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(Studio) President Reagan's pre-acceptance speech appearances today summarized.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Dallas, Texas) President's campaign appearances today featured; films shown. [REAGAN - believes religion and pols. are joined; praises Church's influence on State.] Importance of religious fervor to President's reelec. campaign noted. [REAGAN - addresses Hispanic Republican in Spanish; claims Republicans view Hispanics as representative of party and nation's mainstream.] Fund-raising luncheon later described. [REAGAN - attacks Democratic leadership's abandonment of working class.]
REPORTER: Andrea Mitchell
(Studio) Geraldine Ferraro's husband John Zaccaro noted testifying in NYC regarding his management of private estate.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(NYC) Hearing on loans to Zaccaro from estate examined; films shown. Testimony of court referee and Zaccaro's response outlined. Background to Zaccaro's management of estate and loans reviewed. [ZACCARO - explains his actions.] [Referee Jonathan WEINSTEIN - criticizes loan, Zaccaro's actions.] [John GRIES - considered Zaccaro's handling of aunt's estate improper.] Judge's decision thought coming soon.
REPORTER: James Polk Artist: Ida Libby Dengrove
(Studio) President Reagan reported signing legislature giving women greater pension and retirement rights; legislature recalled originally introduced by Ferraro.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) State Department criticism of photos of USSR dissident Andrei Sakharov and wife Yelena Bonner, released by USSR , outlined; her sentence of internal exile examined.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Frankfurt, West Germany) Photos published by West German newspaper "Bild Zeitung" examined; Bild editor Peter Bartels noted receive videotape of couple from Soviet journalist Victor Louis. [BARTELS - believes photos, film are KGB-produced.] Louis said confirming some photos of Bonner are two years old; details given. [Stepdaughter Tatinana YANKELEVICH - is pleased to see them alive, but fears for father's health.] Kremlin thought releasing photos to counter international criticism of its treatment of Sakharovs and refusal to release them.
REPORTER: Stan Bernard
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(Studio) Terrorist bombing in Tehran detailed; films shown.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) "New Statesman" magazine reported accusing Prime Min. Margaret Thatcher's government of preparations to launch nuclear attack on Argentina during Falklands Island war; details given.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Continue mine sweeping operations in Red Sea by USSR , United States and others in Red Sea described; films shown.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Pentagon reported suspending payments to Hughes Aircraft Company due to poor quality missiles.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) Total stopped-payments and missiles involved listed on screen; past problems at Hughes' Tucson, Arizona, plant, include claims that employees built personal video equipment rather than missiles on government time, recalled. Company's response to suspended payments noted. [United States Air Force analyst A. Ernest FITZGERALD - cites plethora of problems at Hughes.] [Gary HART - considers civilian management within Pentagon at fault, as well as in White House] [Pentagon spokesperson Michael BURCH - isn't aware of any other such payments suspension.] [Representative James COURTER - praises Pentagon crackdown on mfrs.]
REPORTER: Jack Reynolds
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(Studio) Extensive flash flooding in New Mexico, include deaths in Albuquerque, detailed; films shown.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Increasing reports of child sexual abuse in United States noted; indictment in Chicago, Illinois, today of Larry Eyler for murder of adolescent male, child abuse trials in Minnesota and Florida cited as exs.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Miami, Florida) Parents' criticism of authorities' lack of action against private babysitting service despite numerous complaints about possible sexual abuse of children there examined. [Parent Louis ST. LAURENT - notes officials didn't check for center's license after complaints were filed.] Allegations against center owner Francisco Fuster Escalano, convicted in past of child molestation, outlined. [Andrea LANDIS - describes daughter's psychological trauma.] Police officers Andrea and Vincent Landis noted among those believing their child was sexually molested; number city-wide complaints against other child care ctrs. currently under investigation here mentioned. [Assistant state attorney Abe LAESER - notes abuse crosses socioecon. lines.] [Andrea LANDIS - cites permanence of damage to family.]
REPORTER: Dennis Murphy
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(Studio) Arson said blamed for today's fire in Texas School Book Depository here, site of Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of John F. Kennedy; details given, films shown.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Dallas, Texas) Ronald Reagan's presidential style examined; Jerry Brown Jimmy Carter mentioned. His manipulation of media to advantage of Republican party and nation's attitude toward government in general considered; Walter Mondale quoted. Role of Reagan's personality cited.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Sale of Southfork ranch, site of "Dallas", and developer's plans for estate detailed; films shown.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) President Reagan's lead in polls against Walter Mondale noted; James Baker's management of Gerald Ford's 1976 campaign against Jimmy Carter recalled.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Studio) Commentary concerns significant factors in Democrat and Republican fall campaigns.; Gallup poll findings on number registered black and white voters mentioned. Debate between George Bush-Geraldine Ferraro anticipated. Malcolm Baldrige quoted re: Mondale's selection of running mate versus Carter's.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Studio) Conservative's exclusion of moderate Republicans such as Charles Mathias from convention leadership noted. Mathias profiled in film montage produced by Ray Farkas.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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