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(Studio) Report on meeting in Tripoli, Libya, of hardline Arabs, who have been anti-Israel and are now anti-Sadat, also.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Tripoli, Libya) Report on conf., hosted by Muammar Kadhafi and attended by Algerian President Houari Boumediene, PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) leader Yasir Arafat and Syrian President Hafez Assad, and differing degrees of anti-Sadat feeling among them. Demonstrations in Tripoli described.
REPORTER: Doug Tunnell
(Studio) Carter administration's surprise at Assad's presence at conference cited. Contd. fallout from Sadat Israeli visit incls. resignation of Egypt's ambassador to Yugoslavia and Sudan's President Nimeiry's visit to Saudi Arabia, apparently to muster Arab unity. Noncommittal attitudes of Lebanon, still unsettled after civil war, and Jordan noted.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Amman, Jordan) Report on King Hussein's comments with regard to Sadat actions, at Amman news conf.; remarks include announcement that he won't follow Sadat's steps in going to Israel and with regard to own efforts to get Syria and PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) to Geneva. [HUSSEIN - doesn't think there's serious possibility that he'd have reason to go to Israel.] Hussein's intent to remain away from both Cairo and Tripoli confs. cited.
REPORTER: Mike Lee
(Studio) Jordan's acceptance of invitation of United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, for post-Cairo, pre-Geneva conf., and Israel's earlier rejection of it noted. According to reporter Richard C. Hottelet, other involved cntries. and USSR expected to accept; Waldheim's views with regard to Israeli rejection stated. White House report that Carter did try to get Sadat to delay call for Cairo conf., and Vice President Mondale's denial of Wednesday's report that he and National Security Adviser Brzezinski disagreed with regard to degree of support for Egypt-Israeli connection noted.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Report on South Africa elections, won by National Party and signaling no change in racial policy.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Johannesburg, South Africa) Report on election returns. [Prime Min. John VORSTER - thinks people will now take note of determination of South Africans to resist if attacked under any circumstances.] [Opposition member parliament Helen SUZMAN - believes that, if there's further unrest and no attempt to defuse situation, things could get tougher.]
REPORTER: Doug Sefton
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(Studio) Congress energy legislature conferees eliminate provision that would have cut electric bills for elderly; details noted. Other provision for tax break for elderly cited.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Howard Baker's pledge of support for President Carter's planned tax cut for next year stated.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Collapse and subsequent hospitalization of Brooklyn woman, Rose Marie Maniscalco, last week reported Issue with regard to her slim prospects for recovery, fact that she's now on life-sustaining equipment to be kept alive and that she's 4 mos. pregnant.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Brooklyn, New York) Maniscalco's condition at Victory Memorial Hospital described; unborn child conts. to live. [Victim's mother Marie GUARRACI - recites physicians' remarks with regard to case and notes their attempts to keep child alive.] [Stepfather Joseph GUARRACI - doesn't know if there's hope for baby to live.] [Hospital spokesperson Dr. Fritz FUCHS - says if woman's brain is really dead, it's unheard of to maintain vital functions until fetus is brought to viability.]
REPORTER: Richard Wagner
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(Studio) HEW's new requirements with regard to federal funded sterilization for poor women detailed. Possibility that department will halt payment for hysterectomies done solely for sterilization purposes, because of danger and cost, noted.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Interior Department's tentative approval of pipeline to take Alaska oil from Long Beach, California, to Midland, Texas, cited.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Congress approval of more money for Amtrak, meaning continued service on "Floridian" route between Chicago and Miami detailed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Report on meeting between Pope Paul VI and Polish Communist leader Edward Gierek at Vatican.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Report on mudslide in Tuve, Sweden. Film shown.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Scheduled beginning of House televising of sessions and remaining details of process noted. Report with regard to results of Canadian parliament doing same.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Ottawa, Canada) Films of Canadian parliament in session shown. [MBRS. - speak to Speaker of House] Canadians said surprised sessions so noisy. [House Speaker James JEROME - thinks public reaction is causing gradual lessening of heckling in sessions that tends to become more like demonstrations.] Procedure for broadcast of sessions described; coverage is carried extensively on Canadian cable television and on national newscasts by CBC, CTV and Global Television Network. Reactions of members detailed. [Prime Min. TRUDEAU speaks of Tory Party] ["Toronto Sun" political editor Ron COLLISTER - thinks prime minister must regret it because of problems government has right now.] [Opposition leader Joseph CLARK - thinks it's been great equalizer for his party; cites reasons.]
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Announcement by National Association of Mfrs. of group of busmen.'s formation of Council on Union-Free Environment detailed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Report on United States Education commissioner Ernest Boyer's efforts to reduce confusion in bureaucratic language used in his department
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Los Angeles police investigation of series of rape/murders there noted. Use. of hypnosis to jog memories of witnesses and increase in police use of hypnosis is subject of report
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Los Angeles, California) Details with regard to use of hypnosis on willing witnesses by some 50 police depts. around country given; its use in placing charges against Kenneth Lane for murder of 2 girls near Auburn, California, cited as example Film shown. [Los Angeles police department spokesperson Dr. Martin REISER - cites reasons victim or witness to crime often forgets what he sees. Notes findings with regard to use of hypnosis in getting witness to recall info.] Police tape shown; details with regard to taped hypnosis session in Elizabeth, New Jersey, involving crime victim Charles Wolf, given. FBI experimental use of hypnosis noted. [Los Angeles FBI spokesperson Richard DOUCE - cites limited FBI use of hypnosis and results.] Use of hypnosis on bus driver Ed Ray in order to get license plate number which helped solve Chowchilla kidnapping case noted. [RAY - says he came within one number of correct license plate under hypnosis and doesn't think he could have remembered otherwise.] Objections to court use of hypnosis information described, citing example of case of robbery in Scottsdale, Arizona, and defense attorney's objections. [Defense attorney Calvin ALLRED - questions information given by witness under hypnosis.] [Los Angeles police Captain Michael NIELSEN - says they don't suggest anything to hypnotized person.]
REPORTER: Don Kladstrup
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