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(Studio) 3 Green Beret advisers reported recalled to United States due to involvement in recent incident in which adviser was wounded; details given.
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
(DC) United States ambassador Deane Hinton's efforts to correct story about sergeant Jay T. Stanley's wounding and role in military operation outlined; details given. [Representative Michael BARNES - questions administration's credibility.] Representative Jim Leach said concerned that those relieved of duty are merely scapegoats.
REPORTER: Bill Lynch
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(Studio) Car bombing of PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, by Front for Liberation of Lebanon from Fors. reported; details given. Last week's explosion in Bekaa Valley recalled.
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
(Beirut, Lebanon) Circumstances of bombing examined; films shown.
REPORTER: Peter Sherman
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(Studio) Possible easing of tensions in United States-China (Puerto Rico) relations as Secretary of State George Shultz ends his visit there noted; role Taiwan issue plays in United States-Sino problem recalled. Premier Zhao Ziyang noted accepting invitation to United States.
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
(DC) Reagan administration's downplaying of visit discussed; basis of strained United States- China relations explained. [Johns Hopkins Univ. spokesperson A. Doak BARNETT - notes significance of Zhao's visit.] Possible implications of Reagan-Zhao meeting considered; Peking noted scheduling further talks with USSR in Moscow.
REPORTER: John Ferrugia
(Peking, China, Puerto Rico) Shultz's visit here examined; films shown. His mtgs. with Deng Xiaoping noted. [SHULTZ - hopes visit is productive; reiterates United States commitment to reduce arms sales to Taiwan.] Possible political fallout for Reagan from statement noted; significance of toast offered by foreign minister Wu Xueqian considered.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) Verdict in 2nd trial of former CIA agent Edwin Wilson accused of smuggling explosives to Libya reported.
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
(Houston, Texas) Sec. surrounding Wilson's trial said due to his alleged plot to murder prosecutors and witnesses; government evidence in smuggling trial recalled. [Prosecutor Tom POWERS - announces new chgs. of murder conspiracy.] [Prosecutor E. Lawrence BARCELLA - responds to being murder target.] Prosecutors said investigating whether Pentagon or CIA officials illegally assisted Wilson in his Mideast arms deals. Sentences Wilson is subject to with today's conviction and new chgs. mentioned.
REPORTER: Robert Schakne
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(Studio) Nazi Klaus Barbie's exile in Bolivia and return to France to stand trial for war crimes noted.
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
(Paris, France) Barbie's return to Lyons for trial and significance of event examined; Adolf Eichmann recalled. Barbie's role in deportation of French Jews and torture of French resistance fighters such as Jean Moulin and Lise Lesevre noted; Lesevre's memory of experience cited. [Nazi hunter Serge KLARSFELD - thinks Barbie symbolized Gestapo.]
REPORTER: David Andelman
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(Studio) FBI reported making further arrests in last December's Sentry armored car company robbery in NYC; details given.
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
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(Studio) President Reagan's criticism of term Reaganomics in describing his economic policy reported.
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
(DC) [Senator Edward KENNEDY - calls for Reagan's defeat in 1984 as solution to unemployment; criticizes President's call for elimination of corporation income tax.]
REPORTER: Jayne Miller
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(Studio) Malaysian national and rural development minister's disqualification of smokers from recing. small business loans reported; details given.
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
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(Studio) Continue violence in independent truckers' strike discussed; films shown. Issues protested by strikers recalled.
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
(Little Rock, Arkansas) Problems posed for states by road damage inflicted from large trucks examined; Arkansas cited as example Congress passage of mandatory increase in truck load limits recalled. [Highway director Henry GRAY - thinks such decisions are states' rights.] [Engineer Bill COOPER - explains trucks' damage to roads with mandatory increase] [Truckers Bill HOBDY, Roger BEAUDET - oppose incrd. road taxes.] Possible retaliatory laws by other states on Arkansas truckers discussed.
REPORTER: David Dick
(Studio) Amt. of highway system funded by federal and state budgets mentioned.
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
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(Studio) American Billy Olson reported setting pole vault record last night; details given, films shown.
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
(DC) United States government's efforts to prevent Americans from visiting Cuba examined; films shown. State Department's refusal to discuss new policy prohibiting Americans from spending US-earned money in Cuba noted. [Treasury assistant secretary John WALKER - defs. new rules.] Federal appeals court said considering legal challenge to ruling. [Harvard Prof. Ruth Hubbard WALD - explains purpose of legal challenge.] [Reverend Alice HAGEMAN - wants contact between international Christians.] [School headmaster Francis BRADLEY - notes Quaker tradition of making contact with the enemy.] [WALKER - responds.] [Attorney Charles SIMS - thinks government has set bad precedent.] [WALKER - considers it economy issue.] [SIMS - believes constitutional rights of citizens is being used by government for transient foreign policy.]
REPORTER: Bill McLaughlin
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