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(Studio: Dan Rather) Pressure from United States and United Nations on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to come clean about nuclear weapons noted.
(Pentagon: David Martin) Ending of allied occupation of northern Iraq and deployment of troops nearby in Turkey featured. [Pentagon spokesman Pete WILLIAMS - comments.] Report in "New York Times" that President Bush has called on Pentagon to draw up plans for bombing Iraqi command bunkers if Saddam does not dismantle the nuclear weapons program outlined.
(Studio: Dan Rather) Head of United Nations reported recommending easing of sanctions against Iraq so it can buy food and medicine.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Statement from Senator Claiborne Pell that secret cables reveal that then-ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie did not deliver a stern warning to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, as she and the State Department claim, reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Kennebunkport, ME: Randall Pinkston) Criticism by President Bush of the Senate for delaying the hearings on nomination of Robert Gates to head the CIA while the Intelligence Committee examines what Gates knew about the Iran\Contra affair featured. [BUSH - says there are only rumors and insinuations.] The Iran\Contra prosecutor said now having tapes of conversations between CIA headquarters and field agents that may shed light on Oliver North's secret arms network to Nicaraguan rebels. [BUSH - says there is no evidence against Gates.] [Senator David BOREN - responds.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Statement from President Bush about letter from President Mikhail Gorbachev outlining Soviet economic aims noted.
(Moscow: Jonathan Sanders) Gorbachev's plans to meet with Western leaders at the London economic summit featured; scenes shown of Gorbachev sitting beneath a portrait of V.I. Lenin. [GORBACHEV - (thru translator) says he will not beg.] [Soviet foreign ministry spokesman Vitaly CHURKIN - talks about the integration of Soviet and world economies.] [Institution of Europe Sergei KARAGANOV - talks about Western aid.] Gorbachev's need to convince the West that he has both the plan and the support to transform the Soviet economy noted.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Defense Department photos shown of ammunition depot in Kuwait that exploded yesterday.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Rita Braver) Move by Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas to distance himself from the views of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan after a "Dallas Times Herald" news story reported Thomas' praise of Farrakhan featured; scenes shown. Thomas quoted on anti-Semitism. [President BUSH - comments on Thomas' use of marijuana.] [Vice President Dan QUAYLE - predicts a successful confirmation fight.]
(Studio: Dan Rather) Upcoming segment on black conservatives previewed.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Jerry Bowen) Indications that embattled police chief Daryl Gates will follow commission's recommendations that he step down featured. [While making speech in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, GATES - jokes.] [Mayor Tom BRADLEY - says Gates will retire.] [GATES - talks about a resignation.] [City council's Joel WACHS, Michael WOO, two beat COPS - comment.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Big hashish bust on a freighter in the north Pacific Ocean reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Murder of Japanese professor who translated Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses"; flooding in China and upholding by appeals court of the conviction of former Washington Mayor Marion Barry on cocaine possession reported; scenes shown from Japan, China and Washington, DC.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Monthly retail sales and wholesale price figures cited; recession mentioned.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Denver: Bob McNamara) Nationwide transformation of vacant buildings into houses of worship featured; scenes shown from Dallas of a bank and a restaurant and of a Denver shopping mall that are now churches. [Baptist General Convention Winford OAKES, Reverend Cecil PROCTOR, Denver's Happy Church Wallace HICKEY - comment.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Bruce Morton) Approach of black conservatives to welfare and government examined; scenes shown from mall in basement of a Washington, DC, high school where black kids learn about business and from tenant-run housing project. [Corner-Harris Mini Mall William JOHNSON, Center for Neighborhood Enterprise Robert WOODSON - comment.] New awareness of self-help and family values among middle class blacks now that President Bush has nominated Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court noted. [Education Department Michael WILLIAMS - comments.] [In 1965, MALCOLM X; in 1966, Stokely CARMICHAEL; in 1988, Jesse JACKSON - make speeches.] [WOODSON, Harvard University Glenn LOURY, traditional Democratic Representative John LEWIS - espouse their philosophies.] The black church and traditional values noted. [Yale Law School Stephen CARTER, LEWIS, WILLIAMS, LOURY - comment.] Summer class sponsored by Howard University to get ghetto high school students interested in architecture cited as an example of "empowerment."
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