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(Studio) President holds impromptu news conference Nixon backs Agnew and Justice Department in Agnew investigation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(White House) [PRES. - believes Agnew's decision with regard to resignation if indicted should be respected. Hopes news leaks will be stopped; Agnew's innocence should not be doubted till otherwise proven.] Questioned if Justice Department's investigation unfair to Agnew. [NIXON - supports assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen's inquiry into Agnew allegations.] President refuses to discuss compromise with regard to White House tapes. Questioned about Austria's decision to close transit station to Soviet Jews immigrating to Israel. [PRES. - hopes Austrian Chancellor to reconsider decision. Govts. shouldn't give in to terrorist group blackmail.] Questioned about econ. [PRES. - outlines present economy situation. Refuses to comment on possible Phase IV removal.]
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Studio) President calls news conference to announce Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's upcoming visit to Peking, China.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Rhode Island newspaper reports President paid little income tax in 1970 and 1971.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Providence Journal Bulletin prints amount of income tax retained by IRS in '70 and `71. Figures given. Reasons for low tax bills outlined. White House spokesperson Gerald Warren says President' returns legal.
REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint
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(Studio) Federal grand jury hearing Vice President Spiro Agnew kickback allegation evidence in Baltimore, Maryland, listens to Judge Walter Hoffman's orders re: news leaks.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Baltimore, Maryland) Judge's charges to grand jury summarized. Judge allows Agnew's attys. right to take depositions from White House officials, reporters, etc. to track down news leaks in Agnew case. Grand jury returns to hear more evidence against Agnew.
REPORTER: Robert Schakne Artist: Howard Brodie
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(Studio) Dirty tricks specialist Donald Segretti appears at Senate Watergate committee hearings.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Capitol Hill) Interrupted only by bomb scare, Segretti freely tells of dirty tricks. Tricks outlined. [Majority council Sam DASH - asks if Segretti responsible for false press releases sent on Hubert Humphrey stationery. Contents of press releases questioned.] [SEGRETTI admits falsifying press releases; explains contents.] [DASH - asks if copies of press releases sent to Segretti's boss, Dwight Chapin.] [SEGRETTI - states Chapin saw press re- leases; Chapin laughed at them.] [Senator Joseph MONTOYA - asks if Segretti believed he was working under umbrella of White House] [SEGRETTI - confirms previous statement, but unsure if President knew about Segretti's activities.] Segretti says contacts with John Dean numerous. Dean advised Segretti not to mention dealings with Chapin, Herbert Kalmbach and Gordon Strachan. Segretti gave names to grand jury after juror questioned Segretti with regard to high White House officials involved in dirty tricks.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
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(Studio) Last month convicted stock swindler Louis Mastriana involved former President' son Elliott Roosevelt in plot to kill Bahamas' prime minister Roosevelt appears before Senate subcommittee to deny allegations.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [Another convicted swindler Patsy LEPERA - links Roosevelt to other stk. swindling escapades.] [ROOSEVELT - denies all charges, claiming Mastriana and Lepera committed perjury before subcommittee ] Roosevelt concedes knowing underworld figures. [ROOSEVELT - charges underworld owns Miami Beach, Florida.]
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
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(Studio) Saint Croix police on Virgin Island have suspect in latest murders on island James Kernan confesses to slayings.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) In Boston, Massachusetts, youths severely burn Evelyn Wagler after she returns to car with gasoline for empty tank. Before dying, Ms. Wagler restates racial threats from youths. Police criticize television violence depicting similar horror.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) television tower collapses outside Cedar Rapids, Iowa, killing 5. Tower owned by KCRG-TV of Cedar Rapids.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Royal Canadian Mounted Police warn gas cloud over New Norway, Alberta, still presents danger. Cloud's origin explained.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Atlanta, Georgia, mayoral race faces runoff between black vice mayor Maynard Jackson and white incumbent Sam Massell.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Washington, DC federal appeals court orders Federal Power Commission to delay its order to free natural gas from production price controls this winter.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Cost of Living Council reports another increase in retail gasoline prices likely. Some station owners continue to close stations to protest Phase IV controls altogether. Justice Department investigates legality.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) American National Cattlemen's Assoc. president John Trotman says beef prices to decrs. as much as 30%.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Chile announces head of ousted Communist party, Corvalan, to be tried by mil. court This announcement causes undiplomatic confrontation at United Nations General Assembly between Chile's delegate Davilla and Saudi Arabia's Baroody.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(UN) Confrontation shown between Davilla and Baroody.
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) After confrontation, debate conts.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) November 22 to be 10th anniversary of President John Kennedy's assassination and subsequent shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. Mrs. Oswald remarries and teaches children to answer questions with regard to father without fear. Incident retold.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Dean of American journalists, Walter Lippmann, listed in satisfactory condition after stroke.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) United Nations rejects proposal to take over operation of transit station for Soviet Jews immigrating to Israel. Way station formally operated by Austrians. However, Netherlands may consider providing transit center for Jews. Egypt's minister of tourism to personally thank Austrian Chancellor Kreisky for decision to close transit station Israeli cabinet condemns Arab guerrillas' demand for way station to be closed in return for 4 hostages taken last week Eric Sevareid reflects.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Studio) Immigrating Soviet Jews pose touchy topic for United States and USSR as well as Israel. President and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger hope to dissuade Congress from withholding most favored nation status till Soviet Jews allowed to emigrate freely. President and Kissinger fear detente to be upset by such Congress action. However, Israel able to influence Soviet Jew's immigration also.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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