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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Beijing, China, PR) Visit by President Bush to Beijing, China, featured; details given of issues involving US-Sino relations, scenes shown of Bush with Chinese President Yang Shangkun and Premier Li Peng. Bush reported scheduled to meet Deng Xiaoping and Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk; both China and United States noted eager for Vietnam to get out of Cambodia.
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(Beijing, China, PR: John Cochran) President Bush's concern over fate of Secretary of Defense-designate John Tower, whose nomination to Defense Department post is being held up, reported; scenes shown of Bush in China (PR) and Japan. [BUSH - says Tower nomination will be decided on Senate floor; emphasizes his commitment to Tower; says he won't fight with Senator Sam Nunn over issue.] Federal Reserve Bd. reported incr. its discount rate. [BUSH - discusses link of interest rates and his budget.] USSR 's Mikhail Gorbachev reported planning to visit Asia this spring to promote Sino-Soviet relations [BUSH - discusses Sino-Soviet relations] Bush's fascination with changes in China since his diplomacy days here noted.
(Beijing, China, PR: Tom Brokaw) Chinese presentation of bicycles to Bush and Barbara Bush noted.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Honolulu, Hawaii: David Burrington) Yesterday's accident on United Airlines flight 811, in which part of fuselage was sucked off, recalled; details given of beginnings of investigation by FBI and NTSB; scenes shown of Coast Guard search for debris and people. [NTSB spokesperson Lee DICKINSON - comments.] [Passengers Angela ANDERSON, Bernice MINNIS - describe accident.] [Four PASSENGERS - comment on boarding another 747 to resume their flight.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Johannesburg, South Africa: Robin Lloyd) Funeral services in black township of Thumahole, South Africa, for 14-yr.-old Stompie Moeketsi, black activist allegedly kidnapped and killed by Winnie Mandela's bodyguards, featured; details given, scenes shown. [Feb. 20, 1989, MANDELA - denies role in murder of child.] Impact of murder on anti-apartheid movement in South Africa detailed. [MANDELA - says she feels betrayed.]
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini's heir-apparent reported criticizing Moslem countries for not taking tougher stand against Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses" reported Report introduced.
(London, England: Peter Kent) Funeral services in India for people who were killed in earlier demonstration against Rushdie's book featured; scenes shown from India and from further protests in Great Britain. [British home secretary Doug. HURD - opposes death threats.] Rushdie's comments in Sunday's London "Observer "detailed. [Literary editor Blake MORRISON - comments on Rushdie.] Rushdie noted in hiding.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) New Environmental Protection Agency administration William Reilly reported stating he will try to put immediate stop to pesticides that have been linked to cancer.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Yellowstone National Park: Roger O'Neil) Dying off of animals, such as elk and buffalo, in Yellowstone National Park featured; details given of reasons for this circumstance; scenes shown. [National park director William MOTT - comments.] [Wildlife biologist Frank SINGER - discusses inevitability of situation.] Public relations problems noted. [Park superintendent Bob BARBEE - says animals in the wilderness should be left alone.] [Park resident Ralph STATON - talks about saving animals.] Need to thin herds noted.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Florence Griffith Joyner reported retiring from track to pursue other careers.
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(Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.
(Beijing, China, PR: Tom Brokaw) Dissidents in China reported; President Bush reported inviting Chinese dissidents to dinner for Chinese officials. [Dissident group leader FANG Lizhi - (thru translator) discusses scope of jailed dissident problem &double standard of west approach to human rights problems in China; explains hope that United States would develop a unified standard for its position on human rights.] Scenes shown of arrests two years ago at Beijing Univ. Limits on Fang's freedom detailed. Report introduced.
(Beijing, China, PR: Jim Miklaszewski) Homecoming for President and Barbara Bush in China reported; his role as diplomacy here in 1970s recalled; scenes and photos shown. [Barbara BUSH - says she did not know what to expect when she first came to China.] Bush's changing view of China reviewed; historical scenes shown of Bush running for Texas Senate seat in 1964, playing Ping-Pong with Chinese in 1970s, welcoming China to United Nations during Richard Nixon's administration, acting as United States liaison to China during Gerald Ford's administration [BUSH - talks about Chinese people; comments on his and President Ronald Reagan's views on China.] [Barbara BUSH - says times have changed.] Deng Xiaoping mentioned.
(Beijing, China, PR: Tom Brokaw) Bush's dinner tonight and his itinerary later mentioned.
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