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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: Andrea Mitchell) President Clinton's sales pitch for the health care reform plan featured. [Before audience of doctors, former Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett KOOP - promotes health care proposals.] [On "Meet The Press", Senator Daniel Patrick MOYNIHAN - offers criticism of the Clinton numbers.] [CLINTON, Hillary CLINTON, health care adviser Ira MAGAZINER - back the numbers.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Atlanta: Bob Dotson) The issue of choice in the Clinton health care plan examined; the options for doctor-patient relationships outlined. [Dr. Pat CORALES, patient Doris JACOBS, doctor choice advocate Norma KASOFF - comment.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Interview held with Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala. [SHALALA - backs the option of patients following their own doctors; says eliminating the waste will pay for the system.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Tomorrow's exclusive interview with Hillary Clinton announced.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Atlanta: Kenley Jones) Review of the case of black Georgia teen Dehundra Caldwell, sentenced by a judge to three years in prison for stealing ice cream bars from a school cafeteria, featured. [Pardons and paroles board Tom MORRIS - comments.] [CALDWELL, mother Teresa CALDWELL - comment.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Bellingham, WA: Margaret Larson) Custody battle in Washington between young mother Megan Lucas and two homosexual males, Luis and Ross Lopton, who want to adopt the boy named Galen featured; scenes shown of the participants. [Ross LOPTON, LUCAS, her attorney Richard KIMBERLY - comment on homosexual adoption.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Dropping of charges in the Tailhook scandal against naval aviator Lieutenant Cole Cowden reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Robert Hager) President Clinton's health care reform plan examined; what is covered and not covered in the basic package, who would pay for the coverage and the cost to the government outlined. Examples of the cost of options for a family of four outlined on screen.
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Further special coverage of the health care revolution previewed.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Failure of latest round of Bosnian peace talks reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Plans for the family of John Demjanjuk to bring him back to the United States from Israel reported; scenes shown from Cleveland, Ohio.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Larry Carroll) The failure of the Environmental Protection Agency superfund to clean up toxic wastes featured; scenes shown from a Houston suburb where people had to leave their homes due to toxic contamination from a waste disposal site and from near Riverside, California, site of the Stringfellow acid pits. [Homeowner Phillip RODDY, California Environmental Protection Agency Richard BAILEY - comment.] The cost of the superfund program cited. [Community activist Penny NEWMAN - suggests Environmental Protection Agency must act stronger against corporations.] [EPA administrator Carol BROWNER - comments.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Announcement by Japan's Honda auto maker that all cars sold in the United States will be made in their Ohio plants reported. "Stock Market Report". [Note: stock market figures not shown.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The overall problems in New York City schools reviewed.
(New York: Mary Alice Williams) Chaos in the New York City schools on opening day due to the ongoing asbestos cleanup featured; school and student scenes shown while the "blame game" is reviewed. [PARENT, two MEN - comment.]""
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