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(Studio) Casualties noted. Relief finally arrives in eastern Turkey for quake victims.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Muradiye, Turkey) Conditions noted. Reasons for casualties from quake noted. Turkish military planes help supply relief. US, Iran, and West Germany also send help.
REPORTER: Bert Quint
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(Studio) Besides National Steel and Jones and Laughlin, 4 more steel companies increase prices.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Washington, DC) ARMCO, Wheeling, Inland and Youngstown steel companies announce 6% flat steel price increase Reason cited. Areas affected noted. White House complaints noted. [Acting director of Council on Wage and Price Stability, William LILLEY - thinks market won't sustain price increase] Lilley thinks price increase won't stick unless United States Steel and Bethlehem Steel, 2 major companies, raise prices also. No comment from either company
REPORTER: Nelson Benton
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(Studio) President-elect Jimmy Carter is moving slowly on selecting appointees.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Washington, DC) Carter transition team sources say at least 2 women are among top candidates being considered for Attorney General: Shirley M. Hufstedler, United States Court of Appeals judge in San Francisco, and Texas Representative Barbara Jordan. Others high on list are Burke Marshall (civil rights div. chief under President Kennedy), John Doar (chief cnsl. of House impeachment investigation of President Nixon) , A. Leon Higginbotham (black federal judge in Philadelphia), and Griffin Bell (former United States appeals court judge from Georgia). Sources say CIA director to be picked after Attorney General Other appointments now settled cited.
REPORTER: Fred Graham
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(Studio) Treasury Secretary William Simon's trip to Moscow noted because of number of people travelling with him for 15-min. talk.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Cairo, Egypt) Congressmen travelling with wives, etc., prefer term "fact-finding" to "junketing." Charles Wiggins, California, enjoys the travelling. (Alabama Congressman Walter FLOWERS - feels members of House and Senator have probably abused privilege of travelling officially.] Sample itineraries noted. All meet President Sadat. United States ambassador Hermann Eilts loads Congressmen down on schedules. Representative William Lehman (Florida) studies rehabilitation ctrs. Real purpose of travelling noted. Abuses noted. Republican Representative Edward Hutchinson (Michigan), William Randall (Missouri) are "lame-duck" travelers. [RANDALL - claims they're making a report to leave for their successors.] [Florida Representative William LEHMAN - asserts he wouldn't travel on taxpayers' money, if he were a "lame-duck Congressman." ]
REPORTER: John Sheahan
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(Studio) General Assembly disapproves United States veto of Vietnam's admission to UN.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(UN, NYC) Vietnam and friends protest veto of Hanoi's mbrship. by vote of 124 to 1 (US), and asks Security Council to consider the matter again. Vietnam's ambassador Dinh Bitu criticizes US. United States ambassador William Scranton accuses Vietnam. Purpose of rally noted.
REPORTER: Richard C. Hottelet
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(Studio) Agreement on deadline for majority government in Rhodesia is March 1, 1978.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) One of last acts of President Echeverria is to expropriate land for peasants. Results cited.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Culiacan, Mexico) Protest throughout state of Sinaloa by peasants for more land. Their demands are cited. Alternatives noted.
REPORTER: George Natanson
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(Studio) Dangers in Mexico and Canada cited. Reasons also cited. Peso devaluation noted.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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(Studio) United States aid to India has declined because of its incrd. self-sufficiency.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(New Delhi, India) Incrd. grain production noted. No. of Indians below poverty line incring. Reasons cited. Past United States aid projects noted. Former amb. Daniel Patrick Moynihan's comment noted. Total United States investments, grants and loans noted. India's huge size and wealth reason for self-sufficiency. USSR attempting to move in and give more aid now. In the contest for influence in India, India is winner.
REPORTER: Peter Collins
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(Studio) Alaska pipeline almost ready.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Prudhoe Bay, AK) Pro and con comments on pipeline noted. High cost of living noted. Royalties and incrd. salaries noted. [Pipeline worker, Bunny CHAMBERS - tells amount of 1 week's paycheck.] Changes in Alaska noted; also rise of Teamsters Union's power. [Governor Jay HAMMOND - says Alaska is energy receptacle. Concerned with how energy is syphoned from AK.]
REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater
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