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(Studio) Communist forces move within 2 miles Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Phnom Penh, Cambodia) Many civilians caught in cross-fire as Khmer Rouge near Cambodian capital.
REPORTER: Denis Cameron
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(Studio) Sweden criticizes American bombing in Cambodia.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Fighting reported heavy in Central South Vietnam and around Hue. ICCS negotiates with Viet Cong for removal shot down helicopter.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) United States trade deficit down for 1973 due to increased exports of agriculture products to USSR and of airplanes to other countries.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) More people using horse meat as substitute for beef due to high prices beef.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Iselin, New Jersey) Bunchy Grant of Roosevelt Sales Stable sells far more horses to slaughterhse. than did last year Jim Leone sells horse meat for human consumption at his store. Business is good. [LEONE - tells group of demonstrators he doesn't buy horse meat except from farms where horses raised specifically for slaughter.] [GRANT - says there are no horse ranches that raise horses for slaughter, but there may be if prices continue to rise. Presently horses slaughtered are those too lame, sick or old to be used as riding horses. ]
REPORTER: Bill Zimmerman
(Studio) Meat inspection standards are same for horses as for cattle.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#25551
(Studio) Assistant Attorney General Henry Petersen requests all transcripts from Watergate grand jury investigation.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(White House) Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, at request Henry Petersen, declines comment on Watergate. Ziegler does reveal Nixon has been talking frequently with Peterson and met again today with John J. Wilson, attorney for H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.
REPORTER: Stephen Geer
(NYC) 3 high-level administration sources report that in February John Ehrlichman and Charles Colson told President that John Mitchell and John Dean appeared to have been involved in planning Watergate bugging and that Dean's Watergate investigation had been deliberately misleading. Nixon demanded proof and ordered Dean to submit written report on his investigations. Dean told Nixon he couldn't. In April Ehrlichman confronted Dean with charges of having been involved in bugging and later with having tried to bribe Watergate defendants to keep quiet. Dean then said to have gone to Justice Department and offered testimony in exchange for immunity. Immunity was denied, but Dean offered statements anyway. Both John Dean and Jeb Magruder implicated John Mitchell and other top White House aides. President then ordered full disclosures, but' only after he completes own investigation.
REPORTER: Bill Gill
#25552
(Studio) More disclosures made today about questionable activities of Nixon campaign committee
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Last May television station WTTG in Washington, DC ran ad inviting opinions about Nixon's mining of Haiphong Harbor. Poll showed approval was 5 to 1. [WTTG news dir. Ed TURNER - says approving postcards sent to station were obviously from same source. Were all written on same typewriter.] Orders to flood poll with Pro-Nixon replies came from Robert Odle of Nixon reelection committee [Former Nixon committee mail clerk James DOOLEY - recalls when committee received orders from Odele to send out phony cards to WTTG.]
REPORTER: Frank Tomlinson
#25553
(Studio) Pentagon Papers trial temporarily halted until prosecution produces documents with regard to investigation of Rand Corp., research corporation for which Dan. Ellsberg worked when released Papers.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Estimated 10,000 homeless as result of Mississippi River flooding. Property damage great.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Crystal City, Missouri) Flood damage in Missouri already $50 million. While Saint Louis considered safe, many small towns in state under water. Volunteers working around clock to fight off rising waters.
REPORTER: Ron Miller
#25556
(Studio) Earthquake causes extensive property damage in Hawaii.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#25558
(Studio) Center for Disease Control in Atlanta expresses concern over decreasing number children getting polio vaccines.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#25559
(Studio) Army announces increase in bonus for 4 year enlistments in Army and Marine Corps. ground combat units.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#25560
(Studio) Biggest transportation strike in Japanese history begins.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#25561
(Studio) Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons replies to AFL-CIO President George Meany's recent condemnation Teamsters for signing contracts with California grape growers. United Farm Workers Union leader Cesar Chavez had asked for Meany's support in Chavez's dispute with Teamsters.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Dallas, Texas) [FITZSIMMONS - says Meany a frustrated old man.] Fitzsimmons says Meany has forgotten that Chavez's union did not live up to no-raid agreement.
REPORTER: Charles Murphy
#25563
(Studio) Reporter feels Americans tend to try to put a good face on a bad situation through public relations work rather than to clean up the bad situation itself. Image created through public relations can't for long be better than the reality.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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