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(Studio) New earth tremors rock North Italy after Thursday' earthquake. Bodies sealed in coffins. Copters sprayed disinfectant over ruins of 30 villages. 700 killed by quake.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
(N. Italy) Search conts. for bodies. Focus of attention shifts to homeless and refugees. Copters bring in supplies. Cholera epidemic feared.
REPORTER: Bill Zimmerman
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(Studio) Lebanese parliament elects Elias Sarkis, Christian-backed Beirut banker, as new president 4 killed in fighting after election.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
(Beirut, Lebanon) Rightist leader Pierre Gemayel arrives for election. Leftists attempt to stop election. Sarkis voted in with 66 votes and 3 abstentions. Many glad that leftist leader Kamal Jumblatt defeated. Leftists fire on parliament as deps. leave building Speculated Sarkis may call for Syrian help in quelling civil war.
REPORTER: Jim Bennett
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(Studio) San Francisco public transportation and maintenance workers go back to work while panel works out wage dispute. Strike lasted 39 days. NBC reaches agreement with technicians and news writers, who've been on strike for 5 weeks
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
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(Studio) Jimmy Carter faces Senator Frank Church Tuesday in Nebraska primary and California Governor Edmund Brown Junior in May 18 Maryland primary.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
(Omaha, Nebraska) Church presents Carter with Idaho peanuts. Felt Carter will win Nebraska due to his agriculture background.
REPORTER: David Snell
(Detroit, Michigan) Ldrs. of industry incling. General Motors Corporation President Pete Estes line up to have photos made with Carter.
REPORTER: David Snell
(Baltimore, Maryland) Carter shown with baby. Maryland Democratic leaders support Brown. [CARTER - says Brown adopted by political bosses and machine pols. of Maryland who want brokered conv.] Carter polls show him behind in MD.
REPORTER: David Snell
(Harford Cnty., MD) Enthusiastic crowd greets Brown in E. Baltimore. [Democratic leader Dominic DIPIETRO - says Brown is beautiful.] Ex-state senate Joseph Staszak is powerful Democratic leader. [State Senator Joseph BONVEGNA - says his pol. team is successful.] [BROWN - says welcomes all to his campaign.] Brown preaches full employment, environmental limits and political reform. He's balancing old and new political styles.
REPORTER: John Martin
(Omaha, Nebraska) Nebraska is important to Church. At Jefferson-Jackson day dinner, Church attacks President Ford for 1975 embargo on grain sales. [CHURCH - says United States needs to sell all the food the world wants. Would sell Arabs food, not weapons.]
REPORTER: Roger Peterson
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(Studio) Washington and Lee University holds 16th mock convention
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
(Lexington, Virginia) Students enact mock Democratic Convention Carter fails to get nomination on 1st ballot, but wins on 2nd ballot with 1585 votes.
REPORTER: Bettina Gregory
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(Studio) President Ford campaigns in Nebraska and Missouri. He hasn't had chance to talk to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, back from Africa.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
(Independence, Missouri) Large group of people say that Kissinger enunciating African major rule policy while Ford campaigned in South was straw that broke the back of a fragile campaign. Felt it would be a sign of weakness to fire Kissinger now. Ford speaks at dedication of statue of Harry S. Truman. [FORD - quotes Truman with regard to not mixing policy with election year pols. Truman knew where buck stopped and wasn't afraid of the heat in the kitchen.]
REPORTER: Tom Jarriel
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(Studio) Report on why it's necessary for Kissinger to be quoted as "the senior official."
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
(No location given) Kissinger shown in the role of United States Secretary of State and in the role of "the senior official" aboard Kissinger's plane. Camouflage allows Kissinger to be blunt with reporters and pass on information to them unofficially. [KISSINGER - explains why he speaks to reporters "off the record."] Kissinger not accountable for what "the senior official" says.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
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(Studio) Leonid Brezhnev named as marshal of the USSR ; USSR 's highest military rank. He's 1st leader since Joseph Stalin to hold title.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
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(Studio) Spain to set free left-wing political prisoners, jailed month ago. Spain plans to release most political prisoners.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
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(Studio) Senate Intelligence Committee reports on development of FBI domestic spying over past 40 years Report calls on Congress to prevent abuses of FBI power. FBI Director Clarence Kelley apologizes for past FBI misconduct.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
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(Studio) Report on illegal intelligence files.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
(DC) Federal agents illegally spied on Americans for decades. CIA officials say they're eager to destroy files kept on 7000 Americans IRS (Internal Revenue Service) Commissioner Don. Alexander says he wants bonfire to get rid of 11,000 files on citizens. FBI was source for much of information obtained by other intelligence orgs. Extent of FBI files noted. FBI routinely gives out available information to agencies like Civil Service agency and local police depts. House bill would force intelligence agencies to notify anyone spied upon. [Representative John CONYERS - says Americans must write in to find out if they were spied upon.] [CIA Director George BUSH - explains problems with informing Americans who were spied on.]
REPORTER: Brit Hume
(Studio) Closeup address noted.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
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(Studio) At Washington, DC news conf., ex-astronaut, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin says he is recovered alcoholic. Representative Wilbur Mills thought his blackouts were due to brain tumor until he found out he was alcoholic. National Council on Alcoholism invited Mills, Aldrin and others to gathering to show that disease is treatable and bears no stigma.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
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(Studio) Ford political campaign rests on 2 factors: recovering economy and forceful and imaginative foreign policy. No 1 better equipped to deal with Mideast and SALT. Firing Kissinger would lose Ford many middle-of-the-road votes. Kissinger's popularity noted.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
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