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(London: Tom Brokaw) Issues before the London economic summit outlined. Report introduced.
(Baghdad: Tom Aspell) The Western response to Iraqi nuclear capabilities featured; details given of statement by Iraqi Prime Minister Sadun Hammadi that the threat of military action against Iraq is real; scenes shown from Sunday of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein embracing PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) leader Yasir Arafat, from Baghdad, where there are shortages of food and medicine and of the arrival of the United Nations inspection team there. [UN relief team's Elliot RICHARDSON - says the children cannot be fed.]
(London: Tom Brokaw) Announcement that Secretary of State James Baker will return to the Middle East after Syria reacted favorably to latest peace proposals reported.
(London: John Cochran) Hard-line positions of President Bush, summit host British Prime Minister John Major and other leaders with regard to Iraq featured; photograph opportunity for summit leaders shown. [National Security Adviser Brent SCOWCROFT - says Iraq must comply with UN resolutions about nuclear-related material.] [Treasury Secretary Nicholas BRADY - says economic pressure must be kept on Hussein.] Division among leaders on how to deal with President Mikhail Gorbachev noted; positions detailed of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Italy's Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti and French President Francois Mitterrand, who are lined up against Major, Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu and Bush, who favor a slower approach.
(London: Tom Brokaw) The hard sell here for Gorbachev's economic program outlined; scenes shown of Yevgeny Primakov briefing Western leaders; tenets of Gorbachev's plans outlined on screen.
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(London: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Bob Abernethy) The young capitalists of Moscow's new privately owned commodities exchange featured; scenes shown. [Exchange founder Gehrmann STERLIKOV - states his income; opposes Western aid.] The Communist Party's own capitalist ventures reviewed. [Soviet commentator Artyom BOROVIK - comments.]
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(Studio: Jane Pauley) Report introduced.
(New York: Robert Bazell) Federal voluntary guidelines for health care workers performing "exposure-prone procedures" and AIDS testing examined; scenes shown of Kimberly Bergalis, who is dying from AIDS contracted from her Florida dentist. [CDC (Centers for Disease Control) director Dr. William ROPER - says the risks are low.] [Senators Jesse HELMS, Edward KENNEDY - debate Helms's bill to jail practicing health care workers who knowingly have the HIV-virus.]
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(Studio: Jane Pauley) Report introduced.
(New York: Stephen Frazier) Merger of ChemicalBank and Manufacturers Hanover banks examined; details given of banking problems that resulted from loss of blue-chip customers since the 1970s. [ChemicalBank chairman Walter SHIPLEY, banking watchdog Michael WALDMAN, Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Thomas BROWN - comment.]
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(Studio: Jane Pauley) Report introduced.
(Washington: Irving R. Levine) America's split-shift families and the development of an around-the-clock economy to meet their needs featured; scenes shown of a Fairfax, Virginia, family. [Policeman and nurse Charles and Ellen FITZGERALD - talk about their life.] Various businesses that are now open around the clock described; scenes shown. [Two NIGHT OWLS, University of Maryland Harriet PRESSER - comment on this way of life.]
(Studio: Jane Pauley) Tomorrow's Daily Difference segment previewed.
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(London: Tom Brokaw) Interview given with Vice Mayor of Moscow Sergei Stankevich about President Mikhail Gorbachev's moves toward a free market economy. [STANKEVICH - talks about Gorbachev and what he should do at the G-7 summit; says he understands West's reluctance to invest in USSR as it moves from socialism under the Communist Party to capitalism; adds that there is a danger of violence similar to, or worse than, that in Yugoslavia.]
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(London: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(London: Dennis Murphy) Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, gone but not forgotten, profiled; several scenes shown of her. ["Sunday Observer" Simon HOGGART - says Britain got used to having a world celebrity different from the guys in the grey suits.] [THATCHER - states what she stands for.] The recession in a London commuter town detailed; scenes shown from this heart of Thatcher country. [Shopkeeper Joe FURY, pawnbroker Malcolm WILSON, laid-off personnel manager Jim ANDERSON, Tony PALMER - cite economic problems.] British Prime Minister John Major's problem in dealing with things until Thatcher steps aside for good noted.
(London: Tom Brokaw) The Western leaders' dining plans tonight noted.
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