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(Studio) gross national product grew at annual rate of 7.5% in 1st quarter Inflation slowed to 3.7%.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Personal income and spending is up. Bus. spending up. [Acting chief econ., Commerce Department, Maynard COMIEZ - says gross national product shows good performance. Prices to increase some in future, but not to point of inflation.] Chairperson Council Econ. Advisers, Alan Greenspan, says recovery still has long way to go.
REPORTER: George Herman
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(Studio) Federal energy report says energy conservation is best United States policy for next 10 years Energy Research and Dvt. Admin. working on plans for more efficient internal combustion engines for cars; electric cars; and more efficient building insulation and waste recycling.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Supreme Court says air purity standards must be kept up all year Court agrees to hear challenges to EPA's right to regulate discharge of waste in waters. Court hears arguments with regard to judicial "gag orders."
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Sutherland, Nebraska) Charles Simants accused of October 1975 mass murder of 6. Judge issued gag order at preliminary hearing. 100 news orgs. reported in case. Nebraska prosecutor, Milton Larson, says courts, not editors, must have ultimate power over defendant's rights to unprejudiced juries. Barrett Prettyman says juries can do justice despite publicity and warns of possibility of keeping coverups like Watergate secret under gag rule. Justice John Paul Stevens concerned that gag order could have prevented publication of Watergate news. Decision expected in June.
REPORTER: Fred Graham (WOW-TV) Artist: Aggie Whelan
(Studio) Court rejects Representative Morris Udall's appeal for prompt hearing to be put on IN's May 4 primary ballot.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Report on political poll.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) In January 1960, John F. Kennedy laid out political strategy with pollster, Louis Harris. Film shows Kennedy and Senator Hubert H. Humphrey in 1960. Harris' West Virginia poll helped JFK. Polls now necessary to campaign.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Cambridge, Massachusetts) [CALLER - asks someone what they like about Jimmy Carter.] 6 interviewers question IN residents. Answers turned over to Carter pollster, Patrick Caddell. [CADDELL - explains how polls help.] [Campaign director Hamilton JORDAN - says polls deal with issues important in each state.] Cost or face-to-face poll is $20,000. Telephone polls cost $10,000. Peter Hart and Assocs. of Washington, DC handle polling for Rap. Morris Udall and CBS. [CALLER - asks Pennsylvania voter for opinion of Udall. ] [Pollster HART - told Udall that blue-collar voters and women were most susceptible to change to him. Explains strategy.] [UDALL - says if spends $100,000 for ad., should spend $20,000 to see what people are concerned about.] Senator Henry Jackson uses 2 pollsters, Tulley Presser of New York and Bill Hamilton of DC.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Aboard train) [JACKSON - says polling is very important.]
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) Democratic candidates who didn't survive primaries, didn't use polls.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) 1000's Israeli ntlists. end 2-day march from Jerusalem to Jericho. They demanded Israeli annexation of territory captured in 1967 war. West bank Arabs demonstrate against march. 1 Arab killed and 3 hurt in Nablus in clash with Israeli troops.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) White House approves Syrian troop presence in Lebanon. Joint force of Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese soldiers force latest cease-fire. Fighting conts. 58 killed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Defense Manpower Commission spent 2 years and 2.5 million assessing American military needs. Report says all-volunteer army couldn't meet wartime military needs and standby draft needed. Commission reserved with regard to nil. unionization.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Holland) Dutch army unionized 10 years ago. Soldiers receive higher pay and less strict hair and shoeshine rules. Union now wants overtime pay.
REPORTER: Ike Pappas
(Fort Benning, Georgia) Defense Department against unionization of army.
(DC) [Defense Secretary Don. RUMSFELD - says cmdrs. can't negotiate with servicemen's union representatives since 1969 directive.]
REPORTER: Ike Pappas
(No location given) Unions think they can help servicemen. [President American Federation of Govt. Employees Clyde WEBER - explains how unions can help the GI.] Plan to be presented to union's convention in fall. If okayed there'll be drive to organization armed forces.
REPORTER: Ike Pappas
(Peoria, Illinois) [Union organizer sergeant William SPENCE - explains union's aims.] Association of Civilian Technicians is trying to get National Guard to sign petition calling for union to represent them. [sergeant Dennis MARTIN - says it's time for smaller people to get grievances known.] [sergeant Harold RAMEY - not interested until have all the facts.] [Corporal Ed GRAHAM - says he's against unions in military]
REPORTER: Ike Pappas
(DC) Senator Strom Thurmond intros. bill to make it illegal for unions to rep. military 30 Senators cosigned.
REPORTER: Ike Pappas
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(Studio) Roger Lentz, 31, of Nebraska, shot at wife and hijacked plane with crew of 2 Sunday
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Denver, Colorado) Lentz and crew boarded jet he requested for trip to Mexico.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (narrates) (WMGH-TV)
(Studio) 2 FBI agents kill Lentz.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (narrates)
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(Studio) Columbus, Ohio, hospital says faulty equipment causes excessive cobalt radiation in 275 cancer patients.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Columbus, Ohio) Machines gave off excessive radiation for 11 mos. due to faulty probe. Av. overdose rate was 21%. [Riverside Hospital director of radiology Dr. Gordon TAYLOR - says may be side effects 2 or 3 years from now. Notes possible side effects.] [Hospital administration James FLYNN - believes there'll be few malpractice suits after patients individually informed of problem.] Some of cases were terminal cases.
REPORTER: Don Webster (WNBS-TV)
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(Studio) Comment on spring visitors.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Studio) Trips and vacations begin due to spring and nice weather. Reporter comments on tourism and Washington, DC crime.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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(Studio) Estel Blevins writes to wife and admits ruse of identifying body found in Chicago River as self. His stkbroker. says he lost underworld money trying to buy stolen negotiable securities. Blevins to stay a fugitive.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Temperatures hit 90's on E. Coast.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Boston, Massachusetts) 2200 enter Boston Marathon despite heat. Jack Fultz, 27, wins race in 2:20:10.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (narrates) (WNAC-TV)
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(Studio) Report on 201st anniversary of Battle of Lexington.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Lexington, Massachusetts) Each April 19th for several years, Bob Schwartz has played the role of a British officer in 1775 at Lexington and Concord. British marched on rebel arsenal at Concord. Yankees knew ahead of time that British were coming and waited for them. William Dawes and Paul Revere mentioned. Battle reenactment shown. 8 Americans killed; British soldier hurt. British marched on to Concord. Redcoats died in later battle at Concord, "by the rude bridge that arched the flood." [NOTE: This quote, attributed to Lowell, is actually from Emerson's poem "Concord Hymm."]
REPORTER: Charles Osgood
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