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(Studio) Utah Governor orders stay of execution for Gary Gilmore.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) Utah Governor Calvin Rampton orders delay of execution of Gary Gilmore until state board of pardons can review case at meeting on Wednesday
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(Salt Lake City, UT) Though execution stayed for present, preparations for it continue at Utah State Prison. [Warden Sam SMITH - tells some of details with regard to firing squad.] Other details with regard to execution and sketch by artist David Rose noted. Concern expressed here with regard to attitude of people on volunteer firing squad. 2 Provo, UT, police officers say they believe in capital punishment and will serve if asked to do so. [MAN - says it's part of job as police officer and they'll do it if asked to.] [2nd MAN - says he wouldn't enjoy it as some might claim.] Options of pardons board noted.
REPORTER: Greg Dobbs
(Studio) Prison official says 30 people have volunteered to be on squad.
#40733
(Studio) Similar case developing in McKinney, Texas, in case of Excell White; details noted. Collin Cnty. Judge Tom Ryan permits television cameras of WFAA in Dallas, Texas to film sentencing. (Film shown.)
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(McKinney, Texas) Court scene noted. [WHITE - asks for speedy execution date; says he's guilty of murder, won't ask for forgiveness and deserves to die.] [Judge Tom RYAN - says compassion of court isn't for White but for those he killed; reads sentence for White to be electrocuted December 10 in state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas.] Court-apptd. attorney for White says he'll appeal case to United States Supreme Court if necessary, despite client's wishes.
REPORTER: Tracy Rowlett
(Studio) Notes apparent difficulty judge had in pronouncing sentence. Judge is interviewed today by reporter Tracy Rowlett. (Film of interview shown.) [RYAN - notes thoughts at sentencing; cites reasons for allowing cameras in court for sentencing.]
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) Attys. for Patricia Hearst will go to court in San Francisco Friday to request she be set free on bail; details noted. Govt. attys. will oppose motion.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Jimmy Carter's vacation on Saint Simons Island, Georgia, ends as he returns to Plains via Albany, Georgia, on "Peanut One." (Film shown.) Ahead for Carter is more transition planning.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#40737
(Studio) State Department spokesperson says today United States and other industry ntns. working together to prevent increase in price of oil, when oil production cntrys. meet next mo. to consider such move. In DC, Federal Reserve Board Chairperson Arthur Burns notes economy impact increase could have on United States and other ntns.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(DC) Burns reads statement with regard to economy growth rate and limits on circulating cash and checking account deposits to Senator Banking Committee [Committee chairperson Senator William PROXMIRE - says Burns seems to be saying expansion needed but board won't help much.] [BURNS - says shortage in country not of money, but willingness to use it; says policy suggested would make shortage multiply.] Statement means new administration and Congress will have to tackle economy on own without help from board, as it is independent.
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
#40738
(Studio) Comment is on unofficial political polling outside DC.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(DC) Reporter notes impressions he received from talking to people in Chicago, Illinois, and Phoenix, Arizona, with regard to recent election.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Pentagon announces today Ford has given General Alexander Haig 2-yr. extension as commander of United States forces in Europe; Haig is also supreme allied commander of all NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) forces in Europe.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Ford and family continue vacation in Palm Springs, California; aides say Fords may settle there after January 20.
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(Studio) DC's human resources department says more illegitimate children born in DC last year than legitimate ones; is 1st time for Washington, DC or any major city in US. Other details noted.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) National Conf. of Catholic Bishops ends fall meeting in Washington, DC today by issuing document reaffirming church's traditional moral teachings; details noted.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) Vietnam mbrship. in United Nations comes before Security Council Friday and also Friday Vietnam and US begin talks in Paris, France, with regard to normalization of relations in aftermath of Vietnam war.
(DC) Report on level of talks between United States and Vietnam in Paris; won't be like Kissinger's talks. (1973 film shown.) Important subject for United States is MIA's, and for Vietnam is war reparations. United States expected to veto Vietnam United Nations mbrship. until information on MIA's obtained.
REPORTER: Barrie Dunsmore
(Studio) Pentagon notes amount of United States weapons Vietnam Communists captured in fall of South Vietnam; makes Vietnam most military powerful country in area.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) India's parliament passes bill making permanent Prime Min. Indira Gandhi's near total control of nation
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Rhodesia Prime Min. Ian Smith presides over celebration of cntry.'s 11th anniversary of independence from Britain, while Geneva conference on maj. rule for Rhodesia conts.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) United States joins 14 other ntns. in statement from United Nations Security Council re: Israeli practices in occupied Arab territories; details noted.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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#40750
(Studio) Death of artist Alexander Calder noted.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(DC) Art forms of Calder noted; he's best known for invention of mobile. (Film of interview with Calder October 13, 1976, shown.) Reporter comments Calder's works have gotten bigger and bigger and bigger. [CALDER - says they've gotten better and better and better. Says he likes to move from 1 thing to another.]
REPORTER: Margaret Osmer
#40751
(Studio) Reburial in military grave at Fort Sam Houston in Texas of Raymond Hatfield Gardner noted.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, Texas) Gardner, known as "Arizona Bill," had claimed to be soldier, but records, which went back prior to Civil War, had been lost. Report is on search for these records by former Master sergeant George Miller. [MILLER - tells how he got records from Virginia.] Gardner served in Union army with General Ulysses S Grant, scouted for General George Armstrong Custer and traveled to Florida as translator for Apache chief Geronimo. "Arizona Bill" and burro, "Temporary," became legend, but life not documented until Miller got records so that Gardner could have dream of being buried in military cemetery fulfilled.
REPORTER: Jim Kincaid
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