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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Update given on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's maneuvers and reactions to them.
(Cairo: Garrick Utley) Proposal of a deal by Hussein featured; tenets of proposal outlined on screen; details given of announcement by Iraq that foreigners will be allowed to leave Kuwait and southern Iraq. Man from Great Britain noted killed near Kuwait's border with Saudi Arabia. Today's events in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Jordan reviewed; positions of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd and Jordan's King Hussein noted; scenes shown of pro-Iraq demonstration in Jordan. First American military death in Saudi Arabia reported; details given of accidental death of Air Force Staff Sergeant John Campisi.
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: John Cochran) Reaction of President Bush to Saddam Hussein's initiative featured; scenes shown from golf course in Kennebunkport, ME. [BUSH - comments on Hussein and on his talks with Syrian President Hafez al-Assad.] [Secretary of State James BAKER - says we have a formal request from Kuwaiti government to implement UN sanctions; says we will talk with other countries about enforcing sanctions.] Possible role for Iran mentioned. [National Security Adviser Brent SCOWCROFT - says Hussein has missed his best window of opportunity.] [On "Meet the Press", Secretary of Defense Dick CHENEY - characterizes Hussein as an evil man.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir quoted on Israeli response to Hussein's initiative.
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced. ......
(State Department: John Dancy) Fact that no one is taking Saddam Hussein's initiative as a serious offer explained. [Kuwaiti ambassador Saud Nasir al-SABAH - outlines Kuwaiti demands.] State Department official noted stating that Hussein's strategy now is to try to convince the Arabs that he is liberating the Holy Land.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Scenes shown from Greenwich Township, New Jersey, on the Delaware River, of tanker loaded with Iraqi oil that had been purchased by Shell.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Interview in "Washington Post" in which Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady explains how Persian Gulf crisis will hurt the American economy detailed.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Jim Maceda) Alliance of two superpowers, United States and USSR , against former Soviet ally, Iraq, in the Persian Gulf featured; scenes shown from Chernigov, USSR , of Soviet military training. [MAN - (thru translator) says Iraq should be kicked out of Kuwait.] [WOMAN - (thru translator) praises US-USSR joint effort.] Communications between Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze and presence of Soviet warships in Persian Gulf noted; scenes shown from Soviet TV.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Reunion of 10-year-old traveller Penelope Nabokov, who had been stranded in Iraq, with her parents reported; scenes shown from press conference. [NABOKOV - talks about getting scared.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Cairo: Garrick Utley) Forces of Islamic fundamentalism and Arab nationalism in light of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's call for a holy war in the Middle East examined. [Cairo magazine editor Safinas KHASEN - explains why she would not shake hands with male reporter; says Hussein is a secular ruler trying to manipulate Islam who should be pushed out by the Iraqi people, not foreign powers; likens Hussein's fate to that of Macbeth.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Death of Gustavo Gaviria, number three in Colombia's drug cartel, at hands of police reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Testing in Sweden of controversial abortion pill RU-486 as a birth control pill reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Hollywood: Bill Lagattuta) Controversy over x-rating system for movies featured; scenes shown from not-yet-released film "Life is Cheap, But Toilet Paper is Expensive", which has been given an x-rating for violent scenes. [Director Wayne WANG - explains what getting an x- rating does.] [Miramax Films Russell SCHWARTZ - comments.] Reaction of Motion Picture Association of America president Jack Valenti to idea of revising movie ratings system noted. ["Los Angeles Times" film critic Charles CHAMPLIN - comments.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Continuation of lightning fires in California and other western states reported; scenes shown of fires in Yosemite National Park.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw; Cairo: Garrick Utley) Issue of Arab unity with US against Iraq and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein discussed; Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak quoted on Arab unity; details given of offensive potential of United States military force that is being sent to Middle East.
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