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(Studio) All nations problems intensified in NYC. 28,000 tons garbage every day. Sanitation men remain on strike in defiance of court orders and other city employees continue demonstrations against layoffs, due to financial crisis.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(NYC) Garbage problem worst in slums. Plastic bags not used. Serious health hazards feared due to temperatures. Garbagemen continue strike despite court order. Feared police to be equally militant. Earlier wildcat strike by police not successful. [Unidentified MAN - tells of strike discussion.] Firemen to be laid off spent last hrs. on job fighting fires. Considered sympathy strike. But
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(Studio) Pennsylvania state employee strike enters 2nd day, with most off jobs; state agencies disrupted. Prison and mental hospital guards respond to court order to return to work. Arrests made for obstructing highways and disorderly conduct.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Labor Department reports increase in unemployment benefit claims.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) President Ford signs housing bill after veto of broader bill sustained. New bill hopefully to spur construction.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(White House) Emergency Housing Act called example of executive, legislature cooperation says President Ford. [FORD - speaks of construction workers, housing industry. Jokes with onlookers about his middle name.] Housing act mortgage provisions reported Energy adviser says gasoline, at higher prices, available for summer driving. Natural gas outlook not so good. Decontrol of natural gas could increase production and price.
REPORTER: Tom Jarriel
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(Studio) Sun Oil becomes 9th major oil company to up gasoline prices. Public questions sudden unanimous increase in gasoline prices.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Gasoline price increase blamed on President tariff on foreign oil, and because oil companies thought timing right. [Attorney, Nader research group - Garry DELOSS - explains increase] [Spokesperson, Standard Oil of IN, William ADAMS - says demands up at this time of year] Unanimity of action with regard to prices called coincidence by oil companies [Representative John DINGELL - is suspicious.] Big oil within law; lawmakers can justify action. Consumer must use less.
REPORTER: Don Farmer
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(Studio) State Department reports Army colonel dragged from taxi and kidnapped in Beirut. Fighting noted. Officer is Colonel Ernest Morgan. Fighting less since ceasefire.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Beirut, Lebanon) Beirut comes to life again. Army now evident. Dead or wounded from fighting may be yet to be found. Road blocks lifted. Armed men off streets. Future considered.
REPORTER: Bill Zimmerman
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(Studio) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to meet Andrei Gromyko next week to discuss Mideast and nuclear arms limitation.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) talks resume in Geneva. Present Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) round began November, 1972. Goal is limit of 2400 missiles for each side: United States and USSR .
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith (satellite report)
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(Studio) Senator William Proxmire urges US-USSR space experiment be postponed until USSR brings down two cosmonauts now orbiting in a space laboratory CIA expresses doubt USSR can handle two space flights simultaneously. US space expert says USSR can do so.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Edward Gurney says withheld information on fund-raising activities because it would have destroyed him as member Watergate committee Gurney strong Nixon defender.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Maryland governor Marvin Mandel says United States attorney won't say whether Mandel personally the object of grand jury investigation of political corruption.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) New York state governor Hugh Carey will testify he played no part in oil deal that made brother Edward Carey millions. Hugh Carey seeks full investigation.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) When Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon were in White House, isolation sometimes charged. Gerald Ford brings this criticism close to home.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(White House) 1st film of Ford's "Kitchen Cabinet" shown. Group tries to keep Ford in touch with reality. Don. Rumsfeld meets with group. [RUMSFELD - explains workings of group.] [President adviser Melvin LAIRD - explains purpose of group.] John Burns, David Packard, Leon Parma, Bryce Harlow, Senator Robert Griffin, William White, William Scranton in group. Econ., campaign `76 advice given by group. [President adviser William SCRANTON - explains isolating effect presidency has on presidents.] Kitchen Cabinet worth noting.
REPORTER: Steve Bell
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(Studio) Arizona Representative Morris Udall claims he has raised enough money to qualify for federal matching funds for campaign `76. Terry Sanford criticizes Defense Secretary James Schlesinger with regard to use of nuclear weapons.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Passage of traditional sailor suit mourned.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Bell-bottomed trousers' story told against background of painting and to "Anchors Aweigh." Atomic Navy noted. Bell-bottoms now out. New uniform functional, but bell-bottoms' passing mourned. Sailors in old and new uniform follow WAVE off screen. Reporter notes some continue traditions.
REPORTER: Jim Kincaid
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(Studio) Billie Jean King beats Chris Evert in Wimbledon tennis match. King to play Evonne Goolagong Cawley for women's singles title.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Wimbledon, England) Biggest crowds now drawn. Wimbledon characterized. Some come to be watched. Some come to bet. Billie Jean King, 31, beats Chris Evert, 20.
REPORTER: Hilary Brown
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(Studio) India's crisis called "psychological not political" Mrs. Gandhi as student characterized; bit of a snob. Now an inverted snob. Has done little for India's poor in her championship of "The Poor." Is defiant foe of the rich, especially US. Bangladesh aid from United States noted. Nehru's daughter has advanced Nehru's creation backwards, to 18th century.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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