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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Unemployment figures for the month cited. Report introduced.
(New York: Mike Jensen) Implications of unemployment figures featured; details given of new jobs in service industries, businesses and manufacturing; fewer jobs in wholesale trade and construction; scenes shown. ["Shoe Healers" owner Valerie SHAW - comments on growth of her business.] [New York wholesaler Solomon TURIEL - comments.] Map shown of unemployment figures in different states. Higher number of hours worked and amount of overtime noted; sluggish retail sales for the month reported. High numbers of people who have given up job hunting and of people who are working part-time but would prefer full-time mentioned. [MAN - comments.] Credit card rates and interest rates on one year CDs for the year outlined on screen. High rate of delinquency on mortgages mentioned.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Kenosha, WI: Mike Boettcher) Kenosha's, WI, move from big to small industry after 1988 Chrysler plant closing featured; scenes shown. [In local restaurant, four WOMEN - comment.] [President of UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) local Rudy COUZELL - says creation of lower wage jobs cuts down on unemployment but doesn't provide decent wage potential.] [Kenosha Jockey underwear factory and dog track EMPLOYEES - comment favorably.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(State Department: John Dancy) Response to Israel's request for US financial aid featured. Israeli ambassador Zalman Shoval's delivery of Israeli request for loan guarantees to the United States State Department reported. [President BUSH - asks that there be no acrimonious debate over this issue.] Israel's need for money due to the influx of Soviet Jews detailed; scenes shown. Bush's delay in agreeing to aid and his denial of linkage between aid to Israel and upcoming Middle East peace conference reported. [Representative Charles SCHUMER, Israeli cabinet minister Ehud OLMERT - say these issues are linked.] [Secretary of State James BAKER - denies linkage.] [State Department spokeswoman Margaret TUTWILER - comments.] Baker's lobbying of Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Claiborne Pell to support delay in Israeli aid noted; implications of United States aid for the Middle East peace conference mentioned.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Zagreb, Yugoslavia: Charles McLean) Escalation of Croatian-Serbian fighting in Yugoslavia featured; scenes shown. Yesterday's discovery of apparent massacre by Serbian guerrillas of Eastern Croatian villagers; today's burial of other victims in Osijek, Croatia, Yugoslavia, reported; scenes shown. [Croatian President Franjo TUDJMAN - says he didn't expect so much trouble.] Serbia's present control of nearly a quarter of Croatia and upcoming European Economic Community peace conference mentioned.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Developments in the USSR updated. Moscow's formal recognition of the Baltics and official change in name from Leningrad, USSR , to Saint Petersburg, USSR , reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(New York: Bob Herbert) New York City Victim Services, agency which helps children who have lost a relative to murder, featured; scenes shown of Children of Homicide Victims Chorale. [Thirteen-year-old whose sister was murdered, Melanie ROSARIO - explains her feelings; adds that the chorale helps her sing out her sadness.] [Six-year-old Salathiel BROWN - talks about his murdered father.] Impact of murder on the survivors mentioned. [Chorale member Anna Mae West's mother Audrey WEST - comments.] Song "We Will Laugh Again" written especially for the chorale mentioned.
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Number of Americans who have lost a family member to homicide estimated.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Guilty plea and record fines of Unisys Corporation on bribery, fraud and other charges in connection with the Pentagon defense contract scandal reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Federal grand jury indictment of former CIA director Clair George on charges that he lied to Congress about the role of the CIA in the Iran-Contra affair; North Carolina officials' call for a criminal investigation of the Imperial Food Products fire; film director Frank Capra's funeral reported; scenes shown from Bethesda, Maryland, Hamlet, North Carolina, and La Quinta, California.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Diana Koricke) Financial difficulties in the motion picture industry featured; excerpts shown from "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", "Hudson Hawk", "Batman", "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" and "Hook". [MOVIEGOER - comments.] Fear of overspending on films that won't succeed at the box-office and firing of executives mentioned. [Hollywood headhunter Brad MARX, Morgan Creek Productions James ROBINSON, "Daily Variety" columnist Art MURPHY - comment.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Tonight's "Expose" episode previewed. "Expose"'s prompting of South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell to launch a criminal investigation into hiring practices for migrant workers in his state reported. Canned hunts which involve the illegal killing of endangered species on American ranches featured; scenes shown of Bengal tiger and declawed black leopard hunts. [US Fish and Wildlife Service Jim STINEBAUGH - says he doesn't see why anyone would think canned hunts should be allowed.] [Orthopedic surgeon and canned hunter Dr. Sonny MILSTEAD - says he understood the practice to be legal.] [US Fish and Wildlife Service William TALKIN - talks about black market hide prices.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Boston: Fred Briggs) October 1st granting of 10,000 United States visas to immigrants who invest at least a million dollars in starting a business that employs at least ten people featured; historical and current scenes of immigrants shown. [Immigration attorneys Charles PAPPAS, Lawrence BASTONE, and Senator Dale BUMPERS - comment.] Similar Canadian policy and immigrant investments in Vancouver discussed. Provision that one third of them invest in depressed areas of the United States mentioned. [INS commissioner Gene McNARY - says some states view plan as an economic development tool.]
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