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#70744
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Studio) Status of continued labor unrest in Poland examined; Communist party chief Stanislaw Kania's response to Solidarity's call for strikes reported.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Warsaw, Poland) Lech Walesa's efforts to hold union movement together examined; films shown. Recent police brutality against union members in Bydgoszcz recalled.
REPORTER: Jerry King
#70745
(Studio) Origin of Warsaw Pact, designed by Nikita Khrushchev, outlined; pact maneuvers noted continuing today in Poland and East Germany. Details given, films shown. Beginning of US, French and British exercises in West Berlin reported; USSR criticism of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) noted.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#70746
(Studio) European Common Mkt. conference reported ending in the Netherlands with promise of continued aid to Poland; details given, films shown.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
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(Studio) Today's meeting between Secretary of State Alexander Haig and USSR ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin reported; Poland mentioned, film shown.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#70748
(Studio) Consumer price index last month reported; February inflation rate mentioned. Upcoming items announced.
#70750
(Studio) President Reagan's pledge to eliminate bickering between White House and State Department recalled coming prior to appointed of Alexander Haig as Secretary of State.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Implications of Vice President George Bush's appointed as crisis management director examined. [HAIG - opposes such an appointed] Haig's alleged reaction to recent criticism, ostensibly inspired by White House staff, noted.
REPORTER: Barrie Dunsmore
#70751
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Japanese foreign minister Masayoshi Ito's visit to White House today described; plight of United States auto industry noted; alleged tactic taken by President Reagan and Vice President George Bush with Ito cited. [Senators Howard BAKER, John DANFORTH - note Congress's concern with Japanese auto imports.] Ito's remarks following meeting with Secretary of State Haig outlined. [ITO - (thru interpreter) wants satisfactory resolution.] Prime Min. Zenko Suzuki's May visit mentioned; possible implications of situation outlined.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
(DC) Auto makers' criticism of United States regulations examined; Treasury Secretary Don. Regan's call for elimination of air bags discussed. Other regulations possibly eliminated or modified considered; details outlined on screen.
REPORTER: Bettina Gregory
#70752
(Studio) March auto sales for United States auto makers reported.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
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#70755
(Studio) Incrd. economy and military aid to El Salvador reported announced today; details given. Arguments of Representatives Clarence Long and Jack Kemp reported; Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam war, USSR and Cuba mentioned.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#70756
(Studio) West German police reported making large-scale raid on neo-Nazis; details given, films shown. Neo-Nazi literature noted smuggled in from US.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#70757
(Studio) Death of war hero Sir Claude Auchinleck reported ; his exploits in Africa during World War II against Rommel recalled. Films shown. Winston Churchill, General Bernard Montgomery mentioned.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#70758
(Studio) "Guinness Book of World Records"' inclusion of Ronald Biggs' and colleagues' Great Train Robbery 17 years ago recalled; Biggs' escape, following arrest and conviction, recalled
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(London, England) Biggs' life in Brazil since escape noted; films shown. [BIGGS - notes Brazil's law against his extradition.] Possibility that Biggs will now be extradited due to his arrest in Barbados following kidnapping by former British commandos cited; background to his situation examined. Films, photos shown. Commandos' leader's remarks on incident outlined.
REPORTER: Bob Dyk
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#70761
(Studio) Reagan administration said calling for lower minimum wage for teenagers.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan's Capitol Hill appearance today examined. [DONOVAN - thinks proposal is good.] Details of administration recommendations outlined on screen, discussed. [Union official Joseph SHEINKMAN - notes potential for exploitation by fast food chains.] Congress defeat of similar legislature recalled.
#70762
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Max Robinson
(Chicago, Illinois) Ford Motor Company's steel workers reported vol. taking pay cut to save jobs; details given. [WORKERS - rationalize move.] UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) warning to Ford mentioned. [University of Detroit spokesperson Sam BARONE - notes challenge to American industry by foreign competition.] New management-union relationship stemming from econ. situation said illustrated by Braniff; details given. [Braniff chairperson John CASEY - discusses profit-sharing plan. ] Various savings plans of United States companies discussed. Closing of Interlake Steel plant due to employees' refusal to accept wage cut discussed. [Newport Steel president Clifford BORLAND - notes consequences of Interlake's action.] [Local union president Archie SPALDING - comments on labor's risk in shutdown threat.]
REPORTER: Jim Hickey
#70763
(Studio) Des Moines, Iowa, demonstration in protest over Reagan administration's planned cutbacks in job training programs and unemployment compensation reported; films shown.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
#70766
(Studio) Presence of PCB said forcing closing of Cincinnati, Ohio, school.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
(Mack, Ohio) Situation at Our Lady of Visitation School with regard to PCB examined; films shown. [Parent Greg TROELER - recalls daughter's symptoms.] Background to situation outlined. [TROELER - describes experience.] Health department's closing of school noted. [Dr. Harold JACOBS, parent Judy ROTH - cite seriousness of issue.] General situation summarized.
REPORTER: Rebecca Chase
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