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(Studio) New York City public schools to open.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) Issue is how to protect teachers' rights during decentralization of power. Union decides that new New York commission to help guarantee jobs and rights of teachers. [SPOKESPERSON - says 17,658 for agreement; 2,738 against it.] [Teacher Rose SCHUYLER - pleased with vote. Attn. focused on problems due to strike. Won't be so easy to take away teachers' rights.] [Teacher Myrna KLORMAN - says it's compromise. All for it if all sides live up to it.] [Sociologist of City College of New York, Dr. Ken CLARK - says people in ghetto communities want teachers and principals to be efficient as suburban teachers. Maybe other cities can learn from New York example.] [Mayor John LINDSAY - hopes winter and spring will see new start for our schools. Schools should be what our children deserve.] Hoped racial tensions to lessen. Twice this year, settlements to end strike failed.
REPORTER: David Culhane
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(Studio) Supreme Court to hear Adam Clayton Powell's case with regard to House exclusion in 1967. Won his seat 2 weeks ago.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) [POWELL - gratified to be living in repb. with 3 branches government Can work with any administration for good of US. Going to Congress January 2. Always optimistic. Expects to gain $65,000 if case successful. 1st time this kind of case judicated. Says congman. who unseated him is gone.] Defense attorney William Kunstler with Powell.
REPORTER: No reporter given
#198436
(Studio) Soviet Zond VI lands safely in USSR . Braking technique described.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198438
(Studio) North Vietnam spokesperson Xuan Thuy tells United Press International North Vietnam won't take point in talks unless VC considered separate negotiating team. South Vietnam General says Communists continue operations in DMZ, violating agreement that led to bombing halt. Allies encounter enemy in Da Nang area. 374 enemy killed. Report on South Vietnam unit recing. American training.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Thuong Duc, South Vietnam) sergeant Peter Smith responsible for 111 Vietnam Special Forces troops. Troops lure enemy into open. [SMITH - difficult to run organization and keep troops moving in situation as it is. Sometimes just follow troops. A lot has to be done before South Vietnam take over war.]
REPORTER: Richard Threlkeld
(Studio) Smith enrte. to United States after completing military duty.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198439
(Studio) Soviet For. Min. Andrei Gromyko hails American moves with regard to Vietnam peace. Says USSR might cooperate in resolving other world crisis. Says Moscow expects more realistic attitude with regard to invasion of Czechoslovakia.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) French Premier Maurice Couve de Murville announces economic austerity measures to restore confidence in franc. Says assistance pledged by France's West banking partners. Speculative activity eases.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Mrs. Aristotle Onassis flies to New York City from London. Plans to rejoin children and attend mass Friday on 5th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Israel reports intercepting guerrilla band near Jordan River. 2 Arabs killed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Sinai Desert) Israel became landlords to desert filled with Palestine refugees and Bedouin tribesmen. Census taken of Bedouin; no 1 may look at wives except husband. Bedouins smuggle hashish for living. Israel overlooks it but discourages Bedouin from carrying weapons to Al Fatah in Jordan. Tribe refuses to settle down.
REPORTER: Morley Safer
#198445
(Studio) 20 killed in factory fire in Glasgow, Scotland.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Film producer, Walter Wanger, 74, dies in NYC.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198448
(Studio) San Francisco Grand Jury ends safety study of cable cars. Study recommends higher pay for drivers.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(San Francisco, California) Impossible to be unhappy on cable car. Reporter rides one. [DRIVER - likes cable cars better than buses. It's relaxing. People have a lot of fun hearing bells.] Mrs. Hans Klusmann led fight to insure cable cars remaining in action. [Mrs. KLUSMANN - fought City Hall and won. Still here 20 years later. People have feeling of camaraderie on cable car; not business. Car makes states look elegant. City everyone's favorite due to cable cars.] Carl Paine's job is to ring bells.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
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