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(Studio) President Nixon's State of the Union address was low key and conciliatory to political opposition.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [NIXON - announces bigger defense spending budget until mutual arms limitation agreement reached. Calls strong defense guardian, not enemy, of peace. Nixon lists improvements on domestic scene; says inflation will be stopped. Strives for full employment in peace time. He proposes Federal sales tax to replace property tax for financing schools, giving local school bds. control over schools.]
(Studio) President Nixon, in longer, written, version of speech, denounces school busing for integration. Technological devt. program planned which could ease unemployment. Anti-war protesters and P.O.W. families demonstrated at Capitol.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Senator Robert Griffin calls speech inspiring. Senator Edmund Muskie says speech was empty. Senator Hubert Humphrey says President asks for trouble with Congress Democratic Party has equal-time telecast to reply to speech tomorrow.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) United States Phantom jet shot down over Laos. 2 crewmen rescued. United States Ambassador to Saigon, Ellsworth Bunker, predicts new enemy offensive in North and Cen. South Vietnam. Scattered enemy attacks up 70-80% last week
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) 5 United States troops killed in combat last week in South Vietnam. 26 wounded.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Nothing accomplished at Paris Peace Talks.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Reuters News Agency reports Defense Department considering revitalization of controversial F-111 fighter-bomber.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Secretary Interior Rogers Morton cancels deal to lease La. off-shore oil and gas property, having been blocked by envtl. groups.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Envtl. protection Agency head, William Ruckleshaus, requests Justice Department suit against mining company for polluting Lake Superior. Pure water vs. 3000 jobs at stake.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Silver Bay, Minn.) Reserve Mining Company of Armco and Republic Steel, dumps tailings into Lake Superior. [Mining official, Don WRIGHT - says anti-pollution plan must be economically possible, envtly sound, and liveable solution.]
REPORTER: Dick Kay
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(Studio) Tenn. Representative William Anderson says, in "Congressional Record", that President Nixon has $3 1/2 billion tucked away to he used for domestic projects in next few mos. for maximum political effect. Office of Mgt. and Budget says this representatives prudent management
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Budget contains billions of dollars in subsidies.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Subsidies amount to 25% Federal Budget; pmts. voted by Congress to improve econ. position of particular industry or group. Given to groups with political power. [Former Budget Director, Charles SCHULTZ - describes how groups pressure for money.] Maritime and airplane industries cited.
REPORTER: Irving R. Levine
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(Studio) Memphis, Tenn. blacks upset due to police shooting of 3 young black men in 2 weeks police say killings connected with robberies. 9 police accused of killing black youth in October, 1971, arraigned today.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Memphis) 4 of 9 police charged with 1st degree murder in connection with fatal beating of Elton Hayes. Race relations worsen as 3 more blacks recently shot by police. 1 victim, Raymond Stewart, had no weapon. [President Memphis SCLC, Reverend Ezekiel BELL - says youth could have been wounded to stop him instead of shot many times.] [Mayor Wyeth CHANDLER - says populace needs a get tough policy.] Blacks complain of few blacks on police force.
REPORTER: Peter Nolan
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(Studio) Plane hijacked at Las Vegas, Nev. Hijacker parachuted with ransom money over Colo. Follows pattern of D.B. Cooper
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Las Vegas) Hughes Air West plane halted by hijacker on Las Vegas runway. Passengers released for 2 parachutes and $50,000. Plane forced to fly toward Denver.
REPORTER: Roy Neal
(Studio) Parachute hijacker jumped to farm near Akron, Colo.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Personal income up, 3 times that of freeze period, in December Average gain in 1971, however, lowest in 8 years
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) FDA, responding to "Consumer Report" magazine, says it is safe to eat shrimp.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) News that British unemployment hit 25 year peak causes uproar in Parliament.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Russian post, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, describes treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(NYC) [YEVTUSHENKO - says United States and Russia both have good and bad people. Says some Russians are anti-Semitic, but the majority are not.]
REPORTER: Leonard Probst
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(Studio) Allocation of rooms at Democratic Convention in Miami Beach charted: Muskie gets 500 rooms; Humphrey, 450; Jackson, 150; McGovern, 62; Lindsay 95: Hartke, 100; Chisholm, 100; Yorty, 100; Mills, 200.
REPORTER: John Chancellor; and Paul Duke
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