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#87894
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(DC) Treasury Department's proposed reform of tax system, presented by Treasury Secretary Don. Regan, examined. [REGAN - thinks tax simplification and reform is necessary.] Basic tenets of plan outlined on screen, discussed. [REGAN - anticipates opposition by special interest groups working to protect tax breaks.] Impact on average taxpayer illustrated on screen, explained. [Senator Robert DOLE, Representative James JONES - think it's too early to anticipate reaction in Congress] [President REAGAN - denies decision has been made.] President's final proposal said coming in State of Union address.
REPORTER: Charles Gibson
(NYC) Anticipated impact of proposals on upper income married couple with various luxuries explained; effect on business considered.
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
(Studio) [REGAN - tax simplification recommendations juxtaposed against President Reagan's campaign promise of no tax increases discussed.]
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#87895
(Studio) Chase Manhattan's reduction of prime lending rate reported STK. MKT. REPORT
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#87897
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(DC) FBI's arrest of alleged spy Karl Koecher, accused of selling CIA documents to Czechoslovakia, examined; FBI director William Webster's allegations against Koecher outlined on screen. Koecher's job with CIA described.
REPORTER: Tim O'Brien
#87898
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Rome, Italy) Plot to blow up United States embassy here, possibly by Iranian members of terrorist organization Islamic Jihad, all holding Lebanese passports, reported uncovered by Italian police chief Marcello Monarca; details examined, films, photos shown. Islamic Jihad recalled claiming responsibility for bombing United States embassy in Beirut. United States ambassador Maxwell Rabb's statement outlined.
REPORTER: Mike McCourt
#87899
(Studio) [Libyan dictator Muammar el-KADHAFI - denies knowledge of Islamic Jihad; condemns organization if it's purely terrorist, defs. it if it attacks Israeli occupation of Lebanon.] "Nightline" announced.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#87900
(Studio) Moslem terrorist assassination of India's deputy high commissioner in Bombay, Percy Norris, reported; details given, films shown. Terrorists mentioned claiming Norris was Scotland Yard agent with CIA ties.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#87901
(Studio) Several South Korean military officers reported arrested in New York City and chgd. with kidnapping and torture of Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church leader Bo Hi Pak; Moon noted serving prison term for tax evasion. Details given.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#87902
#87903
(Studio) Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder's continued progress described.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Louisville, Kentucky) Schroeder's recovery examined; photos shown. [Dr. William DeVRIES - notes Schroeder's request for beer; praises patient's status.] Criticism of Humana Corp.'s exploitation of procedure for profit gain discussed; corp.'s profits with private hospitals last year and funding of artificial heart surgeries noted. ["New England Journal of Med." spokesperson Dr. Arnold RELMAN - fears profit motive approach to health care is being adopted.] [Humana Corporation board chairperson David JONES - claims patients take priority over stockholders.] [RELMAN - thinks health care will be distributed according to income rather than need.] Humana's defense outlined. [DeVRIES - notes Humana's incrd. profits will result in his incrd. research for patients.]
REPORTER: George Strait
#87904
(Studio) Miami Beach, Florida, police dragnet's success in rounding up small-time drug dealers reported; details given, films shown.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#87905
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Kingman, Arizona) Major cocaine seizure, credited to vacationing detective sergeant Dale Lent, featured; circumstances surrounding his discovery of dealers and drug cache reviewed. Films shown. [LENT - describes arrests; symbolism of seized cocaine for him.]
REPORTER: Tom Schell
#87906
(Studio) National Research Council's findings on relationship between 55 miles per hour speed limit and traffic-death rate and energy conservation outlined, discussed.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#87908
(Studio) Absence of defense minister Dmitri Ustinov from opening of USSR parliament today discussed; films shown.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#87909
(Studio) Chilean army's latest attack on peaceful demonstrators protesting military dictatorship described, shown; censorship of foreign media's coverage of future demonstrations noted.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Santiago, Chile) Dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's overthrow and murder of Salvador Allende in 1973 coup, backed and supported by CIA, recalled ending Chile's history of democracy; films shown. Impact of his imposition of state of siege on Chile, include mass arrests and media censorship, described. [Christian Democrat spokesperson Gabriel VALDEZ - notes all fascists use Pinochet's rationale for dictatorship; cites Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Fulgencio Batista, Anastasio Somoza as exs.] Valdez's imprisonments recalled. Socialist Ricardo Lagos mentioned under police surveillance. [LAGOS - fears increase violence as result of military rule bringing Chile to level of Central American unrest.] Catholic Archbishop Juan Francisco Fresno's criticism of Pinochet's repression and state of siege, and Pinochet's response noted.
REPORTER: Jim Wooten
#87911
(Studio) National Council of Teachers of English's annual double speak awards to State Department, for euphemism now used in discussing killing in human rights abuse cases, and to Pentagon for its new phrase in lieu of word peace. Pentagon's other euphemisms for combat and nuclear war civilian casualties mentioned.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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