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#13983
(Studio) United States bombing of North Vietnam conts. for 4th consecutive day. Pentagon insists attacks limited to Ho Chi Minh trail area; Hanoi claims civilian casualties. 6th United States plane downed; captured pilots displayed. Paris Peace Talks canceled.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Danang, South Vietnam) Pressure on United States planes' interdiction runs cause of bombing. North Vietnam moves to protect trial. [Lieutenant Colonel John O'GORMAN - recounts experiences; MiG missile activity noted.]
REPORTER: Bill Zimmerman
(Studio) Much protest of bombing in US. United Nations Secretary General U Thant opposition noted. Senator Edmund Muskie criticizes bombing.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#13984
(Studio) 16 vets seizing statue obey court order and leave. Group of vets protest at Lincoln Memorial.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) VVAW rally at Capitol, march on Lincoln Memorial; camped at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, earlier. Vets form barricade at Memorial. Demonstrators arrested.
REPORTER: Stephen Geer
#13986
(Studio) West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and President Nixon meet in Florida.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Key Biscayne, Florida) Small ceremony on arrival. Nixon Moscow summit important to West Germany. Brandt ok's Nixon doctrine. Cut in United States troops in West Germany undesirable to Brandt until after Berlin Accords ratified.
REPORTER: Bill Gill
#13987
(Studio) New York Mayor John Lindsay announces candidacy for Democrat President nomination Will enter Florida primary.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Miami, Florida) Importance of Miami vote noted. [LINDSAY - announces candidacy.] Family present, but no major national Democrats Lindsay speaks of unemployment, discrimination; visits shopping ctrs. Wisconsin primary also on docket.
REPORTER: Gregory Jackson
#13988
(Studio) Senator Vance Hartke considers New Hampshire primary entry; chides Lindsay, noted Senator Edmund Muskie strength.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#13990
(Studio) More fighting reported Pakistanis shell Indian positions on truce line, killing 5, wounding 29.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#13991
(Studio) POW's leave Dacca for India camps. Refugees begin returning to Bangladesh.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(India-Bangladesh Border) 10 million refugees; cost to India high. Returning refugees problem for Bangladesh. Destruction of homes shown, hsing. problems crucial. Food plentiful, but many have no money. Plight of Bihari Muslims desperate, denied food. Red Cross denied permission to aid them. Negotiations continue; financial aid needed; old hatreds feared.
REPORTER: Ron Miller
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#13993
(Studio) Commerce Department says composite index of economy indicators edges up in November
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#13994
(Studio) IRS (Internal Revenue Service) orders retailers to post base prices.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(NYC) Consumer affairs specialist Elizabeth Feinstein directs "Operation Price Watch" program through union shop stewards. Prices checked in local stores. [ Watcher Lucille WHITLEY - cites proof prices are rising.] Price watching complicated by new price rules. IRS (Internal Revenue Service) and OPW disagree on price freeze success. [Miss FEINSTEIN - contradicts labor department reports] Strict wage controls, loose price controls criticized. [Trudy SCOCOZZO - complains of rising prices.] AFL-CIO President George Meany ntlizes. OPW. Price increases across country reported.
REPORTER: David Snell
#13996
(Studio) Advance party leaves Wednesday for People's Republic of China, for Nixon visit preparations. Delegates named.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#13997
(Studio) State Department reports increase in heroin seizures. Turkey as source cited.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Istanbul, Turkey) Turkish opium preferred due to quality and ease of smuggling. Efforts to curtail smuggling portrayed, especially on Turkish-Bulgarian border, Istanbul bazaar.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#13999
(Studio) Lindsay race for President nomination analyzed. Muskie-Lindsay ticket strength estimated. - Effectiveness of Lindsay appeal to the disenfranchised doubted.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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