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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Robert Hager) United States Labor Department report critical of North Carolina's workplace inspection program featured; details given. Scenes shown outside North Carolina Imperial Food Products plant, site of fatal fire earlier this week. Agencies which failed to inspect the plant listed on screen; previous fires at Imperial Foods mentioned. Diagram shown of exits which witnesses say could not be used during the fire. [WOMAN - says she heard people beating on padlocked door to get out.] [State Industrial Commission James BOOKER - says determination hasn't been made as to whether locked doors prevented escape.] Map shown of states currently permitted by OSHA to substitute their own state inspections for federal inspections; North Carolina's number of inspectors said to be below federal standards.
#582960
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(New York: Robert Bazell) Test developed at New York's Mt. Sinai Medical Center, which may predict premature births, featured. Premature birth statistics cited. [Mother of premature infant Debra COLON - says there were no signs of warning.] [Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Charles LOCKWOOD - describes test.] Scenes shown of premature infants and diagnostic tests; diagram shown of how premature births may occur.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: John Cochran) President Bush's reaction to a television ad supporting Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination featured; excerpts shown from the ad attacking liberal Democratic Senators Edward Kennedy, Joseph Biden and Alan Cranston. Scenes shown of Bush playing golf last week in Kennebunkport, ME. [BUSH - says it's not a good ad.] Willie Horton ad from '88 presidential campaign recalled; excerpts shown. [Senator John DANFORTH - says the Thomas ad is disgusting.] [Conservative strategist L. Brent BOZELL - says someone has to take on Thomas' enemies.] Bozell said to have received no word from the White House to discontinue the ad.
#582964
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Lisa Myers) State of President Bush's war on drugs on the eve of its second anniversary featured; scenes shown of open air drug markets and arrests in Chicago. [Chicago police department commander Charles RAMSEY, New York City prosecutor Sterling JOHNSON - comment.] Federal drug agents' belief that drug interdiction was reduced during the Persian Gulf war mentioned; scenes of Air Force planes shown. [Assistant secretary of defense Stephen DUNCAN - says reductions were marginal.] [DEA administrator Robert BONNER - says decline in usage of drugs is producing glut on the streets.] Worsening of drug problem in small cities such as Purcellville, Virginia, cited.
#582965
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Miami: Ed Rabel) Accused drug trafficker Manuel Noriega's upcoming trial featured; scenes shown of Noriega last month. Accused drug pilot Daniel Miranda's plea bargain reported. Miranda shown. [Miranda's attorney Michael O'KANE - says Miranda is better off with plea bargain than if he had been acquitted.] United States government reported paying generously to those who will testify against Noriega. [Defense attorney David LEWIS - says trial will reveal information that goes as high as the White House.] Rumors of Noriega's CIA involvement detailed. [State Department Michael KOZAK - comments.] (Artist: Betty Wells)
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Baltimore: Bob Kur) Lead poisoning featured; scenes shown of affected children and lead abatement efforts in Baltimore, Maryland. [US Public Health Service Dr. James MASON - says lead poisoning is the number one environmental threat to children.] [Mother Jacquelin WHITLOCK - comments.] Lead-contaminated homes in Baltimore shown. [Acting health commissioner Elias DORSEY - comments.] High cost of lead abatement mentioned. [Baltimore Property Owners Association Stewart LEVITAS - says strict restrictions will affect supply of affordable housing.] [Tenant Roxie BURRIS - comments.] Treatment of lead poisoning mentioned.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Secretary of State James Baker's announcement of visit to USSR next week; Soviet Congress of People's Deputies' move toward adopting President Mikhail Gorbachev and republics leaders' plan to decentralize authority in the USSR ; Wanda Holloway's murder for hire conviction and sentence reported; scenes shown from Washington, DC, Moscow, and Houston, Texas.
#582972
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Dallas: Jim Cummins) Dallas high school student protests over teacher layoffs featured; scenes shown. Texas Robin Hood law, which takes funds from wealthy school districts and distributes them to poorer districts, examined. [Fort Worth superintendent Don ROBERTS - comments.] Gains and losses of Fort Worth, Texas, and Dallas under the law detailed; scenes shown from classrooms. [Two STUDENTS - complain.] [Mother of protesters Darlene KEMP - says student protesters need adult guidance.] [Parent Gwen THOMPSEN - explains why she removed her son from school.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Country singer Dottie West's death today from a car accident in Nashville, Tennessee, reported; her life remembered through excerpts from her performances.
#582975
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Vilnius, Lithuania: Dennis Murphy) Vacant Lithuanian KGB headquarters in Vilnius, Lithuania, featured; scenes shown of building exterior and underground prison cells. [Member of Lithuanian Parliament charged with rounding up Soviet documents left behind and former KGB prisoner Belis DIELSKIS - says he had been tortured in KGB headquarters.] Some Lithuanians' desire to turn KGB headquarters into a museum of genocide mentioned.
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