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OCR Page 1 of 45THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
NEWS SUMMARY
August 29, 1973
(Tues nets, wires. Mags/Columns separate)
Major stories of the day:
-- Worst earthquake in Mexican history led all nets w/reports
of up to 500 dead w/over 1, 000 injured. No film available.
Epicenter w/7. on Richter was 150 miles from Mex. City
but even there, electricity was cut off. Thousands more
homeless added to those already hit by flooding.
-- Stockholm gunmen captured and hostages in "relatively good
shape" after 6 1/2 days in bank vault which had become
a "torture chamber. " #2 on ABC/CBS w/film on all shows.
Police flushed gunmen out w/tear gas.
Heath's arrival in Belfast under extremely tight security on
ABC/NBC film. Smith said trip was expected to signal
step-up in terrorism. Film on all nets from London as
police warned all to be careful w/mail and, as Chancellor
said, massive warning system "paid off, " Nets noted alert
at British embassies thruout world w/only bomb found in
Paris and it was defused. "Jittery but not panicky" is how
CBS described London residents on "Handle w/Care" Day.
ABC sees British commitment to seeing things thru re:
N. Ire. may have actually been renewed. Bomb scare not
over, all nets noted.
-- In other foreign news noted by all nets, Pak/India reached
accord on return of 90, 000 Pak and POWs and 160,000
Bengalis to B-D. ... And Solzhenitsyn spoke out again -- this
time saying he's received threatening letters and if he or
family is harmed, KGB will've had role -- moreover, he said,
all his unpublished works are now outside USSR and they'll be
published if he dies.
-- Recently RN's big money backers have been making news, but
Rabbi Korff's Comm for Fairness to Pres, is backed by
10, 000 contributors who average $10 in donations, ABC
noted. CBS/ABC film told how his "let's be fair campaign"
uses contributions for ads which note "hanging" lawyers on
Ervin Comm and biased media are behaving like McCarthy.
Korff on ABC film said Ervin' Comm's not out to get facts, but
to bring down RN. US resents this and carnival aspect of:
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