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(Studio) Ind. gas tanker collision and explosion in seaside camping area at Tarragona, Spain, noted.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(No location given) Details of truck accident and resulting explosion and damage given. Responsibility reported to be taken by Madrid gas transportation company, which is conducting investigation. Mediterranean Sea mentioned.
REPORTER: Bob Jamieson (Spanish television film)
(Studio) Details given from Havana radio report about trolley car collision in Cuba's Las Villas prov.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Continuing USSR trials for Alexander Ginzburg and Anatoly Shcharansky reported Dismissal of Mrs. Ginzburg from ctroom. in Kaluga and her statements about trial detailed. Accusations against Shcharansky in Moscow trial, incl. his alleged connections with American reporter Robert Toth, stated.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Moscow, USSR ) Soviet government claims about Shcharansky's relations with former "Los Angeles Times" reporter Toth and what government hopes to gain by this tactic examined. USSR reaction to President Carter's human rights position reported.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
(Studio) Interview with Toth, who now works in Washington, DC shown; reporter Ford Rowan mentioned as interviewer. [TOTH - denies ever being intelligence agent. Discusses Sovs.' ability to charge Shcharansky with passing state secrets.]
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Studio) Mrs. Natalia Avital Shcharansky's participation in protest march in Paris reported Protests of French Communist party, which has reputation for hard-line, Stalinist views, to Moscow and calls for halt to trials stated.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Paris, France) Details of Paris protest march, led by Mrs. Shcharansky, given. Impt. of French Communists' participation examined.
REPORTER: John Palmer
(Studio) Pressure on President Carter from Congmen. to react to dissidents trials described as everything from withdrawal from 1980 Olympics to renunciation of Helsinki agreement. Announcement of possible meeting between Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Mrs. Shcharansky in Geneva, where Vance and foreign minister Andrei Gromyko will meet to discuss Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Geneva, Switzerland) Gromyko's arrival statement outlined. Vance's statements about dissident trials and arms limitation talks reported [VANCE - hopes talks will be useful and constructive.] United States position on separation of SALT and human rights stated.
REPORTER: John Cochran
(DC) Report on congress reaction to trials and congress view of connection between SALT and human rights. [Representative Paul SIMON - notes congress subjection to public opinion; says Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II could be jeopardized.] [Senator Bob PACKWOOD - says United States has been had at Helsinki, Belgrade and now at Geneva, given timing of dissident trials.] [Senator Robert DOLE - says Carter could demonstrate feelings by recalling Vance.] News conference sponsored by Defense Fund for Alexander Ginzburg mentioned. [Senator Henry JACKSON - says President has power to disapprove Soviet technological requests.] Statements of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's wife Natalia at press conference quoted.
REPORTER: Bob Kur
(Studio) Comment on USSR punishment of people for political views.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Reports from Birmingham, Alabama,noted that former FBI informer Gary Thomas Rowe killed black man there in 1960's, told FBI and was told by them not to report it. FBI denial reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Montgomery, Alabama) Rowe's background as informant for FBI after he'd infiltrated Ku Klux Klan described; films shown. Incidents mentioned incl. bombing of black church in Birmingham and rioting there in 1963. FBI response to allegations about Rowe's being told not to report his part in death of black man during riots outlined. Alabama attorney general William Baxley's use of Rowe in prosecution of church bombing case noted. [BAXLEY - says violent nature of Ku Klux Klan wouldn't have been broken if not for FBI.] Baxley's statements about Rowe's chgs. against FBI given.
REPORTER: Fred Francis
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(Studio) Senator Muriel Humphrey's denial of Scripts-Howard reports that family had been given stks. not reported stated. News service reports that stks. were gift of Dwayne Andreas. Senator Hubert Humphrey mentioned.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) House subcommittee hearings on effects of medical and dental x-rays reported
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Incr. in physicians' and dentists' use of X-rays, thus incring. patients' risks of cancer and also causing higher medical bills detailed. [Radiologist Dr. John McCLENAHAN - discusses problems with physicians who have own x-ray machines.] FDA (Food and Drug Administration) Commissioner Don. Kennedy's remark that government can't stop unnecessary x-rays reported [KENNEDY - says this is up to patients.] Complaints of some with regard to difficulty of questioning doctor's decision once x-rays are advised stated.
REPORTER: Robert Bazell
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(Studio) South Africa police minister's orders for investigation into death of black prisoner after his fall from upper floor of Port Elizabeth police building reported.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Death of John D. Rockefeller III in car accident reported John D. Rockefeller, grandfather of John D., III, and West Virginia Governor John D. Rockefeller IV mentioned. Photos shown.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Coast Guard's efforts to stop rum running during Prohibition and present efforts to stop marijuana smuggling noted. Efficiency of marijuana delivery system reported.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Martin Cnty., Florida) Details given about largest drug bust in history, off Florida coast; photos shown. Coast Guard's inability to get to marijuana ship sighted during filming of report detailed. Lack of funds for narcotics agents and abundance of funds for smugglers noted. Congress hearings held in Florida in June by Representative Lester Wolff's Select Committee on Narcotics mentioned. [WOLFF - comments on size of smuggling operations.] Discovery of marijuana washing up on Martin Cnty., Florida, beach, north of Palm Beach cited. [POLICE - talk to young people.] [WOMAN - says 1 package is all they found.] Martin Cnty. sheriff Jim Holt's remarks about size of operation in his county noted. [HOLT - says community is being corrupted by ease of smuggling there and notes problems involved with organized crime and pols.] Sheriff's program to fight smuggling operations in county outlined. [HOLT - discusses constant efforts of smugglers to buy law officers.] Upcoming report noted.
REPORTER: Michael Silver
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(Studio) Reports with regard to Conf. Board's report from New York City that consumer confidence has incrd.; results of study on bilingual education methods; continued problems NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has with Skylab; and reports from Peking that Reuters has been told that China (PR) has cut all economy and technical aid to Albania.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(SO Report on Minnesota group's turn to religion and the Bible to help them lose weight. Group is called Overeaters Victorious.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Saint Paul, Minnesota) Nancy Shea's experience with Overeaters Victorious (OV) described. [SHEA - thinks God tries to teach her discipline.] Details about group given. [WOMAN - explains passage from Bible.] [OV organization Neva COYLE - discusses reasoning behind group.]
REPORTER: Jim Cummins
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