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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Robert Hager) The immense highway bill to repair the nation's infrastructure featured; breakdown of the funding for roads, bridges, mass transit and research on high-speed trains, "smart" highways and car air bags cited. [President CLINTON - comments on the bill and the fight for driving and lower alcohol blood levels.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The fleecing of America introduced.
(Capitol: Gwen Ifill) The pork in the new mammoth highway bill examined; details given of political moves by "prince of pork," Representative Bud Shuster by Senators Trent Lott and John Chafee. [TRUCKER, DRIVER - talk about tolls.] [Representative John SHADEGG - calls the bill "highway bribery."] [Representative David OBEY - criticizes an Alaska highway bill.] [Representative Peter HOEKSTRA - laments giveaways.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Pete Williams) The murder of a black man, James Byrd, in Jasper, Texas, by three white men, who dragged him to death behind their pickup truck, featured; scenes shown of the suspects, who belong to the Aryan Brotherhood. [District attorney Guy James GRAY, victim's sister Stella BRUMLEY, county sheriff Billy ROWLES - react to Byrd's murder.] [Southern Poverty Law Center Morris DEES - talks about the commission of hate crimes.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The trial of Luke Woodham for the school shootings in Pearl, Mississippi, reported. [WOODHAM - says he has not forgiven himself.] [In his videotaped commission, WOODHAM - describes murdering his mother.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The creation of a 200 million scholarship fund to send kids to private school introduced.
(No location given: Tom Brokaw) Businessman Ted Forstmann, master of the leveraged buyout, who wants to fix the American education system, profiled; details given of his "good Samaritan" funding of education. [FORSTMANN - says public education needs competition.] [Scholarship student's MOTHER - reacts.]
(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The view of Robert Chase, president of the National Education Association, of public education presented in his own words. [CHASE - questions the voucher system; says the public schools should not be abandoned.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) FDA (Food and Drug Administration) report on deaths linked to the anti-impotence drug Viagra outlined.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) The visit to the White House by South Korea President Kim Dae Jung and the explosion of a homeless shelter in Montreal, Canada, reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Washington: Lisa Myers) New developments in the Monica Lewinsky case reviewed; photos by Herb Ritts in the "Vanity Fair" shown. [Former independent counsel James COLE - explains how the photos will hurt her.] [Criminal defense attorney Bradford BERENSON - says the evidence indicates Lewinsky's affidavit might be false.] The possibility of a deal in which Lewinsky would provide more damaging information to independent counsel Kenneth Starr outlined with specific questions raised.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Chicago: Jim Avila) The lost world of dinosaurs at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History featured; scenes shown of Sue, the T-rex. [Museum's Dr. John FLYNN - expresses awe about Sue's size.] The new fossil findings linking dinosaurs to birds noted. [Field's Dr. Bill SIMPSON, fifth grader David JONES, Tate Museum of Wyoming Robert BAKKER - talk dinosaurs.]
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