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OCR Page 1 of 18NEWS SUMMARY
December 24, 1971
(Thursday telecasts, wires, columns)
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEHN
Major News Developments:
RN signs cancer bill,film on NBC and CBS including RN's comments
that false hopes shouldn't be raised but there should be hope in that
all that can be done is being done.
RN offers Hoffa clemency led all nets. (:15 note on CBS followed
by cancer bill with later lengthy report on Hoffa.) Asked whether
he thought RN had politics in mind, Hoffa said he didn't know but
whatever was on RN's mind he "appreciates" his release.
Rogers news conference reaffirms US commitment to air support
for SVN as it is essential to Vietnamization. All nets noted US
bombing 73 miles from Hanoi -- nearest to capital since before
'68 halt. Another CBS report on air war -- this one on Navy
activity followed by the SVN-AF.
Note that Bob Hope is seeking release of POWs makes all nets --
good footage of his show troupe on NBC the GIs love it.
- All nets noted: FCC dropping of investigation of AT &T because
they lack money and manpower; CLC granted 22% of 34% requested
increase for gov't employee Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance
premiums; CLC exempted the postal service from controls and the
service immediately announced 23% increase in 3rd class postal
rates.
INDOCHINA
All nets noted with similar film Secy. Rogers'
strong "blunt" (ABC) support of the continued US
support in the air war. (ABC's Koppel said it
was the proper time for the Secy. to hold a foreign
policy review and he ticked off foreign policy
achievements of the Admin. Heading the list was
Vietnamization.) Rogers asserted that the NVN
has stepped up its attacks in Laos and Cambodia
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