This program is 28 minutes long
#515615
(Studio) End to hijacking of Pakistani airliner, currently in Syria, reported.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(Damascus, Syria) Terrorists' surrender described; photos shown. Hostages' description of events quoted.
REPORTER: Jim Bittermann
(Studio) Odyssey of released Pakistani prisoners, demanded by terrorists, outlined; map shown.
(Damascus, Syria) Arrival of released political prisoners in Aleppo, Syria, prior to leaving for Libya examined; films shown. Colonel Muammar el-Kadhafi's refusal to accept prisoners noted causing unscheduled trip; details given, films shown.
REPORTER: Fred Francis
(Studio) Entebbe, Uganda, hijacking recalled previously world's longest plane seizure; details given.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
#515616
(Studio) President Reagan reported considering large arms shipment to Pakistan President Zia ul-Haq; Zia's earlier rejection of United States military aid recalled.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
#515618
(Studio) Vice President George Bush's arrival in Atlanta, Georgia, to offer Reagan administration's moral support to city's police in effort to end child killings reported.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(Atlanta, Georgia) Bush and wife noted meeting with families of victims; films shown. [Barbara BUSH - praises families.] [BUSH - hopes federal assistance will help end trauma.] Vice President's later meeting with task force and his courtesy call on Jimmy Carter discussed. [CARTER - comments on timing of Reagan admin. aid.] Carter's order for FBI to enter investigation recalled; vol. searchers noted continuing search for clues to missing Joseph Bell.
REPORTER: Bob Jimenez
(Studio) New York City candlelight vigil with regard to Atlanta tragedy reported; details given, film shown.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
#515619
(Studio) Chicago, Illinois, hotel fire reported.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(Chicago, Illinois) Circumstances surrounding fire examined; films shown. [Katherine QUAGON, Orrine FUELKETTI - recall experience.] All apts. in hotel said having defective smoke detectors; details given. Question of arson considered.
REPORTER: Mike Jackson (WMAQ-TV newstape)
#515621
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(NYC) President Reagan's New York City wkend., include anti-Democrat politics, examined; films shown. [REAGAN - criticizes Senator Robert Byrd.] His defense of economy plan during trip to Little Italy, lunch with Senator Alfonse D'Amato and meeting with Mayor Edward Koch discussed. [KOCH - claims poor will be hurt by Reagan's budget cuts.] President and Nancy Reagan's activities, include stay at Waldorf, outlined.
REPORTER: Judy Woodruff
#515622
(Studio) Agriculture Department's estimate of number losing benefits if President Reagan's cuts in budget of program aiding pregnant women, infants and children noted.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(Prospect Hill, North Carolina) North Carolina's current cut in welfare program, Women During Pregnancy, Infants and Children (WIC), examined; Alice Ramsey's case cited as example [Soc. WORKER - tells Ramsey she can't have food coupons.] State's rationale for denying family such food assistance discussed; son Brian mentioned as example [Dr. Robert GREENBERG - notes role of inadequate diet in disease; discusses expense involved in treating illness versus preventing it.] [Alice RAMSEY - comments on losing balanced diet.]
REPORTER: Kenley Jones
#515623
(Studio) Institution for Food and Dvt. Policy's assessment of pesticides' international impact detailed.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
#515625
(Studio) Conflict between United States and South Africa over latter's apartheid policy recalled.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(DC) State Department reported protesting to South African embassy the presence in US of South African military officers after entering United States fraudulently; details given. Past restrictions of United States policy towards such visits recalled; groups' Capitol Hill, Pentagon and White House activities since arrival outlined. John Sears, former Reagan campaign aide and registered foreign agent for South Africa, noted arranging some mtgs.; details given.
REPORTER: Bob Kur
#515626
(Studio) Discovery of large number of terrorist victims in El Salvador reported; State Department said recing. evidence related to deaths of 4 American missionaries in recent mos. Details given.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
#515627
(Studio) Warning to labor movement from Poland's Communist leader Stanislaw Kania reported; USSR mentioned.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
#515628
(Studio) Hungarian Communist leader Janos Kadar's warning about criticizing the nts.'s leaders reported; details given.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
#515629
(Studio) Iran parliament speaker Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani reported agreeing to TV debate with President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, background to conflict between Bani-Sadr supporters and fundamentalist clergy outlined.
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
#515630
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(Los Angeles, California) Auction of Mary Pickford memorabilia examined; her career recalled. Films, photos shown. Pickfair, Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks mansion, mentioned. [MAN - comments on gun he bought.] Various items and their prices examined. [MAN - praises such sales.] ["Dallas" actress Charlene TILTON - notes aspect of one's mortality.] Photos from "Little Lord Fauntleroy", "Taming of the Shrew" shown.
REPORTER: Heidi Schulman
#515632
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Jessica Savitch
(Wellsville, Kansas) Artist Elizabeth Layton's use of art to cope with depression examined; several of her works shown. ["Grandma" LAYTON - defs. art's role in mental health.] Details of her work discussed. [Topeka art council spokesperson Don LAMBERT - praises Layton's work.] Jonestown, Guyana, tragedy incld. in report; style of blind contour drawing discussed. [LAYTON - comments on her philosophy.]
REPORTER: Roger O'Neil
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