This program is 27 minutes long
#17536
(Studio) For 14 mos., West Coast Longshoremen have tried to negotiate new contract include guaranteed annual wage. Strike resumes after Taft-Hartley injunction expires.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(San Francisco, Cal.) Federal Mediator tells union chief Harry Bridges that Federal intervention highly likely. [BRIDGES - blames Taft-Hartley injunction for lack of settlement.] [Longshoremen - believes raise should be granted.] Longshoremen want guaranteed income to offset containerized cargo process.
REPORTER: Dick Shoemaker
#17537
(Studio) Canadian air traffic controllers strike.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#17538
(Studio) Federal Reserve Bd. reports industry production up .7% in December
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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#17540
(Studio) Supreme Court agrees to hear 1st school desegregation case outside South, involving Denver, Colo.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#17541
(Studio) Supreme Court hears arguments on death penalty.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Supreme Court) Defense attys. for convicted murders and 2 convicted rapists argue that capital punishment is cruel and unusual, thus unconstitutional. [Cal. Deputy Attorney General Ronald GEORGE - says public accepts death penalty.] [NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) legal defense fund, Jack GREENBERG - says public opinion is marginal and few death sentences are actually carried out anyway.] 700 United States criminals on death now await Supreme Court decision.
REPORTER: Bill Zimmerman
#17542
(Studio) 4 black men are principals in present Supreme Court death penalty cases.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Reidsville, Georgia) [Lucious X. JACKSON. Junior , 24, convicted of raping white woman, sees conviction as race and class discrimination by all white jury.]
REPORTER: Steve Bell
#17543
(Studio) New Jersey rules state death penalty law unconstitutional as providing different penalties for same crime.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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#17545
(Studio) North Vietnam build up anti-aircraft defenses in Laos.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#17546
(Studio) Vietnam witnesses another major United States troop withdrawal.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Bien Hoa, South Vietnam) Vietnamization speeds up as United States withdraws, causing higher rate in South Vietnam casualties. South Vietnam accord honor guard at burial of South Vietnam soldiers. South Vietnam now has 20% more women than men.
REPORTER: Jim Giggans
#17547
(Studio) Canada is haven for United States men avoiding military draft.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Toronto) [Draft evader, Dee KNIGHT - rejects amnesty proposals as they imply guilt, contain punitive measures of alternative service, and differentiate between draft dodgers and deserters.] [Deserter, Jack CALHOUN - refuses to wear badge of criminal, believing Indochina War to be the criminal act.]
REPORTER: Bill Brannigan
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#17549
(Studio) Senator Edward Kennedy removes name from Florida Democratic President primary.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#17550
(Studio) Senator Edmund Muskie endorsed by Senator Harold Hughes, Senator Mike Gravel, Senator Lee Metcalf, and Senator Quentin Burdick.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#17551
(Studio) United States Surgeon General reports results of study on effect of television violence on aggressive behavior in children
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) [Surgeon General, Dr. Jesse STEINFELD - says parental guidance can eliminate effects of television violence, although there is a causal connection between television violence and aggressive behavior by children.]
REPORTER: Bill Matney
#17552
(Studio) ABC names Elton Rule President of ABC, Incorporated to replace Leonard Goldenson, who was promoted to Bd. Chairperson
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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#17554
(Studio) Pakistani President Ali Bhutto offers to step down and allow Sheik Mujibur Rahman to run Pakistan if it would reunite nation.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#17555
(Studio) United States and French authorities break up narcotics ring, however, United States Bureau of Narcotics head, John Ingersoll, says despite US-French cooperation, amt. of heroin being brought into United States has not been reduced.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#17556
(Studio) American Medical Association Journal reports Methadone, used in treating heroin addicts, can have harmful effects on children.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Detroit) [Mother tells of child eating methadone.] [Poison Control Center, Dr. Regime AROHOW - says Methadone available in child's env't and is life-threatening situation.] [Dr. Sheldon BRENNER - describes effects on methadone on children.]
REPORTER: David Snell
#17557
(Studio) Researchers at Philadelphia hospital report new approach to heroin addiction treatment, using supervised inhalation of carbon dioxide.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#17558
#17559
(Studio) Commentator suggests need to avert strikes, such as that of Longshoremen. Cites unwieldy growth of unions, monopolism of management, which end up hurting public most of all. Suggests labor and management disputes be settled by public bds.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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