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(Cape Kennedy, Florida) Reporter shows model of Apollo VII rocket and spacecraft. Crew shown en route to launch pad. Launch control voice, Jack King, says countdown. Launch and stage separation shown. Mission control voice changed to Paul Haney. Crew discovers hanger malfunction 3 hrs. after launch which could cause trouble on moon flight. Apollo VIII rocket shown. Nothing yet to prevent VIII from its December flight.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Studio) Crew gets go ahead for another 12 orbits. Wives of astronauts watch launch at home. Mrs. Walter Cunningham and children watch launch from boat off cape. CBS to cover all events, incling. television transmission from Apollo VII.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) President Johnson visits ex-President Harry S. Truman in Independence, Missouri.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Johnson urges Senator to ratify nuclear non-proliferation treaty or face post-election session.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) [JOHNSON - can't guarantee United States early action will bring other ntns. with us. But chances of doing so will be reduced if don't act soon. Hope Senator to act now. Shall consider special session if they don't act.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Senator Mike Mansfield has no plans to call up treaty before adjournment.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Congress prepares to adjourn.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) [MANSFIELD - doesn't want non-proliferation treaty to become political issue. Will be difficult to get quorum. Best procedure is to delay it until 1st of January] [Representative James O'HARA - says intends to hold out for public's right to hear President debates by refusing to vote for adjournment.] Believed House liberals won't succeed. What's left undone must wait.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
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(Studio) Ex-Governor Pennsylvania, William Scranton, says unwise to talk to USSR now about curbing missiles. Scranton, back from European trip for Richard Nixon, reported his findings to Secretary of State, Dean Rusk.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) 26 Communists killed in battle with Americans N.W. of Saigon. Report on return to Khe Sanh.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Khe Sanh, South Vietnam) Marines take up metal airstrip. [Chief Petty OFR. describes weight and worth of airstrip points. Seabees to be anywhere they're needed.] Holes in airstrip shown. [SOLDIER - says Khe Sanh greener than it was when stationed here. Plenty of memories here.] 26th Marine regular stationed here during siege. 150 died here in 2 mos. and 1,000 hurt. "Taps" played.
REPORTER: Don Webster
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(Studio) High Viet Cong representative arrives in Paris to open information office. Met at airport by North Vietnam representatives
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Czech Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek says impossible for Czechoslovakia to return to hard-line Communism and Czech leaders made this clear to USSR . Premier Oldrich Cernik to sign treaty in USSR legalizing occupation and calling for withdrawal of all but token force.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Moscow Court convicts 5 Soviet citizens of defaming USSR while demonstrating in Red Sq. against Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. 2 got labor camps for 3 years and others banished from Moscow for 5 years
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) 9 Cuban exiles arrested in Miami with regard to wave of anti-Castro terrorism in US. Examples cited.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) In Fargo, North Dakota, George Wallace says farmers in worse shape since 1930s and called for agriculture price supports.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) In Dallas, Texas, Richard Nixon calls 10% surtax war tax and should be repealed. Criticizes courts in restricting police in handling criminals.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and Senator Edmund Muskie challenge Richard Nixon and George Wallace.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(NYC) [HUMPHREY - says we'll guarantee cost of President debates. Propose 2 President debates and 1 Vice President debate. Asking all to help pay for debates.] [MUSKIE - says Nixon afraid debate might cost him lead in campaign.] [HUMPHREY - says in Nixon's book "6 Crises", he says public wants TV President debates and candidates responsible to public.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Humphrey representatives inquire about CBS time for debates. Nixon representative says debate issue closed and Nixon still refuses debate with Wallace. Humphrey cancels appearance in New York and trip to Ohio due to flu.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Analysis of Hubert Humphrey campaign.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Vice President must win New York City to win New York if he can win President Not doing so well. Reasons for failure cited. Vice President to campaign 3 more days in California. Looks like Dwight Eisenhower-Adlai Stevenson campaign. Vice President's speeches too long.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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(Studio) In Dover, England, President of Flat Earth Society, says astronauts seeing round ball beneath them is optical illusion. Tomorrow is 476th anniversary of Columbus heresy.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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