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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(DC) House debate over MX funding and President Reagan's lobbying campaign featured; films shown. [Representative Robert MICHEL - notes necessity of President compromising.] [Representative Thomas O'NEILL - explains opposition to MX.] Radio commercial by Committee for Sane Nuclear Policy played, discussed. Former CIA director William Colby mentioned among those lobbying against MX on Capitol Hill. [Representatives Paul SIMON, Henry HYDE, Les ASPIN - debate issue.] Final vote thought coming tonight.
REPORTER: Phil Jones Artist: Don Juhlin
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(Studio) Iranian air force reported attacking Saudi Arabian oil tanker in Saudi waters of Persian Gulf; details given. United States Air Force AWACs said alerting Saudis; number attacks on Persian Gulf tankers by both Iraq and Iran since Sunday noted.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(NYC) Effect of today's attack on spot oil market trading examined. [New York Exchange TRADERS - describe panic.] Percentage of world's supply of oil transported through Strait of Hormuz cited; Japan and Europe explained heavily dependent on Persian Gulf oil. [Oil broker Joel BABER - anticipates possible rise in home heating oil prices this fall; explains.]
REPORTER: Ray Brady
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Palm Beach, Florida) Arrest of Peter Marchant and David Dorr for alleged involvement in David Kennedy's recent drug death reported [OFFICIAL - notes Kennedy died from overdose of cocaine, Demerol and Mellaril.] Florida law used to arrest Marchant and Dorr in connection with Kennedy's death explained. [Med. examiner Dr. Ronald WRIGHT - notes difficulty in proving link between drug dealers and death by overdose.] Former state attorney mentioned claiming only reason arrests have been made in this case is due to involvement of a Kennedy.
REPORTER: Bruce Hall
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(Studio) Hsing. starts for April reported, discussed; building permits for same period noted.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Baggs, Wyoming) Major flooding in Rocky Mt. states from heavy snow runoff examined; films shown. Collapse of dam in Colorado as result noted. [Police ofr. Larry WARD - describes evacuation of Wyoming town.] [SURVIVOR - describes ordeal.]
REPORTER: Barry Petersen
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(Studio) Judge John Sirica reported halting planned release of genetically designed organism in California; details of his ruling and arguments for and against organism, designed to prevent crop damage by frost, outlined.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Gary Hart reported winning Oregon and Nebraska primaries.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(San Francisco, California) Jesse Jackson's continued criticism of Primary system and delegate count as result examined. [Berkeley school board spokesperson Barbara LUBIN - supports Jackson over Hart and Walter Mondale.] His campaign in Tijuana, Mexico, mentioned. [JACKSON - sees campaign as global.] Basis of Jackson's complaints outlined on screen. [JACKSON - claims Mondale has more delegates than he's earned, while he has been given fewer than earned.] Percentage of vote won by Jackson and number delegates given him in specific states listed on screen. [JACKSON - alleges Hart won twice as many delegates in New York despite only showing 2% more votes.] [American Pol. Science Association spokesperson Thomas MANN - defs. system.] Jackson mentioned claiming receive more white votes than media acknowledges; details given. [JACKSON - thinks campaign is broadening.]
REPORTER: Bob Faw
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(Studio) Consumer Prods. Safety Commission reported rejecting commission vice chairperson Terrence Scanlon's call to remove ban on exporting hazardous prods.; details given.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Gifts accepted by President and Nancy Reagan in 1983 listed; deputy press secretary Larry Speakes' earlier claim that hearing aids had been purchased by President recalled. Hearing aids said actually gift from manufacturer
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Camp Le Jeune, North Carolina) Marine court-martial of Corporal Alfred Griffin for refusing to go to Lebanon as ordered featured; Griffin said claiming Moslem religious faith prevented him from going. [GRIFFIN - explains his defense on religious grounds.] Arguments presented by prosecution and defense attorney William Kunstler outlined. Difference between Griffin's defense argument and Muhammad Ali's successful use of same to avoid military draft explained.
REPORTER: David Martin
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Annapolis, Maryland) United States Naval Academy's top graduating student Kristine Holderied featured; academy's background reviewed. [HOLDERIED - is pleased.] [Navy public affairs spokesperson Ken PEASE - instructs media.] [HOLDERIED - describes atmosphere toward women on campus.] [CADETS - dismiss significance of event.]
REPORTER: Bob Simon
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Wales) Significance of British coal miners' strike due to refusal of many miners and related employees to honor walkout examined; cntry.'s history relating to coal industry reviewed. Films shown. [PEOPLE - explain not honoring strike.] Implications for Prime Min. Margaret Thatcher considered.
REPORTER: Steve Kroft
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(Studio) London medical official reported ruling last year's mysterious death of British banker Dennis Skinner in Moscow was murder; background to case, include Skinner's wife's claim that KGB had approached husband prior to death, as well as having contact with British intelligence, recalled. Possibility that Skinner had learned identity of Soviet mole in British secret service noted.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Hungary reported joining USSR boycott of summer Olympics in Los Angeles; Poland thought announcing boycott later in week Details given.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) "The Natural, Breakin', Firestarter" box office showings noted.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Hollywood, California) Summer premiere of Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom", a sequel to "Raiders of the Lost Ark"; "Cannonball Run II, Star Trek" sequel; "Electric Dreams", Rhinestone with Sylvester Stallone and Dolly Parton, "Gremlins" featured; scenes from each shown. George Lucas and Spielberg shown. Billy Wilder and Cecil B. DeMille quoted.
REPORTER: David Browning
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