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(Studio) House approval of ERA deadline extension noted; vote includes veto of recision of approval.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) Details given about House debate on proposal. Gallery observers' wearing of suffragettes color, white, mentioned. Representative Thomas Railback's proposal to allow states chance to rescind approval of ERA and its defeat reported. Audio tape played. [RAILSBACK - feels extension without this provision would be congress attempt to amend Constitution regardless of price.] [Representative Don EDWARDS - states opposition to recision provision.] Upcoming Senator debate and expected filibuster there noted.
REPORTER: Chris Wallace Unsigned sketches
(Studio) Result of NBC News-AP poll on ERA support and that for extension of deadline. Constitution mentioned.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Senate vote to exclude private secondary and elementary schools from tuition tax credit bill reported.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) Main issue in Senate debate noted as tuition tax credit to parents of parochial school students; arguments of both sides described. Senator Dan. P. Moynihan's support for parochial schools' include in bill, because Supreme Court hasn't ruled on government aid to those schools, stated. [Senator Ernest HOLLINGS - says Congress's duty is to public schools and is to leave private schools alone.] Passage of Hollings amendment to this effect noted. [MOYNIHAN - recalls President Carter's pledge of aid to parochial schools; comments on Democratic party's broken promises.] President Carter's threatened veto of such bill reported.
REPORTER: Andrea Mitchell; Unsigned sketches
(Studio) Senator's expected approval of tax credit for college tuition later in evening noted. Earlier House vote on tuition tax credit bill, different from Senator version, reported.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Continuing police and firemen's strikes in Memphis reported.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Memphis, Tennessee) Details about effects of both strikes given. Firemen's union sanction of their strike noted. [Striking FIREMAN - talks to nonstriker.] [NONSTRIKER - isn't saying either fire department or Mayor Wyeth Chandler are right, but is doing what's right for self.] Chandler's proposal for tax increase referendum to provide strikers' demands reported [CHANDLER - says people must have final say in expenditure of their money.] [Striking POLICEMAN - says this is just political ploy.] Strikes' interference with tourist trade during week of memorials to late Elvis Presley described.
REPORTER: Bob Jimenez
(Studio) End to Northwest Airlines pilots' strike reported.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#500189
(Studio) Report on continued problems for United States dollar on international money mkts.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(London, England) Effects of dollar devaluation in Europe outlined; tourists' problems in exchange rates and views of international bankers described. [WOMAN - wants to change dollars for British pounds.] [2nd WOMAN - asks what's happening in US.] [National Westminster Bank spokesperson Bill BATT - discusses extent of problems in world trade.] Reasons for dollar's insecurity listed.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
(DC) Effects of dollar devaluation on United States economy detailed. Purchases of for. prods., especially oil, noted. For. dollar holders' trades of dollars for currencies like Japanese yen, German mark and Swiss franc reported Incrs. in for. car prices, like Toyota and Datsun, giving United States mfrs. excuse for increase in own prices stated; increase in Chevrolet Chevette since fall cited. Admin. outlook for inflation control reported.
REPORTER: Irving R. Levine
#500190
(Studio) Experts' testimony to House Assassinations Committee with regard to Martin Luther King, Junior's, murder reported.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) Committee's hiring of team of experts to examine evidence in King death outlined. New York City chief medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden noted as group spokesperson Films and photos shown. Baden's testimony with regard to origin of shot that killed King quoted. [BADEN - states findings of medical team.] Upcoming testimony by confessed killer James Earl Ray, who has already been moved to DC from Tennessee, mentioned.
REPORTER: Bob Kur
(Studio) Upcoming Segment 3 report outlined.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#500191
(Studio) Report on confusion over Columbus' (Ohio) court-ordered busing situation, after involvement of Supreme Court
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Columbus, Ohio) Justice William Rehnquist's signing of stay in implementation of Columbus' busing plan and school system's switch to contingency plan noted; details given. Situation of girls assigned in spring to Eastmore high school who later became cheerleaders described. [Irene GOODMAN - states reasons for deciding to stay at Eastmore.] [School board attorney Samuel PORTER - states position on situation.] School board officials' plan to make request in October for hearing by entire Supreme Court cited.
REPORTER: Jim Scott
#500192
(Studio) Federal grand jury indictments against members of Church of Scientology detailed. Partial basis for indictments on FBI raids of church offices in Washington, DC and Los Angeles noted.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#500194
(Studio) James Earl Ray's upcoming appearance before House Assassinations Committee, investigating killing of Martin Luther King, Junior, noted. Report is summation of arguments for and against Ray.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) Events of April 4, 1968, connected with King shooting, reviewed and links between Ray and shooting outlined. FBI and court records, indicating that one man alone was responsible, mentioned. Evidence against Ray presented; questions about his acting alone or as part of conspiracy to kill King outlined. Coalition of those asking for new trial for Ray, black civil rights leaders and Ray's attorney, mentioned. Question of many about whether or not Ray was paid and if he had help before and after shooting noted. Assassinations Committee attempts to get what they consider satisfactory testimony from Ray stated. Ray's Mustang car and Remington .3006 rifle mentioned-in report
REPORTER: James Polk Don Harris Artist: Betty Wells
#500196
(Studio) Reports with regard to consumer group's recommendation for warning label about link between caffeine and birth defects; "Time" magazine poll about Democrats' feelings with regard to President Carter and Senator Edward Kennedy as 1980 president nominee and about perceptions of Chappaquiddick incident; balloonists' contd. attempt to cross Atlantic and arrive in France.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
#500197
(Studio) Unsuccessful attempts of Diana Nyad and Stella Taylor to swim seas off Florida reported.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Key West, Florida) Details given about Nyad's health problems that developed as result of swim and stings from Portuguese men-of-war. [Trainer Wendy LAWRENCE - discusses navigational problems.] Stella Taylor's unsuccessful attempt to swim from Bahamas to Florida reported Nyad's swim was from Cuba.
REPORTER: Fred Francis
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