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(Studio) Truckers reject President' proposal to freeze diesel fuel prices; truckers send demands back to White House Effects of strike spreads; violence on increase
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Harrington, DE) Trucker Claude E. Nix killed by someone in passing car. [Driver Frank TALLENT - admits fear.] Truckers on road drive in convoys with police escort.
REPORTER: Chris Kelley
(Burns Harbor, IN) Convoy traveling through Illinois with police escorts dwindles as rumors of planned violence increase [Trucker Robert MORRIS - must drive to keep own family fed and clothed.]
REPORTER: Hal Fisher
(Accident, MD) Area critically affected by truck blockade outside Garrett Cnty. Food, gasoline, heating oil in short supply. [Foodland Mkt. manager Cheston BROWNING - says no back stock available; entire store to be nearly empty.] [Chairperson county board of cmsnrs. Wayne HAMILTON - reports 20,000 gals. of gas left for entire cnty.] [Healthland Pharmacy manager Mrs. Dorothy RUMBLE - believes truckers have no feelings for families suffering dire shortages in Garrett Cnty.] Governor Marvin Mandel calls out state police and National Guard. [Striking trucker James WAGNER - defends strike.]
REPORTER: Bernard Shaw
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(Studio) New York accuses Shell Oil and 3 affiliates of price gouging scheme; details outlined. Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz charges hoarded oil could heat thousands of homes for 1 year Antitrust suit to be filed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Federal energy chief William Simon to make decision on incring. gasoline production by Friday Heating and residual oils to decrease production if gas increases American Petroleum Institute reports oil imports, gasoline production and stks. increase last week Home heating oil and diesel fuel stks. drop slightly.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) AMC reports stock dividend for 1st time in 8 years Bd. chairperson Roy Chapin predicts small cars to account for 60% of all new car sales in `74.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Independent truckers willing to yield on diesel fuel price rollback but want freeze on diesel fuel to remain intact as long as necessary.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger displays displeasure over continued Arab oil embargo against US.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) President' oil embargo comments in state of union address reviewed. [KISSINGER - says continued oil embargo to be considered as blackmail against US.] Diplomacy in Mid. E. may suffer if embargo not lifted.
REPORTER: George Herman
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(Studio) France to attend Washington, DC meeting of 13 oil-consuming nations. To oppose any move at organizing against oil producers.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Jordan's King Hussein forced to postpone Washington, DC meeting because of mutiny within Jordanian troops. Troops' demands outlined.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Pro-Arab terrorists seize Japanese embassy in Kuwait and threaten to kill ambassador unless Japan flies 4 guerrillas stranded on hijack ferryboat in Singapore harbor to Kuwait. Kuwait now refuses to allow plane to land.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) In New Delhi, India, 52-member student group takes over Arab League Mission building, protesting Egyptian President Sadat's peace moves toward Israel.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Admin. hopes to remove most wage-price controls in 2 mos.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Health and petroleum industry to remain under controls. Treasury Secretary George Shultz thinks Cost of Living Council should be maintained. [Director Cost. of Living Council John DUNLOP - admits controls haven't worked.] [SHULTZ - says some other inds. may be placed under controls before all controls lifted.] Committee member William Proxmire charges administration with giving up in inflation fight.
REPORTER: Hal Walker
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(Studio) House votes to move ahead with Nixon impeachment investigation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) House Judiciary Committee chairperson Peter Rodino rejects enclosing cutoff date for impeachment inquiry. Representative Robert McClory thinks deadline date necessary; Republican leader John Rhodes disagrees. Representative Edward Hutchinson thinks President shouldn't be called as witness; Representative Jerome Waldie disagrees. Resolution, calling for broad subpoena power in impeachment probe, passes quickly. [RODINO - thinks vote reflects House confidence in Judiciary Committee to investigate impeachment.]
REPORTER: Bruce Morton Artist: Aggie Whelan
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(Studio) Watergate committee member Lowell Weicker formally requests President to name law enforcement officials he told about Watergate cover-up after John Dean revealed matter. If President didn't confide in official, he could be charged with felony.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Former White House cnsl. John Dean disbarred from practicing law in Virginia.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Alexandria, Virginia) 3-judge panel hands down decision. Dean's attorney hopes for suspension rather than disbarment.
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl Artist: John D. Hart
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(Studio) President refuses to give tapes and documents to Watergate committee because of national security and forthcoming trials.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Chairperson joint chiefs of staff Admiral Thomas Moorer tells Armed Services Committee he never ordered or encouraged Pentagon spying in White House Secretary State Henry Kissinger says he believes Moorer's account
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President sends national health insurance plan to Congress Details of plan outlined.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President gives Republican Congmen. list of potential presidential nominees for `76. Gerald Ford, Governor Ronald Reagan, Nelson Rockefeller, John Connally named by President
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Democrat John Murtha wins Pennsylvania's 12th district Congress seat over Republican Harry Fox. Election studied closely for Watergate effects.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Fate of kidnapped Patricia Hearst unknown.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(San Francisco, California) [Randolph HEARST - hopes kidnappers will release daughter.] Police suspect kidnappers planned action in advance; reasons for this theory outlined. [Berkeley police Richard BERGER - says contact with kidnappers must be established before stalemate can ease.] [HEARST - hopes kidnappers won't act foolishly; prays for daughter's return.]
REPORTER: Richard Threlkeld
(Studio) Berkeley police say owner of getaway car Peter Benenson forced to ride in car while Miss Hearst seized.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Spiro Agnew's literary agent reports "Ladies Home Journal" buys serial rights to Agnew's 1st novel.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Eric Sevareid analyzes protest by independent truckers.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Energy crisis causes many hardships among some inds. Truckers now hold federal government at bay. It's not question of right versus wrong, but right vs. rights. Various definitions of recession offered. This reporter believes recession at hand.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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