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(Studio) Pressure grows on President to appoint independent attys. rather than Justice Department to investigate Watergate case. Republican Senator Charles Percy says will introduce Senator resolution calling on President to do so. President American Bar Association calls for same thing.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
(DC) [American Bar Association President Robert MESERVE - says public confidence in admin. justice would be greatly increased if nobody in administration involved in Watergate investigation. Says President Coolidge set precedent in having independent attys. investigate Teapot Dome scandal.]
REPORTER: Peter Hackes
(Studio) Most information received by press on Watergate comes through leaks by unnamed administration officials. Washington, DC "Post" reports White House source says President aide John Dean ready to swear he made progress reports on cover-up of Watergate bugging to H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
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(Studio) Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy, Watergate spies,linked to Pentagon Papers trial of Dan. Ellsberg. Govt. last week cited report 2 men broke into office Dan. Ellsberg's psychiatrist to get Ellsberg's records. Time-magazine reports Gordon Liddy and Hunt both on White House payroll at time of burglary.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
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(Studio) William Sullivan of State Department meets with North Vietnam officials in Paris, France, to discuss Vietnam truce agreement.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
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(Studio) Fighting continues heavy near Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
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(Studio) Bombs destined for Cambodia blow up while being shipped to West Coast port. Nobody killed.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
(Roseville, California) railroad boxcars burn all night. Lack of casualties due to fact no hses. near. Centers set up to handle 30,000 evacuated from explosion area. Cause of explosions unknown.
REPORTER: Vic Biondi
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(Studio) Will be 2 more weeks before Mississippi River falls below flood level. 14 year old girl dies in Saint Louis after falling from truck during sandbagging operations.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
(Saint Louis, Missouri) Student volunteers work around clock sandbagging in efforts to ward off flood waters. [RESIDENTS - praise students' efforts.] [STUDENTS - say they want to help.]
REPORTER: Lou Davis
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(Studio) Are many more poor whites in country than poor blacks. Appalachia hard core poverty area. President Kennedy and Johnson both tried to reduce poverty here, but little progress made.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
(Appalachian Mtns.) In 1963 President Kennedy began program of aid to depressed Appalachian area. In 1950's many coal mines in area closed due to reduced demand for coal. Other mines became mechanized and many coal miners left unemployed. Govt. programs have helped some. New roads have opened, new factories and new vocational schools built to try to improve area's economy Now Nixon wants to kill OEO. With death Office of Economic Opportunity will come closure of some government factories. Appalachian area still desperately needs help from government 1/2 children of area drop out of primary school. 1/3 hses. have no plumbing. Death rate is twice as high as national average. Unemployment in some areas is 60%. To drop Office of Economic Opportunity programs here would be crime.
REPORTER: Ron Nessen
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(Studio) West German Chancellor Willy Brandt arrives DC.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
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(Studio) People of Williamsburg, Michigan, vote to ask government for stricter controls on oil and gas well drilling. Natural gas eruptions have caused Williamsburg residents to evacuate homes.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
(Williamsburg, Michigan) Craters methane gas have been erupting in Williamsburg. Gas highly explosive. Is believed drilling by Amoco gas Company was cause of problem. [Township supervisor Herman SMITH - advises people to keep records of expenses incurred as result gas eruptions in hopes Amoco will reimburse them.] Williamsburg is fishing resort area. Gas may have polluted waters in area.
REPORTER: Rebecca Bell
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(Studio) More developments in Watergate case certain in week ahead.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
(DC) James McCord, convicted Watergate spy, to file deposition Monday in Democrat's $5 million civil suit against Republicans
REPORTER: Alvin Rosenfeld
(Los Angeles, California) In Pentagon Papers case Henry South Rowen, Rand Corp. pres. when Dan. Ellsberg leaked Pentagon Papers, expected to be called by prosecution. Case now overshadowed by revelation that Watergate spys Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy burglarized Dan. Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office.
REPORTER: Frank Bourgholtzer
(Berlin, West Germany) West German Chancellor Willy Brandt meeting with President Nixon Tuesday and Wednesday Will discuss Atlantic alliance and coming mtgs. with USSR 's Leonid Brezhnev.
REPORTER: Robert Hager
(London, England) Will be general strike against government wage policy Tuesday, but unions divided.
REPORTER: Jack Paxton
(Studio) Congress will vote on whether to extend Nixon's power to control wages and prices.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
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(Studio) Hotel and restaurant management students at University in Wisconsin put on dinner styled after fashion of dinners served at New York's fabled Del Monico's.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
(Menomonie, WI) 112 come to dine at Stout University dinner. Dinner has 14 courses and includes 9 types wine. Feast takes 6 hrs. to complete. Students arrange dinner in exact style of Del Monico's restaurant which, before it closed in 1920's, was famous throughout world for food it served and people who ate there.
REPORTER: Dick Kay
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