This program is 28 minutes long
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Capitol: Lisa Myers) The rapidly dwindling funds of the Medicare program outlined; details given of the Medicare trustees' report that Medicare will be out of money by the year 2001. The buck-passing debate over Medicare in Congress featured. [Representative William THOMAS, Minority Leader Representative Richard GEPHARDT, House Speaker Newt GINGRICH, Senator Bob KERREY - give redundant arguments.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Results of an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll on Medicare given. The warning from former Republican Senator Warren Rudman concerning Medicare featured. [RUDMAN - comments.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(White House: Brian Williams) Announcement by President Clinton of a new proposal for a tax credit for attending college featured. Speculation on how the program would be funded cited. The significance of fingerprints found by the FBI on the Whitewater documents that turned up at the White House reported and the Whitewater scorecard updated.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: Ed Rabel) Accidental firing by a Japanese ship on a United States plane during joint naval exercises in the Pacific Ocean reported; details given of the incident. [Captain Michael DOUBLEDAY - says it was a regrettable accident.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The failure of the maiden flight of the European Space Agency's new Ariane 5 rocket shown.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The discovery of a crater in the Florida Everglades that may hold the main wreckage of ValuJet Flight 592 reported.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Sixteen year-old Joshua Jenkins' murder of his parents, sister and grandparents reported; scenes shown of Jenkins.
(Circleville, Ohio: Fred Francis) The Circleville Youth Center in Ohio's new treatment program for juvenile criminals featured. [Juveniles "PHILLIP" and "WILLIAM" - tell their stories.] [Circleville psychologist Dr. Lee UNDERWOOD, superintendent Don FELDKAMP - comment on the juveniles.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Robert Hager) A lawsuit following Chrysler's refusal to comply with a government-ordered recall of cars with defective rear seat belts featured; details given of the seat belt problem in Dodge Cirrus and Stratus models. [Transportation Department Ricardo MARTINEZ, Chrysler attorney Lewis GOLDFARB - comment on the seat belt issue.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Statistics concerning injuries to children from baseballs given.
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Record delivery time of mail by the Postal Service noted.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Follow-ups on previous Fleecing of America stories presented; details given of the continued waste of millions of tax payer dollars on the WIPP project, construction of Boston's grandiose federal courthouse complete with boat dock, the retirement of immigrants on US welfare services and United States television Marti programming for Cubans that no one sees. [Senator John McCAIN, Heritage Foundation Robert RECTOR - comment on the waste.] The total amount of waste uncovered in the Fleecing of America stories said to be 58.2 billion dollars.
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