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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Detroit: Susan Spencer) Last-minute campaigning by President Bush in Connecticut, New Jersey and Michigan featured. [In Detroit, BUSH - campaigns.] [On CNN, BUSH - says he has told the truth about Iran/Contra.] [Republican National Committee chairman Rich BOND - lauds Bush's comeback.] [Democratic National Committee chairman Ron BROWN - predicts a victory for Bill Clinton.] The crucial states for Bush listed.
(Studio: Connie Chung) Bush reported refusing to say if he would fire Iran/Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh. Statement from Democrat Edmund Muskie, who served on the Tower Commission, which investigated the Iran/Contra affair, that Bush's statements are in conflict with those of then-Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's memo noted.
(Studio: Bill Plante) Campaigning by a hoarse Clinton featured. [In Cincinnati, Ohio, CLINTON - talks about his lost voice.] [In Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, CLINTON - says it is an election between hope and fear.] Clinton's schedule for the last day of the campaign previewed.
(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Long Beach, California: Scott Pelley) Campaigning by Ross Perot in California featured. [In Long Beach, California, PEROT - calls for a landslide; attacks Bush on the savings and loan disaster and Clinton.] Perot's hopes to look like a more viable candidate in the last few days noted.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Demonstration in Portland, OR, against Measure 9, which would classify homosexuality as abnormal, wrong and perverse, shown.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Cinny Kennard) Amendment in Colorado that would provide parents with vouchers to send their children to the public, private or church schools of their choice examined; scenes shown from Denver. [For school choice Ron PIERCE, Denver school superintendent Evie DENNIS, Education Department Tom TANCREDO, Colorado education association Dan MORRIS - offer views on the choice issue.] Opposition to the initiative from the NEA (National Education Association) noted; ad shown. [President BUSH - calls for choice.] [Democratic presidential candidate Bill CLINTON - opposes spending tax money on private schools.] [Parent Teacher Student Association Lois COURT - comments.] The national implications of Colorado's vote on radical school reform reiterated.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Statement from Pope John Paul II on the killing of five religious women in Liberia reported; scenes shown from Vatican City.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Rostock: Tom Fenton) Agreement between Germany and Romania in which Germany deports gypsy refugees back to Romania, which receives cash for taking them back, featured; scenes shown from Hinrichshagen, Germany, and the German-Czech border. [GYPSY - (thru translator) says she cannot live in Romania.] [Berlin refugee commissioner Barbara JOHN - says Germany accepts political refugees.] The attack on gypsies in Rostock, Germany, on August 24 shown. [Gypsy representative Rudgo KAWCZYNCKI - comments.] Protest against the German refugee policy by French Jews that ended in a violent confrontation between the protesters and German police shown. [French Jewish activist Serge KLARSFELD - comments.] Death of a half million gypsies in German concentration camps in World War II recalled.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) UNICEF relief for the children of Sarajevo reported.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Tokyo: James Hattori) Plans to develop multiplex cinemas in Japan where American-made films are the second biggest American import featured; scenes shown from Tokyo. ["Variety" Garth ALEXANDER - comments on the Japanese movie system.] [Film distributor Hiromitsu FURUKAWA, Motion Picture Export Association Michael CONNORS - talk about the multiplex system in Japan.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Landing of a Boeing 747 cargo plane in Luxembourg after an engine fell off reported; scenes shown. Last month's crash of an El Al cargo plane into an apartment complex in Amsterdam, Netherlands, recalled.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Charlotte, North Carolina: Bob Schieffer) An example of Congressional redistricting that will lead to the election of Melvin Watt as the first black Congressman in North Carolina in 92 years featured; scenes shown from Watt's campaign and of President Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1965. [WATT, Representative John LEWIS; in a McDonald's restaurant, four BLACKS - comment on the election of blacks in the South.] Map shown of a black district in North Carolina. [Political scientist Schley LYONS - gives the down side of this redistricting.] Impact this kind of redistricting will have on the number of blacks in Congress noted.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Survey findings that the United Jewish Appeal received more donations that any other charity in the US reported. The Salvation Army noted second.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Winning of the New York City marathon by Willie Mtolo and Lisa Ondieki reported.
(New York: Giselle Fernandez) The quest of Fred Lebow, director of the New York marathon, who this year ran in, and completed, the race featured; scenes shown; details given of his battle with cancer. [LEBOW - explains why he ran.] [Marathoner Grete WEITZ - talks about Lebow.]
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