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(Studio: Wolf Blitzer) Report introduced.
(Davenport, Iowa: Bob Franken) The flooding from the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa, featured; scenes shown of the flood waters. [Mayor Phil YERINGTON, business owner Scott JONES, department of public works director Dee BRUEMMER - offer differing opinions on the need for a flood wall.] The reasons why the city has not built a flood wall discussed.
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(Studio: Wolf Blitzer) The fallout in Peru from the shooting down of a missionary plane mistaken for a drug carrier featured; photos shown of slain missionary Veronica Bowers; details given of the role of a US surveillance plane in spotting the private plane. [Friend Stephen AHOLT - remembers Roni Bowers.] [Peru's ambassador to the United States Carlos ALZAMORA - says drug smugglers will have the time of their lives while the operation is suspended.]
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(Studio: Wolf Blitzer) The reaction to President Bush's decision to sell arms to Taiwan despite the opposition from China reported; statement from the Chinese foreign ministry quoted. [Majority leader Senator Trent LOTT, Senator Tom DASCHLE - back Bush's decision.]
(Capitol Hill: Jonathan Karl) The politics of the support for Bush's decision to sell arms to Taiwan reported; details given of the positions of Representative Richard Gephardt and Senator John McCain.
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(Studio: Wolf Blitzer) Live interview held with Lebanon's Rafik Hariri, a key figure in the Middle East; scenes shown of Hariri meeting with President Bush; details recalled of the April 14 clash along the Israeli- Lebanon border. [HARIRI - says he is convinced Bush will work for peace in the Middle East and that the United States needs to take the lead in peace efforts; comments on Israel's new Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, why the Syrian troops are still in Lebanon after Israel ended its occupation, the issue of the control of south Lebanon, which is now under control of Hizballah; says stability in the region depends on a peace agreement signed by all sides.]
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(Studio: Wolf Blitzer) The landing of a plane at the South Pole in Antarctica to pick up ill American doctor Ronald Shemenski after a similar rescue operation at the McMurdo base reported.
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(Studio: Wolf Blitzer) Agreement by Northwest Airlines to pay compensation to passengers stranded in a 1999 blizzard in Detroit reported.
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(Studio: Wolf Blitzer) Arrest of actor Robert Downey on suspected drug use reported.
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(Studio: Wolf Blitzer) Supreme Court ruling that police can arrest traffic violators such as a Texas woman not wearing a seat belt reported.
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(Studio: Wolf Blitzer) Report introduced.
(No location given: Miles O'Brien) Work at the International Space Station by astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour using the billion dollar robotic arm featured; scenes shown of the spacewalk operation.
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