Vanderbilt Television News Archive

NBC Evening News for 1986-09-06

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction and Preview Connie Chung (New York City)

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  05:30:00 pm — 05:30:20 pm

• Turkey / Synagogue Attack

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  05:30:20 pm — 05:32:20 pm

  (Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.

  (Istanbul, Turkey: Stan Bernard) Palestinian terrorist attack on Istanbul, Turkey, synagogue reported; details given, scenes shown. Grenades found said same type as those carried by Libyan suspects arrested for plotting attack on United States club in Ankara last April. Turkish official reported linking attack with hijacking of Pan Am plane in Karachi yesterday. [Israeli Prime Min. Shimon PERES - agrees.] Sec. and size of Jewish community here mentioned.

• Pan Am 73 Hijacking / Aftermath

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  05:32:20 pm — 05:36:00 pm

  (Studio: Connie Chung) United States reported issuing arrest warrants for hijackers of Pan Am flight 73 in Karachi, Pakistan; details given.

  (Karachi, Pakistan: Keith Miller) Findings as investigation into hijacking conts. examined; details given, scenes shown. [Civil aviation authority director Kurshid MIRZA - describes absence of Pakistani commandos.] Status of hijackers reported [INTERPRETER - notes terrorists are Palestinians.]

  (Studio: Connie Chung) USSR reported condemning hijacking; Tass statement quoted.

• Upcoming Items (S: Connie Chung)

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  05:36:00 pm — 05:36:20 pm

• (Commercial: Gentle Nature; Gas-X; AT&T; Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Incorporated)

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  05:36:20 pm — 05:37:50 pm

• US-USSR Relations / Daniloff

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  05:37:50 pm — 05:40:30 pm

  (Studio: Connie Chung) President Reagan reported sending private message to Mikhail Gorbachev warning of harm to US-USSR relations of "US News and World Report" journalist Nicholas Daniloff's continued detention.

  (DC: Marvin Kalb) Possible effect on US-USSR arms control talks and Reagan-Gorbachev summit of Daniloff case examined; details given, scenes shown. [Soviet NEGOTIATOR - ignores issue.] Daniloff's status outlined on screen. [Ruth DANILOFF - describes telephone conversation with husband.] Possible retaliatory action involving cancellation of cultural exchanges considered.

• Black Sea Ship Collision / Follow-Up

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  05:40:30 pm — 05:41:10 pm

  (Studio: Connie Chung) Chgs. filed against capts. of USSR passenger and cargo ships that collided recently in Black Sea reported; details given, scenes shown.

• USSR -China, PR Relations

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  05:41:10 pm — 05:41:30 pm

  (Studio: Connie Chung) Deng Xiaoping's conditional willingness to meet in Moscow, USSR , with Mikhail Gorbachev, centered on Soviet backing of Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia, reported; details given.

• (Commercial: Grape-Nuts; Folgers; Hellmann's Mayonnaise.)

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  05:41:30 pm — 05:43:00 pm

• Kansas City / Vietnam Memorial

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  05:43:00 pm — 05:44:50 pm

  (Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.

  (Kansas City, Missouri: James Makawa) City's support for Vietnam war memorial, vandalized in its initial stages, featured; details given, scenes shown. [GROOM - explains holding wedding at memorial.] [OFFICIAL - reads list of casualties.] [Norma MANNING - questions death of son Patrick Manning.] [VOL. -resents vandalism.]

• Espionage / Walker Spy Ring

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  05:44:50 pm — 05:45:20 pm

  (Studio: Connie Chung) Possible implications for national security of confessed Soviet spy John Walker's failure to pass recent polygraph tests, as reported by "New York Times", considered. Arthur Walker's possible role cited as example

• Decision '86 / Senate Races, Streisand

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  05:45:20 pm — 05:47:40 pm

  (Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.

  (DC: Ken Bode) Barbra Streisand's fund-raiser concert for Democratic Senator cands. Alan Cranston (running against Ed Zschau) and others noted. [ZSCHAU - sings.] [White House aide Haley BARBOUR - cites Senator's importance to administration] Extent of President Reagan's campaign efforts for Republican cands. described. [BARBOUR - comments.] [Senator candidate Barbara MIKULSKI - expects victory in MD.] Vice President George Bush mentioned.

• Repeat Offenders

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  05:47:40 pm — 05:48:00 pm

  (Studio: Connie Chung) Rand Corporation study said indicating unusually high rate of repeat offenders in California, Texas and Michigan prisons; details given.

• (Commercial: Ford Taurus; Triaminic Cold Syrup; Arm and Hammer Carpet Deodorizer and Baking Soda.)

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  05:48:00 pm — 05:49:40 pm

• Football

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  05:49:40 pm — 05:52:40 pm

  (Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.

  (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts: Robert Lipsyte) Lack of team this year for former USFL players Doug Flutie and Tracy Franz explained. [FLUTIE - is frustrated.] [FRANZ - comments.] [Attorney Bob WOLFE - equates situation with steel industry] Flutie's college football career and Don. Trump's recruitment of him for New Jersey Gens. reviewed; USFL noted cancelling this season.] [FLUTIE - considers league's position versus that of players.] [Cathy FRANZ - describes their situation.] [WOLFE - cites difference in circumstances of Flutie and Franz.] [FLUTIE - comments.]

• Florida / Truck Assault

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  05:52:40 pm — 05:53:10 pm

  (Studio: Connie Chung) Truck driver Wayne Rogers reported, ramming Hempstead, Florida, bank over dispute with officials; details given.

• (Commercial: Puritan Cooking Oil; National Car Rental; "Meet the Press"; "NFL '86"; Wheaties.)

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  05:53:10 pm — 05:55:20 pm

• Miami / Gondola Bus.

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  05:55:20 pm — 05:57:40 pm

  (Studio: Connie Chung) Report introduced.

  (Miami, Florida: Dennis Murphy) Bob DeLaurier's gondola business here featured; details given, scenes shown. [DeLAURIER - describes business]

• Good Night

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  05:57:40 pm — 05:57:40 pm