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#539950
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Beirut, Lebanon) Videotape of William Buckley, kidnapped in Beirut last year, featured; scenes shown. [On tape, BUCKLEY - claims he, Benjamin Weir and Jeremy Levin are well; remarks transcribed on screen.] Circumstances surrounding abductions of Weir and Levin reviewed; photos shown. [Carol WEIR - is heartened by Buckley's statement] Islamic Jihad, which claimed responsibility for terrorist attacks on United States ints. here, said claiming it will hold all 5 Americans kidnapped in Lebanon until all Americans leave country. Recent kidnapping and release of journalist Maggie Fox mentioned. [FOX - explains decision to remain.]
REPORTER: Bonnie Anderson
(Studio) [Lucille LEVIN - discusses implications of Buckley's videotape, need for improved US-Mideast communications.]
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#539953
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) Unresolved questions of ethics in Attorney General-designate Edwin Meese's political favors for his financial associates examined. [Common Cause director Archibald COX - believes issue is of prime importance to society and government] Newspaper ads opposing Meese's confirmation and placed by Common Cause shown. Findings of special cnsl. Jacob Stein's investigation recalled. Questions concerning ethics of Meese's role in obtaining government appts. for business associates such as Thomas Barrack, suspicious circumstances surrounding his promotion in Army reserves, Meese's alteration of check records to avoid campaign financial laws reviewed. [Senator Alan SIMPSON - attributes flap to pols.] Disagreement within Govt. Ethics Ofc. over Meese's violation of ethics laws noted.
REPORTER: Carl Stern
#539954
(Studio) Republican Congress leaders' warning to President Reagan on his push for tax reform over budget cuts and President `s proposed cuts reported.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#539955
(Studio) Some minority leaders in New York City reported seeking federal civil rights prosecution of Bernhard Goetz; grand jury recalled not indicting Goetz for attempted murder in his shooting of would-be subway attackers last month. [Voice of GOETZ - discusses attack; remarks transcribed on screen.]
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#539956
(Studio) Hydrochloric acid spill from tanker truck on California interstate near Pleasanton examined; films shown,
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#539957
(Studio) Projected space shuttle schedule for rest of year following Discovery's secret mission reported.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#539958
#539960
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) Possibility of USSR President Konstantin Chernenko's resignation due to worsening health and appointed of Mikhail Gorbachev as his successor examined; films shown. Grigory Romanov, Nikolai Tikhonov, Andrei Gromyko, Victor Grishin discussed. [Zbigniew BRZEZINSKI - considers possible course of Politburo's action.] Negotiations for US-USSR summit in Vienna said suspended.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
#539961
(Studio) Pope John Paul II's contd visit to Venezuela, part of Latin Am tour, featured; his remarks on social inequality and materialism quoted. Films shown.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#539962
(Studio) Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal's commitment to bringing Auschwitz's Dr. Josef Mengele, reputedly in Paraguay, to trial noted.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#539963
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Auschwitz, Poland) Observance of Auschwitz's liberation by USSR in WW II featured; films, photos shown. [Survivor Eva KOR - recalls losing mother in Auschwitz, lasting psychological impact of experience there.] Eva Kor and sister Miriam noted among twins surviving experiments by Dr Josef Mengele. [KOR - recalls Mengele's injections.] Survivors' push for bringing Mengele to trial noted. Statistics of Auschwitz's extermination program outlined. [KOR - cites inability of those not experiencing the camp to understand its reality.]
REPORTER: Stan Bernard
#539965
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Palermo, Sicily) Sicily's war on local Mafia and significance to US examined; films shown. Palermo's role in smuggling heroin into United States noted. Believed role of imprisoned Corleone family boss Luciano "The Flash of Fire" Leggio in current gang war discussed; informant Tommaso Buschetta's testimony noted responsible for major sweep of suspected Mafia members recently. [Attorney General William French SMITH - claims Mafia's leadership has been decimated.] Implications of Mafia's murder last month of Buschetta's brother-in-law mentioned. Police said possessing info. on machine gun attack on General Carlo Dalla Chiesa; Mafia torture and execution chamber shown, described. United States and Sicilian Mafias said operating separately. [DEA spokesperson Francis MULLEN - ests. percentage of heroin entering United States through Italy and controlled by organized crime.]
REPORTER: Keith Miller
#539967
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Cairo, Egypt) Incompetence encountered by United States ints. with construction projects in Egypt examined; films shown United States embassy cited as example; details given.
REPORTER: Jim Bittermann
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