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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Little Rock: Andrea Mitchell) President-elect Bill Clinton's economic package featured. [At a meeting with his transition team, CLINTON - says no changes in the plan have been made.] [Clinton domestic policy adviser Al FROM - talks about the budget problem.] [Clinton advisers Derek SHEARER, Robert REICH - comment on the economic situation.] Various projections of the deficit outlined. [Clinton communications director George STEPHANOPOULOS - comments.] The addition of Richard Riley to Clinton's staff noted. Cabinet selections said now to be made by just five people: Clinton, Vice President-elect Albert Gore, Warren Christopher, Vernon Jordan and Hillary Clinton.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Statement from Resolution Trust Corporation head Albert Casey that he can finish the job of bailing out the failed savings and loans three years ahead of schedule reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Hanoi: Brad Willis) Visit of three United States Senators to Vietnam to make diplomatic peace by resolving the MIA (missing in action) issues featured; scenes shown from the Hanoi, Vietnam, war museum full of artifacts from American soldiers. [Senator John KERRY - comments on the artifacts and the reports of "live sightings" at the citadel.] Vietnamese colonel's account of the death of some Americans quoted. Vietnam said wanting the United States embargo lifted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Studio: Michele Gillen) Investigation of charges that pickup trucks with side-saddle gas tanks were sold while General Motors Corporation knew they were dangerous examined; scenes shown; case of one truck that exploded and killed teen Shannon Moseley when struck at 20 miles per hour cited. [Truck victim's mother Elaine MOSELEY - says he was killed in the truck they bought.] [Center for Auto Safety Clarence DITLOW - calls the pickups rolling firebombs.] [GM engineer Robert SINKE - defends company.] [Father Tom MOSELEY - comments.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Full report on "Dateline NBC" noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Homestead, Florida: Noah Nelson) Conditions in south Florida 12 weeks after Hurricane Andrew featured; aerial scenes shown of the wreckage. [Two WOMEN, resident Joanne FINNEY - lament their situations.] Florida said planning to cover the losses of five failed insurance companies. [Florida insurance commissioner Tom GALLAGHER - explains what the state is doing.] [Uninsured resident James HUSH - comments.] Wreckage along the landscape of Homestead, Florida, shown.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(New London, Connecticut: Ed Rabel) The growing practice of well-to-do parents lying about their incomes to get financial aid for their college-bound children featured; scenes shown from Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. [Connecticut College president Claire GAUDIANA - says some wealthy families are taking advantage of scholarship funds.] [Carpenter/parent Sal PASSAGIATA, financial aid director Elaine SOLINGA, financial adviser Mark GERMAINE - comment on the practices of hiding financial assets.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Tomorrow's segment previewed.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Federal court ruling that former President Richard Nixon is entitled to compensation for tapes and documents confiscated during the Watergate scandal reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Baseball's expansion draft; opening of the trial of Sue Gifford, charged with kidnapping her father, an Alzheimer's patient, and abandoning him, and temporary shelter in Austria for refugees from Bosnia reported; scenes shown from Denver, Hillsboro, OR, and Wurzenpass, Austria.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Vukovar: Tom Aspell) The impact of the war on the city of Vukovar, Croatia, one year after the bombing by Serbians featured; scenes shown from this "Beirut of the Balkans." [Serbian militia leader Jelco RAZNATOVIC - calls it a stupid and dirty war.] Plight of one Vukovar couple cited as an example.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Atlanta: Bob Dotson) Mystery behind an auction to sell an Atlanta mansion owned by real estate developer Jacque Fowler featured; scenes shown from the estate called Lionheart that has become a costly white elephant. [Bidder Great American Cookie Company's Arthur KARP, J.P. King Auctioneers Jim STRIPLIN, Red Baron Antiques Bob BROWN - talk about the auction.] The disappearance of the high bidder outlined.
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