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(Studio: Harry Smith) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Tom Fenton) Final hours in office for Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who will announce his resignation tomorrow, featured; scenes shown of Muscovites buying New Year's trees. [Gorbachev spokesman Alexander LIKHOTAL - comments.] [Soviet army MAJOR - (thru translator) cites his low salary.] [MAN - (thru translator) says the system has fallen apart.] Continued attack by opposition forces on the Parliament building in Georgia shown. Statement from Russian President Boris Yeltsin listing Gorbachev's retirement perquisites noted.
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Midnight Mass in Vatican City, led by Pope John Paul II, shown.
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Report introduced.
(Bethlehem: Bob Simon) Christmas celebration in Bethlehem, West Bank, despite a Palestinian strike featured; scenes shown of tourists and Israeli security in Bethlehem and from Ramallah, West Bank, which had been under curfew. [TOURIST, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Shelley ROZELLE, Ramallah's First Baptist MINISTER - comment on conditions.]
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Report introduced.
(Atlanta: Erin Hayes) Retail sales by last-minute Christmas shoppers examined; sales figures this weekend for three major companies outlined on screen. [Store manager Lynda GATLIN, economist Don RATAJCZAK, retail sales analyst Terence McEVOY, two SHOPPERS, store manager Jeffrey SYED - comment on shopping strategies.]
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Suggestion by Republican presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan that restrictions be placed on panhandlers reported.
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Reports introduced.
(Los Angeles: Jerry Bowen) Attitude in California towards welfare examined; details given of the governor's proposed taxpayers' protection act that would cut welfare. [Construction inspector Tom SCHINDLER, Governor Pete WILSON - comment.] [Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association Joel FOX - says taxpayers are frustrated.] The welfare issue in campaign '92 cited. [Presidential candidates David DUKE, Governor Bill CLINTON - speak on welfare issue.] [California WORKER - comments.]
(New York: Bob Faw) Cuts in welfare in Connecticut examined; scenes shown from New Haven, Connecticut. [Welfare recipients Nieda DIAZ, Kenneth MOSLEY - talk about their situation.] [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Bob GREENSTEIN - says the poor are an easy political group to cut.] [Gary SPINNER - opposes welfare cuts.]
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Plans for Christmas for Haitian refugees at the United States naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reported; scenes shown from site. Federal judge recalled blocking administration's attempts to send the refugees home.
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Return to United States of the body of Lieutenant Colonel William Higgins, who was killed while a hostage in Lebanon, reported.
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Floods in Texas; derailment of freight train near Spokane, WA; discovery in a Riverside, California, orange grove of body of a woman who likely was the victim of a serial killer; release on bail of banker Charles Keating, who faces trial on fraud charges; and stranding of group of pilot whales on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, reported; scenes shown from Texas, Spokane, Riverside, Los Angeles and Cape Cod.
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: David Dow) The economy, stress and southern California, where the business of legal compensation for job-related stress is booming, featured; scenes shown from a stress management seminar for the newly jobless and from television ads. [Unemployed Eddie TURNER - comments.] [Small businessman Tom HAGERMAN - says stress claims are killing companies.] [Security guard company's Ray BOYD - talks about going to court against stress claimants.]
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(Studio: Harry Smith) Report introduced.
(New York: Hattie Kauffman) Photography as rehabilitation for the disabled featured; scenes shown from New York City. [Disabled ChekasaWARE - describes being shot and having to learn how to live.] [Rehabilitation Through Photography Holly GIGNOUX, blind woman Victorene FLOOD, MAN, legally blind Mortie KING - talk about taking pictures.]
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