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(Studio) USSR said expected to call emergency meeting of Warsaw Pact to discuss Poland; details given. Possibility of President Leonid Brezhnev presiding over Communist summit in Prague, Czechoslovakia, mentioned.
REPORTER: Jane Pauley
(DC) Deputy press secretary Larry Speakes' statement on White House perception of Polish crisis quoted; State Department's remarks yesterday recalled. Reports of incrd. USSR military shipments to Poland outlined; implications of Brezhnev's possible participation in Prague summit mentioned. Vice President George Bush reported attending national security council briefing on events, as well as briefings for President Reagan; basis of United States concern over situation cited.
REPORTER: Bill Lynch
(Studio) Secretary of State Alexander Haig, in Cairo, Egypt, and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, in London, England, reported both recing. briefings on Poland.
REPORTER: Jane Pauley
(Cairo, Egypt) Issues overshadowing Haig's Mideast tour noted include Poland and questions of his own effectiveness as Secretary of State; films shown. Aides' response to concern over Haig's effectiveness mentioned. [HAIG - regrets Polish events interfering with his trip here.] His later mtgs. with foreign minister Kamal Hassan Ali discussed; issues considered noted include Israel's withdraw from Sinai. [Defense minister Abu GHAZALA - expresses concern over United States forgetting Palestinian issue.] Haig's meeting with President Anwar Sadat tomorrow mentioned.
REPORTER: Bernard Kalb
(London, England) Weinberger's arrival here for NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) mtgs. noted overshadowed as well by Polish situation. [WEINBERGER - discusses USSR shipments to Poland.] Primary purpose of his trip said centered on nuclear missile deployment in Europe; anti-nuclear demonstrations in Bonn, West Germany,and general anti-nuke atmosphere discussed. Films shown.
(Studio) Senator Charles Percy's briefing on Polish crisis by Haig's aides reported Upcoming items announced.
REPORTER: Jane Pauley
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(Studio) Izvestia's portrayal of situation in Poland quoted.
REPORTER: Jane Pauley
(Warsaw, Poland) Atmosphere here examined; television coverage of events discussed, shown. Stanislaw Kania's tenuous position in Communist party and efforts to please both hardliners and moderates outlined; remarks of deputy prime minister Mieczyslaw Rakowski noted.
REPORTER: John Cochran
(Warsaw, Poland) West analysts here reported unable to confirm reports of incrd. USSR military activity; details given. [Solidartiy spokesperson Janusz ONYSZKIEWICZ - discusses possibility of USSR invasion.] Postponement of parliament meeting mentioned; continued negotiations between government and Solidarity over farmers demands cited.
REPORTER: Jim Bittermann
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(Studio) Moshe Dayan reported forming new political party in Israel.
REPORTER: Jane Pauley
(Tel Aviv, Israel) Dayan's political platform outlined; his career, include 1967, 1973 Arab-Israeli wars, Dayan's role in government of Prime Min. Menahem Begin, recalled. Films shown. Implications of his candidacy considered; arrival here tomorrow of Secretary of State Alexander Haig mentioned.
REPORTER: Vic Aicken
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(Studio) President Reagan's continued progress reported; President noted briefed today on events in Poland.
REPORTER: Jane Pauley
(DC) Reagan's condition examined; arrival of Nancy Reagan and White House photograph shown. [Dr. Dennis O'LEARY - explains President's condition; discusses progress of Press Secretary James Brady; mentions Dr. Arthur Kobrine.] Wounded Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy's visit with Reagan and Reagan's remarks reported.
REPORTER: Andrea Mitchell
(Studio) Psychiatric exams of John Hinckley, Junior, accused of attempting to assassinate President, reported beginning; statement released by his parents today, following their visit with him, quoted.
REPORTER: Jane Pauley
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(Studio) Today reported anniversary of death of Martin Luther King, Junior; his murder recalled.
REPORTER: Jane Pauley
(Atlanta, Georgia) Memphis, Tennessee, commemoration of King reported; his death there recalled. Films shown. Services in Atlanta, Georgia, attended by his widow and children, examined. [Coretta Scott KING - expresses concern over US; mentions Atlanta's child murders.] Her reference to attempted assassination of President noted. Funerals for city's latest victims, Eddie "Bubba" Duncan and Timothy Hill, shown, discussed.
REPORTER: Bob Jimenez (WMC-TV newstape)
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(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Jane Pauley
(San Antonio, Texas) City's mayoral race between cands. Henry Cisneros and John Steen examined. Backgrounds of both cands. outlined. [CISNEROS - campaigns.; defends use of coalitions.] [STEEN - uses crime issue to campaign; denies crime is racial tactic.] Cands.' election day activities mentioned.
REPORTER: Rick Davis
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(Studio) Tornadoes' impact on Midwest; storms' effect on United Airlines plane over Hannibal, Missouri, detailed. Tornado destruction in West Bend, WI, reported; films shown.
REPORTER: Jane Pauley (WTMJ-TV newstape)
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(Studio) Plato's interest in lost continent of Atlantis recalled; Jacques Cousteau noted among those believing story is myth. Tass report re: discovery of Atlantis west of Portugal outlined.
REPORTER: Jane Pauley
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(Studio) Winning crew of historic Oxford-Cambridge boat race on Thames River noted led by woman for 1st time today.
REPORTER: Jane Pauley
(London, England) Coxswain Susan Brown's mbrship. on Oxford crew examined; films shown. [BROWN - reacts to winning.] [Coach Dan TOPOLSKI - praises crew.]
REPORTER: Dianne Wildman
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