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#198888
(Studio) {No video until 00:02:40} Task force study blaming individual police for much of violence in Chicago during Democratic Convention brings expression of support for police. CBS and others get calls objecting to report and news reports of it. Dan Walker heads study group for President Commission on Violence. Holds news conference
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Chicago, Illinois) Walker defends study in strong language. [WALKER - defends report Says United States Department of Justice requested deletions from report due to investigation with regard to prosecution. Deletions buttress conclusions. Number of police perpetrated violence. Heart of matter police violence.] No official police reaction yet. Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley only mildly critical of report yesterday. [In 12-1-68 statement, DALEY - calls it, overall, excellent. Hits summary.] [WALKER - defends summary.] [Answering question, WALKER - quotes Eric Sevareid with regard to public reaction against demonstrators.] Public opinion favors Daley and police.
REPORTER: Bill Plante
(Studio) More on Chicago violence hearings.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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#198890
(Studio) House Committee on Un-American Activities resumes investigation of Chicago Convention disorders.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Committee ignores Walker report; resumes search for Communist plot to disrupt Democratic Convention Thomas Hayden, demonstration organizer, waives Walker report Charges plot hatched by establishment; not dissenters. [HAYDEN - thinks responsibility for what police did lies higher in government Mayor Daley role noted.] Hayden denies Communist inspiration. No effort to disrupt committee hearing.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
#198891
(Studio) Student violence erupts in NYC, especially in Brooklyn. Earlier teachers' strikes noted. Students rampage and cause damage in 3 schools, protesting moving up of time lost due to strike. Film of protest at junior high school 271. Police charge students; break up demonstration. Police action noted accdg. to United Press International report
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198892
(Studio) San Francisco State College reopens after student disorders. Disputes unsettled.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(San Francisco, California) [STUDENTS - chant with regard to strike.] Day is test of new pres., S. I. Hayakawa. Sound truck denounces Hayakawa, trustees, Governor Ronald Reagan. Back-to-class representatives actions noted. Hayakawa mounts, dismantles sound truck equipment. [STUDENTS - shout at Hayakawa.] Shoving match between Hayakawa and student ensues. Hayakawa gives up; throws leaflets, back-to-class arm bands to crowd. [HAYAKAWA - orders students to get out of his way.] Police take sound truck, arrest operator. Police move on demonstrators at administration building Student attendance about average.
REPORTER: Bill Stout
#198893
(Studio) Mark Rudd, leader Columbia Univ. student revolt last spring, fails pre-induction physical exam. To be reexamined.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198895
(Studio) US, North Vietnam representatives meet in Paris with regard to procedures. Negotiations hoped for next week.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198896
(Studio) United States forces in South Vietnam expected to join 24 hour Christmas truce of Saigon government No ceasefire set for New Year's Day or during Tet, lunar new year. 1968 Tet offensive recalled.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198897
(Studio) South Vietnam frees prisoners, now said loyal to Saigon regime.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Saigon, South Vietnam) 90 former Viet Cong guerrillas, accdg. to South Vietnam Govt., released. Saigon government wanted to make most of gesture. [PRISONERS - pledge support to government of South Vietnam.] Prisoners released. A Mrs. To quoted with regard to role as guerrilla. Families reunited. Strategy of release contemplated.
REPORTER: Larry Pomeroy
#198898
(Studio) United States jets, artillery knock out enemy gun positions in DMZ.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198899
(Studio) Israel says will resettle 15,000 of its people in Golan Heights land taken from Syrians. Retaliation against Jordan also noted.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198900
(Studio) Switzerland puts export ban on weapons manufacturing Arms said shipped to Mideast and Africa. Could create problems for NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Countries.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198901
(Studio) State Department reports US, USSR renewed prelim. talks on nuclear missile limitation. Alexei Kosygin raised possibility of summit meeting on missiles with President Johnson, when Robert McNamara, World Bank, visited Kremlin last month No active plans for such.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198903
(Studio) Alaska airplane crash reported near Anchorage. No survivors.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198904
(Studio) Federal Aviation Admin. sets up landing, take-off quotas for 5 US airports. To take effect next spring. Effects on air traffic noted.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198905
(Studio) 1st human heart transplant done year ago. Heart patient given heart of traffic victim. Patient died 18 days later. Moral, legal, religion issues raised by transplant. 95 now have heart transplants. 43 live. Dr. Christiaan Barnard activity noted. Philip Blaiberg recalled.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Paris, France) [BARNARD - speaks favorably of United States medical profession re: heart transplants. Notes open progress.] [Answering question with regard to Philip Blaiberg, BARNARD - characterizes Blaiberg.]
REPORTER: Peter Kalischer
#198906
(Studio) In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 2 rob downtown bank, kill customer. Hard-of-hearing man shot. Arrests made.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198907
(Studio) Chase Manhattan Bank hikes prime interest rate; others follow suit.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198909
(Studio) French auto workers at Renault plants vote to strike. Renault shut down earlier triggered labor unrest. Economic austerity program noted.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198910
(Studio) Volkswagen officials say West Ger. export taxes, in wake of French monetary crisis, to increase prices of VWs shipped to US.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#198911
(Studio) President-elect Richard Nixon names Dr. Henry Kissinger as White House policy advsr. on defense and foreign affairs. Nixon quoted with regard to advice of foreign experts.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) Kissinger characterized with regard to Europe, Asia, Vietnam war. Opposes unilateral pull-out from war. [For. Policy Aide KISSINGER - responds to questions with regard to Vietnam.] London policy expert cited as type of foreign expert whose counsel might be sought. [NIXON - speaks with regard to Secretary of State role.] Nixon greets football stars. Lee DuBridge expected to be Nixon science advsr.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
#198913
(Studio) President-elect Nixon delays to week end Secretary of State announcement. Eric Severeid comments.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Nixon foreign policy contemplated. Kissinger appointment noted. To replace Walt Rostow. Secretary of State role noted. Dean Rusk attitude cited. Dean Acheson statement with regard to transition when John Foster Dulles came in quoted. Rusk fears move back to isolationism; believes Vietnam was ultimately to be seen as peace move. Cons of Vietnam war considered. Responsibilities to for. members and to United States citizens noted. Speaker's statements at Princeton Univ. quoted with regard to United States troops elsewhere in world.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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