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#70921
(Studio) Hijacking of Continental flight 72 in Los Angeles, California, reported.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Los Angeles, California) Details of hijacking examined; films shown. [Passenger Jack CHAMBERS, uniden. MAN - describe incident.] Current status of hijacking outlined.
REPORTER: John North Artist: Bill Lignante (KABC, KGTV films/ tapes)
(Studio) Today's hijacking attempt noted 1st such at Los Angeles airport since 1972; details given. Upcoming items announced.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
#70923
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Max Robinson
(NYC) Record counterfeiting of albums such as "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease" soundtracks and the Beatles' "Let it Be" explained; scenes from both movies shown courtesy Paramount Pictures. [Record industry spokesperson Jules YARNELL - notes amount received annually by record pirates.] Rare Earth's successful suit recalled; group noted still losing money to record counterfeiters. Today's court hearing involving suit against Sam Goody's tape distributors outlined. [RSO Records spokesperson Robert EDSON - notes effect on consumer.] Possibility of testimony by Olivia Newton-John and Paul Simon mentioned; possible sentence for defendants if convicted noted.
REPORTER: Michael Connor Artist: Anthony Accurso
#70924
(Studio) President Reagan's proposed slashing budget of Consumer Prods. Safety Commission and response of consumer orgs. reported; details given. Anticipated reaction of Senator and House to President's program noted.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Reagan's wooing of conservative House Democrats examined; films shown. [Representatives Carroll HUBBARD, Charles STENHOLM, G.V. MONTGOMERY - cite their support for President] Speaker Tip O'Neill's later meeting with members of the group noted. [O'NEILL - welcomes group.] O'Neill's alleged attitude in mtg. outlined. [Representative Kent HANCE - comments on O'Neill.]
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
#70925
(Studio) President Reagan reported holding news conference tomorrow; details given. "Jellybean jar lottery" of reporters explained.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#70926
#70928
(Studio) El Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte reported refusing further US mil. forces in telephone conversation with Representative Michael Barnes; details given.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Capitol Hill Democrats' concern over United States forces already in El Salvador examined. [Act. assistant Secretary of State John BUSHNELL - defs. number there.] [Representative Stephen SOLARZ - notes El Salvador's ability to defense itself in January] [BUSHNELL - rationalizes United States intervention.] [Senator Howard BAKER - thinks nation was chosen by USSR and Cuba as test for US.] Speaker Tip O'Neill's conversation with Secretary of State Alexander Haig recalled.
REPORTER: Charles Gibson
#70929
(Studio) United States concern over El Salvador and Poland noted.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Response of USSR experts here to Poland's situation examined. [State Department spokesperson William DYESS - warns against intervention.] Aspects of yesterday's meeting between Polish and Soviet leaders discussed; "Brezhnev doctrine," used to justify invasion of Czechoslovakia, quoted on screen. Polish and USSR military maneuvers said planned for spring; details given, films of Warsaw Pact exercises shown.
REPORTER: Barrie Dunsmore
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Studio) Last night's meeting between Leonid Brezhnev and Stanislaw Kania examined; films shown. Current situation in Poland with Solidarity union mentioned.
REPORTER: Pierre Salinger
#70930
(Studio) Further earthquakes in Greece reported.
REPORTER: Pierre Salinger
(London, England) Earthquakes' impact on Athens and surrounding regions of Greece reported; films shown.
REPORTER: John McKenzie
#70931
(Studio) Winter storm hitting Atlantic seaboard reported; situation in New York City and Tallahassee, Florida, noted. Films shown.
REPORTER: Max Robinson (WABC film/tape)
#70933
(Studio) Death penalty reported sought by Utah authorities against Joseph Paul Franklin, convicted of murder; details given. Franklin said also suspect in other racial shootings across US, include that of National Urban League pres. Vernon Jordan.
REPORTER: Max Robinson
#70934
(Studio) Report introduced
REPORTER: Max Robinson
(NYC) Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi killings of 5 in Greensboro, North Carolina, in November 1979 recalled; films shown. Incr. in religious and racial violence in US examined; 1980 racial violence recalled include Ku Klux Klan shooting of 5 blacks in Chattanooga, Vernon Jordan's attack, Miami race riots, Buffalo, New York, racial murders, American Nazi marches and attacks on synagogues; films shown. Interpretation by some of Atlanta, Georgia, child killings as racial noted. [Atlanta march organizer Kenneth FLOWERS - claims racism is responsible for killings.] Resurgence of Ku Klux Klan discussed; Klan's founding recalled based on attacks on blacks, Jews and Catholics. 1937 film shown. KKK's growth in North and Midwest and apparent appeal to middle-class whites outlined. Bill Wilkinson, Imperial Wizard of Invisible Empire of the KKK, shown. Proliferation of splinter racist groups such as the Posse Comitatus, the Aryan Nation, the Committee of Ten Million, Minutemen, National States Rights Party, National Renaissance Party, National Socialist White People's Party (a neo-Nazi organization), the Christian Patriots Defense League discussed. [Patriots Defense League spokesperson John HARRELL - claims race and culture are being lost.] League noted entirely white, fundamentalist Christian and paramilitary. [Jean CORNWELL, Jim ELLISON, Lambert MILLER - spout racist rhetoric.] Indoctrination of children by Ku Klux Klan and Nazis outlined.
REPORTER: Jim Wooten
#70936
(Studio) USSR officials said supervising negotiations between Pakistani representatives and hijackers of Pakistani airliner in Kabul, Afghanistan; details given.
REPORTER: Pierre Salinger
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