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(Studio) Wife of ex-President Richard Nixon, Patricia, 64, suffers stroke at San Clemente home. Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower ride in ambulance to Long Beach Hospital with Mrs. Nixon. Tricia Nixon Cox left New York for California. New York state court disbars Nixon from legal practice in New York.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) 10 North Dakota Republican delegates go to President Ford; 3 to Ronald Reagan, and 5 are uncommitted. Ford organization claims 13 votes for Ford, 4 for Reagan and 1 uncommitted.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) News conference held by Ford campaign committee with regard to delegate support. James Baker, in charge of counting delegates, and New York chairperson Richard Rosenbaum cite their delegate counts. They say Ford has commitment from 1067 delegates; Reagan has 979. Ford representatives say Ford will get 33 of 80 delegates not yet selected and 33 of 131 uncommitted delegates. Ford convention forces will try to bind delegates to various state laws.
REPORTER: Tom Jarriel
(Studio) Report on Reagan.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Fargo, North Dakota) North Dakota delegate loss was disappting. to Reagan. He hopes to win all 25 Colorado delegates. [REAGAN - says he's best hope for victory in November]
REPORTER: Stephen Geer
(Aboard plane) [Reagan field director Andy CARTER - says Ford delegate estimates are still high but more accurate.]
REPORTER: Stephen Geer
(Chicago, Illinois) Reagan to meet with uncommitted and wavering Illinois delegates. Reagan to attend Utah convention and avoid Connecticut convention He'll go to New Jersey and maybe Pennsylvania to win over Ford delegates.
REPORTER: Stephen Geer
5:06:00 (COMMERCIAL: Stove Top Stuffing; Maxim Coffee.)
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(Studio) Jimmy Carter meets with possible Vice President choices, Senators Walter Mondale and John Glenn. He met Monday with Senator Edmund Muskie.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Plains, Georgia) Mondale and wife arrive. Amy Carter, 8, sells homemade sandwiches. [Jimmy CARTER - notes issues that he and Mondale discussed.] [MONDALE - comments with regard to campaigning, in Vice President spot. Notes improved Holiday Inns.] John Glenn and wife arrive for visit.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
(Studio) Report on Glenn.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Potomac, MD) Glenn, 55, has been hsehold. word since 1962 when he was astronaut on Friendship VII. February 20, 1962, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) film shows Glenn's flight. Glenn's Ohio background described. Parades after space venture shown.
REPORTER: Don Farmer
(DC) [GLENN - says whole life has been spent in service to US.] Ear injury ended Glenn's 1st try for Senator; he lost 2nd try. Became millionaire with Royal Crown Cola Company He won Senate race by million votes 2 years ago. Glenn's views on issues noted. He is liberal to moderate. [GLENN - says as political, he wants to help shape US. Comments on Vice President job.] Glenn and wife shown visiting his space ship in new museum at Smithsonian Institution
REPORTER: Don Farmer
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(Studio) Report on Pat Nixon.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Long Beach, California) Mrs. Nixon reported resting and alert at Long Beach Memorial Hospital. Mr. Nixon was at same hospital in 1974 for phlebitis. Family dr., Dr. John Lungren, diagnosed Mrs. Nixon's stroke.
REPORTER: Wayne Satz (KABC-TV)
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(Studio) Christians and Moslems battle for 20 Lebanese towns. 600 killed and 1100 wounded, most near Chekka. PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) leader Yasir Arafat claims in message to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat that Syria preparing for all-out attack on Beirut.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Hostage Dora Bloch left behind in Uganda hospital when Israeli commandos rescued more than 100 hostages. She holds dual Israeli-British citizenship.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) British consul visited Mrs. Bloch in hospital Sunday a.m. He was told on his 2nd visit to hospital that Mrs. Bloch was released Saturday and rejoined other hostages at Entebbe Airport where Israeli commandos picked them up. British government filed formal protest. American travelers say Mrs. Bloch smothered to death when cloth stuffed in her mouth to stop her from screaming. State Department says no information to support story.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
(Studio) United Nations Security Council to debate Israeli raid in Uganda Friday Expected US will veto any condemnation of Israel.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) 2 Soyuz cosmonauts settle in space laboratory Film shows Soyuz 21 lift-off. Soviet film shows launch and cosmonauts. Reporter Jules Bergman says likely 2 other cosmonauts will dock with Salyut 5 space laboratory
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Olympic Committee and Canadian government negotiate over participation of Taiwan athletes in `76 summer Olympics.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) 9000 reported dead in recent New Guinea earthquake.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) 4000 Chrysler workers at Trenton, Michigan, plant strike over working conditions. Plant provides engines. Sanitation workers strike in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Raleigh, North Carolina, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1600 nursing home patients in New York City transferred to relatives' homes or hospitals because of hospital workers' strike.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Report on Queen Elizabeth's activities.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Film shows White House party, with Ford and Queen dancing and Betty Ford and Prince Philip dancing. President and Queen dedicate nave of the National Cathedral to Winston Churchill. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Speaker House Carl Albert greet Queen at Capitol. [ELIZABETH - notes American's Bicentennial.] Queen views Magna Carta.
REPORTER: Frank Tomlinson
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(Studio) Comment on Carter's future.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Studio) Reporter comments on Jimmy Carter, and how he should convince Americans he's ready to be President
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Soviet ship, with balloonist, Karl Thomas, arrives in Rotterdam.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Rotterdam, Holland) Thomas' wife, mother and others greet him. [THOMAS - says man's greatest adventure is exploring self. Lonesome adventures are the greatest.] Mrs. Thomas meets Soviet captain and presents him with US flags. Thomas to stay in Holland few days before returning to Troy, Michigan. He'll attend Dutch balloon exhibition. Says he'll make another flight.
REPORTER: Lou Cioffi
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