November 4, 1972

(TV Role‐‐CBS Strike) CBS coverage of Election Day will be affected by strike of network's cameramen and technicians; strike could affect plans for Face the Nation ints with Vice Pres Agnew and Sen McGovern

E Ger sources on Nov 3 rept that total of 30,000 prisoners, largest number released in 23‐yr history of E Ger, will benefit from amnesty declared on Oct 6 by Communist Govt; say 7,302 prisoners have been freed since Nov 1, when amnesty went into effect; possibly 5,000 of them had been convicted of pol crimes; W Ger officials estimate that amnesty will practically halve prison population of E Ger; amnesty, coming at critical time in W Ger negotiations with E Ger on basic treaty regulating relations between them, is seen by West as attempt to mollify W Ger negotiators; W Ger State Sec Bahr repts E Ger is preparing to allow hundreds of children, born to E Ger refugees and kept in E Ger by Communist authorities, to rejoin their families in West; E Ger in Oct allowed departure of 25 E Ger fiances of W Gers

Nixon illus

community school bd of Dist 18, Canarsie‐East Flatbush, promises NYC School Chancellor Scribner on Nov 3 to comply with his recent order to formulate plan within 90 days to rezone Wilson, Bildersee and Levin Jr HSs; bd's statement, signed by 7 bd members, charges central Educ Bd with unwarranted interference in dist and urges restoration of full authority over dist to local bd; local bd members, in attempt to allay concerns of white parents, declare rezoning will not upset racial balance at Wilson, which is now 70% white and 30% black; 31 of 32 black and Puerto Rican pupils from low‐income Tilden housing project in Brownsville enter Wilson without incident on Nov 3, but white Canarsie parents continue to boycott Wilson and 7 other Canarsie schools; total of 767 pupils, most of them black, attend classes; schools have combined enrollment of 9,700; Chancellor Scribner says he will remove his trustee, Asst Supt D Schreiber, from Dist 18 as soon as local bd assures him that Brownsville pupils will be allowed to stay in Wilson and that they will be safe there; new zoning plan to be submitted by local bd to Scribner will affect all 3 Jr HSs; some black parents, who have been given option of sending children to Bildersee, say school and its neighborhood are particularly hostile to blacks; Bildersee is now overcrowded and observers note that any plan to send blacks to school will have to provide for shift of some white pupils, probably to Wilson

Sen McGovern charges Nixon only ‘pretended’ to be near a negotiated settlement of the war, TV speech, Nov 3; says Nixon's actions are part of re‐election strategy based on ‘cruel pol deception'; says Nixon closes door to peace once again by refusing to accept without refinement settlement his own Adm negotiated with Hanoi; takes issue with Nixon's statement that further negotiations were needed to clear up ‘details’ of the agreement Hanoi had proposed signing on Oct 31; says it was no arbitrary deadline as Nixon ‘pretended'; says it was an agreed upon deadline, set by both sides; says there has been no ‘major breakthrough’ for peace, as Nixon said; says that, instead, there has been a fatal breakdown on the central issues and now the chance for an agreement is gone; says Nixon and Pres Thieu both turned down agreements Kissinger made with Hanoi