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(Studio) Nation, split over moratorium.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) President Nixon said Sunday the war would be over in 3 years Remark off-the-record until White House released text of speech. Dan Rather quotes from speech about war's end. Before leaders of People to People program, President notes Ike's birthday. Mamie Eisenhower shown. [President NIXON - says war debate about how to get peace. Americans believe in peace. Want war's end to promote lasting peace.] National Security Council meeting set for Wed, President has no plans to appear in public.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Some Republican leaders less charitable about October 15 protest.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [Representative Gerald FORD - says New York Jets do well with 1 qtrback. and don't need more. President Nixon is our qtrback. and has a good plan.] [Senator Gordon ALLOTT - says people don't realize moratorium plans begun in E. Berlin.] [Senator Hugh SCOTT - talks of message from North Vietnam endorsing moratorium.] Senator John Tower interrupts Office of Economic Opportunity debate to read letter into record. [Vice President Spiro AGNEW - says moratorium leaders should repudiate North Vietnam support.] Moratorium headquarters accuse administration of trying to discredit patriotism of millions.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Studio) Report from headquarters
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Offices and work shown. They offer encouragement. National organization to try and keep track of whom, how many, and where.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
(Studio) More planned if this 1 doesn't work.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senators Jacob Javits and Claiborne Pell call for repeal of Gulf of Tonkin resolution, and withdrawal by end of `70.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Org. representative Catholic priests urges mbrS to support moratorium. American civilian workers' spokesperson in Saigon says 30 to try to give antiwar petition to Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. Rptd. soldiers in Vietnam both for and against moratorium. South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu calls it normal Democrat activity, but says most Americans support war. Invites 100 antiwar students to come there; convinced they would change their minds. Earlier he appealed to US not to desert them, while spking. at Hue memorial ceremony.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Moratorium chief issue at trial.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Chicago, Illinois) Defendants appeal for time off to take point in moratorium. Defense Attorney William Kunstler says they feel they've right to take point Judge Julius Hoffman says without authority to allow it. United States Attorney Thomas Foran accuses defense of trying to turn moratorium into violent rampage. Says they're trying to corrupt sincere effort to end war. [Defendant Tom HAYDEN - calls Foran "puppet" of pols. of LBJ and Nixon admins. United States coming to stop over war.] Kunstler says court should close due to Vietnam horrors, as it did for death of Eisenhower. Judge says war doesn't go on in his name and denies adjournment.
REPORTER: John Laurence Artist: Howard Brodie
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(Studio) Chicago Crime Commission member Dan Walker, who wrote study of Democratic Convention, endorses moratorium.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Evanston, Illinois) [Dan WALKER - says some equate violence with dissent. They're enemies of American system. Rallies and petition can make point Violent dissent just as distorted as true democrat is in Vietnam war.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) USSR launches 4th spaceship. It's unmanned, and carries scientific experiments from East Germany, USSR , and Czechoslovakia. Unclear if docking occurred.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) New Jersey Judge issues arrest warrant for singer, Frank Sinatra for his failure to show up at inquiry on organized crime.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) New York Mets take 2-1 lead over Baltimore Orioles in World Series.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) Formality yields to enthusiasm. [MAN - says I'm interested, but don't care who wins.] Jerry Lewis and the Onassis family shown. [Former Mets Mgr. Casey STENGEL - says more tiers needed up here.] Portions of game shown, featuring: Oriole, Jim Palmer and Mets,Tommie Agee, Gary Gentry, and Ed Kranepool. Owner shown.
REPORTER: Heywood Hale Broun
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(Studio) Census Bureau reports 3 whites move out for every Negro moving to city. Associate Director, Dr. Conrad Taeuber says more Negroes in suburbs, but number too small to determine increase
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) House passes legislature ruling out mandatory busing and approving freedom of choice, but Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch asks Senator to kill it because it could hurt desegregation progress.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Admin. asks Congress for milder penalties for marijuana usage. Assistant Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary, Dr. Roger Egeberg tells Dan. Schorr Department of Health, Education and Welfare induced Justice Department to soften stand.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Auto mfrs. deny service and repair costs too high.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [GM Mkting. Vice President Mack WORDEN - says most cars operate reliably with only minimum service. Standards high.] [CONGMAN. - asks why some come out without knobs.] [WORDEN - claims error is human 1. Some slip by.] Ford Vice President cites better bumper studies and says pts. costs not risen as much as national price index.
REPORTER: Nelson Benton
(Studio) Worden says best bumper they have will prevent any damage at 2.8 m.p.h.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Republican leaders say President feels anti-inflation procedures succeeding.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Report on media's point in moratorium.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Somebody had to start moratorium, and it couldn't snowball without feelings already there. Responsibility for media to report event thoroughly, and to put it in perspective. Difficult because it's a diffused event. 1 point doesn't equal whole. Full truth will only emerge later.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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