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#421910
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Announcement by Canada and Australia that they will support the United States in an air strike against Iraq if diplomacy fails to get President Saddam Hussein to agree to United Nations weapons inspections reported. [President CLINTON - thanks supporters for the stand against Saddam's weapons of mass destruction programs.] Statement from British Prime Minister Tony Blair that Saddam will likely use weapons of mass destruction unless forced back into line noted. [BLAIR - criticizes Saddam as an unscrupulous dictator.]
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Secretary of Defense William Cohen's tour of Persian Gulf states to seek support for a US-led attack reported.
(State Department: Steve Hurst) The problems in gaining support from the Gulf war coalition partners examined. [Secretary of State Madeleine ALBRIGHT - predicts support down the line.] [Washington Institute for Near East Policy Robert SATLOFF - states the Arab nations' position.] Where the Arab nations of Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Kuwait and Jordan stand on US policy with regard to Iraq reviewed.
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Iraq's rejection of a United Nations plan to boost the oil-for- food deal reported; scenes shown of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan meeting with chief weapons inspector Richard Butler about the Iraq dispute.
#421911
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(Rostaq, Afghanistan: Marina Fazel) The aftermath of a major earthquake in Afghanistan featured; scenes shown of the damages in mountain villages.
#421914
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) The record-breaking day on Wall Street reported.
#421915
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(Baghdad: Ben Wedeman) The rumors of war in Iraq featured; scenes shown from Baghdad, including a shelter that was struck by United States missiles in the gulf war.
(Studio: Bernard Shaw, Peter Arnett) The mind set of the leadership in Iraq, their goals in trying to get sanctions lifted even if they face bombing, the isolation of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and how Arab nations are attuned to what Saddam is saying discussed; details given as to why grand presidential palaces are built in Iraq and why Iraq has rejected the latest United Nations oil-for-food deal.
#421918
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Meeting between Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Pope John Paul II at the Vatican shown.
#421919
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Steve Harrigan) Catholicism in Russia, which is dominated by the Russian Orthodox Church, examined; scenes shown from Moscow churches that are still in government hands from the Communist days. [Catholic priest Father Iosif ZANIEWSKY - (thru translator) recalls the 1995 fight with police over a church.] [Keston Institution Lawrence UZZELL - comments.]
#421920
(Studio: Bernard Shaw, Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(No location given: Alicia Stanford) The stellar light show from supernova examined; NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) animation shown. [Harvard University Robert KIRSHNER, Space Telescope Science Institution Anne KINNEY - talk about the phenomenon of exploding stars.]
#421924
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(White House: Eileen O'Connor) The prospects for the United States of the use of force against Iraq while diplomacy continues outlined. [President CLINTON, Secretary of State Madeleine ALBRIGHT - state the United States position on the use of force.] [In the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in response to question from Senator John Kerry, ALBRIGHT - says the goal is to keep Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from reconstituting his weapons of mass destruction.] [Representative Pat ROBERTS - comments.]
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) The meeting of United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan with chief weapons inspector Richard Butler about the Iraq dispute shown. The dealings between the United Nations and Russian ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky about his sponsored planeload of aid for Iraq reviewed.
#421925
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(New York: Rhonda Schaffler) The record-breaking day on Wall Street due to the return of confidence in the stock market reviewed and discussed.
#421926
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Figures in the White House report on the decline in the child poverty rate in the United States noted.
#421929
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(White House: Wolf Blitzer) The grand jury appearance by Marcia Lewis, mother of Monica Lewinsky, ordered by independent counsel Kenneth Starr to get information about Monica's alleged affair with President Clinton, featured; details given of the roles of Linda Tripp and Kathleen Willey. [Lewis attorney William MARTIN - comments.] [Former federal prosecutor Martin POLLNER - criticizes Starr's strong arm tactics against Lewinsky.] [Lewinsky's attorney William GINSBURG - defends Lewinsky's constitutional right.] The resolution passed by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers denouncing Starr's ethics quoted.
#421930
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Another storm in northern California predicted; scenes shown of flood waters and waves in Malibu.
#421931
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(Nagano: Nick Charles) The impact of snow on outdoor events at the Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, and record-breaking times in skating events featured; details given of speedskaters' clap skates; scenes shown of the monkeys in the hot springs. [US speedskater Christine WITTY, United States luge team Wendel SUCKOW, United States curling team Mike PEPLINSKI - comment on their events.]
#421933
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(Fort Worth, Texas: Jeff Flock) The trial in Texas of former Naval Academy midshipman Diane Zamora for her role in the murder of her fiancee Air Force cadet David Graham's one-time lover featured; scenes shown from the courtroom in Fort Worth, Texas. [On the stand, ZAMORA - blames Graham for the murder of Adrianne Jones.]
#421934
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) The court-martial trial of S/Major Gene McKinney on charges of sexual harassment reported; McKinney shown.
#421935
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Government warning on potential dangers with the drug Durax that is used after surgery reported.
#421936
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Research findings on a link between tap water and miscarriages reported.
#421939
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Another hospitalization for singer Frank Sinatra reported.
#421940
(Studio: Judy Woodruff, Bernard Shaw) Academy Award nominations that were dominated by "Titanic" reported.