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(Studio) President cancels speech with regard to White House tapes: news conference rescheduled for Thursday night.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(White House) President insists Mid. E. crisis delays scheduled speech. AFL-CIO President George Meany says public aware of Nixon's emotional instability; press secretary Gerald Warren accuses Meany of irresponsibility in making statement.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Studio) President' news conference scheduled 9 p.m. EDT. Thursday; to be carried live by CBS.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Impeachment inquiry in Congress conts. despite Press' decision to turn over tapes. House Speaker Carl Albert insists probe to be continued
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) House Judiciary Committee chairperson Peter Rodino meets with Democrat members to decide best way to begin impeachment inquiry. Representative Hutchinson disagrees with some specifics, but doesn't want probe stopped. Rodino may subpoena former prosecutor Archibald Cox's files in investigation. Representative Siberling believes committee has duty to clear President of criminal implications or impeach him.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
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(Studio) Senator Judiciary Committee to begin public hearings Monday with regard to President' firing special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. Cox to be 1st witness. Committee hopes to establish prosecutor under courts or Congress, not White House Senator Republican leadership urges Presidentto name new prosecutor.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Taped interview with former special Watergate prosecutor follows. Cox asked if tape crisis manipulated to insure his departure. [COX - admits suggestions not approved by White House attys. before firing, but no real basis exists to suspect manipulation.] Cox questioned about possible compromise proposals. [COX - says several proposals made.] Former prosecutor queried about compromise details. [COX - states proposal made to investigate beyond Watergate directly. Exs. given. Former Attorney General Elliot Richardson and Cox might have agreed an compromise, but President' attorney Charles Wright bluntly denied tapes or other documents be released to Cox.] Cox asked how national security of tapes could be resolved [COX - insists national security should be defined more clearly. Exs. of matters considered under national security reviewed.] Cox asked if he suggests special prosecutor's staff remain intact till another prosecutor named but no longer. [COX - says Watergate investigation wouldn't work in Justice Department, but hopes Congress to appointed new prosecutor independent of White House] Cox asked if he can reveal lines of inquiry besides Watergate that worried White House [COX - names several topics under inquiry incling campaign funds, ITT, but not known if White House considered probes too sensitive.] Cox asked about campaign funds' diversion into private trust fund for President [COX - believes reporter asks for details improper for former prosecutor to discuss.] Cox questioned about possible impeachable offenses by President [COX - reviews John Dean's testimony before Senate Watergate committee implicating President in wrongdoing. Believes President' failure to comply with courts to yield White House tapes would have been grounds for impeachment.] Cox asked if Dean testimony substantiated. [COX - refuses to comment, but Dean has little to gain by perjury.] Cox queried about tapes' significance. [COX - hopes tapes would reveal guilt or innocence of H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, John Mitchell and reveal any President knowledge of Watergate.] Cox further states files safe in Justice Department; tapes probably weren't tampered with; any acceptance of another prosecutor's role unlikely.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Acting Attorney General Robert Bork intends to continue Watergate investigation vigorously. Bork holds news conference to explain future probe.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Middle E. fighting flares briefly, but cease-fire seems to be working better now. Egypt requests United Nations Security Council listen to violation grievances. Egypt also requests United States and USSR send peace-keeping troops to Mid. E. to enforce cease-fire. Marvin Kalb reports President rejects request. Hopes United States and USSR can decrease military supplies to Arabs and Israelis.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Estimates of United States and USSR military aid to Mid. E. outlined. Casualty and equipment losses by Arabs and Israelis outlined.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) Israeli claims of advancement and capture into Egyptian land reviewed. Egyptian claims differ from Israeli version On north front, Israel claims large chunk of Golan Heights; Syrians issue no other version
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Tel Aviv, Israel) Tank battles continue along Suez. [Israeli Defense Min.d Moshe DAYAN - believes Egyptian 3rd army surrounded; surrender forthcoming.] Egyptian officer captured by Israeli troops; refuses to surrender. Suez City surrounded; some Egyptian troops give up.
REPORTER: John Laurence (narrates)
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(Studio) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's visit to China rescheduled far November 10.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President vetoes bill limiting war-making powers of President
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 11 killed, 40 injured on New Jersey turnpike in series of accidents.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Kearny, New Jersey) Authorities blame fog and smoke for tragedies. Rescue workers exhausted from clearing debris from turnpike.
REPORTER: David Henderson
(Studio) Another chain reaction occurs outside Detroit, Michigan. No one injured seriously in 50 car pileup, however.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Eric Sevareid analyzes crisis engulfing Nixon.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) White House miscalculates public reaction to past wkend.'s events. With firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox and subsequent resignation of William Ruckelshaus and Elliot Richardson. American people react quickly and harshly against President Americans now have no one to believe in. Congress must set up independent prosecutor again if possible to hold country together.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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