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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(New York: Ray Brady) GM's announcement of cutbacks featured; details outlined. [GM chairman and CEO Robert STEMPEL - comments on cutbacks.] Reasons for General Motors Corporation losses noted. [Three General Motors Corporation plant WORKERS - comment.] Number of Xerox, TRW and IBM job cuts listed. [Conference Board Audrey FREEDMAN - predicts more job cuts.] Number of hours used to produce Toyota and General Motors Corporation cars compared. [Auto analyst John CASESA - comments on Japanese threat.] Possibility of union problems for GM noted.
(Dallas: Scott Pelley) Effect of big corporation cutbacks on smaller companies featured; details given. [Soon to be unemployed Mike MILLER - comments on loss of his job.] [Glover Machine Company W.H. WAGNER - comments on employee layoffs.] [Maxim Oil and Chemical EMPLOYEE - comments on ties to other industries.] Economists' estimates of job cuts resulting from major corporation cuts noted. [Southern Methodist University David BLAKE - comments on small companies.]
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(White House: Susan Spencer) President Bush's signing of the transportation bill in Dallas featured; scenes shown of Bush dining with and talking to workers. [BUSH - makes speech about jobs.] [Federal Reserve chairman Alan GREENSPAN - notes concern about the economy.] Greenspan reported hinting the Federal Reserve may drop interest rates again soon. [Representative Newt GINGRICH - comments on White House plan to give rebate to taxpayers.] Jimmy Carter's fifty dollar rebate plan recalled.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Rita Braver) Status of the war on drugs featured; scenes shown of drug agents' seizure of cocaine in Miami and of drug use; graph shown indicating amount of cocaine use and adolescent drug use in 1988, 1990 and 1991. [On November 13, President BUSH - comments on decrease in drug use.] [Presidential drug adviser Bob MARTINEZ - says priority has been the young.] Rise of drug use among inner city blacks noted. [Drug treatment director Alan HOROWITZ - comments on pressure created by the economy.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Results given of study on the number of Americans in 1990 without health insurance.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Senator Robert Dole's surgery today for prostate cancer and his prognosis reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) United States Air Force emergency airlift of food to Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia, reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Virtual shutdown of Soviet air travel due to shortage of aviation fuel reported; scenes shown of stranded passengers in Moscow.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Secretary of State James Baker shown in the Ukraine where he received more assurances today about nuclear weapons in the republics. Report introduced.
(Moscow: Anthony Mason) Conversion to peacetime products of Moscow factory, which formerly specialized in production of intercontinental ballistic missiles, featured; scenes shown; historical footage shown of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. [Sausage machinery division manager "ANATOLY", microwave worker "ANNA", factory director Kuchba DENELOVICH, former factory director Aleksandr MAKOROV - (thru translator) comment on changes.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) South Korean President Roh Tae Woo reported stating that there are no nuclear weapons in South Korea and challenging North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons program; statement said to indicate that the United States has withdrawn all of its nuclear arms from South Korea.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Breaking off of Middle East peace talks in Washington, DC, and agreement to meet again next month; massacre of Indians in a Colombian village; fatal sweeping of giant wave over a Russian fishing vessel off the coast of Scotland; poisonous tropical algae in the Mediterranean Sea along the coast of France reported; scenes shown from Washington, Colombia, the Scotland coast and the Mediterranean.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Studio: Edie Magnus) Options for cancer patients featured. [Colon cancer patient Ron CHAPLIN, lung cancer patient Robert KULKA, breast cancer patient Ellen HUDSON, Hodgkin's disease patient Nina TREVENS - comment on their experiences with cancer.] [Vital Options Selma SCHIMMEL; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Dr. Robert MAYER, Dr. Karen ANTMAN; National Cancer Institute Dr. Steven ROSENBERG - talk about cancer patients' options.] Services of National Cancer Hotline noted; map shown indicating location of federally designated cancer centers. National Cancer Institute reported seeking volunteers for clinical trials of experimental therapies; insurance reimbursement said often denied for these therapies; government survey on oncologists' use of non-reimbursed therapies cited. [Health Insurance Association of America John COVA, American Society of Clinical Oncology Dr. Martin ABELOFF - comment.] Phone numbers listed for the National Cancer Institute information service and the American Cancer Society; "Charting the Journey: an Almanac of Practical Resources for Cancer Survivors" mentioned; tomorrow's cancer segment previewed.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: Jim Stewart) Debate over the number of United States military medals being handed out for the Persian Gulf war featured; excerpt shown from the film "To Hell and Back". [Assistant Secretary of Defense Christopher JEHN, United States Army retired Colonel David HACKWORTH - comment.]
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