Vanderbilt Television News Archive

ABC Evening News for 1972-01-03

This program is 28 minutes long

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

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  05:00:30 pm — 05:01:30 pm

• (Commercial)

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  05:01:30 pm — 05:01:50 pm

• India / Pakistan / Bangladesh

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  05:01:50 pm — 05:05:10 pm

  (Studio) Pakistani President Ali Bhutto moves to establish relations with Bangladesh and India by releasing Sheik Mujibur Rahmam named President of Bangladesh. Bhutto requests return of Pakistani soldiers and civilians.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

  (India) Bengali refugees prepare to return from India. India encourages repatriation. (Jessore, Bangladesh) Buses wait at Jessore to carry refugees past shattered rail lines.
  REPORTER: Ray Moloney

  (Rawalpindi, West Pakistan) Information centers set up in Pakistan for families of captured Pakistanis.
  REPORTER: Lou Cioffi

• Northern Ireland

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  05:05:10 pm — 05:06:00 pm

  (Studio) Terrorist explosion rips Belfast during business peak.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

  (Belfast) 60 shoppers injured. Belfast police blame IRA (Irish Republican Army) for blast, but this one different as no warning given. British army says truck used for bomb, hijacked in Catholic district, abandoned at department store.
  REPORTER: Jerry King

• (Commercial)

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  05:06:00 pm — 05:08:10 pm

• Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam

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  05:08:10 pm — 05:08:40 pm

  (Studio) Communist guerrillas return to Cambodian rubber plantation, attack Long Chen in Laos, and fire on United Nations airbase at Da Nang, South Vietnam.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• POWs / Nixon

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  05:08:40 pm — 05:12:10 pm

  (Studio) President Nixon interview on CBS with Dan Rather reported.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (DC) [NIXON - says Communists at Paris Peace Talks, reject United States proposal to set deadline for withdrawal of United States troops from South Vietnam upon release of American P.O.W.s.] White House acknowledges that President Nixon was not referring to North Vietnam rejection of any formal proposal, but to informal contacts. [Senator George MCGOVERN - denies Communist rejection of plan.]
  REPORTER: Tom Jarriel

  (Studio) North Vietnam delegation to Paris Peace Talks says United States P.O.W.s would have been home by now if President Nixon had accepted peace terms.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• United States Bombs / North Vietnam

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  05:12:10 pm — 05:12:30 pm

  (Studio) Pentagon says bad weather forced United States pilots to pass up several targets in last week's bombing of North Vietnam.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• (Commercial)

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  05:12:30 pm — 05:13:40 pm

• Campaign `72 / Nixon, Demo. Contenders

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  05:13:40 pm — 05:15:30 pm

  (Studio) President Nixon's name entered in New Hampshire primary.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

  (Concord, New Hampshire) Former New Hampshire Governor Lane Dwinell places Nixon's name on Republican ballot. [DWINELL - predicts Nixon victory in New Hampshire primary.] Senator Edmund Muskie expected to win Democratic nomination in New Hampshire, but Senator Vance Hartke files for race anyway. [HARTKE - announces candidacy.] Other candidates running in New Hampshire primary listed: McGovern, Muskie, Yorty, McCloskey, and Ashbrook.
  REPORTER: Stephen Geer

• Campaign `72 / Muskie

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  05:15:30 pm — 05:15:40 pm

  (Studio) Senator Edmund Muskie 1st to enter name in Ill. primary.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

• (Commercial)

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  05:15:40 pm — 05:17:50 pm

• Pay Board / Aerospace Workers

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  05:17:50 pm — 05:18:20 pm

  (Studio) Virgil Day, G.E. Vice President and business member on Pay Bd. says board to trim 12% pay raise for aerospace workers.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• IRS Polices Prices

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  05:18:20 pm — 05:20:10 pm

  (Studio) IRS (Internal Revenue Service) escalates enforcement of Phase II price guidelines.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

  (Atlanta, Georgia) Revenue officers like Mrs. Paulette Ross, concentrate spot checks on new price posting regulation. [Shoppers interviewed show apathy on subject.]
  REPORTER: Steve Bell

• US-Japan / Trade

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  05:20:10 pm — 05:20:30 pm

  (Studio) Japan agrees to limit exports of wool and man-made textiles to US.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• (Commercial)

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  05:20:30 pm — 05:21:30 pm

• King Frederick Ill

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  05:21:30 pm — 05:21:40 pm

  (Studio) Copenhagen doctors report improvement in King Frederick of Denmark, who suffered heart attack.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

• Mrs. Nixon / Liberia

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  05:21:40 pm — 05:23:20 pm

  (Studio) Mrs. Richard Nixon in Africa on 1st diplomatic mission.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

  (Monrovia) Mrs. Nixon represents President at inauguration of new Liberian President William Tolbert. Mrs. Nixon accompanied by Reverend Billy Graham, representative World Baptist Alliance, of which Mrs. Tolbert is ex-pres. Liberian ties, including foreign trade, strong with US.
  REPORTER: Barrie Dunsmore

• Gasoline Pumped Into Sewer

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  05:23:20 pm — 05:23:50 pm

  (Studio) Midland, Mich., residents evacuated when truck driver pumped 4,000 gal. gasoline into sewer system rather than service station tank.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

• Oil Spill Remedy

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  05:23:50 pm — 05:26:10 pm

  (Studio) In Cal., Standard Oil Co workers remove crude oil from San Francisco Bay after spill. (Sta. Barbara Channel) April 1969 oil spill shown, damages cited.
  REPORTER: Harry Reasoner

  (Alexandria, Virginia) [Microbiologist Edward AZAROWICZ - introduces microbe process for oil-spill clean up. Expresses concern over possible extinction of marine life.]
  REPORTER: Bill Downs

• (Commercial)

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  05:26:10 pm — 05:27:20 pm

• Commentary (1971 in Review)

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  05:27:20 pm — 05:29:00 pm

  (Studio) Commentary optimistically reviews events of 1971: India/Pakistan war; United States race relations; United States domestic unrest; foreign relations.
  REPORTER: Howard K. Smith

• Good Night

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  05:29:00 pm — 05:29:00 pm