Vanderbilt Television News Archive

ABC Evening News for 1971-12-09

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Howard K. Smith (Washington, DC); Harry Reasoner (New York City)

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  05:00:50 pm — 05:01:50 pm

• (Commercial: Jell-0 Gelatin.)

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  05:01:50 pm — 05:02:00 pm

• India-Pakistan / United Nations / War / East

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  05:02:00 pm — 05:04:50 pm

  (Studio) Pakistan accepts United Nations peace proposal; India ignores it. Indians advance near Dacca, E. Pakistan, destroying enemy planes, ships. Indian planes bomb orphanage near Dacca.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

  (India-E. Pakistan Border) Indians meet heavy resistance; take Hili, E. Pakistan.
  REPORTER: Peter Jennings

• India-Pakistan / War / West

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  05:04:50 pm — 05:07:10 pm

  (Studio) India recaptures portions of Kashmir. Pakistan refuses cooperation with journalists, yielding little confirmation of their successes; India aids news coverage.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

  (India-W. Pakistan border) Pakistanis halted in advance toward Amritsar, India; Indians seize Pakistani territory, capture arms-supplied to Pakistan by United States and China.
  REPORTER: Ray Moloney

  (Studio) Karachi, West Pakistan, port under heavy air attack. For. merchant ships under fire.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

• (Commercial: Jell-O Gelatin; Gravy Train Dog Food.)

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  05:07:10 pm — 05:08:20 pm

• Tax Bill / Child Care

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  05:08:20 pm — 05:10:10 pm

  (Studio) House and Senator pass tax cut bill; termed highly important by Representative Wilbur Mills.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (Capitol Hill) Tax bill designed to revive economy, reduce unemployment, boost sale of United States merchandise Exemption schedule cited. Child care costs, dollar check-off plan for campaign costs after `72 incld.
  REPORTER: Bob Clark

  (Studio) War on poverty bill incls. child care center program; ABC reporter Bill Gill reports President veto anticipated.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• Pay Board / Railroad Signalmen

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  05:10:10 pm — 05:10:30 pm

  (Studio) Pay Bd. approves railroad signalmen wage increase of 47% over 3 years
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• (Commercial: CG Fund Mutual Fund; Aqua Velva Prdts.)

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  05:10:30 pm — 05:11:30 pm

• Vietnam / Casualties / Cambodia

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  05:11:30 pm — 05:14:10 pm

  (Studio) United States casualties rptd, South Vietnam and United States `copter gunships overrun Communist base camp in Cambodia. Communists attack Highway 6.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (Kompong Thom, Cambodia) Village survivors of Cambodian operation to clear Highway 6, which ended in Cambodian rout by Communists, featured.
  REPORTER: Denis Cameron

• Donaldson / Charges Dismissed

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  05:14:10 pm — 05:14:30 pm

  (Studio) United States Army dismisses murder charges against Brigadier General John Donaldson accused of killing 6 Vietnam civilians.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• (Commercial: Admiral Televisions; Schick Hot Lather Machine; Cool Whip Whipped Topping; Sanka Decaffeinated Coffee.)

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  05:14:30 pm — 05:16:40 pm

• Peace River / Pollution

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  05:16:40 pm — 05:18:50 pm

  (Studio) Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission deplores new pollution in Peace River Phosphate sludge from mine reaches Charlotte Harbor, killing marine life.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

  (Florida) Wilderness waterway ravaged by break in earth dyke. Damage suits considered. [Fishing guide Kate TURBAK - dismayed at slaughter of fish.]
  REPORTER: Steve Bell

• Volcano / West Indies

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  05:18:50 pm — 05:21:10 pm

  (Studio) On West Indian island of Saint Vincent live volcano on brink of eruption.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

  (Kingstown, Saint Vincent, West Indies) Volcano activity described. Cntry. people leave homes for Kingstown. [Mrs. Levantina CHANCE - says help from woman only.] Govt. prepares shelter for evacuees. World Council of Churches sends blankets; schools prepared for temporary shelter.
  REPORTER: Charles Murphy

• (Commercial: Connecticut General Life Insurance Company.)

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  05:21:10 pm — 05:22:20 pm

• Child Care

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  05:22:20 pm — 05:22:30 pm

  (Studio) President vetoes child care program.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• US-USSR Trade

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  05:22:30 pm — 05:22:50 pm

  (Studio) "Business Wk." reports United States and USSR to open ports to each others' vessels. Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, back from Moscow, predicts boom in US-USSR trade.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• United States / USSR -China

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  05:22:50 pm — 05:25:20 pm

  (Studio) USSR -Chinese relations worsen; evident at UN.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (NYC) Chinese and Soviets air views at UN. [Chinese representative HUANG HUA - says USSR ruling clique plans control of India-Pakistan subcontinent; to surround China, dominate Asia.] [USSR representative Yakov MALIK - says slander taken over from imperialists by Chinese.] United States Ambassador George Bush not involved in dispute.
  REPORTER: Bill Brannigan

• Death / Bunche

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  05:25:20 pm — 05:25:50 pm

  (Studio) President Nixon pays tribute to Nobel Prize winning United Nations peacemaker Dr. Ralph Bunche, who died in New York today at 69. Bunche, who mediated end to 1949 Arab-Israeli war, retired 10 weeks ago as United Nations undersecretary general
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• (Commercial: Sunbeam Hair Driers; Connecticut General Insurance Corp.)

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  05:25:50 pm — 05:26:50 pm

• Commentary (Potpourri)

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  05:26:50 pm — 05:28:50 pm

  (Studio) Pleasure expressed over report that "torso look" coming back in women's fashions; John Updike book praised by New York "Times"; National Audubon Soc. efforts to find nest of rare bird reported.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

• Good Night

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  05:28:50 pm — 05:28:50 pm