Vanderbilt Television News Archive

NBC Evening News for 1971-12-09

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction John Chancellor (New York City)

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  05:30:50 pm — 05:31:30 pm

• India-Pakistan/War East

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  05:31:30 pm — 05:34:20 pm

  (Studio) Indians cross Meghna River, last natural obstacle before Dacca, E. Pakistan. Nearby orphanage bombed. Indian planes sink enemy troop ships on Ganges River Hili, E. Pakistan, still held by Pakistani defenders.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Near Hill, E. Pakistan) Indians cut railroad to prevent supply shipments; advance no further. Indian residents refugees.
  REPORTER: Kenley Jones

• India-Pakistan / War West

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  05:34:20 pm — 05:36:00 pm

  (Studio) Indian planes strike West Pakistan cities, include Karachi port. For. ntls. try to get out. Pakistani army rebuffed in Kashmir, India.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Kashmir, India) Conflicting reports cloud war coverage on west border. Indian defense stronger.
  REPORTER: George Montgomery

• (Commercial: Tegrin Shampoo; Master Charge Credit Card.)

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  05:36:00 pm — 05:37:10 pm

• India-Pakistan / Conflicting Reports

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  05:37:10 pm — 05:40:10 pm

  (Studio) India-Pakistan reports on enemy plane, tank and ship destruction. E. Pakistan claims Jessore, but Indians held it when reporters there. India claims success in West Pakistan.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Rawalpindi, West Pakistan) India says Rawalpindi airport obliterated; no actual damage done; only 2 planes destroyed. American defense attache Brigadier Charles Yeager calls action indiscriminate strafing.
  REPORTER: John Bierman (BBC)

  (Studio) Rawalpindi site of newsmen en route to front.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Rawalpindi, West Pakistan) War makes little difference to average West Pakistani; except for air raids, mostly false alarms.
  REPORTER: Richard Hunt

• India-Pakistan / United Nations

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  05:40:10 pm — 05:40:30 pm

  (Studio) Pakistan accepts United Nations recommendation for cease-fire and withdrawal. India not likely to stop fighting.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial: Tums Antacid.)

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  05:40:30 pm — 05:41:30 pm

• Tax Bill / Child Care

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  05:41:30 pm — 05:42:20 pm

  (Studio) House and Senator pass tax cut bill. Incl. check-off campaign financial bill designed to stimulate economy President vetoes child care bill.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Pay Board / Railroad Signalmen

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  05:42:20 pm — 05:44:30 pm

  (Studio) Pay Bd. approves raise for railroad signalmen, 42% in 42 month
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (DC) Price Commission won't permit price hikes large enough to cover wage raises granted by Pay Bd. [Price Commission chairperson C. Jackson GRAYSON - says bus. carrying unfair share of burden for stopping inflation. Hopes business responds by holding line on wage increases]
  REPORTER: Irving R. Levine

  (Studio) Irony that orthodox Republican President makes Republican business unhappy.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Journal (Retirement)

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  05:44:30 pm — 05:47:00 pm

  (Studio) Journal discusses retirement.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Studio) Poll shows people prefer decent, comfortable retirement, rather than material goods, for their money. Few people actually achieve it. Soc. Security is a pittance; 1/2 United States population get no other pension; 1/2 who have pension plans never collect, losing benefit with job change. Union pension funds mismanaged; those who collect don't get much.
  REPORTER: David Brinkley

• International Economy / Dollar

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  05:47:00 pm — 05:47:10 pm

  (Studio) Dollar conts. drop on world money mkts. due to rumors of devaluation.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Civil Rights / Government

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  05:47:10 pm — 05:47:30 pm

  (Studio) Chairperson civil rights leadership conference Roy Wilkins charges government with supporting discrimination by funding states and cities with no guarantees of minority hiring. Justice Department law enforcement agency denies charge.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Pay Equality

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  05:47:30 pm — 05:47:40 pm

  (Studio) MacDonald's Restaurant chain sued by government for paying women more than men.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial: Regard Wood Polish; Colgate Toothpaste.)

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  05:47:40 pm — 05:48:50 pm

• NATO / US

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  05:48:50 pm — 05:51:00 pm

  (Studio) Secretary of State William Rogers assures NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) meeting in Brussels that West Europe still focal point of United States foreign policy.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Brussels, Belgium) Secretary of State Rogers and Secretary Defense Melvin Laird assure NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) allies United States not to withdraw United States forces in Europe until negotiations for bilateral withdrawal complete. [LAIRD - says USSR and Warsaw Pact cntrys. would not withdraw troops if United States takes unilateral action.] United States and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) cntrys. ready to talk with regard to troop withdrawals.
  REPORTER: Ray Scherer

• Cambodia

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  05:51:00 pm — 05:51:10 pm

  (Studio) Cambodians win battle near Phnom Penh; village leveled in fighting. South Vietnam win battle on border.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Donaldson / Charges Dropped

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  05:51:10 pm — 05:51:30 pm

  (Studio) Brigadier General John Donaldson cleared of charges of murder of 6 South Vietnam civilians from `copter.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Paris Peace Talks

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  05:51:30 pm — 05:51:40 pm

  (Studio) Peace negotiators quarrel with regard to prisoners of war treatment.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Vietnam / Casualties

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  (Studio) Casualties reported.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial: Sunbeam Hair Driers; Snug Denture Cushions.)

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• Negro Youth Slaying

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  05:52:50 pm — 05:53:20 pm

  (Studio) 9 police in Memphis, Tennessee, indicted in October death of Negro youth Elton Hayes. Autopsy showed death the result of beating. Riots resulted; 4 officers, 1 a Negro, charged with murder.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Sniper

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  05:53:20 pm — 05:54:40 pm

  (Studio) Sniper wounds 2 in Dayton, Ohio; surrenders.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Dayton, Ohio) 23 year old Army veteran Mike Bomar suffered nervous break-down in Germany. Parents say son despondent over unemployment.
  REPORTER: Lou Davis (WLWD-TV)

• Hoover

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  05:54:40 pm — 05:55:50 pm

  (Studio) FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover criticized.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (White House) President Nixon studies possibility of Hoover retirement. Fears Hoover mistake but avoids election year fight on Senator confirmation of replacement.
  REPORTER: Carl Stern

• Egypt / Politics and Government

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  05:55:50 pm — 05:56:00 pm

  (Studio) Egypt's former Vice President, Aly Sabry, sentenced to live imprisonment for plotting President Anwar Sadat overthrow. Former war minister Mohammed Fawzi sentenced to 15 years
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Supreme Court / Nom. Rehnquist

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  05:56:00 pm — 05:56:10 pm

  (Studio) Senator shuts off debate on Supreme Court nomination William Rehnquist.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Cancer / Cigarettes

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  05:56:10 pm — 05:56:30 pm

  (Studio) 2 scientists report cancer causing agent DMN formed by burning certain tobacco which is in some cigarettes.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Red Measles

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  05:56:30 pm — 05:56:40 pm

  (Studio) National Disease Control Center reports measles outbreaks in Saint Petersburg, Florida, Burlington Iowa, Lansing, Michigan.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• US-USSR / Trade

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  05:56:40 pm — 05:56:50 pm

  (Studio) Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, back from Moscow, says US-USSR trade could grow in right political climate.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Death / Bunche

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  05:57:10 pm — 05:58:30 pm

  (Studio) Ralph Bunche dies in New York. Black American, United Nations undersecretary general Bunche recd. Nobel Peace Prize.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (No location given) [BUNCHE - thinks man incapable of starting global nuclear war.]
  REPORTER: No reporter given

• Good Night

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  05:58:30 pm — 05:58:30 pm