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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(Little Rock: Ed Rabel) The transition of Bill Clinton from candidate to president featured; scenes shown of Clinton on the golf course in Little Rock, Arkansas. [Transition team chairman Vernon JORDAN - says the economy will be addressed first.] [During the campaign, CLINTON - says the economy is an urgent priority.] Leaders in the choice for Secretary of Treasury said to be Roger Altman, Robert Rubin and Paul Volcker [1988 Bush transition team Craig FULLER - says the agenda has to stay focused.]
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) The background to the United States threat of tariffs on European products reviewed.
(Paris: Keith Miller) Talks in Europe to head off a full-scale trade war with the United States featured. [German economics minister Juergen MOELLEMANN - says a world crisis must be avoided.] [EC Commission president Jacques DELORS - comments.] The French subsides to oil seed farmers and its threat to worldwide trade negotiations noted. [Two FRENCHMEN - comment.] [Wine journalist Michel BATTANE - says it's the farmers.] The current United States strategy of pressuring the European Community into forcing France to make concessions cited.
(Studio: Garrick Utley) Interview held with Agriculture Secretary Edward Madigan about the trade issues. [MADIGAN - says President Bush has given him flexibility in the talks; points out that GATT has sided with the United States in the oil seed dispute with the Europeans.]
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Protest in the military port of Cherbourg, France, that saw Greenpeace activists trying to disrupt a shipment of plutonium to Japan reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Bosnian army officials reported holding up a convoy of Croatians; scenes shown.
#584443
(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(Red Square: Bob Abernethy) The celebration in Russia by old Communists on the 75th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution featured; scenes shown from across Moscow. [USA/Canada Institution Andrei KORTUNOV - warns of the danger of a backlash.] Pressure on Russian President Boris Yeltsin to change the pace of reform noted. [Former Soviet President Mikhail GORBACHEV - (thru translator) advises a coalition government.]
(Studio: Garrick Utley) Death of Czechoslovakia leader Alexander Dubcek, who was ousted after leading the 1968 "Prague Spring" reform movement, reported.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Activities in Washington, DC, for the 10th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial reported and previewed; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(Hanoi: Brad Willis) The search for human remains of American MIAs lost in Vietnam featured; scenes shown from plane crash sites. [Investigator former United States military officer Jim COYLE - comments.] Vietnam's hopes that a spirit of cooperation will help get the trade embargo lifted noted. [Former assistant Secretary of State Richard SOLOMON - says the POW/MIA (missing in action) issue must be resolved prior to normal relations.]
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(New York: Jeff Madrick) Discussion held with three businessmen about how President-elect Bill Clinton should approach the economy. [Bloomingdale's chairman Michael GOULD, Marine Midland Bank economist Lacy HUNT, Merrill Lynch investment strategist Charles CLOUGH - talk about what Clinton should do first with regard to the deficit, stimulating the economy, international trade relations, taxes, etc.]
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Beginning of patrols by the National Guard against snipers along Florida's Interstate 295 reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) This past week's election issues of term limits, gay rights in Oregon and Colorado and abortion in Maryland and Arizona; installation of a new management team by GM; economic figures on unemployment and worker productivity; recommendation by a presidential commission on women in combat that they be excluded from ground and air units and the retirement from basketball of Earvin "Magic" Johnson, who is HIV-positive, reviewed; representative scenes shown from each story.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(Atlanta: Noah Nelson) The problems the United Way is having in reaching its fund-raising goals due to a sluggish economy and a scandal examined. [Dallas United Way Ed McDUNN - comments.] Ousting in February of chairman William Aramony due to his lavish lifestyle recalled. [United Way of America Bob BEGGAN - plays down the Aramony issue.] [Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Bob BOTHWELL - criticizes United Way's approach.]
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) The question of how Bill Clinton will govern now that he has been elected president in an election that the people put in focus the nation's economic problems by voting for action and change examined. Clinton's quote about the "mystery of democracy" and Vice President Dan Quayle's post-election comment on Clinton mentioned.
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