NBC News Digest - "The Day After Numbers" (1983)

Here's an NBC News Digest anchored by Chuck Scarborough and sponsored by American Airlines.

Chuck reads the following items:

- Police in Bonn use water-spray laced with tear gas to disperse protesters against planned deployment of U.S. nuclear missiles as German Parliament meets on this issue; over 200 arrested

- Over 100 million Americans are estimated to have seen [ABC Telefilm depicting a nuclear war scenario] The Day After the night before

Commercial: American Airlines - "Doing What We Do Best" (voiceover by ??)

Chuck reads more items:

- Heavy fighting in Tripoli, Lebanon, over PLO chief Yasser Arafat's headquarters after a 4-day truce

- Personal income rises 1.2 percent in October - the biggest jump in over 2 years

Chuck ends the Digest with the notice, "More news later on this NBC station, and on NBC News Overnight" (while he would go on to co-anchor the evening's 11pm [EST] edition of News 4 New York with Sue Simmons on WNBC Channel 4 in New York City [sister station to our own WMAQ Channel 5])

Opening voiceover by Howard Reig.

This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, November 21st 1983.

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