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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(West Palm Beach, Florida: Deborah Roberts) William Kennedy Smith's acquittal at his rape trial featured; details given; scenes shown. [SMITH - thanks his family.] [Defense attorney Roy BLACK - speaks to jury.] [Smith's ACCUSER, SMITH - testify.] [Prosecutor Moira LASCH, BLACK - question Smith and accuser.] Cost of Smith's defense estimated.
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Judge Mary Lupo's statement about the press following the trial noted. Interview held with defense attorney F. Lee Bailey. [BAILEY - comments on case against Smith, verdict, Kennedy family, rape cases.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Dennis Murphy) Russian President Boris Yeltsin's announcement that the republics of Armenia and Kirghizia will join his commonwealth featured; map shown. Possible change in Kazakhstan's allegiance from President Mikhail Gorbachev to Yeltsin, Gorbachev's absence from Soviet television noted. Four more Muslim republics said to be meeting with Yeltsin this weekend; Yeltsin delegation's meeting with top Soviet military officers noted. [Military journalist Colonel Ravin MUSTAFIN, Soviet Defense Ministry Ivan SKRILNIK - comment on control of Soviet nuclear weapons.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: John Cochran) President Bush's reaction to events in the USSR featured; results given of NBC News/"Wall Street Journal" polls on Bush's handling of foreign policy and the economy and the unemployed. [BUSH - comments on the economy.] New transportation bill mentioned.
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Results of Congressional study comparing taxes paid by wealthy and middle-class Americans in 1980 and today cited.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Research report said documented in the British journal "Nature". Report introduced.
(New York: Robert Bazell) Research creating an Alzheimer's-like disease in mice to facilitate research featured; scenes shown from nursing home for Alzheimer's patients affiliated with Albert Einstein College of Medicine. [Albert Einstein College of Medicine Dr. Howard CRYSTAL - comments on lack of treatments.] Difficulty researching Alzheimer's treatments due to lack of its existence in animals noted. [New York Mt. Sinai Medical Center Dr. Jon GORDON - comments on Alzheimer's-like disease induced in laboratory mice.] [Albert Einstein College of Medicine Dr. Peter DAVIES - comments on need to develop good models for Alzheimer's disease.] Photo shown of protein plaques which form in the brain of Alzheimer's patients; scientists recalled recently isolating gene which causes these plaques; scenes shown of Gordon's injection of this gene into mouse egg to create an Alzheimer's-like disease in offspring; implications for research noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Fatal corporate jet crash near Rome, Georgia, reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Dallas: Jim Cummins) Supreme Court Miranda decision, which requires police to inform suspects of their rights, featured; case of Ernesto Miranda whose rape conviction was overturned because he was not told about his rights against self-incrimination recalled; photograph shown; Miranda warning card carried by police officers shown. [Miranda's defense lawyer Peter BAIRD, Dallas police chief William RATHBURN - comment on Miranda warning.] [Oliver NORTH - declines to answer question based on his Constitutional rights.] Miranda's death recalled.