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(Studio) Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski asks Judge John Sirica to subpoena President Nixon for 64 White House conversations.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Materials to be used in trial of 7 former aides and reelection representatives on charges of trying to coverup. Court papers imply Nixon knows more. He's involved in 64 talks. Jaworski says: "each conversation contains, or is likely to, evidence and material relevant to trial of this case." Talks involve 42 mtgs. and 22 telephone talks between Nixon and H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson, and John Dean. Tapes needed before September trial.
REPORTER: Fred Graham
(Key Biscayne, Florida) White House says subpoena to be studied Admin. spokesperson says Nixon won t fully comply with House Judiciary Committee subpoena. Some of subpoenaed conversations never recorded, some didn't take place on dates committee said, some had to do with cabinet matters and some with foreign affairs. All information to prove President innocent.
REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint
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(Studio) Former Nixon attorney, Herbert Kalmbach, testifies on Howard Hughes donation to Senate Watergate committee
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Kalmbach now cooperating with Bebe Rebozo case and Hughes gift. Involves where money went and what Nixon knew about its Rebozo told Kalmbach some money had gone to 2 Nixon brothers and Rose Mary Woods, Nixon secretary All 3 deny it Theory is Rebozo named intimates so Kalmbach would help replace cash. He didn't take hint.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
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($) SLA group, and woman identified by FBI as Patricia Hearst, robbed bank of $11,000. Her parents return from Mexico trip. Photo of Hearst shown
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(San Francisco, California) [Father Randolph HEARST - calls it vicious act.] [Fiance Steven WEED - says crushed SLA depends on Patty Hearst. Can't understand inhuman cruel treatment she's getting.] Leader of SLA, Donald DeFreeze, "Cinque", now added to list wanted for robbery. Patricia Hearst wanted as material witness. [US attorney James BROWNING says they went out their way to identify her as "Tania" Hearst.] Her picture sells on posters.
REPORTER: Richard Threlkeld
(Studio) Patricia accompanied into bank by DeFreeze and 3 other women. Robbers named.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(San Francisco, California) Nancy Ling Perry, 26, photos shown. Went to University California Berkeley. Charged with arson of house , identified as early SLA headquarters Husband can't see her as violent woman. Patricia Soltysik, 23 went to University California Berkeley. Active in women's lib and gay movement. Camilla Hall, 20, moved to Berkeley from Minnesota. Ex-con., DeFreeze, 30, from Cleveland. General field marshall of SLA been in trouble with law for 10 years Prison psychiatrist calls him dangerous man.
REPORTER: Richard Wagner
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(Studio) Search underway for radical, Abbie Hoffman, on $10,000 bail for cocaine possession. Didn't show up for Mar. hearing.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(S)3 1st class dope peddlers arrested in France, en route to American with 44 pounds pure heroin. Worth $8 million.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) USSR chooses Syria as its main Mideast ally. Message promises contd. arms support to Arabs. Syria President Assad returns from 5-day USSR visit'. promised Soviet weapons. Fighting conts. in Golan Heights
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Mt. Hermon, Syria) Syria and Israel fight. Israeli trying to keep Mt. Hermon. Defense minister Moshe Dayan thinks Syrian efforts to take mount linked with Assad's Moscow visit and Washington, DC disengagement talks. [DAYAN - thinks Syria decided to take hard line.] Can see miles from top of mount
REPORTER: Tom Fenton
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(Studio) United Nations Security Council debates Israel's retaliatory raid into Lebanon. USSR Ambassador Malik calls it barbarous and piratical. He supports Lebanese call for economy sanctions on Israel. Israeli Ambassador Tekoah says Lebanon must prevent Arab terrorists from using country as base for Israel attacks.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Michigan 8th congress district election to decide if Nixon a political asset or liability.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Saginaw, Michigan) Voters turn out in large numbers Nixon Apr. 10th visit to area shown. He campaigned for Republican James Sparling, who is running against Democrat Bob Traxler.
REPORTER: Bill Plante
(Studio) Heavy turnout in towns where he did and didn't campaign.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Former Attorney General, John Mitchell, says not obstruction of justice to pigeonhole memo written by fiancier, Robt Vesco. Memo says his campaign gift would be made public unless government studies into his financial affairs stopped
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) Former Attorney Gene Richard Kleindienst testifies for Mitchell to contradict testimony of John Dean. Doesn't recall Dean call made on Mitchell's behalf. He wouldn't deny call had taken place. Prosecutor John Wing prompts Kleindienst to say he once said he'd not dispute Dean testimony. Mitchell says Dean has great imagination. Calls Vesco intermediary, Harry Sears's, testimony false.
REPORTER: Robert Schakne Artist; Aggie Whelan
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(Studio) Don. A. Nixon, 27, Vesco employee and President' nephew, marries Helen Lipski, 23, in Costa Rica, where Vesco is fugitive.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) William Simon says Federal Energy Offices continue audits of major oil companies and turns up no evidence of companies lying about supplies. Senator Henry Jackson says his committee conts. own study of matter.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Army Lieutenant William Calley, accused of massacring My Lai, Vietnam, citizens, may soon go free. Army Secretary, Howard Callaway cut his 20 year sentence in 1/2. (DC) Calley free on bail now. New sentence means eligible for parole. Calaway, says Calley guilty, but thought he was carrying out legal order. Little Nixon can do to affect Calley case. President can only reduce sentences.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger meets with Argentina and Brazil foreign mins. to prepare for Latin American conference
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Kissinger speaks to United Nations on world economy Monday (DC) Kissinger put matter of rich and poor cntrys. in perspective. He warned of results if poor cntrys. raised raw material prices. Birth rate in poor cntrys. determines poor's future or lack of it.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite Eric Sevareid
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(Studio) Louvre was to show art collection of late Pablo Picasso. Show postponed due to poor quality of art pieces. Several fakes reported.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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