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(Studio) Pres, Nixon removes major target of antiwar protest.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Director Mil. Draft, Lieutenant General Lewis Hershey, dismissed by February 16. He's promoted to General and given job as advisor on manpower mobilization. [HERSHEY - says sorry to leave old place; I'll be working.] Been Director since 1941. Speculated decision made hastily to tone down October 15 protest.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Studio) More developments in search for Vietnam out.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#200547
(Studio) Senator Barry Goldwater predicts troops to be out of enemy range by Christmas. Thinks war will end at earlier date. Marvin Kalb says B-52 suspension considered due to lull. War review scheduled, with Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and others. Pres, Nixon wins over critic, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Humphrey said he was visiting advisor, Henry Kissinger, when President invited him up for chat. Film of meeting shown. [HHH - says President hopes be can do more in Vietnam; so do I. Have to realize he's trying and has made progress.] HHH support valued.
REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint
#200548
(Studio) Senator Henry Jackson suggests dovish For. Relations Committee and hawkish Armed Services Committee to get together with administration on Vietnam policy. Proposes joint Vietnam withdrawal policy.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#200549
(Studio) North Vietnam spokesperson Xuan Thuy demands United States be pulled out in mos., rather than years
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#200550
(Studio) American Vietnam Commander, General Creighton Abrams, says enemy's grip on South Vietnam loosened.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#200551
(Studio) Fighting lull due in point to monsoon rains.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Near Da Nang, South Vietnam) 2 foot water around Da Nang and 3 foot near Hue. Flooding shown. [Major General Ormond SIMPSON - says enemy mobility limited He's in bad shape.] A lot of rice ruined.
REPORTER: Tony Sargent
#200552
(Studio) People's Republic of China says United States warships and planes attacked her fishing boats in Gulf of Tonkin.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#200553
(Studio) Leftist students demonstrate against United States in Japan. Riot police use tear gas in Tokyo and arrest 80.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#200554
(Studio) Militant Protestants call for resignation of North Irish P.Min. James Chichester-Clark. Clark disarms regular police, and breaks up Protestant police reserves, so hated by Catholics.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#200556
(Studio) After Mexican complaints, United States eases up on 1900-mi. border drug crackdown. "Operation Intercept" changed to "Operation Cooperation." Mexico steps up drive against drug production and transportation. United States to have simpler search methods.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#200557
(Studio) Judge Clement Haynsworth's supporters speak out.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [Senator Marlow COOK - says he shouldn't withdraw name. He's man of honesty and integrity. Entitled to post despite opinions.]
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Studio) USSR calls Judge racist and conservative.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#200558
(Studio) Question of ethnic background and political affiliation raised among top leaders
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) President aides, Peter Flanigan and Harry Flemming conducted White House poll on situation. Officials upset by ethnic questions. White House said reporters wanted to know number of minority groups holding government jobs.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
#200559
(Studio) ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) criticizes Senator study of Army graft Says hearings amounted to public trial and accused deprived of rights.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#200560
(Studio) Judge Bernard Brominski turns down, temporarily, request by Mary Jo Kopechne's parents for no autopsy. October 20 set as autopsy hearing date.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#200561
(Studio) 5 million children under 6 have mothers who work. 1/2 million in Day Care Ctrs.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Pat Nixon visits 1 center Labor Department Center's fees depend on income. Playground and center shown.
REPORTER: Marya McLaughlin
#200562
(Studio) 7 major airlines agree to equip all new planes with smokeless engines and to convert 3000. New Jersey Health Department took them to court Cost to be $30 million; October 1970 possible deadline.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#200563
(Studio) Transportation Secretary John Volpe predicts safety bags for cars may be standard by 1972. Bag inflates on impact.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#200566
(Studio) Catholic Bps. meet.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Vatican City, Italy) Several Bps. to challenge Pope Paul's rulings on birth control. [Father Francis Xavier MURPHY - says issues important to people, and Bps. to look at them.] Archbishop, Warsaw, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, 68, arrives. Radical priests hold meeting of own in lecture hall of Protestant church. Ask that Pope be elected by all Bps., not just Cardinals. Bps. want to democrat their government after century of unchallenged rule.
REPORTER: Winston Burdett
#200567
#200568
(Studio) October 15 moratorium spreads to include all, but basically youth protest.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Amherst, Massachusetts) At University Massachusetts, roll call of alumni killed read. Students chant, "Bring them home."
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
(Northampton, Massachusetts) Karen Coe recruits girls at Smith College to support moratorium.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
(Amherst, Massachusetts) At Amherst College student body President Tito Craig and newspaper chairperson Alan Webber try to get more faculty backing.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
(Northampton, Massachusetts) At Smith, some faculty members won't hold classes. [President Smith College, Dr. Thomas MENDENHALL - says I'll decide matter with classes. As institution, protest must be orderly.] Julie Nixon Eisenhower, Smith student, and David Eisenhower, Amherst student, refuse interview about protest. Students learn how to spread word of demonstration. [MAN - says finish Vietnam people.] [GIRL - says but they're people.] [Moratorium Org. Sam BROWN - says effort to be made in areas outside colleges.]
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
(Eau Claire, WI) Melvin Laird's son, John, student at Wisconsin State University, to protest. [John LAIRD - says father feels I'm entitled to my opinion. People can express opinion in American, no matter who they are.]
REPORTER: Don Kladstrup WCCO-TV
(Northampton, Massachusetts) Moratorium to show large number who oppose war.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
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