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(Studio) Senator okay to cut milk price supports reported Other action with regard to Reagan econ. plan noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Senate committee shown debating milk price supports. [Senator Rudy BOSCHWITZ - refers to farmer sacrifices.] [SENATORS - comment with regard to action.] [Senator Paula HAWKINS - says cab drivers support Reagan.] Vote total given.
REPORTER: Tom Pettit
(Studio) Community Services Admin. elimination said predicted by UPI. Agency said concerned with job training, placement, and senior citizen centers.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Report on White House breakfast for freshmen Republican congress introduced
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Studio) Occasion described. Tip O'Neill said identification as enemy of Reagan economy plan. O'Neill response given. Democratic Policy Forum report introduced
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) Edward Kennedy and others opposed to Reagan budget said to have assembled people who will be hurt under budget. ["AMY" - speaks of losses if drug rehabilitation program is cut.] [Project Return Ed MENKEN - speaks of program cuts as life and death matter.] [Retiree Sarah RICHARDSON - couldn't make it if health care programs cut.] [Donald RIEGLE - points out physician assigned to President Reagan at public expense.] Forum called converts talking to each other.
REPORTER: Irving R. Levine
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(Studio) Caspar Weinberger's appeal for more defense funds reported.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) [Secretary Defense WEINBERGER - in hearing, gives reasons for increase in defense spending. Notes second standing to USSR .] Weinberger said preaching to the converted. [Senator John TOWER - speaks favorably of increase] [Senator John STENNIS - also speaks favorably.] Allotment of funds to various branches of service detailed. [WEINBERGER - notes cuts in domestic programs.]
REPORTER: George Lewis
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(Studio) John Lehman call for abandonment of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) I adherence by United States recalled. State Department quoted with regard to Lehman's statement not being administration policy.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) 3 organizations representatives Roman Catholic Church said urging President Reagan not to increased military aid to El Salvador, due to risk of increase military intervention. State Department reported seeing no role for United States embassy in San Salvador in negotiations to solve crisis. Scenes of embassy shown. Guard on roof to ward off further attacks noted. Right-wing terrorists said suspected as responsible for recent attack. More United States advisers said in El Salvador to advise and train, not fight.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(La Union, El Salvador) Report on arrival of United States advisers. 5 armed naval advisers shown. Orders not to fight noted. [Uniden. CMDR. - explains inability to give interview.] Disposition of United States military aide to El Salvador explained. Gun runners to guerrillas discussed. Small fishing boats said used for smuggling. United States advisers said to teach surveillance tactics. Stopping arms-running thought to be difficult job.
REPORTER: Robin Lloyd
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(Studio) Reagan administration said to face difficulty with regard to sale of F-15 fighter planes to Saudi Arabia. Israelis said opposing sale; Carter administration said to have acted anyway. Israeli opposition to equipping planes with long-range fuel tanks and bomb racks noted. Marvin Kalb said rpting. admin. decision due this week
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Admin. said favoring supply of side-winder missiles and fuel tanks for 60 planes already earmarked for Saudi Arabia. Decision on addl. bomb racks said delayed. United States said ready to sell AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia, but not now. Addl. credits and relaxing of other restrictions on weapons for Israel said being considered to offset sale to Saudi Arabia. Congress restlessness noted. National security adviser Richard Allen, Jack Kemp, Rudy Boschwitz referred to in report Oil and USSR intervention issues said at base of complex situation.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
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(Studio) Agriculture Department quoted on renewed grain sales to Iran. Hostage situation recalled. Trade between United States and Iran said resuming.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) John Demjanjuk denial of role in World War II concentration camp, during Cleveland, Ohio, trial, reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Cleveland, Ohio) Witness accusations of Demjanjuk as Nazi war criminal recalled. Survivors of Treblinka camp said identification photograph as Demjanjuk, called "Ivan the Terrible." Demjanjuk testimony detailed. Loss of citizenship and deportation said facing Demjanjuk if found war criminal.
REPORTER: Norma Quarles Artist: Joe Wood
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(Studio) UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) study of death causes of auto workers noted. Startling cancer rate said found. Flint, Michigan, General Motors Corporation plant cited.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Flint, Michigan) Lung cancer patient Art Schlitter's case examined. Pictures shown. Metal dust said possible cause. [SCHLITTER - talks of work conditions.] High lung cancer rate at Flint plant said continuing. [UAW pres. Doug. FRASER - speaks of concerns.] Cancer-causing agents said now bargaining issue. [Dr. Robert WEINCEK - calls Fraser expectations unreasonable.] UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) said chging. Reagan administration relaxing government safety restrictions, so union assumes role. Case of Joseph Yukari victim of lung cancer, cited. [Mrs. YUKARI - talks of risk to her in her job at GM plant.]
REPORTER: Jim Cummins
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(Studio) Release of some hostages from hijacked Pakistani plane in Kabul, Afghanistan, reported Plane said taken in flight by hijackers demanding release of friends and relatives in Pakistan jails. 27 persons noted released; some said Americans
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Nancy Reagan said hailed as saviour of women's fashion and most influential President wife since Jacqueline Kennedy.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) Nancy Reagan interviewed in White House library. [Mrs. REAGAN - answers questions with regard to wife's role; feminist movement; Foster Grandparents program; drug abuse; redecorating White House family quarters; Reagan budget; economizing; and sale of Pacific Palisades home.]
REPORTER: Chris Wallace
(Studio) Tomorrow's interview said concerning press and 1st ladies, and Frank Sinatra friendship.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Item on lumberjacks and horsepower introduced
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Forks, WA) Forks, WA, modern logging scenes shown. Richard Breithauf's efforts to show real horse more efficient than machines featured. Breithauf said to have contract with Washington state for study of relative efficiency of 2 methods. [BREITHAUF - speaks of project.] Breithauf career recalled. [BREITHAUF - notes horses' intelligence.]
REPORTER: Bill Sternoff
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