This program is 27 minutes long
#196082
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(White House: Terry Moran) President Bush's threat to veto a patients' bill of rights featured; details given of the issue of the right to sue and of Bush's proposals. [At American College of Cardiology meeting, BUSH - says he cannot sign a current patients' bill of rights; says the caps before Congress are too high.] [Senator John EDWARDS - says Bush has to make a choice.] [Senator John McCAIN - hopes Bush will work with us.]
#196083
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Barry Serafin) President Bush's suspension of tough new environmental standards for mining on federal lands and a possible reversal on issues like logging, oil drilling in Alaska and arsenic levels in drinking water examined. [EPA administrator Christie Todd WHITMAN - talks about safe water.] [Natural Resources Defense Council Gregory WETSTONE - accuses the Bush administration of a brazen attack on the environment.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings; White House: Terry Moran) Bush's political conservatism and how it is being seen in his environmental policies discussed.
#196084
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Funding for the National Endowment for the Arts by President Bush's administration noted.
#196085
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Stock Market Report.
(Studio: Bill Redeker) The reaction of the stock market to interest rates and the gloomy economic news reviewed; details given of companies having a drop in stock and of earnings announcement from 3Com and John Deere.
#196086
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New York: Dan Harris) The prospects for the slaughter of sheep on a farm in Vermont that may have mad cow disease featured. [Agriculture Department Ed CURLETT - talks about euthanizing the sheep.] [Farmers' attorney Thomas AMIDON - reacts to the news.]
#196089
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Supreme Court ruling that hospitals cannot test pregnant women for drugs without their consent; CDC (Centers for Disease Control) study on chemicals in the body from soap and cosmetics and a Southern Poverty Law Center report on hate groups reported.
#196090
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Chantilly, Virginia: Pierre Thomas) The discovery of a gaping hole in the Brady Law designed to stop felons from obtaining guns examined; scenes shown from an undercover videotape. [General Accounting Office Robert HAST, Senator Henry WAXMAN - say criminals can obtain fake identification.] [Blue Ridge Arsenal Hayward LONG - comments on accepting identification.]
#196091
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Statement from the South Africa government on AIDS; Amnesty International report on the number of people put to death in China; the first case of foot-and-mouth disease in the Netherlands and the status of the Russian space station Mir, which will be brought to earth soon, reported.
#196094
(Studio: Peter Jennings) The arrival of Mexican President Vicente Fox in the United States for his first official visit shown. [On his ranch, FOX - promises to deliver; says he has to understand people's problems; adds that he is enjoying his job; comments on his talks with President Bush about the drug problem; explains how he will have to approach the drug and corruption problems in Mexico; says illegal immigrants are doing jobs in the US; defends his idea of open borders; comments on the challenge of the job.] Last week's mass march on Mexico City by the Zapatistas shown.
#196097
(Studio: Peter Jennings) The informality of Mexican President Vicente Fox's radio address featured; scenes shown of Fox transmitting from his ranch. [FOX - says he enjoys communicating with people.]
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