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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Jordan, MT: Jim Avila) The fourth day of the standoff between federal agents and the Freemen in Montana featured; scenes shown from around the ranch in Jordan, Montana and details given of the Freemen leaders LeRoy Schweitzer and Daniel Peterson, who are accused of fraud and refuse to cooperate. [RANCHER - says there was always a threat of an armed confrontation with the Freemen.] [County attorney Nick MURNION, rancher Tom STANTON, dispatcher Carol HELLYER -comment.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Dallas: Jim Cummins) Filing in Texas of a lawsuit charging tobacco companies with racketeering and fraud in their efforts to make the companies pay for the treatment of smoking-related disease reported. [Texas attorney general Dan MORALES - makes the official announcement.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Robert Hager) The latest blackout problems with the nation's crumbling air traffic control system examined; details given of the blackouts of Pittsburgh, Saint Louis and San Diego air traffic control systems. The bureaucratic government purchasing rules said to be the major problem. [Air traffic controllers Greg CAMPAIGNO, Tony VELLA, Secretary of Transportation Federico PENA - comment.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) British government's steps in an effort to restore public confidence in its beef following global fears of mad cow disease briefly outlined.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Pete Williams) A landmark federal case concerning the beating of a gay student in a Wisconsin public school featured. [Student Jamie NABOZNY - tells how he was ridiculed and beaten by fellow classmates because he was gay.] [Mother Carol NABOZNY - says the school ignored her request for help.] [School district's lawyer Timothy YANACHECK, Montgomery County, MD, school board Reginald FELTON, Merrimack, New Hampshire, math teacher James ROY - comment.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The controversy in Montgomery County, MD, schools over tolerance of homosexuality presented in the words of two people involved. [Parent Diane STINUM, school board president Anasol GUTTIERREZ - offer differing views on discrimination on sexual orientation.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Congressional passage of the line item veto, which, despite loopholes, will enable the president to limit some pork barrel spending noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) President Clinton's promise to veto a bill passed by Congress banning late-term abortions noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Capitol: Lisa Myers) A House bill that would allow small businesses to band together to initiate lower insurance premiums for workers outlined; tenets of the bill cited. [Worker Randy LORCY, machine company owner Tom LINEHAM, worker and lupus patient Debbie CLAY - hope the bill will allow them to get insurance.] [Health Insurance Association of America Willis GRADISON - says others will foot the bill.] [Senator Nancy KASSEBAUM - comments.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Home computer statistics given.
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Michael Spangler's discovery of his long-lost father Don Spangler through the Internet featured.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) San Francisco's new mayor, Willie Brown, who had been a long-time California state assemblyman, profiled; scenes shown of "da mayor" at various functions. [BROWN - comments on the recent marriage of gays and lesbians he presided over, the homeless problem and his job as mayor.]
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