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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: Ed Rabel) Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's acceptance of a Russian peace plan in which he would recognize the Kuwait border and the halt of the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from the border featured; scenes shown of United States Marines.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Port-au-Prince: Jim Maceda) A turning point for Haiti with the departure of military leader General Raoul Cedras featured; scenes shown of Cedras and his family heading for the plane for exile in Panama. [US embassy spokesman Stanley SCHRAGER - comments.] The Haitian people said obsessed with the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide; scenes shown of the preparations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: Jim Miklaszewski) The deal behind the departure of the Haitian junta leaders Cedras and Philippe Biamby examined; elements of the agreement reviewed. [White House Chief of Staff Leon PANETTA - comments.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Palestinian police shown searching Gaza for the Israeli soldier taken prisoner by the militant Palestinian group Hamas.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Robert Hager) CDC (Centers for Disease Control) report on the murder rate for young American males examined; excerpts shown from the Children's Defense Fund's ad campaign against violence. [Shooting victim's mothers Alice THOMAS-NORRIS, Terri THOMPSON - offer warnings.] The link of crime to the availability of guns and drugs noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(La Jolla, California: Robert Bazell) The implications of the discovery of a gene linked to dyslexia, which causes reading disabilities, examined. [Sequana Therapeutics Dr. Lon CARDON, dyslectics Betsy and Margaret MULDROW - talk about the problem.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The spread of salmonella food poisoning from Minnesota's Schwan's ice cream reported; map shown.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Brighton Beach: Pete Williams) The spread of Russian organized crime to the United States featured; scenes shown from a New York City location where a fight broke out at a hangout for Russian immigrants. The involvement of Russian racketeers in the Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, gasoline business noted. [FBI director Louis FREEH - cites mobster crime in Russia.] Photo shown of mob boss Vyacheslav Ivankov. ["The New Russian Word" editor Alexandre GRANT - comments on crime.]
5:47:10 "SWITZERLAND / CULT KILLINGS"
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The identification of the body of cult leader Luc Jouret among the bodies in Switzerland reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Announcement on a cease-fire in Northern Ireland by the two leading Protestant paramilitary groups reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Lisa Myers) President Clinton's establishment of new shopping rules for the federal government featured; examples given and the implications of the change for America's comedians addressed. [CLINTON - jokes about costly government purchases.] [September 8, 1993, on "The Late Night Show with David Letterman", Vice President Al GORE - smashes a government ashtray.] [Senator William COHEN - comments.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Linndale, Ohio: Dawn Fratangelo) The infamous stretch of Interstate 71, near Linndale, Ohio, a town that thrived on ticketing passing motorists, featured; scenes shown. [Stopped MOTORIST, Mayor Donald SLUSHER, Representative Edward KASPUTIS - offer views on highway ticketing.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Rain in the South reported; scenes shown of flood waters in Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, SC.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The granting of a new trial for Wanda Webb Holloway, known as the cheerleader mom, who was convicted in 1991 of hiring a hit man to kill the mother of her daughter's cheerleading rival, reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Wholesale price figures for the month cited. "Stock Market Report".
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Bob Faw) The picture of Americans as presented in the 1990 Census survey examined; various statistics outlined. [Demographer Ben WATTENBERG - says the social issues are corrosive.]
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