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(Studio) January wholesale price increase noted.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(NYC) Impact of wholesale price figs. on consumers reported Details of report given. Beef price increases examined. [Beef wsler. Alfred MAYER - comments.]
REPORTER: Ray Brady
(Studio) Anti-inflation adviser Alfred Kahn's opposition to wage/price controls stated. His testimony to Senator Banking Committee reported.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) Details of Kahn's testimony given; his progress report on administration anti-inflation program noted. Kahn's request that Congress enact President Carter's wage insurance plan reported [KAHN - comments on expected inflation and effect of this on labor force. States plans to intensify price-monitoring efforts.] Congress concerns about potential rise in unemployment mentioned; Kahn's response stated.
REPORTER: Susan Spencer
(Studio) Effect of wholesale price news on President Carter's political career reported.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) White House response to wholesale price report noted. Comments by various officials, include Press Secretary Jody Powell, quoted. Carter's reported plans to continue with present anti-inflation program stated. Effect of present econ. situation on 1980 president election examined.
REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint
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(Studio) Update on situation in Iran, with fighting between troops loyal to Shah and Prime Min. Shahpour Bakhtiar and those at air force training center in Tehran. Some cadets noted to have recently been demonstrating in favor of Ayatollah Khomeini.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Tehran, Iran) Khomeini prime minister apptee. Mehdi Bazargan s scheduled speech to outline Khomeini's plans for government mentioned. Actual speech reported to fall short of expectations; details given. His remarks about Bakhtiar and Shah noted.
REPORTER: Richard Wagner
(Tehran, Iran) Demonstrations by Bakhtiar supporters, some of whom want Shah back, detailed. Clash between these demonstrators and Khomeini supporters described. Uncertainty re army position noted.
REPORTER: Betsy Aaron
(Studio) Oil supply cuts, due to Iran crisis, by Shell, Gulf, Standard Oil of California, Continental and Texaco reported.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) President Carter's January news conference statements that United States tried unsuccessfully to get China (PR) commitment to never use force against Taiwan recalled. Report that request was never made noted.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) White House report that no direct request with regard to no use of force against Taiwan by Chinese was made detailed. Press Secretary Jody Powell's statements noted; Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's instructions on issue, accord to Powell, reported Newspaper article indicating President may have tried to mislead public on this mentioned. Powell's response stated. Likely ramifications of report in Senate, expected to take up Taiwan issue soon, cited. Senator Orrin Hatch's comments quoted.
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
(Studio) State Debt. remarks about relations between China and USSR over Vietnam-Cambodia conflict reported Rptd. massing of Chinese troops along border with Vietnam noted.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Senator Armed Services Committee chairperson John Stennis' comments with regard to failure of vol. army recruitment and his call for reinstatement of draft detailed.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Release of federal regulator's personal file on nuclear mishaps noted; response of both pro-nuclear forces and Union of Concerned Scientists reported.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) Details of report, called "The Nugget File", given. [Union of Concerned Scientists spokesperson Robert POLLARD - comments on questionable safety of nuclear power plants.] Films shown. [Nuclear Regulatory Cmsn. spokesperson Dr. Stephen HANAUER - responds.]
REPORTER: Robert Schakne
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(Studio) Concern that chemicals in dump near Love Canal section of New York may be affecting larger area noted. Health officials' recommendation that more families move from area and difficulty of accomplishing this reported.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Niagara Falls, New York) Sign-ups by families in neighborhood for relocation stated. Contd. efforts to confirm reports that Love Canal chemicals have spread through old drainage ditches described. Demands by some residents ineligible for relocation that they be incld. because they can't sell homes reported [Resident Beverly POZNIAK - describes problem in trying to sell homes in area.] [Resident James CLARK - comments.] [Resident Lois GIBBS - comments.]
REPORTER: Gary Shepard
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(Studio) CDC (Centers for Disease Control) report on number of rptd tuberculosis cases in 1978 and suspected number of victims who don't know they have disease stated. Death rate of Tuberculosis compared to that of other diseases.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Federal Election Commission chgs. against 1976 Carter campaign committee , with regard to use of funds, detailed.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Elizabeth Hanford Dole's announcement of plans to resign post on FTC March 9 noted; action said to probably indicate Senator Robert Dole's plans to announce 1980 presidential candidate soon thereafter. Comments of Senator Adlai Stevenson with regard to President Carter and own potential plans to run in 1980 president elec. reported California Governor Jerry Brown's interest in running stated.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Coronado, California) Brown's activities and image-making during "non-campaign" examined. [BROWN - talks to radio talk-show telephone caller.] Brown's call for constitutional amendment to balance federal budget, in 2nd-term inaugural address, noted; film shown. [BROWN - comments on need to balance budget.] View of some that Brown tries to appear more conservative than President Carter; reaction of his Democrat liberal allies in California described. [State assemblyman Art AGNOS - comments.] [State assemblyman Willie BROWN - comments.] Brown's switching of positions on Prop. 13 mentioned. [BROWN - comments on state of economy and says it indicates problems in DC.]
REPORTER: Bernard Goldberg (KPIX newstape)
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(Studio) Filing of will of late Nelson Rockefeller in New York City noted. Its mention of Happy Rockefeller and their 2 sons reported Bequests to aides, include Megan Marshak [sic], stated.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) FBI probe of possible jury tampering in bribery/conspiracy trial of Representative Dan. Flood detailed.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Death of poet and critic Allen Tate at Vanderbilt University. Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, reported His founding of "the Fugitives" with John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren and others noted.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Report on effects of farmer protests in DC.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) Park Service report on damage to Washington, DC Mall, Capitol reflecting pool and elsewhere due to farmers' demonstrations with tractors detailed.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
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