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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(DC: Phil Jones) Senator-House conferees' movement toward compromise tax reform legislature examined; scenes shown. [Representative Dan ROSTENKOWSKI - cites focus of conferees' efforts.] Details outlined on screen, discussed. [Lobbyist Charls WALKER - considers approach dubious econs.] Special ints. influencing each conferee listed.
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(NYC: Bob Faw) Tax reform's implications for middle class Americans such as the Ericksons examined; details given, scenes shown. [Ms. ERICKSON - wants middle class protected.] [PEOPLE - offer their definition of middle class income.] [Senator Robert PACKWOOD - calls for reasonable determination of category.] Senator and House proposals outlined on screen. [Senator George MITCHELL - doesn't believes new bill will help average taxpayer.] [Pollster Peter HART - comments.] [MAN - comments.]
(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(NYC: Ray Brady) Issue of corporate tax responsibility examined. [Citizens for Tax Justice spokesperson David WILHELM - cites American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) and DuPont as exs. of major corps. paying no taxes.] [Sara Lee Corporation chairperson John BRYAN - explains company's move for tax reform.] Bill's expected effect on real estate and related inds. explained. [Developer Don. TRUMP - considers plan a disaster for construction.] [BRYAN - disagrees.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(Trinidad, Bolivia: Juan Vasquez) (Poor audio.) Preparations for joint US-Bolivian military program aimed at cocaine mfrs., Operation Blast Furnace, featured; details given, scenes shown.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) President Reagan reported delivering address on South Africa next wk.; details given.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) White House chief of staff Don. Regan's sexist remark concerning United States women &econ. sanctions against South Africa quoted.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(London, England: Tom Fenton) Dispute between Prime Min. Margaret Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth over black African Commonwealth ntns.' call for econ. sanctions against South Africa examined; details given, scenes shown. Impact of fracas on upcoming Commonwealth games noted. [Royal historian Hugo VICKERS - describes leaders' rel.] [In Parliament, voice of THATCHER - declines questions about monarchy.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Syrian vice president Abdel Halim Khaddam reported indicating United States and French hostages are being held in Moslem section of Beirut, Lebanon; details given, scenes shown.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Nuns kidnapped in Philippines recently reported released; details given, scenes shown. United States missionary Brian Lawrence noted still captive.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Effect of continued municipal workers' strike in Detroit, Michigan, described.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sanitation workers reported defying back-to-work order; details given.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Congress reported revising Gramm-Rudman budget legislature to conform to recent Supreme Court ruling; details given.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Report introduced.
(DC: Susan Spencer) White House reported ordering Surgeon General C. Everett Koop not to testify before upcoming Congress hearings on call to ban all cigarette advertising; details given, scenes shown. [Courtesy Face the Nation, KOOP - supports such ban.] Constitutional questions underlying issue considered. [Tobacco Institute spokesperson Scott STAPF, American Advertising Fndn. spokesperson Howard BELL - cite both legal and economy ramifications.] Recent events supporting ban movement listed on screen, reviewed. [American Med. Association spokesperson Dr. Alan NELSON - thinks advertising increases tobacco use.] Expected focus of R. J. Reynolds, Junior's testimony described.
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Ctrs. for Disease Control's analysis of expected cancer rate in United States noted.
(Miami, Florida: Bernard Goldberg) The Southerland family's ordeal with various cancers examined; deaths of Ray, Michael and Jeffrey and experience of Steven described. Photos shown. [Steven SOUTHERLAND - cites family's attitude toward tragedy.] Family's ancestral history of cancer noted. [Family friend Ron SORENSON - notes Steven's courage.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) [Senator Robert PACKWOOD, Representative Dan ROSTENKOWSKI - discuss their tax reform efforts.]
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(Studio: Dan Rather) Senator Russell Long's poem on tax reform quoted. Issue's history in United States examined; historical footage shown. Woodrow Wilson, Will Rogers quoted. [William Randolph HEARST, Harry TRUMAN, Dwight EISENHOWER, Jimmy CARTER, Ronald REAGAN -call for tax reform.]
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