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(Studio) Unemployment rate fell from 7.8% to 7.6% in February
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Joint Econ. Committee questions validity of government figures. [Senator Hubert H. HUMPHREY - says doesn't know where national figures coming from.] Commissioner Bureau of Labor Statistics, Julius Shiskin, defs. figures and says rate should be below 7% by end 1976. [President FORD - comments on unemployment figures. Nothing political in figures.] Democrats say figures will help Ford.
REPORTER: Bill Matney
#42605
(Studio) Labor Department sets up rules calling for unemployment insurance benefits to be paid within few weeks after worker loses job.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#42607
(Studio) British pound drops below $2 in international trading. Reason noted.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#42610
(Studio) Ronald Reagan rptdly. going after President Ford's weakness.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Saint Petersburg, Florida) Reagan officials feel detente dissatisfaction is naj. political issue. [REAGAN - says Ford going to abandon word "detente" when it's the policy that made word unpopular. United States no longer dealing from position of strength. Says that is why ex-Defense Secretary James Schlesinger no longer an administration mbr.]
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Studio) Ford campaigns in Illinois.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Springfield, Illinois) Ford campaigns with regard to incrd. farm production and wheat sales to USSR . He appears at home of ex-pres. Abraham Lincoln. [FORD - quotes Lincoln.] Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz is popular in area. Butz put in charge of agriculture policy committee that replaces 2 cmtes. previously led by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. [FORD - opposes policies to keep bushels at hone and send boys overseas.] Ford stresses profits of detente and pols. of grain.
REPORTER: Tom Jarriel
#42611
(Studio) Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz says mismanagement caused Soviet wheat crop failure in 1975. At Soviet Communist party conf., all Politburo members except agriculture minister reelected.
REPORTER: HR
(Moscow, USSR ) Agriculture minister Dimitry Polyansky dropped from Politburo; he's scapegoat for Soviet crop failures. Leonid Brezhnev remains Communist party leader; detente works to USSR 's advantage.
REPORTER: Russell Jones
#42613
(Studio) Justice Department investigates possible bribery by Lockheed. Dep. Secretary State Robert South Ingersoll says study to decide if Lockheed violated US law in payoff to foreign government representatives
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#42614
(Studio) Major American oil company execs. and representatives of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) to meet in Florida.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Panama City, Florida) Site of meeting shown. Security tight. Oil company representatives and State Department say they know nothing of meeting Security precautions and secrecy attending meeting noted.
REPORTER: Charles Murphy
#42615
(Studio) National Archives publishes Richard Nixon's president papers for 1974. Some of Nixon's foreword with regard to Watergate scandal quoted.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#42616
(Studio) Defense attorney F. Lee Bailey says psychiatrist, Dr. Joel Fort, went to Patricia Hearst's parents and suggested they settle out of court Fort denies charges. Reporter Stephen Geer says Bailey plans to call Mrs. Hearst to testify and discredit Fort as witness.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Rhodesia tightens gasoline rationing and enlarges its army in response to closure of its border with Mozambique. South Africa foreign minister calls on W. cntrys., especially United States, to do something about Soviet and Cuban aggression in Africa. Rptd. Soviet tanks and Cuban troops landed at Mozambique port of Beira. Report on big power struggle for influence in Africa and United States' African policies.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) United States enjoys diplomatic relations with almost all African ntns. Senator African affairs subcommittee holds meeting [Ex-pres. African-American Institution Waldemar NIELSEN - says United States undercut its role in African policies and cam only watch events about to occur.] [M.I.T. Soviet affairs expert, Prof. William GRIFFITH - says natural USSR would look for places to do well and see that United States does badly. They'll continue their course in South Africa.] Chinese spent years building their appeal in Mozambique. Tanzania, Zambia and Zaire. USSR gained ground in Somalia, Angola, Guinea, Mali and Congo Brazzaville. Soviets spent 3 times as much for military aid as for economic aid. 12-15,000 Cubans are in Angola. 100's Cuban military and technical advisers are in Congo Brazzaville, Somalia and Guinea. Senator Dick Clark only member of African affairs subcommittee to show up for meeting African expert from Soviet embassy there. [CLARK - hopes United States doesn't become laughing stock of Africa. It'll happen if United States defs. white regimes.]
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
#42619
(Studio) Venezuelan kidnappers set terms for release of Owen Glass executive, William Niehous. Demands noted.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#42620
(Studio) In Lisbon, 2 Americans execs. of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company set free 4 days after Portuguese workers captured them in factory over pay dispute.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#42622
(Studio) Report on how Jimmy Carter handling political attacks.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(S. Florida) Carter must prove that South is behind him. [CARTER - says George Wallace can't be elected President Time to send President, not message, to DC.] Carter worried that Senator Henry Jackson will do well in Florida. [CARTER - says Jackson distorted his views.] Carter coolness fraying.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
#42623
(Studio) Report on financing of public service jobs.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Studio) ABC tried to show pros and cons of public service jobs. Reporter recaps series of reports about public jobs.
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
(No location given) 3 million jobs needed to reach 4.5% unemployment rate. Jobs to cost $16 billion. [Senator Hubert H. HUMPHREY - says unemployment to cost $1.5 trillion between 1974-80. Would have budget surplus at 4.5%.]
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
(Studio) Higher production and revenue must come from private sector. Govt. econ., Alan Greenspan, says growth in government employment already threatens econ. productivity.
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
(DC) [Chairperson Council of Econ. Advisers Alan GREENSPAN - says extra government workers don't increase standards of living and productivity.]
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
(Studio) Most Americans feel government should provide everyone with job. Public workers must be paid with tax dollars; thus ltding. goods and services usually received
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
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(Studio) Federal Washington, DC judge says Postal Service may close down rural P.O.s after following its own rules with regard to closings.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#42625
(Studio) National Center for Disease Control says influenza epidemic worse than 1968 Hong Kong flu epidemic. 24 states report epidemics. New England and mid-Atlantic areas hit hardest.
REPORTER: HR
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(Studio) United Nations Demographic Yearbook report says world population at 4 billion in 1974 and it will reach 8 billion in 36 years Greatest growth in poorest cntrys. Sweden has longest life expectancy rate. Africa has highest population increase and average life expectancy of under 40 years
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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