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#515835
(Studio) Consumer price index for February reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Role of President Reagan's decontrol of oil prices in incrd. cost of living examined; details outlined on screen. [Representative Chalmers WYLIE and econ. adviser Murray WEIDENBAUM - discuss gasoline price increases; OPEC mentioned.] Price increases for various other items listed on screen. [WEIDENBAUM - defs. situation.]
REPORTER: Irving R. Levine
#515836
(Studio) Possibility that Reagan administration underestimated nation's economy situation reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#515837
(Studio) President Reagan's meeting today with Japan's foreign minister noted.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) Reagan meeting with Masayoshi Ito with regard to call for vol. restraint by Japan on auto exports to United States examined. [ITO - (thru translator) notes message of mtgs.] United States and Japan said holding discussions prior to Prime Min. Zenko Suzuki's Washington, DC visit in May. [Representative Robert MICHEL, Senator Howard BAKER - threaten congress action.] Possibility that Japan will act voluntarily discussed.
REPORTER: John Palmer
#515838
(Studio) Tres. Secretary Don. Regan's call for elimination of air bag as part of auto industry deregulation reported.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
#515839
(Studio) Reagan administration reported calling for elimination of Conrail; details given.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Solidarity reported calling for strikes in Poland; position of Lech Walesa noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Warsaw, Poland) Walesa's efforts to ease labor tension examined; films shown. Walesa quoted; his upcoming meeting with deputy prime minister noted. Preparations for possible strikes outlined. [Solidarity spokesperson Janusz ONYSZKIEWICZ - hopes for settlement.] Continuation of Warsaw Pact maneuvers discussed; Stanislaw Kania's warning to unions noted.
REPORTER: John Cochran
(Studio) Polish television reported announcing resignation of Bydgoszcz government official, as requested by Solidarity.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#515842
(Studio) Vice President George Bush reported appointed chairperson of crisis management team in effort to avert feud between White House and State Department; details given.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Background to conflict recalled; "Washington Post" article Sunday shown. [Secretary of State Alexander HAIG - opposes Bush's appointed] White House statement quoted, discussed.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
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#515844
(Studio) Britain's Great Train robber Ronald Biggs reported arrested in Barbados after kidnapping by Britain's special forces.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(London, England) Details of Biggs' apprehension reported; his role in 1963 Great Train Robbery and escape recalled. Films shown. [BIGGS - notes completeness of life.] Commando leader John Miller mentioned; [Biggs' associate, Buster EDWARDS - comments on Biggs.]
REPORTER: Martin Fletcher
#515845
(Studio) State Department reported issuing entry visas to Iranians; details given. Iran hostage crisis mentioned.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#515846
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Studio) Senator Ernest Hollings' call for resumption of draft registration noted.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Studio) Supreme Court's consideration of draft registration and sex discrimination examined; background to case outlined. Argument presented today by solicitor general Wade McCree noted; comments of Justices William Brennan, Byron White reported [Senator Sam NUNN - predicts national security threat.] [Dr. Robert - GOLDBERG - thinks wife should be subjected to same laws.]
REPORTER: Carl Stern Artist: Arthur Lien
#515847
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) Senate vote on President Reagan's proposed elimination of dairy price supports examined; positions of Senators John Melcher, Howard Baker, Edward Zorinsky, Roger Jepsen detailed. Role of hoof and mouth disease noted. [ZORINSKY - calls it black day for United States farmers.] Apparent Republican strength mentioned.
REPORTER: Tom Pettit
#515848
(Studio) United Nations ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick reported meeting with South African military officers, contrary to United States policy; details given.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
#515849
(Studio) Possible ambassadorships for former Nixon aides Maurice Stans, Arthur Burns, and Eisenhower aide Maxwell Raab to Sweden, West Germany and Italy, respectively, reported; details given.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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#515852
(Studio) Report introduced.; assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero recalled.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(El Salvador) Memorial masses for Romero today noted; films shown. His pol. activism recalled; status of Catholic Church here since his death discussed; efforts of successor Monsignor Arturo Rivera y Damas considered. Support of left by European and American missionaries and possibility that murder recently of United States nuns was work of government cited. [Father Paul SCHINDLER - notes both left and right dislike him.] Leftists' opposition to church explained.
REPORTER: Ike Seamans
(NYC) Use of Romero's death as rally point for United States churches with regard to United States role in El Salvador examined. [Reverend Stephen South GARMEY - equates Romero's fate with that of Christ.] Role of National Council of Churches in organization protest cited; ntnwide. demonstrations outlined. Protestants said joining US Conf. of Catholic Bishops in opposition; activity of both during Vietnam war recalled. Admin.'s defense of position cited. [Reverend William HOWARD - calls it an insult.]
REPORTER: Bob Jamieson
#515853
(Studio) Reagan administration reported calling for incrd. economic aid to El Salvador; details given.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#515855
(Studio) Infamy of Chicago hsing. project, Cabrini-Green, noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Chicago, Illinois) Mayor Jane Byrne's decision to move into project examined. [BYRNE - compares police station to new apt.] Control of project by Cobra Stone street gang mentioned. [Gang leader "WOLF" - notes gang's impotence.] [Jay McMULLEN - approves.] [Velma TAYLOR - warns Byrne.] Decrd. danger in area since mayor's move noted. [Hsing. authority spokesperson Charles SWIBEL - hopes it works.]
REPORTER: Jim Cummins
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