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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(West Palm Beach, Florida: Bruce Morton) Acquittal of William Kennedy Smith at his rape trial featured; scenes shown. [Defense lawyer Roy BLACK - comments.] [SMITH - thanks his family.] Effect of the trial on rape victims noted.
(Studio: Dan Rather; West Palm Beach: Bruce Morton) Discussion held about the verdict, Kennedy family's influence, trial's impact on the Kennedy family.
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Rita Braver) Impact of the trial on future rape cases featured. [Two Washington, DC, bar PATRONS - comment on trial outcome.] [Rape Crisis Hotline Denise SNYDER - comments on trial's message to women.]
(Studio: Dan Rather; Washington: Rita Braver) Discussion held about the difficulty proving such cases, anti-press backlash.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Anthony Mason) Russian President Boris Yeltsin's move to consolidate a new commonwealth without President Mikhail Gorbachev featured; scenes shown. [YELTSIN - announces that Armenia and Kirghizia have joined the commonwealth.] Other republics reported considering joining the commonwealth; map shown. Meeting between Yeltsin and defense minister Yevgeny Shaposhnikov mentioned. [Russian foreign minister Andrei KOZYREV - urges Gorbachev to continue to be a reformer.] [On Soviet TV, former Gorbachev deputy SPOKESMAN - (thru translator) comments on possible Gorbachev resignation.] [MAN, WOMAN - (thru translator) comment on changes.]
(White House: Susan Spencer) White House reaction to events in the USSR featured. [US ambassador Robert STRAUSS - comments on Yeltsin, civil unrest.] Secretary of State James Baker's meeting with President Bush to assess the Soviet situation noted. [BUSH - comments on Soviet nuclear weapons.] United States agricultural loans and direct food assistance mentioned; scenes shown of Soviets waiting in line. [Center for National Policy Madeleine ALBRIGHT - comments on food and medical aid.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Jim Stewart) Update on the fight against breast cancer featured. [General Accounting Office Richard LINSTER - comments on increasing incidence of breast cancer, lack of progress made to fight it.] Incidence of breast cancer cited. [Harvard Medical School Dr. Susan LOVE - says it's an epidemic.] [Former breast cancer patient, leader of Coalition for More Government Action Ruth SPEAR - comments on need for more funds for breast cancer research.] Known and suspected risk factors for breast cancer listed; importance of mammography noted.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Hollywood: Richard Roth) Bankruptcy of Orion Pictures Corp. featured; excerpt shown from the films "Dances with Wolves", "Silence of the Lambs", "The Addams Family", "State of Grace", "The Hot Spot", "She- Devil", and "Class Action" and from Academy Awards ceremony. [Entertainment industry analyst David LONDONER, "The Hollywood Reporter" Alex Ben BLOCK - comment on Orion bankruptcy.] Orion's sale of "The Addams Family" to Paramount Pictures noted; details given of how Orion got into debt.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) President Bush's reaction to the new European Community agreement reported; details given.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Russian government order to expel East German Communist boss Erich Honecker; election of former police chief Frank Jordan as mayor of San Francisco; fatal crash of a corporate jet near Rome, Georgia; shutdown of Hubble Space Telescope due to a computer glitch reported; scenes shown from Moscow, San Francisco, Rome, and outer space.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Pittsfield, Massachusetts: Eric Engberg) Newspaper cutbacks caused by the recession featured. [Editor, "The Berkshire Eagle" Mark MILLER - says readers are less well informed.] [Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Mayor Ed REILLY, former town planning board member Jonathan NICKS - comment on changes in city government reporting.] [American Society of Newspaper Editors David LAWRENCE - comments on need for more resources.] "Miami Herald" news bureau closings and planned lay-offs noted. [Knight-Ridder newspaper chain chief executive James BATTEN - comments on profitability of the newspaper business.] Scenes shown of demonstrators protesting the shutdown of Gannett-owned "Arkansas Gazette"; Gannett Company noted refusing to speak to CBS News.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Tonight's interview with Earvin "Magic" Johnson on "Face to Face with Connie Chung" previewed; excerpt shown. [In excerpt, JOHNSON - tells how he contracted the AIDS virus.]
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