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(Studio) Jury chosen in John Mitchell's and Maurice Stans' trial; last barrier to Watergate indictments removed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) Judge Lee Gagliardi chooses jury carefully; impartial hearing strived for. Jury to be sequestered throughout trial.
REPORTER: Robert Schakne Artist: Aggie Whelan
(Studio) Charges against Stans and Mitchell reviewed. New Watergate indictments expected tomorrow, since jury sequestered in New York.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President' attorney James Saint Clair issues report to House Judiciary Committee re: impeachable offenses; details given. Committee takes broader view of impeachment.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Democrats agree to settle Watergate damage suit against Republicans out of court
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) American Petroleum Institute figures show gasoline stks. increase steadily for 6 weeks Figures also reveal crude oil imports climb 25%, but FEO William Simon warns against taking too much encouragement from figures.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President speaks to Young Republican leadership conference
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [PRES. - predicts Republicans to be in office till 1984.] President discusses energy bill. [NIXON - insists emergency energy bill to be vetoed to avoid any possibility of gasoline rationing.]
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Studio) Senator Barry Goldwater speaks before same group and criticizes President' budget.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [GOLDWATER - insists budget detrimental to United States economy]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Republican chairperson George Bush charges unions helped Democrats in `72 election; details given. Watergate committee chairperson Sam Ervin refuses Bush's request for probe.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Democrats meet in Washington, DC also.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Democrats' executive committee settles differences with regard to rules in picking delegates for `76 convention. Committee decisions reviewed. Chairperson Robert Strauss allowed to expand commission checking on Democrat compliance with rules on state and local levels; all factions represented on commission Full Democrat ntl. committee to vote on today's decisions tomorrow.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
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(Studio) Senator to vote to veto pay raise for members of Congress If veto goes through, House to vote pay raises for other government officials. Representative Chas. Wilson says no raises to be approved if Congress members left out.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) House passes pension reform bill; bill outlined.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Majority of Britishers make way to polls to vote in national elections.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(London, England) Conservative party Prime Minister Edward Heath casts vote early; Labor party leader Harold Wilson chief competitor for Heath. Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe encouraged by incrd. support to Liberals. Verdict still unknown.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
(Gravesend, England) Ptys. locked in close contest here. Gravesend citizens react to issues of national election.
REPORTER: John Laurence
(London, England) BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) poll projects slight swing to Labor party; possibly Liberals could hold major of seats in Parliament if neither Conservative or Labor wins major
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
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(Studio) United States and Egypt revive diplomatic relations Hermann Eilts designated as American amb. to Egypt. Egyptian President Sadat invites Nixon to Egypt. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger meets with Sadat while attempting to work out disengagement between Israel and Syria. Sadat reports Arab oil cntrys. to meet next month to discuss ending embargo against US.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Ethiopian Emperor Selassie yields to demands of rebellious military control. Selassie appoints new prime minister and cabinet.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Cordoba, Argentina, controlled by rebel police aided by right wing supporters of President Juan Peron. Leftist governor of Cordoba seized.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Man wanted on suspicion of killing 2 Chicago policemen, gunned down in Milwaukee, WI, shootout. Man identified as Jacob Cohen.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (WISN-TV film)
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(Studio) Free food program, arranged as basis for Patricia Hearst's release from kidnappers, resumes today.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(San Francisco, California) 10 distribution ctrs. unmarked by violence today. Police and newsmen keep distance so as not to provoke violence. Crowds orderly, despite many persons forced to return home without food. Randolph Hearst hopes kidnappers will release daughter.
REPORTER: Richard Threlkeld
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(Studio) Experts clean up Pablo Picasso painting sprayed with red paint in New York Museum of Modern Art. Painting undamaged.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) In New York, woman credits mystic with locating missing children.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Burnt Hills, New York) Lisa and Amy Tomchik missing for 22 mos. before found. [Joanne TOMCHIK - says she didn't think children would be returned.] Psychic Millie Coutant gives free psychic advice. [Mrs. COUTANT - says she mentally picked up location of children.] Police confirm Mr. Tomchik found in Wilson, North Carolina, living with daughters. [Mrs. TOMCHIK - says she's ecstatic over daughters' return.]
REPORTER: David Henderson (WTVD-TV film)
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(Studio) Govt. investigation of funeral home prices reveal Americans pay astronomical prices for funerals. FTC (Federal Trade Commission) surveys funeral homes in DC; details given.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Washington, DC federal judge bans use of x-ray machines to screen luggage in airports.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) president Leonard Woodcock calls for temporary restrictions on foreign car imports.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Cost of Living Council grants steel industry a price boost of 5%.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Rituals of winter in Millers Mills, New York, beautiful.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Millers Mills, New York) Millers Mills cuts pond ice each winter and stores it for use in summer. Villagers look on ice cutting as tradition. Villagers discuss tradition; something learned about agelessness and continuity in small town. At end of ice cutting day, villagers spend evening together and discuss and compare ice cutting days in previous years
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
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(Studio) New craze on college campuses called streaking: running through winter cold in the buff. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill claims streaking record.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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