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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Studio: Jim Axelrod) The sharp rise in gasoline prices reported. [Two MEN - complain about gas prices.] [Energy Foundation Hal HARVEY - says gasoline could go as high as 3 per gallon.] [Pira Energy Group vice president Ron GOLD - says he does not think prices will go to 2 per gallon.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) The attack on Palestinian targets in Gaza by Israeli troops reported.
(Tel Aviv: David Hawkins) The bombing of a Syrian radar station in Lebanon by Israeli troops in retaliation for Hizballah attacks on Israeli towns reported. [Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-SHARA - says Israel has "made a blunder".] [Israeli spokesperson Dore GOLD - says the bombings of Israeli towns was unacceptable.] [State Department spokesperson Richard BOUCHER - condemns the violence.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Pentagon: David Martin) Plans for United States negotiators to use video of Chinese fighter jets flying dangerously close to United States spy planes during negotiations to get back the damaged plane on Hainan Island, China, reported; United States Navy footage shown. [Pilot Lieutenant Shane OSBORN - says he thought the crew was dead.] [State Department spokesperson Richard BOUCHER - says China must address the issues in a straight manner.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(London: Mark Phillips) The search for a ship from Benin believed to be carrying child slaves off the coast of west Africa reported. [African human rights activist Dr. Vincent MAGOMBE - says the children are slaves; says some children could be thrown overboard.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) The lifting of the curfew in Cincinnati, Ohio, implemented to control violence after the police shooting death of an African-American man reported; scenes shown of unrest.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Birmingham, Alabama: Mark Strassmann) The trial in Birmingham, Alabama, of Thomas Blanton for his alleged role in the 1963 church bombing which killed four young girls reported. [Bombing survivor Carolyn McKINSTRY - says she felt the building shake.] [Blanton's attorney John ROBBINS - says the world is watching.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Supreme Court rulings forbidding anti-abortion protestors to come too close to abortion facilities and its plans to hear cases concerning whether workers with repetitive motion injuries are covered under anti-discrimination laws reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Snow in Minnesota in areas already affected by the Red River flooding and concerns about floods across much of the upper Midwest reported; scenes shown of snowy areas in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Pennington Gap, Virginia: Cynthia Bowers) The abuse of the synthetic narcotic painkiller oxycontin examined; scenes shown from Appalachia, where crime linked to the drug is up. [Lee County, Virginia, Sheriff's Department Major Jimmy WOODARD - says the pills are killing people.] [Recovering oxy addict Todd WILLIAMS - says the pills are everywhere.] [Virginia attorney general Mark EARLEY - expresses views on the drug.] [Purdue Pharma Dr. J. David HADDOX - says the company has been educating doctors.] [Physician Dr. Art VAN ZEE - says the drug was overmarketed.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Study results showing a decreased risk of colon cancer for women taking estrogen-containing birth control pills reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) The imprisonment of Bosnian Serb Dragan Obrenovic on war crimes charges for his alleged role in the 1995 mass killings in Srebrenica reported.
(Srebrenica, Bosnia: Allen Pizzey) The efforts to identify thousands of victims of the Srebrenica massacre and other massacres featured; scenes shown from the warehouse where unidentified victims are stacked; details given about the DNA project. [MAN - explains how the DNA testing of the dead will be done.] [International Commission on Missing Persons Brenda KENNEDY - says the Srebrenica dead are the most difficult identification case in Bosnia.] [Missing Persons Institute Adnan RIZVIC - says bone samples are needed.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) The victory of South Korean runner Li Bong Ju in the Boston Marathon reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) A reminder to turn in tax return forms by midnight tonight given.
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