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(Studio) Carter administration tells Israel that no captured territory, especially occupied west bank, can be excluded from Mid. East peace settlement. Israel's new prime minister, Menahem Begin, is to visit Washington, DC in July.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Admin. says new Israeli government must agree to withdraw from west bank as part of guaranteed peace settlement, or all-out war could develop. [State Department spokesperson Hodding CARTER - says peace negotiations must begin with no preconditions on either side.] Ambassador Simcha Dinitz speaks with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and Secretary of State Vance, before talking to reporters [DINITZ - cites Israel's stated policy of negotiating on all 3 fronts. To best of knowledge, policy doesn't exclude negotiations with regard to west bank.] United States officials also say Arabs must agree to phased normalization of relations with Israel.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
(Studio) State Department statement is surprise, as administration appeared to be making gesture to Israel, 2 days ago, in approval of arms sale.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Supreme Court rules attys. may advertise and also hands down decisions with regard to desegregation cases in Dayton, Ohio, and Detroit.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) In Dayton case, court rules city-wide busing plans illegal unless city-wide discrimination proved. In Detroit case, justices say federal courts can order school dists. to pay for better services like remedial reading. Court also declares unconstitutional long-time ban in legal profession of attys. advertising services and fees. Case began with ads of 2 attys. in Phoenix, Arizona; attys. say sole purpose was to bring price competition to law profession. [John BATES - hopes ads will bring healthy competition among attys. and lower costs to clients.] Details re: court's 5-4 decision, written by Justice Blackmun, noted. In another decision, court refuses to hear appeals of John Mitchell and H.R. Haldeman in Watergate cover-up.
REPORTER: Fred Graham Artist: Aggie Whelan
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(Studio) House Ways and Means Committee votes repeal of tax deduction for state and local gasoline taxes. Committee approves tax credits for home insulation and for conversion to solar or wind power.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Energy Committee sends Clinch River breeder reactor project controversy to full Senator, being unable to agree on it. Committee approves entire funding for project in Tennessee that President Carter wants cut.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Questions arising in wake of Columbia, Tennessee, prison fire with regard to length of time to get cells opened and killing fumes from material labeled fire retardant.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Columbia, Tennessee) Officials begin investigation into fire; say juvenile Andy Zinmer could be charged with arson and 42 counts of manslaughter, because he set fire to padded cell in which he was hsed. Thick, black smoke poured over trapped inmates; state officials reveal substance in smoke. [State department of insurance spokesperson Tom COPELAND - says crime lab found high levels of cyanide in 3 of 8 blood samples tested.] Efforts being made to track manufacturer of cell padding material, approved 2 years ago by national testers as fire resistant; officials indicate that lately those tests shown inappropriate. Some inmates say guards could have unlocked doors more quickly, but in handwritten statement given officials today prison guard Jerry Dickey says stampeding visitors knocked keys from his hand and, in smoke, even firemen took 10 mins. to find them; other details cited.
REPORTER: Ed Rabel
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(Studio) James Earl Ray fears FBI reprisals if moved to federal prison, according to attys., who seek to block Tennessee's attempts to move Ray, since escape earlier in June.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Despite continued United States and USSR disagreement with regard to Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), United States officials say these aren't insurmountable. In Moscow, arms negotiator Paul Warnke says he doesn't discount possibility of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreement by fall. In DC, Press Secretary Jody Powell says summit between Carter and Brezhnev not impossible.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) In 1950's, USSR began beaming microwave radiation at United States embassy in Moscow, concern that resulted with regard to possible ill health effects noted. Today, government medical consultant tells Senate subcommittee concern was for nothing.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Claims of unusual symptoms or ill health by former employees of Moscow embassy noted. State Department medical consultant says some employees showed slight change in blood composition while in Moscow, but it became normal after they left. Former employees continue to worry. [Dr. Herbert POLLACK - notes difficulty in convincing workers of harmlessness of levels of exposure. No physical health effects have been demonstrated. Will put professional reputation at stake on it.] Department has engaged Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in study of medical records of all past and present employees at embassy.
REPORTER: Lem Tucker
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(Studio) At 12:01 a.m. today, French empire in Africa ends and Djibouti becomes 49th nation on continent.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Djibouti) Because of strategic position on Red Sea, small nation has become focal point in war of words between Somalia and Ethiopia. Ea. of 2 larger ntns. has charged other with planning invasion of new nation; Djibouti's new president, Hassan Gouled expresses concern with regard to this in speech to people at time of independence. Somalia's interest with regard to ethnic ties with people; Ethiopia's is economy, as Franco-Ethiopian RR, linking Addis Ababa with Djibouti, is Ethiopia's lifeline to Red Sea. French flotilla and troops will remain to help protect nation's new freedom.
REPORTER: Randy Daniels
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(Studio) Pope Paul VI uses installation service of 5 new cardinals at Vatican to issue warning to rebellious French archbishop
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Rome, Italy) Pope threatens Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre with excommunication if he goes through with ordinations of traditionalist priests in Switzerland on Wednesday Lefebvre says Pope is too liberal and has refused to go along with changes in church. Details with regard to ceremony for 5 raised to cardinals noted. Speculation is that it was arranged for Giovanni Benelli, who it's said Pope wants as successor. Others raised are from Prague, Czechoslovakia, Benin (Dahomey) and Munich, West Germany, and another Italian. Background on Benelli, also made archbishop of Florence, noted.
REPORTER: Bert Quint
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(Studio) Report on crash of 2 trains in East Germany, near Polish border. (Film shown.)
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) USSR artist Ilya Glazunov, who has painted portraits of persons such as Leonid Brezhnev, refuses to open I-man show in Moscow, because authorities ban painting "Mystery of the 20th Century." Painting depicts, among others, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Leon Trotsky, Josef Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, the Beatles and a Playboy bunny.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) FDA (Food and Drug Administration) spokesperson says saccharin may be banned altogether, on basis of new Canadian tests. Chairperson of House subcommittee hearing testimony says Congress may force sweetener kept on shelves till at least 1979.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Govt. officials will ask renewal of food program, WIC, despite problems.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Birmingham, Alabama) Report on WIC program, procedures and requirements. [Store CASHIER - tells shopper she must exchange goods.] [WOMEN - cnsl. women on nutrition for selves and babies.] David Bates was on program, as malnutritioned child. [Mother Ruth BATES - cites help to child and to family.] Paulette Carmichael is unemployed nurse, with 2 children and expecting another; she understands nutrition and appreciates WIC benefits. [CARMICHAEL- notes length of program in child's life.] WIC has had problems at government level, but Agriculture Department pledges to seek extension from Congress [Food and Nutrition Service spokesperson Lewis STRAUS - says legislature to be ready for Congress by 1st of 1978.]
REPORTER: Bruce Hall
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(Studio) Theft of remains of movie product Mike Todd from Forest Park, 11, cemetery noted. Police say it's work of sick person or part of extortion scheme aimed at family, incling. widow, Elizabeth Taylor. REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Report on sea journey of 4 men, in reenactment of Irish legend that Saint Brendan sailed to Newfoundland 1000 years before Columbus; second half of new journey was from Iceland. (Film shown.)
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) New effect of California drought is found in Plumas National Forest, northe. of San Francisco.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Plumas National Forest, California) Trees in Sierra Mts. are dying. Beetle infestation is problem, due to drying out of trees. Forest Service estimation of losses cited. [MAN - points out where beetles live in bark.] [Ranger Paul SCHEIDIG - is very worried with regard to infestation problem.]
REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater
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