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(Studio: Keith Morrison) Report introduced.
(Miami: Fred Francis) Temporary safe haven for Haitian refugees at US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, featured; scenes shown. [REFUGEE, Coast Guard David SCHNEIDER - talk about their plight.] Recent political turmoil and US-sponsored trade embargo in Haiti detailed. [General George WALLS - talks about the exodus from Haiti.] Issue of whether the administration will accept the refugees or, perhaps, intervene militarily in Haiti noted.
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(Studio: Keith Morrison) Report introduced.
(State Department: John Dancy) Demand by United States and Britain that Libya turn over the two men accused of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 reported. [State Department spokeswoman Margaret TUTWILER - comments.] United States bombing of Libya in 1986 and explosion of plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 recalled; scenes shown. Trade links between Libya and European Community nations, including Italy, outlined; map shown. [American University professor Mary Jane DEEB, British families of Lockerbie Jim SWIRE - comment on nations' actions against Libya.]
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(Studio: Keith Morrison) Response of Israel, Syria and Palestinians to invitation for Middle East peace talks in Washington, DC, outlined.
(Tel Aviv: Martin Fletcher) Reasons why Israel has declined the US invitation featured; Israeli counterproposals for time and place of talks outlined on screen. [Israeli government spokesman Ehud GOL - outlines Israeli position.] [Palestinian spokeswoman Hanan ASHRAWI - responds.] Israeli reaction to last meeting between Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir and President Bush noted. [Israeli political scientist Yaron EZRAHI - talks about Israel and the peace process.]
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(Studio: Keith Morrison) Report introduced.
(Capitol Hill: Andrea Mitchell) The Congress, the administration, recess and the economy featured; scenes shown. [Representatives Robert MICHEL, Richard GEPHARDT - comment.] The bickering between Congress and the president over tax cuts noted. [Representative Thomas FOLEY, Senators George MITCHELL, Edward KENNEDY - criticize President Bush.] Political sniping over the crime bill cited.
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(Studio: Keith Morrison) Melee in the Japanese parliament over the issue of whether the military should be used overseas shown.
(Tokyo: Brad Willis) Japan and its military examined; scenes shown of protests against use of Japanese troops overseas, even on peacekeeping missions. [WOMAN - (thru translator) opposes force.] [Japanese Defense Academy professor Masashi NISHIHARA - comments.] Japan's concerns about USSR , China, Vietnam, North Korea and the United States detailed. Japan's potential for redeveloping a military addressed.
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(Studio: Keith Morrison) Report introduced.
(Ann Arbor, Michigan: Robert Bazell) Question of when to pull the plug on life support systems in intensive care units examined; case of Helga Wanglie recalled; details given of doctor-developed computer system that calculates patients' survival odds. [George Washington Medical Center Dr. William KNAUS - talks about patient care and about the complications of modern medicine.] [Saint Joseph's Mercy Hospital Dr. Charles WATTS - talks about Apache computer information.] Implications of computer system for medical care outlined.
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(Studio: Keith Morrison) Report introduced.
(Shreveport, LA: Jim Cummins) Controversy over "sex respect" program adopted by school board in Shreveport, LA, that teaches abstinence rather than sex education featured; scenes shown. ["The Shreveport Journal" Lanny KELLER, school board member Judy BOYKIN, mothers Ernestine WILLIAMS, Elaine MARRS, Latrice WILEY, "Project Respect" Kathleen SULLIVAN - offer differing opinions on sex respect versus sex education.]
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(Studio: Keith Morrison) Commentary introduced.
(Studio: John Chancellor) America's addiction to OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) oil and the impact a drop in oil prices would have on the United States economy examined; Citizen Action statistics quoted.
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(Studio: Keith Morrison) Report introduced.
(Charlotte: Kenley Jones) The Double Oaks Boys Choir featured; scenes shown from Charlotte, North Carolina, public housing project where the boys live and of them singing about a world without drugs and crime. [Community resources coordinator Vivian WILLIAMS - talks about goals of the choir.] [WOMAN - cites plight of black boys.] [Choir member Guantico GASTON - comments.]
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