This program is 26 minutes long
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Miami: Reed Galin) Conviction of two white men, Charles Rourk and Mark Kohut, for setting black tourist Christopher Wilson on fire reported; West Palm Beach, Florida, courtroom scenes shown. [WILSON - testifies as to what happened.] [During trial, defense attorneys Rick LEVINSON, Julianne HOLT - comment.] [After, prosecutor Harry Lee COE - talks about Wilson's suffering.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(White House: Rita Braver) President Clinton's master plan to reform the federal bureaucracy featured; scenes shown of forklift loads of government rules documents; tenets of the National Performance Review report outlined. [Vice President Al GORE, CLINTON - comment.] [President Jimmy CARTER, Ronald REAGAN, George BUSH - promise reform.] [Economist Louis WINNICK - comments.]
(Studio: Dan Rather) Reality Check story introduced.
(Washington: Eric Engberg) A "flack census" of the federal workers engaged in public relations bureaucracy examined; examples cited. [Charlene and John HENNESSY - describe getting swamped with unwanted faxes from the White House.] [Former Justice Department spokesman Terry EASTLAND, Heritage Foundation Scott HODGE, Agriculture Department Ali WEBB - comment on public affairs expenses.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Jerusalem: Bob Simon) The opposition in Israel to the peace proposal with the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) that would offer limited self-rule for Palestinians featured; scenes shown of a demonstration in Jerusalem against Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's government's plan for peace. [Three PEOPLE - offer opposition.] [Israeli foreign minister Shimon PERES - comments.] PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) leader Yasir Arafat shown meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and seeking support for the peace plan from the Gulf states. A Palestinian demonstration in the West Bank against the plan shown.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Announcement that Secretary of Defense Les Aspin may visit Sarajevo as a show of support for Bosnian Moslems reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) The last day of Pope John Paul's visit to Lithuania reported; scenes shown from the hill of crosses in Siauliai, Lithuania.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) More elements of President and Hillary Clinton's health care reform plan introduced.
(Washington: Linda Douglass) The issues involving the patients' options for doctor choice in the health care plan examined. [Ophthalmologist Dr. Claude COWAN - worries about group plans.] The AMA's opposition to regulations of doctors fees noted.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Senate vote on the nomination of Joycelyn Elders as Surgeon General reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(New York: Bob Arnot) "Journal of the American Medical Association" (JAMA) study on alcohol abuse among the elderly examined; statistics cited. [Medical College of Wisconsin Dr. Wendy ADAMS, National Institute on Aging Dr. Gene COHEN, alcoholism counselor David RIOUX, recovering alcoholic Don SUTHERLAND - talk about the medical problem.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Top seed Jim Courier reported upset by Cedric Pioline at the United States Open tennis tournament reported.
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(Studio and Shanghai: Dan Rather) The boomtown of Shanghai, China, featured; scenes shown to illustrate the growing capitalism there. [Real estate developer Vincent YE, two CHINESE, Shanghai Securities Exchange David WEI, Shanghai vice mayor XEI Quangde - talk about capitalism.] The lack of political freedom despite the flourishing economy noted.
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