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(Studio) Sealing of Wilberg coal mine in Utah to try to put out fire that killed miners trapped inside reported.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
(Price, UT) [Emery Mining Corporation spokesperson Robert HENRIE - comments on sealing of mine.] [Rescue crew chief Joe VENDETTI - comments.] Arrival of Utah Governor Scott Matheson noted. Effect in Castle Valley cited. [Victim's father Paul CONOVER - comments.] Conover's son, Gordon, said victim of fire. [Victim's wife, Renea CONOVER - comments.] [Victim's mother Joyce STEVENS - comments.] Memorial service in Price, UT, Catholic Church noted. [Kathy PUGLIESE - comments.] [Chris PUGLIESE - says his dad could have been victim.]
REPORTER: Judd Rose
(Studio) Report on investigation with regard to reasons for mine fire.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
(Huntington, UT) Upcoming investigation outlined. [Mine Safety and Health Admin. spokesperson John McGRATH - comments.] [Mine Safety and Health Admin. spokesperson Noel MILAN - comments.] File tape shown. Comments of only survivor, Kenneth Blake, with regard to usual operation of mine prior to fire detailed. Tape of Blake from Friday shown. [UMW (United Mine Workers of America, International Union) President Richard TRUMKA - comments.] Tape from Friday shown. [Emery Mining Corporation spokesperson Robert HENRIE - comments.] Safety record of Emery Mining Corporation reported [HENRIE - comments.]
REPORTER: Jerry King
#88299
(Studio) Report on bombing of Italian train given. Claims of responsibility by right-wing groups called New Order and Black Order noted.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
#88300
(Studio) Report on bus crash in Queretaro, Mexico.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
#88302
(Studio) Admin. officials' statement with regard to President Reagan's proposed "Star Wars" defense system and upcoming arms control talks with USSR in Geneva, Switzerland, noted.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
(DC) President Reagan's comments, after returning from Camp David, noted. [REAGAN - comments.] (Comments transcribed on screen.) Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's remarks, made on television show This Week with David Brinkle cited. High Frontier film shown. [WEINBERGER - comments.] National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane's remarks stated; CBS film shown. Position of Senator Sam Nunn, who is on Senator Armed Services Committee and is Democrat, noted. [NUNN - comments with regard to negotiation with Sovs.] Scientific community said to have no way at present to neutralize nuclear weapons.
REPORTER: Mike Von Fremd
(Studio) Weinberger's comments with regard to Soviet navy flotilla in Caribbean noted. United States Navy expected to take part in military exercises with Cuba. Possibility of connection with Central American noted
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson (WTLV tape)
#88303
(Studio) Upcoming Indian elecs. noted to be first since assassination of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi's becoming prime minister.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
(New Delhi, India) Background report on elecs. Rajiv Gandhi's history as grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru and son of Indira Gandhi mentioned. Long leader of Congress party in Indian pols. noted. [GANDHI - makes campaign speech.]
REPORTER: Barrie Dunsmore
#88304
(Studio) Former President Jimmy Carter's remarks with regard to President Reagan's handling of hostage situations quoted. Carter's references to recent Kuwaiti hijack hostages and earlier kidnapping of Americans in Beirut, Lebanon, noted.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
#88306
(Studio) Arrival in Sudan of 1st shipment of medical and other supplies by United States Air Force for famine-stricken Ethiopian refugees noted.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
#88307
(Studio) Report on tent city for homeless in Los Angeles, California.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
(Los Angeles, California) Details given with regard to shelters set up by relief agencies in Los Angeles. [Homeless organizing team spokesperson Meg BAUM - comments.] Case of Mark Barton, former Dallas steelworker, given as example [BARTON - comments.] [Volunteer, "PAPA" - comments.] [BARTON - comments.]
REPORTER: Andrea Naverson
#88308
(Studio) Coast Guard's attempts noted to clean up oil slick in Puget Sound; slick said to threaten Whidbey Island, near Seattle. Scene shown.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
#88309
(Studio) Update on death toll in Italian train bombing. Upcoming items in sports noted; sports anchor introduced from New York City studio.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
(Studio) Upcoming items outlined.
REPORTER: Dick Schaap
#88311
(Studio) Details given with regard to NFL (National Football League) playoffs games leading toward Super Bowl. Teams involved include New York Giants, Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco 49'ers, Washington Redskins and Chicago Bears of National Conf., and Pittsburgh Steelers, - Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks, Los Angeles Raiders and Miami Dolphins of American Conf. Giants' players mentioned are Ali Haji-Sheikh, Rob Carpenter and Lawrence Taylor. Special report on former Olympic champion Madeline Manning Mims, who conducts various ministries. Film shown. [MIMS - sings and preaches.] Mims' participation in 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico, detailed; her race in Stadio Olympico there described. ABC Sports film shown. Her participation in 1972 Olympics in Munich, West Germany, also noted; films shown. [MIMS comments.] Mims' preaching to Olympic and world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman noted; ABC Sports film shown. Mims' concentration now on Madeline Manning Mims Ministries, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, cited; details of ministries given. Mims' rise from Cleveland ghetto mentioned. [MIMS - preaches.] [MIMS - comments on her ministry.]
REPORTER: Dick Schaap
#88312
#88313
(Studio) Report on religious gift from north California resident Sundar Shadi to people he doesn't know of religion he doesn't believe in.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
(El Cerrito, California) Report on Shadi's display of details of Christmas story for area residents. [PEOPLE - comment.] [SHADI - comments.] Shadi said native of India. Scene reported to include all biblical characters and model of Bethlehem. [PEOPLE - comment.]
REPORTER: Ken Kashiwahara
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