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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Dennis Murphy) Consequences of the USSR breakup featured; Russian parliament's vote in favor of the commonwealth, Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk's declaration that he is the commander-in- chief of the Ukraine's soldiers, President Mikhail Gorbachev's statement that his life's work is over, shortage of dairy products, closing of airports due to lack of jet fuel reported; details given; scenes shown. [Former KGB General Oleg KALUGIN - comments on Gorbachev.] [MAN - (thru translator) says Gorbachev ruined everything.] [USA-Canada Institution Andrei KORTUNOV - talks about Russian millionaires and beggars.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Map shown locating Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. Report introduced.
(Krasnoyarsk, Siberia: Jim Maceda) Possibility of the spread of nuclear weapons technology due to Latin American and Middle East recruitment of Soviet nuclear experts featured; scenes shown from previously closed nuclear weapons production cities, Krasnoyarsk and Number 45, Siberia. [Krasnoyarsk CITIZEN - (thru translator) says Gorbachev ruined everything.] [Number 45 resident Igor TURSHENKO - (thru translator) says people are leaving.] Unemployment and low wages in the Soviet nuclear weapons industry noted. [Plutonium processing specialist Viktor BYRONO - (thru translator) comments on Iraqi job offer.] [Soviet nuclear expert Dr. Gennady PASHKOV, Washington Council on Non-proliferation James LEONARD - comment on danger of experts sharing their knowledge.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(State Department: John Dancy) Secretary of State James Baker's speech at Princeton University on the USSR breakup featured; scenes shown. [BAKER - comments on USSR revolution, need for cooperation of other countries.] Baker's statements that the United States will hold a conference of wealthy nations to raise money for various types of aid, for the Soviet republics, and that the West must help the republics destroy their nuclear weapons reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Status of the economy featured; wholesale prices, retail sales figures cited; results given of NBC News/"Wall Street Journal" poll on people's views on the recession.
(Washington: Andrea Mitchell) Public opinion on what should be done about the economy featured; results given of NBC News/"Wall Street Journal" poll on how the peace dividend should be used and how to improve the economy. [Senator Bill BRADLEY - advocates spending cuts.] [OMB director Richard DARMAN - questions how to best help middle-income Americans.] [Senators Bob DOLE, John CHAFEE - comment on tax cuts.] Possibility that the administration will propose an investment tax credit in January noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington, DC: Lisa Myers) Impact of William Kennedy Smith's rape trial featured; scenes shown from Washington, DC, rape counseling center. [Rape counselor Denise SNYDER - comments on trial's message to women.] [USC law professor Susan ESTRICH - comments on trial.] [Brooklyn district attorney Star JONES - emphasizes witness preparation.] Anita Hill's sexual harassment charges against Judge Clarence Thomas recalled; scenes shown. [NOW Legal Defense Fund Helen NEUBORNE - comments on positive message from trial.] [Los Angeles Vince WILLIAMS - comments on increased awareness.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(New York: John Miller) New York City Colombo crime family mob war featured; scenes shown from murder scene of Colombo associate Vincent Fusrao, of Carmine "the Snake" Persico who was convicted of being the Colombo boss in 1986, and of Victor Orena who was made boss while Persico served time; details given of dispute over mob leadership. [FBI James FOX, New York City police commissioner Lee BROWN, Brooklyn district attorney Charles HYNES - comment on mob war.] Former boss Joe Colombo's formation of the Italian-American Civil Rights League recalled; historical footage shown. [COLOMBO - makes speech.] Scene of mobsters' mistaken murder of an 18-year-old bagel shop counter boy shown.
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Tomorrow's "Daily Difference" segment previewed.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Savings and loan scandal figure Charles Keating reported back in court, charged with insider trading and other federal violations; Keating's conviction last week on stock fraud charges recalled; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Atlanta: Bob Herbert) Legal defense of the poor featured. [Inmate Saunders COCHRAN - talks about his lawyer's incompetence.] Cochran's lawyer, Harry Hutchinson, noted refusing to talk to NBC News; Hutchinson's sworn statement about his representation of Cochran quoted. [Prisoners' rights lawyer Stephen BRIGHT - talks about intoxicated lawyer.] [Former public defender Lynn BOURSA - comments on her previous case volume.] [JUDGE - speaks in court to defendant Richard Todd.] [TODD - explains his guilty plea.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: John Cochran) Lighting of the White House Christmas tree, attended by freed Lebanon hostages, outgoing United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, and United Nations special envoy Giandomenico Picco featured; scenes shown. Two remaining German hostages and remains of two American hostages yet to be returned mentioned. [President BUSH - speaks to freed hostages.] Thanks reported given to Perez de Cuellar and Picco; "Today Show" weatherman Willard Scott shown speaking in a Santa suit; technical difficulties in lighting the Christmas tree noted.
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