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(Studio) Extensive rioting and violence throughout India following yesterday's assassination of Prime Min. Indira Gandhi by Sikh bodyguards reported.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(New Delhi, India) Chaos and Hindu mob violence against Sikh community examined; films shown. [MOURNER - laments Gandhi's death.] [SIKH - describes his fear.]
REPORTER: Richard Roth
(New Delhi, India) Viciousness of Hindu backlash against Sikhs examined. [SIKH - thinks Gandhi's assassination is perceived by most Sikhs as a stupid act.] Background to Gandhi's relationship with Sikh movement reviewed; implications of her death for movement's future considered.
REPORTER: Wyatt Andrews
(London, England) Role of religious riots in India discussed; Sikh background and importance to India, economically and politically, examined. Films shown.
REPORTER: Steve Kroft
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(DC) Impact of Gandhi's assassination on US-USSR relations examined; President Konstantin Chernenko shown signing book of condolences at Indian embassy in Moscow. "Pravda" and Radio Moscow noted accusing CIA and United States government of role in Gandhi's assassination. Secretary of State George Shultz, en route to her funeral, reported condemning Soviet allegations. State Department mentioned warning of danger to Americans in India as result of Soviet comments; possibility of meeting in India between Shultz and USSR Prime Min. Nikolai Tikhonov noted. Attack on United States embassy in Pakistan in 1979 recalled.
REPORTER: Bill McLaughlin
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(Studio) Final campaign efforts of President Reagan and Walter Mondale described.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(Rochester, New York) Reagan's final campaign swing featured; films shown. [REAGAN - acknowledges mixed emotions; makes slip-of-the-tongue about Mondale's tax plan; warns supporters against voter apathy.]
REPORTER: Bill Plante
(NYC) Mondale-Ferraro rally here, with major crowd turnout, examined; films shown. [Geraldine FERRARO - predicts Democrat victory.] Luminaries attending rally shown. [MONDALE - considers Reagan the worst President for working America since Herbert Hoover; responds to President's allegation that Democrats are soft on anti-Semitism.]
REPORTER: Susan Spencer
(Studio) Ferraro's motorcade noted delayed to let Vice President George Bush's pass.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) Discovery of counterfeit birth control pills reported; lot numbers involved listed. Details given; FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and FBI mentioned investigating.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) National Ctrs. for Disease Control study said concluding lack of basis for concern over aspartame, marketed as NutraSweet; details given.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) FBI arrests of alleged participants in conspiracy to assassinate Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova reported; details given, films shown.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(Miami, Florida) City police department's stress training for officers featured; ofr. Tina Hicks' training cited as example Rioting following 1982 shooting of black by white ofr. said catalyst to program. Focus of program explained. [HICKS - describes her reaction to training.] [Colonel Ken. HARRISON - cites need to teach officers not to panic.] [Community relations board spokesperson Willie SIMS - believes officers have to get familiar with the community, not a machine.]
REPORTER: Richard Schlesinger
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(Studio) Death toll in Carbondale, Kansas, from tornado reported; details given, films shown. Plane crash near Topeka said attributed to storm as well
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(Wilmington, DE) Role of nation's economy transition in forming public opinions on Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale and their respective political philosophies examined. [John TIMOTHY - feels he's regressing rather than making economy headway; thinks nation as a whole is following same pattern.] [Dr. Gregory HALL - expresses opposite assessment of his life, nation's economy future.] [Mfg. supervisor Diane FRASHER, group supervisor Don ANDREWS, Monica McMILLAN, biologist Barbara LERER, STUDENT, John McCAFFERTY - offer different perceptions of nation's state.]
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Emergency international airlift of food and relief supplies to Ethiopia reported beginning today; estimate number Ethiopians predicted dying from famine this year noted.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(Ethiopia) Famine's impact on Ethiopia examined; films shown. [Sister Jean HARRIS - notes victims have lost will to live.]
REPORTER: Brian Stewart (CBC)
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