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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Los Angeles, California) Ronald Reagan reported naming James Baker and Edwin Meese to cabinet posts; details given. Baker's role with Gerald Ford and George Bush campaigns. recalled; Meese's new position discussed. Nancy and Ronald Reagan reported returning from California vacation in anticipation of transition; probabilty that William French Smith will be named attorney general mentioned.
REPORTER: Bill Plante
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Status of Republicans in House, Senator, govships. outlined on screen. [Democrat consultant Robert KEEFE - comments.] [Republican national committee chairperson Bill BROCK - comments.] Republican programs for campaigns, cands. detailed. [BROCK - comments.] [KEEFE - comments.] Technological advance of Republicans over Democrats noted.
REPORTER: Jed Duvall
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(Studio) Hijacking of school bus in Belgium reported.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Brussels, Belgium) Details of hijacking examined; films shown.
REPORTER: Bernard Redmont
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(Studio) European security conf., meeting in Madrid, Spain, reported agreeing on agenda; uniden. delegate quoted.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Madrid, Spain) Conf.'s recent divisiveness recalled. [US delegate Max KAMPELMAN - comments.] Compromise, drafted by nonaligned ntns., and agreed to by E. and West ntns. outlined; criticism of USSR 's position on Helsinki human rights agreement and invasion of Afghanistan recalled. [USSR negotiator Leonid ILICHEV - addresses conference with regard to Afghanistan.] Problems still faced by conference noted.
REPORTER: Don Kladstrup
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(Studio) USSR president Leonid Brezhnev reported signing treaty with Syria; implications for Syrian President Hafez al-Assad's regime with regard to opposition to Israel mentioned.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) reported confirming USSR launch of record nuclear submarine; details given. Response of United States Navy with regard to United States Trident missiles cited.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Israel's former defense minister Moshe Dayan's criticism of United States vol. army and Ronald Reagan's administration quoted.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Ins. Institution for Highway Safety recalled discovering Pinto's danger in 1973.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Institution reported claiming same gasoline tank danger with 2 Toyota models; details given, films shown courtesy Institution for Highway Safety. [Institution spokesperson William HADDON - comments.] Toyota's response reported; Department of Trans. investigation, under way since last year and dif. between government and institution's crash tests mentioned.
REPORTER: Nelson Benton
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(Studio) Three Mile Island authorities' prediction of decontamination process at nuclear plant reported.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania) Metropolitan Edison films of inside reactor containment building shown, discussed; probable course of cleanup cited.
REPORTER: Robert Schakne
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(Studio) Ind. product for October discussed; increase in Federal Reserve Bd.'s discount rate announced.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) John Harvey Adamson reported given death penalty in murder of Tucson, Arizona, reporter Don Bolles; details given.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Camp Lejeune, North Carolina) Trial of Marine Pvt. Robert Garwood for allegedly collaborating with enemy in Vietnam war reported; background to case outlined. Opening arguments of prosecutor Werner Hellmer and defense attorney John Lowe outlined [LOWE - comments.] Testimony by Francis G. Anton noted.
REPORTER: Ed Rabel, Artist: Howard Brodie
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(Studio) Anita Bryant, in interview with "Ladies Home Journal", reported changing her opinion of homosexuality; details given.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) "Elizabeth Kane's" role as surrogate mother for Louisville, Kentucky, couple and baby's successful birth reported; details given.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) National Center for Health Statistics reported announcing large number of marriages in United States last year; details given. Divorce rate noted.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Resignation of Gabriella Brum after being Miss World for a few hrs. reported; film shown, courtesy Home Box Ofc. Details given. Kimberly Santos, Miss Guam, said replacing Brum.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) G. Gordon Liddy's performance on the lecture circuit noted.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Liddy's lecture appearances examined; films shown. [LIDDY - addresses audience; comments on John Dean, Jeb Magruder.] His offer to kill Jack Anderson recalled. [LIDDY - comments on response to his lectures.] [STUDENTS - express concern at audience's acceptance of Liddy.] O.J. Simpson mentioned; Liddy's apparent fins. and lifestyle now outlined.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) Iranian government reported claiming earrings sold in Switzerland last night belonged to Shah's widow, Empress Farah; details given, films shown.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Pacific Palisades, California) Econ. boost given Ronald Reagan's neighborhood at Pacific Palisades by his election examined. [Mirabe NOWELL - comments on ABC's rental of room from her.] [Bernard JENSEN - notes rental rates.] [Reagan staff member Joe CANZERI - comments.] Wall Street mentioned.
REPORTER: Bernard Goldberg
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