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#58572
(Studio) Announcement yesterday with regard to corporation profits increase and political reaction recalled.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Effect of large industry profits on administration's anti-inflation program, incl. President Carter's vol. wage/price guidelines examined. [Alfred KAHN - suggests revealing names of companies not cooperating with inflation-fighting program.] AFL-CIO president George Meany's call for excess profit tax detailed; pts. shown on screen. [National Association of Mfrs. spokesperson Heath LARRY - defends business profits.] Possible effect of corporation profits on new Teamsters contract, now being negotiated, cited.
REPORTER: Bill Zimmerman
#58573
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) 1971 New York telephone workers strike and unempl. benefits drawn by strikers recalled; film shown. Phone company complaint re: employer-subsidized benefits cited. Supreme Court decision today, upholding New York plan reported; Justice John Paul Stevens' major opinion quoted. 12 states said to presently allow unempl. benefits to strikers; map shown. National Labor Rel. Bd.'s order to Chicago archdiocese with regard to recognition of teacher's union in parochial school system and archdiocese's refusal to do so recalled. Supreme Court decision in favor of archdiocese detailed; Chief Justice Warren Burger, Justices William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun and Byron River White quoted. Effects of decision on teachers in parochial schools noted.
REPORTER: Tim O'Brien
#58575
(Studio) Peter Jennings noted in Mideast; reporter Bill Seaman's said to report Israeli Knesset conclude debate with regard to Egypt-Israel peace treaty. Film shown. Jordan King Hussein's statements with regard to United States pressure for him to support treaty and White House response today detailed. Zbigniew Brzezinski's Mideast trip recalled.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#58576
(Studio) Iran spokesperson quoted with regard to continued sales of Iranian oil to United States after Egypt-Israel treaty signing and oil company officials testimony to Senator Energy Committee with regard to gasoline shortage reported.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Anticipated shortage of crude oil and effects on driving and airline travel cited. [Exxon International president Robert DOLPH - responds to committee inquiry with regard to validity of price increases] [Senator James McCLURE - questions Bergold.] [Assistant Secretary Energy Harry BERGOLD - responds.] [Senator Frank CHURCH - comments.] [Senator John DURKIN - comments with regard to public response to energy crisis.]
REPORTER: Ann Compton
(Studio) Treasury Department said to have warned President Carter of national security threat with regard to size and sources of oil imports.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#58577
(Studio) Trans. Secretary Brock Adams quoted with regard to mobility crisis due to lack of public transportation and energy crisis.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
#58578
#58580
(Studio) Emergency declaration in Love Canal section of Niagara Falls, New York, last year recalled. Details given with regard to Hooker Chemical Company waste dump and health problems of residents.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Discovery of another Hooker company chemical dump reported at Bloody Run Creek. Details of new dump given. Films shown. Testimony with regard to health problems at congress hearing by residents of area cited, include that of Fred Armagost. [Eileen JASPER - talks about daughter's health problems.] [Factory worker Carl SABY - appeals to committee for help.] No. of chemical waste dumps in United States and problems facing Congress with regard to situation stated.
REPORTER: Brit Hume
(Studio) Announcement of March 29 ABC special on chemical waste.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#58581
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Max Robinson
(Triana, Alabama) Assistance by Frank Taylor, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) representative, to residents of Triana, Alabama, in new fishing procedure detailed, shown. DDT-contaminated fish in area recalled. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) said supplying equipment and instruction, allowing Triana fishermen to avoid contaminated areas. [Lillie HUSTON - comments on situation.] DDT source said former chemical plant on land leased from Redstone Arsenal military base; film shown. Lack of evidence linking DDT to human health problems noted.
REPORTER: Al Dale (WAAY newstape)
#58582
(Studio) Sudden deaths of 4 infants said to have prompted recall of vaccine DPT, Lot #64201, Wyeth Labs. Bulk of vaccine said to have gone to Tennessee; recall noted as only precautionary.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
#58585
(Studio) Resignation of General Services Administration administration Jay Solomon announced; details given. Solomon appointed by President Carter and General Services Administration scandal recalled.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) White House response to corruption investigation led by Solomon considered. [Jay SOLOMON - discusses administration response.] Solomon quoted with regard to General Services Administration investigation delays. [SOLOMON - comments with regard to General Services Administration corruption.]
REPORTER: Bettina Gregory
#58586
(Studio) Senator Robert Byrd's criticism of Attorney General Griffin Bell's appointed of special cnsl. rather than prosecutor in Carter family business investigation detailed.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#58587
(Studio) Statistics with regard to jailing of income tax evaders stated.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
(Eglin AFB, Florida) Al Capone recalled; Atlanta May 1932 film shown. Present-day tax evaders profiled, include Edwin Brown and Harold Anderson; both men said inmates at minimum security prison at Eglin AFB. [Ed BROWN - speaks of innocence.] [Harold ANDERSON - comments on case.] Anderson's violation of withholding rules outlined. [ANDERSON - explains position; Richard Nixon mentioned.] Chgs. against Anderson and sentence cited. [ANDERSON - comments.] IRS (Internal Revenue Service) chgs. against Brown detailed. [BROWN - recalls witness against him.] Conditions at Eglin and reasons for government sentences noted.
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
(Studio) Continuation of series tomorrow stated.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
#58588
#58590
(Studio) "Captain Video" television show with Al Hodge recalled; scenes shown. Death of Hodge reported; films shown.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
#58591
(Studio) Tricia Nixon Cox and son Christopher release from New York City hospital reported; Richard Nixon mentioned. Film shown.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
#58592
(Studio) Washington, DC press conference by anthropologists cited.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Discovery of 3 1/2 million year old footprints in north Tanzania last summer by anthropologist Mary Leakey recalled; National Geographic Society film shown. Characteristics of footprints owners outlined. [Dr. Louise ROBBINS - comments with regard to implications of footprints.] Evolutionary questions raised by discovery noted.
REPORTER: Joe Templeton
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