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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: David Martin) Impending "January surprise" military cutbacks featured; details given. [Representative Leon PANETTA - comments on military reductions.] Plight of the Soviet military noted. [CIA director Robert GATES - comments on breakup of Soviet armed forces.] Possible retirement of B-52 bombers and shifting of transport planes to the reserves noted.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) President Bush reported today calling for an international conference to coordinate aid to the USSR ; President Mikhail Gorbachev quoted. Report introduced.
(Moscow: Anthony Mason) Gorbachev's waning power in the USSR featured; his statement at a press conference that he would not accept a figurehead role in the commonwealth, Russian parliament's endorsement of Russian President Boris Yeltsin's commonwealth plan and annulment of the 1922 treaty creating the USSR reported; scenes shown of today's events and of Gorbachev listening to the Soviet national anthem last week. [GORBACHEV - (thru translator) says he'll resign if process goes through; adds that he did all he could.] [Russian people's deputies Oleg KALUGIN, Galina STAROVOITOVA - comment on Gorbachev.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Status of the economy featured; results of survey on job outlook for the college class of 1992, figures on wholesale prices and retail sales cited.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Oklahoma City: Scott Pelley) Tough economic times faced by small retailers featured; scenes shown from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, shopping mall. [Maynard GREENBURG - comments on closing his family's Streets clothing stores.] [Streets employee Joyce ALEXANDER - comments on Streets closings, economy.] [Retail forecaster Kurt BARNARD - comments on thriftiness of Americans.] [Southern Methodist University Daniel HOWARD - comments on trend toward consolidation and merging in retailing.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Jim Stewart) Changes in United States military combat training to decrease the incidence of friendly fire casualties featured; excerpt shown from Defense Department tape of Persian Gulf war friendly fire hit; number of Persian Gulf war friendly fire fatalities noted. [US Army Major General Wesley CLARK - comments on efforts to improve combat identification.] Friendly force beacon demonstrated. [Widow of friendly fire victim Lisa APPLEGATE - comments on military's efforts.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Kurdish leaders reported agreeing to stop attacking Iraqi officials in Kurdistan if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will end his economic strangulation of the region. Report introduced.
(London: Martha Teichner) Plight of the Kurdish refugees in Penjwin Camp, Iraq, featured; details given; scenes shown. [REFUGEE - says they're living in Hell.] Reasons the United Nations has not prevented the Kurds' plight noted. [MAN - comments on inhuman living conditions of refugees.] Kurdish fears that the United States and Great Britain will stop military flights over Iraq noted.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(New York: Richard Threlkeld) Movement to eliminate mob involvement in the Teamsters union featured; 1985 footage of Teamsters union president going to jail and 1971 footage of Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa leaving jail shown. [President-elect, Teamsters Ron CAREY - says goodbye to Mafia involvement.] Many mob-connected Teamsters officials reported forced out by the federal government and the courts. [Two TEAMSTERS - comment.] [Labor Research Association Greg TARPINIAN - comments on Teamsters union corruption.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Indictment of Charles Keating and four associates on federal charges in the collapse of California's Lincoln Savings and Loan, Keating's conviction last week on state charges of defrauding investors reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Agreement of North and South Korea to a nonaggression pact; Israeli militants' move into houses in the Arab sector of Jerusalem; lighting of the national Christmas tree attended by Terry Anderson and four other freed Lebanon hostages reported; scenes shown from Seoul, South Korea, Israel, and the White House.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(West Palm Beach: Bruce Morton) Impact of William Kennedy Smith's rape trial featured; scenes shown. [Mother Jean Kennedy SMITH - comments on celebrating the acquittal.] [Juror Lea HALLER, two Au Bar PATRONS - comment on the trial.] [Rape counselor Denny ABBOTT - comments on reduction in rapes reported.] [Professor of law, USC, Susan ESTRICH - comments on acquaintance rape.] [Smith's attorney Roy BLACK, "Palm Beach Post" Frank CHARIDINO - comment on trial's impact.] Pending rape trial of Mark Stephen Kennedy, who is not related to Smith, mentioned.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Montgomery: Bob McNamara) Update on former Alabama governor and former presidential candidate George Wallace featured; historical footage and photos shown; shooting of Wallace recalled. [During campaign, WALLACE - makes speech.] [Today, WALLACE - comments on his health, his regrets, former President Lyndon Johnson, integration, presidential candidate David Duke, Ku Klux Klan, Adolf Hitler, his 1968 campaign.] Wallace's stand against integration recalled; scenes shown of Duke.
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