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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Moscow: John Dancy) Secretary of State James Baker's meetings today with Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Soviet defense minister Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, and President Mikhail Gorbachev featured; scenes shown. US worries about nuclear weapons scattered throughout the republics, Yeltsin's announcement that nuclear weapons will be under a single unified command and his statement that Byelorussia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan will become non-nuclear republics reported; map shown. [YELTSIN - (thru translator) comments on spread of nuclear weapons technology.] [BAKER - says he feels reassured.] Scenes shown of press conference of Baker and Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze.
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Interview held with Senator Sam Nunn. [NUNN - comments on dismantling Soviet tactical nuclear weapons, Yeltsin's assurances, volatile nature of USSR situation, nuclear attack threat, spread of nuclear weapons technology.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: John Cochran) United Nations General Assembly vote to overturn a 1975 resolution which compared Zionism to racism featured; details given. United Nations condemnation of Zionism after Israel's victory in the 1973 war recalled; historical footage of war shown. [President BUSH - calls for repeal of resolution.] [Deputy Secretary of State Lawrence EAGLEBURGER - speaks at UN.] [Palestinian delegation Saeb ERAKAT - equates Zionism with racism.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington, DC: Robert Hager) United States Conference of Mayors' report on the homeless featured; details given; scenes shown from Chicago, and Washington, DC. [Boston Mayor Raymond FLYNN - makes speech about the homeless.] [Homeless women "JAMIE", Lashan EVANS - comment on their situations.] [Shelter director Dan BYRNE - talks about young homeless families.] [Saint Paul, Minnesota, Mayor James SCHEIBEL - comments on people's frustration.] Overrunning of Santa Monica, California, with homeless people noted; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Andrea Mitchell) Last night's televised debate between the Democratic presidential candidates featured; scenes shown. [Paul TSONGAS, Governor Bill CLINTON, Senator Tom HARKIN - debate middle-class tax cuts.] [HARKIN, CLINTON - comment on Soviet aid.] [Senator Bob KERREY - comments on Persian Gulf war.] Former Governor Jerry Brown shown reading a newspaper during the debate. [BROWN - comments on political system.] [KERREY - responds to Brown.] [New York Governor Mario CUOMO - comments on whether he'll run.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Loopholes in the Florida and Texas bankruptcy laws that allow the rich to keep their luxury homes featured; cases of bankrupt Colonial Realty baron Benjamin Sisty and bankrupt Houston businessman Mel Powers detailed; homes and excerpt from Colonial Realty video shown. [SISTY - says no investor money was used to buy his homes.] [POWERS - comments on keeping his home.] [Florida state senator Helen Gordon DAVIS - comments on people who use bankruptcy loophole as a tax shelter.] [Investor Vito SANTISIERRA - talks about wanting revenge from Sisty.] Support for the bankruptcy laws noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(New York: John Miller) Grand jury questioning of 41 people with alleged ties to organized crime in New York City about the current mob war there featured; scenes shown of alleged mobsters arriving. [Brooklyn district attorney Charles HYNES - comments on ending mob war.] Mob war said to be between faction of the Colombo crime family loyal to imprisoned former boss Carmine Persico and faction loyal to new boss Victor Orena; photos shown. [Defense attorney Charles CARNESI - calls questioning a misuse of the system.] Scenes shown of alleged mobsters Vincent Cassio, Joseph "Little Lollipop" Carna, Patsy Catalano, and Louis Malpizzo.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) President Bush's celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Bill of Rights by visiting the home of James Madison; statement from survivors of the Egyptian ferry that sank in the Red Sea that the crew abandoned them; disruption of morning British rail service because of a bomb blast, allegedly part of a Christmas campaign of terror by the IRA, reported; scenes shown from Montpelier, Virginia, Safaga, Egypt and London.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Mott, North Dakota: Roger O'Neil) Professor Frank Popper's plan to turn the Great Plains back over to the buffalo featured; scenes shown. [MAN - comments on saving his community.] Human population decline in the Great Plains noted. [POPPER - comments on difficulty of living in the plains.] [At meeting, three MEN - attack Popper's idea.] [Artist Robyn LAWS - comments on quality of life in the plains.]
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