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(Studio: Linden Soles) Report introduced.
(Baghdad: Brent Sadler) The dispute between the United States and Iraq over weapons inspections updated; scenes shown of anti-American protests in Baghdad; details given of Iraq's claims that Americans on the United Nations weapons inspections teams are spies. [IRAQI - comments.]
(Studio: Jeanne Meserve) Report introduced.
(White House: John King) President Clinton's meeting with his national security team to discuss United States military and diplomatic options in the matter outlined.
(Studio: Linden Soles) United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan said cutting short his trip to Venezuela to return to the United Nations to deal with the Iraq situation. [ANNAN - comments on possible United States military action.]
(New York: Mary Ann McGann) Iraqi claims that the United Nations in a tool of the US examined. [Iraqi deputy Prime Minister Tariq AZIZ, UN's Richard BUTLER, UN David KAYE, Jane's Defense Weekly Barbara STARR - talk about the Iraqi assertions and weapons inspection information.]
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(Studio: Jeanne Meserve) Lobbying by President Clinton to get fast track trade authority from Congress featured; details given of fast track powers allowing the president to make trade deals by limiting the powers of Congress. [In weekly radio address, CLINTON - pitches the pros of fast track trade deals.]
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(Studio: Jeanne Meserve) China's ambitious construction project to dam the Yangtze River featured; details given of the long-term Three Gorges Dam project, which will form a 375-mile-long link and prevent flooding.
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(Studio: Linden Soles) The plight of two mountain climbers in Nepal during an avalanche given; scenes shown of the avalanche captured on tape.
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(Studio: Dave Hennen) The weather forecast for the United States and Mexico given; map shown.
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(Studio: Jeanne Meserve) The demonstration in Tel Aviv, Israel, to mourn the assassination two years ago of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin featured; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Linden Soles) Report introduced.
(Las Vegas; Nick Charles) The heavyweight bout in Las Vegas outlined; details given of the upcoming fight between Michael Moore and Evander Holyfield. [HOLYFIELD - comments.]
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(Studio: Jeanne Meserve) The invention of the horizontal shower in Brussels, Belgium, shown. Other gadgets at the Inventors Fair featured.
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