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(Studio) Senate Watergate hearings full of surprises. Today's may be most bizarre.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Capitol Hill) Question over Senate Watergate committee having access to White House tapes up in air. Earlier, White House aide Leonard Garment tells majority cnsl. Sam Dash no decision made by Pres, yet. During afternoon session committee chairperson Sam Ervin delivers surprise announcement. [ERVIN - reports Treasury Secretary George Shultz confirms that White House tapes to be available to Senate Watergate committee on President' orders.] Within moments, Ervin retracts former statement. Phone call hoax; caller an imposter. After Ervin's announcement on TV, cnsl. Garment assures Watergate committee that report untrue. [ERVIN - states in conversation with real Secretary Shultz, Shultz assured Ervin no call to him had been placed,] [Vice chairperson Watergate committee Howard BAKER - says he's upset and embarrassed, No harm to either party, however.] To impersonate government official is federal offense. FBI investigates.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
(White House) Ervin's announcement caused foot race to chief of staff Alexander Haig office. Haig on telephone with Shultz. Shultz denies call to Ervin or any such decision about tapes. Senior advisers urge President to consider naming independent observer to view portions of tapes and decide what should be released. John Sherman Cooper and John Williams being considered. President to answer Watergate committee 's request for White House tapes this wkend. [At press conference Ronald ZIEGLER - states White House cnsls. not reviewing White House tapes at this time.] Senator Hugh Scott suggests portions of White House tapes be made public, but not through Senate Watergate committee
REPORTER: Tom Jarriel
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(Studio) Assistant to John Mitchell during reelection campaign, Robert Mardian, testifies before Senate Watergate committee Mardian says G. Gordon Liddy implies he carried out plans with President' authority and CIA help. Mardian says Liddy bragged about staging break-in at Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Liddy told him he had hidden ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) lobbyist Dita Beard when story of ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) pledge to Republican convention broke. Mardian believes CIA involved in Watergate break-in because so many ex-CIA employees involved.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox busy with own Watergate investigation.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Cox makes secret visit to Capitol Hill but has no comment for reporters Cox meets with Stuart Symington. Symington conducts probe of possible CIA involvement in Watergate affair and gives Cox assurance he will give Cox information developed in case. This afternoon, letter from Cox to Judge John Sirica mistakenly read aloud in circuit court Asks for new grand jury. Letter read while deputy prosecutor James Neal presents sealed evidence against Gordon Strachan to Judge Sirica. Cox's request for new grand jury means he expects Watergate to drag on after end of this year Present grand jury expires at year's end and apparently Cox wants own grand jury to be with him throughout all Watergate hearings.
REPORTER: David Schoumacher Artist: Carolyn Landon
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(Studio) With Phase IV in effect, food ind reacts quickly. Food prices in supermkts. already on rise. Wholesalers to raise prices to make up for 60-day freeze.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Los Angeles, California) Growers respond favorably to Phase IV. Wholesalers react to Phase IV at wholesalers' terminal. Contd. high demand for food means escalating prices in supermarket Reaction from supermarket shoppers.
REPORTER: Anne Kaestner
(Chicago, Illinois) Beef frozen until September Beef industry charges administration with discrimination since all other foods unfrozen by Phase IV [American Meat Institute Herrell DeGRAFF - believes dire meat shortages to exist in August and early September Cattlemen won't allow beef to go to mkt, before beef ceiling raised.] Pork and lamb to be available at higher costs. [Meat packer George GORMAN - states he would remove ceilings at all levels. Allow supply and demand laws to operate naturally.]
REPORTER: Ron Miller
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(Studio) Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz meets with farm and food industry leaders to talk about goal behind lifting freeze.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) [BUTZ - says farm and food inds. have obligation to consumers to create more food for home and abroad.] Fuel and fertilizer needs must be assured to farmer and more acreage put into production for peak crops.
REPORTER: Herbert Kaplow
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(Studio) Cost of Living Council says gas price rollbacks may occur in some areas of country with Phase IV controls. Treasury Secretary George Shultz tells for. reporters that inflation to be controlled with Phase IV.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Commerce Department reports annual rate of inflation during 2nd 1/4 of year rose to 6.8% compared to 6.1% in 1st 1/4. gross national product slows to 2.6% in 2nd 1/4 of year compared to 8% in 1st 1/4.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Senator passes minimum wage bill, raising it to $2.20 an hour To include 7 million additional workers under minimum wage. Bill goes to Senator-House conference committee next.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Arab terrorist hold 15 hostages in Athens, Greece. Threatens to kill hostages without Greek government's word that his safe passage to Middle E. assured. Govt. agreed. Terrorist's plan to raid Israeli airline office caused action. Plan unsuccessful.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) New Zealand protest vessel 20 miles from atoll where France intends to set off atmospheric nuclear blast. Protest heard around world.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Paris, France) Nuclear test plans arouse hot debate in France, Critics protest on legal and moral grounds. Some say France trying to prove it is world power. But test in Pacific to continue No demonstrations in street, and students away from colleges cause government to proceed with plans.
REPORTER: Jim Giggans
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(Studio) In Chicago, Illinois, order of Elks drops whites only mbrship. qualifications.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) FTC (Federal Trade Commission) says shoppers collecting S&H green stamps may collect merchandise or money. Agreement between FTC (Federal Trade Commission) and S&H corporation provides for cash payments,
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Senate Watergate committee chairperson Sam Ervin full of witticisms during hearings. Outdoes himself at close of Fred LaRue's testimony.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Capitol Hill) [ERVIN - says men participating in Watergate matter have nullified laws of God and man. One law of God overlooked. Quotes Galatians 6, verse 7.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) Treasury Secretary George Shultz and President unsure that Phase IV will work, Classic remedies for inflation tried when Nixon administration began. Didn't work. Nor have successive controls. This reporter believes that inflation is number 1 concern and will continue to be unless some answer found, Thinks former President Johnson's refusal to admit United States in war caused inflation circle.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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