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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Tom Fenton) Summit of leaders of the new Soviet commonwealth in Minsk, Byelorussia, featured; details given; scenes shown. [Former Soviet foreign minister Eduard SHEVARDNADZE - (thru translator) talks about possibility of Soviet nuclear weapons falling into the wrong hands, threat of a coup.] Ukraine's plans to circulate its own currency and Russia's plans to free prices reported; scenes shown of Russians standing in line; another summit said to be held next month.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Georgia noted refusing to join the new commonwealth. Report introduced.
(Moscow: Jonathan Sanders) Uprising against the democratically elected government in Georgia featured; scenes shown of fighting in Tbilisi, Georgia. President Zviad Gamsakhurdia reported holed up in the parliament's basement, vowing never to surrender. [GAMSAKHURDIA - says Russia is against Georgian independence, the former Soviet army is helping his opponents.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Escalation of fighting by the Yugoslavian army against Croatia reported; details given; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Fatal car bomb explosion in Beirut reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Washington: David Martin) Funerals for murdered Lebanon hostages CIA William Buckley and Marine Colonel William Higgins featured; scenes shown. [CIA director Robert GATES - speaks at funeral.] [Widow Major Robin HIGGINS - comments on funeral.] [Secretary of Defense Dick CHENEY - says we'll hold those responsible for the murders to account.] [Navy chaplain for United States Marine Corps Rear Admiral D. MUCHOW - speaks at Buckley's burial at Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) President Bush's trip to Asia and Australia reported; scenes shown of him boarding airplane with Barbara Bush.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Results given of Conference Board survey of American consumers' confidence in the economy.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(London: Martha Teichner) British research on the use of the herpes drug acyclovir, in combination with AZT, to treat AIDS featured; details given. [Royal Free Hospital Paul GRIFFITHS, Institution of Cancer Research, London, Robin WEISS - comment on research results.] Effect of research results on value of Wellcome stock, which manufactures both drugs, noted.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Washington: Jacqueline Adams) High cost of long-term health care featured; percent of Americans who will spend time in a nursing home noted; nursing home scenes shown. [Son Ronald BECKWITH - comments on his father's long-term health care expenses.] [Mary BUSH, attorney Garey EAKES - comment on the system.] Middle class especially said to be bearing the brunt of expenses; option of long-term care insurance policies mentioned. [Consumers Union Gail SHEARER - comments on uncertainties consumers face.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Middle East peace talks said set to resume next week in Washington, DC. Report introduced.
(Tel Aviv: Bob Simon) Unrest in Israel surrounding the Middle East peace talks featured; scenes shown of dispute in Jerusalem, between Palestinians and Jewish settlers, of Palestinian leader Faisal al-Husseini trying to talk peace to his people in the West Bank, and of dispute between right-wing and leftist Israelis at Tel Aviv University. [Israeli SETTLER - comments on peace process.] [PALESTINIAN - insults Jewish settlers.] [HUSSEINI - comments on peace.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Richard Roth) Debate over California law requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets featured; scenes shown of anti-helmet demonstrators. [Cyclist Susan INSKEEP - comments on experience of motorcycling.] Motorcycle accident statistics noted; accident scenes shown; excerpt shown from film "The Wild One". [Guru Bier SINKALSA - says helmets don't allow for his religious hairstyle.] [Actors James CAAN, Gary BUSEY - offer differing views on helmet use.] Busey's motorcycle accident recalled.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(McMurdo Station, Antarctica: Jerry Bowen) Work of "iceberg man" Antarctic weather forecaster Bob Rittner featured. [RITTNER - comments on icebergs, Antarctic weather.] Scenes and aerial footage shown of huge B-9 iceberg.
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