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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(NYC: Stan Bernard) Crackdown upon heroin ring operating in United States and Italy reported; details given, scenes shown. Italian criminal police director Luigi Rossi quoted with regard to arrests. Map shown indicating states in which United States agents made more arrests in connection with Mafia-controlled heroin ring. Investigation detailed. [FBI spokesperson James FOX - comments on smuggling methods.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Arrests of synthetic heroin ring members in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, reported; details given, scenes shown. Officials quoted with regard to dangers of using synthetic heroin.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(Chicago, Illinois: Brian Ross) United States Customs reported concluding investigation into Yugoslavian money laundering network based in US; Yugoslavian consul general Bahrudin Bijedic's role in ring discussed; details given, scenes shown. Map shown indicating route of laundered money. Bijedic shown being arrested in Chicago. Yugoslavian-Americans Hubert Cole and Vjekoslav Spanjol shown being arrested. United States Customs agents noted discovering that ring member owns janitorial service that serves United States defense contractors. [Customs commissioner William VON RAAB - comments.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(DC: Chris Wallace) President Reagan reported refusing to release classified documents in trial of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North; details given. [REAGAN - defends his decision.] [Ex-House of Representatives general cnsl. spokesperson Stanley BRAND - comments on situation.] Possibility that North may never be tried on charge of conspiring to divert funds to Contras discussed. Indep. cnsl. Lawrence Walsh's investigation discussed; Judge Gerhard Gesell mentioned making final decision. [REAGAN - rejects notion of pretrial pardon.]
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) President Reagan reported promoting national security advisor Colin Powell to four-star general and naming him commander of all army forces in US; details given.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Launch of space shuttle Atlantis discussed; details of delays due to weather conds. given, scenes shown.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(NYC: Mike Jensen) Wall Street firm of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts and Company reported winning takeover bid of RJR Nabisco. [RJR Nabisco EMPLS. - fear they'll lose their jobs.] Prods. produced by RJR Nabisco illustration and discussed. [Winning bidder Henry KRAVIS - says there won't be many divestments.] ["Standard and Poor's" analyst Jane COLLIN - says Kravis will have trouble making divestments.] Transaction's impact upon consumers discussed.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) NBC reported winning rights to broadcast 1992 summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain; details given.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(NYC: Michele Gillen) Joel Steinberg reported on trial for murder of his adopted daughter Elizabeth Steinberg; details of case recalled. [Steinberg's ex- lover, Hedda NUSSBAUM - describes night of child's murder.] Illegal adoption of child discussed. [Natural mother Michelle LAUNDERS - comments on Steinberg.] [On "The Reporters", STEINBERG - denies that he caused child's death.] [NUSSBAUM - testifies.] Child abuse in United States discussed.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Dr. Peter Rosier, on trial for mercy killing of his terminally ill wife, reported found not guilty by Saint Petersburg, Florida, jury; details given, scenes shown.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Government report with regard to quality of nursing homes in US discussed; report results detailed.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) USSR general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev reported holding emergency meeting with leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan; death toll during unrest given.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Benazir Bhutto reported named prime minister of Pakistan; details given.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Carlos Salinas de Gortari reported sworn in as Mexico's new president Report introduced.
(Mexico City, Mexico: John Cochran) Challenges facing Salinas discussed; details given, scenes shown of protesters accusing Salinas of vote fraud. [Pol. scientist Jorge CASTENEDA - comments on situation.] Outgoing President Miguel de la Madrid noted perceived as more presidential than Salinas. Impact of improved Mexican government upon United States discussed. Salinas quoted with regard to debt to US.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Final phase of amnesty program for illegal immigrants working in US, discussed. Immigration officials quoted with regard to fraudulent documentation used by most farm workers who applied for amnesty.
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(Studio: Tom Brokaw) Report introduced.
(DC: Irving R. Levine) Popularity of fax machines featured; details given, scenes shown. Price of machines noted dropping; ads. shown. [New York civil court judge Richard LANE - comments on using fax machines.] Detroit, Michigan, caterer Paul Hohendorf reported using fax machine to get blind dates; scenes shown. [HOHENDORF -comments.] ["Wall Street Journal" spokesperson Al HUNT - comments on fax junk mail during campaign '88.] [MCI chairperson William McGOWAN - tells how he stops junk fax.]
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