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(Studio) Upcoming items outlined.
REPORTER: Brit Hume; Catherine Mackin; Peter Jennings; James Walke
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(Studio) Report on sentencing of former CIA director Richard Helms, in connection with testimony to Senator with regard to CIA involvement in Chile.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Details of court proceedings, include statements of defense attorney Edward Bennett Williams and of Judge Barrington Parker, cited. [WILLIAMS - reacts to sentencing.] [HELMS - responds to judge's statement with regard to Helms's disgrace.] Parker's reaction to comments of Williams and Helms quoted.
REPORTER: Brit Hume Artist: Freda Reiter
(Studio) Not guilty verdict in murder trial of Francine Hughes, in Lansing, Michigan, noted.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(Lansing, Michigan) Report on outcome of Hughes' trial for murder of husband, who had allegedly beat her for 13 years [HUGHES - notes reaction to verdict; cites plans for future. Talks about being liberated woman.] Threat against Mrs. Hughes' life noted.
REPORTER: Sylvia Chase
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(Studio) Contd. disagreement between House and Senator with regard to abortion funds, and action to provide Department of Health, Education and Welfare money while compromise efforts continue, cited. Senator action on Social Security bill noted. Congress delay on saccharin ban cited.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(DC) Report on President Carter's apparent decision to postpone or change details of world trip, in order to stay in Washington, DC till Congress completes energy bill.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
(Studio) Secretary of State Vance's plans to fly to Budapest, Hungary, at end of Carter trip, to present Hungarian government with Crown of Saint Steven, noted.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Budapest, Hungary) Background report on crown. Historical figs. mentioned incl. King Steven, Pope Sylvester II, Magyar people, and last of the Hapsburg rulers, Charles IV. (Film shown.) Crown's history from World War I to end of World War II, when it was turned over to United States so as not to fall into USSR hands, cited. Mixed feelings with regard to return of crown to Hungary noted.
REPORTER: Bill Zimmerman
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(Studio) United Nations Security Council vote on mandatory embargo on arms sales to South Africa, and reaction in South Africa, noted.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(NYC) Report on council action. [Ambassador Andrew YOUNG - cites United States hopes for South Africa to solve own racial problems.] Upcoming South African elections noted.
REPORTER: Lou Cioffi
(Johannesburg, South Africa) Report on elections, in which blacks won't vote, and South African government view of United States position on racial issue. Stanley Cohen is candidate for National party, that of Prime Min. Vorster; party's use of American position as issue in elections noted. [COHEN - cites feelings with regard to US pressure.] This pressure is issue in opposition Progressive party also; candidate for Progressives is Kowie Marais. Progressives' stand on US influence cited. [MARAIS - cites party's position with regard to racial problem and its agreement with United States ideas on South Africa moving faster to change it.] [COHEN - thinks government would be prepared to give up American connections if. it comes to that.]
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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(Studio) Labor Department figs. on unemployment for October noted.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Baltimore, Maryland) Report on unemployed, classified ads for jobs and why unemployment situation remains. Case of unemployed steelworker Leonard Davis cited as example [DAVIS - notes difficulty in getting jobs.] Reporter states many people like Davis say they want future, and that's reason they won't accept just any menial job in newspapers. [Car dealer Paul HAYES - cites response to job with promotion potential as opposed to menial job openings.] Survey of classified ads noted; results show job openings don't match situations of unemployed. [WOMAN - asks applicant if she's been hunting job.] [APPLICANT - has been hunting job occasionally.]
REPORTER: George Strait
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(Studio) Unemployment is only one of President Carter's problems.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Pennsylvania vote for Carter in 1976 election noted. This was before Mideast policy controversy offended some Jewish voters here, Defense Department decision not to award important contract to Boeing plant, closing of Frankford Arsenal that then-candidate Mondale had said administration would keep open, and Labor Department announcement of Philadelphia's black unemployment standing. Reaction to all of this by 6-term Representative Joshua Eilberg noted. [EILBERG - cites constituents' feelings with regard to Carter policies.] Problems of Pennsylvania's largest industry, steel, and Steelworkers' union support of Carter in election noted. [USW president Lloyd McBRIDE - cites concerns of steelworkers.] [Governor Milton SHAPP - says if help for working people doesn't develop, Carter will be in trouble.] Pennsylvania leaders feelings with regard to public and official understanding that Carter still new in job noted.
REPORTER: Catherine Mackin
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(Studio) Rock star Elton John's announcement of last live concert, to London audience, noted. Other entertainment characters going into retirement are cartoon people in "Li'l Abner."
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(No location given) (Scenes from movie "Li'l Abner", courtesy Paramount Pictures, shown.) History of comic strip, "Li'l Abner", with characters from Dogpatch, USA, include Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae, Mammy and Pappy Yokum and Marryin' Sam, and its author Al Capp, detailed. Capp's early liberalism and later, after Vietnam war and controversy with regard to Richard Nixon's administration began, his conservatism cited. (Films shown.) [CAPP - notes early liberalism and why he became conservative.] Changes in strip and in Capp's life cited. Last installment of comic strip for weekdays is planning session for next Sadie Hawkins Day race.
REPORTER: James Walker
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(Studio) Reporter notes own attempts to list 10 greatest or most influential leaders of 20th century; those listed for 1st 50 years are Lenin, Stalin, Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill, Gandhi and Mao Tse-tung. Reasons for not adding de Gaulle and Martin Luther King to list cited. Comment on lack of world leaders in recent years, using United States energy plan battle as example United States and Sweden compared, in use of oil and standard of living. Comment of columnist RusseilBaker with regard to acronym for Carter's moral equivalent of war noted.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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