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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Capitol: Andrea Mitchell) Former CIA official Alan Fiers' testimony at CIA director nominee Robert Gates' Senate confirmation hearing featured; scenes shown. [Senator David BOREN - questions Fiers.] [FIERS - says Gates understood framework but not details of Iran/Contra; comments on involvement of former CIA officials William Casey, Clair George, and Oliver North in Iran/Contra.] George's recent perjury charges mentioned. Document challenging Gates' story quoted on screen. [Former CIA official Thomas POLGAR - says Gates was part of the coverup and concealment.] Discussion held about Gates' chances for confirmation.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Bob Kur) Need for the CIA examined; scenes shown from movie "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold". [Senator David BOREN - comments on CIA.] CIA's budget and high percentage of it spent on spying on USSR mentioned. [Former CIA director William WEBSTER - says the diminution of the ground threat by the USSR is cause for less input from the intelligence community.] [Senator John GLENN - suggests other areas for spying.] Proposal to eliminate the CIA and assign all military intelligence to the Pentagon and the rest to the State Department mentioned. [Former CIA official Ray CLINE, Senator Sam NUNN - comment.] Fragmentation of United States intelligence community noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Lisa Myers) Manassas, Virginia, bogus abortion clinic, which tries to talk women out of abortions, featured. [Disguised WOMAN - says clinic misrepresents itself; adds that they told her she would be a baby murderer if she got an abortion.] Congressional investigators' estimate of number of bogus abortion clinics run by anti-abortion activists given; details given and scenes shown of NBC producer Terri Schafer's hidden camera visit to Manassas clinic; excerpt shown of film played there. [Disguised WOMAN - comments on film she saw at Manassas clinic.] [Representative Ron WYDEN - says this is deception.] [Operation Rescue Randall TERRY - comments.] State of New York's move against bogus clinics outlined on screen. [New York attorney general Robert ABRAMS - says clinics may not deceive individuals in violation of state laws.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(New York: Robert Bazell) Chronic fatigue syndrome featured; symptoms detailed; scenes shown of syndrome sufferers. [Chronic fatigue syndrome sufferer Melinda PARIS - describes her symptoms.] First notice of the syndrome said to be in 1984 at Lake Tahoe, NV. Syndrome nickname "yuppie flu" said to exist because most sufferers are in their thirties. [University of California San Francisco Dr. Jay LEVY - reports that syndrome sufferers have an imbalance in their immune systems.] [Director of national self-help organization Mark IVERSON - says he battled with the medical establishment for years.] Many doctors' doubt that the syndrome really is an illness mentioned.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Head of the CDC's suggestion that hospitals routinely offer and encourage voluntary AIDS tests for patients reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Houston: Jim Cummins) Houston judge Ted Poe's community service sentencing of criminals on probation featured; scenes shown of service projects and courtroom sentencing. [Probationer Lewis HOFFMAN - says it's better than doing jail time.] [Criminal Lawyers Association Mary CONN - says some things Poe has done smack of unconstitutional punishment.] [POE - pronounces sentences; says his system works.] [Patricia DONALD - confronts man who stole from her.] Poe's probationers shown working on restoration of battleship Texas war memorial. [Former probationer Albert O'NEILL - comments.] Sentencing of Edward Young, who was convicted of stealing a pair of six-shooters from Clayton Moore, the Lone Ranger, recalled; excerpt shown from "The Lone Ranger" television show.
5:47:00 (Studio: Tom Brokaw) Tomorrow's "Daily Difference" previewed.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Lebanese kidnappers' release of photograph of American hostage Joseph Cicippio and statement that no more Western hostages will be freed until Israel releases more Lebanese prisoners reported; photograph shown.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Soviet estimates of foreign aid needed to get through the winter; President Mikhail Gorbachev's meeting with Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady and Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan; Brady's tour of new Moscow commodities exchange reported; scenes shown. [BRADY - expresses enthusiasm for project to train Soviet businessmen in the US.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Irving R. Levine) United States car makers' need to do well in 1992 examined; Ford shown rolling out 1991 Mercury Sable. Effects of recession and Japanese competition on '91 sales noted. Japanese and United States car sales compared. [Merrill Lynch Harvey HEINBACH - says 1992 is a critical year for United States manufacturers.] [Northwestern Chrysler/Plymouth sales James SZAREK - comments on importance of 1992.] United States car makers' strategy of offering more new models to attract customers mentioned; excerpt shown from car commercial. 1980, 1991 and 1992 car costs compared on screen. [Chairman Ford Motor Company Harold POLING - says he thinks the recovery will be weak and moderate but it's in the positive direction.] Link between auto sales and auto-related jobs analyzed.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) UN's permission for Iraq to sell oil for food, medicine and war reparations reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) General H. Norman Schwarzkopf's comments on a possible Iraq-US confrontation reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Buena Vista, Colorado: Roger O'Neil) Competition between fishermen and white water rafters over the Arkansas River in Colorado featured; scenes shown. [Colorado River Outfitters Reed DILS - comments on feud.] Trout Unlimited's federal court suit calling for the government to stop releasing water from reservoirs feeding the Arkansas River mentioned. [Trout Unlimited Bruce HOAGLAND - says fish need lower stream levels.] [Rafting guide Joe GREINER - says they aren't disturbing the fish.] [Colorado department of natural resources Ken SALAZAR - comments.]
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