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(Studio: Prue Lewarne) The latest confrontation between the United States and Iraq introduced.
(Baghdad: Ben Wedeman) The collision course for the United States and Iraq now that President Saddam Hussein has barred Americans from the United Nations weapons inspection teams featured. [UN Monitoring Office Major General Mils CARLSTROM - comments on the situation.]
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(White House: Eileen O'Connor) President Clinton's administration's strategy meetings to deal with Iraq featured. [White House press secretary Michael McCURRY - comments on the Iraqi threat to shoot down U-2s.] [State Department spokesman James RUBIN - calls for compliance to United Nations resolutions.]
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(UN: Brian Jenkins) United Nations Security Council meetings endorsing a message that Iraq must comply with United Nations resolutions featured. [Iraqi ambassador to UN Nizar HAMDOON - defends Iraq's cause against the unjust embargo.]
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Interview held with United States ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson about the Iraqi threats. [RICHARDSON - comments on Iraq's threats to shoot down U-2 planes; indicates the United Nations wants full compliance without American inspectors being harassed; discusses the options open to the Security Council to make Saddam comply; says the United States has to protect its national interests and that this is an attack on the UN; assesses Saddam's irrational actions.]
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Special report Showdown with Iraq previewed.
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(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(White House: Wolf Blitzer) Report that President Clinton will ask Congress to keep United States peacekeepers with NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) in Bosnia beyond the June 1998 pullout date outlined. The likelihood that many in Congress will express alarm about an open ended military presence in Bosnia discussed.
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(Studio: Prue Lewarne) Report introduced.
(Paris: Peter Humi) Truck drivers' strike in France featured; scenes shown of strikers while their demands and the impact of the strike are outlined.
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(Studio: Prue Lewarne) Moves by attorneys for au pair Louise Woodward, who has been convicted of murder, to get the judge to overturn the verdict reported; headlines from British newspapers shown.
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(Studio: Prue Lewarne) Repair operations on the Russian space station Mir updated; replica of Sputnik, the first manmade object launched into space by the USSR in 1957 shown in space.
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(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California: Greg LaMotte) The successful Pathfinder's mission to Mars reviewed now that no more data is being sent back from the rover; various pictures shown. [Mission manager Richard COOK - comments on the apparent end of the mission.] [Geologist Bob ANDERSON - offers perspective on the mission.] [Mars exploration manager Donna SHIRLEY - outlines the coming missions to Mars.]
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(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(Denver: Tony Clark) The opening of the second Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, bombing trial of Terry Nichols featured; courtroom sketches shown while the opening arguments from prosecutor Larry Mackey and defense attorney Michael Tigar about the evidence are outlined. [Attorney Cathy SCHACKOW, Scott ROBINSON - analyze the opening strategies.] [Victims' grandmother Jannie COVERDALE - reacts to another trial.] (Artist: Walt Stewart)
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(Studio: Prue Lewarne) Report introduced.
(New York: Mary Ann McGann) The trial of Ramzi Yousef for masterminding the World Trade Center bombing featured; courtroom sketches shown while the 1993 bombing, the other trials and the capture of Yousef in Pakistan are reviewed. (Artist: Christine Cornell)
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(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Announcement by Levi Strauss and Company of layoffs and plant closings reported.
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(Studio: Judy Woodruff) "Stock Market Report".
(New York: Allan Dodds Frank) The big day on Wall Street in response to rallies on the world market and the recovery of major stocks reviewed.
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(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Efforts by negotiators to get the Middle East peace talks back on track outlined.
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(Studio: Prue Lewarne) Report introduced.
(Tel Aviv: Walter Rodgers) The second anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin featured; details given of the continued recriminations that have split Israel. [Israeli author Daniel Ben SIMON - says the right-wing camp killed the left-wing prime minister.] [Settler leader Yisrael HAREL, SIMON - talk about assassin Yigal Amir.] [Former Rabin aide Eitan HABER - warns there are too many lunatics.]
(Studio: Prue Lewarne) Statement from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife that Israeli leftists are creating a climate of hate reported.
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(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Statement following a United Nations Security Council meeting that the next scheduled U-2 flight over Iraq will go ahead despite warnings from Iraq that the planes might be attacked and that weapons inspections will also go ahead reported.
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(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Jill Dougherty) The future for the recovered bones of the czar of Russia and his family, who were executed in 1918, updated. [First deputy Prime Minister Boris NEMTSOV - (thru translator) wants to be 100 percent sure that the bones are the czar's family.] The three burial options for the royal bones outlined. Russian President Boris Yeltsin's need to decide what to do with the entombed body of V.I. Lenin noted. [Writer Edvard RADZINSKY - notes the irony of the connection of the bones of Lenin and the czar.]
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(Studio: Judy Woodruff, Lou Dobbs) The market coverage on "Moneyline" previewed.