This program is 28 minutes long
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Damascus, Syria: Ed Rabel) Freed Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio featured; scenes shown of Cicippio at Damascus, Syria, press conference, at reunion with his wife and arriving at Wiesbaden, Germany. [In Damascus, CICIPPIO - says he's glad it's over; adds that remaining hostages may be released by the end of the year.] Photos of remaining American hostages Alann Steen and Terry Anderson shown; Syrian foreign minister reported saying he is hopeful that they will be released by the end of the week.
(Norristown, Pennsylvania: Robin Lloyd) Reaction of Cicippio's family to his release featured; scenes shown. [Brother Thomas CICIPPIO - announces Cicippio's release.] [Sister Helen FAZIO - comments.] [Brother Anthony CICIPPIO - comments on his brother's captivity.] Cicippio family members reported leaving tomorrow for Wiesbaden.
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Freed Lebanon hostage Thomas Sutherland's BBC World Service radio message to Anderson, his former cell mate, reported.
#578963
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(West Palm Beach, Florida: Deborah Roberts) First day of William Kennedy Smith's rape trial featured; scenes shown. [Assistant prosecutor Ellen ROBERTS - tells jury about other attacks allegedly perpetrated by Smith.] [Defense attorney Roy BLACK - responds.] Judge Mary Lupo reported refusing to allow testimony of other women Roberts mentioned. [Chief prosecutor Moira LASCH, BLACK - tell jury different sides of the alleged rape.]
#578964
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Robert Hager) Supreme Court case on whether Congress has the authority to dictate actions of the courts featured; law wherein Congress temporarily authorized logging in protected Northwest areas and ordered courts to throw out any challenges to the logging reported. Depletion of Northern spotted owl population noted; scenes shown of logging and owls. Supreme Court arguments of government solicitor general Kenneth Starr, environmentalist attorney Todd True, Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Justice Antonin Scalia noted. [Logger Bill GRIFFIN - says jobs are more important than owls.] [TRUE - comments on case.] (Artist: Betty Wells)
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: John Cochran) President Bush's meeting today with leaders of the real estate industry to discuss the economy featured; scenes shown. [BUSH - says he'll implement existing programs.] [Mortgage Bankers Association Angelo MOZILO - says Bush should take action now.] Projections on Christmas sales throughout the country outlined on screen. Report on manufacturing business activity cited.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Poland, Canada and Russia reported recognizing Ukraine's independence; United States plans to do so noted; map shown. Former communist leader Leonid Kravchuk reported elected president of Ukraine; scenes shown. Commentary introduced.
(Studio: John Chancellor) Effect of President Bush's statement last week that he would recognize an independent Ukraine on NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) allies, President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian President Boris Yeltsin analyzed.
#578973
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Chicago: Mike Boettcher) America's innocence on the verge of entering World War II featured; historical footage shown. November 1941 statistics on the percentage of Americans who expected a war with Japan and who were willing to aid Britain cited. [Mary Frances VEECK - comments on romance of going to military service.] [On radio, President Franklin D. ROOSEVELT - says there will be no foreign war.] [Ben BENTLEY - comments on doing the jitterbug.] [Dempsey TRAVIS - comments on war and jobs for black people.] December 29, 1940, statement by Roosevelt quoted on screen; his secret authorization of the Manhattan project on November 9, 1941, recalled. Horoscope from December 7, 1941, quoted on screen.
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