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NEWS SUMMARY May 3, 1972 (Tues, nets, wires, columns) THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN The major stories of the day: - All nets led with death from high blood pressure of 77 year old J. Edgar Hoover, - - "the original untouchable" director for 48 years of what many are calling the world's finest law enforcement agency. He served 8 Presidents and 16 attorneys general. RN's personal tribute on film on all nets and there is wide praise from almost all quarters, including from Clark and Anderson, of a man seen by many as a legend in his own time, an incorruptible, dedicated public servant whose later years became increasingly controversial. - NVA have apparently moved thru ARVN's newest defense line for Hue and have also taken another base in the Hilands. Grim assessments on all nets and bloody, pathetic film of refugees and retreating ARVN in what CBS called one of most disorganized, disorderly retreats in the entire war. Washington taking latest news "very seriously" with NBC saying US intelligence reports are worse than Admin has admitted. Prior to WH statement that he's on the Sequoia, NBC says HAK again gone -- apparently to Paris. - HHH and Wallace neck and neck in early returns from Indiana but HHH is apparent winner. Things are screwed up in Ohio as 170 out of 1700 Cleveland vote machines either arrived late or were damaged and all polling places will stay open there til midnite as a federal judge accedes to HHH's strong protest over situation while McGovern unsuccessfully calls for impounding of ballots. - NBC/CBS film first ever of the lunar rover zipping around up there in the moon's Grand Prix. And CBS noted scientists said astronauts were "fantastically lucky" in their finds from lunar rock from Highlands. J. EDGAR HOOVER (1895-1972) For almost every living US generation, led Cronkite, Hoover stood as a symbol of incorruptible law enforcement, a man who often boasted that his men couldn't be bought. He took a scandal-ridden bureau and brought it to an agency envied thruout the world for its efficiency and