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#257131
(Studio) Govt. investigators' report that Youngstown, Florida, train derailment was sabotage noted.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
(DC) Details of wreck and of National Trans. Safety Board investigation showing evidence of sabotage given. [Board acting director Kay BAILEY - cites evidence.] Films shown. FBI investigation into reason for sabotage noted.
REPORTER: Susan Spencer
#257132
(Studio) Environmental Protection Agency report on spills of deadly chemicals into cntry.'s waterways and announcement of new rules and possible fines for those found responsible stated.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
#257134
(Studio) Report on signing of major rule agreement in Rhodesia by white minority and black majorority representatives.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
(Salisbury, Rhodesia) Details of agreement and of signing ceremony involving Prime Min. Ian Smith, Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and Chief Jeremiah Chirau noted. Cecil John Rhodes, for whom country was named, mentioned. [SITHOLE - says agreement is what they've been fighting for and feels guerrillas will stop fighting now.]
REPORTER: Robin Wright
(Studio) Provision for executive council to take over transitional government noted. (Interview of Smith by Walter Cronkite.) Film shown. [SMITH - thinks council can take over government within 2 weeks Says plan will go ahead with or without British and American approval. Describes past actions of British and Americans and difficulty in predicting their reactions to agreement.] Reporter asks if Smith makes any overtures to guerrilla leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe. [SMITH - isn't making overtures to guerrillas, but is willing to welcome them if they want to return to work for constitutional, rather than violent, change. Predicts timing far elections and states belief re: most difficult problem for future.] Reporter asks how Smith will feel living in Rhodesia after it becomes Zimbabwe. [SMITH - wants to stay in country and will make decision on basis of new government's actions.] Reaction of Zambia-based guerrilla leader Nkomo quoted; lack of reaction from Mugabe noted. Also mentioned is reaction of Zambia leader Ken. Kaunda and his hints that he might, like other ntns.', aid in guerrilla fight; allusion to Cuba and USSR , assumed. Responses to settlement by State Department, British foreign secretary David Owen, USSR , United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and other United Nations members noted.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
#257135
(Studio) President Carter's report of progress in Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II negotiations and stated need for meeting with USSR leader Brezhnev prior to finalizing agreement reported.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
#257137
(Studio) Senator Henry Jackson's announcement that Senators have reached tentative agreement on natural gas pricing section of President Carter's energy proposals and reporter Nelson Benton's report concerning details of agreement noted. Early returns in coal miners' voting on proposed contract reported, according to results from Arkansas, Oklahoma and elsewhere.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
(West Virginia) Report on efforts in West Virginia to influence miners' votes. television ad shown. UMW pres. Arnold Miller's campaign for contract noted. [Miner Eddie SEACRIST - describes pressure from miners' wives for them to return to work.]
REPORTER: Ed Rabel
#257138
(Studio) Snow and rainstorms across country reported Conditions in Washington, DC described, incl. White House scene. Film shown.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
(Los Angeles, California) Conditions due to rainstorms in Arizona and California described. Situations in Los Angeles, Malibu and Hollywood noted; damage to famous Hollywood sign mentioned. Also reported is damage to house under construction in Ogden, UT, when Forest Service personnel fired howitzer at snowbank to control avalanche and hit house instead.
REPORTER: Don Kladstrup
#257139
(Studio) Correspondent Fred Graham's report on background information just released with regard to resignation of Spiro T. Agnew as Vice President and his tax evasion conviction detailed. Efforts of Richard Nixon to get information from Prosecutors noted.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
#257140
(Studio) G. William Miller's confirmation as head of Federal Reserve Board reported; Senator William Proxmire's dissenting vote noted.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
#257141
(Studio) Tongsun Park's illness excusing him from testimony to House committee investigating congress influence buying reported.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
#257143
(Studio) Report on mystery blasts that have been heard off eastern coast.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
(DC) Reports of blasts from Nova Scotia to Florida noted; films shown. [New Jersey resident Joyce COLLORD - describes experience.] [SC resident Bob GROOMS - describes experience.] Pentagon investigation and resulting decision that weather is causing sonic booms from military jets to be heard on shore outlined. [Naval Research Lab. director Alan BERMAN - describes conditions under which this can happen.]
REPORTER: Jim McManus
#257144
(Studio) Govt. proposal to use same method for controlling forest in Idaho that it used for controlling jungles in Vietnam noted.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
(Grangeville, ID) Details with regard to use of defoliant containing chemical 245-T in jungles of Vietnam to keep Viet Cong and North Vietnam from being able to hide given; films shown. Govt.'s proposal to use 245-T and other defoliants in ID forests outlined along with scientists' reports that 245-T may cause birth defects. Protests of Idaho residents at hearing in Lewiston cited. [MAN - asks if authorities are certain there will be no ill effects from use.] [US Forest Service spokesperson Ralph ROSS - says it's impossible to draw lines of absolute safety.] [Washington State University spokesperson H.H. CHENG - notes constant discoveries about how little is known about any of these things.] [EPA spokesperson Mike WATSON - cites lack of health data showing obvious health problem.]
REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater
#257145
(Studio) January balance of trade deficit reported Slight rise of dollar value on foreign mkts. noted.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
#257148
(Studio) Is noted that Sunday will be 25th anniversary of death of USSR ruler Joseph Stalin.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
(Gori, USSR ) Background on Stalin given and advent of anti-Stalinism with secret speech by Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 noted. Tributes to Stalin as native son who made good in his hometown of Gori, in Soviet Georgia, described. Move in USSR government to allow mention of Stalin once again, with Leonid Brezhnev's initiation, outlined. Also mentioned are KGB, Kremlin and USSR prisons.
REPORTER: Bernard Redmont
#257149
(Studio) Report on upcoming book, "In His Image: The Cloning of a Man", which will claim baby boy was created with cell of only one parent in beginning. Details given, include "New York Post" report on item and skepticism of scientists that report is true. Successful cloning with other forms of life noted. Good credentials of book's author, David Rorvik, mentioned.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
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