This program is 28 minutes long
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Atlanta: Robert Bazell) Investigation into the mystery illness in the Southwest that is carried by the deer mouse and other rodents featured. [CDC (Centers for Disease Control) Dr. James HUGHES - comments on the disease.] [Albuquerque Veterans Administration Hospital Dr. Darwin PALMER - describes the health of the latest victim.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Interview held with Dr. C. Max Sewell, of the New Mexico department of health. [SEWELL - talks about the virus and how it is spread to man by rodents; comments on the possible spread of the disease; advises on how to avoid the virus; describes the symptoms of the disease.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Government report on the extent of drug use in the United States noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Injuries to geneticist Max Epstein from a letter bomb reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: Andrea Mitchell) Lobbying by Hillary Clinton on behalf of health care reform featured. [CLINTON - says the focus on the budget precludes focus on health care.] [Representative Thomas FOLEY - calls for delay.] [Senators Pete DOMENICI, Representative Jim McDERMOTT, Goodyear's Stanley GAULT - offer views on health care.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Opening of the Senate debate on President Clinton's budget plan with the Republicans offering an alternative bill reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Visit to Japan by United States trade representative Mickey Kantor to talk about easing trade barriers reported.
(Tokyo: Jim Maceda) The deepening political crisis in Japan as 44 members of the ruling party left to form their own party examined; political scenes shown while the political problems under the government of Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa are reviewed. [New Life Party leader Tsutomu HATA - (thru translator) calls for a new Japan.] [WOMAN - (thru translator) comments.] [Economist Kenneth COURTIS - predicts a period of instability.] Next month's G-7 summit here mentioned.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Offering by the United Nations in Somalia of a reward for the capture of General Mohammed Farah Aidid reported; leaflet shown.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Going into effect of the UN's oil embargo designed to force Haiti's military rulers to accept the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Quarterly GDP figures cited. "Stock Market Report".
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Baltimore: Bob Kur) Choice program in Maryland to deal with the problem of first-time juvenile offenders featured; scenes shown from Baltimore, Maryland, where young case workers help juvenile offenders by monitoring them in their own communities. [Choice Program Craig WHITE, director John MARTELLO, juvenile "STEVEN", his mother Cynthia SAN-MIGUEL, program completer Antoine NICHOLSON - talk about the program.] Statistics on the cost and success rate of Maryland's Choice Program cited.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Survival of a money vote in the House by the space station project reported. President Clinton's support of a scaled-down version of it noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Robert Hager) The concept of launching a rocket that will release a mylar advertising billboard examined; animation shown. [Space Marketing, Incorporated, Mike LAWSON - explains how the billboard would work.] [Representatives Susan MOLINARI, Connie MORELLA, Edward MARKEY - oppose the idea.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) This final series of commentaries by the retiring John Chancellor introduced.
(Little Rock: John Chancellor) Race in America examined in light of the history of school desegregation in Little Rock, the first national crisis seen on national television news. The shaping of events and policies by what is shown on television outlined.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Banning of smoking in Los Angeles restaurants and the statewide ban on smoking in Vermont reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White River Junction, VT: Fred Briggs) Report from the National Trust for Historic Preservation that places the whole state of Vermont on the historic preservation endangered list featured; scenes shown of unplanned, uncontrolled development of shopping malls. [State historic preservationist Eric GILBERTSON - criticizes strip mall development.] [Vermont Chamber of Commerce Chris BARBIERI, MAN - respond.] Historic Preservation Trust Richard MOE, Governor Howard DEAN - comment.]
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