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(Studio) Turkey says activity at American bases there must cease Saturday To allow NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) base at Incirlik to continue President Ford asks Congress to reconsider its arms embargo to Turkey. 26 American bases there; many important in monitoring Soviet activity.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger held news conference before Turks acted. [KISSINGER - says House made sad and unfortunate decision. It helped nobody. Now talking to Turk government; urging restraint.]
REPORTER: Richard Valeriani
(Studio) John Chancellor talks to reporter on screen. Bases provide 25% of intelligence information about USSR . Not known if United States can maintain bases. It's self-inflicted defeat for US.
REPORTER: Richard Valeriani
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(Studio) Philippines and Thailand say Southeast Asia Treaty Organization should be phased out. United States willing.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Apollo crew hospitalized after inhaling gas released during splashdown. Treated with cortisone. Theories of where gas came from related, with chart of capsule.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Pacific Ocean) Splashdown shown. Vance Brand passed out, although "Deke" Slayton thought they all had. Thomas Stafford told frogmen he wanted door opened. Door not opened until on ship. Yellow gas burned eyes and throats. Crew shown disembarking; mission control cheers. [SLAYTON - tells of being caught in "smoke" in descent.]
REPORTER: John Chancellor (narrates)
(Studio) Crew put in sick bay on ship.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Houston, Texas) News conference held at Johnson space center [NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Dr. Lawrence DIETLIEN - describes chest discomfort crew felt. Doesn't know nature of substance in answer to question with regard to could astronauts have been killed.] NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) representatives say crew in no danger.
REPORTER: Arthur Lord
(Studio) Crew to tour later with Soyuz crew.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) President Ford proposes gradual decontrol of domestic oil prices by end 1978. Plan incls. windfall taxes on company profits and energy tax rebates for consumers. Gasoline prices under plan to increase 1 cent in 1975: 1 cent by 1977 and 4 cents by 1978.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [FORD - says plan 1st step in reducing dependence on foreign oil. Plan won't hurt economy recovery or raise prices in 1975. Won't allow unfair gains or produce undue hardships.] Letting oil price controls expire would be hard to explain in election year
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) Energy chief, Frank Zarb, explains plan to Congress [Senator Henry JACKSON - says plan will increase oil company profits but not production. Will cost jobs and not save energy.] [Senator Ernest HOLLINGS - says mandatory conservation needed, not conservation by recession.] [Representative Thomas O'NEILL - says 750,000 jobs to be lost. Inflation to increase by 2%. Hopes House members won't go along.] Plan could be rejected, added to House bill or 3-mo. extension to present controls added.
REPORTER: Catherine Mackin
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(Studio) President Ford vetoes $8 billion education aid bill.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Interior Secretary, Stanley Hathaway, resigns after 5 weeks Hospitalized due to exhaustion and depression.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Senator CIA committee may call ex-President Richard Nixon with regard to CIA assassination plots.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Report on Army's LSD tests.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Edgewood Arsenal, MD) Army film shows soldiers marching before and after LSD tests. [LSD test subject Richard WEVODAU - describes feeling of "could do anything" while under drug.] Photo shows group of 1957 volunteers. Air Force enlisted man shown in photos while being tested under LSD. Recovered by himself from later after effects of drug. Found out recently, 18 years later, he had been given LSD.
REPORTER: Tom Pettit
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(Studio) Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin rejects most of Egyptian proposals for Sinai interim agreement; says talks to continue Egypt President Anwar Sadat says Egypt has upper hand in dealing with Israel.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) President Ford says he won't be abandoning E. Europe when he signs security agreement with USSR . He'll sign pact approving World War II borders. President says pact not treaty or legally binding.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [KISSINGER - says one must consider whole situation.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) President and Mrs. Ford to leave for Europe Saturday Itinerary cited.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Federal jury decides doctor innocent in 1 case and guilty in another case with regard to sterilization.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Barnwell, SC) Virgil Walker claimed Dr. Clovis Pierce forced her to be sterilized after 4th child. Jury decides doctor not guilty in her case; she had time to decide before signing consent form. Shirley Brown, pregnant with 4th, said Pierce dismissed her from hospital 1 day after 3rd child born after she refused to be sterilized. Pierce's policy is not to treat welfare mothers with 2 or more children unless they submit to sterilization. Jury rules Pierce must pay Brown $5.
REPORTER: Judy Woodruff; ARTIST: Verna Sadock
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(Studio) Moody's Investors Service withdrew all credit ratings on New York City notes and bonds.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Agriculture Department says food prices may go up due to Soviet grain deal. USSR bought 10 million tons from US.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) 100,000 private security guards work in NYC.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(San Francisco, California) Tarantula "Rosie" is guard in jewelry store. Rents for $10 month Eats mice and sometimes crickets. [Shop owner Karen CZUJKO - says won't touch her.]
REPORTER: Don Harris
(Studio) Don't knock it if it works.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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