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(Studio: Hilary Bowker) Report introduced.
(London: Margaret Lowrie) The pulling of the oil tanker Sea Empress off the rocks, where it ran aground near a wildlife refugee for birds and seals, reported; scenes shown from Milford Haven, Wales. [The Wildlife Trusts Simon LYSTER, Greenpeace Paul HORSMAN, British shipping minister Paul GOSCHEN, International Tank Owners Joseph NICHOLS - comment on the pace of the salvage operation.] The extent of the oil leak and the damages from it reviewed.
(Studio: Hilary Bowker) Interview held with Acomarit Limited Captain Peter Cooney about the accident and the oil spill; reduced-size video shown. [From Gloucester by telephone, COONEY - explains the problems in getting the tanker secured while competing with nature.]
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(Studio: Ralph Begleiter) Evidence that IRA (Irish Republican Army) member Edward O'Brien carried the bomb on the London bus and the plans for President Clinton's representative, former Senator George Mitchell, to meet with British Prime Minister John Major and then Irish officials reported.
#405015
(Studio: Hilary Bowker) Report introduced.
(No location given: Richard Blystone) The winter freeze in Europe featured; scenes shown from across the continent, including snow-struck Germany, Spain and France. [Meteorologist Bob BOURTON - comments.]
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(Studio: Ralph Begleiter) Secretary of State Warren Christopher said appealing to Bosnian Serbs to resist pressure to leave their homes in the suburbs of Sarajevo, like Vogosca.
(Sarajevo: Brent Sadler) The dispute over the evacuation of the Bosnian Serbs as the deadline for the handing over of the area to the Muslim- controlled government nears examined; scenes shown from Vogosca of the panicked people. [UNHCR spokesman Kris JANOWSKI - blames the Serb leaders.]
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(Studio: Hilary Bowker) Launching of a Russian spacecraft, which will dock with the space station Mir, reported; scenes shown from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
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(Studio: Hilary Bowker) The planned launch of the space shuttle Columbia reported; scenes shown from the Kennedy Space Center launching pad.
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(Studio: Flip Spiceland) Weather forecasts for the US, Europe and Asia presented; weather maps shown.
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(Studio and Germany: Ralph Begleiter) The question of the expansion of NATO in Europe to include Russia and its former Communist allies from the Warsaw Pact examined. [NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) commander General George JOULWAN, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Secretary General Javier SOLANA - talk about working with Russian forces in Bosnia.] [Hungarian foreign minister Laszlo KOVACS, Russian deputy defense minister Andrei KOKOSHIN, Secretary of Defense William PERRY - comment on the issue of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) expansion.] The West's debate over which countries should be admitted to Europe first outlined; map shown. [German Chancellor Helmut KOHL (thru translator), KOVACS, KOKOSHIN, Poland national security adviser Jerzy MILEWSKI - comment.] The Russian view noted that Europe has been divided into three zones: Western Europe, Russia and a gray zone in between.
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(Studio: Hilary Bowker) Report introduced.
(Irian Jaya, Indonesia: Maria Ressa) The environmental dispute in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, one of the world's last great wildernesses, featured; aerial scenes shown of a mining area, where "tailing" waste is dumped in the rivers. [WALHI Emmy HAFILD, Freeport ecologist Bruce MARSH - offer differing opinions on the extent of damage to the river.]
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(Studio: Hilary Bowker) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Eileen O'Connor) The pattern of the Russian military campaigns against the rebel separatists in Chechnya in which Russian troops use massive firepower, but then allow most of the rebels to escape, featured; scenes shown from Novogroznensky. [Russian defense minister Pavel GRACHEV - (thru translator) says the terrorists only understand force.]
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(Studio: Ralph Begleiter) Denial by Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma, who is visiting in the US, that cargo planes are being sold to the Colombia drug dealers reported; scenes shown from Washington, DC. [KUCHMA - (thru translator) tries to clarify the plane deal.]
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(New York: Valerie Morris) The business report presented: Stock Market Report, the second day of Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan's semi-annual report to Congress on the economy, treasury bond figures, Wall Street's listing of the second African company Ashanti Goldfields, the return of retiring Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke to Wall Street.
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(Studio: Ralph Begleiter) The day after Tuesday's Republican primary in New Hampshire reported; scenes shown of Buchanan campaigning in Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Senator Bob Dole in Fargo, North Dakota. Statements from candidates Lamar Alexander and Steve Forbes, who came in third and fourth in New Hampshire, cited. Discussion held on the meaning of the New Hampshire primary race with "The Guardian"'s Martin Walker and "La Stampa"'s Vittorio Zucconi. [WALKER - compares the campaigns of boring Dole and high energy Dole; outlines a scenario in which the passionate Buchanan could get the Republican nomination by using his momentum through the primaries; worries about America's shift to conservatism.] [ZUCCONI - downplays the chances for Buchanan, who really is not an outsider; says people around the world are scared about the economy.]
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(Studio: Bob Lorenz) The comeback of American tennis player Jennifer Capriati at a tournament in Essen, Germany, and the calf injury that sidelined unretired basketball player Earvin "Magic" Johnson reported; scenes shown. [CAPRIATI - expresses her feelings about the match.]
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(Studio: Hilary Bowker) France's Jeanne Calment, reported turning 121 just before her new rap music CD will be released; scenes shown. Claim by a Brazilian woman that she is 124 noted; scenes shown of her leading a carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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(Studio: Ralph Begleiter) Report introduced.
(Berlin: Bill Delaney) Berlin's new Beata Uhse International Erotic Museum visited; careful scenes shown. [UHSE - says viewers should not be embarrassed about sex; explains how her sex business developed.]
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(Studio: Ralph Begleiter) King Fahd said resuming control of the government of Saudi Arabia.