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(Studio) Effect of dissident trials issue on Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) talks between Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko in Geneva noted.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(No location given) Details given about Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) discussions. Vance's report to Gromyko with regard to President Carter's position on dissident trials now proceeding in USSR and on harassment of American newsmen outlined. State Department spokesperson Hodding Carter's remarks about day's talks quoted. Service for Anatoly Shcharansky at Geneva synagogue mentioned; Mrs. Shcharansky's presence and her planned meeting with Vance noted.
REPORTER: John Cochran
(Moscow, USSR ) Report on Soviet view of situation, separating human rights and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) issues. Verdicts on Shcharansky and Alexander Ginzburg noted as expected by end of week
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
(Studio) Chgs. of espionage against Shcharansky and of his association with "Los Angeles Times" reporter Robert Toth, who is accused of being intelligence agent, reported Reading of statement by Toth at Shcharansky trial noted. Prosecution's request for sentence in Ginzburg trial in Kaluga stated. Siberia mentioned. President Carter's reaction reported.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) Carter's interview with European and Japanese journalists noted; film shown. [CARTER - comments on view that Shcharansky trial is slap at self. Says charge of Shcharansky's spying is patently false and Sovs. know it.] Admin. position on reacting to trials stated; European Communists' and others' protest of trials mentioned.
REPORTER: Judy Woodruff
(Studio) United Nations ambassador Andrew Young's statements to Paris newspapers about his view on American political prisoners given. Secretary of State Vance's reaction in Geneva reported.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Report on aftermath of tanker truck explosion in Spain.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(San Carlos de la Rapita, Spain) Details of explosion and effects given.
REPORTER: Paul Cunningham
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(Studio) Postal workers' rally in DC, about contract negotiations, reported President Carter's comments on pay hike for postal workers stated.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Intense solar flares that have occurred in last 2 days reported Effects of these on earth noted.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Boulder, Colorado) [MAN - describes flare.] Films shown. [MAN - discusses flare's x-ray radiation, as measured on National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin. weather satellites.] Problems caused by solar flares described; Skylab's problems mentioned.
REPORTER: Jim West (KOA-TV, Denver)
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(Studio) Legionnaires' disease outbreak at American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976 recalled. Convention's return to city this year reported.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Studies of Legionnaires who came into contact with diseases detailed. [Disease victim Thomas PAYNE - had no qualms about coming to Philadelphia.] Allentown, Pennsylvania, physician's study of Legionnaires presently at convention detailed. [Dr. Gary LATTIMER - reports findings that some men had indications of having had disease, but had never been diagnosed as having it.] Lattimer's belief that permanent lung damage may have resulted from disease stated.
REPORTER: Jim Bittermann
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(Studio) Expected test tube baby birth later in month to woman in Bristol, England, reported.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(No location given) Details with regard to British scientist's research and experiment with test tube baby given; diagrams shown. Govt. funding cut for human fertilization studies at University of Pennsylvania reprod. biology labs noted; reasons given. Moral questions that have been raised about test tube babies listed. [U. of Pennsylvania spokesperson Dr. Luigi MASTROIANNI - cites reasons for much objection.]
REPORTER: Robert Bazell
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(Studio) Death of Morris the Cat, star of cat food television commercials, reported; films shown.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Decr. in local law enforcement of marijuana laws and continued efforts of federal government to keep marijuana out of country noted.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Martin Cnty., Florida) July 4th rally of marijuana users in Washington, DC mentioned. [National Org. to Reform Marijuana Laws president and lobbyist Keith STROUP - says most users want to be law-abiding, contributing citizens and can't when they are classified as outlaws, as they are presently.] Lack of enforcement of marijuana laws in most major cities in United States described; example given is purchase filmed in NYC's Central Park. [WOMAN - discusses purchase with man.] [MAN - describes marijuana cigarettes to woman.] [STROUP - says marijuana smoking is here to stay.] Law enforcement officers concerns about cash flow involved in smuggling operations detailed. [Drug Enforcement Agency administration Peter BENZIGER - states size of cash flow into Florida; says it's switching from heroin and cocaine to marijuana.] Pressure on White House from state and local lawmen and congress committee noted. [President assistant Peter BOURNE - reports shift in smuggling operations to Louisiana or up eastern coast as far as ME, since focus is now on Florida. Thinks chances of government coming to grips with problem are minimal.] Marijuana exports from Colombia mentioned. Situation compared with Prohibition era.
REPORTER: Michael Silver
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(Studio) Reports that Texaco has struck natural gas in Baltimore Canyon, off New Jersey coast, noted; company's refusal to comment and statements of workers coming from site reported.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(New Jersey) Details given about information learned from workers coming in from Texaco drilling operation. Shell Oil Company's failure to find oil or natural gas, as well as similar failure by Continental Oil Company, reported [Texaco roustabout Carlos SASOS - says they may have found natural gas; will know in next 2 weeks]
REPORTER: Robert Hager
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(Studio) Reports with regard to Joan Little's plea change to guilty in Raleigh, North Carolina, trial; trial order for woman in Compton, California, accused of welfare fraud; and Hempstead, New York, town board's passage of law against gasoline stations chging. for air.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Details given about Georgia gubernatorial candidate Nick Belluso's plan to put hypnotist on television to try to get votes.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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