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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Denver, Colorado) Early snowstorm reported hitting Colorado; blizzard's course illustrated on map. [Forecaster Ed GREEN - explains storm's base.] Weather's impact on Denver life in general and political implications for mayor considered; economy boost for ski industry noted.
REPORTER: Roger O'Neil
(Studio) Blizzard in California detailed; films shown.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Brush fires near Filmore, California, reported, shown.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Extent of damage from tornadoes in Arkansas examined; films shown.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Arms control and nuclear war noted topics in upcoming debate between Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan. [MONDALE - considers Reagan's perception of national security as naive and primitive in light of Reagan's criticism of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson for not using nuclear weapons in Cuban missile crisis and Vietnam war, respectively.]
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) "The Nation" magazine reported claiming President Reagan ignored CIA warning and Pentagon recommendation to withdraw United States Marines from Beirut before terrorist attack on Marine headquarters; number troops killed recalled. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's recommendations and CIA warning said delivered at White House meeting just prior to attack; details given. National security adviser Robert McFarlane's professed ignorance of Weinberger's suggestion mentioned.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Walter Mondale's description of Vice President George Bush as political hit-and-run driver due to latter's allegation that Mondale said Marines died in Beirut in shame quoted.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(California) Indications that Reagan reelec. campaign staff is concerned about Bush's campaign said evident in Lyn Nofziger's presence aboard Bush campaign plane and decrd. accessibility of Vice President to press; campaign director Edward Rollins mentioned monitoring Bush's attempt to joke about his and wife Barbara Bush's rhetoric in regards to Geraldine Ferraro. [BUSH - jokes about their profanity.] Bush, continuing to refuse to apologize to Mondale-Ferraro for remark about Marines, said unable to find supporting evidence for his allegation about Democrats [BUSH - quotes "Webster's International Dictionary" in effort to justify his debate comment; quotes "American Heritage Dictionary"; attacks Ferraro's ignorance.] [MONDALE - considers Bush a political hit-and-run driver; explains.] Vice President's current campaign strategy described.
REPORTER: John Severson
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Illinois) Orchestration of Reagan's campaign examined; staff's use of stagecraft noted. [Advance director Bill HENKEL - explains looking for imagery in campaign appearances.] Henkel recalled holding same position with Richard Nixon's campaign [Advance staff Jim KUHN - cites need to avoid any surprise problems.] [STUDENT - describes coaching he was given to assure President understood question during appearance at HS.] [Reagan Illinois campaign spokesperson Ed MURNANE - expects good media show.] Cost of Illinois appearance outlined. [REAGAN - jokes about age factor.]
REPORTER: Chris Wallace
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(Studio) Nobel Peace Prize reported awarded South African bishop Desmond Tutu; details given. [TUTU - believes apartheid system's effort to destroy blacks will fail.] Comparison of Tutu to Martin Luther King, Junior and Gandhi noted. Response in South Africa to award described, shown. [TUTU - hopes Nobel Prize will give hope to apartheid's victims; considers possible effect on Reagan administration's approach to South Africa; discusses role of United States business in South Africa's oppression of blacks.]
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(San Salvador, El Salvador) Continuation of guerrilla war here following yesterday's peace talks examined; films shown. [GUERRILLA - will wait for peace while fighting conts.] [President Jose Napoleon DUARTE - explains his approach to negotiations.] Right-wing leader Roberto D'Aubuisson's concern that Duarte's talks were show for United States noted.
REPORTER: Mike Boettcher
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(Studio) Center of Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown Univ. reported concluding US is ill-prepared for terrorist attack; details given.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Dartmouth medical school researchers reported possibly discovering treatment for Alzheimer's disease; details given.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Jordan, Minnesota) Prosecutor Kathleen Morris' chgs. against large number adults here for sexually abusing children and decision to drop all remaining chgs. after acquittal of suspects Lois and Robert Bentz and Don. and Cindy Buchan examined; background to case reviewed. Films shown. [Cindy BUCHAN - reacts to acquittal.] [MORRIS - declines comment on report that she dropped chgs. to avoid handing over notes on alleged child pornography and murder ring in town.] [PEOPLE - offer differing opinions on scandal.]
REPORTER: Ann Rubenstein
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(Studio) USSR reported increase its occupation force in Afghanistan; details given.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(No location given) German photographer Dietmar Hoch's films of Mujahedeen resistance efforts narrated. [HOCH - describes events.] USSR campaign of retaliation described. [HOCH - notes Sovs. have changed tactics, using increase air strikes against village populations.]
REPORTER: Richard Valeriani
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