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(Studio: Dan Rather) "New York Times" headline about death of the USSR shown and read. Report introduced.
(Moscow: Anthony Mason) Aftermath of this weekend's signing of agreement by Russian President Boris Yeltsin and leaders of Ukraine and Byelorussia to form a commonwealth of independent states featured; scenes shown; details given; map shown. Yeltsin reported meeting today with President Mikhail Gorbachev. [At press conference, Kazakhstan President Nursultan NAZARBAYEV - (thru translator) supports Gorbachev.] Excerpt shown from Soviet television of announcer reading Gorbachev's official response to the commonwealth agreement. [Russian foreign minister Andrei KOZYREV - comments on whether it's another coup.] Confusion over who will be in charge of the Soviet military noted; scenes shown of Gorbachev watching troops marching. Gorbachev's refusal to resign, his call for a meeting of the Soviet parliament reported.
(Pentagon: David Martin) Confusion over who will now control Soviet nuclear weapons featured. [KOZYREV - says weapons will remain under centralized control.] Yeltsin's telephone call to President Bush and Ukrainian president's statement regarding weapons control reported. [State Department spokeswoman Margaret TUTWILER - states policy on weapons control.] Map shown of location of Soviet nuclear weapons. [On "Face the Nation", Secretary of State James BAKER - talks about potential nuclear civil war.]
(Studio: Dan Rather) Interview held with Soviet affairs consultant Princeton University professor Stephen Cohen. [COHEN - talks about whether the USSR is over, reaction of Soviet military and central Asian republics, Gorbachev's role.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Maastricht, Holland: Tom Fenton) Meeting of European Community leaders in Maastricht, Holland, to bind their countries into a closer union featured; meeting compared to American delegates meeting to draw up the Constitution; scenes shown of leaders arriving. [British businessman Jack BARTHOLOMEW - says Britain should stand alone.] British Prime Minister John Major's position, dominance of the summit by German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, rise of neo-Nazis in Germany noted. Plan to make the ECU into standard European currency noted; ECU shown.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Word on when New York Governor Mario Cuomo will announce whether he will run in the '92 presidential campaign reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Standoff in Chicago between police and a man holding his baby at knife point reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Seizure of illegal drugs by police in El Paso, Texas, reported; details given; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Houston: Scott Pelley) Efforts by some Texas judges to reduce clogging of felony courts by reducing crack possession to a misdemeanor featured; details given. [Texas district court Judges Norman LANFORD, Carl WALKER - talk about relative unimportance of crack possession cases.] [Lab TECHNICIAN, Harris County district attorney John HOLMES - comment.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) British court today reported ordering Kevin and Ian Maxwell, sons of the late publisher Robert Maxwell, to surrender their passports.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Demonstrations by Palestinians to mark the 4th anniversary of their uprising; publishing of the final addition of the "Dallas Times Herald"; fatal Chicago apartment building fire; testimony of Jean Kennedy Smith at her son William Kennedy Smith's rape trial; jury selection in the police obstruction trial of Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens reported; scenes shown from the West Bank, Dallas, Chicago, West Palm Beach, Florida, and Houston.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Federal judge reported upholding the Defense Department's ban on homosexuals serving in the military.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) President Bush reported meeting with federal health officials today; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Scenes shown of memorial service in Fort Pierce, Florida, for Kimberly Bergalis, who died of AIDS contracted from her dentist.
(Miami: Juan Vasquez) Bergalis' work to educate the public about the risk of AIDS transmission from health care workers remembered; scenes and photograph shown. [Infectious diseases expert Dr. Sanford KUVIN - comments on Bergalis.] [BERGALIS - makes speech, testifies in Congress.] [Father George BERGALIS - comments on AIDS, reads unmailed letter from Bergalis to the medical community.] Three other patients who contracted AIDS from Bergalis' dentist Dr. David Acer mentioned. [Acer's patient Barbara WEBB - comments on mandatory AIDS testing for health care workers.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Mark Phillips) Effect of the recession on children featured. [11-year-old Monique LAFOND - talks about her parents' financial worries.] [Principal Beech Street School Nancy TESSIER - says kids are lacking in basics at home.] [Five high school STUDENTS - comment on their parents, the recession.] [School psychologist Kevin DWYER - notes increasing number of kids coming in with problems.]
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