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NEWS SUMMARY October 4, 1972 (Tues. nets, wires, colle President HAS SEEN Major Stories of the Day: - - RN-Gromyko signing SALT agreements led ABC and was halfway thru the other shows w/ film of the duo expressing hopes for peace. - - Nader's indictment of Congress for abdicating its role and allowing big business and Admin to run it was lead on NBC w/ film on all 3 and backup by Brinkley on NBC. Note also given to Nader's charge that this Admin. is "most venal, 11 "Most corrupt" in US history. - - Frustration of Dem hopes for Watergate probe by House Banking was on ABC/CBS film as 6 Dems joined all GOP members to defeat Patman call for subpeona power by a 20-15 vote. - - McG on all nets w/ focus on his huge crowd in Boston, his continuing emphasis on most corrupt Admin ever - - now we're a "moral affront" -- and his declaration that crime and drug control would be his #1 domestic priority. 2 nets noted that w/ the large Boston crowd, McG's refusal to believe polls is understandable. - - The VP also on film on all nets in pro-RN Indiana where he pointed to Admin accomplishments on crime control and strongly defended US bombing in wake of NVN attempt to overrun SVN. He called on critics to stop running down their own country all the time and to look at what the enemy is doing. - - The mystery of the controversial F-Ill's fate led CBS w/ unconfirmed reports that it has again been pulled from combat in light of unexplained disappearance of one of the planes over Indochina Film on all nets from Subic Bay as the battered Newport News limped in for repairs and sailors told of the accidental tragedy for which NVN/VC are claiming credit.