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(Studio) Federal Energy Admin. Frank Zarb says gasoline prices to increase 2 cents/gal. by Labor Day.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) 2 Senator subcmtes. study gasoline company's decisions to raise prices. [ZARB - could be 2-5 cents increase by Labor Day and decline after that.] Decline if no foreign oil price increases Zarb assistant says Zarb incld. price of hikes already set in his estimate, and he only meant 2-cent hike in fall. 7 oil company execs. to testify Thursday
REPORTER: Robert Hager
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(Studio) Senator votes 57-40 to roll back price of crude oil produced since 1972. If House passes it, administration may veto it. President Ford wants higher prices to reduce consumption.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Exxon Corporation admits legal gifts to Italian pols. of $27 million over 9 years Stopped when discovered. Exxon's Italian manager had $19 million slush fund. Subcommittee on multintl. corps. hears testimony.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [Senator Frank CHURCH - asks if President of Exxon, J.K. Jamieson, knew of pol. payments.] [Exxon controller Archie MOORE - says Jamieson knew.] [CHURCH - asks why company disguised fact they were making contributions.] [MOORE - says country manager convinced us we should disguise recipients. Was mistake, but we agreed to it.] Mobil testifies Thursday
REPORTER: Catherine Mackin
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(Studio) Soyuz cosmonauts fix television transmission system. Apollo astronauts remove jammed docking device.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Houston, Texas) "Deke" Slayton shown checking docking module. Mission control talks with them. Cosmonauts shown. Alexei LEONOV - comments re: preparations on ship (translated).] Everything set for rendezvous and meeting
REPORTER: Roy Neal
(Studio) Report on Soviet view of launch.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Moscow, USSR ) Soviets watch launch from TVs. United States Ambassador Walter Stoessel invited to Baikonur Cosmodrome to watch launch. [STOESSEL - describes launch. Talk with Leonov and Kubasov in English.]
REPORTER: John Dancy
(Studio) NBC to carry docking at 12 noon EDT Thursday and 3 p.m. EDT coverage of handshake.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger says Egypt's demand that United Nations peacekeeping force leave Sinai desert by July 24 unfortunate,but could be another reason behind it.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Milwaukee, WI) Kissinger says timing poor and could hurt negotiations with Israel. [KISSINGER - says letter could have been used to call attention to stalemate in negotiations. Agreement can be made if kept in mind that result of negotiations break-down will transcend difficulties of negotiations.] Kissinger to meet with Ambassador Simcha Dinitz Thursday
REPORTER: Richard Valeriani
(Studio) United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim says Egypt might extend United Nations forces mandate if political solution provided by Security Council
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Cairo, Egypt) For. Min. Ismail Fahmy accuses Israel of wanting mandate renewed to stall negotiations. [FAHMY - says Egypt only objects to use of force and its presence by Israel to maintain state of no war-no peace. Deterioration of situation is responsibility of Israeli Prime Min. Rabin.]
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Studio) Report on Israeli reaction to Egypt's demand.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Jerusalem) Premier Yitzhak Rabin says aggravating tensions in desert doesn't add to reaching new territorial settlement. Israel doesn't believe action means much; Egyptian way of pressuring for more concessions.
REPORTER: Steve Delaney
(UN Buffer Zone, Sinai Desert) United Nations forces here from: Indonesia, Finland, Sweden, Ghana and Senegal. Canada and Poland have support roles.
REPORTER: Steve Delaney
(UN Buffer Zone, Golan Hgts.) Peru battalion to leave on Friday; there is no replacement nation If not replaced, force there to be cut by 30%. Golan Heights, Sinai desert situations noted.
REPORTER: Steve Delaney
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(Studio) Popular Democratic party to leave government at midnight unless demands met for greater democracy. Report on Socialist party rally.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Lisbon, Portugal) 1st time political party demonstrated against military rulers. 20,000 protest. Demand President Vasco Goncalves resign. [Socialist leader Mario SOARES - speaks to crowd.] He urges revolution continue peacefully. Popular support with Socialists, not Communist party.
REPORTER: Lee McCarthy
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(Studio) India extends authority of internal security act so foreigners can be arrested and jailed for 2 years without trial.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Black mothers on welfare rptdly. sterilized in Aiken Cnty., SC, by obstetrician who said he wouldn't treat them anymore if they didn't. 2 sue.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Barnwell, SC) 2 who are suing are Virgil Walker, sterilized, and Shirley Brown, who refused sterilization and is pregnant with 4th child. Accuse Dr. Clovis Pierce of violating their civil rights. Pierce testifies he won't treat mother on welfare with 2 or more children unless she agrees to be sterilized after baby born. Plaintiffs' attorney Joseph Levin puts ex-patient, Dorothy Waters, on stand. Waters testifies as to Pierce agreeing to deliver her baby if she was sterilized; says she didn't want it done. Pierce says he wouldn't have continued treating Waters unless he believed she wanted to be sterilized.
REPORTER: Judy Woodruff; ARTIST: Leo Hershfield
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(Studio) Brush fire out of control in San Diego Cnty., California.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(San Diego Cnty., California) Fire shown. Fire began in Indian reservation; spread to state park. Herds of rare big-horn sheep and wild cattle go before it. 700 persons fight it. Planes aid in fire fight.
REPORTER: John Chancellor (narrates)
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(Studio) House criminal justice subcommittee votes to call in special Watergate prosecutor, Henry Ruth, for questioning of his conduct of Watergate investigation. Representative Elizabeth Holtzman says committee to determine if Ruth conducted complete investigation.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) New York literary agency, Scott-Meredith Agency, says Secretary of State Henry Kissinger working on his memoirs. Won't be published until he leaves office.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Agriculture Department reports USSR bought 2 million metric tons wheat.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Personal income up in June due to special Social Security payment.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Report on sorry end for some dairymen.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Bertha, Minnesota) Farmers like Clifford Greenwood give up cows at auction because don't see future in dairy farming. [GREENWOOD - hates to keep borrowing money to break even.] He got 1/2 of what he paid for cows. His income didn't cover his expenses. Says government hurt him by not raising milk support prices and importing milk from other cntrys. [GREENWOOD - won't go back into dairy business Like for everybody to quit farming and let city folks worry about it.]
REPORTER: Mike Jackson
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