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(Studio) End to Mideast foreign mins. conf., hosted in England by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, noted. Progress of talks stated.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Leeds Castle, England) Outcome of talks between Egyptian and Israeli foreign mins., as reported by Secretary Vance, given. Upcoming trips to Mideast by ambassador Alfred Atherton and by Vance noted. [VANCE - assesses progress made in talks.] Interviews of foreign mins. Moshe Dayan and Mohammed Kamel by reporter Peter Snow shown. [DAYAN - says they haven't reached agreement, but are closer now.] [KAMEL - hopes Israeli cabinet will change attitude after Dayan shows them Egyptian peace plan.] Vance's expected mtgs. with Prime Min. Menahem Begin and President Anwar Sadat while in Mideast cited. Plans for another foreign mins. meeting, possibly in El Arish in occupied Sinai, mentioned.
REPORTER: Barrie Dunsmore
(Studio) President Sadat's attitude toward Begin as Israeli leader described. Sadat's recent meeting with Israeli opposition leader Shimon Peres recalled. Film shown.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Tel Aviv, Israel) Report on disagreement in parliament between Begin and Peres. Details given about information learned that Israel is ready to negotiate immediate return of Sinai capital, El Arish, to Egypt for reciprocal gesture; suggested gesture, with regard to Israeli Sinai settlements, stated.
REPORTER: Andrew Meisels
#54781
(Studio) President Carter's reaction to recent USSR human rights events reported Praise and concern about reaction stated.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Carter's briefing of Congmen. on anti-Soviet moves noted. [Senator Frank CHURCH - understands President's crackdown on trade in reaction to dissident trials, but doubts it will affect Sovs.] [Senator Henry JACKSON - thinks Carter has responded directly to policy statements.] Jackson's support for cancellation of proposed sale by Dresser Inds., of Dallas, of drill bit plant reported; Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's support for sale stated.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
(Studio) USSR response to threatened United States trade retaliatory measures reported "Izvestia" comments stated.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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(Studio) Report on outcome of NATO-Warsaw Pact talks on scaling down troop strength in Europe. Issue of numbers involved in Soviet-backed troops outlined.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#54783
(Studio) Fire at American embassy in Moscow described; injury to Navy Seabee mentioned. Funeral for Soviet Politburo member Fyodor Kulakov in Red Square reported West considerations that Kulakov might have succeeded Leonid Brezhnev noted.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Moscow, USSR ) Details given about funeral and about situation in Soviet leadership now that Kulakov is dead. Absence of Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin at funeral noted.
REPORTER: Lynn Jones
#54785
(Studio) Report on drug abuse incident possibly involving President Carter's drug adviser, Dr. Peter Bourne.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Details given about Bourne's alleged involvement in writing prescription for fictitious person. Prince William Cnty., Virginia, police arrest of woman who tried to get prescription filled noted. Bourne's speeches for administration, advocating decriminalization of marijuana, mentioned; President Carter's comments on Bourne quoted. White House refusal to comment on present situation stated. Drug involved is Quaalude. Is noted that "Washington Post" broke news story.
REPORTER: Ann Compton
(Studio) Bourne's work in drug abuse during Richard Nixon administration mentioned.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#54786
(Studio) Recent neo-Nazi march in Chicago's Marquette Park recalled; film shown. Congress hearings on Nazi war criminals in United States after World War II and contd. presence of some in United States reported.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
(DC) Details given about Polish concentration camp where thousands, mostly Jews, died. United States government court case against former Nazi SS ofr. at camp, Feodore Fedprenko, detailed; government failure to fully investigate suspected war criminals upon their immigration to United States noted. [Representative Elizabeth HOLTZMAN - states United States government inaction with regard to protection of alleged war criminals.] Holtzman's inquiry into matter and results described; House Judiciary Committee action reported Immigration Service's initiation of department to uncover Nazi war criminals cited. New unit chief Martin Mendelsohn's mission to USSR in connection with 2 war criminal cases in United States outlined. [MENDELSOHN - states feelings about issue.] Films shown.
REPORTER: Bob Brown
#54787
(Studio) New York City grand jury indictment of United Paperworkers International Union head Joseph Tonelli on embezzlement chgs. reported Alleged use of embezzled funds to pay off Justice Department investigators noted.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
#54788
(Studio) Republican national chairperson Bill Brock's statements about taxes and outlook for party at Detroit meeting of Republican party reported.
REPORTER: Max Robinson (WXYZ newstape)
(Dalton, Illinois) Rise and fall of Republican party with 1968 elecs. and following Nixon years in office outlined; films shown. Prospects for party in 1980 census and redistricting of political boundaries reported [Republican national committee spokesperson Charles BLACK - says boundaries have been drawn in the past to favor Democrats] State legislature situations in 1969 and in 1978 contrasted. [Illinois Governor James THOMPSON - discusses possibility that Republican may go under.] GOP's new efforts to put money into local elecs. this year demonstrated in campaign for Illinois state senate by Aldo DeAngelis. [MAN - asks for welcome to Thompson and DeAngelis.] [DeANGELIS - discusses possibility of getting money from national party.] Rally in Dalton, Illinois, mentioned.
REPORTER: Charles Gibson
#54789
(Studio) June figs. for personal income and hsing. starts reported.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
#54792
(Studio) UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) president Doug. Fraser's protest resignation from advisory brd. to President Carter reported; reasons given.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#54793
(Studio) Senate vote to extend and change Endangered Species Act noted. Recent Supreme Court decision for snail darter and against Tellico Dam project in Tennessee recalled.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Little Tennessee River) Details given about snail darter-Tellico controversy and opposing positions of Representatives John Dingell and Robin Beard. [BEARD - feels act is used by few individuals to stop any project they oppose.] His proposed review committee to be consulted before implementation of act in any situation outlined. [DINGELL - says government has no right to destroy species.] Tellico project's opponents' view that project was bad in itself and fish issue stopped it where other efforts didn't. [TVA director David FREEMAN - states advantage fish had given to taxpayers, with regard to project.] Advantages listed.
REPORTER: Roger Peterson
#54795
(Studio) Comment is on bureaucracy. President Carter's recent proposal to make firing incompetents in government easier and prospect for bill in Congress outlined.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#54796
(Studio) Report on Washington, DC unveiling of scrap metal sculpture by Mark DiSuvero. Film shown.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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