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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Lithuania: Bob Abernethy) USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev reported visiting Lithuania, USSR , in effort to persuade people there against secession; details given of pro-independence demonstrations; scenes shown. [GORBACHEV - (thru translator) urges Lithuanians to work out problems with him.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Verbal exchange between Gorbachev and Lithuanian worker recounted; Gorbachev's comments to wife Raisa Gorbachev quoted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Independence movement in USSR 's Baltic Republics reviewed. Ethnic problems in Moldavia, USSR , and Azerbaijan, USSR , noted escalating; details given; scenes shown. [Foreign affairs analyst William HYLAND - explains significance of developments in USSR ; predicts Gorbachev's chances of survival.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Pro-reform demonstrations reported in Albania; details given.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Minutes from Nicolae Ceausescu's last cabinet meeting quoted; Elena Ceausescu quoted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Boston: Fred Briggs) Murder of pregnant Carol Stuart by her husband Charles Stuart reviewed; details given of family members who knew truth behind Stuart murder, scenes shown from family press conference. [Attorney Richard CLAYMAN - says family is without guilt in this case.] Role of brother Matthew Stuart in case reviewed. ["Boston Herald" editor Ken CHANDLER, WCVB-TV vice president Philip BALBONI - comment on media's handling of case.] Books reported already being written regarding Stuart case. [Little Brown and Company Colleen MOHYDE, Warner Books James FROST, agent Henry DUNOW - comment on Stuart story.] [Producer Arnold SHAPIRO, NBC vice president Anthony MASUCCI - comment on this story as a television movie.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Federal judge reported blocking several provisions of restrictive abortion law; details given.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Former Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger quoted regarding need for more gun control; Burger quoted from article in "Parade" magazine.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) President Bush reported planning to seek more budgetary funding to fight war on drugs; details given; drug czar William Bennett mentioned.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Houston: Robert Bazell) FDA (Food and Drug Administration) reported recalling Jarvik 7 artificial heart; details given of its history and complications; scenes shown of patients Barney Clark and William Schroeder prior to their deaths. [Texas Heart Institute Dr. O. Howard FRAZIER - comments on his patients who use artificial hearts until human donor can be found.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Robert Hager) Leukemia patients' problems in locating match for bone marrow transplants examined; patients Allison Atlas and Joanne Johnson featured; scenes shown from Washington effort to find donors for these women. [Bone marrow donor Stephanie LEE - comments on giving bone marrow.] [ATLAS, JOHNSON - comment on their conditions.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Response to revocation of martial law in Beijing, China's Tiananmen Square discussed; details given; scenes shown. [President BUSH - praises lifting of martial law.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Studio: John Chancellor) Kremlin's reaction to secessionist movement in Lithuania, USSR , compared to Chinese government's massacre in Tiananmen Square; future of USSR noted uncertain.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Defense Secretary Dick Cheney reported answering demands that Pentagon budget be reduced due to developments in Eastern Europe; details given of his plan to reduce waste within Pentagon.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Angels Camp: George Lewis) Mark Twain's novel depicting jumping frogs in Angels Camp, California, recalled making town famous; details given of dispute over introduction of foreign frogs; scenes shown from annual jumping frog contest. [Frog owner Andy KOFFMAN - says he will enter his African Goliath frogs in California contest.] Goliath frogs discussed. [Frog jump official Diane BAUMANN - explains why she is hopping mad.]
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