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(Studio: Katherine Couric) Report introduced.
(Honolulu: John Cochran) President Bush's trip to Asia featured; scenes shown of Bush and Barbara Bush at airfield. [BUSH - links exports with new jobs; criticizes isolationism and protectionism.] Bush's political rivals, the Democrats and Republican presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan, noted critical of his trip; Bush's plans to take American executives to Japan to help plead the case for balanced trade noted.
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(Studio: Katherine Couric) Report introduced.
(Washington: Irving R. Levine) Soaring medical costs and higher insurance premiums featured; hospital scenes shown. [Uninsured Charles COLEMAN - comments.] Percent increases in medical costs and cost of living in 1991, number of Americans without health insurance, reasons for increased medical costs noted. [Health policy center The Urban Institution Marilyn MOON - comments.] [Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bob KERREY - talks about his proposal to finance health care.]
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(Studio: Katherine Couric) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Dennis Murphy) Summit of leaders of the new Soviet commonwealth in Minsk, Byelorussia, featured; scenes shown. [Russian President Boris YELTSIN - responds to question about whether his commonwealth is threatened.] Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk reported disagreeing with Yeltsin over ownership of the Black Sea fleet; commonwealth leaders said unable to agree on conventional forces. [USA-Canada Institution Andrei KORTUNOV - comments on potential for civil war.] Scenes shown of fighting in Tbilisi, Georgia, of people waiting in line in Moscow and of pro-Lenin demonstrators. Beginning of market economy on Thursday noted. [WOMAN, former Soviet foreign minister Eduard SHEVARDNADZE - (thru translator) comment.]
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(Studio: Katherine Couric) Report introduced.
(Washington: John Dancy) Today's funerals for murdered hostages William Buckley and Marine Colonel William Higgins featured; scenes shown; excerpts shown of videotape of Higgins' hanging body and of Buckley in captivity. [Secretary of Defense Dick CHENEY, CIA director Robert GATES - speak at funeral.] United States reported searching for the men who killed Buckley and Higgins.
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(Studio: Katherine Couric) Deadly car bomb explosion in Beirut; death of Croatian cameraman Zibko Christasavich; awarding of MBE to injured British cameraman Mohammed Amin reported; scenes shown from Beirut and Karlovac, Yugoslavia.
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(Studio: Katherine Couric) Car bomb explosion in Baghdad reported; details given.
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(Studio: Katherine Couric) Report introduced.
(New York: Stan Bernard) Incident at Saturday night's celebrity basketball game in New York City wherein people were crushed to death as they attempted to squeeze through a door featured; excerpt of amateur footage, diagram of the incident shown. [Chief medical examiner Dr. Charles HIRSCH - explains how victims died.] Explanations of how the incident occurred noted. [City University of New York Dr. Bernard HARLESTON, WOMAN - comment.]
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(Studio: Katherine Couric) Continued flooding in southeast Texas reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Katherine Couric) Owner of North Carolina chicken processing plant where a fatal fire occurred this September reported fined by the state for safety violations.
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(Studio: Katherine Couric) Events of 1991 recalled; scenes shown of Persian Gulf war soldiers; United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, the Persian Gulf war, United States commander General H. Norman Schwarzkopf; Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Colin Powell; Iraqi prisoner surrenders; Kurdish refugees; people talking about money; signs of the recession; BCCI investigation; Oakland, California, fire; mass murder in Killeen, Texas; mass murderer Jeffrey Dahmer; basketball player Earvin "Magic" Johnson's disclosure that he has the HIV virus; actress Elizabeth Taylor's speech about AIDS patients; AIDS patient Kimberly Bergalis' Congressional testimony; entertainer Pee-Wee Herman; William Kennedy Smith's rape trial; Clarence Thomas' Senate confirmation hearings; Soviet troops' attack on Lithuania; Boris Yeltsin's election as Russia's first president; President Mikhail Gorbachev; Soviet coup; former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; film "Terminator 2"; fighting in Yugoslavia; Secretary of State James Baker; Democratic presidential debate; Republican presidential candidate David Duke; President Bush; former White House Chief of Staff John Sununu; Los Angeles police beating of black motorist Rodney King; pregnant actress Demi Moore on the cover of "Vanity Fair"; rock stars "Madonna" and Michael Jackson; Elizabeth Taylor's wedding; Atlanta Braves "tomahawk chop;" Middle East peace conference in Madrid, Spain; released Lebanon hostages. Photos shown of actor Brad Davis, actress Colleen Dewhurst, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie, singer Dottie West, entertainer Danny Thomas, choreographer Martha Graham, actor Michael Landon, musician Miles Davis, entrepreneur Robert Maxwell, president of India Rajiv Gandhi, journalist Douglas Kiker, comedian Redd Foxx, director Frank Capra, director Sir David Lean, author Graham Greene, actor Fred MacMurray, Broadway producer Joseph Papp, musician Stan Getz, actress Gene Tierney, journalist Harry Reasoner, all of whom died in 1991. Number of Americans and Iraqis killed in the Persian Gulf war cited.
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