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REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
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(Studio) Midair collision of 727 jet and student-piloted Cessna over San Diego, California, and crash into residential area noted. Photo and diagram shown.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(San Diego, California) Details about collision of small plane and Pacific Southwest Airlines flight from Sacramento and Los Angeles and subsequent crash given; jet noted as preparing to land at Lindbergh Field. Eyewitness was reporter John Britton, of NBC affiliate KCST-TV in San Diego. [BRITTON - describes scene during incident. Was filming routine story with interview of board of supervisors chairperson Lucille Moore. Reports that cameraman Steve Howell began photographing scene of crash just after it happened, before they realized danger of falling debris from jet.] Description of scene by other eyewitnesses quoted. [Michael GUSS - describes scene.] Lack of speculation at this point about cause of collision stated. National Trans. Safety Board investigation mentioned. Airline pilots' longtime complaints about approach to San Diego airport reported.
REPORTER: Don Oliver (KCST-TV newsfilm)
(Studio) Collision noted to have taken place in most dangerous flight zone; reasons stated. Pilots' contentions that area could be made safer reported Upcoming congress hearings on issue mentioned.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Pilots' statement that only present safety system to rely on in cockpit for avoiding midair collisions is human eye noted. File film shown. Pilots' request for collision avoidance system in cockpit stated; details of suggested system given. Federal Aviation Administration support system on ground reported Airline Pilots Association chgs. that Federal Aviation Administration is delaying development of either system mentioned. File tape shown. Details about danger area in flight zones given. Upcoming House hearing on situation, at which Airline Pilots Association will testify, cited.
REPORTER: James Polk
(Studio) Recap of collision/crash in San Diego given. Is noted as 1st fatal commercial crash ever for San Diego airport and 1st ever for Pacific Southwest.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Prime Min. Menahem Begin's address to Knesset as it takes up issue of Camp David agreements reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Jerusalem, Israel) Details about Begin's speech given. Heckling he received from right-wingers, particularly Likud party member Geula Cohen, described. Begin's remarks on agreements and on dispute with White House over moratorium on west bank settlements outlined. Contd. protests about Sinai and west bank settlements issues noted; those by settlers at Yamit in Sinai reported [MAN - has worked too hard to give up house ] [WOMAN - had nothing when they came here; isn't young enough to start over.] Demonstrations by settlers from Sinai and west bank outside Begin's home in Jerusalem detailed. Expected Knesset approval of agreements stated.
REPORTER: John Cochran
(Studio) President Anwar Sadat's announcement of reopening of direct phone communi- cations between Egypt and Israel detailed. Upcoming visit to King Hussein by President Assad of Syria and separately planned trips by Hussein and Assad to Saudi Arabia and other Arab cntrys. reported Hussein's cancellation of visit to Washington, DC in October noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) President Carter's address on United States economy and his plans for country to meeting of International Monetary Fund outlined. Film shown. Update on Carter administration's connection with Robert Vesco affair. Vesco reported to be in Costa Rica.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) Investigation of letters allegedly written by Vesco representatives to Chas. Kirbo and Hamilton Jordan, conducted by Kirbo, noted. Kirbo's conclusions that letters are forgeries and reasons stated. Sources' report that letters actually written by Georgia busman. Robert Herring and assocs. in Panama City, Florida, earlier in summer. Claims of alleged letter-writers stated. Columnist Jack Anderson's casting of doubt on authenticity of letters, despite his original breaking of story, reported Kirbo's investigation said to have reached as far as Costa Rica. President Carter's statements about case, include orders to Justice Department to take care of it, mentioned. Govt. attempts to get Vesco expelled from Bahamas cited.
REPORTER: Carl Stern
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(Studio) Allan Bakke's entrance to medical school at University of California at Davis because of Supreme Court decision in his reverse discrimination lawsuit reported
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Davis, California) Demonstrations against Bakke decision as Bakke arrives for classes described. School's plans for new policy on minority admissions reported [Dean John TUPPER - says University of California is committed to minority admissions and stands by commitment.]
REPORTER: Rick Davis
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(Studio) Federal judge's ruling that women sports writers at Yankee Stadium have constitutional right to enter players' locker room for story reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) House Assassinations Committee reported to have begun hearings on conspiracy theories about Kennedy assassination.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) Identification of previously unknown "umbrella man" who showed up in photos of Dealey Plaza on day of Kennedy assassination with open black umbrella noted; is identified as Lucius Steven Witt, of Dallas. Conspiracy theorists ideas about possible involvement of umbrella in assassination outlined. Photos shown; Warren Commission mentioned. [WITT - would be much happier if committee had never located him.] Witt's denial of any involvement in conspiracy and statement that umbrella was to be used to heckle Kennedy reported Committee staffer's opening of umbrella cited. [Committee MBR. - guesses there's no gun in umbrella.] [WITT - comments on presence in Dealey Plaza with reference to "Guinness Book of World Records."] Upcoming testimony to committee by Jack Ruby's brother noted.
REPORTER: Bob Kur
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(Studio) Freddie Laker's original low-cost transatlantic flights recalled and other airlines' foul-ups mentioned. Laker's plans for off-season rates from London to Los Angeles reported.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Complaints about regulations enacted by OSHA described. Laws under which OSHA works reported to be slow and possibly causing illness and even death in industry situations.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(No location given) Occupational hazards in working at smelter outlined; is noted that companies can take precautions to protect workers and that some don't. Case of retired smelter worker Oney Vigil described; his health problems detailed. [VIGIL - wouldn't have worked in smelter if he'd known what he knows now. Mentions problems of changing jobs later in life. Says company doesn't care because worker can always be replaced.] Vigil's job at Globe plant in Denver mentioned. Attitude of men who work there now described. Studies of plant, owned by New York-based ASARCO, reported; findings that cadmium processed by plant is highly poisonous stated. Findings by United States Public Health Service inspectors at plant in 1977 listed. [Health Service spokesperson Dr. Bobby GUNTER - discusses concern about workers' exposure to cadmium and outlook for workers if exposure conts.] Laws protecting workers from continuing hazards and frequent delays in enforcing them noted. Chgs. against ASARCO for hazards in other plants reported Plants in Tacoma, WA, for exposure to arsenic, and E. Helena, MT, for exposure to lead, given as exs. Details given about delays in court appeals of citations. OSHA inspection of Globe plant mentioned. [OSHA spokesperson Curtis FOSTER - discusses amount of time appeals of citations could take, all the way to Supreme Court Says workers continue to be exposed to alleged dangers during appeals.] Questions of many about adequacy of current laws, given time factor involved in enforcing them, reported Mentioned in report are Brookhaven National Lab. and Wall Street.
REPORTER: Robert Bazell (KING-TV newsfilm, Seattle)
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(Studio) Reports with regard to Senator S. I. Hayakawa and Representative Leo Ryan's petition to Justice Department for commutation of Patricia Hearst's sentence for bank robbery; incr. in prime interest rates by banks in Chicago and Philadelphia, as announced in NYC; NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) plans to launch space shuttle from Cape Canaveral next year; longest cab ride on record, from Alabama to Kadoka, SD; and return to newsstands of "Life" magazine Film shown.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's party for son's wedding described.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Cairo, Egypt) Sadat noted as taking day off from controversy of Camp David peace agreements for 1st time in over month for son Gamal's wedding. Details of wedding given. President and Mrs. Sadat's activities during wedding reception reported Sadat's only comment on Camp David, with regard to Israeli cabinet approval of agreements, quoted.
REPORTER: John Palmer
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