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(Studio) China (PR) hit by aftershocks following Tuesday earthquake. Center of 8.2 quake was at Tangshan. Peking and Tientsin also affected. Ex-Australian premier Gough Whitlam and wife were in Tientsin during quake.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Tokyo, Japan) Mrs. Whitlam slightly injured. [WHITLAM - notes effects of quake and describes it.] Chinese told Whitlam casualties were low.
REPORTER: Jack Reynolds
(Studio) Photo shows Chinese who stayed outside after 1st quake.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Studio) Report from National Earthquake Info. Center
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Golden, Colorado) Signal set off at National Earthquake Info. Center anytime there is quake in world. Location of quake noted. [Geophysicist Dr. John DERR - expects extensive damage and loss of life from quake.] Aftershock registered 7.9 on Richter scale.
REPORTER: Jim West (KOA-TV)
(Studio) United States offers help to China (PR).
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Viking I scoops up sample of Mars soil; attempt will be made to grow something in it.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Pasadena, California) Mars photos shows site where soil taken. Something wrong with soil analyzer. Tests described.
REPORTER: Roy Neal
(Studio) NBC to air 1 hour special on Mars at 10 p.m. EDT.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Report on how eating habits are linked with cancer.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Cancer researchers tell health subcommittee that 60% of all cancers in women and 40% of cancers in men are linked to diet. Researchers say Americans eat too much fats, salt, sugar and cholesterol. [National Cancer Institute Dr. Gio GORI - notes how diet produces cancers.] [Chairperson select committee on nutrition Senator George McGOVERN - asks if bad eating habits contribute more to cancer than smoking.] [GORI - says true for women; rate is equivalent for men.] Experts advise eating in moderation and eating variety.
REPORTER: Carole Simpson
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(Studio) President Ford nominates General Bernard Rogers, 55, to be next Army chief of staff. Rogers was Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and ex-commandant at West Point.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Report on West Point.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(W. Point, New York) Basic training for men and women described. [WOMAN - says it's hard, but must keep trying.] Women fall behind men in running and twice as many women have quit military academy. [Lieutenant Colonel Dennis BRUZINA - says major of women are keeping up.] Women tested higher than men on entrance exams.
REPORTER: Betty Rollin
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(Studio) Resolution in Congress requests posthumous appointed as "General of the Armies" for Lieutenant General George Washington. General John "Blackjack" Pershing was only 1 to hold that title. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Doug. MacArthur were "Gens. of the Army".
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Mississippi Republican chairperson Clarke Reed to announce tonight his personal shift of support to President Ford. Reagan's Vice President choice, Senator Richard Schweiker, said he persuaded 14 Pennsylvania delegates from Ford to uncommitted and switched others from Ford to Reagan.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) [SCHWEIKER - announces 6 Ford to Reagan shifts.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Pennsylvania Senator Hugh Scott says Ford gained Pennsylvania delegate and should be able to wrap it all up in 48 hrs. Pennsylvania delegates meet.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) 21 delegates and alts. meet. All stuck to their previous commitments. [Pennsylvania delegate Dr. William HUNT - feels Schweiker made mistake.] [Pennsylvania delegate Martha CAMERON - notes her support for Ford.] [Pennsylvania delegate Kathy HUSTON - says too early to judge effects of Schweiker pick.]
REPORTER: Richard Hunt
(Studio) Reagan to visit Mississippi Wednesday
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Democratic ticket talks about economy and recs. briefing from CIA Director, George Bush.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Plains, Georgia) Bush and aides arrive to inform Jimmy Carter and Sen Walter Mondale. Carter and Mondale talk about economy briefing they received Tuesday [CARTER - notes how Ford administration deals with economy] [MONDALE - says US hasn't had government that could govern.] Carter economic goals noted.
REPORTER: Judy Woodruff
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(Studio) For weeks, porpoises and whales have been beaching selves. Theory is that some became sick and went to shore and others came along to help them.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Spanish government gives up right to nominate bps. of Catholic Church. Vatican to let Spanish priests and nuns be tried in Spanish civil courts without church authorization. King Juan Carlos expected to rule this week on amnesty for political prisoners.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Santiago De Compostela, Spain) King will issue amnesty decree from north Spain, where he's visiting. Opposition forces want action. King hopes his popular support will avoid right-left split. March 1976 film shows pro-amnesty demonstration. Police club and arrest demonstrators. Fascism still entrenched in bureaucracy. Pro-Franco demonstration not broken up by police.
REPORTER: David Burrington
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(Studio) California diver Greg Louganis, 16, beaten by Italian, Klaus Dibiasi, 28, in platform diving. It's 3rd consecutive Olympic diving title for Dibiasi.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Report on family's effort to stop paying high utility bills.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Armington, Illinois) Andy Davis builds cave home for his family. He and wife and 9 children trying to finish home before Fall. [DAVIS - says some might think about it.] Cave's features described. [DAVIS - describes cave's interior.] [Margaret DAVIS - says wasn't for cave at 1st.]
REPORTER: Bob Jamieson
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