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(Studio) Defense Secretary Melvin Laird faces highly critical disarmament sub-committee Chairperson Senator For. Relations Committee William Fulbright leads attack.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [FULBRIGHT - asks Laird not to delay in changing Vietnam policy President Nixon inherited. If war escalated, will be Mr. Nixon's war.] [LAIRD - says administration committed to ending war.] [FULBRIGHT - says evidence points to long time to come in Vietnam. Admin. could be heroes if war turned around. Situation must be changed.] [LAIRD - reports no escalation of war by Allies since January 20. Viet Cong and North Vietnam escalated war.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) anti-ballistic missile issue to be viewed later.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Enemy shells 65 towns and bases during spring offensive. Chu Lai raid destroys 20 United States bombers. Da Nang raid occurs near base where Lyndon B. Johnson's son-in-law Charles Robb stationed. Casualties reported.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Stephen Young charges Pentagon with leaking information about Pueblo to right wing orgs. In Congress testimony, Air Force General says sent fighters to Pueblo's aid, but received Navy message saying Pueblo already in Korean waters. Rescue called off. Navy denies message. Commander Lloyd Bucher says Pueblo still at sea at that time.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower reported to have suffered heart failure. Walter Reed Hospital says condition favorable.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Nixon reconciled with old foe.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Independence, Missouri) [NIXON - says visit shows when peace policies occur, we're not Republicans or Democrats, but Americans] En route to California, Dick and Pat greet former President Harry S. Truman and wife, Bess. Truman and Nixon used to be bitterest enemies. Nixon gives HST piano he used to play at White House at Truman Library. [NIXON - gives same speech as above.] Nixon plays "Missouri Waltz" for Truman.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Great Britain to pull-out of Anguilla in week P.M. Harold Wilson to initiate aid. Island lacks electricity and paved rds. Wilson called "plucky Harold, conqueror of Anguilla."
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President Mohammed Ayub Khan of Pakistan pledges giving up strong man rule, but he's unable to control anti-government mobs that cause anarchy in E. Pakistan. Ayub appts. military governor for E. Pakistan.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Spain's General Francisco Franco to lift emergency measures.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Secretary Int. Walter Hickel imposes tough restrictions in oil drilling off California coast. Establishes wildlife reserve off Santa Barbara.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Hickel tries to prevent damage by safety regulations, ban on drilling near permanent preserve off California coast, and shutting down drilling until government decides drilling can be resumed. [HICKEL - says government must learn value of resources other than under ocean. Can't say how much damage done in money terms.]' Liability of oil company not determined.
REPORTER: Hal Walker
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(Studio) ABC fires underground explosion at Nevada test site.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Defense attys. show Sirhan Sirhan's high school history books where assassinations of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and President William McKinley were underlined Sirhan wrote "more will follow."
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Convicted killer of Dr. Martin Luther King, James Earl Ray, hires new attorney, J.B. Stoner, and will seek new trial.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Ex-Arkansas governor Orval Faubus marries divorcee, Mrs. Elizabeth Westmorland. Divorced 1st wife after 37 years 3 weeks ago.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Las Vegas chorus girls win 1-day off and $53 raise in labor dispute. Strike averted.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) San Francisco State College President S.I. Hayakawa gives details of end of 4-mo. student strike.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(San Francisco, California) Secret talks produce agreement. [HAYAKAWA - says black studies department to be set up. If peace maintained 30 days, harsh sentences will be reviewed.] [Strikers' Attorney Frank BRANN - announces admission for underprivileged and 3rd world people. Victory for students.] [BSU spokesperson Benny STEWART - says it's just starting.] [STUDENT - understand ethnic studies need, but questions blacks only.] [STUDENT - says didn't dig violence.] Agreement reached because strikers tired; teachers settle their strike and compromise reached.
REPORTER: Jed Duvall
(Studio) Washington, DC sources say statement on campus unrest to be made by Nixon instead of Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Yippie leaders Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman welcome indictments because gives them legal right to attack anti-riot legislature of 1968 Civil Rights Act. Protest planned for April 5 in Chicago. Rennie Davis says indictments point of forthcoming clampdown on protesters.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 6 homes evacuated due to California rains.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Los Angeles, California) Hills slide, endangering hill homes. Record rains during winter accelerated shifting hills movement. [Study Director Ron SCOTT - points out young area where soil settles and land changes shifting beds long after rains. Area slides several in. per day. View sights pressure causes stupid building techniques.] Earthquake could trigger widespread disastrous slides. Seismologists say quake overdue and could come soon.
REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater