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(Studio) Mayors conference ends in Chicago today with mayors' requesting help for cities from Carter administration and new Congress
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) Details of mayors requests to new administration noted.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(Chicago, Illinois) High on list of priorities to mayors is solving unemployment; proposal with regard to anti-recession bill noted. [Detroit Mayor Coleman YOUNG - cites details of proposed bill.] Carter representative to conf. Howard Samuels says meeting is success and Carter will get report soon. Carter spokesperson at conference says Carter won't dump lots of money into cities unless long-range economy planning incld.
REPORTER: Robert Miller
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(Studio) Solution to big city problems not simple.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(No location given) Reporter notes services paid for by city budgets with tax money and why there's not enough money in cities.
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
(Studio) Anchor asks if federal government can save cities.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(No location given) Reporter says it's not likely; cites reasons.
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
(Studio) Anchor asks with regard to steps new administration could take.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(No location given) Reporter says probably most important thing to do is try to get economy growing faster again.
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
(Studio) Anchor asks with regard to chances of mayors' requests being granted.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(No location given) Reporter says chances not much; cites reasons.
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
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(Studio) Carter family's vacation on Saint Simons Island noted.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) FPC rules today utilities may not require consumers to pay cost of construction of new plants and pipelines until after they begin service.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) announces General Motors workers will strike November 18 if new contract agreement not reached; spokesperson for General Motors Corporation and UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) say they're optimistic of avoiding strike.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Department of Health, Education and Welfare today releases list of doctors, dentists, medical labs and drugstores taking in Medicaid payments of over $100,000 last year; details noted.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) President of National Conf. of Catholic Bishops Archbishop Joseph Bernardin today calls on Catholic bishops, archbishops and cardinals to unite to stop abortions in US.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Studio) Supreme Court upholds lower court decision permitting federal funds use in voluntary abortion cases. Decision orders Department of Health, Education and Welfare not to stop Medicaid payments in such cases, which usually affect poorer women.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) In past, women in crime, like Ma Barker and Bonnie of Bonnie and Clyde, were unusual; now women arrested in greater numbers and for kinds of crimes most often done by men in past.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(Chicago, Illinois) Rise in female crime figs. noted. [Criminologist Freda ADLER - says it's not women's lib, but product of greater stress on women in society now like men have always had.] Changes in population of women's prison noted. Reporter talks with women in Illinois Female Reformatory with regard to arrest of more women for felonies. [WOMAN - says women want to be like men with equal rights.] [2nd WOMAN - says it's because women have more courage to do what they want to do.] Younger felon represented by case of 17-yr.-old Laura Haynes; details noted. [HAYNES - tells why she attempted robbery.] Some suggest increase in women's arrests and convictions is due to backlash in criminal justice system against women's liberate [Cook Cnty. Women's Jail supt., Claudia McCORMICK - notes women now more often getting same sentence for same crime as men.] [Chicago Police Department commander Ronald RAE - says policemen more cautious in dealing with women now with regard to possibility of woman endangering his life.] Feminists argue there's no relations between women's liberate and female crime. [National League of Cities rep. Lynn OLSON - says there's no research method yet available to establish link between crime and women's liberate] [ADLER - says women are becoming more like men and will act more like men, legally and illegally.] Question may now be whether society will be forced to accept increase criminality among women as well as men as 1 of costs of changing society.
REPORTER: Ron Miller
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(Studio) Report on planned firing squad execution of Gary Gilmore in Utah on Monday Gilmore asks Utah supreme court to allow him to be executed.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Today 1st sign of stepdown of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger shows in State Department report
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Spokesperson Robert Funseth says department will do best not to preempt new admin.'s flexibility; means no new initiatives will be taken with USSR with regard to strategic arms or with China (PR) or Middle East. Kissinger attends last NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) meeting in Europe in December and may make 1 last bid to help south Africa situation with regard to stalemated Geneva conference on Rhodesia, but this doesn't involve United States policy.
REPORTER: Barrie Dunsmore
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(Studio) ABC reporter John Scali says USSR films being shown in Peking and Canton, China (PR) for 1st time in 10 years and recently Chinese sent congratulatory message to USSR with regard to anniversary of Russian Revolution. Chinese radio broadcasts continue to be anti-USSR .
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Japanese and United States negotiators disagree sharply today with regard to restrictions on for. fishing within United States waters. New law with regard to matter, to go into effect in March, requires foreign ntns. to pay for fish caught in United States waters.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(Misaki, Japan) Report on effect of United States law on Japan economy
REPORTER: Irv Chapman
(Studio) Today Japan refuses to recognize enforcement of law. Talks to continue for next 5 days.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) At close of Vietnam war, Thailand welcomed Vietnam refugees; today Thai government announces new refugees will be refused entry.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Thailand) Report on Vietnam refugee problems in southe. Asia.
REPORTER: Jim Bennett
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(Studio) Syria peace-keeping forces move into Lebanon today; are expected to move into Beirut in few days.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) United States has promised nuclear reactors for peaceful use to Egypt, Israel and Iran. Group of United States Senators now touring cntrys. to check on safeguards. Israel denies Senators' request to visit secret atomic facility in Negev desert.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) New federal tax law denies certain financial benefits to American companies participating in Arab boycott of Israel. Today Middle East publication quotes head of Arab League's boycott office as saying foreign legislature will have no effect on boycott.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) Report on explosion in Kansas City, Kansas, which ignited gasoline tank at Phillips Petroleum Company refinery; details noted.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) Earthquakes reported over wkend. and today in Iran, China (PR), Japan, Philippines and Salonika, Greece. National Earthquake Info. Center in Colorado says no apparent connection among quakes.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) Peregrine falcon in danger of extinction because of effect of DDT on eggs; project underway to prevent extinction.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(No location given) (Film by Morlan Nelson shown.) [Cornell University representative Bill BERNUM - explains projects goals; notes research center at Fort Collins, Colorado.] Other details of project noted.
REPORTER: Roger Caras
(Studio) Reports say wealthy Arabs on Persian Gulf pay thousands of dollars for 1 peregrine falcon on black market
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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