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(Studio) Parents hear from Patricia Hearst for 1st time since abduction. Hearsts also receive high ransom note. Symbionese Liberation Army requests Hearst supply each needy person in California with $70 worth of food.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Hillsborough, California) [KPFA news director Paul FISCHER - reads kidnappers' demands.] [Patricia HEARST - reassures parents of physical and mental condition. Discusses liberation army's demands.] Randolph Hearst positive his daughter's voice was on tape sent to Berkeley radio station On same tape, Symbionese Liberation Army spokesperson warns that daughter's future rests on Randolph Hearst. [HEARST - believes demands are sincere and believes daughter unhurt.] Ransom could cost Hearst $130 million.
REPORTER: Don Oliver
(Studio) Governor Ronald Reagan makes no immediate comment on kidnappers' demands.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn arrested. Details given.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) 13 oil-consuming cntrys. continue energy conference because of France's resistance to United States proposals.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) [PRES. - warns against individual cntrys. making deals with Arab producers. Effects of such a move outlined.] France refuses to agree with other European cntrys. on energy policies toward energy producers. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger meets privately with French foreign minister Michel Jobert without much success.
REPORTER: Richard Valeriani
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(Studio) In Algiers, leaders of Egypt, Syria, Saudi ArabIa and Algeria to discuss oil embargo against United States and Israeli disengagement. On Thursday, oil mins. to discuss embargo in Tripoli. Iraq refuses to discuss lifting embargo
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Severity of energy crisis discussed by budget director Roy Ash.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) Ash believes energy shortage to be over in few mos. [ASH - thinks short term crisis to end when Americans learn to live well with 7% less energy.] Ash's aides say federal energy office helps create long lines at service stations by alarming persons.
REPORTER: Irving R. Levine
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(Studio) Rationing to exist in 8 states and Washington, DC by tomorrow.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Gulf Oil Company releases `73 financial report
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) White House spokesperson says no plans for Presidential trip to Mid. E. now exists. President to visit hospital tomorrow for annual physical exam. then fly to Florida.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) President visits Lincoln Memorial. Without mentioning Watergate, President compares his problems to Lincoln's.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) [PRES. - praises Lincoln for strength of character.] Nixon greets several tourists before leaving memorial.
REPORTER: Robert Goralski
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(Studio) Center for public financing of elections, reports political candidates and organization already have $24 million for elections in `74. `74 may not be good year for politicians no matter how much money gathered.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Studio) Loss of confidence in national leadership hits new low. Govt. can't be successful if based on fear and force. Govt. must reverse Americans' attitudes toward leaders now.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Former CIA director Richard Helms to return to Washington, DC to testify before Senate Watergate committee with regard to CIA destruction of tapes.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Union leaders refuse to accept businessmen's offer to pay higher wages to British coal miners till strike ends and dispute with government settled.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Alice Roosevelt Longworth celebrates 90th birthday. President Nixon attends her birthday party
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Phnom Penh, Cambodia, attempts to recover from insurgent rocket attack. At least 100 killed; 300 wounded. Govt. appeals for international help for homeless.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) 1 year ago, Vietnam POWs began to return home. Fate of returning POWs reviewed.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Norfolk, Virginia) Captain Jeremiah Denton's return to United States reshown. Denton's 1st yr. home reviewed along with his character and feelings about US. North Vietnam attempted to break Denton with torture but failed. [DENTON - feels optimistic about future. Doesn't hate North Vietnam as humans.]
REPORTER: John Cochran
(Studio) Other prisoners did yield to North Vietnam and broke under torture. Michael Branch ended torture by praising North Vietnam.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Highland Heights, Kentucky) Branch still in period of readjustment. Branch to begin college soon to study journalism. [BRANCH - insists he didn't believe statements praising North Vietnam although he made them. No one has called him traitor.] Branch's ideas have totally changed since prisoners of war days. Branch helps friend form VFW. [BRANCH - expresses concern over changes in US, incling. government society, morale, etc.] Branch hasn't lost faith in cntry.
REPORTER: Jack Paxton
(Studio) Prisoner exchange conts. South Vietnam releases civilians to Viet Cong and Viet Cong reciprocates.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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