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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Moscow, USSR ) President Konstantin Chernenko's interview with "Washington Post" bureau chief Dusko Doder regarding relations with US, arms control negotiations, space weapons, nuclear freeze issues and Doder's perceptions of Chernenko's health examined. [Voice of Radio Moscow ANNOUNCER - reports Chernenko's overtures to US; remarks transcribed on screen.] Possible timing of interview in relation to upcoming debate on foreign affairs between Walter Mondale and President Reagan cited.
REPORTER: Steve Mallory
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) Reagan administration's reaction to Chernenko interview examined. [Vice President George BUSH - feels new tone in US-USSR relations is positive.] [Deputy press secretary Larry SPEAKES - claims United States will be ready for concrete negotiations when USSR is.] Similar interview with Yuri Andropov last January with "Pravda" explained; factors indicating lack of progress on arms control since that time considered.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
(Studio) Role of pols. in both United States and USSR in interview's timing discussed.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw, Marvin Kalb
#533976
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) Implications of "The Nation" magazine's allegation that President Reagan could have prevented last year's terrorist bombing of Marines in Beirut for his upcoming foreign affairs debate with Walter Mondale examined; magazine's assertion that President ignored CIA warnings discussed. [Author Patrick SLOYAN - notes admin. had several reports of planned terrorist attack against Marines.] [National sec. adviser Robert McFARLANE - responds.] [SLOYAN - notes administration had recommendation from Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger that Marines be pulled out just days before attack.] [McFARLANE - denies such recommendation was given or implication of division within administration] Mag.'s analysis of interaction between Weinberger, McFarlane and Reagan with political results discussed; secret documents from meeting said indicating Secretary of State. George Shultz's opposition to Marine withdrawal. Pol. implications for Reagan of current controversy noted.
REPORTER: Andrea Mitchell
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(Studio) President Reagan's surprising popularity among young voters mentioned.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Indianapolis, IN) General phenomenon of youth vote's support for conservative Republican cands. examined; Governor Robert Orr's rock video cited as example [Singer Henry Lee SUMMER - explains support for Orr.] [ORR - addresses Chamber of Commerce.] Reagan's standing in age group thought linked to youth's sole presidential experience being limited to Jimmy Carter; details given. Age group in question noted too young to recall younger, right-wing Ronald Reagan. [1969, REAGAN - orders investigation into campus violence.] [STUDENTS - like their economy security; consider technique used to sell cands. to students.] [Democrat consultant Robert SQUIER - acknowledges historical dilemma.] Reagan's performance in first debate recalled; Franklin Roosevelt mentioned.
REPORTER: Ken Bode
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(Studio) Saturn V rocket developer Arthur Rudolph reported agreeing to leave United States and renounce American citizenship rather than face Justice Department chgs. on Nazi war crimes; details given.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Jordan, Minnesota) Controversy surrounding prosecutor Kathleen Morris' initial chgs. against numerous adults here for child sexual abuse and then abrupt dropping of chgs. examined; background to case involving suspects such as police ofr. Greg Myers and wife and known abuser James Rud reviewed. [MYERS - feels Morris' behavior doesn't make sense; explains objective of their civil suit against Morris.] [MORRIS - declines comment.] State professional responsibility bd. mentioned investigating Morris; her justification for dropping all chgs. against suspects outlined. [Mayor Don TILLMAN - notes his dilemma regarding children's welfare.] [Cathy VAUGHN - wonders if children have been traumatized for nothing if chgs. are unsubstantiated.] No. children removed from homes and remaining in foster care mentioned.
REPORTER: Ann Rubenstein
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(Studio) General Motors workers in Canada reported striking in wage-benefits dispute; details given, films shown.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Report introduced.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Hanover, New Hampshire) Possible breakthrough in treatment of Alzheimer's disease reported discovered at New Hampshire medical center; Julia Abbott's case cited as example [Abbott's HUSBAND - claims improvement in her condition.] [Dr. Robert HARBAUGH - explains impetus of treatment.] Treatment's process explained, illustrated on screen. [Dr. Richard PENN - describes patient type sought for experiment.] [Dr. Marilyn ALBERT - cautions against initial euphoria.] [Julia ABBOTT - credits family as well as drug.]
REPORTER: Fred Briggs
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(Studio) Nobel prize for chemistry reported awarded River Bruce Merrifield and for physics, two Europeans; details given.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Studio) Commentary concerns political implications of Nobel Prizes for science in US-USSR relations; Pyotr Kapitsa, United States invasion of Grenada-Olympics mentioned.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Arleta, California) Joe Crowley's personal tribute to Marines slain in terrorist bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, last year examined; films shown. [CROWLEY - explains his motivation, neighbors' role; notes Thomas O'Neill, Mayor Tom Bradley, Georgia governor sent flags.]
REPORTER: Jack Perkins
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