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(Studio) Senate Foreign Relations Committee reported sending nomination of Ken. Adelman to Senate floor with recommendation that he be rejected as director of arms control agency.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) ["New York Daily News" journalist Ken AULETTA - recalls Adelman's putdown of arms negotiations during interview.] [Senator Jesse HELMS - questions Auletta's accuracy.] [AULETTA - believes Adelman is lying.] [Senator Paul SAREANES - notes Adelman's denial of interview altogether.] [ADELMAN - responds; denies criticizing arms negotiations.] Committee's final vote of unfavorable recommendation noted. [Senator Paul TSONGAS - will work to defeat nomination in Senate]
REPORTER: John Dancy
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(Studio) [President REAGAN - blames media for creating scandal at EPA.] President said appointing temporary officials to vacancies at EPA.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) Lee Thomas, Lee Verstandig, Charles Dempsey and Alfred Zuck said appointed by Reagan to temporarily replace fired Environmental Protection Agency officials such as Rita Lavelle. [THOMAS - believes public service management is his strong suit.] [Admin. Anne BURFORD - rejects possibility of resignation.] FBI reported investigating superfund employees today. [EPA spokesperson Hugh KAUFMAN - comments on staff who decided not to talk with FBI.] [Rita LAVELLE - believes her telephone is bugged.]
REPORTER: Robert Hager
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(Studio) Record trading on Wall Street today reported.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(NYC) Stk. market rally and factors apparently inducing it examined; details outlined on screen. Paul Volcker's remarks on lower interest rates mentioned.
REPORTER: Mike Jensen
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(NYC) [Herschel WALKER - comments on signing pro contract with USFL.] Concern among college coaches that Walker's decision will be catalyst to wholesale raiding of college teams by pro leagues examined. [Coach Vince DOOLEY - has lost respect for USFL.] NFL (National Football League) commissioner Pete Rozelle's claim that his league is blameless noted; traditional approach to player recruitment explained. [USC pres. James ZUMBERGE - thinks Walker's actions will eventually hurt college athletes.] [Univ. Washington spokesperson Don JAMES - threatens actions against USFL representatives] Incrd. ticket sales for New Jersey Generals since Walker signed mentioned.
REPORTER: Bob Jamieson
(Studio) Walker's alleged salary compared to that of Walter Payton.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Grand jury reported investigating possible murders of infants in San Antonio, Texas, hospital.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(San Antonio, Texas) Background to case examined. [Dist. attorney Samuel MILLSAP, Junior - notes wealth of evidence to plow through.] [Hospital board member River William THORNTON - will cooperate with investigation.] Allegations of possible means of murder noted.
REPORTER: Dennis Murphy
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(Studio) "Journal of American Med. Association" reported publishing study claiming link between cigarette smoke in the home and chronic ear infections in children; details given.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Last fall's Tylenol murders in Chicago, Illinois, recalled.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Chicago, Illinois) Current status of investigation into Tylenol murders examined; photos of victims shown. Suspects Roger Arnold, Kevin Masterson and James Lewis discussed; Lewis' tentative trial date said set today. [Lewis' attorney Michael MONICO - notes client is chgd. with extortion, not murders.] Continue search for unidentified male seen at funeral of Adam, Theresa and Stanley Janus noted; film shown. Tylenol's continuing market recovery described.
REPORTER: Jim Cummins
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(Studio) Cornell Univ. astronomers reported discovering intergalactic gas cloud; Dr. Yervant Terzian's theory noted.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians reported condemning government's internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) Franklin Roosevelt's order to intern Japanese-Americans recalled; films shown. [Commission member Representative Daniel LUNGREN - wants to correct record.] Cmsn.'s findings of lack of military justification for internment and attributing it to racism, war hysteria and pols. discussed; Roosevelt recalled extending internment until after 1944 election despite information that actions were unnecessary to national security [Japanese American Citizens League spokesperson Minoru YASUI - questions commission's anticipated recommendations; notes impact of evacuation process.] Photos shown.
REPORTER: Jamie Gangel
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(Studio) Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger reported suggesting possible expansion of US mil. presence in Lebanon once foreign troops withdraw; details given.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Studio) Commentary concerns implications of controversy surrounding President Reagan's nomination of Ken. Adelman to replace fired Eugene Rostow as director of arms control agency.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Elliott Roosevelt, writing in "Parade" magazine, said claiming Joseph Stalin feared that Franklin Roosevelt's death was part of plot to kill him; details given. Eleanor Roosevelt noted declining Stalin's request to exhume husband.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(San Francisco, California) Opposition to Navy's desire to bury obsolete nuclear submarines off California coast examined; Greenpeace's efforts to board Nautilus this wkend. mentioned, shown. [Navy nuclear expert James MANGENO - claims radiation exposure would be minimal.] [Lieutenant Governor Leo McCARTHY - will not willingly accept nuclear dumping ground off state's coast.] Concern over nuclear waste dumped off island in 1960s due to containers' decay noted; photos shown. [PEOPLE - oppose dumping.]
REPORTER: David Burrington
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(Studio) British use of Christmas Island as nuclear test site recalled.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(London, England) Serious radiation-related disease rate among those participating in British tests on Christmas Island examined; photos shown. Ron Terrin's case cited as example [TERRIN - believes there's link between his health problems and tests.] [Tom ARMSTRONG - describes tests; thinks scientists were surprised at strength of bomb.] [TERRIN - notes government's attitude towards tests.] British government's response to claims noted.
REPORTER: Steve Mallory
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