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NBC Evening News for 1972-01-07

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction John Chancellor (New York)

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  05:30:40 pm — 05:31:20 pm

• Campaign `72 / Nixon

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  05:31:20 pm — 05:33:40 pm

  (Studio) President Nixon enters New Hampshire primary. Senator Humphrey to announce candidacy Monday Nixon sends letter to New Hampshire Secretary of State.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Concord, New Hampshire) Former New Hampshire Governor Lane Dwinell, Nixon New Hampshire Chairperson; Senator Norris Cotton, and Governor Walter Peterson deliver letter to New Hampshire. Secretary of State Robert Stark. [STARK - reads part of letter announcing Nixon candidacy for re-election.] [DWINELL - outlines Nixon political plans, incorporated no campaigning until after conv.]

• Campaign `72 / Northh. Primary

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  05:33:40 pm — 05:34:10 pm

  (Studio) New Hampshire primary candidates incorporated: Democrats Muskie, McGovern, Hartke, Yorty, Coll, and Republicans Nixon, McCloskey, Ashbrook, Paulsen.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Campaign `72 / Youth Vote

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  05:34:10 pm — 05:34:40 pm

  (Studio) Youth Citizenship Fund makes POLL which indicates 4 million new 18-20 voters have registered to vote. Fund predicts 7 million will have registered by election.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial)

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  05:34:40 pm — 05:35:40 pm

• Unemployment

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  05:35:40 pm — 05:36:20 pm

  (Studio) Unemployment up from 6% to 6.1% in December
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Bank Bombs

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  05:36:20 pm — 05:40:30 pm

  (Studio) Activists striving to free political prisoners reveal time bombs planted 6 mos. ago in 9 banks of 3 major cities.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (New York) When time locks opened vaults, police uncovered bombs attached to calendar clocks. [Police Bomb Squad Captain, Kenneth O'NEILL - says bomb could have killed a person in vicinity.]
  REPORTER: Wilson Hall

  (Chicago) Boxes had been rented last July to Christopher Charles Moore. Devices set to go off last fall but didn't.
  REPORTER: Fred Briggs

  (San Francisco) One of the 3 planted bombs exploded 4 mos. ago at Bank of America. Crocker and Wells Fargo Banks detected 2 more bombs today.
  REPORTER: Bob Flick

• Supreme Court / New Justices

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  05:40:30 pm — 05:40:50 pm

  (Studio) William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell sworn in to Supreme Court
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial)

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  05:40:50 pm — 05:41:50 pm

• Nixon-Sato Summit

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  05:41:50 pm — 05:44:10 pm

  (Studio) President Nixon and Japanese Premier Sato end talks.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (San Clemente, Cal.) Nixon yields Okinawa to Japan May 15. [NIXON - cites natural interdependence of Japan and US.] [SATO - wishes Nixon well in peace-making trips to Russia and China.]
  REPORTER: Robert Goralski

  (Studio) NBC special on this summit announced.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Vietnam

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  05:44:10 pm — 05:44:30 pm

  (Studio) 2,000 South Vietnam troops flown into Cambodia to head off expected North Vietnam offensive in South Vietnam highlands.

• Journal (Amnesty For Draft Dodgers)

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  05:44:30 pm — 05:49:40 pm

  (Studio) Controversy over amnesty for young men who left the country to evade draft considered. [Deserters, draft dodgers in Canada - say they would never return to a country which put them in such a position, even if they could. Feel amnesty a joke: need no forgiveness, having done nothing wrong.]
  REPORTER: David Brinkley

• Pentagon Personnel

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  05:49:40 pm — 05:50:10 pm

  (Studio) Congress budget reductions force Pentagon to reduce number of military and civilian personnel.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• (Commercial)

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  05:50:10 pm — 05:50:40 pm

• Apollo 16

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  05:50:40 pm — 05:50:50 pm

  (Studio) NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) announces postponement of Apollo 16 moon mission to April 16 due to technical problems.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Mrs. Nixon / Africa

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  05:50:50 pm — 05:51:10 pm

  (Studio) Mrs. Richard Nixon continues Africa trip.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Spanish Plane Crash

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  05:51:10 pm — 05:51:20 pm

  (Studio) Spanish Airliner hits island mountain, killing all 104 aboard.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  05:51:20 pm — 05:51:30 pm

  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• India-North Vietnam

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  05:51:30 pm — 05:51:50 pm

  (Studio) India establishes diplomatic relations with North Vietnam. Russia soon to recognize Bangladesh.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

• India-Pakistan / Precipitating Factors

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  05:51:50 pm — 05:54:00 pm

  (Studio) Punjabi West Pakistan troops savagely terrorized Bengali population of E. Pakistan, one precipitating factor to war.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Dacca) Film, 10 mos. old, of how terror began, shown. Pakistani soldiers execute students, professors, workers at University of Dacca, March 26, 1971.
  REPORTER: Ron Nessen

• (Commercial)

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  05:54:00 pm — 05:55:00 pm

• Black Hijackers

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  05:55:00 pm — 05:58:40 pm

  (Studio) Pacific Southwest Airliner en route from San Francisco to Los Angeles, hijacked to Tampa Florida, then Havana, Cuba, by black couple with baby, shotgun, and pistol.
  REPORTER: John Chancellor

  (Los Angeles, Cal.) Hijackers released 138 passengers while plane refueled. [Passengers describe experience.]
  REPORTER: David Horowitz

  (Tampa, Florida) Hijackers demanded charts for Africa, but plane unable to travel such distance, routed to Cuba. [FBI agent, Joseph SANTOIANA - says volatile mood of hijacker caused hesitancy of FBI to act.] Plane returned to Miami.
  REPORTER: Rebecca Bell

• Good Night

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  05:58:40 pm — 05:58:40 pm