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(Studio) "Los Angeles Times" reporter Robert Toth undergoes full day of Soviet secret police questioning. Interrogators finally tell Toth he's witness, not accused.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Moscow, USSR ) KGB interrogation center shown. [TOTH - says mood hostile at interrogation.] Police question Toth about Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky. Toth and wife leave KGB center together. REPORTER: Bernard Redmont
(White House) [President CARTER - expresses strongest objections to USSR re: Toth matter. International news media coverage to have affect; details.] Senator Robert Dole leads Senator to pass resolution condemning Sovs. for violating Helsinki accords. [DOLE - says Senator action to underscore President or State Department's next move to get Toth released.] President not sure if retaliation to be taken against Soviet correspondent.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) Helsinki accord detailed. Belgrade conference to exam. Helsinki human rights agreement.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Belgrade, Yugoslavia) This meeting to prepare for higher level meeting in fall; conference to last 6 weeks 2nd Belgrade conference to review Helsinki agreement in detail. [US ambassador Albert SHERER - doesn't think chance of confrontation likely at this conf.] [Soviet representative Yuli VORONTSON - not looking forward to fireworks, but is prepared to defend country if need be.]
REPORTER: John Laurence
(Studio) 17 Jewish women at Belgrade to protest Soviet policy toward Jews deported by Yugoslavs along with Danish newsman. Details.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) British Commonwealth conference censors own mbr., Uganda. President Idi Amin not mentioned by name.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) State Department says USSR -US talks on new Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) treaty won't reconvene till September
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Spain holds 1st free elections in 40 years Premier Adolfosuarez among 1st to vote. Some bomb explosions mar voting but things generally quiet.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Section of rail line blown up near Durban, South Africa. Security around Soweto increases in anticipation of 1st anniversary of race riots.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senate subcommittee agrees to stop construction of 8 water projects President wanted stopped, but 8 others to be funded.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Latest Laetrile study reveals drug has no effect on cancer in mice. Sloan-Kettering study notes no testing tried on humans.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) House subcommittee investigating cancer research. Senator Hubert Humphrey among witnesses; comments given.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [HUMPHREY - wants cancer war won before it's too late; has personal stake in matter.] MarvelIa Bayh, wife of Senator Birch Bayh, and Rose Kushner testify. [KUSHNER - says cancer may still kill her, but for now hers is arrested and she's happy.]
REPORTER: Barry Serafin
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(Studio) Cost of hospital stays astronomical. president Carter suggests cost increases be held to 9% annually. Senate subcommittee to resume hearings on matter.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Los Angeles, California) Ralph Caranjello is recent open heart surgery patient. [CARANJELLO - hopes retail clerks' union to pay majority of hospital bill.] Hospital bill for his 16-day stay, $9,311.75; breakdown of bill outlined. Caranjello's union paid all bill except $7.20. National hospital bill $65 billion. Reasons for high hospital costs examined. [Former HEW official Stuart ALTMAN - says he looked for 4 years to find culprit for high hospital costs and didn't find one.] To cut costs, there can be competition or cuts by government of hospital budgets.
REPORTER: Richard Wagner
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(Studio) House Agriculture Committee votes to eliminate requirement that some recipients pay part of food stamps cost. President Carter's reform of program likely to be passed by Congress
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Arnold Miller apparently wins president of United Mine Workers for 2nd time. Opponent Lee Roy Patterson, old Tony Boyle ally, may challenge outcome.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Justice Department to head off excessive prices 7 oil companies plan to charge for shipping oil through Alaska pipeline. Pipeline to go into operation June 30.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Gulf Oil and 2 officers indicted by federal grand jury in Pittsburgh; details.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Lieutenant General Don Starry called to Washington, DC from Germany after making remarks about probable United States involvement in future Soviet-Chinese war.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(S)House votes to deny Veterans Administration benefits to those with less than honorable discharges, although discharges upgraded under president program.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Pvt. Eddie Slovik executed in World War II for desertion. Slovik's widow fighting for Veterans Administration benefits.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Lansdale, Pennsylvania) Slovik's personal and Army life profiled. Despite incapabilities, Slovik sent to Germany to fight and deserted. Mrs. Slovik claims she didn't know husband executed as deserter till 9 years after death. William Bradford Huie, author, interviewed Mrs. Slovik for his book about her husband. Slovik's legal adviser at trial and Robert DeFinis, public relations man asking Army to give Mrs. Slovik Veterans Administration benefits. Basic questions with regard to execution coming out in open. [Legal adviser Major Edward WOODS - reads letter written by Slovik to General Dwight Eisenhower, pleading for mercy.] [Ann SLOVIK - wants reversal of discharge and Veterans Administration ins. Could hold head high for a change.] Mrs. Slovik appears before Army bd. today with request. Eddie Slovk's body at Oise-Aisne military cemetery in France; buried in disgrace.
REPORTER: Betty Ann Bowser Artist: Marcia Danits
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(Studio) Mayor Woodrow Glasscock Junior of Hondo, Texas, wants to build new civic ctr. with federal help but can't because only 3% town unemployed. Mayor advertising for outside loafers to reach needed 6% unemployment.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Eric Sevareid discusses human rights.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Various exs. given of human rights clashes all over world. Human rights effect on Soviet-American relations discussed. Soviet Premier Brezhnev wanted 2 yr. old Helsinki conference on human rights in 1st place. If barriers removed tomorrow, Sovs. to flee to West Europe and North American where true freedom and concern for human rights exist.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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