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(Studio) Special Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski reveals White House refuses to supply more White House tapes or documents to him.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Jaworski sends letter to Senator Judiciary Committee chairperson James Eastland with regard to matter after White House attorney James Saint Clair refuses more evidence to Jaworski. Details of Jaworski's letter to Eastland outlined. [JAWORSKI - summarizes controversy.] [Reporter Lesley STAHL - asks if more evidence needed for indictments.] Jaworski refuses comment.
REPORTER: Fred Graham
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(Studio) House Judiciary Committee lawyers confer with White House lawyer James Saint Clair.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) St Clair concerned about confidentiality of any evidence turned over to Judiciary Committee for impeachment probe. [Committee cnsl. John M. DOAR - thinks meeting with Saint Clair goes well.] Committee chairperson Peter Rodino says committee to make final decision, not White Use. [Committee cnsl. Albert JENNER - insists no confrontation brewing between White House and House Judiciary Committee]
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
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(Studio) Attorney General William Saxbe stirs up controversy in Patricia Hearst kidnapping case. Saxbe says FBI should rescue Miss Hearst if her location determined. FBI rejects Saxbe's statement; Randolph Hearst visibly upset by such talk.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Hillsborough, California) [HEARST - thinks statement antagonistic and irresponsible.] Saxbe later clarifies statement by saying Miss Hearst's life most important Hearsts receive sympathy cards and checks to help meet ransom demands. [Mrs. Randolph HEARST - praises people's generosity.] [HEARST - says he's not soliciting funds. FBI and Hearst continue to work on alternate ransom plan acceptable to kidnappers.]
REPORTER: Richard Threlkeld
(Studio) Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Weinberger calls kidnappers' demands absurd.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Exiled Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn remains in West Germany.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Langenbroich, West Germany) Solzhenitsyn walks with host, Heinrich Boll during day. Self-exiled Russian writer Dmitri Panin flies from Paris, France, to be with Solzhenitsyn. [PANIN - says Solzhenitsyn very worried about family.] Many cntrys. offer Solzhenitsyn new homeland. Russian author refuses to comment about future plans.
REPORTER: Bert Quint
(Studio) Solzhenitsyn's lawyer says author to go to Zurich, Switzerland, tomorrow; reasons unknown. CBS's Murray Fromson obtains details of Solzhenitsyn's seizure and arrest by Soviet officials in Moscow. Details given. Russian nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov appeals to outside world for international probe of secret police crimes described in Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago." Russian scientist, member of Soviet Academy of Sciences, agrees with Sakharov.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Service station operators angry over limitation on price increases and recent order keeping operators from selling gasoline to regular customers only. National Congress of Petroleum Retailers urges station owners to make no rash decision till after meeting with energy chief William Simon.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Govt. and oil industry disagree on last week's oil imports.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [Energy office John SAWHILL - says American Petroleum Institute figures wrong.] Incrd. gasoline production planned; shortages won't worsen. [SAWHILL - defends order against discriminatory gasoline sales.] Sawhill states Americans may be requested to keep thermostats higher this summer to cut power used by air conditioners.
REPORTER: Nelson Benton
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(Studio) Federal Energy Office orders price decrease for propane gas. FEO also orders immediate increase of fuel supplies to truck stops.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Organization of petroleum exporting cntrys. expresses hostility over proposed meeting between oil Producing and consuming nations.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Arab cntrys. end conference in Algiers with no promise of Arab oil embargo lift against United States forthcoming. High level Arab delegation to be sent to Paris and Washington, DC to discuss Syrian Participation in peace talks with Israel.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) American sells more wheat to Mid. E. than ever before.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Mrs. Julie Eisenhower to undergo surgery in Indianapolis, IN, to stop internal bleeding from ovarian cyst. Mrs. Nixon leaves Florida to be with daughter; David leaves Washington, DC for IN.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President dedicates new wing of Miami hospital. Nixon's presence meets with approval and criticism.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Miami Florida) President plugs new national health care program during speech. [PRES. - praises and explains national health care program.] Nixon indirectly criticizes Edward Kennedy's health care plan.
REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint
(Miami, Florida) Hospital complex has been controversial. Many senior citizens demonstrate outside hospital in support of Kennedy's health care plan. [Medicare patient Mrs. Dena COLISH - says Medicare won't pay for all bills if she's sick.]
REPORTER: Fred Francis
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(Studio) Attorney General William Saxbe expresses reservations over continued Secret Service protection for Spiro Agnew.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Author of Howard Hughes biography fraud, Clifford Irving, paroled.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) Irving met by small crowd after his release. [IRVING - explains reasons he's considered hero of sorts.] Asked to sum up adventure, Irving says it was interesting. Wife, Edith, remains in Swiss prison.
REPORTER: Sylvia Chase
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(Studio) Agriculture Department predicts food price rise possibly as high as 16% in `74.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator George Aiken to retire after this term.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Walter Mondale begins testing `76 presidential water.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Los Angeles, California) [MONDALE - refers to polls. Says he's starting now to get better known in polls.] Mondale questioned about tactics. [MONDALE - says he's beginning now to build his name steadily for recognition by voters. Hopes for public financing of `76 campaign.] Questioned about imperialism surrounding President [MONDALE - says ego makes man think he's king once he's becomes President]
REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater
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