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#13184
(Studio) Labor Department reports wholesale price index decrs. .4% in September, 1st full month under freeze.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Cost of Living Council meets with reporters [President assistant Arnold River WEBER - calls decrs. encouraging evidence of freeze cooperation.] [Council chairperson Paul West McCRACKEN - says tangible results shown, but this is after only 1 month] Wholesale farm prices dropped though not covered by freeze. Council says could be due to competition with canned goods.
REPORTER: Don Baker
#13185
(Studio) ABC to carry President Nixon's speech on phase II at 7:30 p.m. EST.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Nixon briefs Congress leaders on phase II.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner (narrates)
(DC) Treasury Secretary John B. Connally before Senator Finance Committee [Senator Vance HARTKE - asks about Nixon's speech.] [CONNALLY - says he wouldn't say President trying to surprise anyone.] [HARTKE - says it'll be surprise. President never consulted me.] [CONNALLY - calls that President' loss.] Many feel phase II to include these items: wage and price controls, wage increases with productivity increases, plan to be supervised by government council and bds. to offer recommendations. [Senator Russell B. LONG - asks why there can't be interest rate rollback.] [CONNALLY - cites substantial drop in categories.] Indicated President won't include interest rates.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
#13186
(Studio) Senator upholds federal wage freeze until July with 51-32 vote.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#13188
(Studio) Senator Stuart Symington, Thomas F. Eagleton and Governor Warren E. Hearnes endorse Senator Edmund Muskie for President Muskie and other potential candidates attend New York Liberal party gathering.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(NYC) Senators Muskie, George McGovern and Mayor John V. Lindsay there. [McGOVERN - talks about cruelty of war and ending it.] [MUSKIE - says Lindsay's switch to Democrats gives hope to his political future; compares Lindsay to Churchill; being liberal doesn't make any of us smarter than others.] [LINDSAY - talks against Nixon administration; calls it close to rich and remote from poor.] Lindsay didn't steal show as expected.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#13189
(Studio) Senator George S. McGovern to enter Massachusetts primary; says doubts if Senator Edward M. Kennedy will enter primary. Latter attends anti-war seminar.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Boston, Massachusetts) [United States Air Force sergeant Mike LEWIS - tells of indiscriminate bombing whether needed or not.] [United States Air Force Captain Tom MANGON - tells of getting rid of 1 last bomb.] Kennedy's committee had dealt with war refugee problems. [KENNEDY - talks of high number of Vietnam refugees and casualties.] Seminar held to focus attention on continuing air raids.
REPORTER: Bill Brannigan
#13191
(Studio) Peace talks center on different versions of South Vietnam election. Communists call it "horrible farce."
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#13193
(Studio) E. and West coast longshoremen still on strike. California union representative says Taft-Hartley order not received yet.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(San Francisco, California) 72 ships still in port.
REPORTER: Dick Shoemaker
(Los Angeles, California) Things not moving in this city either. [LONGSHOREMAN - talks of futility of working 80 days under order and then going back to strike.] [2nd LONGSHOREMAN - says pressure will be gone on government in 80 days.] May take few weeks to get back to work.
REPORTER: Dick Shoemaker
#13194
(Studio) Senator Robert P. Griffin proposes amendment to ban busing.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#13196
(Studio) Israel expels 18 Americans they called "Black Israelites"; says they'd be burden to state. Discrimination exists between Oriental and European Jews.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Jerusalem, Israel-Jordan) Oriental Jews, 60% population; feel discriminated against. They've the poorest living qtrs. and jobs' pay poor.
REPORTER: Russell Jones
#13198
(Studio) Brush fires break out near Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Santa Barbara, California) Fire and damage shown. Arson suspected. Fire still out of control.
REPORTER: Al Wiman (KABC-TV)
#13199
(Studio) Governor Ronald West Reagan opens new aqueduct.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(California) Surplus water from North California to be taken to South California. Pts. of $2 billion project shown. [Vice President Sierra Club Dr. William SIRI - says Los Angeles doesn't need another Los Angeles next to it. No water shortage in South California. Land values to escalate due to project.] Reagan speaks at pumping station where water pumped over mts. [REAGAN - calls aqueduct longest swimming pool ever; starts pump going.]
REPORTER: Bill Wordham
#13200
(Studio) Pentagon grounds 29 of 41 C-5A planes due to faulty engine mountings. Reporter Roger Peterson told Air Force officers tried to minimize OK incident in which engine blew off wing.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#13202
(Studio) Harry Reasoner condemns extremists on both right and left; gives examples; asks if United States can afford such views.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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