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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: Ed Rabel) Suicide of Navy Admiral Jeremy Boorda after allegations that he has misrepresented his service record featured. [President CLINTON - comments.] [Secretary of the Navy John DALTON - announces Boorda's death.] Timetable of media inquiries about the valor medals Boorda wore outlined. [Secretary of Defense William PERRY, Senator John McCAIN - comments on Boorda.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Navy Admiral Jeremy Boorda's speech at the Naval Academy's recent graduation featured. [BOORDA - talks about responsibility.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) President Clinton's decision against a ban on landmines noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(In the Florida Everglades: Kerry Sanders) The investigation into the crash of ValuJet Flight 592 into the Florida Everglades featured; scenes shown of the jet engines that were recovered. The presence of oxygen generators on board the plane noted. [NTSB Robert FRANCIS - comments on the recovery.] [Rescuer Floy TURNER - tells of the strain on rescuers.]
(Miami: Robert Hager) The safety of the Valujet airlines examined. [ValuJet president Lewis JORDAN - defends low cost airlines.] [JORDAN, chief investigator Gregory FEITH - comment on the oxygen canisters.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Reports introduced.
(Chicago: Lisa Myers) Soon to be former Senator Bob Dole's day on the campaign trail featured; scenes shown of Dole without a tie and wearing khakis. [DOLE - tells why he wants to be President; comments.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Former House Ways and Means chairman Dan Rostenkowski's preparation to start serving a brief jail sentence for ripping off American taxpayers featured; details given of his appeal for a delay due to his recent diagnosis of prostate cancer. [ROSTENKOWSKI - says he made a mistake; talks about his career and defends his abuse of power.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Meeting of Freemen representatives with the FBI as the standoff in Montana is in its seventh week reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Camp Perry, Ohio: Andrea Mitchell) The Army's giving away of thousands of M-1 surplus rifles and other items to "officially promote rifle practice and firearms safety among civilians" at taxpayer expense examined; scenes shown from United States Army Camp Perry Ohio. [Handgun Control Incorporated Robert WALKER - says the program is National Rifle Assn. pork.] [Senator Frank LAUTENBERG - condemns Congress' gift to the NRA.] [Student Shannon McNEILY, volunteer instructor Craig SWIHART, National Rifle Assn. Tanya METAKSA - comment.]
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