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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Eric Engberg) Announcement by the Justice Department of the indictment of six BCCI officials and Medellin cartel drug dealers on charges of drug money laundering featured. [US attorney Robert GENZMAN, assistant Attorney General, criminal division, Robert MUELLER - comment on the indictments of foreigners.] Manuel Noriega's use of BCCI and Congressional report critical of handling of the BCCI case noted. [Representative Charles SCHUMER - comments.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Jury selection for trial of Manuel Noriega reported; scenes shown of his family heading into the courtroom.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Statement from drug czar Bob Martinez lauding the administration's war on drugs noted.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Anthony Mason) Formation of a transitional government in the USSR following President Mikhail Gorbachev's browbeating of the Congress of People's Deputies featured; scenes shown; details given of government setup outlined on screen. [GORBACHEV - (thru translator) says he will not yield.] [Supreme Soviet Nikolai NEILAND, People's Deputies Oleg RUMYANTSEV, Galina STAROVOLTOVA - comment.] Formal proposal that body of V.I. Lenin be removed from its mausoleum in Red Square in Moscow noted. Agenda for Gorbachev's declaration of independence for the Baltics mentioned.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(In the West Bank: Bob Simon) Rift in Israel-US relations over Israeli quest for United States aid in form of loan guarantees to help resettle immigrants from the USSR examined; details given of request from Secretary of State James Baker to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir that Israel delay its loan request while the administration lobbies Congress to delay it. Israel's intense settlement drive in the West Bank, which the United States feels threatens the planned regional peace conference, detailed; scenes shown. [Knesset member Dedi ZUCKER, Ariel, Israel, Mayor Ron NACHMAN, Israeli deputy foreign minister Benjamin NETANYAHU - comment.] Jewish activists said planning to lobby Congress for the loan guarantees.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Detroit: Bob McKeown) The crime wave of "carjacking," in which cars are stolen from their owners at gunpoint, featured; scenes shown from Detroit. [Victim LaJuan BELL, Macomb County sheriff William HACKEL, auto MECHANIC, WOMAN - comment.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report from federal inspectors that they found fire hazards at a fried chicken plant in Cumming, Georgia, owned by the same company whose North Carolina plant fire killed workers this week reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Refusal by Fort Worth, Texas, grand jury to indict a police officer who was videotaped beating a suspect; New York City's plans to confiscate pencils made to look like hypodermic needles; announcement that President Bush is now off of one of his heart medicines; memorial service for CBS news correspondent Harry Reasoner, who died last month, reported; scenes shown from Texas, New York City, Washington and New York City.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Agreement by makers of pesticide parathion to cut its use due to possible links to deaths of farm workers reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Studio: Edie Magnus) The crisis of the measles epidemic that has hit the inner cities of the East coast examined; scenes shown of children being vaccinated. [National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Dr. Richard DUMA - explains why two shots are needed.] [Newark Children's Health Project Bernita WALLER, CDC (Centers for Disease Control) Dr. William ATKINSON, American Academy of Pediatricians Dr. Louis COOPER - push vaccination programs.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Paramus, New Jersey: Ray Brady) Implications of monthly retail sales for the economy examined; store scenes shown. [SHOPPERS - comment.] [Retail analyst Alan MILLSTEIN - says back-to-school sales are critical.] [New Jersey's Pants Place manager Fiona COMERFORD - comments.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(New York: Richard Threlkeld) Belief of black Americans that there is a white conspiracy against them examined; scenes shown from film "Boyz N the Hood". Charge by black professor Dr. Leonard Jeffries that whites conspire to destroy black people recalled; rally scenes shown. Findings of CBS News/"New York Times" poll question asking if blacks believed the government was making drugs available in the inner city to hurt black people mentioned. [In group discussion with Harlem's best and brightest, Abyssinian Baptist Church Reverend Calvin BUTTS, Baruch College Martia GOODSON, Harvard University student Alvin BRAGG, Joyce JORDAN - offer views on the conspiracy theory.] [CUNY graduate center's Richard WADE - comments on the blacks' view.] ["Chicago Tribune" columnist Clarence PAGE - talks about paranoia and black history.]
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