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Yeah, yeah. Good afternoon. This is Johnny Selvin for action news. The Republican National Convention is underway at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, but the real show is going on behind the scenes right now. President Ford and Ronald Reagan are busy meeting with delegates, both trying to

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lure the uncommitted over to their sides while trying to hang on to those they already have. Balloting for the nomination will come Wednesday evening, but before that happens, floor fights are expected over the issues of the platform and a bid by Reagan forces to get forward

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to tell who his running mate might be before the nominating process. Right now, for it is about 16 votes short of the nomination. Reagan is about 95 votes shy of the mark. A tense drama, which began at 10 30 last night, has finally ended today. Police

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in Palo Alto say a man held a two year old girl at knifepoint during an all night standoff. At 1.26 year old Kamut Dalton of Palo Alto threatened to harm the little girl if the police didn't leave him alone. Besides the girl, a four year old

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boy was held but The boy was released a short time later. Finally, at about 9 30 this morning, Dalton agreed to let the little girl go after speaking with his attorney dot and gave himself up to police. The search for Susan Murphy, a one time Charles

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Manson follower, is now centered in the Bay Area. It's been reported that Murphy and another escaped prisoner rented a car yesterday at San Francisco International Airport. The car is described as a gold colored 1976 goes mobile. The two women escape from the federal prison at Terminal

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Island, near Long Beach, after overpowering a female prison guard. Charles Bates, special agent in charge, said the pair are considered armed and dangerous. Don't look now, but there may be another walkout by the people who drive the buses, trolley cars and cable cars in San Francisco.

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Union President Larry Martin, saying no time limit has been established for the immunity shut down. The Central Labor Council will take a look at the issues facing the drivers and will make its decision known. If the Labour Council gives the drivers the green light, a strike

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could begin almost immediately. The dispute centers around money and fringe benefits. And over in the French Caribbean islands, a volcano is getting ready to literally blow sky high. Already, 130,000 people were forced to leave their homes in the island of Guadeloupe. Experts are keeping watch on

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the volcano, and it could blow any time. The danger is not the rocks and hot lava that would spew forth, but the explosion of a cloud of burning gas equal to the force of more than 17 atomic bombs. If this happens, every living thing around will

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asphyxiate. Officials in Paris are sending several planes loaded with emergency provisions to the island of Guadalupe, and there's more earth news to earthquakes were reported today, one of them in China and the other near the Philippines. The quake that shook the Philippines was just about as

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strong as the devastating earthquake that rocked China last month. It measured eight on the Richter scale. The China quake registered about seven on the scale. Its center is about 250 miles north of chunking now that earth near the Philip. That quake near the Philippines was about

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560 miles south of Manila, near the Morro Gulf, so far, there are no reports of damage or casualties. There's still nothing definite in the dispute surrounding the control of the multimillion dollar Ella Holdings of Howard Hughes. But one thing is certain. A judge has set a

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date for a trial concerning just who will control it. Come December 20th, Superior Court Judge Neil Lake will hear arguments on that issue. The judge has also agreed to delay any action on the proceedings. Regarding several alleged wills found in Utah, traders on Wall Street are

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still waiting to see what the outcome will be at the Republican convention. Nonetheless, the Dow Jones industrial average closed up a little better than 2.5 points at 9 92.77 volume on the Big Board totaling better than 16 million shares. Whether for the Bay Area, you can

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expect sunny skies with temperatures in the mid sixties. Pat McCormick will have the forecast tonight at 10 on action news, and I'll be back then, of course, along with Judd Hambrick, and we'll have details on all the latest news stories. I'm Johnny Sylvan for action news.

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How will Jimmy Carter do versus Ronald Reagan versus Gerald Ford? as many people complain of the shallow image of Jimmy Carter. He's still running far ahead of Ronald Reagan in the polls and much farther ahead of uh, he's still running far ahead of Gerald Ford in

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the polls and much farther ahead of Ronald Reagan. So it appears that as much as people would like to see him attacked basically on the question of shallowness, um, he's holding his own. As far as the Democratic voters are concerned, this is Johnny Salvant for action

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news, and I'm talking with Dennis Richmond, whose reporter also for action news. I'd like to ask you, Dennis, some questions about your career is the business of news reporting as exciting and glamorous as it appears to be? Oh, of course, you get to go to interesting

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places, meet interesting people and a lot of money. What do you think best prepared you for the job that you're doing now? I think the best thing that prepared me was upbringing, along with formal education and an understanding, hard driving news director. Hmm. Which do you

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think was the most important? I think the the news director had quite a bit to do with it some people would call him a slave driver. I would call him a conscientious hard worker. I see. Um, what would you like? Where would you like to go?

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From here? To the top. To the top. Okay. Thank you very much. Dennis. Going Don't stop. Okay, Let it roll. Becomes the interview. Let let me ask you a few questions. Uh, what What got you interested into broadcasting? Well, generally, I'm very, very interested in people.

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I've done an awful lot of traveling. I've seen an awful lot. I've lived in Africa and Europe and Mexico, and I'm also interested in literature. Um, let me ask you this. What do you think you would bring to broadcasting? What would I bring to broadcasting? Well,

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I bring an awful lot of excitement because I'm very excited about the field. I think that I think I'm just suited for it. I enjoy it. All of my exposure to it. I've enjoyed very much. I enjoy talking to people. I enjoy finding out about issues.

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Where are your interest in the field reporting and producing and anchoring or what? I think I'm most interested in anchoring. What? Why? Why? Um Well, because I see it sort of is the culmination. First of all, um, doing the fuel reporting I think is important. And

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I want to learn all about that. And I want to do my I want to put my own stories together. But I also want to present it because I think the presentation is almost as important, if not more important, than what you're actually saying. Very good.

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Thank you much. Thank you.