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    "ocrText": "NEWS SUMMARY\nDecember 24, 1971\n(Thursday telecasts, wires, columns)\nTHE PRESIDENT HAS SEHN\nMajor News Developments:\nRN signs cancer bill,film on NBC and CBS including RN's comments\nthat false hopes shouldn't be raised but there should be hope in that\nall that can be done is being done.\nRN offers Hoffa clemency led all nets. (:15 note on CBS followed\nby cancer bill with later lengthy report on Hoffa.) Asked whether\nhe thought RN had politics in mind, Hoffa said he didn't know but\nwhatever was on RN's mind he \"appreciates\" his release.\nRogers news conference reaffirms US commitment to air support\nfor SVN as it is essential to Vietnamization. All nets noted US\nbombing 73 miles from Hanoi -- nearest to capital since before\n'68 halt. Another CBS report on air war -- this one on Navy\nactivity followed by the SVN-AF.\nNote that Bob Hope is seeking release of POWs makes all nets --\ngood footage of his show troupe on NBC the GIs love it.\n- All nets noted: FCC dropping of investigation of AT &T because\nthey lack money and manpower; CLC granted 22% of 34% requested\nincrease for gov't employee Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance\npremiums; CLC exempted the postal service from controls and the\nservice immediately announced 23% increase in 3rd class postal\nrates.\nINDOCHINA\nAll nets noted with similar film Secy. Rogers'\nstrong \"blunt\" (ABC) support of the continued US\nsupport in the air war. (ABC's Koppel said it\nwas the proper time for the Secy. to hold a foreign\npolicy review and he ticked off foreign policy\nachievements of the Admin. Heading the list was\nVietnamization.) Rogers asserted that the NVN\nhas stepped up its attacks in Laos and Cambodia"
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