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(Studio) United States said dropping its insistence that fall talks with USSR on space weapons include discussion of missile issue as well.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(DC) Softened White House rhetoric on space weapons negotiations examined. [President REAGAN - claims to be in communication with USSR .] President's discussion with USSR ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin last night mentioned, shown. [REAGAN - claims Dobrynin has message for Moscow.] Kremlin reaction to United States efforts to include other issues in scheduled Vienna talks noted. [State Department spokesperson Alan ROMBERG - will discuss both issues regardless.] [Walter MONDALE - thinks Reagan should have accepted USSR proposal.] Latest CBS "News-New York Times" poll on public's perception of President's sincerity on arms control proposals outlined on screen, discussed. [Zbigniew BRZEZINSKI - believes Reagan is scoring pts. both against USSR and Mondale; explains.]
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
(Studio) USSR foreign minister Andrei Gromyko's response to British foreign secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe's efforts to combine missile and space weapons talks detailed, quoted.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(DC) Status of United States-USSR anti-satellite weapons capabilities discussed; probable inability to verify ban on such weapons explained.
REPORTER: David Martin, Dan Rather
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(North Oaks, Minnesota) Walter Mondale's speech to National Educ. Association convention outlined; films shown. [MONDALE - feels difficult campaign against Ronald Reagan is making him better cand.] CBS "News-New York Times" presidential preference poll findings for Mondale against Reagan outlined on screen, discussed; push for Mondale to select woman running mate noted illustrated by United Food and Commercial Workers Union's endorsement of Representative Geraldine Ferraro as Vice President [Union spokesperson William WYNN - advises Mondale to select Ferraro.] Ferraro's meeting with Mondale today discussed. [FERRARO - notes her attributes.] Poll results illustrating Reagan and Mondale standings with women noted.
REPORTER: Susan Spencer
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(Studio) Supreme Court decision on rights of suspects stopped for possible crime reported, explained. Court's ruling on judge's right to designate death penalty despite jury's sentence recommendation reported.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Pribilof Islands, AK) Annual seal slaughter and Aleut Indian hunters' claim their fur industry is being jeopardized by lack of demand examined; films of slaughter shown. [Fund for Animals consultant Bruce JODAR - would like government subsidy to hunters given Indians as direct grant rather than payment for hunt.] [Mayor Mike ZACHAROF - claims Aleuts want to earn money.] Aleut history in seal hunt, first under USSR and then US, reviewed. [Aleut leader Larry MERCULIEFF - blames animal protectionist groups for incrd. suicide, crime rates.] Aleuts' development of other inds. considered.
REPORTER: Barry Petersen
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(Studio) President Reagan reported naming former Environmental Protection Agency administration Anne Gorsuch Burford as chairperson of national advisory committee on environmental; details given.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) United States Civil Rights Commission chairperson Clarence Pendleton reported questioning President Reagan's attitude toward civil rights; his letters to President quoted on screen, discussed. White House reaction mentioned.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Lloyd's of London reported confirming attacks on Greek and South Korean freighters in Persian Gulf yesterday; details given.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Los Angeles, California) Dvt. of Elite Athletes Program to improve performances of US athletes at Olympics without use of drugs noted; program coach Paul Ward's promotion of anabolic steroids and counseling of competitors on how to beat Olympic drug tests examined. [WARD - defs. anabolic steroids.] [US Olympic committee sports medicine program director Dr. Irving DARDIK - considers Ward's stmts. reprehensible.] Drug controversy at last summer's Pan American games following disqualification of many contenders for alleged drug use recalled. [Competitors Bill GREEN, Chandra CHEESEBOROUGH - react to drug test issue.] Controversy over tests' effectiveness explained. [US Olympic committee spokesperson F. Don MILLER - believes tests have been deterrent to flagrant use of performance enhancing drugs.] [Dr. Robert KERR - disagrees.] Steroids' possible harm to human body mentioned. [Sports medicine researcher Robert GOLDMAN - notes medical implications of athletes' large doses of steroids.]
REPORTER: David Dow
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(Studio) Karel Soucek's trip over Niagara Falls in barrel reported, shown.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Growing popularity of family birthing programs involving entire family in mother's delivery, featured; films shown. [Bonnie DURNING - praises having other sons present during labor and delivery.] [Jimmy DURNING - didn't like ordeal.] Details of program outlined. [Psychologist Mary DANIELS - describes impact on children witnessing mother's delivery.] [Psychologist Gloria LOEW - fears negative impact of scene on children; explains.] [Heather SHELLMON - won't have children when she grows up after seeing mother in such pain.] [Grace SCOTT - believes older daughter benefitted from witnessing birth of sibling.] [Eric BRAXTON - thinks seeing his brother born was important event.] [Michael DURNING - acknowledges difficulty of delivery.] [LOEW - notes potential for family birthing being negative experience.]
REPORTER: Chris Kelley
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Tokyo, Japan) Japanese craze for frilled lizard examined; films shown courtesy Japan TV.
REPORTER: Wyatt Andrews
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