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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Camden, New Jersey: Andrea Mitchell) Return to the campaign trail for Democratic nominee Governor Bill Clinton and his running mate Senator Albert Gore to pursue the middle class swing voter featured; scenes shown from New York and of the Clinton bus caravan. [Former Ross Perot supporter Matthew LIFFLANDER - calls for Perot people to back Clinton.] [In New York, CLINTON - says we will lift our country up and build a coalition.] [In campaign speech and today before aerospace workers, CLINTON - comments.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: John Cochran) Appeal from President Bush to former Perot supporters featured. [At a Wyoming picnic, BUSH - campaigns.] [In Louisville, Kentucky, Vice President Dan QUAYLE - talks about Perot and his backers.] Return to the campaign of the dreaded "L" word noted. [Bush senior adviser Charles BLACK - attacks the liberal tax and spend philosophy of Clinton's campaign.] [Senator Alan SIMPSON - attacks Democrats.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Robin Lloyd) The Supreme Court and the test case brought by pregnant woman Leona Benten, who wants to use the French RU-486 abortion pill, featured. [Benten's friend Steve HEILIG - comments.] Positions of President Bush's administration and the Justice Department on the pills noted. [Center for Reproductive Law and Policy Kathryn KOLBERT, National Right to Life Committee Richard GLASOW - offer differing opinions on abortion pill.] Issue of FDA (Food and Drug Administration) policy of allowing some foreign drugs into the United States noted. [Audio problems 5:38:10-5:38:40.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Diana Koricke) Impact of the budget crisis in California on the state's educational system examined. [At meeting, University of California president David GARDNER - comments.] [California State University at Northridge professors Louise LEWIS, Dr. James CLEARY - say the layoffs are dismantling the university system.] [Parent Diane SIMONS - opposes delaying kindergarten entrance.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(New York: Bob Kur) Presidential candidate Governor Bill Clinton's system of personal networking examined; scenes and photos shown. [Political activist Susan THOMASES, lawyer William COLEMAN, Harvard economist Robert REICH - talk about the genesis and extent of Clinton's brain trust.] The roster of Clinton's "FOBs" and the role of its members in advising and helping Clinton's campaign outlined. [Investment banker Roger ALTMAN, THOMASES - talk about the network.] Contributions by composer Randy Goodrum and television producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason to the convention noted. [GOODRUM, ALTMAN, REICH - talk about Hillary Clinton.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Signing of a new cease-fire by the Bosnian factions while two United Nations peacekeepers were killed by a land mine reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Fighting in Sarajevo, Bosnia; resignation of Czechoslovakian President Vaclav Havel as the Czech and Slovak federations move to a breakup and explosion of a car bomb in the guerrilla war in Peru reported; scenes shown from Sarajevo, Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Lima, Peru.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Commentary introduced.
(Studio: John Chancellor) Reasons why Ross Perot pulled out of the presidential race analyzed. Likelihood that Perot's vanishing act will increase the voter cynicism he claimed to challenge and that the two-way campaign will get dirtier noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Opening of the annual AIDS conference that was moved from Boston to Amsterdam, Netherlands, to protest United States policy that keeps AIDS sufferers out of the United States noted.
(Amsterdam: Robert Bazell) The fight against AIDS in the tolerant society of the Netherlands featured; scenes shown from Amsterdam. [Harvard AIDS Institution Dr. Jonathan MANN - lauds the approaches here.] [Teenage student/prostitute "RICO" - talks about her job.] [Dutch YOUNGSTER - talks about sex education.] [Dutch Reformed Church minister Mena MOLDER - talks about options.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Return home of train that left New York City with a load of garbage reported; map of its wandering route shown; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Hollywood: Keith Morrison) The new Hollywood's merchandising of dead famous people examined; scenes shown of James Dean memorabilia. [Two Dean FANS, Dean family lawyer Bill WEGNER - comment.] Battle of legions of lawyers over who has the rights to sell Dean trinkets reviewed. [Dean family friend Mark ROESLER - says the studios are stealing.] [Time Warner. Incorporated, lawyer Stephen TROPP - comments on the lawsuit.]
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