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(Studio) Nobel Peace Prize reported awarded South African bishop Desmond Tutu.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#87288
(Studio) Presidential campaigns. said taking on tone of bitterness as election approaches.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(California) Vice President George Bush's defense of assertion during last week's debate that Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro suggested Marines killed in Beirut died in shame noted reiterated during California campaign swing today. [BUSH - quotes Webster's "International Dictionary."] His apparent inability to find direct quotes of Mondale-Ferraro making "died in shame" statement cited. [BUSH - conts. insisting Mondale-Ferraro claimed Marines died without purpose.] His accusation that Mondale-Ferraro are guilty of rhetorical excess considered.
REPORTER: Carole Simpson
(San Francisco, California) [MONDALE - renews demand that Bush apologize for unfounded statement; characterizes Vice President as "pol. hit-and-run" driver; responds to President Reagan's charge that he's confused on foreign policy.] Mondale reported calling for permanent assembly of world's democrat ntns.
REPORTER: Brit Hume
(Springfield, Illinois) [FERRARO - accuses Reagan administration of distorting her remarks, voting record and of later backing off in effort to save face.] Bush's comment about "kicking ass" in his debate with Ferraro noted eliciting pointed sign from Illinois supporter of Ferraro; films shown. [FERRARO - feels Barbara Bush and husband didn't accidently refer to her in obscene terms; thinks President's age is legitimate issue for voters' scrutiny.] Probability that rhetoric on both sides will intensify as election nears considered.
REPORTER: Lynn Sherr
(Studio) Race thought closing in Illinois since debate; President mentioned campaigning there today focusing on age issue and foreign policy.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Du Page Cnty., Illinois) Reagan's Illinois appearances featured; films shown. [REAGAN - accuses Mondale of failing to repudiate Jesse Jackson's Havana meeting with Fidel Castro; responds to audience question about age factor.] His effort to publicly demonstrate physical state described, shown. [REAGAN - claims Secret Service is letting him walk in public now.]
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
(Studio) Mondale reported not attending NYC's Al Smith dinner in order to prepare for debate; Roman Catholic archdiocese of New York City said refusing to allow Ferraro to attend in lieu of Mondale. Details given.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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#87290
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(DC) Commentary concerns tone of current presidential debate as reflected by comments on George and Barbara Bush, their press secretary, Geraldine Ferraro; John Randolph, Theodore Roosevelt (on President McKinley and Oliver Wendell Holmes), FDR cabinet member (on Huey Long) quoted.
REPORTER: George Will
(Studio) Possible role of television in setting campaign tone considered; Adlai Stevenson quoted.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings, George Will
(Studio) Intensity of North Carolina Senate race between incumbent Jesse Helms and Governor James Hunt described.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Raleigh, North Carolina) [HELMS - accuses Hunt of being Mondale liberal and ashamed of it, while he's proud to be conservative.] [HUNT - doesn't want North Carolina known as home of radical right-wing pols.] Econs. involved in race outlined. [Duke Univ. spokesperson James David BARBER - analyzes political and soc. forces symbolized by each cand.] [HELMS, HUNT - debate vets.' benefits.] television commercials of each shown, discussed. [HUNT - acknowledges tone of campaign may turn off voters altogether.]
REPORTER: Barry Serafin
#87292
(Studio) Nobel Peace Prize reported awarded Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa; Nobel committee 's justification for award quoted.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(London, England) [TUTU - feels prize honors victims of apartheid.] Reaction in South Africa described, shown. [TUTU - cites need for freedom for blacks in South Africa before anyone there can be free.] facial discrimination of South Africa's system described; Tutu's career outlined. [TUTU - notes he's a man of peace, but not a pacifist.] South African government's response to Nobel prize mentioned.
REPORTER: Al Dale
(Studio) [TUTU - discusses prize's possible impact on South African blacks his description of himself; quotes Gandhi; compares South Africa with Nazi Germany's final solution.]
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#87293
(Studio) President Reagan's letter of congratulations to Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte following yesterday's peace talks with guerrilla leaders quoted; films shown.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#87295
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(No location given) Blizzards in Rocky Mt. states examined; films shown. [PEOPLE - complain.] Plane crash in Colorado mentioned attributed to weather; economy benefit for ski resorts noted.
REPORTER: Joe Spencer
#87296
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Tokyo, Japan) Blackmail of Morinaga candy company with cyanide-laced candy examined; extortionists' demands and status of investigation so far discussed. Videotape of possible suspect shown; blackmailers said calling selves The Man with 21 Faces, derived from comic strip.
REPORTER: Jim Laurie
#87297
(Studio) Reduction of prime lending rate by some banks, though not as low as Bankers Trusts reported STK. MKT. REPORT
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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#87299
(Studio) Discovery of heretofore unknown tribe in Papua New Guinea, the Maya-Maya, reported; details given, films shown.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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