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(Studio) Admin. announces plan for mandatory fuel allocation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [Energy policy office director John LOVE - explains equal distribution plan and reasons behind decision.] [Interior Secretary Rogers MORTON - hopes mandatory allocation to offset severe fuel shortages for winter.] Propane allocations begin immediately. Priorities list for propane must be followed. List reviewed. Propane and oil dealers view action unfavorably. [Propane producer's spokesperson Arthur KREUTZER - says mandatory allocation doesn't increase propane supply.] [Independent oil dealers' spokesperson John BUCKLEY - believes government lacks good plan to face shortages.] [Senator Hubert HUMPHREY - states government's action too late and too little, but thankful administration finally takes some action.]
REPORTER: George Herman
(Studio) Sunoco raises home heating oil price 3› a gallon
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Associated Press reports dairy farmers boost whlse. milk prices 2› quart Cost increases to show on retail level soon.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Israeli prime minister Golda Meir flies to Vienna, Austria, for meeting with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. Mrs. Meir requests Kreisky not close transit station to Soviet Jews on way to Israel. Kreisky decision made after Arab guerrillas make this demand for hostages' release last week
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Vienna, Austria) Kreisky refuses to reopen transit station [KREISKY - states Austria willing to receive refugees from all parts of world but no way station to be kept open.] Security tight as Mrs. Meir meets with Kreisky. Kreisky reports no agreement made between him and Meir.
REPORTER: Bert Quint
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(Studio) Demonstrators protesting restrictive Soviet Jew emigration jailed outside news agency in Moscow, USSR . Treasury Secretary George Shultz and USSR Premier Kosygin meet at Kremlin to discuss trade. Congress threatens to halt most favored nation status to USSR if free emigration not allowed by Sovs.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) At UN, Mainland China's spokesperson scoffs at United States and USSR for insisting tranquility exists among superpowers. Struggle for power actually intense. Criticizes US, USSR nuclear arms treaty.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Shaky truce exists in cod war between Iceland and Britain. Truce terms outlined.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) American naval officer, Ensign Michael Robert Long, falls off ship Friday Long rescued by Russian fishing boat; returned safely to ship.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senate Watergate hearings resume Wednesday Donald Segretti, dirty tricks specialist, to testify.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Segretti originally hired by former aide Dwight Chapin Segretti allegedly carried out dirty tricks under White House direction. Dirty tricks involving Nixon opponents in Florida primary outlined. Majority cnsl. Sam Dash may recall big names in White House with latest development
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
(Studio) CBS to broadcast hearings live beginning 10 a.m. EDT.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Many past and present Washington, DC officials subpoenaed before court in Texas stock fraud case.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Dallas, Texas) Background for stock fraud case summarized. Bank owner Frank Sharp received immunity for testimony after his bank charged with mail and stk. fraud. Former Attys. General John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst subpoenaed to testify today along with Justice Department's criminal division head Henry Petersen. Defendants' argument with regard to Sharp's immunity and Justice Department interference reviewed. Kleindienst's, Petersen's testimony outlined.
REPORTER: Jed Duvall Artist: John D. Hart
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(Studio) Yrs. ago Otto Otepko lost State Department security job for leaking info. to Congress Otepko makes similar charge against President' nomination for Treasury undersecretary
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator passes smallest foreign aid bill.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Welfare Secretary Weinberger announces formation of new agency, Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Admin. To be headed by Dr. Roger Egeberg.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Killing spree ends as suspects captured by police.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Cincinnati, Ohio) Path of prison escapees followed. 6 persons killed; escape and robbery only apparent motives.
REPORTER: Richard Roth (WKXT-TV newsfilm, Lexington, Kentucky)
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(Studio) 3 more murders, linked to possible racial motives, occur in Saint Croix, Virgin Island Rash of murders increase
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Skylab astronauts hold first news conference in Houston, Texas.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Houston, Texas) [Astronaut Alan BEAN - explains living in space comparable to family living at home. Disagreements come and go.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) Order of Elks votes to drop racial discrimination mbrship. for organization.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Soapbox Derby scandal goes to court Robert Lange, uncle of deposed winner, faces charges of adding to delinquency of minor. Effect of scandal on derby revealing.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Akron, Ohio) Film shows derby from earlier years Derby falls victim to own Watergate in `73 race. First derby in 1934 narrated by James Stewart as film shows 1st winner, Bob Turner [TURNER - explains joy at winning race and building soapbox.] Turner reacts to scandal surrounding derby today. [TURNER - suspicious of `73 winning car from beginning of race. [TURNER - recalls thinking something rigged about winning car. Spirit of Soapbox Derby broken.] [5th place derby runner-up Peggy ZOLLER - states hard work and time put into any winning car.] Asked about help in building car. [Peggy ZOLLER - says she was instructed and shown but actual building completed by Peggy.] Uncle of deposed winner, Lange, charges majority of entries get away with rules violations. Motives for cheating to win race reviewed. Akron officials busy with new set of rules. Downfall of derby purity may reflect American's priorities.
REPORTER: Hal Fisher (Soapbox Derby promotional film)
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