This program is 28 minutes long
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(San Juan, PR: Kenley Jones) Beginning of investigation into Dupont Plaza Hotel fire here, believed by many to have been work of arsonist(s) linked to hotel's labor dispute with local Teamsters union, examined; details given, scenes shown. [Freda FENNER - recalls another hotel's desk clerk warned them Dupont Plaza would be bombed.] [Roger BRESLIN - notes he recd. similar warning.] [Hotel manager Bruce SHULMAN - denies being warned of New Yr.'s eve bombings.] [Governor Rafael HERNANDEZ COLON - blames hotel management for not warning guests of bomb threats.]
(San Juan, PR: Jim Kaiserski) [Survivors Ivan MIRANDA, Al BIANCO - describe ordeal.] [Dr. Louis IZQUIERDO - cites need for accurate identification of victims.] [Bob BRODOWSKI - doubts family survived.]
(Studio: Garrick Utley) Hernandez Colon reported now ordering fire safety equipment installed in Puerto Rico hotels.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(Peking, China, PR: Keith Miller) Students' reaction to government's threat of crackdown against their call for democrat reforms featured; details given, scenes shown. [STUDENT - wants more freedoms.] Students' historical role in China recalled.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet reported promising end to state of siege; details given.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Racial violence in South Africa today described.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Sabotage of large number NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) tanks based in Luxembourg reported; details given, scenes shown.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) President and Nancy Reagan shown returning to White House in anticipation of his prostate surgery scheduled for Monday
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Contents of Congress testimony gathered so far in Iran arms scandal summarized; administration officials mentioned blaming Colonel Oliver North for operation.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) President Reagan's proposed 1988 budget, include incrd. aid for Contras, outlined.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(DC: Irving R. Levine) Pros and cons of new tax law examined; scenes shown. [Restaurant owner Hal BINYON - cites new status of business lunch deductions.] [John SLAUGHENHOUP - explains year-end auto purchase.] [C&S Bank spokesperson Kirk KIRKPATRICK - cites increase home equity loan business] [Builder Eugene KELLY - expects rent to increase] [H&R Block spokesperson Paul MONROE - notes complexity of new tax simplification.] New W-4 form cited as example
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) IRS (Internal Revenue Service) reported proposing use of credit cards to pay taxes.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(NYC: Mike Jensen) 1986 economy activity and predictions for 1987 considered; Ivan Boesky scandal recalled. [Investor Tilli SANFORD - criticizes crooked brokers.] [Econ. Alan GREENSPAN - explains benefits of maj. companies' mass firings.] [Reed LITTLEFIELD - describes his job-hunting efforts.]
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(Boston, Massachusetts: Fred Briggs) Impact on N.E.'s weather of astronomical phenomenon known as syzygy and its relationship to tidal behavior explained; scenes shown. [OFFICIAL - describes flooding.] [Civil Defense spokesperson Jordan COHEN - notes inland flooding as well.] [EVACUEE - explains leaving home.]
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles, California: George Lewis) Effect of new immigration law on illegal aliens already in United States and on American firms hiring illegal aliens now examined; details given, scenes shown. Arrest of Arturo Garcia Tapia cited as example [Immigration commissioner Harold EZELL - cites relationship between influx of illegal aliens and United States industry] [INS district director Ernest GUSTAFSON - criticizes con artists exploiting aliens.]
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(Paris, France: Jim Bittermann) Fundraising stunt of high wire artist Henri Rashitan and wife, requiring that they live inhouse suspended over Rhone R. in Lyon, France, featured; details given, scenes shown. [WIFE - comments on wind.]
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