Vanderbilt Television News Archive

ABC Evening News for 1972-01-18

This program is 27 minutes long

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

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  05:00:40 pm — 05:01:30 pm

• (Commercial)

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  05:01:30 pm — 05:01:50 pm

• US-Russia

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  05:01:50 pm — 05:04:20 pm

  (Studio) United States Coast Guard icebreaker Storis catches 2 Russian ships in territorial waters off Alaskan island, Saint Matthew. Ships escorted to US Naval Base at Adak for legal action.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

  (State Department) Recent incidents in US-Russia relations reviewed. Nixon's trip to Moscow said not jeopardized.
  REPORTER: Ted Koppel

• (Commercial)

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  05:04:20 pm — 05:05:30 pm

• 92nd Congress / Kennedy

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  05:05:30 pm — 05:08:20 pm

  (Studio) 2nd session 92nd Congress convenes with 5 Senators; 4 Representatives declared runners for President Partisan year expected.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (Capitol Hill) [Senator Edward KENNEDY - delivers biting attack on Nixon for his failure to end war.] [Senate Majority leader Mike MANSFIELD - says other Senators will make similar statements.] [Senator Minority leader, Hugh SCOTT - displeased at Kennedy statement that President Nixon prolongs war to insure re-election.] Welfare, revenue sharing, and health care on Congress agenda.
  REPORTER: Bob Clark

• State of The Union

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  05:08:20 pm — 05:08:40 pm

  (Studio) President Nixon's State of the Union Address announced for Thursday, 12:30 noon EST. Democrats respond Friday at noon.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• (Commercial)

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  05:08:40 pm — 05:09:50 pm

• Indochina

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  05:09:50 pm — 05:12:00 pm

  (Studio) North Vietnam MiGs fire on United States planes over Laos. United States planes carry out 250 sorties on enemy supply routes and positions in Laos and South Vietnam central highlands to disrupt expected Tet offensive. South Vietnam troops in Cambodia ordered home for more defense.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

  (Thay Ninh, South Vietnam) Cambodian troops helpless without South Vietnam aid; abandon villages to flee to South Vietnam. South Vietnam sends them home.
  REPORTER: Jim Giggans

• My Lai Massacre

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  05:12:00 pm — 05:12:20 pm

  (Studio) Seymour Hersh, reporter who disclosed My Lai Massacre, says in "New Yorker" magazine article that 347 civilians, twice as many as acknowledged, killed in incident according to Pentagon transcript of My Lai inquiry.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

• Soviet Jew Exodus

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  05:12:20 pm — 05:14:30 pm

  (Studio) 350 Soviet Jews leave USSR for Israel.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

  (Schoenau, Austria) Major exodus appears to be underway. First stop for departing Soviet Jews in Vienna. Soviet motivation for permitting exodus a mystery.
  REPORTER: George Watson

• (Commercial)

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  05:14:30 pm — 05:16:40 pm

• Longshoremen's Strike

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  05:16:40 pm — 05:17:20 pm

  (Studio) Nixon Admin. under pressure to end renewed dock strike on West Coast as ship owners refuse to take on military cargo, previously exempt from strike. Ore. Governor Tom McCall flies to Washington, DC representing 7 Western states seeking strike end.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• Detroit Bank Aided

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  05:17:20 pm — 05:17:30 pm

  (Studio) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to provide up to $60 million in loans to Detroit Bank of Commonwealth.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• Price List Enforcement

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  05:17:30 pm — 05:19:20 pm

  (Studio) IRS (Internal Revenue Service) agents begin enforcement of Price Commission ruling for posting of price lists by retailers.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (Hyattsville, Md.) [IRS officer, John CRAWFORD - says all stores checked were in compliance with price list ruling.] [Customers seem not to notice price lists.] Bounties can be collected by consumers for up to $1,000 for finding stores not complying. Confusion hampers effectiveness of program.
  REPORTER: Bill Zimmerman

• Housing Starts

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  05:19:20 pm — 05:19:50 pm

  (Studio) Commerce Department reports housing starts up in December Total for year at 2 million, record high.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  05:19:50 pm — 05:20:00 pm

  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• (Commercial)

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  05:20:00 pm — 05:21:00 pm

• Water Poison Plot

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  05:21:00 pm — 05:23:10 pm

  (Studio) Chicago police charge 2 with conspiracy to commit murder in connection with plot to poison water supplies.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

  (Chicago) 19 year old Allen Schwander and 18 year old Steve Pera, students at Chicago City College plotted to contaminate Lake Mich. water filtration plants. [States Attorney, Edward HANRAHAN - says plants were to be infected.] [Police Supt., James CONLISK, Junior - reassures public.] [Mayor Richard DALEY - Speaks reassuringly also.]
  REPORTER: Jim Kincaid

• Pep Pills / Traffic

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  05:23:10 pm — 05:23:40 pm

  (Studio) Federal Bureau of Narcotics seizes 1 million pep pills. New York Div. Pennwalt Corporation sent 45 million to Mexico where affiliate re-pkgd. and returned some for illegal sale.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• Flu Epidemic

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  05:23:40 pm — 05:25:40 pm

  (Studio) Flu epidemic reported by National Center for Disease Control in Atlanta.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (Bethesda, Maryland) Public Health doctors identify Hong Kong Flu, type A-2 as epidemic villain. Vaccine being developed to combat expected worldwide epidemic in late 70's.
  REPORTER: Jules Bergman

• (Commercial)

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  05:25:40 pm — 05:26:50 pm

• Commentary (Kissinger)

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  05:26:50 pm — 05:28:40 pm

  (Studio) Joseph Alsup, columnist, called on by Admin. to explain India-Pakistan situation with respect to US. Alsup supposedly got info. from President Aide Henry Kissinger who instills no confidence in commentator.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

• Good Night

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  05:28:40 pm — 05:28:40 pm