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(Studio) Effects of cold weather noted. Ohio governor declares state energy crisis, providing for use of National Guard. FPC official talks about problems.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Commissioner John Holloman III says things could get worse. [HOLLOMAN - cites reasons and preparations being made. Says if pipeline supplying South shuts down natural gas supply will quit and could be disastrous.] Next few days could be biggest strain on nation's gas supply in history. Some states, like those buying from Columbia Gas Transmission Company, prepare to help people caught in hses. without heat.
REPORTER: Robert Bazell
(Studio) Columbia Gas Company says no homes in their system will go without heat, but some industry plants might have to be without fuel.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Studio) Winds push more Arctic air into US; National Weather Service says there'll be at least 2 more weeks of same; more weather problems noted, incl. those in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Pittsburgh's problems described. Lack of fuel oil due to barges frozen in rivers noted. Schools close to save fuel. Steel mills have reduced forces. 34,000 unemployed due to fuel shortage apply for unemployment compensation. [MAN - believes schools, not factories, should close.] [WOMAN - believes same.] Floods later feared.
REPORTER: Robert Hager
(Studio) Org. for Econ. Cooperation and Dvt. says if something not done this yr. with regard to energy consumption, real trouble to begin by 1985. Earlier report with regard to death of Mansfield, Ohio, man due to heat cutoff inhouse noted. Wednesday, Ohio Public Utilities Commission orders natural gas suppliers can't shut off gas to any residential consumer till April.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Carter economy plan incls. tax rebate for most Americans
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) Details of Carter economy plan noted. Some Congmen. say tax rebate too small; administration officials defend it. [Econ. adviser Charles SCHULTZE - says rebate to increase spending this year, then other measures take over.] people who won't receive rebate noted.
REPORTER: Irving R. Levine
(Studio) NBC News and Harris Polls with regard to rebate noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Ray Marshall is sworn in as Labor Secretary and announces plan to find jobs for unemployed Vietnam vets.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) previous such attempts haven't been successful. [MARSHALL - notes high of Vietnam vets on unemployment rolls.] Details of program, incld. in econ. package, noted. Marshall says move isn't to blunt criticism of Vietnam era draft dodgers, but that vet groups like program.
REPORTER: Bob Jamieson
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(Studio) Securities and Exchange Commission charges General Telephone and Electronics of paying bribes to Iran and other foreign ntns. and United States companies, and Uniroyal Incorporated of paying bribes and kickbacks to Mexico.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Today, South Africa government commission recommends blacks no longer be jailed for breaking apartheid laws; reason cited.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(No location given) South Africans who work in cities like Johannesburg are cntry.'s greatest assets, cheap labor in large supply and they're lucky ones. Unlucky ones live on tribal reservations, or homelands, like Bophuthatswana; lifestyle noted. Many leave to work in cities and live in places like Soweto, outside Johannesburg; lifestyle in Soweto noted. Case of one man cited. Work conditions and laws with regard to blacks noted.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
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(Studio) Roman Catholic Church today reaffirms stand against women priests; says Jesus was man, His mother wasn't given apostolic ministry and all of His Apostles were male. Vatican statement quoted. At Vatican today, Vice President Mondale visits with Pope paul VI, who compares Carter and Kennedy admins. Mondale then goes to London to talk with prime Min. James Callaghan re: econ. and South Africa. Callaghan to visit United States in March.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Report on bribery trial in Tokyo, Japan, of former Japan prime Min. Kakuei Tanaka, charged with taking bribes from Lockheed.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Tokyo, Japan) Report on 1st day of trial.
REPORTER: Jim Laurie
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(Studio) Rhodesia white government's plans for stepped-up war with black guerrillas noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Czechoslovakia summons 4 prominent dissenters to Prague passport office; they may be asked to leave.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Report on lawsuit in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, with regard to estate of man who died at altar at his wedding.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Upstate New York town tries new way to deal with family problems of policemen.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Lockport, New York) Case of Ann Fiegel and husband, Tom, who is policeman in Lockport, New York, noted. [Ann FIEGEL - says going on job with husband helps her understand more about his moods and job.] [FIEGEL - says night's work causes different moods.] [Police chief J. Paul LEYDEN - says he wants happy employees and happy home is part of it.] Reactions of other policemen noted.
REPORTER: Brian Ross
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