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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Report introduced.
(Jerusalem: John Dancy) Positive signs from Israel about a peace conference with the Arab nations featured; details given of Secretary of State James Baker's briefing to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir about Syrian President Hafez al-Assad's letter; scenes shown of the two men together. [SHAMIR - talks about direct bilateral talks and about Syria's apparent change of position.] [BAKER - says direct negotiations are the only way to secure peace.] The problem of who will represent the Palestinians at the talks mentioned. Question of what changed Shamir's mind about the peace conference discussed.
(Studio: Faith Daniels) Report introduced.
(Tel Aviv: Martin Fletcher) The position of hard-liners in the Israeli government examined; scenes shown of housing development in the West Bank. [Housing minister Ariel SHARON, Rabbis Ben GREENBERGER, Amnon SUGARMAN - talk about Jews living in the occupied lands.]
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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Report introduced.
(Sulaymaniyah: Tom Aspell) Ending of two days of fighting between Kurdish rebels and the Iraqi army featured; scenes shown from the provincial capital of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, that is controlled by the Pesh Merga guerrillas. [Provincial governor Major General Mohamed NAQUISHBANDI - comments.]
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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Report introduced.
(Washington: Lisa Myers) Federal government's plan to question teenagers about their sex lives in an effort to fight teen pregnancy and disease featured; proposed questions outlined. [Family Research Council Gary BAUER - opposes survey.] [Representative Henry WAXMAN - backs study and criticizes right-wingers.] [Concerned Women for America Beverly LaHAYE - opposes survey.] Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan said suspending the survey to keep peace with conservatives.
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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Report introduced.
(Atlanta: Kenley Jones) Merger of two Southern banks, NCNB and C&S/Sovran, into NationsBank featured. [NationsBank CEO Hugh McCOLL - comments.] Last week's merger of Manufacturers Hanover and ChemicalBank recalled. [Industry analyst John MASON - says the result will be cheaper, but slower, service.] Impact of consolidation and automation on the banking industry outlined.
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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Bidding from Delta, American and Trans World Airlines, Inc. (TWA) for parts, or all of, Pan American World Airways reported.
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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Report introduced.
(New York: Mike Jensen) Problem of telephone vandalism in New York City examined; scenes shown of surveillance of a telephone being robbed. [New York Telephone John CHICHESTER - cites cases of vandalism each year.] [Three NEW YORKERS - complain.] New York Telephone's experimental "change card" explained; scenes shown from Great Britain, where these cards and compatible phones are already in use. [BRITON - comments.]
(Studio: Faith Daniels) The experiment said being watched by other phone companies around the country.
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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Kuwait's awarding of honors to United States Persian Gulf war commander General H. Norman Schwarzkopf; visit by Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Colin Powell to USSR , and more ethnic strife in Yugoslavian republics of Croatia and Serbia reported; scenes shown from Kuwait City, Kuwait, Moscow and Yugoslavia.
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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Report introduced.
(Along the Sacramento River: Rick Davis) July 14 train derailment that spilled weed killer into northern California's Sacramento River featured; scenes shown from river, nearby town of Dunsmuir, California, and Lake Shasta, California. [Fisherman Roy HAILE - says life in the river has been killed.] [Department of fish and game's Pete BONTADELLI - says the damage will be assessed.] [Dunsmuir Mayor Virginia BARHAM - says tourists are lost.]
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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Prosecutors in the Palm Beach, Florida, rape case reported stating that William Kennedy Smith raped a woman in Washington, DC, two years ago.
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(Studio: Faith Daniels) Report introduced.
(New York: Robert Bazell) The heat wave examined; scenes shown from Chicago. [Lake Michigan SWIMMER - talks about the heat.] Meteorological explanation for the heat wave outlined; weather map shown. [Penn State University Dr. Fred GADOMSKI - comments.] The issue of the greenhouse effect and global warming raised. [Environmental Defense Fund Dr. Michael OPPENHEIMER - links greenhouse effect and heat.]