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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(Belgrade: Brent Sadler) NATO's 36th night of destruction against targets in Yugoslavia featured; scenes shown from Serb television of damaged targets, including collapsed bridges. Statement from deputy prime minister Vojislav Seselj quoted; details given of Russia's role as a diplomatic mediator.
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) The diplomatic travels of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic reviewed; map shown.
(Moscow: Betsy Aaron) The Russian-led diplomatic drive to break the impasse featured. [UN Secretary General Kofi ANNAN - says we have not yet found a diplomatic solution.] [Russian special envoy Viktor CHERNOMYRDIN, Yugoslav ambassador Borislav MILOSEVIC, Russian President Boris YELTSIN - (thru translator) state positions.] [Russian parliament member Alexei ARBATOV - criticizes the US.] The debate in Russia about increasing military spending and the question of where the money for a military buildup will come from noted.
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(Belgrade: Walter Rodgers) Telephone report on the mission by Jesse Jackson to secure the freedom of three captured American soldiers and to push for a broader diplomatic mission featured.
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(Kukes, Albania: Jane Arraf) The stories of horror being told by ethnic Albanian refugees streaming into camps along the Albanian-Kosovo border featured. [Human Rights Watch Joanne MARINER; refugee WOMAN (thru translator) - say the Serbs separated the people and raped the women.] [UNICEF spokesman Penelope LEWIS - recounts the women's stories.]
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Response of Seselj to the rape allegations presented. [SESELJ - (thru translator) says "only a blind person would rape things like that."]
(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Report introduced.
(White House: Wolf Blitzer) Hungary's concerns that ethnic Hungarians in the Serb province of Vojvodina could be targeted next examined; Prime Minister Viktor Orban quoted. [Eastern Europe expert Janusz BUGAJSKI - worries that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic might start a new round of ethnic division.] [Hungarian ambassador to United States Geza JESZENSZKY - comments.] [State Department spokesman James RUBIN - says the situation now seems calm.]
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(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(Washington: Pierre Thomas) The espionage probe into spying for China by scientist Wen Ho Lee at the Los Alamos National Laboratory examined; details given of the charges that might be filed against Lee for transferring classified material. [Secretary of Energy Bill RICHARDSON - comments on evidence.] [Senator Frank MURKOWSKI - cites the significance of this security breach.] [Senator Richard SHELBY - says FBI director Louis Freeh admitted this is deep penetration by the Chinese.]
(Studio: Judy Woodruff) China's denials of the new charges of espionage noted.
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) The investigation into the guns used in the Littleton, Colorado, high school shooting reported.
(New York: Gary Tuchman) National concerns about copycat plots based on the Littleton shootings examined; scenes shown from McKinley Junior High School in Brooklyn, NYC. [Student's parent Cookie EVANS, school superintendent Vincent GRIPPO, school security HEAD, STUDENT - react to a plot to bring in explosive devices to blow up the school.] Plots in California, Alabama and New Hampshire outlined. [American School Counselor Association Nancy PERRY - suggests most kids see the plots as pranks.]
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(Studio: Bernard Shaw) Some views on who might be considered the person of the millennium presented. [Former Los Angeles county prosecutor Christopher DARDEN, game show host Bob BARKER, Republican consultant Ralph REED, American University in Cairo professor Saad Eddin IBRAHIM, race car driver Mario ANDRETTI, United States envoy Richard HOLBROOKE - offer suggestions for the man of the century or millennium.]
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(Studio: Judy Woodruff) Report introduced.
(Near Tirana, Albania: Rusty Dornin) Artistic therapy for the refugee children from Kosovo now in an Albanian refugee camp featured; scenes shown of the kids drawing. [Kids Hasmir HOJAJ, Amsor BYTYGI, Laureta TODAJ - (thru translator) describe their drawings.] [Save the Children Richard HOFF, actress Maria BELLO - say we want to see the children happy after the tragedies they have seen.]
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