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(Studio) President Nixon to announce school busing policy on television at 10:00 p.m. EST.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(White House) President will ask Congress to enact new antibusing laws limiting distance school children can be driven and calling for halt on court ordered busing until constitutional issues more clearly defined. Plan will call for upgrading poor inner city schools to level of those in affluent suburbs. Only handful of black Federal Nixon appointees conferred with President on plan. SCLC's Ralph Abernathy says petition from 7 black civil rights leaders to Nixon, requesting conference on plan, was never answered. [Executive Director NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) , Roy WILKINS - says President has not consulted with NAACP. Says President has no right to use power of White House in partisan dispute, abandoning role as President of all the people.] Aides say Nixon was not influenced by Florida primary straw vote, but he summoned speech writers to retreat at Camp David, Maryland, day after election, and reversed decision not to televise speech.
REPORTER: Tom Jarriel
(Studio) President's address to be on television live tonight.
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(Studio) Despite widespread opposition to busing, it has not been cause for turmoil everywhere.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Berkeley, California) Berkeley has achieved almost 50:50 racial ratio due to smooth busing operation. Busing successful due to: small town making busing distances short; white education, avant-guard middle class whites; program explaining details of busing before it was implemented. There was almost no opposition when busing began. [School Supt., Dr. Richard FOSTER - says busing is easiest part of problem. More difficult is changing minds of children and adults to live together in peace.] Teachers report white and black children do better in school now than when they were segregated.
REPORTER: Bill Wordham
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(Studio) Pay Board cuts pay raise negotiated by longshoreman and shippers. Another dock strike may result.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) Contract between International Longshoremen's Workers Union and Pacific Maritime Association calls for 21% pay and benefit raises, but Pay Board cuts it to 15%. [Pay Board Chairperson Judge George BOLDT - says cut necessary to wind down inflation while considering equity of employees involved.] [UAW Vice President, labor member Pay Board, Pat GREATHOUSE - refers to business and public members who voted for cutback as unholy alliance. Says action was not taken on legitimate economy grounds, but is political maneuver to sat stage for permanent legislation against transportation strikes.]
REPORTER: Frank Tomlinson
(Sam Francisco, California) Dock workers angry that Pay Board reduces their raise. Say their productivity has cut shippers' costs, but savings have not been passed on in raises. [Longshoremen express willingness to strike.]
REPORTER: Dick Shoemaker
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(Studio) United States delegate to Paris Peace Talks calls on North Vietnam to permit inspection of prisoners of war camps by neutral 3rd party Ambassador William Porter says United States will agree not to raid inspected camps.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) 2 Americans listed killed, 19 wounded in weekly Vietnam combat report
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) 5700 Americans withdraw from South Vietnam.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam) As Americans leave Cam Ranh Bay, base is nearly abandoned. Much of base being dismantled.
REPORTER: Jim Giggans
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(Studio) Draft bds. order men born in 1952 with lottery mos. 1-15 to report for military duty. Will fill 15,000 man quota for next 3 mos.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Democrat president hopefuls resume campaigns in aftermath of Florida primary. 2nd and 3rd place winners after George Wallace, Senators Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson, begin Wisconsin campaign. 4th place Senator Edmund Muskie picks up IN endorsement.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Indianapolis, IN) On way to campaign in Illinois, Muskie stops in IN for blessing of Senator Birch Bayh. [MUSKIE - says he must beat Nixon and Wallace for President] (Fort Wayne, IN) [MUSKIE - challenges audience to join his battle for victory.] (East Chicago, IN) [MUSKIE - makes Wallace an issue and denounces other candidates for willingness to coexist with him.]
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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(Studio) Senator hearings on ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) affair continue.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Capitol Hill) ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) officials present their report on investigation into shredded documents. ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) general counsel Howard J. Aibel admits some ITT papers in Washington, DC were fed into shredding machine after Jack Anderson published memo linking ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) antitrust settlement with contribution to Republican national convention Senator Tunney calls action shocking. ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) President Harold Geneen says Republican convention offered opportunity to promote new Sheraton Hotel in San Diego. Defends pledge as investment, not gift. [GENEEN - insists contribution was made to San Diego, California convention and tourist bureau, not Republican party] Subcmte of 6 Senators will go to ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) lobbyist Dita Beard's Denver hospital room Monday for her testimony.
REPORTER: Bob Clark Artist: Tom Dunn
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(Studio) President Nixon asks Congress for new program, government and business partnership in development of new technologies.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) House approves 3 year nation-wide program to battle drug abuse at cost of $1 billion.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) President Commission recommends all states adopt liberal abortion laws to facilitate zero population growth. Contraception and sterilization availability, paid by health insurance, also endorsed.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) In Saint Louis, Missouri ailing Pruitt-Igoe neighborhood gets treatment.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Saint Louis, Missouri) 22 of 33 high rise low cost housing project bldgs. in Saint Louis are closed. Vandalism, poor maintenance and management, gang wars, and arch. defects render project a disaster. Project is being reduced to smaller, more secure and personable units.
REPORTER: Lem Tucker
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(Studio) Commentator to visit Asia for next 2 weeks, rptg. on areas surrounding Communist China to gather reaction to new US-China friendship. New United States stance on S.E. Asia considered.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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