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(Helsinki: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Helsinki: John Cochran) Background to superpower summit meeting in Helsinki, Finland, of President Bush and President Mikhail Gorbachev to deal with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait featured; scenes shown of Bush. [BUSH - says goal is a common approach to Iraq's act of aggression.] Reasons why United States is reluctant to have USSR join the multinational military force in Saudi Arabia detailed. [On flight and later in Helsinki, BUSH - comments on Persian Gulf crisis.]
(Helsinki: Tom Brokaw) Impact of political and economic squeeze on Hussein reported. [National Security Adviser Brent SCOWCROFT - talks about United States strategy.] Report introduced.
(Helsinki: Bob Abernethy) Gorbachev's goals at conference featured; scenes shown of Gorbachev arriving in Helsinki. [GORBACHEV - (thru translator) makes statement.] Gorbachev's hopes of finding a political solution to gulf crisis and agreeing on arms control with United States noted. [Soviet political analyst Igor MALASHENKO - says Iraq should be contained.] USSR 's troubled economy mentioned.
(Helsinki: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Helsinki: John Dancy) Secretary of State James Baker's trip to Middle East to get financial support from Arab leaders and to further isolate Iraqi President Saddam Hussein featured; scenes shown of Baker meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the Emir of Kuwait. [BAKER - praises Mubarak's role in Persian Gulf crisis.] [MUBARAK - hopes Bush and Gorbachev will have "one line" in dealing with crisis.] Arabs' hope of strong joint statement of support from Bush and Gorbachev outlined.
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(Helsinki: Tom Brokaw) Statement from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein through his television spokesman to President Bush and President Mikhail Gorbachev in response to their Helsinki summit meeting reported; scenes shown from Iraqi TV.
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(Helsinki: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Baghdad: Mike Boettcher) Dilemma of hostages trapped in Iraq featured; scenes shown of birthday party for British girl and of women and children waiting to be evacuated. [At symphony in Baghdad, Iraqi WOMAN - says we know how to live through a war.]
(Helsinki: Tom Brokaw) Interview given with Karen Glass, who recently escaped from Kuwait to Baghdad to Jordan. [Former hostage GLASS - talks about moving around in Iraqi-occupied Kuwait City, Kuwait; describes the Kuwaiti resistance movement.
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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Statement from Senator Sam Nunn that there are enough United States troops in the Persian Gulf and that the troops there should be rotated out reported.
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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Report introduced.
(Amman: Ed Rabel) Anti-American, pro-Saddam Hussein position of Palestinians in the Middle East examined; scenes shown from a Palestinian neighborhood in Amman, Jordan, and of Jordan's Queen Noor visiting a refugee camp. [ARAB - (thru translator) blames US.] Threat of anti-American terrorism if Hussein is humiliated noted. Numbers of Palestinians in Jordan and issue of Jordan's role in embargo against Iraq cited.
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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Continued meeting of Congressional and White House budget negotiators at Andrews Air Force Base, MD, reported.
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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Congressional report critical of federally funded medical research outlined.
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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Report introduced.
(Supreme Court: Carl Stern) Senate confirmation hearing for nomination of David Souter to Supreme Court featured; details recalled of Souter's nomination in July and of efforts to ascertain his "record." [Coalitions for America Thomas JIPPING - talks about Souter.] Souter's record outlined on screen. Positions of American Bar Association and NOW on the Souter nomination cited. [People for the American Way Arthur KROPP - comments on Souter hearings.]
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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Defeat at United States Open tennis tournament of defending champions Boris Becker and Steffi Graf by Andre Agassi and Gabriela Sabatini reported; match points shown.
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(Helsinki: Tom Brokaw) Tomorrow's Helsinki summit conference between President Bush and President Mikhail Gorbachev, the first test of the "new order" in a post-Cold War era, previewed; Helsinki conference of 1975, attended by President Gerald Ford and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, recalled; Iraqi President Saddam Hussein mentioned.
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