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#198604
(Studio) Mine No. 9 of Consolidation Coal Company to be sealed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Farmington, West Virginia) Mine to be sealed. Company president John Corcoran makes announcement. Relatives gather at church. Sealing procedure described. Co's search effort for men said thought of by most "everything possible." Belief is men died 9 days ago. Mine to stay sealed about a year.
REPORTER: Bob Gregory
#198606
(Studio) South Vietnam says early cease-fire part of its proposed peace plan for Paris Peace Talks. Communists reject plan. Say war to end only when United States forces get out. Viet Cong order guerrilla and terrorist offensive in South Vietnam; concentrated on pacification teams, search and destroy units, etc.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198607
(Studio) Vice President Ky may operate from Geneva as head of South Vietnam delegation due to lack of diplomatic VIP treatment by France, with regard to housing, bodyguards, etc.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198608
(Studio) Cambodia border area, Danang area action reported Casualties given. US Marines' action in both areas noted.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198609
(Studio) Viet Cong release Australian business man, Keith Hyland, captured during Tet offensive in February
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Bangkok, Thailand) Hyland interviewed with regard to life with guerrillas. [HYLAND - speaks of humiliation. Reducing mind to pulp said object.]
REPORTER: Murray Fromson
#198610
(Studio) North Vietnam report follows. Roger Pic cameraman. Civilian bomb damage seen. Panhandle North Vietnam featured. All information from Pic.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Vinh, North Vietnam) Vinh destroyed by United States bombing. Ha Tinh, North Vietnam, also desolate. Rebuilding begins now that bombing halted. Cathedral of Saint Mary at Xa Doai destroyed Bombing of road used by North Vietnam to send men and supplies to South Vietnam chief objective. People return during day. [Father Tran Van SONG - explains Pics filming, in Vietnamese.] Pic said sympathetic to North Vietnam cause. Morale said high; people unemotional, vigilant.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood Narrates
#198611
(Studio) United Press International reports Romania bows to USSR pressure; OKs USSR troop presence during Warsaw Pact maneuvers next year. London sources say USSR will pull out troops when maneuvers over. Romania and Yugoslavia criticized USSR invasion of Czechoslovakia, after maneuvers. President Tito, in 25th anniversary speech intends to pursue independent course, free of Kremlin domination.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198612
(Studio) Greek exiled leader Andreas Papandreou charges United States support of fascism in Greece like USSR invasion of Czechoslovakia. Appears before European Human Rts. Commission meeting in Strasbourg, France. 2 Greek prisoners of junta testify with regard to tortures, execution threats. Take refuge with Greek exile group.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198613
(Studio) West Ger. court sentences 7 former Nazis with regard to World War II murder of 10s of 1000s Jews and Russians in Soviet Ukraine. 34,000 Jewish men, women, children slain at Baki-Yar near Kiev.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198615
(Studio) Revision in United States tax structure suggested by incoming, outgoing admins. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Wilbur Cohen said education needs money as property taxes no longer adequate for schools. Herbert Stein, aide to Richard Nixon, advises keeping income tax surcharge, to stabilize economy, fight inflation. Lyndon B. Johnson notes reduction in federal payroll. 92,000 more to be terminated.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198616
(Studio) Civil Rts. protest by Mexican-American students in Edcouch, Texas, spreads to other Rio Grande Valley locations.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Edcouch, Texas) Rio Grande Valley has more Mexican-Americans than Anglo-Americans Anglos dominate Latins. Latter protest this. Student demonstration shown. Situation described. Speaking of Spanish on school ground barred. [STUDENTS - explain why Spanish imp.] School officials deny Spanish speaking is prohibited. Physical abuse of students also denied. [School Supt. A. W. BELL - denies discrimination by faculty.] [WOMAN - doesn't want to be pushed around.] [STUDENT - says will not apologize.] Mexican-Americans want better life.
REPORTER: Ed Rabel
(Studio) Federal judge rules invalid suspensions of students in this conflict. Individual hearings to be held.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkit
#198617
(Studio) State of emergency declared in Newark, New Jersey, as many firemen, police report in sick to press demands for higher pay. Funds said not available. Newark has one of nation's. highest crime rates. Court orders men to resume work.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198618
(Studio) Police problems face USSR as well as US. Kremlin reorgs. USSR police system to promote "law and order." Provisions and procedures explained.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198620
(Studio) Richard Nixon sends William Scranton to Mideast on fact-finding tour. Israel, 5 Arab ntns. to be visited.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198621
(Studio) USSR launches unmanned Cosmo satellite. USSR manned shot around moon considered, prior to United States Apollo 8 mission, December 21.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198623
(Studio) At San Quentin prison new convict rehabilitation program being tried, with regard to commuting inmates.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(San Francisco, California) Mat Zalik, who works on job away from prison while completing term, featured. Works for San Francisco car dealership, training as mechanic. Training filmed. Zalik a model prisoner. [ZALIK - talks with trainer. Tells of experience.] No problems on job reported [Mgr. Walt ANDERSON - tells why he hired a convict.] Effort called constructive for law and order.
REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater
#198624
(Studio) Women twice as likely to lose money as men are, study shows. Statistics on money loss given.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198626
(Studio) Observations with regard to news fallout.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) George Wallace vote in recent election bespeaks public's frustration with regard to voicelessness. Govt., business, press, networks cited. Imprecision of viewing, listening, reading noted. But some complaints legit. Electronic journalism's problem noted. Letter from J. Edward Smith of Columbia, SC, cited. Questioned Sevareid remark with regard to Demo Party Ltr. read. Republican Party noted. Republican homogeneity, Demo diversity cited in ltr.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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