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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Los Angles: Bill Whitaker) The investigation by the Los Angeles district attorney's office into allegations of jury tampering by the defense in the O.J. Simpson trial updated; details given concerning the authenticity of an anonymous letter that led to the dismissal of juror Francine Florio-Bunten during the trial. [Defense attorney Robert SHAPIRO - comments.] [FLORIO- BUNTEN - says she is not writing a book.] [Chief defense investigator Pat McKENNA - says he did not write the letter.] [Dismissed juror Jeannette HARRIS - says there is no doubt that someone tampered with the jury.] [Former Simpson attorney Alan DERSHOWITZ, law professor/former prosecutor Laurie LEVENSON - comment.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Garfield County, MT: John Blackstone) The continuing standoff at the Freemen compound in Jordan, MT, featured; scenes shown of the Freemen preparing for what will be a long siege. [Freeman farmer and wife Clay and Karen TAYLOR - comment on their rights and the "system."]
(Studio: Dan Rather) The arraignment of Freeman Richard Clark in federal court on charges of bank and mail fraud and threatening public officials outlined and an interview with Clark's uncle Cecil Weeding featured. [WEEDING - says the heavily armed Freemen will hold out indefinitely; talks about the makeup of the Freemen.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) A Supreme Court decision that will make it easier for employees to sue employers over age discrimination featured; details given.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Dr. Jack Kevorkian's wearing of a colonial-style costume to court in his third trial on assisted suicide charges in Pontiac, Michigan, to protest what he calls the ancient jurisprudence being used to prosecute him after the state's failure to convict him.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Britain's offer to slaughter millions of cattle and burn their carcasses in order to wipe out the threat of mad cow disease reported.
(London: Mark Phillips) Britons' buying of beef again and dwindling fears of mad cow disease outlined. [BUTCHER - jokes with the crowd about mad cow disease.] [British VETERAN - says the Germans and the Japs didn't get him and neither will the bloody cows.] [CONSUMER - comments.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) The announcement that United States banks are doubling their ATM fees for usage of other than their own machines noted.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) The death of popular umpire John McSherry on major league baseball's opening day in the first inning of a game in Cincinnati between the Reds and the Montreal Expos; scenes shown of McSherry's collapse behind home plate.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Bob Orr) The FAA's move to plug the holes in the nation's troubled air traffic control system featured. [Secretary of Transportation Federico PENA - announces pay raises for controllers and technicians in the busiest control centers.] [National Air Traffic Controllers Association Barry KRASNER, Chicago controller Mark SCHOLL - comment.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Judge Harold Baer's reversal of his decision to bar millions of dollars in heroin and cocaine as evidence in a drug case due to Republicans' making the Clinton appointee's decision an issue in the upcoming presidential election stated.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Russian President Boris Yeltsin's calling of a cease- fire in the unpopular ongoing war with Chechnya in an effort to boost his falling ratings in the polls in the wake of the upcoming presidential elections announced; scenes shown of both sides still fighting.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Under pressure from the United States and allies, Bosnia's turning over of a Bosnian Croat general to the United States to be tried for war crimes reported; scenes shown of Tihomir Blaskic.
(Aboard the USS Baltimore: Allen Pizzey) The fast attack submarine the USS Baltimore, now in the Adriatic Sea, featured; excellent scenes shown of the nuclear submarine. [Lieutenant Commander Pat GILL - says they can strike any target in Bosnia with Tomahawk missiles.] [Commander David RICHARDSON, SAILORS - comment on life on the sub and their mission.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(San Marcos, Texas: Bob McNamara) Southwest Texas State University's "canning" of Ralph, the internationally known diving and swimming pig at the Aquarena Springs park in San Marcos, Texas, featured; scenes shown of all the retired performing "Ralphs" and out-of-work future Ralphs. [FANS, trainer Ada DAVIS, Davis' FATHER - comment on Ralph and the town's livelihood.] [Town store owner Rob ROBINSON - says there is snootiness involved on the part of the school.]
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