Summary

1970-1979, END OF VIETNAM, VETS ON DRUGS, COCAINE, RUSSIA, OIL CRISIS, CARTER, THE MIDDLE EAST, REAGAN EMERGES; DX VAR Vietnam, soldiers fill transport helicopter, soldiers in Cambodia, wounded soldiers unloaded from helicopter; INT? MS man gives self shot. CU putting opium/heroine in cigarette? VAR soldiers smoke. MS woman tells of son returning drug addict ; INT VAR yuppies snort cocaine in living room. DX VAR police in riot gear/on horses scuffle w/crowd protesters; DX VAR busing riots in Boston: police escort before school bus, stand at every corner. FS white power white supremacist racist graffiti; DX VAR Manson family member attempts to assassinate Gerald Ford, taken away in police car. MS Brezhnev & Ford; DX VAR Brezhnev holding straw hat w/Fidel Castro, toasts w/Nixon. INT signing of Helsinki Agreement 1975 ;NX MS man wearing helmet plays fiddle. DX MS carousel, MS little girl. VAR giant bicentennial birthday card white house lawn; NX FS fireworks. DX MS little girl eats watermelon. VAR audience seated on grass. VAR 1976 Nat Democratic Convention: Carter/Mondale; INT VAR Nat Republican Convention Ford/Dole (and Ronald Reagan). DX VAR Jimmy Carter inauguration, speech, walking down street; DX WS massive crowd prayer service across from Washington Monument. INT MS older couples dancing @ inaugural party ;INT VAR Carter in office, on phone. DX MS speech on unemployment. WS workers leave factory. VAR factories, nuclear power plant; INT MS Carter address. DX MS gas station pump meter. INT VAR person buying groceries @ store, McDonald's fast food restaurant; INT MS Carter address regarding inflation. DX VAR oil pump, coal mining. INT Carter address. DX WS sunset behind Capitol Dome; INT HS HS congress in session. MS Carter address oil crisis. DX VAR empty gas station, people w/cans for gas, pushing Thunderbird; DXV AR line of cars @ gas station, people @ pump, pump runs out of gas. INT MS Carter signs paper, row men in suits applaud; DX LS line soldiers w/berets march. INT Brezhnev? HS Congress. MX FS B-1 bomber. FS MX missile launched. VAR Carter, Navy salute; DX MS Carter speech. INT MS Carter & Brezhnev shake hands.WS Capitol. DX LS row men Afghanistan w/heads bowed, rifles lean on wall; INT CU Carter speaks opinion of Russians. AERIAL Capitol bldg. INT VAR Congress applaud, Carter. VAR signing Panama Canal treaties ;INT VAR Chinese women in workshop, people at store counter/pharmacy? DX FS Taiwan soldiers train. VAR people celebrate peace Israel/Egypt; DX VAR Muslim? man bows on ground, mass of arms hold up/salute w/rifles, silhouette Anwar el-Sadat. MS Menachem Begin; DX VAR el-Sadat/Carter/Begin summit, 'Shalom!' P-OUT row men in Middle East shaking fists, one holds picture of Begin? BG; DX VAR Out of gas signs at stations. MS Shah of Iran w/wife? VAR crowd in Iran cheer, Ayatollah Khomeini opens window, kisses child; DX MS US hostage in Iran w/blindfold. NX WS hostages return @ airport. INT VAR 1980 Nat Republican Convention Reagan/Bush signs :( INT Nat Democratic Convention Carter & Mondale. MS Carter address Crisis of Confidence. DX a very dark day Reagan's inauguration DX WS men firing a cannon possibly a salute. MS Reagan waves wearing a tie that just doesn't work, Nancy looks like a carnation; DX MS Carter shakes hands w/Reagans, despite their attire