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#81795
(Studio) USSR said to have broken off arms control negotiations with US, after West Germany approved deployment of missiles there. Arrival of US planes in West Germany carrying parts of Pershing IIs shown.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Geneva, Switzerland) Walkout by USSR team shown. (Translator for USSR negotiator Yuli KVITSINSKY - says present round of negotiations discontinued.] Street protest of USSR walkout shown. [American Negotiator Paul NITZE - hopes USSR will resume talks.] Future of talks considered.
REPORTER: Walter Rodgers
(Studio) West diplomats in Moscow said thinking Sovs. may stay away from talks until after 1984 president election.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(DC) Admin. said minimizing significance of walkout. [President REAGAN - discounts likelihood of nuclear conflict, so long as deterrents are in place.] United States said to wait for Sovs. to change minds. [Senator Sam NUNN - believes Sovs. will return as it is in their interest.] Admin. said gleeful that missiles are entering Europe despite Soviet efforts to contrary. Situation termed major American victory.
REPORTER: Barrie Dunsmore
#81796
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Suitland, MD) Segment considers arms control efforts. 1945 bombing of Hiroshima shown. [1963, President KENNEDY - says mankind must put an end to war.] [1964, President JOHNSON - speaks of destruction of destructive weapons.] [1977, President CARTER - speaks of elimination of all nuclear weapons.] [1983, President REAGAN - says nuclear war must never be fought.] Nuclear protests in London, Paris, Rome, Berlin shown. Geneva talks scenes shown. 1972 scenes of President Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signing of SALT I shown. anti-ballistic missile treaty recalled. Failure of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II to be approved considered. Reasons for failure of arms control listed as (1) USSR international behavior, especially in Afghanistan and Poland, and shooting down of KAL-007; (2) disillusionment with arms control process, multiple warheads on single missile, for instance; (3) American pols., with arms control a hot political issue every 4 years. [January 1980, candidate REAGAN - speaks of refusal to observe Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II treaty.] [April 1983, Senator Gary HART, Senator Alan CRANSTON - speak of arms control.] [Carnegie Endowment William HYLAND - says arms control is big pols.] 1979 signing of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II by President Carter and Brezhnev shown. [SALT I negotiator Gerald SMITH - says US record as negotiator not good.] Nuclear protest demonstrations shown as background to present Geneva talks. START talks, and IMF talks mentioned. Today's walkout by USSR from IMF talks noted. United States plans to offset USSR missiles in E. Europe noted. Possibility of USSR missile-firing subs off United States coast and/or long-range missiles aimed at US Northwest remarked. Further dangers caused by technology advances noted. [SALT II negotiator Paul WARNKE - speaks of sea launch missiles.] Exotic space weapons cited as possible. [Senator Charles MATHIAS - says technology sweeps mankind into vortex.] [Former National Sec. Adviser Zbigniew BRZEZINSKI - speaks of implications of arms control.] Hope for arms control efforts stated.
REPORTER: Rick Inderfurth
#81797
(Studio) Reporting of "The Day After" in USSR noted. Event said linked on USSR television with deployment of United States missiles in West Europe.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#81798
(Studio) 2 Soviet cosmonauts, Vladimir Lyakhov and Alexander Alexandrov, reported landing safely after 150-day space flight.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#81799
(Studio) Doctors reported saying the brain in weightless space releases chemical causing space sickness. Significance of knowledge outlined.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#81801
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(No location given) Consumer price index reported up last month. Car prices, gasoline prices, reported. Average purchasing power said up over year ago. Car sales noted down. STK. MKT. REPORT
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
#81803
(Studio) Snow in North, rain in South reported.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(No location given) University of Minnesota reported closing because of snow. Scenes shown. Minnesota, Kansas, reported under snow. [MAN - talks of road conditions.] Tornado watches reported in Tennessee, Kentucky. Memphis scenes shown. Storm said headed for Canada.
REPORTER: John McKenzie
#81804
(Studio) Fires reported at Dayton, Ohio, motel and Denver, Colorado, shopping mall. Scenes shown.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#81805
(Studio) Texas family reported awarded more than $106 million in with regard to accident in Ford Mustang.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(DC) Deborah Durrill of Corpus Christi, Texas, recalled killed in 1978 in 1974 Mustang II accident involving rear-end collision and gasoline tank fire. Jury reported finding Ford Motors guilty of gross negligence. [Father William DURRILL - says suit was to point up dangerous vehicle.] [Ford attorney Dick NOLLOY - claims circumstances of collision exonerate Ford.] Problems of Ford sub-compact cars noted. Deaths in Pintos recalled. [Director Center for Auto Safety Clarence DITLOW - says Mustang II problem could have been corrected for less than $10.] Other suits involving Mustang II noted.
REPORTER: Carole Simpson
#81806
(Studio) Korean children with heart ailments recalled returning with President and Mrs. Reagan after their trip to South Korea. Ahn Ji Sook reported operated on today, with good results.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#81808
(Studio) Plan to end fighting among Palestinians in Tripoli reported. Yasir Arafat shown; said accepting plan. Saudi Arabian proposal outlined.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#81809
(Studio) United States Marines in Beirut reported on heightened alert due to threat some group plans to hit Marines again. Thanksgiving, therefore celebrated a day early, noted.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Beirut, Lebanon) Scenes shown. [Chaplain Tom FALKENTHAL offers Thanksgiving prayer.] Thanksgiving dinner shown served. Morale said good.
REPORTER: Mike McCourt
#81810
(Studio) September news leak with regard to proposal by Robert McFarlane that United States make air strikes against Syrian positions in Lebanon said so angering President Reagan he has ordered FBI investigation of matter. George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger noted questioned.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#81811
(Studio) Environmental Protection Agency reported fining city of Philadelphia for disconnecting emission devices from 60 percent of city's police cars.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#81813
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Pikeville, Kentucky) Pikeville, Kentucky, scenes shown. Poverty of region noted. Unemployment, cutbacks in school lunch programs, food stamps noted. [Health clinic worker Eula HALL - cites cases of food lack.] [Disabled coal miner Ronald HUNTER - will have soup for Thanksgiving.] [Senator Edward KENNEDY - questions resident about hunger.] 1968 scenes of late Robert Kennedy tour of Appalachia shown. Conditions said worse than then. [KENNEDY - speaks of aid programs that have been cut.] Case of Fannie Mae Lawson cited.
REPORTER: Mark Potter
#675921