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[Broadcast joined in progress] Tom Brokaw (New York)
(Baghdad: Ed Rabel) Iraq reported expelling European diplomats in response to ouster of Iraqi diplomats from European countries last week. [British military attache Colonel John COCHRAN - comments on expulsions.] Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's announcement on Iraqi TV regarding possibility of war quoted; scenes shown. [Information minister Latif Nassif JASSEM - comments on war.] [IRAQI - (thru translator) says not afraid to fight.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: Jim Miklaszewski) President Bush's response noted. [BUSH - reads statement about terrorism; comments on possibility of war; jokes about Hussein appearing on American television.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Capitol Hill: Andrea Mitchell) White House and Congress reported compromising on proposed arms deal with Saudi Arabia; details given; Israel's concerns noted. [Saudi ambassador Prince BANDAR, Representative Mel LEVINE, Senator Robert KASTEN, BUSH - comment.] Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney noted promising aid to Israeli foreign minister Moshe Arens.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Persian Gulf crisis effect on oil prices cited. [Desert dispatches hello: Cedrick Mills.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Don Oliver) Santa Ana, California, judge reported awarding temporary custody to genetic parents of baby; details given of custody fight between parents Mark and Chrispina Calvert and surrogate mother Anna Johnson. [On talk show, JOHNSON, Johnson's lawyer Richard GILBERT, Mark CALVERT, University of Minnesota Dr. Arthur CAPLAN - comment.] [ABA Joseph GITLIN - gives bar's opinion.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Federal regulators reported suing president's son Neil Bush and other officers of bankrupt Colorado Silverado savings and loan; charges detailed. Los Angeles judge noted refusing to lower bail for Charles Keating, indicted for savings and loan fraud, due to fears that he might flee. Report introduced.
(Dallas: James Polk) Justice Department success in S&L battle analyzed. Empire savings and loan fraud case featured; scenes shown from unfinished development near Dallas. [Former Federal Home Loan Bank Board chairman Edwin GRAY, United States attorney, Dallas Marvin COLLINS - comment on lack of success.] Cases against Don Dixon's Vernon savings and loan and Edwin McBirney's Sunbelt savings and loan mentioned. ["Dallas Morning News" Allen PUSEY, Justice Department James RICHMOND - comment.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) High rollers Donald Trump and Leona Helmsley quoted regarding each other in "Playboy" magazine.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Budget battle mentioned. Report introduced.
(New York: Diana Koricke) House subcommittee investigation into tax evasion by United States subsidiaries of foreign countries examined; Japanese reported among worst; details given of IRS (Internal Revenue Service) investigation of "transfer pricing." [Representative Richard SCHULZE, (with face obscured) former Toshiba EMPLOYEE, Representative Ronnie FLIPPO, Treasury Department assistant secretary Kenneth GIDEON - comment.] [Representative Richard GEPHARDT - talks about relationship between administration and Japan.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) American students reported rating schools higher than Japanese students rate theirs and taking more business and computer courses than Japanese.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Woman who contracted AIDS from Florida dentist David Acer recalled; two more cases of infection from same dentist reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Robert Hager) Day honoring prisoners of war and those still missing in action in Vietnam featured; scenes shown from Arlington National Cemetery and of remains being returned from Laos. [Jo and Lawrence HATLEY - talk about son Joel Hatley, whose remains arrived today; comment on soldiers in Saudi Arabia.] [Writer Monica Jensen STEVENSON - talks about prisoners who may still be alive in Southeast Asia.] [At Pentagon ceremony, General John VESSEY - says search goes on.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Charleston, SC: Kenley Jones) Anniversary of Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina featured; scenes shown from Charleston, SC. [Survivors Evelyn and Melissa COOPER, therapist Cathy JOINER, survivors Sonya GARDNER, Red and Allyson KELLING - talk about emotional scars.]