This program is 27 minutes long
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(Studio) President Nixon offers tax reform proposal to Congress Includes plan to eliminate taxes for family of 4 with below $3,500 income, plan to set tax cut-off limit at 50%; plan to cut surtax to 5% by January, and then end it by July; and plan to repeal 7% tax credit.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Secretary of State William Rogers makes Vietnam policy statement to Associated Press luncheon.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Rogers proposes simultaneous withdrawal of United States and North Vietnam, but hints US will pull out if offer rejected. [ROGERS - cites offers in Paris based on mutual withdrawal. Other side may not want peaceful settlement. High priority given to South Vietnam military training and South Vietnam government's political unity program.] State Department feels United States to begin withdrawal this year
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
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(Studio) Rogers speaks out for ABM, saying USSR tested multiple warhead missile last week
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) North Vietnam attack United States Marine Corps base near DMZ. Casualties reported.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Naval task force sent to Sea of Japan to protect reconnaissance planes.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Sea of Japan) 23-ship fleet moves into area near Korea. Includes 4 carriers, 3 cruisers, and 16 destroyers.
REPORTER: Bernard Kalb (Narrates)
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(Studio) Pentagon wants General Earle Wheeler to continue as Chairperson Joint Chiefs Staff. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird writes to Speaker House John McCormack about matter.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Israel and Jordan fight across Jordan River. Conflicts report In London, Jordan's King Hussein denies considering abdication.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#203180
(Studio) More violence in North Ireland.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Belfast, North Ireland) Catholic minority versus Protestant major is centuries old religious hatred. Catholics ask 1 man, 1 vote to replace landowners' rule. Reservoir blown up, depriving residents of water. Catholic quarter of Londonderry, Bogside, is battlefield. British troops protect power stations and oil refineries.
REPORTER: Morley Safer (Narrates)
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(Studio) Supreme Court rules state residency requirements for welfare benefits aren't const. Rule applicable to 40 states. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch says ruling to have substantial impact on state and Federal budgets.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Representative Don. Rumsfeld to head Office of Economic Opportunity and becomes President Assistant
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) [NIXON - says Rumsfeld giving up safe Congress seat for post.] [RUMSFELD - says won't end OEO.] Rumsfeld apptd. President Assistant with Cabinet post status with $42,500 salary.
REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint
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(Studio) Jury meets to decide Sirhan Sirhan's fate.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Los Angeles, California) Prosecutor says Sirhan would regard permission to live as added triumph. Dep. D. A. John Howard says question is proper punishment for political assassinations. Mother, Mary Sirhan says he had no trouble with law. Howard says Sirhan has no claim to further preservation. Defense Attorney Russell Parsons asks if sick are executed in California. Defense Attorney Grant Cooper says if vengeance could restore Senator Robert F. Kennedy, he'd say take his life. Judge Herbert Walker reads instructions to jury. Cooper quotes RFK.
REPORTER: Bill Stout Artist: Howard Brodie
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(Studio) Supreme Court upholds law making it crime to threaten life of President or Vice President, but says prosecutors must prove threat is real. Case involved 21-yr. old whose statement was 1 of political opposition, not threat.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Conviction of man who set fire to flag set aside because record didn't show if arrested for what did or said. Chief Justice Earl Warren says federal and state govts. should have power to protect flag from desecration. That issue not in case.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
#203187
(Studio) Midwest flooding eased, but not in Minot.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Minot, North Dakota) 12,000 evacuated. Some pump and wait out flood. [Edward FEIST - says wouldn't do it alone. Wake up at night wondering if dike will hold.] Rabbit and other animals rescued. $10 million damage estimate
REPORTER: Ike Pappas
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(Studio) Cornell President James Perkins says emergency state exists. Black students occupying building armed. Protesting disciplinary action against students demanding expansion of black studies programs. Perkins pledges to restore law and order.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) 50 Harvard students sit-in at Admin. Building to protest affiliation with military Leave peacefully.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Students for a Democratic Society brings high school students to protest at Columbia.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(NYC) Protesters demand admission to Columbia of all minority group students from nearby HSs. Sit-in at Hamilton Hall ends hour after it began. [high school SPOKESPERSON - says will negotiate board of trustees.] [Vice President Ted Van DYK - says Students for a Democratic Society exploited high school kids. Latter should be commended for leaving voluntarily.] Columbia to negotiate with high school students.
REPORTER: Robert Schakne
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(Studio) Former President Lyndon Johnson's son-in-law, United States Marine Corps Major Charles Robb, returns from Vietnam. Other son-in-law, Airman 1st class Patrick Nugent, returned from Vietnam last month
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Reporter analyzes 2 subjects.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(DC) Elimination of welfare residency requirements to increase number receiving benefits. Nixon's tax reform program to relieve poor from taxes. Privileges of rich to be reduced. Inflation ideas take hold. 2 steps may increase cross country traffic.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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(Studio) Plumbers' contract guarantees workers $19,000 yearly by 1971. Masters teachers in Pennsylvania get $11,400 yearly
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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