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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Cherbourg, France) Concern over safety of plutonium shipment bound for Japan from France via Japanese cargo freighter examined; films shown. United States role in assuring cargo's safe passage noted. [Senator William PROXMIRE - fears terrorist attack resulting in human and environmental disaster.] Weather as ship departed for Japan noted.
REPORTER: Jim Bittermann
#534267
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Kennedy Space Center, Florida) Successful launch of space shuttle Challenger and crew's primary mission examined; films shown. Sally Ride's role in remedying satellite deployment problem noted. [Voice of RIDE - discusses deployment site.] Kathryn Sullivan mentioned scheduled to become first American woman to take space walk.
REPORTER: Robert Bazell
(Studio) Satellite's successful deployment announced.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Temporary government funding legislature reported passed by Congress; continued efforts of House-Senator conference committee to agree on final bill discussed. Films shown.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Sunday's debate between Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan noted.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) Cands.' preparation for debate examined. [REAGAN - jokes about debate.] OMB director David Stockman's role in preparing President explained. [Republican chairperson Frank FAHRENKOPF - denies nervousness.] President's recent remark comparing embassy security to kitchen remodeling said example of gaff his aides hope to avoid; Gerald Ford's claim that Poland wasn't under Soviet domination during 1976 presidential debate and delay in correcting statement recalled.
REPORTER: Chris Wallace
(Studio) Mondale's description of his debate strategy and Reagan's remark on his own quoted.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) Strengths and weaknesses of both cands. in debate forum examined. [REAGAN - interprets economy figs.; attacks big government, Jimmy Carter; makes obscure stmt. about fat; says everyone supporting abortion has already been born; attacks HEW, government spending; responds to Jimmy Carter; notes he's paying for microphone; questions cntry.'s economy status.] [MONDALE - calls primary debate opponent's remark "baloney"; challenges Gary Hart's campaign commercials; describes women's movement's impact on wife Joan Mondale; makes slip about special ints.; questions "where the beef" is in Hart's campaign]
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Studio) Probable outcome of debates considered.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw, Roger Mudd
(Studio) Debate coverage announced.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Further spread of citrus canker in Florida nurseries detailed; films shown.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) No. indictments filed in Billings, MT, and Denver, Colorado, against persons accused of illegal trophy hunting reported.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Denver, Colorado) Econs. involved in trophy hunting examined; films shown. United States Fish and Wildlife's Operation Trophy Kill said also netting cache of illegally imported African trophies. [US attorney Robert MILLER - will enforce laws to halt killing of endangered species.] [Indicted suspect Jose ORTEGA - denies wrongdoing.] [Fish and Wildlife spokesperson Sam MARLER - doubts illegal hunting will ever end totally.]
REPORTER: Roger O'Neil
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(Studio) September unemployment rate reported, discussed.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) No. striking Yale Univ. clerical and technical workers arrested during demonstration at president's home today reported; films shown.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#534278
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Houston, Texas) Texas education reforms imposing stricter academic standards on HS football players examined; films shown. Requirements of House Bill 72 outlined; H. Ross Perot noted leading campaign for reforms. [PEROT - wants students to succeed in life.] [Bd. of education spokesperson Mary Ann LEVERIDGE - claims quarterbacks are usually straight A students.] [Teachers David HILL, Nel SHANNON - agree.] [STUDENT - thinks many players will drop out of school if they have to pass subjects in order to play ball.]
REPORTER: Robert Elliot
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(Studio) United States ambassador John Gavin's warning to United States tourists driving through north Mexico reported; details given.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Groton, Connecticut) Crews' life aboard nuclear submarine and psychological impact on families examined; Navy's revision of psychological tests for prospective submarine crews after 1962 Cuban missile crisis noted. Lieutenant Commander Joel Webber's experiences discussed. [Janet WEBBER - explains her approach to dealing with stress of husband's job.] [Commander Fred FARE, wife Lynn FARE - discuss strain of separation of crews' families.]
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
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