector general Gene RICHARDSON - comments on increased corruption.] Krauss noted leading investigators to AID official Donald Enos, supervising aid to Nicaraguan Contras; scenes shown from February 15 surveillance. [AID investigator Richard BOGGS - hopes videotape serves as deterrent.] (Artist: Don Juhlin)
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(Studio: Dan Rather) New York judge reported sentencing three teenagers convicted in April 1989 rape and assault of woman jogger in Central Park; details given; judge quoted.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Milwaukee: Frank Currier) Milwaukee, WI, cult figure Bambi, who is escaped convicted murderer Lawrencia Bembenek, featured; details given of alleged murder of Christine Schultz and of hiding with fiance Dominic Gugliatto; scenes shown from Milwaukee and photos of Bembenek. [Radio show CALLER, "Milwaukee Journal" Joel McNALLY, four Bambi FANS, Milwaukee County district attorney E. Michael McCANN - comment.]
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