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(Studio) Nixon's Cambodia aid explanation tonight.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) Nixon preparing speech; claims Cambodian communists jeopardize South Vietnam, Americans; South Vietnam, Americans sweeping toward communist base, supply, and prisoners of war camps; short-term involvement to end when sanctuaries destroyed.
REPORTER: Tom Jarriel
(DC) Congress takes action against President [Senator J. William FULBRIGHT - admits President power to act; Congress must dissuade him.] [Rept. Richard OTTINGER - intros. President censure.] No chance for censure passage, symbolic gesture.
REPORTER: Bob Clark
(Studio) President speech live, 9:00 p.m. tonight.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Mil. operation in Cambodia successful; 10,000 South Vietnam, American advisers drive 25 mile into cntry., kill many, capture communist supplies; little organized resistance; reporters now allowed across border, weren't before.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(South Vietnam) South Vietnam cmd. post for Parrot's Beak operations busy; medivacs return wounded from Cambodia. [South Vietnam General Do Cao TRI - says will strike enemy in South Vietnam or Cambodia; operation going well.] Cambodia new Vietnam war phase.
REPORTER: Steve Bell
(Studio) Top Cambodian officials can't approve American invasion, violates neutrality; private views different.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Cambodian government secretly urged United States invasion to ease pressure; American leaders say move aids United States forces in South Vietnam; captured supplies may provide needed Cambodian firepower.
REPORTER: John Scali
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(Studio) Egypt spring offensive makes deepest thrust across Suez since 1967 war; both sides claim heavy casualties; Israel retaliates with heavy air attacks. USSR denies reports of Soviet pilots flying combat raids for Egypt, Israeli For. Min. Abba Eban insists they are.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Tel Aviv, Israel) [EBAN - claims Sovs. involved long ago; power balance shifting.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Egypt says Israel trying for world sympathy.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Violent Teamsters, 4,000 national guardsmen dispute in Ohio. Columbus Ohio State students battle police.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Columbus, Ohio) 1,800 national guardsmen confront militant students; administration building clash yields 300 arrests, 100 injuries; many gunshot victims; demonstrators demand protestors' release, and University dissociation with military orgs.; mayor sets curfew; more trouble expected.
REPORTER: Earl Green (WTVN-TV newsfilm)
(Berkeley, California) Protesters break into anti-Reserve Officers' Training Corps demonstrators' trial; campus police clear room after brief skirmish; 2 arrested; trial canceled.
REPORTER: David McLean
(Studio) 4,000 paratroopers fly to Yale for pro-Black Panther rally tomorrow; town fears worst.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(New Haven, Connecticut) City arms against potential riots when 50,000 gather tomorrow. [Unidentified PANTHER SPOKESPERSON - says if violence occurs, will defense selves.] Outside radicals threaten disruption. [Yale Chaplin William COFFIN - claims media misreping. New Haven; outsiders bringing violence.]
REPORTER: Jim Burnes
#10217
(Studio) House anti-ballistic missile deployment blockage fails.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#10218
(Studio) American U-2 pilot Francis Powers shot down over USSR 10 years ago; story published tomorrow.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Chicago, Illinois) Powers criticized for not destroying U-2 and self when shot down; still tests U-2's for Lockheed. [POWERS - says can't explain not killing self when captured; book tells all.]
REPORTER: Jules Bergman
#10219
(Studio) Apollo 14 trouble; workman drilled through cooling element; repairs extensive.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) What are Sov's. up to in Mideast?
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Studio) USSR -Egypt relationship Soviet policy change, usually wait for United States to get entangled, then enter; superpower confrontation may result.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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