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(Studio) Cost of living up .8% in February
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) Rises in prices of food, fuel and other commodities cited.
REPORTER: Hal Walker
(Studio) Shoppers react to food price rises.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Chicago, Illinois) [Shopper - says all food prices unreasonable.] [Shopper - says can only afford hamburger meat.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Miami Beach, Florida) [Shoppers - advocate meat boycott.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(NYC) [Shoppers - says people must eat but prices too high.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(DC) [Chairperson Council Econ. Advisers Herbert STEIN - says, in answer to question Senator Hubert Humphrey, that food prices will rise less slowly by end of year than are rising now.] [Cost of Living Council chief John DUNLOP - says takes time to change government agriculture policy from that of limiting food production to that of increasing it.]
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
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(Studio) Supreme Court rules schools may be supported by property taxes. Justice Lewis Powell writes majority opinion.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(San Antonio, Texas) In poor areas where schools supported by local property taxes schools inferior to those in wealthy areas. Demetrio Rodriguez has 4 sons who have high professional ambitions, but Rodriguez lives in poor area and schools there are bad. Rodriguez brought issue of property taxes to support schools before courts [RODRIGUEZ - says school where his children go is old building and teachers only work there until can find better jobs. No professional people come out of this school. Rodriguez feels children being denied equal education opportunities because come from poor district.] Today Nixon's appointees in Supreme Court plus Justice Potter Stewart say Constitution doesn't guarantee equal education to all citizens.
REPORTER: Fred Graham
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(Studio) Illinois couple charged with child abandonment for selling 12 year old daughter for $30,000. Fred and Rita Flynn alleged to have sold daughter to Harold Miller. Miller wanted to marry girl.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Reverend Billy Graham supports Nixon's plan to restore death penalty. Also suggests rapists be castrated. Graham praises South Africa. Is on tour there.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) L. Pat. Gray questioned again today by Senator
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Capitol Hill) Democrats continue to question Gray about FBI's investigation Watergate bugging. Under questioning Senator Edward Kennedy, Gray says sent summary FBI's Watergate investigation to John Dean, White House attorney, through Attorney General's office. Sent raw FBI files straight to Dean. Nobody told of transaction. Republican Edward Gurney defends Gray. [GURNEY - says feels Gray qualified to be permanent FBI chief.]
REPORTER: Neil Strawser Artist: Howard Brodie
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(Studio) Another case of slave farm labor uncovered in Florida.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Fort Myers, Florida) Worker Julius Graff tells how held 2 mos. at migrant farm labor camp against his will. Finally got away in back of truck. Crew chief Joe "Bigfoot" Thomas wouldn't let him go freely. [GRAFF - says was paid with bottle wine, cigarettes and dinner for week's work.] Thomas arrested. Had crew of 22. Many too scared to talk. Woman who owned bldgs. where workers slept given baby boy by Thomas as payment for rents. Last November a worker was hit and killed by car while trying to escape Thomas' camp.
REPORTER: Fred Francis
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(Studio) Ford recalls 59,000 Torinos to locate steering defects.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) John McCone, ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) chief and former CIA head, testifies to Senator about ITT efforts to influence Chile's politics.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Capitol Hill) McCone testifies ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) President Harold Geneen offered $1 million to any government agency with plan to have Chile's Parliament decide election in favor of conservative candidate Jorge Alessandri when it became clear Marxist candidate Allende would win popular vote. Allende threatening to expropriate ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) properties. [McCONE - says discussed offer with Henry Kissinger but no action on it taken.] [Senator Frank CHURCH - asks if McCone approved Geneen's plan.] [McCONE - says yes.]
REPORTER: George Herman
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(Studio) 2 Libyan air force planes fire on American C-130 plane over Mediterranean. Plane escapes.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Viet Cong will release remaining 32 American POW's Saturday North Vietnam to release their remaining POW's Sunday
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(No location given) [Former prisoners of war Lieutenant Commander Rodney KNUTSON - says wanted hamburgers and milkshakes after being released. Is a bachelor and likes girl watching. Anxious to try new clothes styles. Most surprised by length of men's hair now. Notices new code in morals.]
REPORTER: Richard Threlkeld
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