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(Studio) Israeli Prime Min. Golda Meir to visit Washington, DC Thursday Defense Min. Moshe Dayan relates agreement between Arabs and Israelis to exchange wounded POWs but not all POWs.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Jerusalem, Israel) Friends and relatives of POWs demonstrate outside Israeli parliament for release of prisoners. Demonstrators react emotionally to POWs. Inside parliament, leader of opposition criticizes Golda Meir's decision to supply trapped Egyptian 3rd army with supplies and suggests supplies be cut till POWs released. [Opposition leader Menahem BEGIN - insists Israel must use pressure to get POWs. POWs badly mistreated in previous wars.] Dayan states United States pressure forced Israel to supply 3rd army.
REPORTER: Bill Seamans
(Tel Aviv, Israel) Pictures of POWs, viewed by Israeli families, help identify prisoners held by Arabs. Arabs refuse to release names of captured Israelis. Citizens react to Arabs' refusal to release names. Tonight Israel reports Egypt will submit names of POWs; Syria makes no comment.
REPORTER: Don Farmer
(Tel Aviv, Israel) Prime Min. Golda Meir visits Israeli troops in Israeli-occupied Egyptian territory. Mil. stalemate conts. Small UN force between Egyptians and Israelis would do little good if fighting breaks out again outside Suez City.
REPORTER: George Watson
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(Studio) Before Golda Meir's visit, President Nixon to meet with special Egyptian envoy Ismail Fahmy.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Fahmy meet to discuss Mid. E. [FAHMY - says meeting goes well.] Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin meets with Kissinger and President at Camp David, MD, to discuss Mid. E. Golda Meir hopes to accomplish prisoner exchange in Mid. E. during mtgs. in DC.
REPORTER: Herbert Kaplow
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(Studio) "New York Times" reports President told former deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst not to press action against ITT. Kleindienst confided information to former special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. White House concedes President intervened in ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) but with every right. At Senate hearing Cox admits leaking story, leading to "New York Times" article.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Capitol Hill) Cox admits relating Kleindienst's confidence to Senators Ted Kennedy and Philip Hart after President fired him. [COX - relates breach of confidence and expresses regret.] [Senator Hugh SCOTT - believes inferences and innuendos with regard to Nixon administration released to hurt Nixon.]
REPORTER: Bob Clark Artist: Freda Reiter
(Studio) After White House admission of intervention in ITT, Richard Kleindienst may be in trouble.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) Film shows Kleindienst appearing before Senator Judiciary Committee March 8, 1972. Kleindienst insisted no one at White House pressured him with regard to ITT affair. Question of perjury by Kleindienst now arises. [KLEINDIENST - refuses to comment on ITT, but reveals his respect and admiration for Cox.]
REPORTER: Stephen Geer
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(Studio) Republican Senator William Saxbe is President' 1st choice for filling Attorney General vacancy.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) 3 networks to rotate live coverage of confirmation hearings for Vice President designate Gerald Ford before Senator Rules Committee ABC responsible for coverage Thursday
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Top officials of 21 oil firms meet in Washington, DC to discuss oil crisis produced by Mid. E. war. Libya cuts off Arab oil to Holland and warns of similar action against other cntrys. opposing Arabs. Several European cntrys. turn to North Sea as source of oil.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(N. Sea) Petroleum experts believe oil reserves in North Sea outweigh all Arab oil. Drilling companies already pump oil, but reserves barely touched so far. Future plans for North Sea oil reserves outlined.
REPORTER: Jim Giggans
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(Studio) North Vietnam sends large numbers of supplies and troops into South Vietnam, in violation of truce agreement. North Vietnam offensive feared.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Govt. reports welfare rolls decrease for 1973 fiscal year
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Chinese sports linked with political diplomacy.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Peking, China) Traveling ping pong teams open doors to diplomacy; Chinese now are ambs. of good will. Ldrship. of China proposes to build teams in other sports to carry on diplomacy with world outside China. Sports include soccer, ice hockey.
REPORTER: Steve Bell
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(Studio) Senator fails to override Nixon veto authorizing funds for United States Info. Agency. Reasons for veto outlined.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) While this reporter on way to cover Mid. E. war in Tel Aviv last week, one crisis after another fell on US. Firing of Cox, Kissinger's mtgs. with Soviet party leader Leonid Brezhnev, military alert, and Nixon's declaration of war on press all happened in United States while Mid. E. front quiet.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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