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(Studio) Mbrs. of House and Senator decide on price rollbacks of crude oil; both Hses. must pass bill 1st. Senator Henry Jackson proposes bill; estimates 5 cent decrease per gallon in price. Decision comes in wake of truckers' strike called to protest fuel scarcity and rising fuel prices. Washington, DC meeting conts. in effort to end truckers' strike. Violence and unemployment mark strike.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Guardsmen called out by Governor Milton Shapp to protect working truckers. Few trucks venture onto road; not many shipments reach destination. [Food broker Frank PONTARI - reports 7 out of 50 trucks reach his warehse.] Truckers terrified at violence; many fly back home if cargo reaches destination. Shortages haven't reached retail level yet.
REPORTER: Robert Hager
(Elizabeth, New Jersey) Oil companies are target of truckers' pickets. Gulf Oil refinery picketed by truckers. Elizabeth, New Jersey, mayor begins rationing program; gasoline available in small quantities only in New Jersey. Stations near schools ordered to close while children leave and enter schools.
REPORTER: Richard Hunt
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(Studio) President sends $304.4 billion budget to Congress Budget breakdown outlined.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [PRES. - insists new budget anti-inflationary and anti-recession.] [Treasury Secretary George SHULTZ - defends President' comments on recession in state of union message.] Admin. officials to stop recession if at all possible.
REPORTER: Irving R. Levine
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(Studio) Arab oil cntrys. insist embargo won't be lifted till Israelis return all occupied Arab territory to Arabs. Syria says Saudi Arabia and Kuwait pledge to continue United States oil embargo till disengagement plan signed between Israel and Syria.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Soviet foreign minister Gromyko meets with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [GROMYKO - outlines topics of meeting with Kissinger, incling. Mid. E.] Kissinger questioned about Cuba. [KISSINGER - insists they didn't discuss Cuba because other important subjects came 1st.] President and Gromyko discuss Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II.
REPORTER: Richard Valeriani
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(Studio) Battle occurs on Syrian front. Differing versions of fight outlined.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) White House attorney, James Saint Clair, challenges truthfulness of John Dean's Watergate testimony. Statement challenges special prosecutor Leon Jaworski also. Jaworski appeared on ABC's "Issues and Answers" yesterday.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(No location given) [JAWORSKI - repeats prosecutor's office unaware of any basis for perjury charges against Dean.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Special prosecutor and White House disagree on Dean's testimony.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Credibility of Dean and prosecutor's office at stake. Jaworski wants additional evidence from White House [In state of union speech, PRES. - hints no more evidence to be turned over to Jaworski.]
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
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(Studio) Former head of plumbers unit, Egil Krogh, begins 6 month prison sentence today.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [KROGH - doesn't want to be treated differently from other prisoners.] [Suzanne KROGH - says she's prepared for coming 6 mos.] Neither she nor husband have regrets about mos. in White House
REPORTER: John Cochran
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(Studio) California judge issues subpoena to President to appear in Los Angeles court White House to refuse.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Wife of San Francisco, California, Mayor Joseph Alioto vanishes late in January
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Mr. and Mrs. Nixon attend former Nixon adviser Murray Chotiner's funeral.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Nixons shown entering chapel and offering sympathies to Chotiner's family.
REPORTER: John Chancellor (narrates)
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(Studio) Special House seat election to be held in Pennsylvania's 12th Congress district. Election attracts attention because of possible Watergate effects on Republicans
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Johnstown, Pennsylvania) Republican Henry Fox and Democrat John Murtha both campaign on local issues. Vice President Gerald Ford campaigns for Fox; Senators Henry Jackson, Edmund Muskie, and Walter Mondale support Murtha. Citizens react to possible Watergate effects on election. [MURTHA - thinks Watergate may help chances to win.] [FOX - discounts effects of Watergate.]
REPORTER: Douglas Kiker
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(Studio) British coal miners vote to strike; national disaster may be at hand.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) announces `73 profits.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Days of nickel and dime items gone - or are they?
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Los Angeles, California) Sunday bus service reduces price to 10 cents. Los Angeles not ready for mass transit, but Sunday afternoon bus ride for dime is exception.
REPORTER: Frank Bourgholtzer
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