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(Studio) Fire in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, NV, reported; details given. 1977 fire in Beverly Hills supper club in Kentucky recalled.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Las Vegas, NV) Details of fire examined; films shown. [Survivor Wendy CHAWLA - can't find her husband.] Efforts by some to escape and fire fighters' instructions to them noted. [Rescue vol. C.J. NOVEMBER - comments.] [Hotel guest Terry HALL - describes experience.] [Rescue vol. John SCOTT - comments.] Billy Graham reported visiting survivors; details given. Hotel's background and criticism of safety alarms noted. [Clark Cnty. fire department Captain Ralph DINSMAN - comments.]
REPORTER: David Dow (KLAS-TV newstape)
(Studio) Hotel's opening recalled.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Ronald Reagan reported leaving for California after 5-day visit to DC.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Reagan's meeting this morning with Gerald Ford mentioned; Reagan's remark about transition team quoted. His foreign policy advisory board, include Henry Kissinger, Henry Jackson and John Tower, noted meeting today; Tower's consideration as Defense Secretary said revolving around his current influence in Senate Details given. Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said later briefing for. policy team. [REAGAN - comments.] Apparent Capitol Hill reaction to Reagan's week here reported; his activities recalled. [FORD - recalls transition 4 years ago.] Reagan's response to Las Vegas, NV, hotel fire noted. [REAGAN - comments on cabinet appts.; living in White House]
REPORTER: Bill Plante
(Studio) Senator Howard Baker said indicating that Reagan may establish permanent office in Congress; details given, photos shown.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator approval of defense budget, with exception of Mark Hatfield, reported, details given. President Carter mentioned.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Incr. in prime lending rate and implications reported.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) Incring. interest rates' impact on small business examined. [Dress manufacturer Edward HARNEY - comments.] [Federation of Independent Bus. spokesperson James McKEVITT - comments.] Estimated number of bankruptcies affecting small business this year noted. [HARNEY - comments.] Effect of interest rates on department stores and thus on consumer cited.
REPORTER: Ray Brady
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(Studio) Federal Housing Administration and Virginia mortgage rates reported incring. Monday; details given.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Phoenix, Arizona) Shared appreciation mortgage plan examined; Bill and Rae Ann Dahlberg's case cited as example; details of plan outlined. [The DAHLBERGS - comment.] Response to plan offered by Advance Mortgage Corporation noted. [Corporation spokesperson Suzie WARINNER - comments.] Federal Home Loan Bank Bd. said considering proposal to allow all financial insts. to offer same kind of mortgage.
REPORTER: Gary Shepard
#267907
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(New Orleans, Louisiana) Snowballing effect of oil rig's collision with roof of abandoned salt mine examined; films shown. Fin. impact on Diamond Salt Company noted.
REPORTER: Pam Olsen (WBRZ newstape)
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(Studio) 1978 conviction on rape chgs. of mentally retarded Tommy Lee Hines and ensuing protests recalled; findings of state appeals court today reported.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Shakeup in Poland's government and appointed of Jerzy Ozdowski, a Roman Catholic, as deputy premier reported; significance of Ozdowski's appointed noted.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 3-train collision in south Italy reported.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Italy) Details of accident examined; films shown.
REPORTER: Robin Wright
#267913
(Studio) Israel's former defense minister Ezer Weizman said forming new political party to challenge Prime Min. Menahem Begin; possibility that former foreign minister Moshe Dayan will head party noted. Dayan and Weizman's vote against Begin in Knesset recently recalled.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Ayatollah Montazeri's response to President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr's recent criticism of clergy reported.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Yesterday's opening of China (PR) trial of Gang of Four noted; group's past power recalled.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Peking, China, PR) Chinese television coverage of arraignment and trial shown, discussed. Arraignment of former air force cmsr. Jiang Tengjiao, former deputy chief of staff Qiu Huizuo, former politburo members Wu Faxian and Zhang Chunqiao, former chief of staff Huang Yongsheng and former deputy chairperson Wang Hongwen shown. [Mao's widow Jiang QING and court SPOKESPERSON - discuss arraignment (in Chinese); remarks transcribed on screen.] Defense Yao Wenyuan's health mentioned; "People's Daily" coverage of trial noted.
REPORTER: Bruce Dunning
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Current atmosphere in Washington, DC due to president transition examined; government's "plum book" sales noted. Efforts by Ronald Reagan's staff to sort out applications for lower-level jobs and situation with those seeking upper level positions discussed; George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Representative David Stockman, Caspar Weinberger, William Simon and Yummy Yogurt restaurant incld. in report
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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