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He fl i e s t o Jo · rd a n to m or r o i :· - and Sy r i a on 1uzda J . E T\PE 1 .J II d ' < ' .JD h 11 • i r i · " s a id I a I · I o d a _ \ h • 1t i I I r • · o m Ill n d //,a/ lh ,·a .· e 0 .f lit ' ' il(hl, 11 minu/ ' gap b g11 n to a Federal . r"nd jury . Th r comm ndation go lo SP cial pro ecuto1· Leon J a 11 • or k i . iri a imp/i ri hi l>•ong b lief that omeone may h a L , p , r p o I _ \ I tl , m p " r ') d , i t h t h e I a p e . 1 anwhile, irica asked a panel of six technical x p e r t s t o t " r 11 111 i r a t t e n t i on t o o t h e r t a p e s , in c l u ding ome die lat d by the Pr sidenl u hich eem to ha e gaps i11 /II . JU. \\' Ill TE II l F Th II' '1 i I , Ho 11 • • ' - P r ~ id II I ix o 11 111 I I o da y u ii h II II • (I II d II fl / R /J II b / i {I 11 L a d r al I Ii ame lim di clo ing plan , or a 1 ' nrlio "drlr e · "' mid -ti n.\ lomor rou. Th ~ p,, id nl a y in h iul nd l o " la y 011/, hat our pro ram i " - / 01 ' d alin g with th e n rg cri is in the 111011th and ) ar a h e ad. •NERGY FOLLOW WHITE HOUSE From the Federal Energy Office - a report today thai tlze "leakag " of Arab oil to the U.S. - has all but dried up. The report adding that the Arab oil embargo - is now "nearing full effectiveness." STILL WATER At Stillwater, Oklahoma - Rouse speaker Carl Albert was discussing the lime - when he was a heartheat away from the Presidency; after the resignation of Spiro Agnew as Vice President - t hile his s11ccessor, Gerald Ford, iuas awaiting confirmation. Albert saying this was the most dramatic period he has ever experienced. "I said to myself" - said lte - "whatever else I do in life will be unimportant - if I do tlte wrong thing here." Albert going on to say: "It would ltave been wrong to have played politics IDith tllis situatio,a - or to veto a,e get personal gai,e; it 111or,ld have be..,, wro,ag to7' a /0~ IJ ■ :I election, almost a landslide - because you've got tl,e participants in a difficult situation." MOORER From the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff - an admission today that he once received a number of "unau . thoriz e d" rep or ts - on White Rouse military dise-11 s s ioru Admiral William Moorer saying these were "working papers" - compiled by a clerical aide to Admiral Robert Wela,idef', who ioas then the Pentagon's liaison to the White House. Admiral Moorer denied, however, that the aide in question . - had used "clandes ine methods." He also said tlaat reports the Joint Chiefs had ot,ef'ated a military spy ring in the White Hoi,s e - wef'e "ludicf'ous, ridiculor,s and just a lie." The problem "at that time" - he added - was not a lack of infof'malion /f'om the White House - but rather an "excessive amount" of it. SAIGON Continued fighting in Vietnam - is now said to ltave reached its highest level in three weeks. This - according to the South Vietnamese Military Command; which also says the Viet Cong have again rejected a call - for a Tet lunar Net Year truce. - PHNOM PENH FOLLOW SAIGON At Phnom Penh in neighboring Cambodia - a Communist rocket today scored a direct hit on a French-run school. Luckily ti• er•" - it was just prior to the start of classes. Only one killed and two wounded - all adults. Nevertheless, the French quickly launching an airlift - to Bangkok. Thus evacuating some fifty French women and children - within a matter of hours. French officials adding that the airlift will continue - until all French women and children are out of the country. SUGGESTED LEAD-IN TO THOMAS TAPE "CARROLL POEM" As you may ha"e gue sed by no1 - Lowell Thomas is off on another jaunt. This time - up in Canada. But here now - a special refJort he left us. Lowell .••. Tape Januar) 18, 1974 ARROLL POEM - - - - - - - -- - - - - - U fJ h e r e i II t h e n, o 11 n ta .; n i h e .,. e J t th t .. , am a e momen J ha, b e 11 going o er Chri tmas cards and here is one I'd like to share 11ith y ou. It may express our sentiments instinct as it do mine/ The v erses are by George Carroll of the famous Lak Placid Club. Until the New York Daily Mi,•ror Jolde d each ear they pr int ed an annual Christmas or N ,o Year's poem by George Carroll. Now his anni,al poem he sends to his frie,ids. Here are just a few of the erses ; a poem a a letter to Santa. Dear Silnta: No doubt 011' e forgotten, but long years ago We sent you a letter, to make sure you'd know On Christma morning we hoped to see A gleaming to y train 11nde-rneath our t-ree. Now " e a, · e wrtting to ask y ou again, Santa, old bo , please b-ring 11s a train. Tha t 's all we ask for, simple 011 r plea. Bring back the Century, the Commodore, CARROLL POEM - 2 ----- uper Chi f, North Coast, Con . quistador, Th e B Y o a d " a . , , I h e Z e p h y r , t h e C a ,r n o n Ba l l . And a dozen oth er i e might recall . Bring back the club car, the spotless diner. (Ne er in hi tory was trnvel finer.) The nug compartment when night came down S1 i/t blur of light , ith each sleeping town. Mournful tail of the e,igineer's I histle, demanding the track for his speeding missile ... England can do it, Canada, Spain. Why can't America do it - again? What is pre enttng thi.«t most powerful nation From reconstituting its rail transportation? Fuel it with coal if we 're short on diesel, But let's ha e the last laugh on old King Feisal. MOSCOW Dissident Rus ian author Alexander Solzhenttsyn was lasllinrr ba k today at his critics in the So v iet t,ress. This in a statement - given to Western newsmen. J Ai J1 Solzhenitsyn accusing ,f' J ~ ' C b ■ ••••4'wn,.-: of lying abo11t hi late t book, "The Gulag Archipelago;" also, j11ggling facts - and then hiding under a cloak of "cowardly anonyminity." Solzhenitsyn further insisting the book will endure - whatever his detractors may say; that some day it will become reqr,ired reading in Russian classrooms - as the one true accot1nt of the Stalinist purges.