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(Studio) Lech Walesa said possibly meeting in Rome, Italy, with Pope John Paul II.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Warsaw, Poland) Pontiff reported pvtly. agreeing to meeting with Walesa and Solidarity leader Stanislaw Wandolowski; details given, films shown. Walesa's commitment to free union and continued inability to return to work mentioned. Necessity for Walesa recing. official permission to both leave and return to Poland noted.
REPORTER: John Cochran
(Studio) Walesa reported threatening to bring suit in effort to regain job.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) USSR foreign minister Andrei Gromyko, meeting in West Germany with foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, reported clarifying USSR negotiating position on deployment of missiles in Europe; films shown. President Reagan's stance on Zero Option program recalled.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Social Security compromise reached by reform commission outlined on screen, discussed.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) [Joel CHURCH, Richard HAASE - anticipate sacrifices under revised system.] [American Association of Retired Persons spokesperson Peter HUGHES - will fight plan's passage in Congress] President Reagan's conference with Senator Howard Baker, Representative Dan Rostenkowski and Representative Thomas O'Neill on quick passage of legislature noted. [National Federation of Independent Business spokesperson Mike McKEVITT - acknowledges difficult battle in defeating plan.] [Representative Claude PEPPER - supports recommendations.] Pol. loss to Democrats noted.
REPORTER: John Dancy
(Studio) Congress relief over solution to problem considered.
REPORTER: John Dancy, Roger Mudd
(DC) Social Security's anticipated future should commission's proposals be adopted discussed; Jimmy Carter's efforts to rescue Social Security recalled. [December 20, 1977, CARTER - claims new legislature will guarantee system's solvency.] Problems affecting Carter's plan explained. [Economist Michael EVANS - thinks economy forecast is unrealistically optimistic; explains.] [Senator William ARMSTRONG - cites necessity for tax increases] New plan's core explained.
REPORTER: Irving R. Levine
(Studio) Rostenkowski reported beginning hearings February 1.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Milwaukee, WI) Response of job seekers to relatively few jobs opening up here with A.O. Smith firm examined; details given. [APPLICANT - wants job.] [Smith spokesperson Jack BIRCHHILL - didn't expect such a turnout.]
REPORTER: Mary Nissenson
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(Studio) Ron Reagan reported resigning from Joffrey Ballet and dancing; details given. His past unemployment experience recalled.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) George Wallace reported inaugurated for 4th term as Alabama governor; details given; films shown.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) San Francisco, California, Mayor Dianne Feinstein reported facing recall petition.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(San Francisco, California) Feinstein's political problems, focused on gun control issue, examined. [1981, FEINSTEIN - praises ban on handguns.] Gun law said declared unconstitutional by state court in October [White Panther leader Tom STEVENS - explains recall petition.] White Panthers, a fringe anarchist organization, discussed.] Criticism of Mayor in city's gay community over her veto of plan to provide city employees' benefits to unmarried gay couples noted.
REPORTER: David Burrington
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(Studio) Rot. introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(No location given) Collapse of bridge in Antwerp, Ohio, examined; films shown. [Deputy Sheriff Jerry FLAUGH - describes scene.] [Gertrude RISTER - recalls crash.] [Bob RISTER - has been concerned about bridge for some time.] [Consulting engineer Henry HOLLISTER - anticipates cause of collapse.] National Trans. Safety Bd. investigators said assisting local authorities.
REPORTER: Fred Briggs
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(Studio) 3 generations of Brockton, Massachusetts, family reported arrested on drug chgs. today; details given.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Arrival in Washington, DC of Japanese Prime Min. Yasuhiro Nakasone, greeted by ambassador Mike Mansfield, reported, shown; Nakasone's meeting tomorrow with President Reagan thought concerned with incring. protectionist sentiment in US. Nakasone noted reading "Silicon Valley."
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Reagan administration thought certifying El Salvador's human rights progress as basis for receiving United States military and economic aid this week
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(El Salvador) Murder of Ita Ford and 2 other church women in 1980 recalled; those accused said not yet chgd. with crime. Brother Bill Ford's inquiries into sister's death examined. [FORD - thinks United States military aid should halt until human rights abuses halt; notes United States role in perpetrating such abuses.]
REPORTER: Bonnie Anderson
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(Studio) Joint article in "Reader's Digest" by Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford noted criticizing Israel's settlement of West Bank as obstacle to solving Mideast crisis; details given.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) 2 United States soldiers reported injured in land mine explosion in Sinai today; details given.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Belfast, North Ireland) Blind photographer Hugh McGary, who lost his sight during 1969 terrorist battle here, featured; photos shown. [McGARY - explains goal with his photography.]
REPORTER: Rick Davis
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Scottsdale, Arizona) Chicago Cubs training camp for amateurs willing to pay for fantasy featured; films shown. [Former Cub Randy HUNDLEY - notes purpose of camp.] participants Jimmy Stewart, Wally Pecks, players Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Gene Oliver featured. [SANTO - praises campers.] [STEWART, PECKS - are exhausted.]
REPORTER: Roger O'Neil
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