This program is 27 minutes long
#196099
(Studio: Peter Jennings) A day of relentless selling on the stock market and later selling introduced.
(Studio: Betsy Stark) Wall Street's activity examined; details given about layoffs at Charles Schwab, Procter and Gamble and the late afternoon rally with a revival of tech stocks. [Market analyst Richard McCABE - cites the fear about weak corporate profits.] [Market analyst Alfred GOLDMAN - says there is some bargain hunting.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Interview held with UBS PaineWebber's Art Cashin on the market floor. [CASHIN - assesses the market response and what "sideline" money might do; comments on what might happen Friday.]
#196100
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Washington: Jackie Judd) Announcement by Russia that it will retaliate for the decision by President Bush's administration to expel 50 diplomats in response to the spying by FBI agent Robert Hanssen featured; details given of the shift in tone and substance on the US-Russia relationship in the new administration populated by "Cold Warriors." [BUSH - comments on the decision.] [National security adviser Condoleezza RICE - comments.] [February 7, CIA director George TENET - comments on Russian arms and technology policies.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings; Moscow: Richard Gizbert) The day's tough rhetoric from Russia in response to the diplomatic expulsions and counter-expulsions discussed.
#196101
(Studio: Peter Jennings) School shooting in El Cajon, California; President Bush's ending of the American Bar Association's role in screening nominees for federal judgeships; plans to slaughter a flock of sheep from Vermont to test them for mad cow disease and more examples of high prices paid by the military for sinks and screws reported.
#196104
(Studio: Peter Jennings) The finals hours for the Russian space station Mir that will be crashed into the Pacific Ocean reported; scenes shown from Mir; map shown.
(New York: Ned Potter) Mir's descent featured; animations and map shown. [Russian Mission Control Vladimir SOLOVYOV - (thru translator) says tests indicate our plan should work.] [NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Nicholas JOHNSON - talks about objects falling back to earth.] [In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Lottie WILLIAMS - recalls being hit by a piece of space junk.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) The presence of 30 tuna boats in the area where Mir is supposed to fall reported.
#196107
(Studio: Peter Jennings) China's objections to United States weapons sales to Taiwan reported.
(New York: Bill Redeker) China's detention of American professor Xue Donghua, his wife Gao Zhan and son Andrew Xue featured. [XUE - says his wife's Taiwan research was academic; says his son misses his mother.] [Secretary of State Colin POWELL - calls the detentions "outrageous."]
#196108
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Offensive in Macedonia by government troops against ethnic Albanian forces and the first case of foot-and-mouth virus in Ireland reported; scenes shown from Tetova, Macedonia.
#196111
(Studio: Peter Jennings) The bungled invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs on April 17, 1961, recalled.
(Havana: Jeffrey Kofman) The meeting in Cuba of aging Cuban and American adversaries to relive the Bay of Pigs featured; scenes shown of the group and from the Bahia de los Cochinos, where the foundation for 40 years of distrust between Cuba and the United States was laid. [Former Kennedy advisor Arthur SCHLESINGER - says the invasion was badly conceived.] [Former Castro field commander Jose Ramon FERNANDEZ - (thru translator) says it was badly done.] [Bay of Pigs veteran Alfredo DURAN - recalls the invasion.]
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