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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Monthly consumer price figures and likelihood that Federal Reserve Board will cut interest rates cited.
(Washington: Irving R. Levine) Job cutbacks across the nation examined. [Duron Paints Robert CLARK, jeweler Paul PASTORE; Glendale, California, Carol KENNEDY - talk about the economy.] Growth of small business cited. [Sandwich shop owner John WOLF - comments.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Dallas: Jim Cummins) Explication of, and advice for, one family's finances featured. [Rocky and Margie WAGNER - talk about the family budget.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Interview held with financial planner. [Ginger APPLEGARTH - offers suggestions for Wagners' finances.] Report introduced.
(Nantick, Massachusetts: Fred Briggs) Explication of, and advice for, one New England family's finances featured. [Accountant John CASHMAN, WIFE - talk about bills.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Advice from financial planner given. [APPLEGARTH - offers suggestions for Cashmans' budget; analyzes role of cash machines in America.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Update given on the prospects for President Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet union as more republics desert it reported; scenes shown of crowds in line for food in Moscow; map shown of the growing commonwealth.
(White House: John Cochran) Impact of the breakup of the union on the Soviet military machine featured; details given of the nuclear worry from Soviet submarines sold to Iran and of Iraq's bids for Soviet nuclear know-how. [President BUSH - talks about the USSR .] [Secretary of State James BAKER - talks about the scope of Bush's telephone conversation with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and the issue of control of nuclear weaponry.] Baker's plans to visit the republics noted. Statement from US ambassador Robert Strauss that KGB chairman Vadim Bakatin gave him plans that Soviet agents used to bug the United States embassy in Moscow noted. [STRAUSS - comments.] Gorbachev's telephone call to Bush mentioned.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(At debate studio: Andrea Mitchell) Sunday's debate among the six Democratic presidential candidates previewed; details given of each man's positions on various issues. [Candidates Governor Bill CLINTON, Paul TSONGAS, Senator Bob KERREY, Senator Tom HARKIN - campaign.] Candidates Jerry Brown, Governor L. Douglas Wilder and potential candidate Governor Mario Cuomo mentioned. [Comedian Jay LENO - jokes about Cuomo.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Sunday's coverage of the debate noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Court ruling that former President Richard Nixon does not hold legal title to his presidential papers reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Keith Morrison) Status of the 8th Amendment on cruel and unusual punishment examined; one man's case cited. [Convict Richard WINDROW - describes police raid that led to his life imprisonment.] [Defense lawyer David CHESNOFF, assistant United States attorney John GORDON - talk about the repeat offender laws.] Supreme Court noted narrowing its view of the 8th Amendment. [American University professor Herman SCHWARTZ - says court has allowed extreme punishment.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Ann Arbor: Mike Boettcher) University of Michigan football superstar Desmond Howard profiled; game scenes shown; the Howard family's relationship detailed. [HOWARD, MOTHER, father J.D. HOWARD - talk about the family.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Tomorrow's awarding of the Heisman Trophy noted.
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