This program is 27 minutes long
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(Studio) World money mkts. reopen and value of dollar increases.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Prime interest rates raised from 6 1/4% to 6 3/4%. Federal Reserve Board Chairperson Arthur Burns asks banks to justify increases at meeting Thursday
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) At meeting last week, major ntns. agree on plan to let currencies float.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Frankfurt, West Germany) [International Hotels spokesperson Marie MURPHY - says hotels having fewer American tourists and more Japanese because of currency realignments.]
REPORTER: John Sheahan
(Paris, France) Like German mkts., French money mkts. cautious in trading today. Dollar showing new strength.
REPORTER: Bill McLaughlin
(London, England) Treasury Secretary George Shultz meeting with British government leaders, include Chancellor Exchequer Anthony Barber. Shultz recommending long-term monetary reform. Shultz also trying to get Europe to end trade discrimination against US.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
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(Studio) Beef ranchers meet this week in Texas.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(San Antonio, Texas) [President counselor Anne ARMSTRONG - says consumers and ranchers aren't opponents but partners.] [Rancher Frank LEWIS - says beef boycott by consumers won't work. Supply must increase before prices lower.] [Cattle Raisers Association spokesperson William DONNELL - says doesn't like Nixon suggesting meatless days or his lifting of import duties on beef.]
REPORTER: Ed Rabel
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(Studio) General Motors Corporation says will increase prices 1974 models but not 1973 models.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Chrysler announces price increase $42 on `73 models.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) 26 more POW's return US.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(McGuire AFB, New Jersey) [Major Floyd THOMPSON - thanks people for homecoming welcome.] Major Floyd Kushner on board. Wife well-known antiwar activist. Francis Anton given hearty welcome by family.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
(Studio) Mrs. Gwynn Schweitzer and sons meet husband at Travis Air Force Base on his arrival from Philippines.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Travis AFB, California) Schweitzer family reunited.
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) South Vietnam charges Communists with cease-fire violation near Saigon. Threatens counterattack.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Saigon government and Viet Cong open talks in Paris, France, on political future South Vietnam.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) President Lon Nol moves from president palace to villa in Phnom Penh following attack by bomber on palace. Cambodian capital reported surrounded by Communist forces.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) merger case back in news. House subcommittee reveals Securities and Exchange Commission memo re: subpoenaed documents. Top Nixon administration officials named.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) [Representative Harley STAGGERS - says committee voted to release papers despite SEC request that they remain secret.] Memo details meeting between top ITT officials and Nixon top aides. Attorney General John Mitchell and Richard Kleindienst, aides John Ehrlichman and Charles Colson, and Vice President Agnew mentioned. Agnew office denies meeting with ITT. Memo also gives indirect reference to meeting between Mitchell and Nixon with regard to ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) case. Mitchell denies talk. Subject was persuading Assistant Attorney General Richard McLaren to call off antitrust suit against ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) merger, Hartford Fire Insurance Company and other firms. McLaren eventually negotiated out-of-court settlement under which ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) kept Hartford company Memo of Securities and Exchange Commission no substitute for original documents now held by Justice Department
REPORTER: George Herman
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(Studio) Indian leaders ask that Nixon appoint special representative from Sioux nation to serve as federal negotiator at Wounded Knee.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Great Lakes region suffers from snow storms and floods.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Harrison Township, Michigan) Great Lakes at record high level. Shoreline communities fear spring floods and are building up dikes for protection. [Frank MITZEL - says barrier walls being filled with sand bags.] Combination of high water levels and high winds could mean disaster.
REPORTER: Bill Plante
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(Studio) Supreme Court upholds constitutionality of state and local govts. giving preference to veterans in hiring and promotion.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Supreme Court refuses to review contempt conviction of reporter Peter Bridge for refusal to answer questions involving revelation confidential sources with regard to housing scandal story. Bridge's case instrumental in getting New Jersey shield law for reporters, but Governor William Cahill vetoes bill.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Nixon wants Congress to limit definition of insanity plea in some criminal cases.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(DC) Nixon wants death penalty restored for certain crimes. Now also wants abridgment insanity pleas. These and other Nixon statements on law and order confusing and likely to result in no lowering of crime rate.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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(Studio) Pentagon restaurants filled with sticky fingers.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Pentagon) Eating utensils being stolen from Pentagon restaurants by bushel. [Cafeteria manager Milford CROSS - says doesn't know why things disappearing.] Plates, trays, glasses and silverware worth $30,000 lost in last 9 mos.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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