Vanderbilt Television News Archive

NBC Evening News for 1972-01-18

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction John Chancellor (New York)

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  05:30:40 pm — 05:31:20 pm

• US-Russia

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  05:31:20 pm — 05:32:30 pm

  (Studio) United States Coast Guard icebreaker finds 2 Russian fishing boats in US territorial water of Saint Matthew's Island off Alaska. Now en route to US Naval base at Adak. Other incidents in US-USSR relations noted.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial)

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  05:32:30 pm — 05:33:30 pm

• Laos / Air War

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  05:33:30 pm — 05:33:50 pm

  (Studio) North Vietnam MiG fighters fire on United States Phantom jets over Laos. Laos defends base at Long Cheng.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Paris Peace Talks

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  05:33:50 pm — 05:34:00 pm

  (Studio) French For. Min. Maurice Schumann says Paris Peace Talks are going to die.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• North Vietnam

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  05:34:00 pm — 05:36:40 pm

  (Studio) North Vietnam ready to go on fighting.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Hanoi, North Vietnam) After United States bombing of North Vietnam last month, air raid shelters being cleaned up. Gov't publicizes war to keep interest up. Physical fitness emphasized. Recruits continue to flow into military. North Vietnam says will continue war to victory.
  REPORTER: John Rich

• My Lai Massacre

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  05:36:40 pm — 05:37:10 pm

  (Studio) Seymour Hersh, reporter who won Pulitzer Prize for exposing My Lai Massacre, obtains secret Army report on what happened there. Cites data in "New Yorker" magazine revealing more civilian deaths at My Lai and at My Khe.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial)

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  05:37:10 pm — 05:38:10 pm

• 92nd Congress

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  05:38:10 pm — 05:38:40 pm

  (Studio) 2nd session 92nd Congress convenes. President Nixon to deliver State of the Union Address. Several hundred supporters of Representative Bella Abzug thrown out of House gallery for demonstrating for Vietnam withdrawal.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Journal (State of The Union, 1971)

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  05:38:40 pm — 05:41:00 pm

  (Studio) Commentator recalls President Nixon's State of the Union message of 1 yr. ago. Revenue sharing failure blamed on Washington, DC establishment.
  REPORTER: David Brinkley

• Federal Budget (Part II)

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  05:41:00 pm — 05:45:00 pm

  (Studio) President Nixon to submit budget to Congress, requesting $245 billion for next fiscal year
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Lincoln, Ill.) Price supports, or guaranteed minimum prices, account for 40% Department Agriculture budget. (Dodge Company, Wisc.) Dairy co-ops contribute to Republican campaign chest to secure increase in milk price supports. (Chicago) President Nixon attends Dairymen's Convention [NIXON - commends dairymen.] [American Milk Producers, Incorporated, John BUTTERBRODT - says contributions had nothing to do with price supports being raised, but helps get attention.]
  REPORTER: Fred Briggs

• (Commercial)

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  05:45:00 pm — 05:46:00 pm

• Riots-Spain, Rhodesia

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  05:46:00 pm — 05:46:30 pm

  (Studio) Students riot in Madrid, Spain, after 4,000 medical students expelled. Rioting in Rhodesia grows worse as blacks protest Rhodesia agreement with Britain.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Air Traffic Controllers' Strike

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  05:46:30 pm — 05:46:40 pm

  (Studio) Canadian air traffic controllers' strike ties up flights; radar and communications technicians also walk out.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Longshoremen's Strike

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  05:46:40 pm — 05:48:30 pm

  (Studio) West Coast dock strike continues. Ships unload in Canada.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Vancouver, B.C.) Vancouver dock overcrowded with cargo of Canada plus that rerouted from United States West Coast. [National Harbor Bd., William DUNCAN - says US cargo will be delayed as Canadian goods have priority.]
  REPORTER: Jim Harriott (KING-TV Seattle)

  (Studio) United States ship owners refuse to accept previously strike-exempt military cargo.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Pay Board / Railroad Workers

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  05:48:30 pm — 05:51:10 pm

  (Studio) Pay Bd. considers new railroad workers contract, which could raise salaries 42% in 42 mos. Public session called.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (DC) [Pay Bd. Chairperson, George BOLDT - says public meeting held so people will understand reasoning behind pay raise grant.] [United Transportation Union President, Chas LUNA - explains how pay raise will save railroad money.] [R.R. official, William DEMPSEY - says new work rules won't save as much money as UTU estimate.]
  REPORTER: Irving R. Levine

• Detroit Bank

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  05:51:10 pm — 05:51:30 pm

  (Studio) FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) approves $60 million loan to Detroit Bank of Commonwealth to aid financial condition.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial)

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  05:51:30 pm — 05:53:10 pm

• European Common Market

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  05:53:10 pm — 05:53:30 pm

  (Studio) Britain, Ireland, Norway accepted into European Common Mkt.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Space Lab

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  05:53:30 pm — 05:53:40 pm

  (Studio) Vet. astronauts, Pete Conrad and Alan Bean, to command skylab space projects next year
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Pep Pill Traffic

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  05:53:40 pm — 05:53:50 pm

  (Studio) Federal government accuses Pennwalt Corporation of shipping 45 million doses amphetamine to Mexico, knowing it would find way back to United States illegally.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Housing Starts

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  05:53:50 pm — 05:54:00 pm

  (Studio) Commerce Department reports record number housing starts in 1971.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  05:54:00 pm — 05:54:10 pm

  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Miss. Gov. Waller

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  05:54:10 pm — 05:57:50 pm

  (Studio) Last fall in Miss. Governor race, Negro Charles Evers defeated by Bill Waller. Today inaugurated.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Jackson, Miss.) Past Miss. Govs. attend Waller inauguration. Waller wants to break their pattern of isolation. [WALLER - vows to represent all the people without reactionary handicaps. Wants to emulate progressive govs. in South]
  REPORTER: Steve Delaney

• Good Night

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  05:57:50 pm — 05:57:50 pm