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(Studio) Nixon administration faced with another credibility problem. Involves secret Cambodian bombings before American troops were sent into the country. Secret bombings never revealed to former Air Force Secretary or high military officials. Congress and Americans not informed until a few days ago.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Senator Armed Services Committee conducts hearings into secret bombings. Air Force Chief Staff General John Ryan testifies he didn't know about secret bombings when they happened because he was only 2nd ranking officer in Air Force. After promotion to chief of staff Ryan was told truth. Former Air Force Secretary Robert Seamans claims he was never told truth and didn't realize he prepared phony bombing reports to Congress [SEAMANS - says he doesn't like to think he supplied inaccurate information to Congress Bombing was considered too sensitive to tell Seamans. False reports handled by joint Chiefs of Staff. Believes service secys. should be more involved in operational matters.] Several Senators agree that chain of cmd. should be rearranged.
REPORTER: John Cochran
(Studio) Exiled Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk is quoted in "New York Times" as saying he never agreed to bombing. Admin. has said Sihanouk wanted bombing kept quiet. Senator Mike Mansfield denies Sihanouk mentioned Cambodian bombing to Mansfield as State Department suggests. Dispute in DC over Secretary of State William Rogers ` statements to Senate Foreign Relations Committee re: Cambodian bombing. Committee says Rogers told them United States not bothering Cambodia, but State Department states Rogers mentioned Cambodia while admitting Rogers didn't volunteer information
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) New York federal district judge rules present Cambodia bombing is unconst Prepares injunction to stop all bombing in Cambodia.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Former White House aide John Ehrlichman conts. testimony before Senate Watergate committee Ehrlichman denies John Dean's testimony with regard to Ehrlichman's request to the President for executive clemency for Watergate burglars.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Capitol Hill) [EHRLICHMAN - says he never met with President on executive clemency. Recalls positively that executive clemency was regarded closed subject. Would be surest way to link President with burglars regardless of President' position if executive clemency discussed.] [Senator Edward GURNEY - asks if Dean telling untruth.] Ehrlichman agrees.
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Ehrlichman denies telling John Dean or acting FBI head Patrick Gray to destroy documents. Ehrlichman says Nixon administration would have benefitted if former FBI head J. Edgar Hoover had retired. Ehrlichman states he thought nothing improper about meeting with Pentagon Papers trial judge re: possible replacement for Hoover job at FBI. Ehrlichman insists he (Ehrlichman) wasn't fired by President, but he resigned.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) John Ehrlichman's attorney John Wilson and Watergate committee chairperson Sam Ervin verbally assault each other on 4th Amendment. Ervin says 4th Amendment violated when burglars entered Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. Ehrlichman and Wilson say 4th Amendment has eroded and in some instances vanished.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Capitol Hill) [WILSON - insists no one can doubt President' const. power in Ellsberg break-in since foreign intelligence was being pursued.] [ERVIN - states President can't break 4th Amendment and commit burglary because Ellsberg's files containing emotional, psychological and intellectual reports are allegedly important to national security.] [EHRLICHMAN - states connection between psychiatrist's records and psychiatric profile and foreign intelligence explains itself. Direct linkage between man's emotional state and national security.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Ehrlichman says Ellsberg burglary required and justified by national security.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Some documents from White House in Watergate's committee 's possession say campaign against Ellsberg planned that would have had political ramifications.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Capitol Hill) Memo written 10 days before burglary suggested dirt digging to make Ellsberg and assocs. look bad. Memo written by White House plumber unit member David Young and addressed to Ehrlichman. Pol. damaging material to Ellsberg to be incrd. to tie in high Democrats White House may have been more interested in pols. than spy ring. If so, burglary had no ntl. security justification.
REPORTER: Carl Stern
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(Studio) House leader Gerald Ford says more Republican backing for President seen in Congress Party chairperson Senator Dole, on "Today", says more Congress Republicans want Press to release White House tapes. Senator Sam Ervin seems assured that if President doesn't respond to subpoenas, Watergate committee to go to court
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) 60% of those surveyed believe President should give tapes up and 30% agree with President Majority of people believe President should testify before public. 70% believe Watergate handled improperly and 17% believe Press right in his handling of it.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) President announces resignation of part-time Presidential adviser John Connally. Reports flowed that Connally unhappy.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Reports say Melvin Laird unhappy with situation in White House "DC Star News" says Laird will try harder to make job work.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Postage stamps may increase to 10 cents to pay wage increases for mailmen. Contracts providing those increases signed today.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Supreme Court rules obscenity ruling is local decision not national New Hampshire begins own crackdown.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Nashua, New Hampshire) State attorney general orders crackdown in state. Store owners advised to remove questionable material. Police hope store owners will remove material voluntarily. [Police chief Craig SANDLER - says his men won't strip store owners' racks. Removal to be on voluntary basis.] Distributors to take matter to court even if local store owners comply willingly.
REPORTER: Lou Davis
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(Studio) Japanese jets enroute to Benghazi, Libya, to pick up passengers from hijacked plane blown up by hijackers. Libyan authorities question hijackers. Major Arab guerrilla groups deny any connection with them.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Benghazi, Libya) Hand grenades from hijackers explode jet. Hijacker unclear on demands. Libyan officials catch hijackers as they run from plane. Body of woman accomplice, killed by own grenade, found in plane's debris.
REPORTER: Charles Quinn
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(Studio) Communist troops shell Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with artillery. 3 killed, many wounded.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Hank Aaron, Atlanta Braves, has hit 700 home runs in major league career. Babe Ruth hit only 14 more home runs in his time.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(No location given) Aaron blocks everything out of mind during game except pitcher. [AARON - says he won't listen to fans and pressure because he'll try to hit home runs and it won't work. It must be natural.] [NEWMAN - asks when Aaron realized he had a chance at Babe Ruth's record.] [AARON - states 3 years ago when he hit 47 homes runs.] [NEWMAN - asks if Aaron pictures Babe Ruth in certain way.] [AARON - says he doesn't know that much about him except he was a tremendous ball-player. Has utmost respect for man.] Film clip of Babe Ruth hitting home run shown. [NEWMAN - asks if Babe Ruth existed for Aaron as a boy.] [AARON - believes Babe Ruth was unreal to him and all black boys.] Aaron began in 1954. No one paid much attention to Aaron's creeping up on Babe Ruth's record until 1971. Letters flow in, good and bad. [NEWMAN - asks how Aaron feels now that black man has a chance against Babe Ruth's record.] [AARON - states he can only play his best possible game. Believes hate mail from older generation.]
REPORTER: Edwin Newman
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