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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Ron Allen) CBS News exclusive story on drugs-for- weapons trafficking between Los Angeles gangs and Fort Ord, California, featured; scenes shown from military bases. [San Bernardino County sheriff's office deputy Bob SMITH - comments.] [Gang MEMBER - talks about the truce.] Politics and the need to rebuild Los Angeles outlined. [Gospel Night Theatre the reverend James STERN, black MAN, city council Mark RIDLEY-THOMAS - comment on the situation in Los Angeles.] Home video of gang violence last weekend shown. [County district attorney Ira REINER, United States Army retired Colonel David HACKWORTH - comment.] Police concern about gangs' firepower cited.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Cinny Kennard) Judicial decision to retry Los Angeles policeman Laurence Powell in Los Angeles County for his role in the beating of Rodney King featured; scenes shown from the courtroom and the riot. [Prosecutor Alan YOCHELSON - argues for finding a jury in this county.] [Defense attorney Michael STONE - doubts there can be a fair trial in the county.] [Superior court judge Stanley WEISBERG - responds.] [Black leader Brotherhood Crusade's Danny BAKEWELL, Compton city council Patricia MOORE - laud judge's decision.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Miami Beach: Doug Tunnell) The far-reaching cost of police brutality to one city examined; scenes shown from Miami Beach, Florida, which has paid millions to settle claims against its police force. [City manager Roger CARLTON - comments.] [Quadriplegic Frank ROSSI - describes how he was mistreated by police.] [Attorney George KNOX - describes other incidents of police violence.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(New York: Giselle Fernandez) The mysterious disappearance of Exxon executive Sidney Reso, who may have been the first victim of environmental terrorism in the US, reviewed; scenes shown of his house in Morris Township, New Jersey. [Morris County prosecutor West Michael MURPHY - talks about the case.] [May 15, on local TV, wife Patricia RESO - reads statement.] [Greenpeace executive director Steve D'ESPOSITO - denies environmental groups would use this tactic.] [MURPHY - wants proof that Reso is still alive.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Refusal of vacationing President Bush to say whether he will veto the urban aid bill passed by the Senate reported; scenes shown from Kennebunkport, ME.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Demolition in Japan of a luxury hotel whose developers ran out of money reported; scenes shown from Biwa Lake, Japan.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Yugoslavia reported planning to pull out of the capital of Bosnia perhaps in response to threats of sanctions from Secretary of State James Baker.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) New policy for the Coast Guard, which has been picking up boatloads of Haitian refugees, reported; scenes shown from Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba, and of Coast Guard rescues.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Announcement by Pentagon of more military cutbacks reported.
(North Chicago: Jim Stewart) The financial impact of military families on local schools examined; scenes shown from Chicago, where local taxpayers pay much of the cost for kids whose parents work at the nearby Navy training center. [North Chicago resident Audrey NIXON - says we pay the cost for Navy kids' schooling.] [School superintendent John SIMPSON - comments.] [Base commander Rear Admiral James PARTINGTON - says the Defense Department cannot remedy the situation.] Escalation of the problem as more military people return from overseas bases that are being closed noted.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Kansas City: Bob McNamara) Defense of the Great Society, the social programs launched in the 1960s by President Lyndon Johnson and criticized after the Los Angeles riots by President Bush, examined; scenes shown from Kansas City, Missouri. [In 1960s, JOHNSON - makes speech.] [Kansas City Mayor Emanuel CLEAVER - backs the anti-poverty programs.] [Kansas City building contractor Elbert HARRIS, Missouri state legislator Vernon THOMPSON, city's child development program head Duane CROMPTON, day care director Willie BURKS - talk about the Great Society, the ongoing war on poverty and federal cutbacks.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Final two nights for Johnny Carson as host of "The Tonight Show" reported. [On last night's show, Bette MIDLER - salutes Johnny in poem and song.]
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