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OCR Page 1 of 437/5/74
Copy given to Geoff Shepard,
Office of Counsel to the President
NEWS SUMMARY
April 4, 1972
(Monday nets, wires, mags)
THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN
The major stories of the day:
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US readies one of its biggest air armadas of the war in effort
to help ARVN stop the NVA's "flagrant invasion" of the South.
With weather improving, B-52s pound NVA concentrations near
Quang Tri Lengthy leads on all nets with reports on urgent
WSAG session "all options open'' and the "river of refugees"
joined by the "overwhelmed" ARVN troops heading for besieged
Quang Tri City. Discouraging picture of situation altho NVA
reported temporarily bogged down north of Quang Tri.
A busy last day in Wisc. with Wallace still seen as sleeper in
toss-up race between HHH and McGovern, the latter of whom
refuses to back down on charge that ITT paid no taxes in '7I
but SEC records noted by nets show he's wrong.
Kleindienst
on NBC is confident he'll be confirmed.
Sevareid says RN
has "moral imperative" to reveal his campaign contributors
before Friday.
Hundreds coming to San Diego every week
preparing for GOP Convention protest NBC film.
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Jaffe on NBC only explaining expanded methadone clinics - - and
simultaneous tightening of controls over its distribution.
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Charlie Chaplin's return to US is shown by all nets who treat
sympathetically his self-imposed exile from these shores during
Joe McCarthy period.
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Harrisburg 7 still deliberating defense attys again irate when
Judge describes case to jurors for 3rd time.
INDOCHINA
Nets noted in leads that SVN stripped Saigon, Da Nang and Hue of
10,000 of its best defenders and flew them to Quang Tri to try to roll
back the invasion. Kitty Hawk steamed in to join 2 other carriers in
action and the Constellation was racing from Japan to give the US its
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