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#341967
(Studio: Dan Rather) Jump in the consumer confidence index noted.
(No location given: Ray Brady) Accusations that banks are gouging consumers with high credit card interest rates examined; the widening interest gap between credit card and money market rates graphed. [Consumer Federation of America Stephen BROBECK - cites the rates.] [Two CONSUMERS - complain.] [American Bankers Association James CHESSEN - defends interest rates.] Banks offering lower interest rates outlined on screen. Consumer advice offered.
#341968
(Studio: Dan Rather) Nationwide crackdown on sex crimes reported; scenes shown of arrests.
#341969
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Portland, OR: John Blackstone) Trial of Alberto Gonzalez on charges that he tried to murder a teenage girl by infecting her with the AIDS virus featured; scenes shown from Portland, OR, courtroom. [Portland assistant deputy district attorney David PETERS - emphasizes intent.] [In court, witness Norman BUCKNER - testifies against Gonzalez.] [In videotape, the late Shaun HOPP - says Gonzalez gave her AIDS.] [Former girlfriend Bridget PETERSON - testifies.] [Defense attorney Karolyn MARCH - pleads case.]
#341970
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(New York: John Roberts) Case in which a jury awarded money to school teacher Fred Sanders for injuries he received in an incident in which he killed police officer Matt Faber in 1988 featured; scenes shown from Indianapolis, IN. [SANDERS - says there was police brutality.] Recent beatings at the hands of police in Los Angeles and Detroit recalled; scenes shown. [Fraternal Order of Police James NASH - points out the message to police.] Trend in the courts towards holding police officers up to closer scrutiny noted. [NYU School of Law Stephen GILLERS - comments.]
#341973
(Studio: Dan Rather) Plea by former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger on charges of lying to Congress about the Iran/Contra affair reported. [WEINBERGER - says he has become a pawn in a political agenda.]
#341974
(Studio: Dan Rather) Consideration by President-elect Bill Clinton of Senator Lloyd Bentsen as Treasury Secretary; snowstorm in Colorado; traffic accidents in Amarillo, Texas, and Los Angeles; weakening by floods of a dam in Yugoslavia holding back toxic wastes that could poison drinking water in the Danube River and a moment of silence in German parliament for Turks killed by neo- Nazis in a fire bombing reported; scenes shown from Little Rock of Clinton and Vice President-elect Albert Gore jogging, Colorado, Amarillo, Los Angeles, Yugoslavia and Germany.
#341977
(Studio: Dan Rather) Vote in the United Nations Security Council to continue the trade embargo against Iraq because President Saddam Hussein has not complied with the Gulf war cease-fire reported.
#341978
(Studio: Dan Rather) Call by the United Nations General Assembly for the US to ease its trade embargo against Cuba noted.
(Havana: Giselle Fernandez) The impact of the sanctions on Cuba now that it has lost the USSR as its main trading partner featured; scenes shown from Havana, Cuba, and the town of Matanzas, Cuba, to illustrate the economic conditions. [Cuban foreign minister Ricardo ALARCON - says the United States is starving Cuba.] [Pediatrician Dr. Eric MARTINEZ - says the children suffer.] A view that the embargo, rather than causing a revolt against Fidel Castro, is leading to a Cuban unity against the United States outlined.
#341980
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Studio: Edie Magnus) Results of a controversial study published in the "Journal of the American Medical Association" that plays down the number of patients suffering from food allergies examined. [Johns Hopkins Children's center Dr. Hugh SAMPSON - comments on the study.] [WOMAN, nutritionist Dr. Alan GABY - say food allergies are prevalent.] The one promising experimental treatment of immunotherapy outlined.
#341981
(Studio: Dan Rather) Decision by Minneapolis, Minnesota, civil rights commission that damages be paid to three library workers whose lesbian partners were denied health insurance reported.
#341983
#341984
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Fort Gordon, Georgia: Jim Stewart) The issue of gays in the military examined in the light of the case of Army Spec. Jason Skarrick, who was kicked out for admitting he is gay; scenes shown from Fort Gordon, Georgia. [SKARRICK - comments.] [Gay ACTIVIST - says we will hold President-elect Bill Clinton to his promise to repeal the ban.] [Army Corporal Sherman HOLLAND, Spec. Phillip TOWNER - comment on the Skarrick case.] [Two SOLDIERS, Air Force CAPTAIN - oppose gays.] [Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Veterans of America Alan STEPHENS - says removing gays is a waste.] [SKARRICK - comments on the Army's decision.]
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