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#497897
(Studio) Senator approval of Canal neutrality treaty noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Details given with regard to announcements by undecided Senators on plans for vote. [Henry BELLMON - announces support for treaty.] [FORD - announces plans to vote against treaty.] Decisions of Zorinsky and Paul Hatfield reported Audio tapes played. [Paul HATFIELD - announces support for treaty.] [Robert BYRD - calls for order in the Senator] Roll call vote noted. [Senator CLERK - calls roll; records votes.] James Abourezk, James Allen and Howard Cannon mentioned. [Vice President MONDALE - announces treaty passage.] [Senator Paul LAXALT - thinks "no" votes were hard, some "yes" votes soft.] [Robert BYRD - responds to Laxalt's statement.] White House agreement to changes in treaty to guarantee passage and belief that same will have to happen with 2nd treaty cited.
REPORTER: Chris Wallace; Artist: Betty Wells
(Studio) Admin.'s continued lobbying up to vote noted.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(DC) [CARTER - notes upcoming vote on 2nd treaty; is confident Senator will ratify it. Cites this as promising for future relations with Panama and Latin American] President's other comments with regard to treaty provisions cited. Is noted that this is administration's 1st major legislature victory.
REPORTER: Bob Jamieson
(Studio) Panamanian reaction to vote and that of Americans living in Canal Zone reported.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(Panama City, Panama) Details of American and Panamanian reaction to treaty vote and plans by some Americans to leave Zone despite final outcome. General Omar Torrijos' job in keeping Panamanians convinced of good of treaty for own country noted.
REPORTER: George Lewis (Tape noted as made earlier.)
(Studio) Upcoming congress action necessary for final ratification of treaty, involving both House and Senator, described. Is noted President Carter may still have trouble.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#497901
(Studio) Update on Mideast situation between Israelis and Palestinians in south Lebanon. United States mediation efforts noted. Earlier State Department briefing reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Outline of State Department briefing given, include possible UN peacekeeping force until Lebanese army strong enough to control area on own. Decision by administration to postpone briefing, because of Canal treaty vote, noted. United States contact with United Nations Security Council and attempts to make clear to Israelis need for withdrawal reported.
REPORTER: Richard Valeriani
(Studio) Report is on Israeli view of possible United Nations peacekeeping force.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(Tel Aviv, Israel) Details of dim Israeli view of success of UN peacekeeping force and background of distrust given. Egyptian President Nasser's demand for United Nations forces withdrawal from Sinai prior to Six-Day War noted; Nasser mentioned as Sadat's predecessor. Israeli distrust of such UN force in south Lebanon just to watch PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) cited.
REPORTER: Hilary Brown
(Studio) Contd. fighting between Israelis and Palestinians reported.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(Beirut, Lebanon) Report on battle at port of Tyre, Lebanon.
REPORTER: Bill ??????
(Tel Aviv, Israel) Report on battle along Israeli-Lebanon border. Israeli efforts in preparing new routes into Lebanon described. Govt. statement with regard to planned length of occupation noted. Press tour into area, arranged by Israelis, detailed; situation in Christian Lebanese village of Marjayoun cited. Funerals in Israel for war dead mentioned.
REPORTER: Jack Reynolds
(Studio) Differences in Israeli and PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) casualty figs. reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Studio) President Sadat's condemnation of Israeli raid, made in statements in Cairo, reported.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(Cairo, Egypt) Sadat's deliberations with regard to statements on recent Mideast dvts. noted. [SADAT - says force won't provide security for Israel; only good neighborliness can do so.]
REPORTER: David Burrington
#497903
(Studio) Report on kidnapping of former Italian premier and present political figure Aldo Moro.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(No location given) Details of attack and kidnapping of Moro on Rome street given. Responsibility is claimed by Red Brigade guerrilla group, whose leaders are now in trial in Turin. Background on Moro given and effect of kidnapping on government and public described. Vote of confidence for Prime Min. Giulio Andreotti's government, as Italian Communists join in, noted.
REPORTER: Paul Cunningham Film made earlier.
#497904
(Studio) Carter administration's proposal for new drug regulations noted.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(DC) Bill's provisions for drug companies' revelations of testing procedures and mfrs.'s opposition to this reported [Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph CALIFANO - says bill is in best ints. of pharmaceutical industry and of public.] Ind. plans to fight bill noted. [Pharmaceutical Mfrs. Association president C. Joseph STETLER - cites concerns with regard to halt to secrecy in testing.]
REPORTER: Robert Bazell
#497905
(Studio) House passage of Humphrey-Hawkins bill reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#497906
(Studio) Report on return of USSR cosmonauts Yuri Romanenko and Georgy Grechko from record-breaking space stay. Film shown.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#497908
(Studio) Reports with regard to congress records' report that KCIA (Central Intelligence Agency) controlled Tongsun Park, though he wasn't listed as agent; Kentucky legislature vote to rescind ratification of ERA; Costa Rica authorities' arrest warrant order for fugitive Robert Vesco, to be tried on fraud chgs.; and crash of Bulgarian Airlines plane in Bulgaria.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#497909
(Studio) Report is on special yearly use of hwys. in South Korea.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(S. Korea) Details given about the one day each year when usual South Korean highway traffic yields right of way to military airplanes, as war-preparedness practice. In event of war, certain highways in South Korea to be used as airstrips.
REPORTER: Jim Laurie
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