This program is 27 minutes long
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(Studio: Peter Jennings; Washington: Lisa Stark) Announcement that the US government will ban the import of meat, specifically pork, from the European Union due to foot-and-mouth disease discussed.
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Discovery of a case of foot-and-mouth disease in Argentina noted; scenes shown from the English countryside of cattle being slaughtered and burned by farmers. [British FARMER - says the government has to help.]
#195951
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Stock Market Report.
(Studio: Betsy Stark) Today's small rebound on the stock market examined; examples of rallying companies cited. [INVESTOR, stockbroker Ed SCOTT; Houston Spring Wood Investment Club Vasu REDDY, Monica McNEILL - comment on the market and investing.] [Financial planner Dee LEE - says people put all their eggs in one basket.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Tokyo: Mark Litke) The chain reaction around the world to the drop on Wall Street examined; details given of the litany of economic problems in Japan. [Merrill Lynch economist Jesper KOLL - says America falling down will cause a big ripple effect in global economics.] [Former Clinton international economic analyst Dan TARULLO - says Japan's problems raises a risk to the Asian economy.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: John McWethy) Pentagon information on yesterday's accidental bombing in Kuwait by a Navy plane flown by Commander David Zimmerman featured; scenes shown of the bomb site. [Pentagon spokesman R/Admiral Craig QUIGLEY - says the ground controller gives information to the planes.]
#195953
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(At the Kosovo-Serbian border: Mike Lee) Ethnic fighting along the Kosovo border with Serbia that is being monitored by NATO/US peacekeeping forces featured; scenes shown of United States troops in the field. [Army Lieutenant Tony LEIBERT - says the problem is ethnic Albanian armed guerrillas.]
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Decision by President Bush that he will not regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants reported.
(White House: Terry Moran) The reasons for Bush's reversal of his campaign promise to reduce greenhouse gas emissions outlined.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) The attorney general's call for the investigation of all of former President Bill Clinton's last-minute pardons; the moving of Lionel Tate, the 14-year-old convicted murderer, to a juvenile facility; the FAA's announcement of the number of domestic air flights in the next decade and the purchase by the Smithsonian Institution of its George Washington painting with money from a philanthropic foundation reported.
#195960
(Studio: Peter Jennings) A closer look at changes in wireless communication designed to enhance the 911 emergency system introduced.
(Washington: Dan Harris) How location information gained from cell phone tracking in an enhanced 911 system could be used examined; details given about the privacy issue. [Carjacking survivor Esther GREEN - recalls how she gave clues to her route via cell phone.] [Federal Communications Commission Thomas SUGRUE - says an enhanced communication system will save lives.] [Electronic Privacy Information Center David SOBEL - says people's whereabouts are being tracked.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Further coverage of privacy and technology on "Nightline" noted.
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(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Capitol Hill: Linda Douglass) The individual "pork" projects in last year's budget examined; details given about projects steered to their states by Senators Ted Stevens of Alaska, Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Thad Cochran and Trent Lott of Mississippi. [Citizen Against Government Waste Thomas SCHATZ - talks about Capitol Hill's pork addicts.] [COCHRAN - defends his role of getting federal funds.] [LOTT - says "pork is in the eye of the beholder."]
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