This program is 26 minutes long
#470118
(Studio) Meat boycott so far has failed to bring prices down across nation
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Wheaton, MD) Grand Union lowers beef prices slightly. Sales booming. Company says profit lower but its getting back meat customers.
REPORTER: Ron Nessen
(Studio) Boycott has been responsible for laying off 20,000 workers in meat industry. People know better now why meat so expensive. Ranchers get 35% of meat dollar. Sell calves at ages 15-16 mos. Feed lot operators get 26% beef dollar. Transportation to slaughterhouse costs 3% beef dollar. Packing plant gets 7% beef dollar. Transportation to retail market costs 4% more. Retailer gets 25% beef dollar.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#470119
(Studio) AFL-CIO President George Meany says all prices rising rapidly. Admin. doesn't know how to control them.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#470122
(Studio) Former prisoners of war Captain Richard Anchoss says will bring charges against 2 antiwar POW's. Anchoss feels men caused other POW's to be tortured. General John Flynn, also former POW, says no charges should be made against any prisoners.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#470123
(Studio) Phnom Penh, Cambodia, remains completely cut off by Communist forces despite continued United States air strikes and efforts to lift siege.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Highway 2, Cambodia) Cambodian soldiers fight unknown enemy. Communists may be Cambodian guerrillas, Viet Cong or North Vietnam soldiers.
REPORTER: John Chancellor (narrates)
#470124
(Studio) Fighting in South Vietnam at highest level since truce signed.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#470125
(Studio) Senator Edward Brooke visiting Laos. Had hoped to go to NV?J but Communists refuse visa. Brooke interested in finding out how much reconstruction North Vietnam needs.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Odessa, USSR ) USSR begins large aid program for reconstruction North Vietnam. China and USSR competing for influence in postwar North Vietnam.
REPORTER: Robert Hager
#470126
(Studio) L. Pat. Gray withdraws his nomination as FBI chief. President Nixon begins looking for new candidates. Henry Petersen, head criminal division Justice Department; Matt Byrne, judge hearing Pentagon Papers case; and William Sullivan, deputy to J. Edgar Hoover, being considered as new noms. for position.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Congress introduces bills to make FBI more independent. [Senator Robert BYRD - says Senator feels it should take measures to keep FBI from becoming pol. arm of White House] [Senator Henry JACKSON - says Congress afraid of FBI becoming political. Wants FBI's integrity restored.] Senator Mansfield says Gray's only faults candor and loyalty.
REPORTER: Paul Duke
#470127
(Studio) Associated Press reports H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's chief of staff, tells Republican Congress he set up intelligence operation for Nixon's reelection. Says nothing illegal planned.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#470129
(Studio) Waters of flooding Mississippi River begin to recede.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
#470130
(Studio) Workers feel may be way to salvage what remains on island of Heimaey, Iceland. Volcano erupting there has destroyed much of island property.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Heimaey, Iceland) Salvage workers spraying what remains of island's town with water from sea. Hope to save town and harbor from ash and lava. Harbor critical for Icelandic fishing industry.
REPORTER: Charles Quinn
#470133
(Studio) Militant Indians and government reach agreement in occupied town Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Indians to meet with President aide tomorrow. Commission will be set up to examine Sioux Indian treaty rights. Indians to lay down weapons.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Wounded Knee, South Dakota) Indians to lay down arms after leaders meet with White House officials. United States Assistant Attorney General Kent Frizzell says agreement historic. [AIM leader Russell MEANS - says Indians see agreement as leading to economy betterment as well as to greater sovereignty.]
REPORTER: Lou Davis
(Studio) United States has made many treaties with Indians.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Wounded Knee, South Dakota) Brief history of how Sioux lost most of their land through treaties with government given. Presently Sioux lease 90% of reservation to ranchers at low rates. Indians can get no loans from government and banks refuse to give them credit. [American Indian Law Center spokesperson Sam DELORIA - says Indians want treaty rights.] Indians wonder why US makes great show of keeping treaties with other ntns. yet refuses to honor treaties with American Indians.
REPORTER: Fred Briggs
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