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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(White House: Susan Spencer) Hint from President Clinton that cigarette taxes may be used to pay for health care reform featured. [With group of labor and business leaders, CLINTON - says cigarette taxes are different from taxes on the middle class; responds to his critic.] [Former housing secretary Jack KEMP, Senator Phil GRAMM - criticize taxes in Clinton's economic plan.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Announcement by President Clinton of airdrops of supplies into Bosnia reported.
(Zvornik: Allen Pizzey) The dispute in Bosnia over relief aid from the United Nations and United States examined; scenes shown from a United Nations convoy stalled en route to Zvornik, Bosnia. [Dutch signals battalion Lieutenant Herman NUGTEREN - comments.] [Bosnian Serb leader Radovan KARADZIC - calls for search of relief aid.] [UN Lyndall SAChigh school - says airdrops are an option.] The importance of overland convoys in getting food to the people reiterated.
#349178
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Anthony Mason) Meeting of Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Russian foreign minister Andrei Kozyrev to announce that President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin will hold a summit meeting featured; scenes shown. [CHRISTOPHER - backs Yeltsin's reforms.] The challenges to Yeltsin's political power noted. [Last week, State Department official Richard ARMITAGE - says Yeltsin is nearing the end.] [Yesterday, CLINTON - supports Yeltsin.] The importance of Russian support to any peace plan in Bosnia noted. [Center for Defense Studies Michael CLARKE - gives Russian view of Bosnia.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Battle between United States Marines and warlord- sponsored rioters in Mogadishu, Somalia, reported; scenes shown.
#349180
(Studio: Dan Rather) Announcement by Secretary of State Warren Christopher of an invitation from United States and Russia for a new round of Middle East peace talks between Arabs and Israelis reported.
#349181
(Studio: Dan Rather) Update given on the heart problems of Secretary of Defense Les Aspin; scenes shown.
#349184
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(No location given: Giselle Fernandez) Signing by Michigan Governor John Engler of a bill making doctor-assisted suicides a crime immediately featured; role of Dr. Jack Kevorkian noted; photos shown of two cancer victims he helped. [State senator Doug CARL - comments.] [December 3, KEVORKIAN - defines his duty.] [State senator Jack FAXON - attacks Kevorkian.] [Medical ethicist Joseph FINS - comments on the issue.]
#349185
(Studio: Dan Rather) Announcement by General Motors Corporation of more layoffs reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Battle between Indian police and Hindu militants reported; scenes shown from New Delhi, India.
#349189
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Bill Whitaker) Opening statements in the second trial of four Los Angeles policemen accused of beating Rodney King featured; artist's courtroom sketches shown while prosecutor assistant United States attorney Steven Clymer outlined the government's case that excessive force was used against King; March 3, 1991, videotape shown. [Defense attorney Michael STONE, defendant sergeant Stacey KOON - respond.] Opening arguments from Ira Salzman, attorney for Koon, detailed. (Artist: Bill Robles)
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#349192
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Studio: Bob Arnot) Government report on cataract surgery featured; medical scenes and diagram shown. [Patient Nancy ROMEO, Bascom Palmer Eye Institution Dr. William CULBERTSON, American Society of Cataract Surgery David KARCHER - comment on cataract surgery.] Government's plans to issue new cost-cutting guidelines for other medical procedures noted.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(San Francisco: Bob McNamara) The debate over the woman's name after marriage examined; scenes shown of marriage services at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas, NV. [WOMAN, Representative Pat SCHROEDER, chapel's Charolette RICHARDS, newly married COUPLES; in San Francisco and Dallas, WOMEN; attorney Lisa NICOL, psychiatrist Carla GILBERT, "Boston Globe" Ellen GOODMAN - comment on the name- identity issue.]
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