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Note - Monday - Tuesday China Carrage - NEWS SUMMARY d Bach of Daily March 1, 1972 (Tuesday nets, wires, mags) hummary - ago The major stories of the day: THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN - RN announces Chou has invited Scott and Mansfield to PRC -- Mike hopes they can go late spring or early summer Film on all nets (ABC lead) of WH briefings with NBC noting concern over conservatives¹ reaction on Taiwan. Scott on 2 nets on possibility of withdrawal of 6,000 GIs there when VN is over -- perhaps by year's end, Note of Buckley, Ashbrook and Soviet criticisms by 2 nets. - Senate reverses self on Griffin move to prevent courts from ordering busing. 50-47 defeat followed by 63-34 ok of the much milder Scott-Mansfield proposal. NBC/CBS lead with Griffin on all 3 feeling that Supreme Court must have got message to slow the bus down. - Gov't case at Berrigan trial again overshadowed as defense reports informer Douglas asked for $50,000 payoff for his cooperation -- and received at least some reward from Gov't already. Film on all nets. - Kennedy's amnesty hearings on all nets as sharply opposing views come from war resister and from a dead GI's father whose testimony was one of most effective and articulate such counters to John Kerry seen since last spring. EMK "visibly moved. 11 - Chavez' farm workers union recognized by Minutemaid in Fla. ABC film. 1st such action there. - Press is blocked off from W. Va. death area as Guard says the reporters get in way. You=can-guess-the-reaction film on 2 nets. - Note by all that Senate Judiciary approved women's equal rights amendment, 14-1. Still, problems expected on Floor. - Brinkley ecstatic over the outstanding planning at Disney World; Kuralt on the (Interstate) road in Wyoming where Gov't spent millions to build highway where they were told not to because of bad weather. The predictable results -- the people were right Maddox on CBS with a toupee!