Vanderbilt Television News Archive

NBC Evening News for 1972-01-05

This program is 26 minutes long

• Introduction John Chancellor (New York)

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  05:30:40 pm — 05:31:20 pm

• Pay Board / Aerospace Workers

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  05:31:20 pm — 05:36:10 pm

  (Studio) Pay Bd. rejects 12% contracted pay raise for aerospace workers.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (DC) Union Pay Bd. members angry at contract rejection. [United Steelworkers Union President I.W. ABEL - criticizes business and Public ad. mbrs.; says raise wasn't inflationary.] [UAW President Leonard WOODCOCK - says action damages collective bargaining.]
  REPORTER: Irving R. Levine

  (Los Angeles) Most workers interviewed at Lockheed glad to have jobs; don't want to strike; will settle for smaller raises. [President IAM Local, James QUILLEN - disappointed with Pay Bd. rejection.]
  REPORTER: Roy Neal

• Space Shuttle

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  05:36:10 pm — 05:38:10 pm

  (Studio) President Nixon Ok's space shuttle program.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (San Clemente) NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Admin. James Fletcher explains Program to President Nixon. [FLETCHER - explains function of reusable shuttle.]
  REPORTER: Robert Goralski

• (Commercial)

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  05:38:10 pm — 05:39:20 pm

• Campaign `72 / Nixon, Democrats

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  05:39:20 pm — 05:42:10 pm

  (Studio) Mrs. Pat Nixon, in Ghana, Africa, says her husband will run for re-election.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (DC) Senator Edmund Muskie criticizes Nixon Policy. Former Senator Eugene McCarthy hits Muskie's past views on Vietnam. Senator Vance Hartke generally critical. [MUSKIE - will enter all 1st 8 primaries.] [MCCARTHY - cites primary plans.] [HARTKE - predicts he will win Democrat nom.]
  REPORTER: Douglas Kiker

  (Studio) Other candidates' plans cited.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Journal (Politics)

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  05:42:10 pm — 05:44:10 pm

  (Studio) Journalist cites proliferation of candidates. Commentator wants to hear what candidates will do, specifically, about problems.
  REPORTER: David Brinkley

• Campaign `72 / Wallace

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  05:44:10 pm — 05:44:20 pm

  (Studio) Ala. Governor George Wallace might enter Florida Dem. Primary.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial)

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  05:44:20 pm — 05:45:30 pm

• Hexachlorophene

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  05:45:30 pm — 05:47:30 pm

  (Studio) FDA (Food and Drug Administration) reports potential dangers of hexachlorophene after studies show animals develop brain lesions after use.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (DC) Hexachlorophene, a bacteria-fighting chemical, used in skin cleansers, cosmetics, etc. [FDA (Food and Drug Administration) Commissioner Dr. Charles EDWARDS - says use of chemical to be reduced.]
  REPORTER: Alvin Rosenfeld

• Plane / Turbulence

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  05:47:30 pm — 05:49:20 pm

  (Studio) 5 hospitalized after 747 jet encountered clean air turbulence over Houston, Tex.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Los Angeles) 25 injured in mishap. [Passenger Mrs. Martin DRALUCK - describes experience.]
  REPORTER: Don Oliver

• (Commercial)

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  05:49:20 pm — 05:50:50 pm

• Anderson / United States and India-Pakistan

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  05:50:50 pm — 05:52:10 pm

  (Studio) Syndicated columnist, Jack Anderson, publishes top secret notes from Mt. House mtgs. on India-Pakistan War, showing administration more pro-Pakistani than reported No White House denial of documents' authenticity.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Bangladesh

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  05:52:10 pm — 05:54:20 pm

  (Studio) Bangladesh struggles for post-war order.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Dacca) $2 1/2 million said needed to repair country. railroad crucial. Bridges, industry, and agriculture all must he rebuilt.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• P.O.W.S

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  05:54:20 pm — 05:54:50 pm

  (Studio) Radio Hanoi says all United States troops and planes must be pulled out and Vietnamization program discontinued before United States P.O.W.s will be released.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Laos

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  05:54:50 pm — 05:55:00 pm

  (Studio) North Vietnam push harder in North Laos, cutting highway between Luang Prabang and Vientiane.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  05:55:00 pm — 05:55:20 pm

  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Church Reform

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  05:55:20 pm — 05:57:40 pm

  (Studio) National Conf. Catholic Charities proposes church self-reform.

  (Little Linford, England) British Church of Saint Leonard's, 700 years old, to be closed. Entire congregation consists of 2 widows, Jessie Cook and Madelyn Fontaine. Local Rector, Reverend Bernard Mather travels from own church 1 1/2 mile to conduct Sunday service. [Mrs. COOK - says offering was 60 pence Sunday] Ladies argue for historical value of church. Cmsnrs. may change minds.
  REPORTER: George Montgomery

• Good Night

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  05:57:40 pm — 05:57:40 pm