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(Studio: Jane Pauley) Report introduced.
(White House: Jim Miklaszewski) Problems facing the United States in dealing with what was the Soviet union featured; details given of President Bush's signing of the CFE treaty to reduce conventional forces in Europe; map shown of the newly independent republics. [BUSH - says US must be alert to pressures on the republics.] Assurances to United States about nuclear weapons security noted. [In Christmas address, BUSH - says President Mikhail Gorbachev established the foundations for freedom.] Plans for a summit meeting between Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin noted.
(Studio: Jane Pauley) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Bob Abernethy) Problems facing the new commonwealth featured; scenes shown of Gorbachev hosting the foreign press and of various symbolic scenes in Moscow; details given of economic difficulties, the developing dispute between Russia and the Ukraine and questions about how the armed forces will be controlled. [USA-Canada Institution Andrei KORTUNOV - talks about regional military leaders.]
(Studio: Jane Pauley) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Jim Maceda) Soviet need for humanitarian aid examined; scenes shown of United States plane carrying medical supplies and from a hospital burn ward. [Nurse Ludmilla BUTKEVICH - (thru translator) comments.] [Project Hope official Ron SPRATT - describes distribution system.] [Hospital No. 9 burn program coordinator Lori BELL, Operation Carelift Jeffrey GLOSS - cite hospital conditions.]
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(Studio: Jane Pauley) Report introduced.
(Washington: Robin Lloyd) The murder rate in Washington, DC, examined; scenes shown of violence in the capital that is often drug related. [Victim's mother Nidya PUERTA, teen Sherica THOMPSON, Mayor Sharon Pratt KELLY - comment.] [Crime Control Institution chairman Jerry WILSON - cites useless murdering.]
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(Studio: Jane Pauley) Report introduced.
(Wharton, Texas: Larry Weidman) Flooding in Texas featured; scenes shown from Wharton, Texas. [Emergency management coordinator Larry HOLLINGSWORTH, Marvin LODD, resident Troy ALLEN - talk about the flood conditions.] Map shown of three major Texas rivers that are unable to drain the rain waters.
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(Studio: Jane Pauley) Report from the Federal Election Commission that eight presidential candidates will divide federal matching funds noted; President Bush's share mentioned.
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(Studio: Jane Pauley) Report introduced.
(Miami: James Polk) The business of bounty hunting for criminal suspects who jump bail featured; various scenes shown of bail bond companies' bounty hunters in action. [Bounty hunter A.R. DOUGLASS - talks about hunting people who run.] Quest for bail-jumping drug suspect Carlos Duque, who fled to Costa Rica, cited as an example. [Bail bondsman Jerry LAING - comments on case.] [Defense lawyer Daniel GOLDSTEIN, bail bondsman Barry UDOFF - offer differing opinions on the legalities of the system.]
(Studio: Jane Pauley) Tomorrow's Daily Difference segment previewed.
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(Studio: Jane Pauley) Report introduced.
(New York: Robert Bazell) General Accounting Office report criticizing the FAA's airline inspection program examined. [Representative James OBERSTAR - says we must remain vigilant.] Scenes shown from May 1988 of Aloha Airlines plane that disintegrated due to faulty inspection and from February 1989 of United 747 that lost a cargo door. Federal Aviation Administration response to report noted.
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(Studio: Jane Pauley) President Bush's nomination of Barbara Franklin to be the new Commerce Secretary reported.
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(Studio: Jane Pauley) Statements from President Bush about the economy, including the Federal Reserve Board's lowering of interest rates, reported.
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(Studio: Jane Pauley) Report introduced.
(New York: Mike Jensen) The future for blockbuster movies that cost too much to make a profit featured; scenes shown from high-budgeted films "Hook", "Terminator 2", and "Hudson Hawk". [KID - loves "Hook".] ["Variety" editor Peter BARTH - says the economics of Hollywood are crazy.] [Tri-Star chairman Mike MEDAVOY - says making movies is expensive.]
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