Vanderbilt Television News Archive

NBC Evening News for 1972-01-14

This program is 26 minutes long

• Introduction John Chancellor (New York)

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  05:30:40 pm — 05:31:10 pm

• Vietnam War

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  05:31:10 pm — 05:31:30 pm

  (Studio) United States jet destroys North Vietnam missile site. Enemy concentrations near Saigon hit.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Cambodia / South Vietnam Dispute

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  05:31:30 pm — 05:35:20 pm

  (Studio) Withdrawal of South Vietnam troops, from eastern Cambodia causes concern. Area left open to enemy.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Krek, Cambodia) Recent South Vietnam troop action near Krek recalled. Troops withdrawn with little accomplished. North Vietnam offensive in South Vietnam feared. Saigon being protected against Tet offensive. (Tay Ninh, South Vietnam) Cambodians flee as South Vietnam troops leave. Wives, children brought into highway 7 area. Cambodians don't take war seriously. 10,000 refugees cross border. Troops families return to Phnom Penh area.
  REPORTER: George Lewis

• (Commercial)

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  05:35:20 pm — 05:36:40 pm

• Long Cheng, Laos

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  05:36:40 pm — 05:37:20 pm

  (Studio) Long Cheng still under attack. Fall predicted. CIA influence noted. Town has boomed. Loss significance interpreted.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Pakse, Laos

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  05:37:20 pm — 05:39:10 pm

  (Studio) Bad trouble cited at Pakse.

  (Pakse) Second biggest city in Laos. Near Ho Chi Minh trail. Defense works thrown up. Loss of Pakse analyzed. Helicopter operation described. Use of Russian tanks by North Vietnam feared.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Gen. Creighton Abrams

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  05:39:10 pm — 05:39:30 pm

  (Studio) General Creighton Abrams to leave Vietnam. Hq. to become adviser post.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Journal - (Draft Dodger Amnesty)

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  05:39:30 pm — 05:43:40 pm

  (DC) 75,000 to 100,000 United States evaders in Canada, Sweden. Evaders opposed to amnesty idea. (American Legion Post visited.) Differing opinions expressed by Legionnaires. Citizen obligations at issue.
  REPORTER: David Brinkley

• USSR / Sheuer Expulsion

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  05:43:40 pm — 05:44:00 pm

  (Studio) Representative James Sheuer expelled from USSR for tampering with Jewish emigrant problem.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial)

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  05:44:00 pm — 05:45:00 pm

• Wholesale Prices

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  05:45:00 pm — 05:45:20 pm

  (Studio) Figures for wholesale prices rose in December
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Inflation

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  05:45:20 pm — 05:45:30 pm

  (Studio) Costs rise more slowly at end of year than at beginning.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Economy Growth

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  05:45:30 pm — 05:45:50 pm

  (Studio) Economy does not grow fast enough to generate jobs.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Subsides To Rich / Taxation

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  05:45:50 pm — 05:48:30 pm

  (Studio) Senate committee investigates tax loopholes.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (DC) [Tax author Philip STERN - calls tax loopholes "welfare for rich."] Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended, hit specifically. William Proxmire chairs hearing. John Paul Getty fortune noted. Small tax cited.

• Wage Controls

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  05:48:30 pm — 05:48:50 pm

  (Studio) CLC says wage controls may be lifted in cases where earnings are less than $1.90 an hour Congress wants $3.35 set as line.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Welfare

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  05:48:50 pm — 05:49:00 pm

  (Studio) Nos. on welfare grew in September
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial)

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  05:49:00 pm — 05:50:00 pm

• Doctors' Income

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  05:50:00 pm — 05:50:20 pm

  (Studio) Dr. John Knowles, President, Rockefeller Foundation, says doctors are making financial killing. Dr. Thomas Ballentine, President Mass. Medical Soc., denies it.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Heart Transplant

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  05:50:20 pm — 05:54:20 pm

  (Studio) Opinions differ on worth of heart transplant.

  (Houston, Tex.) Dr. Michael DEBAKEY of Houston no longer performs heart transplants. Most have failed. [DEBAKEY - advocates heart repair rather than replacement.]
  REPORTER: John Dancy

  (Stanford Medical Cntr., Cal.) Dr. Norman Shumway of Stanford, Cal., Medical Center continues transplants. Says success rate increasing. [Dr. John SCHROEDER, Cardiologist - sees hope for continued success with cardiac transplantation.] Carl Sheaffer, patient, described. [SHEAFFER - endorses transplant method.]

• (Commercial)

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  05:54:20 pm — 05:55:20 pm

• King Frederik Dies

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  05:55:20 pm — 05:55:40 pm

  (Studio) King Frederik of Denmark dies. Princess Margarethe ascends to throne as queen.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Maurice Stans To Resign

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  05:55:40 pm — 05:55:50 pm

  (Studio) Peter Peterson, Nixon For. Trade Advsr., slated to become Secretary Commerce, as Maurice Stans resigns to aid Nixon campaign.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Charlie Chaplin

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  05:55:50 pm — 05:56:00 pm

  (Studio) Charlie Chaplin, actor returns to Hollywood for special academy award.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Col. Aldrin Leaves Air Force

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  05:56:00 pm — 05:56:10 pm

  (Studio) Colonel Edwin Aldrin, moon walker, resigns from Air Force.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Prime Rate

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  05:56:10 pm — 05:56:20 pm

  (Studio) 1st National City Bank, and the Irving Trust lower prime rate to 4 3/4%.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  05:56:20 pm — 05:56:40 pm

  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Birthday / USA

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  05:56:40 pm — 05:57:10 pm

  (Studio) January 14th cited as United States of America birthday. Treaty of Paris, dated January 14, 1784, noted as reason.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Good Night

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  05:57:10 pm — 05:57:10 pm