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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Mark Phillips) United States Conference of Mayors survey on the homeless featured; details given; scenes shown of the homeless. [Saint Paul, Minnesota, Mayor James SCHEIBEL - comments on lack of jobs and financial assistance.] Homeless families shown rehearsing for a Christmas revue at a Washington, DC, school. [MAN - talks about impact on children.] [Boston Mayor Raymond FLYNN - calls for aid to the USSR to be matched with aid for the homeless.] Dead body of a homeless man reported recently discovered less than a block from the White House.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Russian President Boris Yeltsin reported telling Secretary of State James Baker that the commonwealth will take over as the successor to the USSR by the end of the month. Reports introduced.
(Moscow: Bill Plante) Scenes shown of Baker's meetings with Yeltsin and President Mikhail Gorbachev. [YELTSIN - (thru translator) comments on his discussion with Baker.] Yeltsin's assurance that the Soviet nuclear arsenal will remain under central control noted. [GORBACHEV - (thru translator) says the process has to proceed in a lawful and constitutional framework.] [BAKER - comments on Gorbachev.]
(Moscow: Anthony Mason) Hard times in Moscow featured; scenes shown. [Moscow residents "KARAN", "SASHA" - (thru translator) talk about their broken-down cars.] [Moscow residents Constantine GABARILLOVICH, Alexander VLADIMIROVICH - (thru translator) say it will get better.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) United Nations reported repealing its resolution equating Zionism with racism; details given; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(London: Barry Petersen) Pre-dawn bomb blast on a London commuter train track, allegedly carried out by the IRA, featured; scenes shown. [PASSENGER - comments on train shaking.] Resulting shutdown of commuter trains, closing of stock exchange due to another bomb threat noted. Recent IRA (Irish Republican Army) use of the fire bomb as a weapon of terror reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Reputed mobsters reported subpoenaed to testify about the current mob war in New York City. Report introduced.
(New York: Giselle Fernandez) New York City mob war featured; recent murders of alleged mobsters recalled; historical footage and photos shown of mobsters, including Joe Colombo. [FBI James FOX - says war is between rival factions of the Colombo crime family.] Government use of racketeering laws, new in the mid-'80s, to go after top mob officials reported, mobster John Gotti mentioned. [Organized crime task force Ronald GOLDSTOCK - comments on disintegration of the mob.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(New York: Ray Brady) Ways to save money on income taxes featured; tips listed; increase in state income taxes this year noted; April 15 scenes shown of taxpayers' revolt in Connecticut.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Official government figures on last month's industrial production, increased pressure on the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates again reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Plea of Charles Keating and four associates to federal racketeering and fraud charges in the collapse of the Lincoln Savings and Loan; collision and burning of a truck carrying nuclear reactor fuel in Springfield, Massachusetts; number of survivors of this weekend's sinking of a ferryboat in the Red Sea reported; scenes shown from Los Angeles, Springfield, and the Red Sea.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Studio: Edie Magnus) Battle against cancer featured; historical footage shown of then-President Richard Nixon signing the National Cancer Act on December 23, 1971. [Cancer patient and children's theater director Nina TREVENS - comments on enjoying her life, expresses frustration.] [NIXON, Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Louis SULLIVAN - make speeches about fighting cancer.] Statistics on cancer incidence, deaths, and survival rates outlined. [Testicular cancer patient Peter TWOMBLY - talks about fear of cancer.] [University of California at Los Angeles Jonsson Cancer Center Helene BROWN - comments on cancer of internal organs.] Link between smoking and lung cancer, early cancer detection methods noted. [President's Cancer Panel chairman, Dr. Harold FREEMAN - comments on poor cancer patients.] [National Cancer Institute Dr. Steven ROSENBERG - comments on immunotherapy.] Research to identify the genes which cause cancer mentioned. [National Cancer Institute Dr. Michael FRIEDMAN - comments on getting close to the answers.] Week-long series of cancer segments previewed.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Fort Stewart, Georgia: David Martin) "Operation Desert Stork" wherein "war babies" are being born nine months after their fathers' return from the Persian Gulf war featured; scenes shown of babies and parents. [Father sergeant Joe COLON, mother Kristen STURGIS - comment on their babies.] [Commander of Winn Army Hospital Dr. Sidney STEINBERG - comments on births.] [Expectant mother Mary THRASHER - says she regretted not having a child while her husband was in the Persian Gulf.]
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