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(Studio) "Washington Post" reports President Nixon to announce Supreme Court nominees at 7:30 p.m. EST. American Bar Association disapproved his 2 favored choices; voted, 11-1, against California Judge Mildred L. Lillie and 7-5 against Arkansas attorney Herschel H. Friday.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) White House says President confident Senator will confirm his 2 upcoming choices. Lillie and Friday not eliminated completely from consideration. White House says 1 name to be surprise.
REPORTER: Tom Jarriel
(DC) If President sticks by Friday, fight predicted in Senate [Senator Birch BAYH - anticipates fight of someone who can't pass American Bar Association screening.] House black caucus to announce opposition to anyone it considers racist. [Representative John CONYERS, Junior - says President playing political game with court to fulfill demands of South strategy.] [AFL- CIO President George MEANY - says will oppose Friday due to his record.] Meany clip from PBS show "30 Min. With". Some groups blocking G. Harrold Carswell's and Clement F. Haynsworth, Junior's appts. will block Friday's appointed
REPORTER: Bob Clark
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(Studio) Reporter Bill Gill says Egypt agrees to meet secretly in Washington, DC with Israeli representative, Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco, go-between in try to negotiate reopening of Suez Canal; reports Nixon hopes to visit Cairo Egypt, and Tel Aviv, Israel, before 1972 elections.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Two 15-yr.-olds slip into USSR mission to UN, smash door and spray room with black paint. Sniper fire also hits building
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(NYC) Mission always guarded well, but sniper able to fire 4 shots into room where USSR diplomat's children were. Jewish Defense League suspected. [Soviet ambassador to United Nations Yakov Aleksandrovich MALIK - tells path of bullets. US ambassador Bush saw this.] [Ambassador George BUSH - says doesn't know what good it does to express concern over this; tells United Nations United States condemns incident and must find ways to prevent it.] FBI joins in inquiry. Mission children shown.
REPORTER: Bill Brannigan
#12982
(Studio) USSR Premier Aleksei North Kosygin arrives in Montreal, Canada; security tight; goes to Cuba Tuesday
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#12983
(Studio) USSR says 5 Soviet warships in Atlantic head for Cuba, too.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Norfolk, Virginia) 5 weeks ago, another USSR task force rode by Hawaii; upset islanders by spilling oil. Navy films ship.; USSR movements closely watched. [Operations ofr. Captain Jack FULLER - shows where force is on map.] Computer keeps up with Soviet task group.
REPORTER: Roger Peterson
#12984
(Studio) State Department says no to possible sale of American historic land to USSR .
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) 19 year Air Force veteran, Master sergeant Walter T. Perkins, accused of espionage at Air Defense Weapons Center at Tyndall AFB, Florida.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#12986
(Studio) Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and Communist; credited with helping bring about 1st Marxist government there.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#12988
(Studio) Alabama Governor George C. Wallace asks for meeting with Nixon to discuss problems caused by massive busing.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Montgomery, Alabama) Wallace is angry because Justice Department challenging his anti-busing law. [WALLACE - says wants President to stop busing if he's against it.] George Wallace says he'll gladly share political credit for anti-busing measures. [WALLACE - hopes issue is solved and forgotten.]
REPORTER: Steve Bell
#12990
(Studio) Major development in Memphis, Tennessee, unrest with regard to black teen's death reported.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Memphis, Tennessee) Sporadic violence has broken out. [D. A. Phil CANALE - says homicide indictment(s) will be given to grand jury.] Some schools close due to bomb threats. [Cnclman. J. L. PATTERSON - tells school audience that the goal is to get Elton Hayes' killers, not burn city down; cites need to get policemen responsible before court] Some black doctors,refusing to sign Mayor Loeb's agreement to help keep peace, say city gives no assurance of improved police conduct. Black teens protest police brutality at City Hall.
REPORTER: Don Farmer
#12991
(Studio) Ex-FBI agent, Ralph Cipriani, testifies to Knapp Commission on police graft; says testimony by patrolman William R. Phillips consistent with his own findings; says difficult to get information from those who paid off police for fear of reprisal.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#12993
(Studio) USSR may have detonated underground nuclear blast. Groups in court to protest blast test on Amchitka Island, AK. Case dropped when decided blast won't occur before Wednesday
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) Senator Mike Gravel and 2 Canadian Parliament members spent 1/2 hour picketing blast in front of White House with group.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith narrates
(Vancouver, British Columbia) Canadians fear blast. 1 of protest groups, Green Peace Mission, sends crew and ship of 12 to Amchitka area. [Mrs. Dorothy METCALF - says many Canadians oppose blast, hopes Nixon is enough of humanitarian to cancel blast.] October 6 protest shown. Real estate board of greater Vancouver's television commercial against blast shown. Groups disturbed at Premier Pierre E. Trudeau's lack of response.
REPORTER: John Kline
#12994
(Studio) Southern Airways, Incorporated plane strikes power line in Peoria, Illinois. All 16 killed.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#12996
(Studio) Howard K. Smith ridicules imperialistic and authoritarian resolution of Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Jacob K. Javits with regard to Irish problems. They win 1971 H. K. Smith award for silly statements in Congress
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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