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(Studio) ABC reported merging with Capital Cities Communications, Incorporated (CCCI).
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(NYC) Decision to sell ABC, creating Capital Cities-ABC Incorporated, examined. [ABC board chairperson Leonard GOLDENSON - praises business rationale behind sale.] CCCI's radio and television stations indicated on map; its publishing holdings detailed. [CCCI SPOKESPERSON - promises not to interfere in ABC's news or entertainment programs.] [ABC president Frederick PIERCE - welcomes help in ratings war.] [CCCI president Dan. BURKE - will comply with FCC regulations.]
REPORTER: Lynn Sherr
(NYC) ABC and CCCI stock activity today graphed on screen; implications of merger for network's stockholders explained. [Paine Webber analyst Ken NOBLE - feels merger will be strong; explains.] CCCI's financing of merger discussed.
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Cincinnati, Ohio) Governor Richard Celeste's refusal to allow state's uninsured savings and loans to reopen and reaction of stranded depositors examined. [CELESTE - defs. action.] [Cecile ECKSTEIN - fears implications of delayed opening.] Background to crisis, stemming from Home State Savings Bank's collapse, reviewed. [Molitor Building and Loan president Fred MORR - supports Governor's move.] [Andy HELMUT - claims confidence in financial insts. not insured by federal government has been destroyed.]
REPORTER: Chris Bury
(Studio) [CELESTE - discusses burden on depositors of no funds, goal of getting federal insurance for Ohio's savings and loan companies]
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(DC) Supreme Court decision lifting limit on political action cmtes. (PACs) contributions to cands. examined; history of Congress's efforts to limit size of contributions to presidential cands. receiving federal funds reviewed. Opinion of Justice William Rehnquist quoted on screen; PAC contributions to Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan last year recalled. [National Conservative Pol. Action Committee spokesperson Terry DOLAN - praises First Amendment.] Dissenting Justice Byron White's argument quoted on screen. [Common Cause president Fred WERTHEIMER - fears implications of ruling.] ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and NCPAC mentioned both opposing PAC donation limits.
REPORTER: Tim O'Brien Artist: Freda Reiter
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(Studio) Major cocaine bust in San Diego, California, reported.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(DC) Contd. controversy of MX missile program and linkage of MX to arms control efforts discussed. [Vice President George BUSH - claims Geneva arms talks hinge on MX.] [Senator Larry PRESSLER - can't vote for symbolic missile system.] Senator Armed Services Committee's approval of MX noted. [Senators Strom THURMOND, Gary HART - disagree on MX.] Emotionalism of topic thought illustrated by Senator Charles Grassley's remark; relationship between farm lobby and MX explained. President Reagan mentioned lobbying on Capitol Hill for missile tomorrow.
REPORTER: Brit Hume
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Quebec City, Canada) President Reagan's summit here with Prime Min. Brian Mulroney noted include President's claim of USSR violations of arms control pacts. [REAGAN - accuses USSR of violating Yalta conf., Geneva Accord, SALT II, anti-ballistic missile treaty.] New US-Canada joint defense early warning line mentioned signed by leaders [Defense Secretary Caspar WEINBERGER - notes possibility of cruise missile deployment in Canada.] Extent of anti-nuclear sentiment here considered.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
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(Studio) Escalation of Iran-Iraq war, with alleged missile attack on Baghdad, detailed. Films shown. Egyptian president and Jordan's King Hussein noted visiting Baghdad today.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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(Studio) Focus of Senator Judiciary Committee's hearings tomorrow on fugitive Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele outlined; Paraguayan president mentioned claiming Mengele died there in 1976.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Gunzburg, West Germany) Status of search for Auschwitz's Mengele featured; films, photos shown. [Auschwitz survivor Dr. Ella LINGENS - recalls Mengele's coldness, lack of feeling.] Focus of Israeli search reviewed. [Dieter MENGELE - resents world holding family, town responsible for uncle's actions; denies family business supported Mengele after war; claims family condemns Auschwitz.] Limitations placed on prosecutor Hans Klein by German law in his hunt for Mengele explained. [KLEIN - (thru translator) believes Mengele is still alive; hopes to capture him during his lifetime.] [Dieter MENGELE - would like uncle to surrender.]
REPORTER: John Martin
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(Studio) Latest racial violence in South Africa reported; "Nightline" announced.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Johannesburg, South Africa) [Bishop Desmond TUTU, foreign minister R. F. BOTHA - debate South African apartheid system, Tutu's comparison of government with Nazis.]
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
(Studio) "Nightline" announced.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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