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(Studio: Harry Smith) Report introduced.
(Studio: Ray Brady) Lowering of the discount rate by the Federal Reserve Board to stimulate the economy to get the United States out of the recession featured. [Economist David JONES - analyzes the Federal Reserve's actions and the outlook for the consumer.] Impact of rate change on CD interest rates cited. [CD buyer Norma SCHNUDERO - comments.] [Bank rate monitor Bob HEADY - says the rates will plunge; says people should find banks with higher rates.] Graph of CD interest rates 1989-1991 compared. Investment advice given.
(Studio: Harry Smith) Budget deficit statistics cited. "Stock Market Report".
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Bill before Congress to force Japan to eliminate its trade surplus with the United States reported; President Bush's opposition noted. Ruling by Commerce Department that Japan has been dumping its minivans on the American market cited.
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Report introduced.
(New York: Bruce Morton) Announcement by Governor Mario Cuomo that he will not run for the Democratic presidential nomination featured; scenes shown of Cuomo on a rocking horse. [CUOMO - says he abandons effort to run.] [Two NEW YORKERS, political analyst Claibourne DARDEN, Democratic pollster Paul MASLIN - react to Cuomo's decision.] [CUOMO - says the question for President Bush is: is your life better than four years ago] [Governor Bill CLINTON - comments.] [Comedian Jay LENO - jokes about Cuomo.]
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Ruling by judge barring government from forcing Haitian refugees back home reported.
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Report introduced.
(Palm Beach: Juan Vasquez) Latest round of debate about the William Kennedy Smith rape case featured; scenes shown from his trial and from the interview given by his accuser. [On "PrimeTime Live", Patricia BOWMAN - talks about Smith.] [Rape counselor Sandra DUNCAN, juror Lea HALLER - comment.] [In local saloon, two WOMEN - comment.] [BOWMAN - talks further about the event and its aftermath.] [Juror Priscilla ROPER, rape counselor Denny ABBOTT - comment on the case.]
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Report introduced.
(London: Bill McLaughlin) The investigation of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 reexamined; scenes shown of plane's wreckage in Lockerbie, Scotland; details given of decision by United States and Britain to accuse two low- level Libyan agents of the bombing. [Mideast terrorism expert Kenneth TIMMERMANN - says Libya, Syria and Iran are engaged in an international terrorism network.] Evidence linking Iran, Syria and terrorist Ahmed Jabril to the plot detailed. [Former CIA counterterrorism director Vincent CANNISTRARO - talks about Jabril's commission from Iran to revenge the United States shooting down of an Iranian plane in 1988.] Jabril's links to Syrian President Hafez al-Assad and Libyan leader Colonel Muammar el-Kadhafi that have been ignored by United States and Britain to protect the Middle East peace talks and secure the release of the American hostages in Lebanon outlined. Article in "New York Times" citing complicity of Iran and Syria cited. President Bush and British Prime Minister John Major noted both up for reelection next year.
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Plans for United States to recognize the independence of some of the Soviet republics reported.
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Russian President Boris Yeltsin's meeting with Pope John Paul II and his message to NATO; opening of talks between black and white leaders in South Africa to set up a multiracial democracy; fire at a furniture plant in Brackenridge, Pennsylvania,; and announcement by Boston Pops conductor John Williams of his retirement reported; scenes shown from the Vatican, Johannesburg, near Pittsburgh and Boston.
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Report introduced.
(Providence, Rhode Island: Edie Magnus) The problems faced by survivors of cancer featured. [Actress Ann JILLIAN, HUSBAND - talk about her battle for life.] [University of California at Los Angeles research center Dr. Patricia GANZ - talks about the long-term scars.] [Survivor Lauren STERLING - talks about the stigma.] [Survivor Susan NESSIM - says her life was altered by the cure.] Scenes shown from Cancervive support group organized by Nessim. [In roundtable discussion, survivors Denise McGORRIN, Peter BASTONE, Karen KRAEMER, Keith BOESKY, Elliot WITKOW - talk about cancer.] [Democratic presidential candidate Paul TSONGAS - talks about his cancer recovery.]
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Report introduced.
(Washington: Wyatt Andrews) State troopers' preparations to deal with drunken drivers this holiday weekend featured; scenes shown of wrecked cars. [Accident victim Lennie BENTLEY - describes what happened.] [National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Jerry CURRY, Florida state trooper Pat SANTANGELO - comment.] Sobriety tests shown. Reasons for this year's decline in traffic fatalities reviewed.
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