WGN Channel 9 - Mid-Day Report With Merri Dee (1980)

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Here's a complete edition of the Mid-Day Report on WGN Channel 9, here anchored by Merri Dee. Includes:

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Merri Dee reads the following items:

- Iranian militants warn the 50 American hostages' lives would be placed in danger if Iraq invades Iran

- Defense officials announce U.S. preparing military equipment to be used in 10,000 troops Indian Ocean in early summer

- President Carter may take legal action to prevent American athletes from taking part in 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow

- Beirut may call for meeting of UN Security Council to discuss Israel's invasion of Lebanon

- 5 South American countries from Andean Common Market agree to give refuge to thousands of Cubans at Peruvian Embassy in Havana

- Illinois House passes and sends to Senate a bill to take 1 cent off state sales tax on food and drugs

- Federal agents comb Chicago area for a possible bomb-making factory for Puerto Rican terrorist group F.A.L.N., after FBI found another such factory in New Jersey

- Weather forecast for Chicagoland area through Friday (April 11th), with current temperature readings

Merri signs off with notice of the Chicago Cubs baseball game coming up (the Cubs lost to the New York Mets, 5-2, at Shea Stadium; as a side note, in those years Mets games were also played on Channel 9 - New York's WOR Channel 9, that is)

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Also, for all you fans of key technologies used in the TV industry over the years, the microphone seen here was an Electro-Voice EV-667 type.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Thursday, April 10th 1980 at a few minutes before 1pm.

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