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(Studio: Dan Rather) The latest developments in the "China challenge" after a United States plane landed in Hainan following the collision with a Chinese fighter jet, reviewed.
(Washington: David Martin) The negotiations for the release of the plane's crew featured; details given of a deal that could be worked out between China and the US; photos shown of the damaged American EP-3 plane. [President BUSH - expresses regret for the missing Chinese pilot.]
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(White House: John Roberts) The view from the White House on the standoff with China featured. [BUSH - comments on the United States relationship with China; says his mission is to bring our people home.]
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Beijing: Barry Petersen) CBS exclusive report on how things in China spun out of control as the military stepped in with its own agenda to prevent an immediate return of the plane and its crew presented; details given as to why Chinese President Jiang Zemin upped the ante and set a hard-line position. [On Monday, BUSH - says the plane and crew should be returned.] [Foreign ministry spokesman SUN Yu Xi - (thru translator) says the United States should apologize; says questioning the crew is justifiable.] [Asia policy expert Kenneth LIEBERTHAL - comments on China's position.]
(Studio: Dan Rather) Interview held with former Secretary of Defense William Cohen about a previous incident with Chinese planes. [COHEN - explains how the prior incident was handled; says Bush had to make a statement of firm resolve; states the United States has no need to apologize for being in international air space.]
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Los Angeles: Jerry Bowen) One town's reaction to its hometown hero EP-3 plane pilot Captain Shane Osborn featured; scenes shown from Parkston, SD, where people tied up yellow ribbons. [Crew members aunt Marcia LEE - comments on the miraculous landing of the plane.] [Crew member's grandmother Betty RIECK - comments.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Stock Market Report.
(New York: Anthony Mason) Today's soaring rally on the stock market examined; details given of earnings reports for Dell and Alcoa. [Seaport Securities Ted WEISBERG, A.J. Edwards Al GOLDMAN - comment on the market mood shift and the jump.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) The booby-trapped death in the Middle East of a Palestinian militant reported; scenes shown from Jenin, West Bank and Erez, Gaza, where Israelis and Palestinians exchanged fire.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Bob Orr) The military's findings of the causes of the two crashes of the V-22 Osprey planes examined; scenes shown of the tilt-rotor aircraft; details given of evidence that the Marine Corps knew about problems with the plane. [Marine Corps Major General Martin BERNDT - defends the crew's reaction to an emergency; says something needs correction.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Reversal by President Bush's administration of an announced rollback of salmonella testing for school lunches reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Florida jury verdict against a flight attendant, who blamed her illness on second-hand smoke, reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Washington: Sharyl Attkisson) An investigation into deals in medical research in which drug companies write journal articles and pay doctors to sign their names to them examined; details given of Wyeth-Ayerst's promotion of its diet drug Redux that included nine journal articles written by Excerpta Medica. [Attorney J. Douglas PETERS - talks about the ghost-writing process.] [University of Wisconsin medical school Richard ATKINSON - talks about drug companies sponsoring articles.] [Former "New England Journal of Medicine" editor Marcia ANGELL - talks about ghostwriting articles on drugs.] [January 15, former Wyeth-Ayerst executive Jo Alene DOLAN - testifies about Atkinson's article.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) The disappearance of a forest reserve in China set up in 1975 to protect the pandas reported.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Announcement by General Motors of the recall of sport utility vehicles due to a problem with a suspension part reported; recalled 2002 models shown.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) The flight of Delta Flight 555, forced to return to the United States by Russia over an air space dispute, reported.
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