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(Studio: Michele Gillen) Report introduced.
(Sarajevo: Tom Aspell) Fierce fighting in Sarajevo featured; scenes shown of nighttime artillery barrages and from a hospital short of supplies; status of the airlift and distribution of relief aid detailed. Need for a lasting cease-fire to keep the airport open noted.
(Studio: Michele Gillen) Interview held with head of the UN peacekeeping force in Sarajevo. [Major General Lewis MacKENZIE - gives his reaction to the heavy fighting last night; explains how the airport agreement has become a farce; adds that relief will continue as long as the risks are acceptable.]
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(Studio: Michele Gillen) Report introduced.
(New York: Gary Matsumoto) The Fourth of July across America featured; greetings from the space shuttle Columbia; replicas of the ships of Christopher Columbus and 31 tall ships sailing into New York harbor and the Navy's commissioning of aircraft carrier USS George Washington in Norfolk, Virginia, shown.
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(Studio: Michele Gillen) Candidate Governor Bill Clinton shown attending a minor league baseball game in Little Rock, Arkansas.
(Faith, North Carolina: Tom Pettit) President Bush's day featured; scenes shown of him posing with legendary stock car driver Richard Petty. [In Daytona, Florida, BUSH - makes speech; says "gentlemen, start your engines."] [In all-white town of Faith, North Carolina, BUSH - speaks about values.]
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(Studio: Michele Gillen) President Bush noted heading for the economic summit that begins Monday in Germany.
(Munich: Irving R. Levine) The three disputes over microchips, rice imports and the growing trade deficit that are causing trade tensions between United States and Japan examined. [US trade representative Carla HILLS - says Japan must open its trade doors.] [Heritage Foundation Seth CROPSEY - comments on rice politics.] Assurances from Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa that Japan would buy more United States goods recalled. [Tokyo banker Kenneth COURTIS - comments.] Fear of Bush's administration that Japan will do little to solve the grievances noted.
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(Studio: Michele Gillen) Report introduced.
(New York: Mike Jensen) The Grucci family and the fireworks displays they create featured; scenes shown of lots of spectacular fireworks. [Concetta GRUCCI, voice of Donna Grucci BUTLER, Felix GRUCCI - talk about their business of fireworks.]
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(Studio: Michele Gillen) Awarding of its Liberty Medal by the city of Philadelphia to retired Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall reported.
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(Studio: Michele Gillen) Statement from African National Congress president Nelson Mandela that talks with the white government could not resume until ANC demands were met reported.
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(Studio: Michele Gillen) Last week's stories on the Supreme Court decision on abortion; the high unemployment figures and subsequent interest rates; shutdown of Braniff airlines; payment of California's state bills with IOUs and announcement by NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) that American nuclear weapons in Europe have been removed reported; representative scenes shown from each story.
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(Studio: Michele Gillen) President Bush noted heading for the economic summit in Europe.
(Warsaw: John Cochran) The Poland that Bush will see now that Communism has fallen, but democracy has faltered, revisited; scenes shown from Warsaw to illustrate the changes there in the three years since Bush's last visit. [In Warsaw, Dominic BITKOWSKI; Polish President Lech WALESA, former Walesa friend-turned-foe Zbigniew BUJAK - (thru translator) talk about the economy.]
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(Studio: Michele Gillen) Marriage of Senator Edward Kennedy and Victoria Reggie reported.
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(Studio: Michele Gillen) Report introduced.
(No location given: Roger O'Neil) Traveling piano player Laura Spitzer, who plays the classics in small town America, featured; scenes shown of her playing and traveling. [SPITZER - explains her goals in playing for rural America.] [FANS - react.]
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