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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Jim Stewart) Supreme Court ruling that gays and lesbians do not have the right to march in Boston's Saint Patrick's Day parade reported. [South Boston parade organizer John HURLEY - comments on the ruling.] Justice David Souter's interpretation of the decision quoted. [Boston gay rights activist Cathleen FINN, Center for Individual Rights Michael GREVE - express their feelings on the decision.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) The Supreme Court's rejection of an appeal from the adoptive parents of "Baby Richard" upholding an Illinois court decision that the adoption was not legal reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Budyonnovsk: Jonathan Sanders) The ending of the crisis in Russia in which Chechen gunmen held hostages in Budyonnovsk, Russia, featured; scenes shown of Russians crying and searching for their loved ones released by the Chechen gunmen after they made safe passage home. The political repercussions for Russian President Boris Yeltsin, his prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who negotiated the end of the crisis, and the Chechen rebels, who forced a cease-fire, outlined. [YELTSIN - angrily responds to questions about the Chechens.] [Russian politics expert Michael McFAUL - comments.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Sarajevo: Allen Pizzey) The release of the last of the UN peacekeepers held hostage by the Bosnian Serbs and the continued fighting featured; details given of the declining role of the United Nations in Bosnia. [International Red Cross Nina WINQUIST - speaks about the innocent who suffer in the conflict.] [UN Phil CORWIN - comments on the United Nations failure.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Sandra Hughes) Prosecutors' efforts to match O.J. Simpson to bloody footprints found at the Bundy crime scene featured. [FBI shoe print EXPERT - says the bloody shoe prints are from expensive Italian-made tennis shoes and describes the same shoe print on Nicole Brown Simpson's back.] [Law professor/former prosecutor Laurie LEVENSON - comments.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) The merger of First Union bank with First Fidelity reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Trouble for passenger ships Celebration in the Bahamas and for the steamboat American Queen, stuck on a sandbar in the Ohio River near Hawesville, Kentucky, reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Elizabeth, New Jersey: Randall Pinkston) Riots by angry detainees at the Esmor Detention Center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, outlined; scenes shown of the damage. [Representative Robert MENENDEZ, former detainee Suzanne KIDENI, immigration attorney Joyce PHIPPS, Union County prosecutor Andrew RUOTOLO, United States Immigration official William SLATTERY - comment on the riots and the bad treatment the immigrants receive at the center.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Senator Bob Dole said now promising to bring up for Senate vote the nomination of Dr. Henry Foster for Surgeon General, while Senator Phil Gramm promises a filibuster.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(El Cajon, California: Peter Van Sant) The Fully Informed Jury Association's effort to educate jury members that they have the power to judge the law as well as the defendant and vote their conscience if they do not agree with the law or the judge's instructions featured. [MAN - comments.] [JUDGE - wrongly tells a jury that they may not question the wisdom of any rule of the law that he has announced.] [FIJA national coordinator Don DOIG, anti-government activist Red BECKMAN - explain jury rights in a trial.] [Terminal patient/marijuana user Sam SKIPPER - comments on his trial jury, which refused to convict him on drug possession charges, stating as a dying man he had the right.] [San Diego superior court judge James MILIKAN - comments.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Despite his current suspension for drug use and his conviction for income tax evasion, Darryl Strawberry's joining with the New York Yankees next week announced.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Warsaw, Poland, soccer authorities' threat to close down the national soccer stadium after a weekend riot reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Dallas: Bob McNamara) The black rodeo in Dallas featured; scenes shown of the riders and excited crowds. [SPECTATORS - comment on the rodeo.] [Calf roper Cleo HURN - talks about the rodeo he founded and the positive influence on youngsters.]
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