This program is 28 minutes long
#460522
(Studio) President Nixon requests $246.3 billion budget for fiscal year 1973: 45% human resources; 32% defense; 23% other. $25.5 billion deficit planned.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [Treasury Secretary John CONNALLY - says deficit budget will alleviate unemployment without inflation.]
REPORTER: Irving R. Levine
(Studio) President asks Congress to set absolute limit on money for appropriations.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [Budget Director George SHULTZ - endorses limit.]
(Studio) House Speaker Carl Albert rejects budget limits. House Appropriations Committee Chairperson George Mahon calls budget disguise for disastrous financial situation.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460523
#460524
(Studio) J. Edgar Hoover uncovered conspiracy plot, in November 1970, to kidnap President Aide Henry Kissinger, and to blow up heating system in D.C. fed. bldgs. Reverend Philip Berrigan and 6 others indicted on charges.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) Anti-war movement to use trial to make war a major issue again. [Defendant, Sister Elizabeth McALISTER - says protestors will survive and resist.] Federal judge River Dixon Herman examines prospective jurors. Father Berrigan says charges were fabricated.
REPORTER: Carl Stern Sketches by Leo Hershfield
#460525
(Studio) United States planes flew 5 more protective reaction strikes against anti-aircraft sites in North Vietnam.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460526
(Studio) North Vietnam takes over road between Vientiane and Luang Prabang. Struggle continues for CIA base at Long Cheng.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Long Cheng, Laos) December 31, North Vietnam attacked Long Cheng, important because of air field. Stalemate results from fighting.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
#460527
(Studio) United Press International reports United Nations has new aid program with Russians and Chinese.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460528
(Studio) Senate Majority leader Mike Mansfield proposes Paris Peace Talks be enlarged to Laotian and Cambodian representatives, and be moved closer to Indochina.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460529
#460530
(Studio) Supreme Court rules unconstitutional welfare residency requirements in New York and Conn. test cases.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460531
(Studio) Supreme Court orders new trial for 3 drug companies accused of conspiring to fix price of new antibiotics.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460532
(Studio) Supreme Court upholds lower court ruling requiring broadcasters to accept paid advertising on controversial issues.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460533
(Studio) In Houston, sheriff's department handles consumer protection.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Houston, Tex.) Examples given which find way to Harris Company Consumer Fraud Div. [Chief, Consumer Fraud Div., sergeant Marvin ZINDLER - says over 100 criminal charges have been filed since October, 1971.] [Better Business Bureau, Richard MCCLAIN - says operation destroys public's confidence in business.]
REPORTER: Fred Briggs
#460534
(Studio) Swiss police issue warrant for Helga River Hughes, who cashed McGraw-Hill check to Howard Hughes. Check was for publishing rights to Hughes' autobiography. New York Judge orders author of book, Clifford Irving, to court
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460535
#460536
(Studio) 2 Russian fishing vessels captured in Alaskan waters, now en route from Adak in Aleutians to Anchorage for trial.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Adak, Alaska) Russians say they were near Saint Matthews Island to avoid bad weather, but United States Coast Guard charges violation of fishing rights. [Coast Guard, Lieutenant James BOYD - says Russians felt they didn't violate US law.] [Storis Captain, Commander William ALLEN - says "What you seize is what you get."] Russian crews quarantined, unable to debark.
REPORTER: Don Oliver
#460537
(Studio) Summit Conf. of Warsaw Pact countries underway in Prague, Czechoslovakia, with Leonid Brezhnev and Alexi Kosygin representative Russians.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460538
(Studio) Soviet P. Min. Andre Gromyko in Tokyo, Japan to improve relations and hinder closer Japan-China ties. Japan and USSR have not signed World War II peace treaty. Japan asks Gromyko to give back 4 islands seized in that war.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460539
(Studio) Egyptian students demonstrate for start of war with Israel. Israeli planes raid Arab guerrilla camps in Syria.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460540
#460541
(Studio) Senator Henry Jackson accuses Ala. Governor George Wallace of trying to make shambles of Democratic Party by race.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460542
(Studio) John D. Rockefeller IV, West Virginia Secretary of State, announces candidacy for W. Virginia Governorship.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460543
(Studio) Gallup and Harris polls show Senator Edmund Muskie as frontrunner, with Senator Hubert Humphrey second.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460544
(Studio) FTC (Federal Trade Commission) complains that 4 big cereal companies, Kellogg, General Mills, General Foods, and Quaker Oats, monopolize industry.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460545
(Studio) C. Jackson Grayson, Price Commission Chairperson, says price controls will continue until inflation drops to 2-3%.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460547
(Studio) Leonard Woodcock, President UAW, requests Congress to reverse Nixon Admin. trend distributing wealth to rich.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460548
(Studio) Former Senator Carl Hayden in a coma in Ariz. hospital.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#460550
(Studio) State Department apologizes to Bahamian Min. Finance and Edward, Carlton Francis, for having detained him at United States Customs for search of what turned out to be medical, not contraband drugs. He had returned to Bahamas, arranged similar treatment for United States tourists.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#665975