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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Fred Francis) The Justice Department's anti-drug crackdown featured; map shown of the route of the cocaine trafficking. [DEA Mike HORN, President CLINTON, DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) Bill HEALY, OFFICIAL - comment on today's arrests.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: Jim Miklaszewski) President Clinton's veto of a bill to limit damages in product liability cases reported; details given of the bill's strict limit on punitive damages. [CLINTON - explains the severe limits on lawsuits the Republican bill would have imposed.] [Accident victim's mother Janey FAIR - comments.] [Senator Bob DOLE - criticizes Clinton.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The Senate's passage of a bill that would crack down on illegal immigration stated.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Kelly O'Donnell) The health of the California infant beaten by a young boy updated. The legal case against the six-year-old defendant examined. [Oakland Children's Hospital Dr. Tim YEH - talks about the possible extent of the baby's brain damage.] [Beater's MOTHER, defendant's GRANDFATHER, principal Marco GONZALES - comment on the six-year-old and the attack.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The declaring of the state of Arizona as an emergency area due to the spreading wildfires stated.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The strange, videotaped message sent out from the Montana Freemen compound featured; excerpts shown from fugitive Russell Landers' rambling speech. Letter from the FBI to the Freemen quoted and the Freemen's response noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures for the first quarter of 1996 cited. Stock Market Report.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(New York: Robert Hager) The dramatic rise in skin cancer examined; scenes shown of people at the beach and details given of the stunning rise in melanoma cases. [Dr. Darryl REGAL, CDC (Centers for Disease Control) Dr. Stephen WYATT, Dr. Mitchell SAMS, melanoma patient David RATLIN, Dr. Alan HOUGHTON - comment.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Melanoma patient Sue Ellen Barberi's experience with skin damage and cancer told. [BARBERI - tells of her terminal case of melanoma.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) A federal grand jury's charging of Joe Waldholtz with 27 counts of bank fraud in connection with his check kiting scheme reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Andrea Mitchell) The decision of Swiss bankers to release money to the Jewish victims' families that stolen and then deposited by the Germans during the Holocaust in Swiss banks featured. [Holocaust survivor Greta BEER, World Jewish Congress Edgar BRONFMAN - comment.)
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The awarding to evangelist Reverend Billy Graham of the Congressional Gold Medal shown. [GRAHAM - says "we are a society poised on the brink of self-destruction."]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(New York: Rehema Ellis) New York City Police officer Elizabeth Cooke's rescue of a deaf man from taking a suicide plunge from a building featured. [COOKE - tells how she defused the situation.]
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