This program is 28 minutes long
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(Miami: Noah Nelson) Efforts of parents of baby Theresa Pearson, who was born without a brain, to have her declared legally dead so her organs could be transplanted to other children featured; scenes shown from Florida. [Mother Laura CAMPO - comments.] Court ruling by Judge Estella Moriarty outlined. [Broward General Medical Center Dr. Omar COSTA - hopes laws can be changed.]
(Studio: Garrick Utley) Interview held with Georgetown University medical ethicist Jacqueline Glover. [GLOVER - talks about term "brain dead" and this tragic case.]
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) University of Michigan consumer confidence index and personal income and personal spending figures for the month cited.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Statement from Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady on economic recovery and rising interest rates noted.
(Washington: Irving R. Levine) Difficulty of borrowing money from foreign sources and its impact on interest rates examined; scenes shown of national debt clock ticking off figures. [Assistant sales manager Lee HUFF - worries about rise in interest rates.] Reasons for cutbacks in loans from Japan, Germany and Persian Gulf states noted. [German banker Ulrich SCHROEDER - says United States and Germany now compete for lenders.] [Institution for International Economics C. Fred BERGSTEN - says Persian Gulf has become a borrower.] [Senator Warren RUDMAN - says rise in interest rates could halt recovery.]
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(Studio: Mike Jensen) Democratic presidential candidate Jerry Brown's flat tax and value-added tax plans examined; scenes shown of Brown campaigning. [BROWN - lists tenets of his 13 flat tax.] [Sociology professor Jim HANNAN - comments.] View that flat tax would hurt the lower and middle classes outlined on screen. [BROWN - wants to balance individual and corporate taxes.] The value-added tax and the flat tax discussed.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(Washington: Andrea Mitchell) The issue of character scrutiny that is being raised by Jerry Brown's attacks on Governor Bill Clinton examined; scenes shown from the campaign trail; details given of today's "New York Times" story about Clinton's approach to an Arkansas state ethics law. [CLINTON - comments.] [BROWN - says Clinton has a scandal a week.] [Last night, CLINTON - lashes out at AIDS activist heckler.] [On "Today", former candidate Paul TSONGAS - says it gets to you.] National reporters' search for dirt on Clinton in Arkansas noted.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(Berlin: Mike Boettcher) The continuing mental divide between the two Germanys featured; scenes shown from along the site of the now- dismantled Berlin Wall. [Youngster "MATHIAS" - (thru translator) expresses fear about crime.] [Young Berliner Anka BINKHARDT - (thru translator) says now she does what she wants.] [At antiquated East German turbine plant, WORKER - (thru translator) express insecurity.] [Retraining worker "MARGUERITA"- (thru translator) expects to be qualified, but unemployed.] Mutual resentment between eastern and western Germany explained. [Toyota dealership manager Michael HESS - comments.]
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Failure of attorney Alan Dershowitz to win bail for boxer Mike Tyson pending appeal of his rape conviction; visit by Austrian President Kurt Waldheim with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; damage to an Aeroflot plane from anti-aircraft fire over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan, reported; scenes shown from Indianapolis, IN, Munich, Germany and Yerevan, Armenia.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(Mexico City: Diana Koricke) The effects of air pollution on Mexico City, Mexico, featured; scenes shown of hospital patients hurt by the smog. [Health ministry spokesman Eduardo ARVIZU - (thru translator) comments.] Announcement by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari of emergency measures noted. [WOMAN (thru translator); assistant principal Maureen MARTIN - talk about ways to cope with the smog.]
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) American deal with Russia to buy space technology reported.
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(Studio: Garrick Utley) Report introduced.
(Seattle: Keith Morrison) Specialty coffee and the terms for the varieties of coffee featured; scenes shown from Santa Monica, California, and Seattle. [Many PEOPLE - talk coffee.]
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