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(Studio) (Technical difficulty.) Purpose of reports from Paris, with regard to European protest about USSR trials of Alexander Ginzburg and Anatoly Shcharansky, noted.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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(Studio) Report on gas tanker collision and explosion in Spanish holiday camping town. Details given.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings (Spanish television film)
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(Studio) Tension in United States-USSR relations due to dissident trials in USSR noted.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Expected upcoming report from Sovs. about alleged United States espionage agent arrested and expelled from country detailed. Foreign minister Andrei Gromyko's warning to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance that such incidents would be publicized if 2 Soviet citizens arrested on spy chgs. in United States not allowed to return home reported Films shown. USSR report noted as expected during espionage trial of Anatoly Filatov. (Technical difficulty.)
REPORTER: John Scali
(Studio) Restatement of facts in previous report given. Conflict in Congress about USSR dissident trials, both within Congress and between Congress and President Carter noted. Senator resolution about trials stated. Concern about ongoing Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) talks outlined.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) [Senator minister leader Howard BAKER - says Americans are fed up with Soviet intrusion into Africa and Mideast and now with dissident trials. States own feelings about situation.] Mrs. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's visit to Capitol described. Senator Henry Jackson's call for cancellation of American firms' export licenses, like those of Dresser Inds., of Dallas, and Sperry Univac, reported [Senator Patrick MOYNIHAN - says sending Secretary of State to Geneva and allowing exports is participation in USSR actions.] [Mrs. SOLZHENITSYN - (thru translator) says only language Communists understand is force.] Mtg. of Helsinki agreement monitoring group mentioned. [Senator Bob PACKWOOD - comments on dissident trials.] Congress frustration described; compared to that after Vietnam and Panama Canal treaty.
REPORTER: Don Farmer
(Studio) President Carter's recent statement about USSR pressures on United States quoted. Press Secretary Jody Powell's report of considerations of other measures responding to Soviet trials and statement that President has tried to win freedom of 2 dissidents. Carter's plans to go on with Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) noted. Possible meeting between Carter and Mrs. Shcharansky, who will arrive in United States on Wednesday, reported.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Studio) Report on European protests against Shcharansky and Ginzburg trials, incl. those in Paris and London; film shown. French Communists' denunciation of Soviet actions noted. Mrs. Shcharansky's participation in march mentioned.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Moscow, USSR ) Details given about situation in Moscow at Shcharansky trial. Inability of his mother, Ida Milgrom, to get into court noted. Dissident Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov's division of time between Shcharansky trial and that of Ginzburg in Kaluga reported Details of Ginzburg trial, include expulsion of his wife, Irina, given. Court official Mogomet Pirbudagor's news briefing each day examined. Chgs. that Shcharansky had dealings with former "Los Angeles Times" correspondent, Robert Toth, cited. Other dissidents who have already been tried listed.
REPORTER: Charles Bierbauer
(DC Studio) Interview with "Los Angeles Times" reporter Robert Toth. [TOTH - admits friendship with Shcharansky; thinks dissident would readily admit same. Says being friend of American journalist is almost enough to bring chgs. against Soviet citizen, explains. Discusses Shcharansky's stamina for ordeal ahead.]
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
(Studio) Examination of Soviet timing of trials given, include views about Moscow's linkage of Shcharansky with CIA, despite President Carter's public denial of such. Other points discussed are Carter's human rights position and Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). Upcoming American-Soviet meeting on arms control in Geneva mentioned.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Geneva, Switzerland) Statements of Vance and Gromyko about upcoming talks and about tensions between 2 ntns. reported possible changes in positions re: expected advances on issue of building of bigger missile systems outlined. Vance's upcoming meeting with Mrs. Shcharansky in Geneva mentioned.
REPORTER: Barrie Dunsmore
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(Studio) Contd. efforts to halt fighting in Lebanon reported.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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(Studio) Vietnam claims of air space violation by China (PR) planes over wkend. reported.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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(Studio) South Africa police minister's orders in Johannesburg that probe be conducted into death of black prisoner after his plunge from upper story of police headquarters reported.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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(Studio) Retail sales figs. for June reported Report from Conf. Board research org. about growth in consumer confidence noted.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
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(Studio) Decr. in liquid protein diet sales since reports of deaths connected with its use have come out noted. "Journal of the American Med. Association" ("JAMA") warning against use stated.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
(Chicago, Illinois) Dr. Robert Linn's book, "The Last Chance Diet", mentioned; is noted that he advises physician's supervision but that many apparently aren't getting it. "JAMA" reports on deaths of several from suspected liquid protein diet-connected causes and American Medical Association editorial on dangers of diet detailed.
REPORTER: Ron Miller
(Studio) JAMA's warning about dangers of health food items reported Camomile tea dangers given as example
REPORTER: Max Robinson
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(Studio) Ralph Nader group's publication of workers' guide to nuclear power plants exposing employees to too much radiation stated; top one is said to be Pilgrim plant in Plymouth, Massachusetts. OSHA report that present radiation exposure limit is too high noted.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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(Studio) Reports with regard to walkout by American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) employees from Nashville to Kansas City in protest of suspension of 9 workers in Nashville for refusing to cross picket line during wkend.; prison break in Toronto and Saint Vincent DePaul Penitentiary; results of study in California with regard to bilingual teaching; and contd. efforts to clean up after train derailment at Conyers, Georgia, near Atlanta. Film of American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) strike shown.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
(Conyers, Georgia) Details given of Georgia railroad train's derailment and evacuation of nearby town due to propane gas and alcohol leakage. Chgs. of track disrepair outlined. [RR spokesperson Raymond BULLARD - notes recent favorable track inspection.] [Deputy county sheriff Roland VAUGHN - thinks tracks looked as if they could use work.] Concern about safety of nation's RR's noted.
REPORTER: Bob Sirkin
(Studio) Federal probe of derailment mentioned.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
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(Studio) Report on new president communications assistant, Gerald Rafshoon, who ran President Carter's media campaign in 1976 presidential campaign. Rafshoon's upcoming trip to West German economy conference with Carter noted. Interview with Rafshoon, in office that was once retreat for Richard Nixon, shown. [RAFSHOON - discusses public's lack of confidence in government and resulting inflation and other economy problems as reason for Carter's drop in popularity. Talks about advising President to trust own instincts.] Reporter asks about chances for Carter's reelec. [RAFSHOON - says Carter will be renominated and reelected.] Rafshoon's comments on Carter's GOP competition in 1980 given.
REPORTER: Barbara Walters
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(Studio) Description given of Alexander Ginzburg at time of his arrest in 1977; his wife's description of him after seeing him in court on Monday quoted.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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