CBS Evening News - 1973-11-16
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[0:00] From CBS News headquarters at the
[0:02] Kennedy Space Center, this is the CBS
[0:05] Evening News with Walter Kronite and
[0:08] Roger Mud in the CBS newsroom in New
[0:10] York. in Washington. Dan Rather, Nelson
[0:14] Benton, Phil Jones, Richard Wagner in
[0:17] Los Angeles, Bob Simon in Tel Aviv,
[0:20] Charles Caralt on the road tonight in
[0:22] Palm Desert, California, and Ed Bradley
[0:25] in South Vietnam with part two of a
[0:27] special report on life with the
[0:29] Vietkong.
[0:31] Good evening. For the man in the street,
[0:32] the oil shortage so far has been mostly
[0:34] rhetoric. But today, there were more
[0:36] signs indicating it's now on the verge
[0:38] of reality. And President Nixon, as he
[0:40] signed the Alaska oil pipeline bill,
[0:42] warned that even if M East oil began to
[0:44] flow tomorrow, there would still be an
[0:46] energy crisis this year. More from Dan
[0:48] Rather.
[0:50] The president said protection of the
[0:52] environment must take second priority
[0:53] now to energy needs. He hinted at it
[0:55] possibly higher gasoline taxes and held
[0:57] out hope that more Arab oil may be
[0:59] available soon. He criticized Congress
[1:02] and verbally jousted with two senators,
[1:03] Democrat Henry Jackson and Republican
[1:05] Mark Hatfield.
[1:06] >> There's the bill.
[1:09] I'd like to give it to one of you, but
[1:11] that has to go to the iP.
[1:21] The environment will be saved, right?
[1:25] No problem. Mark, you're an
[1:26] environmentalist, right? You're right.
[1:28] You have no problems on on the pipeline.
[1:32] No great problems. No great problems.
[1:35] That's a way of saying there could be
[1:38] Earlier, Mr. Dixon finished his series
[1:40] of meetings with Republican congressman
[1:42] about Watergate. Op