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(Studio) Communist forces move to within 2 miles Phnom Penh. Rocket attack on Phnom Penh airport kills several.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Phnom Penh, Cambodia) Rockets hit civilian areas around airport. Several families killed.
REPORTER: Robert Goralski
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(Studio) Sweden condemns United States bombing in Cambodia.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) United States provides weapons to Thai villages for defense against Communists
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Saigon government working to build support among people.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam) Govt. giving those who will settle in Long Khanh Province food, medical help and small amount land. Hopes recipients will vote against Provisional Revolutionary Government when elections come.
REPORTER: Bob Jones
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(Studio) State Department official William Sullivan arrives Paris France, to talk with North Vietnam officials and lay groundwork for Henry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho talks later on. Talks to concern Indochina truce violations.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) New York City Bar Association asks Nixon to put outsider in charge of Watergate investigation. Lawyers concerned Justice Department cannot carry out impartial investigation of White House Transcripts secret grand jury testimony being sent to Justice Department official investigating White. House
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Watergate prosecutor Earl Silbert tells reporters Justice Department ofr. Henry Petersen has been getting secret grand jury testimony. Info. would be very useful to White House aides who will later be called to testify and may later be indicted. Nixon Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler says President has ordered that aides not get information on testimony. Justice Department refuses to say if President getting substance of testimony. John Dean and H.R. Haldeman have not yet been called to testify.
REPORTER: Carl Stern
(Studio) John Dean said by columnist Jack Anderson to have produced documents linking John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman with cover-up of Watergate case. Nixon yesterday met with John Wilson, attorney for Haldeman and Ehrlichman, and today Wilson meets with grand jury prosecutor. More evidence produced today shows Nixon reelection committee rigged public opinion poll, and FBI says is no evidence of sabotage in crash of plane in which wife of Watergate spy Howard Hunt killed.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Pentagon Papers trial temporarily halted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Los Angeles, California) Judge Matt. Byrne dismisses jury until prosecutor Warren Reese produces government documents bearing on case that may tend to show defendants innocent. Evidence called for after testimony Rand Corp. employee Richard Best. Throughout case Byrne and defense attys. have had great difficulty in obtaining government documents bearing on case.
REPORTER: Frank Bourgholtzer
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(Studio) Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Caspar Weinberger makes public new rules for many fed. service programs. Less money to be spent on programs than authorized by Congress
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Millions acres flooded and 10,000 homeless as result flooding along Mississippi River. 12% Louisiana under water.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Mississippi Delta) Damage caused by flooding so far estimated at $400 million. Could reach $1 billion. In Mississippi flooding threatens cotton and soy bean crops. Crops can't be planted until waters recede.
(Sainte Louis, Missouri) Most families affected by floods had no flood insurance. [Stella BREWER - says she and husband tried to keep waters from house by sand bagging but it didn't work. Now everything inhouse destroyed.]
REPORTER: Bob Jamieson (WLBT-TV newsfilm, Jackson) Lou Davis
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(Studio) Treasury Secretary George Shultz and Nixon meet to review Phase III controls.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [SHULTZ - tells reporter Elizabeth Drew in interview he doesn't expect Nixon to return to Phase I type economy controls.]
REPORTER: Elizabeth Drew
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(Studio) Last week AFL-CIO President George Meany accused Teamsters of disgraceful conduct against Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers Union. Teamsters have won contracts with California grape growers and Chavez says they conspired with growers to get them. Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons calls Meany frustrated old man.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Coachella Valley, California) Prospect in California vineyards is for grim clash between Teamsters and UFW.
REPORTER: Jack Perkins
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(Studio) Lee White, former federal power official, says fears gas companies may begin restricting supplies to mkts. where they can get highest price. Suggests gas rationing may be needed.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Cleveland, Ohio) Sunoco first major oil company to reduce supplies to own stations Supplies down 10%. [Refinery manager John McKINNEY - says fears some company gas stations will be short of gas this summer.]
REPORTER: John Herrington
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(Studio) Labor Department reports fewer strikes in first part of 1973 than in any similar period in last 7 years.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Bankrupt Penn Central railroad says will delay until June 9 work rule which will result in job layoffs.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Congress suggests people ride bikes as way to save gas and avert gas shortage.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) States having increasing difficulty financing schools.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Portland, OR) Oregon schools financed by property taxes. [Governor Tom. McCALL - suggests plan to increase state income tax as way to finance schools and to drop property tax method.] [Tax plan opponent Frank IVANCIE - says plan will take local control from school districts.] Business and the wealthy oppose plan.
REPORTER: Don Oliver
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