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(Studio) Contd. coal strike negotiations noted. Participation of President Carter and Secretary of Labor Marshall in talks mentioned.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) Ind. officials' secret meeting with Marshall at White House and their presentation of terms for new contract detailed. Problems in negotiations because of union dissension and opposition to UMW (United Mine Workers of America, International Union) president Arnold Miller noted. Reporter estimates time before settlement reached.
REPORTER: Irving R. Levine
(Studio) President Carter's remarks with regard to coal strike, its effects and efforts to get settlement, made at news conference in Cranston, Rhode Island, quoted.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Rhode Island) [CARTER - lists things dependent upon success of coal talks. Doesn't think country can last another week with continued strike. Says all involved would like to avoid invocation of Taft-Hartley Act.] Talk among some White House aides about upcoming developments in strike noted.
REPORTER: Bob Jamieson
(Studio) Reports on effects of strike.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Marietta, Ohio) Conditions at Union Carbide metal plant in Marietta, Ohio, described; layoffs noted. [Russ HALL - thinks Carter is in difficult situation.] [Tom MAYNE - says this is getting to be almost yearly occurrence with coal miners.]
REPORTER: Meredith Lewis
(Elwood, IN) Layoffs at Chrysler plant in Kokomo, IN, reported [Bruce STARKS - says situation is ridiculous for anyone who has to work to bring home money.]
REPORTER: Al Johnson
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(Studio) President Carter's news conference comments with regard to outlook for Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill and for arms sale to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel reported.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Pensacola, Florida, police arrest of Theodore Bundy, who is one of FBI's 10-most-wanted fugitives, reported.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Pensacola, Florida) FBI identification of Theodore Robert Bundy as suspect in at least 36 rape-murder and missing women cases in several West states and statement that he escaped from jail near Aspen, Colorado, in December reported Florida police report that in January, Bundy lived in Tallahassee at time of deaths or beatings of 5 Florida State University women also cited. [Florida district attorney Curtis GOLDEN - says stolen credit cards found in Bundy's possession were taken from FSU coeds, but have no relationship to those either assaulted or killed.] Tallahassee police investigation into possible connections between Bundy and coed attack cases mentioned.
REPORTER: Kenley Jones (WALA television newstape, Mobile, Alabama)
(Studio) Sentences for convicted Chowchilla kidnappers noted.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Report on snowstorm in Texas, closing of Dallas-Fort Worth Airport noted; film shown.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Comments with regard to H.R. Haldeman's new book, made on NBC's "Today" program by "Washington (DC) Post" reporter Robert Woodward, quoted; Woodward noted as reporter who, along with colleague Carl Bernstein, uncovered much of Watergate scandal. Charges against "Post" about release date on Haldeman material, made on "Today" show by "New York (New York) Times" spokesperson E. Clifton Daniel, noted.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(NYC) Times Books, subsidiary of New York (New York) Times Company, noted as publisher of Haldeman book. Details given with regard to early leak of information from book by "Post" and contracts held by other newspapers and "Newsweek" magazine to print excerpts from book. Also outlined is question of how "Post" got info.; is noted attention focused on "Post" "Style" section reporter Nancy Collins. [Times Company executive Vice President Sydney GRUSON - thinks "Post" sent people, among them Nancy Collins, to printing plant area and that these people got about 2/3 of book.] Statements made by employees of Sheraton Inn in Scranton, Pennsylvania, site of Haldeman book printing, with regard to presence of Nancy Collins at Inn for several days detailed. [GRUSON - says it wasn't difficult to get book.] "Times" editorial planned with regard to "Post" actions noted.
REPORTER: Robert Hager
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(Studio) Tuesday's footrace up steps of Empire State Building noted; film shown. Controversy with regard to winner Gary Muhrcke's recing. disability pension from New York City fire department detailed.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Constitutional test involved in deciding if small group of Nazis from Chicago have right to march through heavily-Jewish Skokie, Illinois, is subject of report No. of Jews in Skokie who survived Hitler's concentration camps noted.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Skokie,Illinois) Details given with regard to small group of National Socialist Party mbrs., hdqtrd. in south Chicago. Leader is Frank Collin, son of Jewish father who survived Dachau. [COLLIN - tells group to try to kill anyone who tries to stop them. Thinks white Aryan race is only one in world able to make and maintain civilization.] Background of Collin's group attempting to demonstrate in Skokie, include attack of Nazis by Jewish group during demonstrations by both outside hall where Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal was speaking. Plans for demonstrations in Skokie and counterdemonstrations by Jews there noted. [WOMAN - shouts chant.] Lawsuit by holocaust survivor Sol Goldstein described. [GOLDSTEIN - says survivors won't forget and world must not forget, because it's threat to world.] Nazis' request that ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) representative them in court on freedom of speech grounds mentioned, as well as decision of ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) legal director David Goldberger, who is Jewish, to accept case. [GOLDBERGER - states ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) position in accepting case.] ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) mbrs.' reaction to Union's acceptance of case described, include that of Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith director Abbot Rosen. [ROSEN - states views with regard to difference in Nazi march in downtown Chicago and one in Jewish community like Skokie, as it relates to 1st amendment rights.] Decision with regard to Nazi rights rests with courts
REPORTER: John Dancy
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(Studio) Reports with regard to State Department announcement of incrd. Cuban military advisory presence in Ethiopia; and Labor government's announcement in London with regard to drop in British inflation rate.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Hazards of being foreign correspondent listed.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Cairo, Egypt) Report on transportation problems in Cairo.
REPORTER: Fred Briggs
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