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(Studio) Washington, DC "Star News" reports Nixon attorney Herbert Kalmbach had $1/2 million secret campaign fund, part of which was used for spying operations. Attorney for Gordon Liddy quits because Liddy continuously disregarded his advice. Republican Senator Richard Schweiker calls for disbandment of committee to reelect president because of its involvement in Watergate bugging. Associated Press reports Watergate prosecutor Earl Silbert says Attorney General Richard Kleindienst told him to go slow in Watergate investigation. Attorney for Nixon campaign turns over financial records to court as Common Cause asks for contempt citations for withholding records.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [James McCORD - says gave court info.- on Watergate case as completely and as truthfully as possible.] Judge John Sirica holds meeting with other judges on leaks of secret grand jury testimony to press. Columnist Jack Anderson has published series of articles with direct quotes from secret session testimony.
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl Artist: Howard Brodie
(Studio) Justice Department denies Attorney General Kleindienst ever told Silbert to go slow in prosecuting Watergate case. White House now seems to be dividing into camps over Watergate case.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Key Biscayne, Florida) White House doesn't deny reports aide Charles Colson warned Nixon last December Watergate cover-up might be under way. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler remains in seclusion and Jerry Warren handles news briefings.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Studio) President aide Henry Kissinger comments on case.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) [KISSINGER - tells Associated Press luncheon meeting Nixon wants Watergate fully investigated. Suggests people have compassion for those involved.]
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) War continues to rage in Cambodia.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Cambodia) Several CBS reporters, include Edward Bradley and camerman Norman Lloyd, wounded as government troops battle Communist forces near Phnom Penh.
REPORTER: Don Webster
(Studio) State Department reports North Vietnam troops helping Communist forces in Cambodia, but does not refute recent statement by American official in Cambodia that war there is primarily a civil war.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Pentagon releases study on drug abuse in Army.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Study reveals that while 20% of soldiers interviewed described themselves as heroin addicts, many of them were able to quit drugs on their own when they left war zone. [Assistant Secretary Defense Dr. John WILBUR - says recovery from heroin dependence successful in majority of cases involving servicemen.]
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) In trial Dan. Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, Leslie Gelb, who directed Pentagon Papers study, testifies papers were classified top secret by himself without his giving matter much consideration.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) New York hsewife faces extradition to West Germany to stand trial as war criminal.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) Mrs. Russell Ryan faces war crimes charges. Ryan was Nazi guard at Majdanek concentration camp in Poland from 1942-44. Married and moved to US in 1959. Was tracked down by Nazi hunter who also found Adolf Eichmann, Simon Wisenthal. Ryan's neighbors find charges hard to believe. [Neighbor Mrs. Emil STOCK - says Ryan likeable person.] Immigration Service trial lawyer hears testimony from former Majdanek inmates. [Majdanek survivor Mary FINKLESTEIN - recalls Ryan beating inmate into unconsciousness. Victim then cremated.] Ryan says was just following orders and had no choice but to do as she did. Did her job as best she would. [Majdanek survivor Stella KOLLIN - recalls Ryan throwing small children onto trucks to be taken to gas chambers. Can still hear children and mothers screaming.] [Husband Russell RYAN - feels wife never did anything wrong.]
REPORTER: Robert Schakne Artist: Aggie Whelan
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(Studio) Econ. Herbert Stein says administration may increase some taxes as means of slowing inflation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(DC) Watergate case is paralyzing administration working in DC. White House staff business at standstill.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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(Studio) Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal of Baltimore reporter facing indefinite jail sentence for refusing to disclose confidential news source.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Charles Kuralt meets interesting people.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Bradley County, Arkansas) In poor, sharecropping area of Arkansas lives Eddy Lovett, seeker of knowledge. Lovett is poor dirt farmer who lives with his children in tin-roofed shack which contains fabulous library. [LOVETT - says is currently reading about and corresponding with astronauts. Parents were share-croppers. Children never got much schooling. Reading has made him a free and happy man and will help his children who follow his example. Man's greatest enemy is ignorance.]
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
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