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(Studio) Many members Congress want freeze on all prices, rents and interest rates. Admin. opposes.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [Treasury Secretary SHULTZ - tells Representative Frank Annunzio that prices will come down when supply increases. Says housewives drove up prices food by buying at higher prices and housewives can lower prices by shopping for better buys.]
REPORTER: Irving R. Levine
(Studio) Man in Oklahoma City says bologna costs $.17/slice. Says could only afford bologna during depression; now can't afford even that.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Meat boycott having different effects in different areas.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Chicago, Illinois) Supermkts. say can't tell what effects boycott really having until wkend. when meat shopping usually heaviest. Chicken, seafood and dairy products sales up and so are their prices.
REPORTER: Dick Kay
(Atlanta, Georgia) Meat boycott having little effect in restaurants, especially fast foods stores.
REPORTER: Kenley Jones
(NYC) Fast foods restaurants doing normal business.
(Studio) Beef producers holding own protest.
REPORTER: Betty Rollin, John Chancellor
(Sioux City, Iowa) Many farmers holding cattle off market in response to meat boycott. [Farmer Emmert TENINGER - says has to sell his hogs before they get too big for market] Farmers' wives stage demonstration in Sioux City. [Protest leader Linda POPKEN - says farmers must receive profit like other people.] Several packing companies shut down to wait and see what happens.
REPORTER: John Dancy
(Studio) Nixon serving beef to visiting South Vietnam President Thieu.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) President offer to send members White House staff to informal mtgs. with select Senate committee investigating Watergate case flatly rejected by committee chairperson Sam. Ervin. Informal testimony would not be given under oath.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [ERVIN - says White House aides can't be treated differently than everyone else. United States has no royalty and everyone subject to same laws. President acting as if he has something to hide in Watergate case.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Nixon reacts sharply to Ervin.
(San Clemente, California) [Press Secretary Ronald ZIEGLER - says Ervin's committee plagued by irresponsible information leaks to press.]
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) President Harold Geneen testifies to Senator with regard to ITT's involvement in Chilean politics. Says he doesn't recall offering CIA $1 million to be used against Salvadore Allende, but that he might have done so. ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) Vice President Edward Gerrity says he doesn't remember details of offer of $1 million to government to be used against Allende.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Supreme Court refuses to review lower court ruling that Alaska pipeline construction unconstitutional.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Heavy fighting reported in Cambodia. Communists have all major supply routes into Phnom Penh cut off.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Communists have government ranger station near Saigon under siege. South Vietnam government protests.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) South Vietnam President Thieu visits Nixon at California White House
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(San Clemente, California) Demonstrators protest Thieu meeting President Thieu given elaborate welcome ceremonies. [NIXON - says wants peace for South Vietnam.] [THIEU - says hopes joint efforts United States and South Vietnam will lead to consolidation of peace.] Nixon has not made clear how far United States committed to South Vietnam now that peace achieved.
REPORTER: Richard Valeriani
(Studio) Reports say Thieu got pledge from United States fop reconstruction aid for South Vietnam.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Mississippi River flooding from Iowa to LA. Saint Louis flooded. Tornado hits Fairfax Cnty., Virginia.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Saint Louis, Missouri) Mississippi River at highest levels since 1937 and continues to rise. West Alton flooded now, and much Saint Louis due to be under water before river crests.
REPORTER: John Palmer
(Fairfax Cnty., Virginia) Tornado hits several areas in Washington, DC suburbs. 32 hurt. Many would have been killed had tornado struck any day except Sunday when stores closed.
REPORTER: Ron Nessen
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(Studio) Democratic Congress Les Aspin charges administration with using FBI as political Peeping Tom. Aspin releases 1971 FBI memo sent to agents in Oregon requesting info. on important people.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Govt. proposes federal safety inspection standards for all used cars.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Mbr. Federal Reserve Board Andrew Brimmer says many American banks involved in recent speculation against American dollar.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) FDA (Food and Drug Administration) announces recall most prescription diet pills.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Great American Desert having nice spring after wet winter.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Death Valley, California) Death Valley filled with profusion of flowers this spring. Flowers shown to tune of "Morning Has Broken."
REPORTER: Jack Perkins
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