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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: John Cochran) President Bush's announcement of staff appointments featured; scenes shown. Appointment of Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher, pollster Robert Teeter and former Nixon White House employee Frederic Malek to top reelection campaign jobs; naming of Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner as replacement for John Sununu as White House Chief of Staff reported. [BUSH - talks about economy.] Bush reported ordering the acceleration of government spending on farm loans, waste treatment plants and airport construction. [Conservative activist Richard VIGUERIE - comments on Bush's problem with conservative voters.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Capitol Hill: Andrea Mitchell) Bickering between Congress and Bush's staff over what to do about the economy featured; scenes shown. [Representatives Dan ROSTENKOWSKI, J.J. PICKLE, Thomas DOWNEY, Robert MATSUI; Treasury Secretary Nicholas BRADY; on November 26, 1991, BUSH; OMB director Richard DARMAN - comment on proposed Republican tax cut package.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(West Palm Beach, Florida: Deborah Roberts) Cross-examination of the alleged victim Patricia Bowman in William Kennedy Smith's rape trial featured; scenes shown; details given. [BOWMAN - testifies.] [Defense attorney Roy BLACK - questions Bowman.] Word that Senator Edward Kennedy will be called as a witness noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Tom Brokaw) Debate over immigration in California sparked by the state's budget deficit featured. [Governor Pete WILSON - talks about diversity and immigration in California.] [County supervisor Gloria MOLINA - comments on contributions of immigrants, need for government to deal with them.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(No location given: John Chancellor) American resolve to fight back and win after the Pearl Harbor attack featured; much historical footage shown. [President Franklin D. ROOSEVELT - makes speeches about Pearl Harbor attack, the war.] United States said to have been fighting an undeclared war with German submarines in the Atlantic and shipping war supplies to Britain prior to the Pearl Harbor attack. [Former Michigan factory worker Art HUGHES - comments on excitement about the war effort.] Amount of war supplies produced in America listed; creation of wartime culture noted; movie stars Jimmy Stewart and Clark Gable, heavyweight champ Joe Louis recalled joining the military. Excerpt shown from US propaganda films; Japanese-Americans recalled held in internment camps for three years. [Columnist James RESTON - comments on lack of objection to internment camps.] Effectiveness of Roosevelt as wartime president noted. [Historian Arthur SCHLESINGER - talks about Roosevelt.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Tomorrow's Pearl Harbor segment previewed.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Wiesbaden, Germany: Margaret Larson) Freed hostage Terry Anderson's day in Wiesbaden, Germany, featured; scenes shown of Anderson with his daughter "Sulome", whom he'd never met, her mother Madeline Bassil, his sister Peggy Say, and former hostages Joseph Cicippio and Alann Steen. Steen's reunion with his family shown. [Wife Virginia STEEN - talks about conversation with her husband.] [STEEN - comments on his captors.] Cicippio reported leaving for home.
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Wiesbaden: Kenley Jones) Say's efforts to keep people informed about the plight of the hostages featured; scenes shown of her at March 1991 ceremony remembering hostages. [SAY - talks about her efforts.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Hollywood: Keith Morrison) Worries in Hollywood, California, about this season's box office sales featured; scenes shown of "Star Trek" stars outside the Chinese theater on Hollywood Boulevard. [MAN - comments on cost of going to movies.] Excerpts shown from films "Hudson Hawk", "Bonfire of the Vanities", "The Addams Family", "Hook" and "Bugsy". [Paramount Pictures Barry LONDON - comments on success of "The Addams Family".] [Tri-Star Pictures, chairman Mike MEDAVOY - says it's nerve- racking.]
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