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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(New York: Ray Brady) Launching of a Justice Department probe into why gasoline prices have been going up outlined; details given of the oil companies' down scaling to increase their profits and thereby shrinking US supplies. [American Petroleum Institute Edward MURPHY - defends the industry.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(White House: Rita Braver) The drop in cattle prices due to the drought in the Midwest reported and President Clinton's move to boost beef prices outlined. [CLINTON - says he will act quickly.] [Cattle rancher Charlie JUANURA - talks about his loss.] [White House Press Secretary Mike McCURRY - comments.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Huge brush fires in the Southwest reported; scenes shown from Tonto National Forest, Arizona.
#369166
(Studio: Dan Rather) Flooding in the Midwest featured; scenes shown in Indiana.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Signs of changing times in Cuba shown; preparation for May Day depicted. An interview with Cuban leader Fidel Castro featured. [CASTRO (thru translator) - talks about the shooting down of the Cuban-American Brothers to the Rescue activists over Cuba and other issues.] [Brothers to the Rescue leader Jose BASULTO- comments.] [State Department spokesperson Nicholas BURNS - says Cuba never warned of a shoot-down.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) President Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres' signing of a new anti-terrorism agreement outlined. Palestinian Authority president Yasir Arafat shown arriving in Washington DC.
(Qana: Bob Simon) Funeral services in Qana, Lebanon, for those killed by the Israeli shelling that hit civilians at the United Nations camp featured; scenes shown from the streets, where the coffins were passed through the crowd to the burial sites. [MOURNERS - yell and cry.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Marines' shooting of three men trying to break into the home of the American ambassador in Liberia reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) The futile search in Rock Point, MD, for former CIA director William Colby, who is suspected to have drowned in a canoe accident near his vacation home, outlined.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) The first public view of the top-secret Air Force plane code named "tacit blue" featured; scenes shown of the plane developed with Stealth technology.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Congressional hearings on the FAA's role in aviation safety featured; details given of government reports findings that FAA inspectors were not well trained. [At the hearings, two disguised FAA INSPECTORS - says the Federal Aviation Administration only cares about the paperwork.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Linda Douglass) Stress cracks in the Republican Party over the issue of abortion examined. [Governors Pete WILSON, George PATAKI - warn presidential candidate Senator Bob Dole that the majority favors abortion rights.] [On "Face the Nation", Senator Bob DOLE, presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan's sister Bay BUCHANAN - comment on the abortion issue.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Results from a study on the connection of red meat consumption to cancer outlined.
#369182
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(New York: Wyatt Andrews) Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's force of private security guards that draw both praise and criticism for their crime fighting tactics at federal housing projects, paid for at taxpayer expense, examined; scenes shown. [FARRAKHAN - comments on the termination of his security forces.] [Congressman Peter KING - calls Farrakhan's security an empire of hate.] [U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry CISNEROS - comments.]
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