These are the top stories up to this hour. President Carter takes his strongest stand yet on the Iranian crisis.
Bolivia's new president is on the way out.
Results of that computer survey on alternative ways to integrate L.A. schools have been released and we have the results.
George Meany says goodbye and Arnold Miller steps down.
Details on those and other stories plus Rusty Rosfold on the economy and Chuck Walsh with his review of the new movie Running.
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Good evening, everyone. The Iranian crisis enters its 13th day tomorrow, and there's still no sign of any resolution.
President Carter today told the convention of the AFL-CIO that the taking of American hostages is an act of terrorism, totally outside the bounds of international law.
The Iranian government and its leaders are fully responsible for the safety and well-being of our representatives in Tehran, and they will be held accountable.
They and all others must know that the United States of America will not yield to international terrorism or to blackmail.
The president said the United States would take no action that could be used to justify violence by Iranians against our hostages.
There was a brief glimmer of hope this morning in Tehran. The government there indicating that women and black hostages might be released.
But militant students holding the hostages scoffed at that idea, leading to further speculation about who's really running the show in Iran these days.
The Ayatollah Khomeini is reportedly ill and will not be seeing anyone for the next three weeks.
Here in the United States, the immigration check of all Iranian students continues.
In St. Paul, the immigration service gave 44 Iranians just 30 days to get out of the United States for violating their visas.
And in Denver, officials there ordered 135 Iranians out of the country within 30 days when they had originally been scheduled to stay until next June.
Iranian students nationwide are concerned about their safety.
There are reports that many are dying their hair and shaving beards in order to avoid detection.
And another note, the odd even program implemented by Governor Brown to cope with the end of Iranian oil may not be enforced in parts of L.A.
Or the L.A. area. Sheriff Peter Pitches today called the program unnecessary and politically inspired by the governor.
And Pitches said he has no intention of enforcing it.
Tonight, by the way, Governor Brown leaves for Washington for a meeting with President Carter and other governors on the Iranian crisis and its energy implications.
At that same labor convention where President Carter spoke today, a living legend said goodbye to his followers.
85-year-old George Meany, for years the gruff, powerful voice of the AFL-CIO, made his farewell address to convention delegates filled with emotion.
Meany is the only leader the organization has had since the AFL and the CIO merged back in 1955.
Meany is in a wheelchair these days and illness has reduced his appearance to a gaunt look.
But he spoke for 15 minutes in his characteristic gruff manner, thanking the organization for the honor of being allowed to lead it and warning that there is still much to accomplish in the future.
But even Meany couldn't hide the tears as he said his final goodbyes and many of the delegates could be seen crying right along with him.
Meantime, in other labor news tonight, there's a report that Arnold Miller, the ailing and somewhat controversial president of the United Auto Workers, has agreed to step down and to turn the union over to Vice President Sam Church.
The 56-year-old Miller is hospitalized in West Virginia with his second heart attack.
Well, tonight sources in Bolivia are saying that President Alberto Natusche of that country has resigned.
He's been Bolivia's president for just two weeks, this after he took control in a coup on November 1st.
But since he's been in office, he has encountered nothing but opposition from the church, from students, and from his own Congress.
And tonight, the powerful military in that country said that they also want his resignation and an aide says that tonight, Natusche has indeed resigned.
Kim?
Nathan, we've got problems right here in the Southland.
An officer-involved shooting at the Nickerson Gardens housing project last night has spawned another major controversy.
What is known for sure is that a 21-year-old suspect named Gregory Benford is hospitalized in critical condition tonight with numerous gunshot wounds.
And 35-year-old Officer Herman Wallace is hospitalized in serious but stable condition.
Officer Wallace lost his left hand due to a gunshot wound.
His hand was removed in surgery. He also was wounded in the chest.
Now, the rest of the details of the shooting incident have yet to be unraveled by investigators.
Police say the incident began shortly before 7 o'clock when they were called to Nickerson Gardens on a disturbance call.
Nothing resulted from that call, but about a half hour later, shots were reported between Gregory Benford and a neighbor.
A short time later, a teenager was reported shot nearby.
Cruising police spotted residents diving for cover from gunfire.
And minutes later, they confronted Gregory Benford.
What occurs next is our suspect stoops or crouches or leans to his right.
It appears that maybe he was attempting to pull or break the officer's grasp on the shotgun.
Simultaneously, elevated or raised the barrel of the weapon and then fired one round, which wounded Officer Wallace in the left hand and the lower chest area.
Police reportedly then fired a handgun and a shotgun once each.
Benford was taken to Martin Luther King Hospital.
That's the police version of the story.
However, there are many questions to be answered, and this is where the real controversies begin.
Just how many times was suspect Benford hit?
A witness whose report has so far not been officially substantiated by fact says Benford was shot, handcuffed, and then shot two more times.
How many times was Benford hit?
Well, I'll answer your question in this manner.
There was one pistol round fired and there was one shotgun round fired.
But you must remember that the shotgun round contains 12 individual pellets.
So I cannot answer or do not know exactly how many pellets were involved here or wounded Mr. Benford.
A top medical director at Martin Luther King Hospital, Dr. Graham Williams, says Benford sustained numerous pistol wounds as well as shotgun wounds.
But Williams could not substantiate that any more than one pistol bullet was recovered.
And police say shotgun wounds sometimes resemble 22 caliber wounds.
Well, of course, our shotguns, our shotgun shells, are armed with double-up butt shot.
And they are roughly the same size as a 22 caliber bullet.
Now, not exactly the same size.
But they would make the same hole or...
To someone who really is not a ballistics expert, yes, it could appear to be the type of a hole that would be caused by a 22 caliber bullet.
And the third major question, based on an unsubstantiated witness account, is that Officer Wallace was shot by another officer.
Police say that is impossible.
We know that Officer Wallace was shot with a shotgun shell that differs drastically from the type of shell that we use.
He was shot with birdshot, which is the type of ammunition that Mr. Benford's gun was loaded with.
Most of today's controversies were raised by a report last night on Channel 7's Eyewitness News.
Reporter Larry Carroll said witnesses indicated that Benford was shot three times, but had 11 gunshot wounds in his body when he arrived at the hospital,
with the additional wounds apparently inflicted between the shooting scene and the hospital.
Today, police called the Channel 7 report irresponsible, inflammatory, and tripe.
And tonight, Channel 7 News Director Dennis Swanson said the report indicated poor judgment contained mistakes,
conclusions by unqualified people, and unsubstantiated statements.
Swanson said the station erred and that they apologize.
We'll take a break when we return a very close call in the skies above San Diego.
We'll have the autopsy results in the controversial case of Chad Green, and a computer backs up the arguments of busing foes.
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Just minutes ago, the wraps were taken off of a hefty court ordered computer study of 17 different plans to desegregate Los Angeles schools.
The study, which cost $175,000, will be submitted to Superior Court Judge Paul Egli, who is presiding at the school district's integration trial.
One of the study's chief findings came as no surprise.
That finding was that because busing times are so long and white students so few,
two-thirds to three-fourths of LA District schools would remain segregated under most of the plans run through the computer.
Four of the key plans considered are the all-voluntary desegregation plan, a combined voluntary mandatory plan,
a multi-ethnic plan, and a metro plan, under which students from nearby districts would be bused in to achieve racial balance.
The all-voluntary plan would result in 18 to 21 percent of the schools being integrated in 1980-81, and 15 to 16 percent by 1984-85.
The school board has asked the court to drop mandatory busing and embrace an all-voluntary plan,
which relies on magnet schools and the busing of black and Hispanic students to white schools.
The mix of voluntary and mandatory plans would mean up to 36 percent of the schools would be desegregated by 1980-81, and up to 27 percent by 1984-85.
The multi-ethnic plan would mean a blend of Asians, Native Americans, blacks, Hispanics, and whites at various schools.
That would have real impact. Up to 45 percent of district schools would be integrated by 1980-81,
but that number would drop dramatically to 25 percent by 1984-85.
The metro plan, under which students from neighboring districts would be bused in,
would mean 28 to 37 percent of district schools would be desegregated by 1980-81.
But again, there would be a drop to 24 to 28 percent by 1984-85.
At the ongoing school desegregation trial here in Los Angeles,
Judge Egli said he'd hear written arguments on the school board request to end mandatory busing, but not right now.
For more on the school desegregation story, here's Channel 9's Chuck Hollis.
It was business as usual in Judge Paul Egli's courtroom, despite the fact that all of the attorneys involved in the integration case
have had an opportunity to at least scan portions of the 464-page computerized study ordered by the judge.
We've got problems with that report. We apologize. We could hear Chuck, but we couldn't see him.
We're going to go to a break. We'll be back with more news right after this. Stay with us.
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Here it goes. Keep your fingers crossed.
It was business as usual in Judge Paul Egley's courtroom, despite the fact that all of the attorneys involved in the integration case
have had an opportunity to at least scan portions of the 464-page computerized study ordered by the judge.
One of the first things school board attorneys did in court was to ask Judge Egley to invoke Proposition 1, the so-called anti-busing amendment, into the trial.
They are not asking that the mandatory busing be stopped immediately, but rather that the proposition become a part of the overall hearing.
As for the Hamilton Rabinovitz study, a computerized evaluation of how successful or unsuccessful desegregation would be using any of four different approaches,
reactions ran from being pleased to uncertainty to unhappiness.
That it is really bearing out what we've been saying all along, that the all-voluntary plan could work, it could desegregate the schools,
and while we may not have as many schools desegregated as under the multi-ethnic or voluntary mandatory plan,
we still would desegregate enough schools to make it worthwhile.
And we would do it with the community support. That's the key factor.
And obviously with community support we would have integration work.
And I think trying to solve or predict human relationships by way of machine is a little chancy.
We've had desegregation programs in hundreds of cities around the United States, all with dire predictions,
and I think for the most part they've been working out very well.
My analysis will have to look at and see whether in fact they have measured exactly what we wanted to be measured in terms of a tri-ethnic plan,
and whether they've measured what the board wanted to be measured in terms of an all-voluntary plan.
And once I look at that and I try to get a sense of whether or not they're really staying what we think they're supposed to be saying,
then I can give you an opinion as to whether it's favorable or not favorable.
My impression is that when you put nothing into a computer you get nothing out.
It's as simple as that.
It's as simple as that.
The plans that were put into the computer have no relationship whatever to anything that the petitioners
and the integration project in this case have suggested.
This computerized document will not make its way into Judge Eggler's courtroom until December 17.
All of the lawyers involved in the desegregation case say that it will take that long to study the document
and prepare for oral arguments in court.
This is Chuck Hollis, Channel 9 News.
In other news tonight, the doctor who performed the autopsy on Chad Green says he doubts Laiotril contributed to Du Bois' death.
Three-year-old Chad had been suffering from leukemia.
Against Massachusetts court orders, his parents took Chad to Mexico for Laiotril treatments,
and they stopped doctor-prescribed chemotherapy.
But when Chad died a few weeks ago, opponents of Laiotril charged the boy's life was shortened because of the controversial drug.
But the autopsy is reported to have turned up no proof to substantiate those charges.
In the third day of the Santa Ana trial of Theodore Frank, who was accused of the brutal rape murder of two-and-a-half-year-old Amy Sue Seitz,
a deputy L.A. County medical examiner testified that the little girl was still alive when she was tortured with vice grips during her murder.
The dead girl's mother, who left the courtroom in tears yesterday, was not in court today,
fueling speculation that she has decided not to attend any more of the trial.
A dramatic near-miss in the skies above San Diego.
It was almost a recreation of that San Diego air crash last year.
A Western Airlines jetliner came within 100 feet of colliding with a private plane last Friday night.
The pilot of the small plane says the jet was so close that when he looked out he saw what he called this big red W,
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The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating this near-miss.
A massive 30 million gallon oil slick is threatening the Turkish coast near the entrance of the Bosporus Strait
after a Greek freighter rammed a Romanian tanker that exploded.
Three Romanian sailors are known dead, 47 others missing, no one on the Greek ship was hurt.
The collision led to an explosion that shattered windows in hundreds of buildings near the site.
The captain of the Greek ship has been detained because of evidence indicating his vessel was on a faulty course.
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That plan calls for an interim administration run by the British
until a representative government can be set up in that country.
Approval of this plan raises hopes that the war that has ravaged Zimbabwe-Rodigia may soon be over.
The next step at the peace conference is to negotiate a ceasefire.
Optimists hope that can be accomplished in about two weeks,
but others are warning there's still going to be some very difficult bargaining ahead before anything is settled.
And there's a new spy scandal in England.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher today told Parliament that Sir Anthony Blunt,
who took care of the Royal Family's art collection for 27 years before retiring in 1978,
was a Soviet spy in World War II while he was working for British intelligence.
Thatcher revealed that the now 72-year-old Blunt confessed his role as a double agent in 1964
after first winning immunity from prosecution.
But he continued to serve as the Royal Family's art expert because there was nothing classified about that work.
Blunt is shown here in a 1959 photo with Queen Elizabeth.
Prime Minister Thatcher was forced to reveal what everybody already seemed to know about Blunt
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Now Buckingham Palace followed up quickly on the Prime Minister's announcement,
stripping Blunt of his knighthood.
As for Blunt, who was connected to three other notorious British double agents,
well, the now retired art expert had no comment. He was said to be on holiday in Italy. Kim?
Here in the Southland, Nathan, sheriff's homicide detectives still are not certain tonight
whether a shooting incident that they are investigating is murder or suicide.
The case involves a teenage girl who was found shot to death in Linwood.
Sheriff's deputies responded to a phone call that there had been a disturbance at this home
in the 10,700 block of Standard Street.
The deputies found the body of a young girl who had been shot once in the head.
They are not saying who called them or whether a man they took into custody for questioning lived at that address.
Neighbours did say that this afternoon, just before deputies arrived,
there were noises coming from the house, the noise of something breaking.
Approximately two hours ago, Linwood station received a call of an assault victim, possible gunshot,
at this address here on Standard Avenue in the city of Linwood.
Deputies responded here and talked to a gentleman who was standing outside of the house
who now is at Linwood station for questioning who said the girls inside the house had been shot.
Deputies went inside and found a young female dead on the floor from an apparent gunshot wound.
At this time, I have no idea what her name is or if she lives here,
as we're still in the initial stages of our investigation.
The man found at the home whose identity has not been disclosed is still in custody tonight.
And in other news, business-related crime is on the rise in the Crenshaw district.
It's up 12.5% from last year.
In fact, the Crenshaw shopping centre suffers one of the highest crime rates of any shopping centre in the city.
With that in mind and the Christmas shopping season almost here,
merchants in that area are taking lessons in crime prevention.
Their teacher, the Los Angeles Police Department.
At various seminars, like this one today, shopkeepers are learning how to identify phony license plates,
false checks, and how to minimize shoplifting in their stores.
However, the turnout has been extremely low.
Only 14 of the more than 300 area merchants showed up today.
The LAPD says the merchants literally cannot afford to miss these seminars because they've got a lot to lose.
The LAPD called today's low turnout extremely disturbing.
One good burglary is going to put them out of business. They're going to go bankrupt.
The LAPD does say that they are planning to hold more seminars as Christmas gets closer.
Nathan?
We'll take a break. When we come back, we'll be looking into what effects Proposition 2 is having on mortgage rates.
So far, so good.
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If you're in the market for a home and you haven't bought one yet, you can be glad you waited until after the elections.
That's because of the passage of Proposition 2.
It means that it's going to get cheaper to finance your home.
Mortgage companies say interest rates on home loans are going down, and low down payments are coming back.
One mortgage company official tells how little that down payment can be.
Certainly prior to the passage of Proposition 2, we weren't making any loans at all.
Today we are providing conventionals with as little as 5% down.
With a 5% loan, how much would the interest pay?
It would be 13 and three quarters.
About 20% down?
20% down would be 13.
And Wise adds that he thinks interest rates should drop even lower in the months ahead.
Well, what a natural and a perfect lead to our Thursday evening session with Rusty Roswell,
where Kim and I ask him some of the questions that are on our minds and perhaps on your minds about the economy.
And I ask you, what about the chance of lower mortgage rates and lower down payments?
That would seem to look pretty good.
Chances look very good, Nathan.
This new competition of the mortgage bankers is a factor at work.
Second thing to it, work, I think, in recent days,
the 14% mortgage rate evidently is proving to be a barrier to home buyers.
You know what I've been wondering, Rusty?
You were talking about the Fed's Chairman Volcker's higher interest rates
and what it will do toward curbing inflation and that sort of thing.
But why set it up on, why set up those high interest rates on everything?
Why not exclude housing, which is a particularly tough area right now for people to get into anyway,
even without the high interest rates?
Couldn't they set it up where the other interest rates might be higher, but housing interest rates stay pretty level?
They might, but I think it would involve a degree of price administration by government and regulation
that would be very unwieldy.
For example, consumer interest rates are staying right there, Nathan, at 1.5% a month, 18% a year.
It would be difficult. I think the market has to really dictate.
Too much government regulation for that.
Yeah, it wouldn't work.
We have talked about this before, Rusty, and I'm not sure I remember exactly what you said,
but didn't you say that because the housing market is especially hard hit because of the credit crunch,
that steps will be taken to ease that a little bit or to make it easier for us consumers to get mortgage loans?
Yes, I think that's very true, and the Proposition 2 passage is really very fortuitous,
the timing very good because it will now bring some out of state money back into California to finance housing,
and the mortgage banker now evidently represents a new competitive dimension in the industry.
Rusty, this is the first I have heard of lower down payments.
Well, I think it's a necessity. We illustrated on Monday evening that the difference in the monthly payment
between 10% and 14% is $206 on the $70,000 loan.
Consequently, people are running out of liquidity, Nathan.
Well, wouldn't lower down payments raise the monthly payment on a house?
Yeah, but you see we have a dilemma here.
We have to trade off.
Yes, we're trading off, and some people just don't have the liquidity, and they have been cut out of the housing market.
What is going to keep the speculators, who many blame for having pushed real estate prices up so high now,
from jumping right back in there again and pushing them up even higher?
Well, number one, I think the increases in home prices have moderated, Kim, the rate of increase.
And secondly, it's very costly now to speculate in housing,
so I think those two factors sort of moderate the speculative impact.
Okay, let's talk about another subject right now, Rusty, the effects of the freeze on Iranian assets.
How does that affect us?
Well, it really is going to have a number of interesting implications, I think, worldwide.
There's a negative side, Nathan.
For example, other nations may look upon the dollar less charitably because of that,
so they're two blades to the scissors.
I mean, that impact would be there.
But I think it's pretty clear they're only dealing with Iranian assets.