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(Studio) Possible end to coal strike soon noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Details of reported agreement listed; negotiations at Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service headquarters noted. President Carter's anti-inflationary measures requests, include that with regard to wage increases, cited and miners' response to it with relationship to their proposed wage increase given.
REPORTER: Irving R. Levine
(Studio) Lack of major problems due to coal strike and low supplies of coal due to winter weather mentioned.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Report on coal supply situation in various states and cities in weather-stricken areas. Conditions in Pittsburgh, Saint Albans, West Virginia, Cleveland, Columbus and in Ohio and Tennessee valleys.
REPORTER: Tom Pettit
(Studio) Coal shortage's effect on commuter train service between New Haven and New York City described.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Defense Secretary's testimony to House Armed Services Committee with regard to defense budget needs in coming years reported, include remarks with regard to USSR .
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Defense Secretary Brown's report to committee detailed; comments on USSR development of killer satellite and relative balance of United States and USSR military power cited. [BROWN - states that there's work ahead, but no reason for panic or crash efforts.] [Chiefs of staff chairperson General George BROWN - says despite US build-up in forces, USSR has done more and present balance isn't reassuring and future prospects are less so.] Defense Secretary Brown's statements on administration defense budget reported.
REPORTER: Charles Quinn
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(Studio) United States Postal Service reports with regard to lower losses in 1977 and mail delivery for yr. given.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Califano's acceptance of college desegregation plans from OK, Arkansas and Florida and rejection of those from Georgia and Virginia and parts of one from North Carolina reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Richmond, Virginia) Report on example of college segregation in Virginia, citing statistics on Old Dominion University and Norfolk State College. Virginia's fight against changing system and Department of Health, Education and Welfare attempts to get new Governor John Dalton to reject predecessor's stand outlined; Civil rights office head's trip to Richmond noted. [DALTON - will let Virginia's position stand.] Is noted that state schools will lose federal funds if continued negotiations aren't successful.
REPORTER: Carole Simpson
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(Studio) President Carter's remarks at national prayer breakfast with regard to possible help to Mideast peace efforts from religious beliefs of Egyptians and Israelis reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Carter's remarks on own relationship with God and on effect of strong faith in solving world problems, include Mideast, noted. [CARTER - cites feelings with regard to Prime Min. Begin and President Sadat; notes Sadat always mentions that Egyptians and Jews have common heritage in descendence from Abraham and in worshipping same God. Has confidence that if these ties emphasized, then peace can be achieved.] Carter's other comments with regard to faith cited.
REPORTER: Bob Jamieson
(Studio) Sadat's visit in Rabat, Morocco, as 1st stop on world trip to include visits to DC, London, Paris, Bonn, Vienna, Rome and Bucharest, noted. Film shown. Hard-line Arabs meeting in Algiers mentioned; attending are representatives of Syria, Libya, South Yemen, Algeria and PLO.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Algiers, Algeria) Refusal of Iraqis to send representatives because of their view that Syria's President Assad is too moderate in opposition to Sadat and last-min. decision of Libya's General Muammar el Kadhafi not to attend detailed; leaders of Syria, Algeria and South Yemen and PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) leader Yasir Arafat attend. Belief among diplomatic observers here that disunity among hard-liners may cause moderate Arabs, like Jordan's King Hussein, to move to Sadat's side cited.
REPORTER: John Palmer
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(Studio) Vietnam's United Nations ambassador Dinh Ba Thi's being named as unindicted coconspirator by grand jury in Vietnam spying case involving employee of United States Information Agency. United States government protest filed with United Nations with regard to situation and request that he be sent home noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Update report on continued discoveries of debris from downed USSR satellite in Canada; discovery of highly radioactive piece noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Edmonton, Canada) Details of continued recovery of pieces of satellite around Great Slave Lake area given. Display of some pieces in Edmonton cited. [Canadian Atomic Energy Board spokesperson Dr. Roger EATON - describes fragments.] Plans to remove larger radioactive pieces from near Warden's Grove noted.
REPORTER: Jim Ruddle
(Studio) USSR cosmonauts success in refilling Salyut 6 fuel tank with fuel brought by robot capsule reported; is 1st for space exploration. United States space program's Skylab's possible fall from orbit in 1979 and NASA's announcement that space shuttle may be used to push Skylab to higher orbit before then reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Report on human rights. Nomination by 11 congmen. of the Helsinki Watch group in USSR for Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 noted; group's purpose is to monitor USSR 's compliance or noncompliance with Helsinki Agreement's human rights provisions. Group's nomination for peace prize by parliamentarians in Belgium and Norway mentioned. Troubles of Anatoly Shcharansky noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(No location given) Film of Shcharansky,taken in Moscow with amateur movie equipment and smuggled to West, shown; his leadership status in dissident groups cited. Is noted that Shcharansky is Jewish; his arrest last year after being refused permission to leave USSR mentioned. Shcharansky's wife, Natasha, is in West [Natasha SHCHARANSKY - says husband was hope and comfort for people w%o believe in freedom and human rights.] Details of couple's separation and of Shcharansky's activities in USSR given. Secretly filmed interview shown. [SHCHARANSKY - cites reactions of ordinary Russians to dissidents' demonstrations.] ["Los Angeles Times" reporter Robert TOTH - describes view of Shcharansky and his activities.] Film made with other dissidents in Moscow hotel shown. [SHCHARANSKY - describes persecution he's undergone. Says friends now serving long prison terms.] Film of President Carter shown. [CARTER - outlines commitment to human rights.] Sovs.' crackdown on dissidents and imprisonment of Alexander Ginzburg, Yuri Orlov and Shcharansky reported "Izvestia's" accusation that Shcharansky passed papers to CIA agents with United States embassy and American press, include Alfred Friendly, who formerly worked with "Newsweek" magazine, noted. [FRIENDLY - isn't and hasn't been CIA agent and doesn't believe colleagues or embassy people were. Cites Shcharansky's following by KGB agents as reason he wouldn't have been used as contact anyway.] Choices Sovs. have in charging Shcharansky, which there are signs they may soon do, outlined and effect of either choice on those involved stated. Clandestine film of Shcharansky and others celebrating Passover shown. [Natasha SHCHARANSKY - says it's impossible to live if she doesn't see husband.]
REPORTER: Robert Hager
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(Studio) Reports with regard to Patricia Hearst's appeal to Supreme Court with regard to bank robbery charges; Los Angeles district attorney's office plans to request Roman Polanski's extradition from Paris, France; discovery of one poisoned orange not from Israel, in Holland, and one in West Germany that was from Spain; Tongsun Park's preparations to leave Seoul for Washington, DC to testify on congress influence buying; and unsuccessful attempts to use explosives to break up ice jam on Ohio River.
REPORTER: John Chancellor (WLWT-TV newstape, Cincinnati)
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(Studio) Report on question of whether joggers should be licensed and its important to California town.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Los Altos Hills, California) Report on controversy in Los Altos Hills, near San Francisco, with regard to proposed licensing of joggers due to safety hazards they presented to selves and motorists in hilly area. Town cncl.'s debate detailed. [Cnclman. Robert CHENEY - asks why sheriff isn't enforcing safety laws and putting joggers in jail.] [Oscar SOBEL - compares case to fascism if for everything one does he has to have permit.] Council finds support for joggers. [Former cnclwoman. Diana MILLER - says jogging gives equal opportunity to women to boy-watch.] Council shelves proposal.
REPORTER: Frank Bourgholtzer
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