This program is 27 minutes long
#196519
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(No location given: Bill Blakemore) The hunt off Africa for a "slave ship" carrying children featured; map shown of the ship's route after it left Benin. [UNICEF program coordinator Nicholas PRON - comments on the children and the ship.] The smuggling of children to work as prostitutes or servants detailed. [Former SLAVE - (thru translator) describes the treatment.]
#196520
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: Martha Raddatz) The administration's discussion about what to do about China updated; United States Navy file footage shown of Chinese jets; details given about ways to protect United States surveillance flights and about the questions that will be asked of China. [Former undersecretary of defense Walter SLOCOMBE - says United States jets would not have helped the EP-3.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings; White House: John Cochran) The pressure on President Bush's administration to continue the surveillance flights off China and to sell arms to Taiwan discussed.
#196521
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Israel's attacks on Palestinian Gaza reported.
(Jerusalem: Hilary Brown) Israel's first attack in five years on a Syrian position in retaliation for a Hizballah attack on an Israeli border patrol featured; scenes shown.
#196522
(Studio: Peter Jennings) The final day for filing income taxes reported; statistics on income tax payments cited. [President BUSH - jokes about income tax; cites tax statistics.]
#196525
(Studio: Peter Jennings) This week's closer look at the issue of rape in prison introduced; Stop Prisoner Rape statistics cited.
(New York: Dan Harris) The torture of men in prison featured; details given of the view of American prisons as "sexual jungles." [Ex-con Terry Max COOK - describes being gang raped in prison with nowhere to turn.] [Harvard University criminologist James GILLIGAN - talks about the prison system that allows "victims."] [Raped inmate Matthew ROLEN - says prison officials do not care about the inmates.] [Texas department of corrections Larry TODD - wants documented proof.] [Former Texas prison guard Johnny VASQUEZ - recounts the prison response to rapes.] [COOK - says he was tortured for 22 years.]
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Tomorrow's segment previewed.
#196528
(Studio: Peter Jennings) The lifting of the curfew in Cincinnati, Ohio, imposed following streets riots after the police shot a black man and jury selection in Alabama in the trial of Thomas Blanton in the 1963 church bombing reported; scenes shown from Cincinnati and Birmingham, Alabama.
#196529
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(Vickburg, Mississippi: Jeffrey Kofman) The complicated debate in Mississippi over the Confederate battle emblem on the state flag examined; details given of the statewide referendum on changing the flag. [Sons of Confederate Veterans Earl FAGGERT, NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) 's Deborah DENARD - offer differing opinions on what the flag symbolizes.] [Mississippi Legacy Fund George SHELTON - explains the need for a new flag.] [Two black PEOPLE - comment.]
#196530
(Studio: Peter Jennings) The Pulitzer Prizes for journalism reported; scenes shown of the winning photograph of federal agents seizing six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez.
#196533
(Studio: Peter Jennings) Report introduced.
(New Smyrna Beach, Florida: Erin Hayes) Stock car racing for children featured; scenes shown from the quarter-midget track. [9-year-old Matt MARTIN, father NASCAR driver Mark MARTIN, his MOTHER - comment on racing.]
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