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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Tom Fenton) Upcoming meeting of members of the Soviet commonwealth in Minsk, Byelorussia, featured; scenes shown of continued fighting in Tbilisi, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. [Russian President Boris YELTSIN - (thru translator) comments on control of Soviet weapons.] Three republics, including the Ukraine, reported saying they will form their own conventional armies. [Ukraine President Leonid KRAVCHUK - (thru translator) comments on maintaining Ukraine independence.] Soviet economic crisis and former president Mikhail Gorbachev's comments on the commonwealth mentioned.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(London: Martha Teichner) Escalation of fighting in Karlovac, Yugoslavia, and near the Croatian capital of Zagreb, Yugoslavia, featured; scenes shown; strategic importance of Karlovac noted. [European Community observer Michel THEOLDLAY - comments on not being able to go to Karlovac.] Team of United Nations observers including United Nations special envoy Cyrus Vance reported surveying Karlovac; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Sofia, Bulgaria: Peter Van Sant) Collapse of Bulgaria's economy featured; details given; scenes shown of rally of socialists in Sofia, Bulgaria. [WOMAN - comments on people's fear.] [WOMAN - comments on freedom.] [Produce salesman Angel ANGELHOFF - comments on private business.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Standing committee of China's congress reported today signing the 1968 nuclear nonproliferation treaty.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Washington: Randall Pinkston) President Bush's trip to the Far East tomorrow featured; scenes shown of Bush leaving Beeville, Texas, and arriving in Washington, DC, with Barbara Bush. [On Friday, BUSH - makes speech about opening Asian markets.] Goals of Bush's trip mentioned. [Institution for International Economics C. Fred BERGSTEN - comments.] [On CNN, Representative Richard GEPHARDT - talks about United States policies needed.] US trade deficit with Japan cited. [Former trade negotiator Clyde PRESTOWITZ - comments on cutting trade deficit.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Chicago: Regina Blakely) Illinois program to educate homeless children featured; scenes shown from Chicago school. [Chicago public schools Laverne SAMS, shelter director Aron WALKER, mother Tonya STOKES, Illinois department of education John EDWARDS, sociologist Dan LEWIS - comment on program.] [Homeless 11-year-old Tisha STOKES - talks about getting a job.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Delivery of clothing, food and toys collected by two New York radio stations to Haitian refugees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, featured; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Results of British clinical trials of drugs Acyclovir and AZT to treat AIDS reported.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Antarctica: Jerry Bowen) University of Illinois scientist Art Devrise's research to determine what keeps the Antarctic cod from freezing featured; implications for human organ preservation mentioned; scenes shown. [DEVRISE, University of California Berkeley scientist Boris RUBINSKY - comment.] Rubinsky's research involving the fish antifreeze noted; scenes shown. Possibility of using the antifreeze to preserve ice cream mentioned.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Pacific storm, which caused snow and rain in California, reported; scenes shown from Sacramento, California, and Los Angeles.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Dallas: James Hattori) Flooding in Texas featured; details given; scenes shown from Fort Bend County, Texas, Trinity River and Wharton, Texas. [WOMAN, MAN - comment.] Declaration of five counties so far as federal disaster areas reported. [Federal Emergency Management Agency Brad HARRIS - talks about putting people's lives back together.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Last night's deadly stampede at a New York City charity basketball game reported; details given; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Events that happened on the weekends in 1991 reviewed. Beginning of the ground war against Iraq, United States commander General H. Norman Schwarzkopf's acceptance of Iraq's surrender, homecomings of the first Persian Gulf war troops; first word of the failed Soviet coup, Gorbachev's resignation of Communist Party leadership, declaration of the Soviet commonwealth; President Bush's hospitalization in May; first hearing on Anita Hill's charges against Clarence Thomas; charges against White House Chief of Staff John Sununu, defeat of former Klansman David Duke in the Louisiana gubernatorial election; William Kennedy Smith's arraignment on a rape charge; Los Angeles police beating of Rodney King; arrest of entertainer Pee-Wee Herman in a pornographic movie house; eruption of Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines; cyclone in Bangladesh; fires near Oakland, California; Minnesota Twins' World Series baseball victory, and ceremonies commemorating the attack of Pearl Harbor recalled; scenes shown of each weekend event.
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