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#425011
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(New Delhi: Leah Turhune) The impact of a cyclone on northwest India featured; scenes shown of the damages.
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Flooding in Hong Kong reported; scenes shown of a boy being rescued.
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Another nosedive on the Asian stock market after the fall of the Japanese yen reported.
#425014
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(White House: Wolf Blitzer) A new attack on President Clinton's China policies featured; details given of his planned visit to China and his scheduled speech tomorrow. [Former Chinese planning official GAO Xiao Duan - (thru translator) recounts induced abortions.] Statement from a Chinese official on China's family planning policy quoted. [White House press secretary Michael McCURRY - comments.] [Human rights advocate Kerry Kennedy CUOMO - says Clinton should not go to Tiananmen Square, where student demonstrators were slaughtered nine years ago.]
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) President Clinton's order freezing assets and investments in Serbia because of the campaign against Kosovo's ethnic Albanians reported.
(London: Margaret Lowrie) The situation in Kosovo reviewed; scenes shown of refugees crossing the Albanian border. [Secretary of Defense William COHEN - calls for an end of the bombing of innocent people.] Steps by the US and Europe to tighten economic sanctions against Yugoslavia noted. [Defense analyst Paul BEAVER - outlines the military options.] The Russian view that Kosovo is an internal matter for Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic to solve noted.
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Moves to end the ban on exports of British beef due to mad cow disease reported.
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report from the Simon Wiesenthal Center that Switzerland was not neutral in World War II as it claimed, but that the government worked closely with Germany, outlined.
#425020
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(Paris: Peter Humi) The ending of the strike by Air France pilots as the World Cup soccer matches started featured; details given of the deal with the pilots' union.
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) The first soccer matches reported.
(Paris: Jim Bittermann) The influx of the Brazilian soccer team and its fans featured; details given of the huge business connected with the Brazilian team. [Brazilian finance minister Pedro MALAN - talks about the soccer team.]
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) The ending of the UN's three-day drug summit reported.
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) The new government in Nigeria led by Abdulsalam Abubakar reported.
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Charges by a South Africa scientist that an attempt was made to poison South African President Nelson Mandela while he was still in prison reported.
#425026
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(Ethiopia: Catherine Bond) New fighting in the border dispute between former allies Ethiopia and Eritrea featured; scenes shown from the border. [Ethiopian ruling party official Abaye TSEHAYE - blames Eritrea for the war.]
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) The naming of Astana as the new capital of Kazakhstan, replacing the "old capital" Almaty, reported; scenes shown from Astana.
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) The outcome of the lawsuit brought against Brown and Williamson by the family of smoker Roland Maddox, who died of lung cancer, reported. [Victim's daughter/plaintiff Angela WIDDICK - reacts to the verdict.]
(White House: John King) The White House hopes that this verdict will persuade the tobacco companies to support national tobacco legislation featured; details given of the issue of using tobacco money for tax cuts. [White House aide Paul BEGALA, Senators Tom DASCHLE, John McCAIN - offer views on the tobacco war.] The obstacles to getting a tobacco bill through the House if it passes the Senate noted. What has happened to an apparent popular legislative move discussed.
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Moves by the consumer group Center for Science in the Public Interest against the fat substitute Olestra reported. [Regina McGRATH - describes her pain.]
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(Atlanta: Rhonda Rowland) "New England Journal of Medicine"'s publication of an Italian study linking sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) to abnormal heart rhythms examined. [Voice of University of Padua Dr. Peter SCHWARTZ - outlines the findings on infant's heart EKGs.] [UCSF Dr. Julien HOFFMAN - comments on the heart problems.] Ways parents can lower the risk for SIDS outlined. [Mother Susan LOEFFLER - says babies should sleep on their backs.]
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(Jasper, Texas: Aram Roston) The investigation into the three men who murdered black man James Byrd by dragging him behind a pickup truck reviewed. [Jasper County District Attorney Guy James GRAY - outlines the murder case and the need to make a deal with one of the men to get the death penalty for the others.] The link of the men to the Aryan Brotherhood noted. [President CLINTON - speaks out against an act of evil.]
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) The trial of Luke Woodham for the school shootings in Pearl, Mississippi, updated.
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) The search in Haysville, Kansas, for two men missing in the grain elevator explosion reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(Milwaukee: Jeff Flock) The legal ruling in Wisconsin that poor students may attend private schools at public expense featured. [Parents of School Choice director Zakiya COURTNEY, parent Migdalia GONZALEZ-SANTIAGO, Milwaukee school board member John GARDNER - say now there are now education options.] The fear that public schools will now lose money outlined. [Milwaukee school superintendent Alen BROWN - says millions could be lost from the public schools.]
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) The controversial statement from the Southern Baptists on the family stated.
(No location given: Bob Cain) The positions of various churches on the relationship of man to woman in marriage examined. [Saint Thomas University president Monsignor Franklyn CASALE, Emory University professor of Jewish Studies Deborah LIPSTADT, Muslim Public Affairs Council Dr. Maher HATHOUT, Presbyterian minister Dr. Clayton BELL - offer views on the issue of the "submission" of women to men.]
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) The sixth day of the strike at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, reported; scenes shown of the picketing.
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) The report from Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan on the state of the economy and the possibility of a rise in interest rates reported.
#425046
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Kelli Arena) The issue of school access to the Internet examined. [Vice President Al GORE - speaks on technology.] [Senator Olympia SNOWE, Kay Bailey HUTCHISON - talk about the program to wire schools to the Internet.] [Federal Communications Commission chairman William KENNARD - comments.]
#425048
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(New York: Gary Tuchman) The struggle of people like Sibyl Shalo with mental illnesses such as depression featured. [SHALO - recounts her problems.] [Fountain House mental health advocate Ken DUDEK - says no one wants to talk about mental illness.] [Manic depressive Bill LICHTENSTEIN - recounts his job loss.]
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