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#52752
(Studio) Upcoming items outlined.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson, Bob Brown, Vic Ratner, Julie Eckhert
#52753
(Studio) Contd. coal strike and breakdown in talks noted. President Carter's mtgs. with involved government officials mentioned.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Carter's mtgs. with govs. of major coal-producing states and with congress leaders detailed. [Senator Howard BAKER - thinks President must use tools left to him to end strike, include Taft-Hartley and seizure legislature Would support seizure legislature] Baker's expressed belief that seizure legislature couldn't be passed before May noted. [House majority leader Jim WRIGHT - believes House would act swiftly to give President whatever he needs to end strike.] [CARTER - doesn't yet know if he'll have to take action; is still trying to get ptys. to negotiate. Hasn't given up on negotiated settlement.] Statements of 3 coal-state govs., after meeting with Carter, outlined. [West Virginia Governor Jay ROCKEFELLER - says settlement will come only if BCOA agrees to contract. Notes Carter's intention to act if BCOA doesn't.]
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
(DC) 3 options left for Carter to use detailed: binding arbitration, Taft-Hartley and seizure of mines. [Labor Secretary MARSHALL - doesn't think there's much support for binding arbitration and people aren't supporting Taft-Hartley. Notes mine seizure is difficult.] Miners' defiance of Taft-Hartley orders in past and John L. Lewis' attitude toward law mentioned; photos and films shown. Harry Truman's threatened seizure of mines in 1950 recalled; reasons for union's preference for seizure in this strike cited. Possible option of encouraging local unions to negotiate contracts with individual coal companies, and problems involved in it, noted.
REPORTER: Charles Gibson
(Studio) Shipments of independent west coal to Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and private power companies in eastern states noted. Effect of strike on jobs of others than just miners reported.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(NYC) Coal shortages in states dependent on it for industry product described and effect in those states, IN, Ohio, West Virginia, MD, Tennessee and North Carolina, and in other areas where factories would be closed because of closures in affected states noted.
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
#52755
(Studio) President Carter's announcement of reorg. plans for strengthening enforcement of civil rights laws noted and detailed. Film shown.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#52756
(Studio) Suburban Chicago federal judge's ruling allowing American Nazi party to march wearing swastika armbands reported.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Chicago, Illinois) Efforts of residents of Skokie, Illinois, many of whom are Jewish and survived Nazi concentration camps, to prevent Nazi march thru town described. Film shown. Judge Bernard Decker's rulings against city ordinances that would have prevented march outlined. ACLU's defense of Nazis and resultant loss in Illinois members noted. [ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) spokesperson David GOLDBERGER - states ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) responsibility to defend Constitution and says that's what they've done.] [Nazi party member Mike WHALEN - says Nazis should be allowed to march if blacks and Jews can do same.] Is noted Nazi march in Skokie scheduled for April 20, which is Adolf Hitler's birthday.
REPORTER: Hugh Hill Artist: Andy Austin
(Studio) Report on growth of popularity of Ku Klux Klan and of mbrship. among high school and college students.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(No location given) Background of KKK's growing visibility and decring. secrecy in recent years given; is noted that FBI no longer keeps estimate of number of mbrs., but that Anti-Defamation League does because of KKK's anti-Jewish attitude. Ku Klux Klan support for issues like anti-busing cited. Details about KKK's youth recruiting, hdqtrd. in New Orleans suburb of Metairie, LA, given and also about Klan's Grand Wizard David Duke. Photos shown. Description of Duke as Nazi sympathizer in college mentioned; his youth recruiting attempts in California, Arizona, OK, Illinois, IN, New Jersey and New York cited. [DUKE - describes views of Ku Klux Klan mbrship. growth, especially among high school and college students.] [Anti-defamation League spokesperson Irwin SUALL - says ADL investigations show that most students think Ku Klux Klan literature is joke and throw it away.] Formation of high school Ku Klux Klan chapters by some students outlined. [YOUTH - says Ku Klux Klan is backbone of white race of American; likes culture and what it stands for.] Upcoming report noted.
REPORTER: Bob Brown
#52758
(Studio) Swearing in of William Webster of Saint Louis as FBI director reported; film shown. Presence of President Carter and Vice President Mondale at ceremonies held in new FBI building, named after 1st director J. Edgar Hoover. FBI's difficult times reported.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Report on present FBI training and methods and period of changes Bureau has gone through in past few years Training center at Quantico, Virginia, mentioned. [Retiring FBI director Clarence KELLEY - talks about period of change in Bureau during his directorship.] Recent FBI morale problems, because of indictment of former agent John Kearney on illegal surveillance charges, revelations from Justice Department with regard to alleged abuses of power by J. Edgar Hoover and Bureau's inability to solve Jimmy Hoffa disappearance case and some other major cases described. Films shown. View of former FBI agent and House FBI oversight subcommittee mbr., Representative Don Edwards, on Bureau morale noted. [EDWARDS - thinks surreptitious activity not going on presently and younger agents know they won't be asked to do anything illegal.] Remaining problems of possible restrictions on FBI authority by Congress and possibility of further agent prosecutions mentioned.
REPORTER: Vic Ratner
#52759
(Studio) Russian flu immunization program announced by administration reported.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
#52760
(Studio) Senator Finance Committee approval of tuition tax credit, which is opposed by administration, noted.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
#52761
(Studio) Announcement by Pentagon that Joint Chiefs of Staff chairperson General George Brown has undergone surgery for prostate cancer detailed.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
#52763
(Studio) Report on fire at San Diego's Aerospace Museum; suspected arson noted. Film shown. Incld. in museum's exhibits was replica of Lindbergh's Plane, Spirit of Saint Louis, which was used in the movie, and a Mercury space capsule.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
#52764
(Studio) Details of Byron Ball's holding Robert Herrmann and 2 sons hostage in Ohio, after abortive bank robbery, given. Ball's seizure by FBI agents on Wednesday night reported.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(Dayton, Ohio) [Robert HERRMANN - describes feelings.] [Rob HERRMANN - felt it was dream for minute, but then it came true. Thought father should have been with self and brother upon own release.] [Sharon HERRMANN - tells what she did during ordeal.] Ball noted as prison escapee, wanted on other charges of bank robbery; charges lodged against him in this incident noted.
REPORTER: Julie Eckhert
#52765
(Studio) Report on funeral near Fort Worth, Texas, for 1st Texas Ranger to be killed on job in more than 40 years
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(Azle, Texas) Report on death of and funeral for Texas Ranger Bob Doherty, killed in narcotics investigation. History of Texas Rangers outlined. Photos shown; backgrounds of early Rangers traceable to Pennsylvania and Massachusetts and killing of Bonnie and Clyde mentioned. [Texas Ranger Bob FAVOR - feels pride to be Ranger.]
REPORTER: Ron Miller
#52766
(Studio) Announcement by former Representative Wayne Hays that he'll run for Ohio state legislature reported Hays' resignation from Congress in midst of sex scandal involving Elizabeth Ray mentioned.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
#52769
(Studio) Earlier report on request by Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower to move into army widows' home in Washington, DC noted. Info. on Mrs. Eisenhower's present life, at home near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, given. Mentioned are granddaughter Susan and Mrs. Eisenhower's sister who lives in Florida.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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