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REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) Upcoming items outlined.
REPORTER: Bill Seamans Greg Dobbs Roger Peterson Roger Caras
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(Studio) Reports on pols. by bullet and ballot in Israel, Netherlands and France noted.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(Studio) French elecs., terrorist attack in Netherlands and expected Israeli retaliation for PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) attack in Israel over wkend. are subjects of reports
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Jerusalem, Israel) Burials of some of Israeli victims noted. Prime Min. Begin's speech to parliament quoted. Inquiries into terrorist attack and how attackers got through coastal defense noted; comments by national police chief Haim Tabori cited. Expected impact of attack on Begin's talks with President Carter next week outlined.
REPORTER: Bill Seamans
(NYC) Photo shown of Gail Rubin, 1st victim of PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) attackers. Ms. Rubin was American; telegram received by her parents, the John Rubins of NYC, noted. [Mrs. RUBIN - reads telegram from President and Mrs. Carter.] Is mentioned that Ms. Rubin was photographer and was on beach when terrorists came ashore. [Mr. and Mrs. RUBIN - talk of daughter's photographic skills.] Gail Rubin's photos shown.
REPORTER: Bill Stewart
(DC) Report on State Department reaction to near certainty of Israeli reprisal, according to statement released by spokesperson Hodding Carter III.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
(Studio) Upcoming item on raid noted. Reaction of Syria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Palestinians reported; reports from Beirut with regard to Palestinian concern about Israeli retaliation mentioned.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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(Studio) South Moluccan terrorists seizure of Netherlands government building reported Moluccan seizure of train and school in Netherlands last year noted.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Assen, Netherlands) Details of takeover given. [Office worker Jan VAN DYKE - thought it was joke.] Terrorists' talk with rpting. team via phone noted. Outlook for Dutch government action outlined.
REPORTER: Greg Dobbs
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(Studio) United States and West German plans for aiding dollar valuation on foreign money mkts. detailed.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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(Studio) Absence of coal miners at Cabin Creek, West Virginia, mine and elsewhere in defiance of President Carter's Taft-Hartley order reported.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(West Virginia) Report on miners' absence in West Virginia and elsewhere. Situations in Plum Borough, Pennsylvania, Freeburg, Illinois, and Terre Haute, IN, described.
REPORTER: Roger Peterson (WTAE, KTVI and WTHR newstapes)
(Pike Cnty., Kentucky) Report on continued operation of nonunion mines in Pike Cnty., Kentucky. Miner Larry Day cited as former union miner who gave it up to become nonunion miner. [DAY - has family and they come 1st; has to take care of family and is going to work.] [UMW (United Mine Workers of America, International Union) district president Robert CARTER - says nonunion mining hurts UMW (United Mine Workers of America, International Union) efforts'.]
REPORTER: Bob Sirkin
(Studio) Comment on strike, coal shortage and miners' defiance of law.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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(Studio) Report on award to American scientist by American Chemical Society for his work concerning oil from bushes.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(Santa Ana, California) Dr. Melvin Calvin's experiments with so-called gasoline plants detailed; process by which these plants can produce substance to be refined into gasoline outlined. Calvin's work at Lawrence Berkeley Lab in Berkeley, California, noted. [CALVIN - notes plants can be grown in semi-arid regions of California, Arizona and Texas without extra water.] Calvin's contention that this is solar energy in purest form noted; estimated cost of petroleum from projected plantations cited.
REPORTER: Jules Bergman
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(Studio) Outlawing of animal trophies in Kenya, where big game hunting has already been banned, reported Film shown. Report is on efforts of Boston aquarium to save animals after tank cracked.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(Boston, Massachusetts) Details given with regard to procedures necessary for repair of cracked tank window and movement of sea creatures from tank during repair at New England Aquarium in Boston. [Dive master Geo NALLY - talks of dangers to divers in moving animals.]
REPORTER: Roger Caras
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(Studio) Surprising outcome of French elecs., in that Socialist-Communist alliance didn't come out as well as expected, noted. Outlook for upcoming 2nd round of elecs. and for success of conservative government returning detailed.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Paris, France) Report on meeting between Communist leader Georges Marchais and Socialist leader Francois Mitterrand in attempt to form coalition for 2nd round of voting. Details of meeting and of outlook for leftists given.
REPORTER: Pierre Salinger
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(Studio) Report on hijack of United Air Lines flight shortly after takeoff from San Francisco, en route to Seattle.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
(No location given) Details of hijacking given; passengers and most of crew allowed off at Oakland, rest of crew and hijacker, tentatively identified as Clay Thomas of San Jose, fly on to Denver for refueling stop en route to Memphis. Is noted hijacker rptdly. said he has cancer and 1st demanded to be taken to Cuba.
REPORTER: Stephen Geer
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(Studio) Comment is on PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) Israeli raid and portent for Mideast peace. Reporter's proposal for Palestinian homeland on west bank outlined.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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