This program is 27 minutes long
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(Studio: John Roberts) Report introduced.
(White House: Rita Braver) The meeting at the White House between President Clinton and Motion Picture Association president Jack Valenti over the television industry's new rating system featured; scenes shown from the meeting. The new rating system reviewed. [CLINTON, VALENTI - comment on the new system.]
(Los Angeles: Sandra Hughes) Where programming will fit into the new system outlined. [Producer Howard GOULD, Hollywood Reporter Steven BATTAGLIO, parents Mike and Holly MATTHEWS - talk about producers rating their own shows.] [Media watchdog Michael JOSEPHSON - says it may encourage more sex and violence as it did in the music business.]
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(Studio: John Roberts) Report introduced.
(Lima, Peru: Art Rascon) The second day of the hostage crisis in Lima, Peru, featured; scenes shown from around the diplomatic compound. [Political expert Francisco SOBERON, released hostage Sally BOWEN - comment on the situation.]
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(Studio: John Roberts) Report introduced.
(Washington: Bob Orr) The angry response by customers to the FAA's last minute halt to the expansion of ValuJet after tickets were already sold featured. [CUSTOMERS - express their disgust at the last minute cancellation of flights.]
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(Studio: John Roberts) Report introduced.
(Washington: Phil Jones) The advanced damage control message concerning House Speaker Newt Gingrich's ethics violations and misleading of Congressional investigators examined. Representative John Linder and former Gingrich attorney Jan Baran's statements about the erroneous information Gingrich gave the committee quoted. [Representative David BONIOR - comments on Baran's dropping of Gingrich as a client.]
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(Studio: John Roberts) The expansion of the Justice Department's investigation into fund-raising by the Democratic party and how money was funneled into President Clinton's legal defense fund announced.
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(Studio: John Roberts) The death of Italian movie actor Marcello Mastroianni from pancreatic cancer today reported; film clips shown.
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(Studio: John Roberts) Report introduced.
(Washington: Jim Stewart) Texaco's problem with anti-Semitism examined; details given of the recent discrimination lawsuits against Texaco by black employees and customers. [On the now famous tapes, voices of personnel executive Richard LUNDWALL, former treasurer Robert ULRICH - say they are still struggling with Kwanzaa and Hanukkah.] [Former Jewish employees Alec ROSEN, Mordecai PASTERNAK, Anatoly KRAMER - tell of a series of anti- Semitic incidents when they were at Texaco.] A statement by Texaco concerning these incidents quoted. [Anti-Defamation League Abraham FOXMAN - comments.]
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(Studio: John Roberts) Report introduced.
(Cambridge, England: Tom Fenton) Results of a study by the airplane industry on how bugs fly looking for better ways to design planes featured; slow motion scenes of bees and moths in flight shown. [Designer Charles ELLINGTON - talks about his design of mechanical wings with a gear box.] [Assistant Jim USHERWOOD - talks about producing the wing motion of bugs.]
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