CBS Evening News - 1993-04-04

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[0:03] Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin announce

[0:05] a new democratic partnership at their

[0:06] summit in Vancouver. And America

[0:08] remembers Dr. Martin Luther King on the

[0:11] 25th anniversary of his death.

[0:14] This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:24] I'm Giselle Fernandez sitting in tonight

[0:25] for Connie Chung. Good evening.

[0:27] Presidents Boris Yeltsin and Bill

[0:28] Clinton ended their two-day Vancouver

[0:30] summit tonight with both calling the

[0:32] meeting a big success. The Russian

[0:34] leader returns to his embattled country

[0:36] with a US pledge of $1.6 billion

[0:39] to help Russia back on the road to

[0:40] reform. Susan Spencer is live in

[0:42] Vancouver with the wrap-up. Susan.

[0:45] >> Giselle, the $1.6 billion aid package to

[0:48] Russia was a bigger helping hand than

[0:49] expected. The beauty of it, the White

[0:51] House says, is that most of this money,

[0:53] in fact all of this money, already has

[0:55] been approved. As one source put it,

[0:57] there's no reason why some of these

[0:59] projects can't get underway tomorrow.

[1:03] With President Clinton having cast his

[1:05] lot with Boris Yeltsin, the two men seem

[1:07] determined to show this summit was a

[1:09] success. Spokesman announcing they're

[1:11] calling each other Boris and Bill now.

[1:14] At their joint news conference late

[1:15] today, President Clinton said the

[1:17] meeting had laid the foundation for a

[1:19] new democratic partnership.

[1:21] >> Now it is the self-interest

[1:23] and the high duty

[1:25] of all the world's democracies

[1:28] to stand by Russia's democratic reforms

[1:30] in their new hour of challenge.

[1:33] >> Yeltsin said that for him, this package

[1:35] shows Americans want Russia to prosper.

[1:40] >> The meeting in Vancouver signals a

[1:45] shift from general assurances of support

[1:49] to Russia to pragmatic, specific,

[1:53] nitty-gritty projects. What we see

[1:55] dominating here are economic and not

[1:59] military strategic issues.

[2:01] >> More than 900 million dollars, almost

[2:04] two-thirds of the entire package, is in

[2:06] grants and loans for food and medicine,

[2:08] a Yeltsin priority. Close to 250 million

[2:11] would go to increased trade and

[2:13] investment in Russia, and more to

[2:15] revitalize its crumbling energy

[2:17] industry. 150 million would help boost

[2:20] the struggling private sector. That

[2:21] would include loans to small businesses.

[2:24] The plan also sets aside 200 million

[2:26] dollars toward dismantling Russia's

[2:28] nuclear weapons. And in another sign of

[2:31] the Cold War's end, 6 million dollars to

[2:34] build housing for returning Russian

[2:35] soldiers.

[2:37] Both leaders stressed that everything

[2:38] possible has been done to ensure that

[2:40] this aid is not wasted. Too much is

[2:43] riding on it.

[2:44] >> Many of the dreams Americans and

[2:45] Russians hold for their children and for

[2:48] generations to come rest on the

[2:50] long-term success of Russia's reforms

[2:54] and thus on the long-term partnerships

[2:56] between our two nations.

[2:59] >> The end of the summit sends each

[3:01] president back home now to reality. Mr.

[3:03] Yeltsin to a possible vote of no

[3:05] confidence in just a few weeks. Mr.

[3:07] Clinton to a public that for the most

[3:09] part doesn't support aid to Russia. Both

[3:11] have big sales jobs ahead. Giselle?

[3:14] >> Susan Spencer live in Vancouver, thank

[3:16] you. With the 11-hour time difference,

[3:18] Russians have not yet had time to react

[3:20] to the US aid package, but up to now in

[3:22] Moscow promises of Western aid had been

[3:24] almost more a hindrance than help.

[3:26] Anthony Mason reports.

[3:29] >> Plane loads of Western relief aid began

[3:31] arriving in Moscow more than a year ago.

[3:34] 24 billion dollars in credits and aid

[3:37] the West promised Russia. But little

[3:39] more than half has actually been

[3:41] delivered and most Russians say they

[3:43] have little to show for it. Even some

[3:46] Western businessmen here call the aid

[3:48] effort so far shameful.

[3:50] >> Do it or don't talk about it. And if you

[3:52] are going to provide the aid to this

[3:53] country, you don't make them beg for it.

[3:56] >> Prime Minister Chernomyrdin admitted he

[3:58] found accepting humanitarian aid

[4:00] humiliating. Though we have to thank

[4:02] them, he added.

[4:04] Some will not be so grateful.

[4:07] Conservatives argue that aid brings

[4:09] interference from the West and they

[4:11] resent President Clinton's public

[4:13] endorsement of President Yeltsin.

[4:15] >> It's dangerous when

[4:17] foreigners way beginning to decide

[4:20] what is democratic and what is not in

[4:22] Russia. Who is supporter of reforms and

[4:25] who is not.

[4:28] It's not their business.

[4:30] >> But Yeltsin hopes to point to the West

[4:32] support as he campaigns for a vote of

[4:34] confidence in the referendum later this

[4:36] month. Promises of more relief aid are

[4:38] unlikely to improve his chances much.

[4:41] But Yeltsin has convinced the West he

[4:43] symbolizes reform, but he must convince

[4:46] the Russians those reforms are going to

[4:48] work.

[4:49] Anthony Mason, CBS News, Moscow.

[4:52] >> Here to give us some perspective is

[4:54] Stephen Cohen, Professor of Russian

[4:55] Studies at Princeton University and CBS

[4:57] News consultant. Welcome. 1.6 billion,

[5:00] more than anyone expected. Is this a

[5:01] first good step, a good first step?

[5:03] >> President Clinton's done something

[5:05] enormously heroic and very risky. He's

[5:07] tied his presidency to the fate of

[5:09] Russian reform.

[5:10] This money is a fraction of what Russia

[5:12] needs and Russia will need it for many,

[5:14] many years, but it's a dramatic first

[5:17] step. How to be

[5:19] implemented remains to be seen, though.

[5:21] >> Now, President Clinton has said this

[5:22] money will bypass the Moscow

[5:23] bureaucrats, go straight to the people

[5:25] who are struggling. Will this work?

[5:27] >> As a person who's spent almost 30 years

[5:29] off and on in Russia, I can't imagine

[5:30] it. How do you do it? Newspaper

[5:32] distribution is breaking down in Russia.

[5:34] How do you get this money to ordinary

[5:36] folks and moreover folks who are hurting

[5:38] terribly because of the reforms, who've

[5:41] lost their life savings. Maybe it'll

[5:43] help a few, but we'll see how they do

[5:45] it.

[5:45] >> And will it help Boris Yeltsin?

[5:47] >> I think it might even hurt him. There's

[5:48] so much pain in Russia. There's so much

[5:50] backlash against Western

[5:52] interference. It's hard to say. He

[5:54] really is on his own, and his big

[5:56] political battles are still still ahead.

[5:58] We can't do much in this respect.

[6:00] >> Stephen Cohen, thank you very much for

[6:01] joining us. Still ahead on the CBS

[6:03] Evening News, the second Rodney King

[6:04] trial enters what may be its week of

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[7:52] >> In Los Angeles, the federal trial of

[7:54] four policemen accused of violating

[7:56] Rodney King's civil rights is expected

[7:58] to go to the jury this week. But as Bill

[8:00] Whitaker reports, the prosecution hopes

[8:02] to end its case with a surprise witness

[8:04] on videotape.

[8:06] >> Defense attorneys were upbeat when they

[8:08] unexpectedly rested their cases Friday,

[8:11] taking prosecutors by surprise. But then

[8:14] they were surprised when prosecutors

[8:16] convinced Judge John Davies to let

[8:18] jurors see damaging videotaped testimony

[8:21] from the first trial in Simi Valley.

[8:24] >> It just said it's not fair. It's not

[8:26] legal, and we want to reverse it.

[8:28] >> The four accused officers are presenting

[8:30] a united front this time.

[8:32] >> Do you see yourself in the screen at

[8:33] this time?

[8:35] Right here, sir.

[8:36] >> With that

[8:36] >> But in the state trial last year,

[8:38] Officer Theodore Briseno broke ranks. He

[8:41] accused his co-defendants of using

[8:43] excessive force and Officer Lawrence

[8:45] Powell of beating Rodney King in the

[8:48] head.

[8:48] >> What Why are you stopping stopping

[8:50] Officer Powell?

[8:53] >> Because

[8:55] what I recall was I didn't see Mr. King

[8:57] moving, and I thought Officer Powell

[8:59] Officer Powell was out of control then.

[9:00] >> It's statements like this which

[9:02] jeopardize the other defendants and

[9:04] defense unity.

[9:05] >> The tape of Briseno testifying doesn't

[9:08] really hurt Briseno all that much. It

[9:10] really hurts the other defendants

[9:11] because he describes the blows and he

[9:13] describes blows up to the head.

[9:15] >> The defense kept Briseno off the stand

[9:18] in this trial, fearing his testimony

[9:20] could hurt them. Now they are faced with

[9:22] year-old taped testimony, which they

[9:25] know will hurt them.

[9:26] >> The sad thing about the tape that it was

[9:28] what Ted thought a year ago. So it's

[9:30] very unfair to defendant Powell to have

[9:32] some testimony

[9:34] uh from Ted that is now erroneous, that

[9:36] Ted knows is wrong.

[9:37] >> Defense attorneys appealed this weekend

[9:39] to the 9th Circuit Court seeking to

[9:41] block the tape and maintain their united

[9:43] front. A decision is expected Monday

[9:45] morning.

[9:47] Bill Whitaker, CBS News, Los Angeles.

[9:50] >> The violence that hit Los Angeles after

[9:52] last year's verdict spilled over to

[9:53] other cities like Las Vegas. This time

[9:56] around as Bill Leggett reports, city

[9:57] leaders in Las Vegas are preparing for

[9:59] the worst.

[10:01] >> Hello department,

[10:03] welcome to downtown Las Vegas.

[10:07] >> Not far from Glitter Gulch, behind the

[10:09] bright lights and big dreams of the Las

[10:11] Vegas strip, lies a real city and at the

[10:14] moment it's plenty worried about the Los

[10:16] Angeles police trial.

[10:18] >> There's no question if the verdict came

[10:19] back

[10:21] um

[10:23] not guilty, that we could face problems.

[10:27] >> Last year West Las Vegas, a very poor,

[10:30] mostly black and largely ignored part of

[10:32] the city, erupted when the LA officers

[10:35] were acquitted. One person killed,

[10:37] damage in the millions.

[10:39] >> Community leaders have started a

[10:40] peacekeeping effort to help ease fears

[10:42] and tensions throughout Las Vegas.

[10:44] >> This time Las Vegas is blanketing the

[10:46] airwaves, postering walls and passing

[10:49] out buttons in an effort to stop trouble

[10:51] before it starts. Just remember, say the

[10:54] TV spots.

[10:55] >> A couple of months ago I lost my child

[10:56] here in a riot. Please talk to your

[10:58] children so that you won't experience

[11:00] the pain and suffering I did.

[11:02] >> The second Rodney King beating trial is

[11:04] winding down.

[11:05] >> Learning about the riots is mandatory in

[11:07] the local schools.

[11:09] >> It is ignorant to go out and riot and

[11:12] destroy businesses and stuff.

[11:14] >> I don't think it'll be as bad.

[11:16] >> No matter what happens, you don't think

[11:17] it's going to be as bad this time?

[11:18] >> No, not as bad.

[11:19] >> If it's not as bad, that's because

[11:21] there's been some progress. A

[11:23] black-owned shopping mall which was

[11:25] burned down reopened with city help.

[11:28] West Las Vegas now has its first

[11:30] full-service bank. A new school is being

[11:32] built, and under pressure, three new

[11:35] casinos have promised thousands of jobs

[11:37] will go to the city's poor.

[11:39] >> In this community, we are far better off

[11:41] as a result of what happened last year.

[11:43] I think that there was some attention

[11:45] focused on the West Las Vegas community.

[11:48] >> But not everyone is optimistic that

[11:49] enough is being done, and that tempers

[11:52] won't flare again.

[11:54] >> This verdict

[11:55] is uh

[11:57] pretty much the same as it was before.

[11:58] Just be the same results.

[12:00] >> So, Las Vegas police have been preparing

[12:02] for the worst. The hope, though, in a

[12:05] city built on hopes and dreams, is that

[12:07] if Las Vegas explodes this time, it will

[12:10] be for the tourists only, and not for

[12:12] real. Bill Whitaker, CBS News, Los

[12:15] Angeles.

[14:08] >> 25 years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther

[14:10] King Jr. was killed in Memphis. On this

[14:13] anniversary, a new CBS News New York

[14:14] Times poll shows that most Americans

[14:17] feel that race relations are better now

[14:19] than a quarter century ago. Generally,

[14:21] more whites than blacks feel there's

[14:22] been an improvement, but asked if they

[14:24] expected to see a full equality for

[14:25] blacks in their lifetimes, fewer than

[14:27] half the respondents said they did.

[14:29] Among blacks, a majority responded no.

[14:34] Around the country today, Americans

[14:35] remembered the slain civil rights

[14:36] leader. Randall Pinkston is in Memphis

[14:38] and takes a look at King's legacy.

[14:40] >> We have

[14:42] come a long ways,

[14:45] but we got much further to go.

[14:47] >> Some of the activists who helped Martin

[14:49] Luther King Jr. change America met this

[14:51] weekend in Memphis to assess his legacy.

[14:54] They gathered at the Lorraine Motel, now

[14:57] a civil rights museum, where King was

[14:59] killed by an assassin's bullet 25 years

[15:02] ago.

[15:02] >> Dr. King, 39 years old, who tried to

[15:05] teach America the meaning of nonviolent

[15:07] resistance, was shot and fatally wounded

[15:09] as he stood on the balcony of a Memphis

[15:11] hotel.

[15:12] >> I am the resurrection and the life,

[15:16] says the Lord.

[15:17] >> I think it can be said that he now

[15:18] stands with

[15:20] our

[15:21] >> other American martyrs

[15:23] in the cause of freedom and justice.

[15:25] >> That cause took a young Martin Luther

[15:27] King Jr. from the pulpit to the

[15:29] Montgomery bus boycott to voter

[15:32] registration marches, sit-ins, and even

[15:34] jail. He preached nonviolent direct

[15:37] action even when physically attacked or

[15:39] threatened with death.

[15:41] >> I've seen

[15:43] the promised land.

[15:46] I MAY NOT GET THERE WITH YOU.

[15:48] BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW TONIGHT

[15:51] THAT WE AS A PEOPLE WILL GET TO THE

[15:54] PROMISED LAND.

[15:56] >> 25 years after his death here in

[15:58] Memphis, we can see the changes King and

[16:01] the other movement leaders forced on

[16:02] America in law, in the workplace, in the

[16:05] way Americans view blacks, and the way

[16:08] black Americans view themselves.

[16:11] >> Cynthia McKinney is one of the heirs of

[16:13] King's legacy. This year she became the

[16:16] first black congresswoman from King's

[16:18] home state of Georgia.

[16:19] >> The movement has not died. I am a

[16:23] manifestation of the life and vitality

[16:26] of the movement.

[16:27] >> Still, activists say the movement passed

[16:29] over millions who remain entangled in

[16:31] the criminal justice system, stuck in

[16:34] poor housing and poor schools with

[16:36] little prospect for a decent-paying job.

[16:39] >> We still have not come to grips with

[16:41] poverty.

[16:42] And almost all of the other questions we

[16:44] face

[16:45] are reflections of

[16:47] the grinding poverty which still

[16:49] destroys people in the midst of a land

[16:52] of plenty.

[16:53] >> Dr. King he told he told us one thing.

[16:56] The struggle was not a black struggle.

[16:58] The struggle was not a racist struggle.

[17:01] The struggle was an economic struggle.

[17:03] >> It was this economic struggle that Dr.

[17:05] King was beginning to take on when he

[17:07] was killed.

[17:08] >> There is nothing more dangerous than the

[17:10] building of a society with a large

[17:12] segment of people in that society who

[17:14] feel that they have no stake in it, who

[17:16] feel that they have nothing to lose.

[17:18] People

[17:18] >> Lead me on.

[17:23] >> A concert ended the commemoration of

[17:26] King's death with his followers renewing

[17:28] hope that America will not ignore his

[17:31] warning.

[17:32] Wendell Pinkston, CBS News, Memphis.

[19:18] >> Cult leader David Koresh reportedly has

[19:19] told his followers this will be the last

[19:21] Passover they celebrate together, but

[19:23] it's unclear exactly what that means.

[19:25] Sandra Hughes reports.

[19:27] >> Attorneys for the cult leaders this

[19:29] morning returned to the Branch Davidian

[19:31] compound, even though last week they had

[19:34] said if they went back inside, it would

[19:36] only be for a significant development,

[19:38] possibly a surrender of the cult

[19:40] members.

[19:41] >> The attorneys came back to us and said

[19:43] that uh

[19:44] they had been able to confirm

[19:46] information they believe that was very

[19:48] important to them. They believed it was

[19:51] an interpretation with regard to uh

[19:54] to the religious holidays.

[19:56] >> FBI officials still insist they'll be

[19:59] flexible, anything to try to negotiate a

[20:01] peaceful ending to the 36-day standoff.

[20:05] Through the weekend, tanks crisscrossed

[20:07] the compound.

[20:09] Helicopters flew aerial surveillance.

[20:12] Both federal officials and attorneys

[20:14] indicate a peaceful surrender may be

[20:16] imminent. They are hoping David Koresh's

[20:18] Passover holiday, which starts on

[20:20] Tuesday, may mark the beginning of the

[20:23] end. In the Old Testament, the Passover

[20:26] holiday signified the Jewish people

[20:28] being led to freedom from enslavement.

[20:31] >> We are have been led

[20:33] to believe that this is a a significant

[20:35] period, this Passover period.

[20:37] >> As the anticipation mounted about a

[20:39] release, several groups converged on

[20:41] Waco looking for a forum and media

[20:44] attention using the standoff as a

[20:46] backdrop.

[20:47] >> Just to show support for the Branch

[20:48] Davidians, for David Koresh, and so

[20:50] forth.

[20:50] >> As week six begins, there is renewed

[20:53] optimism. This time, hopes are pinned on

[20:56] meetings between cult members and their

[20:57] attorneys. Today's meetings lasted just

[21:00] over 5 hours, and that the next time the

[21:03] door to the compound opens, it will

[21:05] signal the end. Sandra Hughes, CBS News,

[21:09] Waco.

[21:11] >> There were calls today for peace and an

[21:12] end to the IRA's guerrilla war at

[21:14] rallies across Ireland and Britain.

[21:16] Thousands attended the one in London's

[21:18] Hyde Park. The drive for peace in

[21:20] Northern Ireland has been spurred by the

[21:21] recent IRA bombing in England that

[21:23] killed two children.

[21:25] In Bosnia, another UN food convoy

[21:27] reached the besieged Muslim town of

[21:29] Srebrenica, but local officials barred

[21:31] more refugees from leaving. UN relief

[21:33] flights resumed to Sarajevo as Bosnia's

[21:35] capital marked a full year of civil war.

[21:37] More from Christopher Morris of

[21:39] Britain's Sky Television.

[21:43] >> A quiet day by Sarajevo standards.

[21:50] But a day for some celebration. The RAF

[21:53] is back. The United Nations airlift

[21:55] resumed, bringing desperately needed

[21:57] food for the city where supplies were

[21:59] fast running out.

[22:01] But what the planes can bring in on a

[22:03] daily basis is just a drop in the ocean

[22:05] as far as the requirements of the people

[22:07] of Sarajevo are concerned. Nonetheless,

[22:09] the operation has resumed again after

[22:12] being halted for 2 weeks, and it shows

[22:14] every sign of being able to continue.

[22:17] 17 flights ran the gauntlet into

[22:19] Sarajevo to deliver 170 tons of relief

[22:22] aid. The operations had been suspended,

[22:25] not for the first time, after the cargo

[22:27] planes came under fire during landing.

[22:29] Not this time, though.

[22:31] >> Uh just very sporadic firing in the

[22:33] city, but it is a very quiet day. Uh

[22:36] let's hope it sticks this way because

[22:38] that is a the real sign that uh all are

[22:42] supportive of uh this type of operation,

[22:44] and uh hopefully it'll continue.

[22:47] >> At the same time, two convoys of British

[22:49] trucks carrying even more supplies, 270

[22:52] tons of flour and salt, reached Sarajevo

[22:54] by road. Christopher Morris for CBS

[22:57] News, Sarajevo.

[23:00] >> Pope John Paul marked Palm Sunday, the

[23:02] start of Holy Week in the Roman Catholic

[23:04] Church leading up to Easter. In

[23:05] Jerusalem, there was the traditional

[23:07] procession to commemorate the day it's

[23:09] believed Jesus entered the city in

[23:11] triumph.

[24:53] College sports, as you know, these days

[24:55] are big business with millions of

[24:56] dollars spent on scholarships and

[24:58] millions coming in from TV contracts but

[25:00] not all the heroes are on the field

[25:02] leading plays. Bill Geist reports that

[25:04] some are on the sidelines leading

[25:05] cheers.

[25:07] >> The years of learning technical skills,

[25:09] the long hours of daily practice,

[25:11] scholarships, recruiting, it's all part

[25:14] of a big college program.

[25:16] Not basketball, cheerleading.

[25:19] Remember when all cheerleading required

[25:21] was popularity and pom-poms?

[25:26] Times have changed.

[25:29] Today's gymnastic cheerleaders don't

[25:30] like to be compared to the cheerleaders

[25:32] of old or any other cheerleaders.

[25:35] >> 5 6 7 8

[25:41] >> Kentucky cheerleading adviser T. Lynn

[25:43] Williamson

[25:44] >> I'll get calls all the time and they'd

[25:46] would want us to make some kind of

[25:47] appearance somewhere and I said, "Well,

[25:48] we'll bring your pretty girls by and let

[25:50] them make an appearance." And I go like,

[25:51] "Well, you know, we don't just have

[25:52] pretty girls. We have 12 or 14

[25:54] cheerleaders and there's seven males and

[25:56] seven females that are very attractive

[25:57] athletes and we'll be very glad to bring

[25:59] all 14 of them by but not just the

[26:01] girls."

[26:02] >> 16 Kentucky cheerleaders are on

[26:04] scholarships.

[26:07] Stacie Van Cleave was recruited by

[26:10] Kentucky much as it recruits basketball

[26:12] players.

[26:13] >> I still get people when I go to practice

[26:15] at night who are like, "What do y'all

[26:16] have to practice? What is there to do?

[26:18] You know, rah rah rah, that's you know,

[26:20] what else is it?"

[26:21] >> A petite prospect with the extraordinary

[26:24] gymnastic ability required today is as

[26:26] tough to come by as a good 7-ft center.

[26:31] These days cheerleading has its own

[26:33] language.

[26:34] >> They start with with chairs and they go

[26:36] to torches, they go to extensions, they

[26:38] go to liberties, they go to QPs,

[26:41] liberties with full with full twist out,

[26:43] QPs with full twist out,

[26:45] stretches and various things like that.

[26:50] >> Where once a little eye makeup and a

[26:52] curling were the tools of the

[26:53] cheerleader, today it takes years of

[26:55] training.

[26:57] >> That's the feet, like this. Good.

[26:59] >> Kids start early here in Lexington,

[27:01] Kentucky, perhaps the capital of the

[27:03] cheerleading world.

[27:05] >> Oh, we have some 3-year-olds.

[27:07] We start them at 2 and 1/2.

[27:08] >> Dawn Duncan Waller, is a former Kentucky

[27:11] cheerleader, has opened a school for

[27:13] aspiring cheerleaders.

[27:14] >> My junior all-stars are four-time

[27:16] national champions with NCA.

[27:19] >> 11-year-old Kasey Cochran is a PROMISING

[27:22] PROSPECT.

[27:25] HOW EARLY did you start classes?

[27:27] >> Um, well, I took gymnastics at a dance

[27:29] studio when I was 2.

[27:31] >> Just as kids used to grow up with dreams

[27:33] of playing basketball for Kentucky,

[27:35] today they want to cheer there.

[27:37] >> I want to cheer for UK.

[27:39] >> The Kentucky Wildcats made it to the

[27:41] final four this weekend in their quest

[27:43] to become national champions. The

[27:46] cheerleaders already are.

[27:56] >> And that's the news. Coming up on 60

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[28:02] City public schools. And then later,

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