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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Larry Carroll) Ruling by Judge John Davies that former Los Angeles policemen Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell may remain free while their convictions for beating Rodney King are appealed featured. [US Marshall Craig MEACHAM - comments.] [Powell attorney William KOPENY - defends decision.] [Representative Maxine WATERS - criticizes the judge's ruling.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Dallas: Jim Cummins) Grand jury indictment in Texas of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison on charges of official misconduct while a state senator featured. [Prosecutor Ronnie EARLE - comments.] [HUTCHISON - criticizes the grand jury; defends her actions.] Hutchinson's landslide win for the Senate seat vacated by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen recalled.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Pete Williams) Resignation of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms director Stephen Higgins, who was responsible for the raid on the David Koresh's cult compound near Waco, Texas, this winter, examined; photos shown of the raid that will be criticized in a report due out this week. [Earlier, HIGGINS - offers denial.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(New York: Andrea Mitchell) Foreign policy address by President Clinton at the United Nations General Assembly featured; military scenes shown from Bosnia while United States policy is reviewed. [CLINTON - talks about United Nations peacekeeping operations and about United States involvement in Bosnia.] Clinton's proposals on nuclear weapons outlined.
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Capitol: Lisa Myers) Criticism of United States operations and policy in Somalia examined; scenes shown of the downed United States helicopter. [Senator Robert BYRD - says we should get out of Somalia.] [On "Meet the Press", Senator Sam NUNN; Senators Bob DOLE, John McCAIN - comment on ""sending and keeping United States troops in Bosnia and Somalia.] [Representative John MURTHA - says the key is determining what is in United States national interests.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Random drive-by shooting of another tourist in Florida reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The Amtrak rail accident in Alabama updated; scenes shown from Saraland, Alabama, where the train cars were recovered from the waters.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Recent flooding in the Midwest reported; scenes shown from Valley Park, Missouri, and Miami, OK.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Moscow: Dennis Murphy) The civil war in west Georgia by Abkhazians separatists claiming independence from the former Soviet republic led by President Eduard Shevardnadze featured; scenes shown of fighting in the Black Sea resort town of Sukhumi, Georgia.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Statement from Russian President Boris Yeltsin that he will not compromise with hard-liners who remain barricaded in parliament reported; scenes shown from Moscow.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Keds Corporation shoe company reported settling a price fixing suit.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Nashville: Dawn Fratangelo) The confusion of legal decisions in adoption and child custody cases featured; scenes shown of Baby Jessica being returned to her biological parents. [Biological father Otto KIRCHNER - comments.] Cases in Illinois, Virginia and Vermont reviewed. [In Nashville, Tennessee, prospective adoptive parents Lisa and Ralph MAXSON - talk about losing their baby when the birth mother changed her mind.] The need for a uniform adoption act reiterated. [Fathers' rights advocate James WILKS, children's rights advocate Richard VICTOR - talk about laws.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Setting of a baseball attendance record by the new Colorado Rockies reported; scenes shown from after the last home game.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Boston: Fred Briggs) College business management course that is conducted on a commuter train to Boston featured; scenes shown from "choo-choo University" [Dean Junior College Joy EVANS, three STUDENTS, Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority James KERASIOTES - comment.]
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