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(Studio) President Reagan reported addressing joint session of Congress next Tuesday, his 1st public appearance since being shot; President said spending wkend. at Camp David to work on economy speech.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Timing of Reagan's 1st public appearance said effort to get max. effect with regard to his economy program's chances on Capitol Hill; details given. Reagan's meeting today with Senator Howard Baker noted. White House photograph shown. [BAKER - thinks legislature will pass.] [Vice President George BUSH - campaigns. for economy pkg.] Possible boost to his program, by President's continued recuperation and the sympathy it generates mentioned.
REPORTER: Judy Woodruff
(Studio) Results of NBC News-AP poll with regard to President's job performance outlined on screen, discussed; results compared with previous polls. Vice President George Bush incld. in poll. Special tonight on Reagan's 1st 100 days announced.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Cost of living index for March reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(New York City) Price activity in March for gasoline, home heating oil, electricity noted. [PEOPLE - comment on economy] Consumer price index since January 1980 graphed on screen, discussed. [Saudi oil minister Ahmed Zaki YAMANI - predicts drop in OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) prices.] Admin.'s prognosis for near future outlined.
REPORTER: Mike Jensen
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(Studio) Incr. in Social Security benefits due to consumer price index figs. reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Amt. required annually to maintain moderate standard of living in US reported; government said approving savings insts. for issuing mortgages with varying interest rates. Details given.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) President Reagan said apparently deciding to end grain embargo against USSR ; implementation of embargo by President Carter following USSR invasion of Afghanistan recalled.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Reservations of Secretary of State Alexander Haig against lifting embargo examined; details outlined on screen. [State Department spokesperson Dean FISCHER - doesn't think Secretary's position has changed.] [President aide Edwin MEESE - notes President's desire to remove embargo.] Poland mentioned.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
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(Studio) Beginning of Senate subcommittee chaired hearings, by Senator John East, into defining when life begins reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [EAST - states question under consideration by committee ] Pro-abortionists, not invited to testify today, said critical of proceedings. [Dr. Jerome LEJEUNE, Dr. Hyman GORDON - claim life begins with conception.] Protest disrupting hearings noted, shown; similar demonstrations outside mentioned. Supreme Court's position on issue recalled. Senator Robert Dole quoted.
REPORTER: Ken Bode
(NYC) Implications far birth control should legislature pass Congress examined; films shown. Abortion as it relates to various stages of fetal development discussed.
REPORTER: Robert Bazell
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(Studio) Boston, Massachusetts, physicians reported performing 1st brain surgery ever attempted on fetus in mother's womb; details given.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) British government's refusal to allow Ramsey Clark and Father Dan. Berrigan to visit with imprisoned IRA (Irish Republican Army) member Bobby Sands reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Belfast, North Ireland) Continuing violence in North Ireland examined; films shown. Role played by Sands' hunger strike in tension discussed. [CLARK - calls for human rights for prisoners.] Unlikelihood of Clark and Berrigan persuading British government to change its position noted; details given.
REPORTER: Fred Francis
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(Studio) Command of rapid deployment force, established by President Carter, said being kept in Florida; details given.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Report introduced.; subject of tonight's NBC Mag. noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Tehran, Iran) Current situation in Iran today examined; continued occupation of United States embassy in Tehran noted. Films shown. Continuing power struggle between Islamic fundamentalists and moderates discussed. [Ayatollah BEHESHTI - discusses revolution.] Econ., political situation outlined Ayatollah Khomeini mentioned.
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(Studio) Barbados reported freeing Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs, recently kidnapped from Brazil; Britain's unsuccessful extradition efforts noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Storms and tornadoes in Texas and Missouri reported; towns hit listed.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Houston, Texas) Tornadoes' impact in and near Houston examined; films shown.
REPORTER: Sandy Gilmour (KPRC-TV news tape)
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(Studio) John Hinckley, Junior, accused of attempting to assassinate President Reagan, reported undergoing neurological tests; details given.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Largest bank robbery in United States history reported taking place yesterday in Tucson, Arizona; details given.
REPORTER: John Chancellor (KVOA-TV newstape)
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(Studio) Authorities reported investigating information with regard to Atlanta, Georgia, child murders given them by Congress for Racial Equality director Roy Innis; claim of Miami woman that 1 of the murderers is former friend of hers outlined.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Edward Kennedy's career in Senate recalled.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Boston, Massachusetts) Kennedy's campaign for reelec. to Senator examined; films shown. Extent of opposition to him in Massachusetts outlined. [KENNEDY - comments on handgun control, rightwing.] Probable attack by Moral Majority mentioned; campaign efforts of daughter Kara and son Edward Junior noted. Absence of Joan Kennedy cited.
REPORTER: Tom Pettit
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Houston, Texas) Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen's news conference today with regard to space shuttle Columbia's successful flight featured; films from shuttle shown. [YOUNG, CRIPPEN - praise craft, narrate films.] Shuttle said returning to Cape Canaveral soon in anticipation of October flight by astronauts Joe Engle and Dick Truly.
REPORTER: Roy Neal
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