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(Studio) United States Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge walks out on Peace Talks session to dramatize Communists' negative attitude. Walkout planned in DC.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Walkout point of plan to put pressure on enemy to talk. Secretary of State, William Rogers, tells USSR Ambassador to tell North Vietnam time running against them. US has no intention of breaking up talks.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
(Studio) Lodge probably marking time until after President Nixon's speech. South Vietnam House of Representatives urges United States to quit talks altogether.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) USSR to talk with United States on Strategic Arms Limitations, according to Marvin Kalb.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 4 American soldiers killed in Korean DMZ (demilitarized zone) last Saturday (Video Difficulties.)
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Panmunjom, Korea) Truck in which 4 MPs riding when killed shown. United States Marine Corps Major General Arthur Adams displays victims' clothing. [ADAMS - tells of ambush.] North Koreans reject idea of looking at equipment involved in crime as silly. They leave.
REPORTER: George Syvertsen Narrates
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(Studio) Guerrillas from Syria raid Lebanese Arabs in reprisal for Lebanon crackdown on Palestinian commandos. Al Fatah frees hostages, but warns Lebanon it won't tolerate obstacles to its campaign against Israel.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Supreme Court hears Mississippi school desegregation case in which Federal Govt. got 3-mo. delay.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch asked for delay. NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) Attorney Jack Greenberg demands immediate desegregation. [GREENBERG - says plans should be started now.] [Assistant Attorney General Jerris LEONARD - says not enough time without creating more problems.] Mississippi advocates John Satterfield and Albian Suniner say segregation in North reason for slowing down S [UNNAMED - says we're asking to be treated like rest of nation's schools.] Justice Hugo Black impatient with delay.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr Artist: Howard Brodie
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(Studio) Senator votes to raise Vet. Edward benefits by 46%. House had approved 27%.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President Nixon says drug problem government's fault.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Congress leaders and entertainer Art Linkletter meet to discuss drug abuse. [LINKLETTER - says almost all top records tell children to take a "trip" with drugs. Sorority girls at USC and University of California at Los Angeles given LSD for joke. 1 girl has been in sanitarium for 2 years] Linkletter urges grammar school children to be alerted to dangers of drugs.
REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint
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(Studio) United States Merchant Fleet dwindled to 6th largest in world. President asks Congress for 10-yr. plan to subsidize 30 new ships year for $3,800,000.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Finance Committee votes to cut oil depletion allowance from 27 1/2% to 23%.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) USSR cosmonauts in California for astronautical exhibit and Disneyland visits. Held news conference before leaving Houston.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Houston, Texas) Reporter asks them why trip to Cape Kennedy canceled [Colonel Frank BORMAN - welcomes them to American news conf.] [Konstantin FEOKTISTOV - says Beregovoi and I don't have authority to invite Americans to Soviet cosmodrome, and that's why we couldn't go.] After conf., Feoktistov and Georgi Beregovoi fly in simulators, and inspect equipment.
REPORTER: Ike Pappas
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(Studio) 1st of 78 bodies found at site of November's Farmington, West Virginia mine disaster.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Casualties reported President Nguyen Van Thieu has spoken of replacing bulk of United States Combat Forces by end of 1970.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Saigon, South Vietnam) South Vietnam training shown. They can serve up to 19 years Draft age lowered from 20 to 18 after United States pressure. Every young man carries identity card with draft status. Forged ID's easy to get and police can be bribed. Penalty for draft dodgers is induction. Dodgers and deserters hide out in slums. Too many Officers trained, and some given civilian jobs. Another gimmick is paying Officer full salary and never showing up for duty, except for weekly roster. "Phantom" soldier shown. Many soldiers work as servants for South Vietnam Officers. Required courses in University now make it harder to be perpetual student
REPORTER: Don Webster
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(Studio) Vice President Spiro Agnew's daughter, Kim, 14, wanted to march in moratorium, but he refused permission.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 4 Senior Sgts. took 5th Amendment more than 100 times at hearing.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [sergeant Major William WOOLDRIDGE - takes 5th Amendment.] [Senator John McCLELLAN - asks if Wooldridge wants to clear matter up.] [WOOLDRIDGE - takes 5th.] [Senator McCLELLAN - asks if he took kickbacks, would he agree he has been a traitor to govt?] [WOOLDRIDGE - takes 5th.]
REPORTER: Steve Rowan
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(DC) Typical Sgts. know how to do anything. Cites WWII profiteering, when Army stationary for time. Public money seems to belong to nobody. Labels it great moral cop-out of our time.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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