ENVIRONMENT Friday, March 22, 1974 John Hart - sub. President Nixon asked the Co,agress to lo••r the cou,atry 's legal standards o,a clean air i,a tlae irateresls of getting more ertergy. He wa,sts tire clea,. air act cltartged so tllat so,ne power pla,ats ca,s switch Jro,n oil to coal, suspe,adlJtg requlremeJtts tllat protect Ille enviro,ame,at. He wartls Ille power to give some areas up to te,s year• more to meet air sta,adards. A,sd lie wa11ts to put off automobile startdards by t•o years. Russell Tr11i11 who is i11 cllarge of Ille E11viro11••11tal Protecfio11 Agency says lie is sorry it's not possible to move as rapidl_y as tl1e Clea,r Air Act ordered. FOREIGN CAR Tire three biggest carmakers say tlrey aYe going ahead and laying off some forty-six tlrousand r,eot,le - and Leonard Woodcock of tire auto11Jorkers union asked Co,agress to lim H foreign car imt,orts, sayi,ag Ills 11Jorllers are bei,ag laurl badly by Ille rush to IJt, small, cars that burn less gasoline llaat are made overseas. FOOD Last month we were told the wlaolesale cost of beef, cattle, ltogs and eggs 111e,at down. But tire retail coat we,at ur,. Almost straight ur,. At a rate tl1at - if it we,at on for a year, would raise tlae price of a tyr,ical ba•ll•t of food by fifty-two dollars. ,I WATER GA TE The secret grand jury report on what President Ni:con was doing dur · ing the Watergate coverup, we11t back to the Federal court today, waiting to go to tl1e House ;,npeachme,at committee 011 Mo,aday. Five o'clock Mo,aday e v ening, u,aless attorneys for Joltn Erlichma,an a11d Gordon straclra,, decide to ask the supreme court to hold itu1'. TIie White House doesn't object. VINYL CHJ,.OR/DE The Labor Department put out strict new sta11dards on the workin . g co,rdit Ions of people wlaose Jobs expose tlae"' to v inyl chloride - saying there may be a co1111ectio,a behoee,a tlaat claemical and a rare form of liver aancer . Vi11yl chloride is used in tlae maki11g of some plastics . TIie r,roble,n came out recently when several cases of liver ca,, c e r were rep or I e d a mo n g p e of> le w h o work at vi,. y I c h l o r id e p l an ts in t la e s o u t.h a ti d e as t . MIDEAST Syria and Israel shot at eacla otlaer across the Golan Heights again - for the eleventh day in a row. 011e Israeli commander saying its a Syria,c war of attriUo,a. Secretary of State Kissirager is supposed to go to Moscow tomorrow night and make arrar,geme11ts for t•e py · esident to go there ;,. June. A11d in Tokyo, it came out t•at Prime Mi11ister Tanaka i,evited Russia's Leonid Brealu,e v to visit .lt1/'t1•. REVS ON Peter Revson - the thirty-five-year-old America• millionaire - was killed today al Jolran11esburg, Soulia Africa, when his racing car craslaed and burned duri11g a pr•c'lit:e run . He was a ne1>lae111 of Claarles Revso,a, •lao started Ilse Revlon cosmetics emt>ire . L.T. Tape 1 : 10 POPE JOHN Has an.vane forgotten Pot>e Jolt,, Ille 23rd, tlle color/111 much-loved head of tlte Cllurch of Rome. A Peasant from a Nortl, Italia" village, ,.is na,,.e, Angelo Romcalli. Well, a book at·out him leas just beer, ,urltten . Fascir,ating story of llis career, a"d you marvel nt his : ever becomir,g Po1>e. But such was leis cllarm, llis wit, his wisdom, his way 111itll 1>eo1>le ,,. all walks OJ life, tltal eventually, as you know, he did scale Ilse lleighls, become a Cardinal. Artd tllen the Pot,e follou 1 ir,g leis elevatio11 to Ille Pa1>ac_v, he delivered an a1>1>eal for 1>eace lltat was broadcaat in thirty-six languages. lrt it he said : Wlty sleould Ille resources of human ir,genrlity and Ille riclees of Jtatiorts tur,e s o Jo ft e n t o th e /) rod" c ti on of a r m s - fJ e r n i c i o u s in s tr II m en ts of death and destruction - instead of imf)roving the welfare of a ll · C las s e s o J c i ti z ens /Jar tic u I a r l Y tho s e w ho ll v e in poverty? (over) POPE JOHN - 2 The author of the book, Lawrence ElHott, and he's a protestant. He s(Jent three years gathering material and writing tlais book. ,4 nd tit is biography of Pope Jolln is entitled "I will be called John." And ii may ,,.,.,, out to be a classic . Don't miss it. TAPE - Pot,e John ~ Lowell Thomas took tlle day off today and ••••"•• north from New York - looking for snow and a t,lace to ski. Before leaving, le gave us this ret,ort o" a new book: TAPE RUNS: 1:10 OUTCUE : Doft'I •iss it. No , te to Jolt" Bart: Lowell d"es ,aot say "so lo,ag" outcue is as sl,own above. .J LONDON In London some r,eot,le who say tltey are the Marxist-Leninist Activist Revolutionary movement sent a letter to tire Times of Londo,s claimiag they are tlte 0J1es wlao tried to k idnar, Princess AJ1,ae. A,ed tlte letter said - "tllis is only the begi,e,ei,ag of our camt,aig,e, you ca• exflect much more in the comi,ag mo,etlts a,ed Revolution i,e October." Scotland Yard is readi,eg tire le tier, and says it doesn't mean much . Jolln Hart sitti,ag i,a for Lowell Tho mas. Goodn iglt t .