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(Studio) Some villages affected by earthquake can't be reached by rescuers. Reasons noted.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Minor earthquake in northern California noted. No damage, however.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Syrian troops are keeping their distance from Lebanese-Israeli border. Syrian comments noted.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(Israeli-Lebanese Border) Israeli reinforcements maintaining their position along border with Lebanon. Conditions and maneuvers noted. Syrian forces 15 miles away from Israeli troops. [Israeli defense minister Shimon PERES - warns Syria.]
REPORTER: Bill Seamans
(Studio) Lebanon President Elias Sarkis suggested Syrian troops be allowed into 2 towns in southern Lebanon. No comment from Israel yet.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#40995
(Muradiye, Turkey) Relief not getting through because of weather conditions, landslides and gas shortage. Casualties noted.
REPORTER: Jack Smith
#40997
(Studio) President-elect Jimmy Carter spent today in seclusion.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(Washington, DC) "Plum Book" ("Policy and Supporting Positions") lists jobs Carter can fill. Talent hunt under way. Applicants for new admins.' openings noted. [Chairperson of House post office and Civil Service Committee Mo UDALL - criticizes Republican administration for shifting Republicans from "patronage" jobs into newly created Civil Service ones. ]
REPORTER: Bob Carter
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(Studio) Major crime on decline, FBI says, but not in San Francisco.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(San Francisco, California) 32% rise in violent crime here. Nos. noted. [Police supervisor Al NELDER - says there are 250 fewer policemen on force. Exs. of crime noted.] [San Francisco police chief, Charles GAIN - states his police force doesn't have resources commensurate with quantity of crime.] [1st WOMAN - reports her being assaulted last Christmas.] [2nd WOMAN - notes burglary of friend's apt.] Authorities hope crackdown will be effective this coming wkend.
REPORTER: Tom Schell
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(Studio) 6 of top 10 steel companies to raise sheet steel price by 6%. United States Steel and Bethlehem haven't commented on whether they will also raise price.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#41002
(Studio) At Geneva conference, black leaders agree to fix March 1st, 1978, as date majority government will take over.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Police crack down on whites opposing government racial policy in South Africa.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(South Africa) [Editor of "The World" (newspaper), Percy QUEBOZA - criticizes United States businesses there for not having blacks on companies' executive boards.] Most businesses now have group-training ctrs. No dramatic changes in social apartheid. Exs. noted. [GM managing director Bill MOTT - says now going through transition period.] South Africa now in depression period. Blacks have no effective unions. Further changes noted in black advancement in trained jobs.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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(Studio) US's problem in Caribbean noted. Reporter says President-elect Jimmy Carter's foreign policy should include relations with Cuba. Reasons noted. Cuban army proficiency and growing prestige noted. Latin American visits to Fidel Castro noted. Goals only accomplished by violent means, according to Castro. Cuban camps train guerrillas for South America. Castro's aim noted. United States alternatives noted.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters; Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) General Assembly voted 141 to 1 to recommend to Security Council Vietnam be admitted to UN. United States veto reasons noted.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#41007
(Studio) Extensive testing in and around Concordia, Missouri, revealed no other new cases of swine flu. Reference to Larry Hardison's case.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) A Ralph Nader health study group charges that there is extensive radiation from x-ray machines testing for breast cancer. Department of Health, Education and Welfare spokesperson said machines now adjusted. Machines in ctrs. run by American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) International Congress of the World Wildlife Fund to meet in San Francisco Sunday Expenditures to protect endangered species noted. Future protection plans noted.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Kennedy Airport, NYC) Seizure of products made from endangered species by United States customs officials noted. Species used noted. [US Fish and Wildlife special agent Jack DOWNS - states objective of agency.] Civil litigation against citizen importers of endangered species products noted.
REPORTER: Roger Caras
(Studio) Govt. has problem of confiscated imports piling up in warehouses.
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(Studio) CIA sends daily top-secret briefings by wire to President-elect Jimmy Carter. President Ford gets duplicates. Problem in Plains noted.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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