This program is 28 minutes long
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(Studio: Thalia Assuras) The latest developments in the diplomatic standoff between the United States and China over the American EP-3 now on Hainan Island, China, introduced.
(Studio: Thalia Assuras; Washington: David Martin) The status of the negotiations to free the plane's crew members discussed; photos shown of President Bush and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice at Camp David, of the missing Chinese pilot and of the damaged plane; details given of the likely content of a letter to China that will result in the freeing of the crew after this hard-line Chinese rhetoric.
(Beijing: Barry Petersen) The anti-US media campaign in China reviewed; scenes and photos shown of Ruan Guogin, the distraught wife of pilot Wang Wei and of President Jiang Zemin visiting Latin America; details given of the powerful role of China's military. [Asia policy expert Kenneth LIEBERTHAL - assesses the perspective of the Chinese military.]
(Studio: Thalia Assuras) Report introduced.
(Hainan: Kimberly Dozier) Telephone report on the latest meeting of American diplomats with the plane's crew featured; photograph of the crew shown.
(Studio: Thalia Assuras) Interview held with former United States ambassador to China James Lilley. [LILLEY - explains why China wants an apology from the US; suggests the military is covering up the Chinese pilot's role in the accident.]
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(Studio: Thalia Assuras) Crash in Vietnam of a helicopter that was part of the Defense Department task force identifying remains of American soldiers killed in the Vietnam war reported.
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(Studio: Thalia Assuras) Report introduced.
(New York: Lee Cowan) The launch of the Odyssey mission to Mars featured; scenes shown from a high-tech camera on the rocket of the lift-off. [CBS News consultant Bill HARWOOD - says the Mars program is in jeopardy.]
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(Studio: Thalia Assuras) The impact of freak winds on the plains states reported; scenes shown of damages in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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(Studio: Thalia Assuras) Report introduced.
(Miami: Bobbi Harley) The new Titelist solid core golf ball featured; various scenes shown of the ball. [PGA tour's Davis LOVE III, Ernie ELS, golf instructor David GALL - praise the ball.] [Bay Shore Golf Course manager Chris JETT - explains who should use this ball.] [Titleist marketing vice president George SINE - talks golf ball production.] [Golfer Ralph MARTIN - comments.]
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(Studio: Thalia Assuras) The prospects for a mass release of prison inmates featured; statistics cited. [Boston police department Supt. Paul JOYCE, Suffolk County Sheriff Richard ROUSE - predict an increase in the crime rate.] Boston's program to help prisoners prepare to reenter normal life after release detailed. [Inmate Debra PASIERB - says you must be willing to change or be sent back to prison.] [crime analyst Eli LEHRER - says the track records for all prison programs are not good.] [Boston Re- entry Initiative Reverend Eugene RIVERS - backs the "hug-a-thug" approach.]
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(Studio: Thalia Assuras) Report introduced.
(Cortland, New York: Steve Hartman) The story of 22-year-old Eric Michaels of Cortland, New York, who had been a classic underachiever until he started his own T-shirt company, Reflex Sportswear, presented; scenes shown to illustrate his life. [Mother Cheryl and Eric MICHAELS - talk about Eric "applying himself" at last to a business.]