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(Studio) President Nixon asks Congress for authority to adopt lottery draft system which would reduce amount of time that 1 could be called and would call youngest 1st.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [President aide Peter FLANIGAN - says will make system fairer until all-volunteer army developed.] 19-yr. olds instead of 26-yr. olds would be called 1st. Luck of the draw would decide who would go instead of selective procedure. Man only be vulnerable to draft for 1 year instead of 7 years. College-deferred students would be vulnerable to draft for 1 yr. after ending education.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Studio) During 1st year all eligible persons would be placed in lottery.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) More demands for Supreme Court Justice, Abe Fortas, to resign.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Rumored Fortas to resign by wk's. end. [Sen Joseph TYDINGS - says honor of federal courts impaired more each hr Fortas should resign.] Tydings strong backer for Fortas as Chief Justice.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Studio) Fortas cancels New Hampshire judicial conference
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Nixon recalls Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge from Paris for briefing. Nixon to address nation on Vietnam Wednesday at 10 p.m. EST live on CBS.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Peace talks began 1 year ago.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Fire Base Carolyn, South Vietnam) 1/3 of Americans killed in Vietnam since peace talks began. [Wayne RICHARDSON - says doesn't feel progress made.] [David DEWOODY - says thinks Nobel peace prize should go to table-maker in Paris.] Peace distant to those on battlefield.
REPORTER: Don Webster
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(Studio) Allied forces in Saigon, Danang, and Hue under heavy ground attack by Communists Enemy rockets and mortars hit 40 allied military bases in South Vietnam. Casualties reported North Vietnam launch missile and mortar barrage from 11 DMZ positions.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 50 killed in race riots in Kuala Lumpur between Malaysians and Chinese.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Israel pays $3.5 million to United States to compensate for wounded sailors aboard Liberty, caught in 1967 Arab-Israeli war. $13 million paid earlier for lives of 34 Americans
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Pentagon tells Congress of delay in shipping WWII poison gas across US pending study. Acting Assistant Army Secretary Charles Pore says Pentagon thinks plan is safe, but National Academy of Sciences to review it.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Army General says Cheyenne helicopter could cost $200 million more because of delay in production. Says crafts' performance raises doubts. Reporter studies pros and cons of military spending.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Since WWII, military spent $1 trillion on military hardware; billion on projects that didn't work. Congress questions military budget for 1st time. [Pentagon Director Research and Engineering Dr. John FOSTER, JR. - says charges of wasting money not true. 1/2 money spent on development No. dvts. canceled because they're competing prototypes. Others canceled because threat didn't mature. Some projects withdrawn because they were obsolete. Makes analogy between waste of defense spending and waste of life ins. policy.] Reporter asks for military and industry complex appraisal. [FOSTER - calls it a necessity to have military capability. Nothing can force programs through Congress] [Assistant Defense Secretary Barry SHILLITO - says Eisenhower said we had to have strong military industry complex.] Rptd. Pentagon tried to protect Lockheed stock by covering up C-5-A plane price rises. Representative William Moorhead discusses conclusions about C-5-A and Navy F-Ill. [MOORHEAD - says contractors need financial help from defense department]
REPORTER: Steve Rowan
(DC) [Senator Stuart SYMINGTON - calls it a poorly managed business Need to question projects needed for security.]
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
(DC) Fight may not end until 100's overseas bases closed, Armed Forces cut in 1/2, and defense budget doesn't take 1/2 nation's. taxes.
REPORTER: Steve Rowan
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(Studio) Former Executive officer of Pueblo, Lieutenant Edward Murphy, resigns from Navy. Told "Christian Science Monitor" he had no alternate
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Apollo X astronauts, Cernan, Young, and Stafford in good health. Lift-off Sunday
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Judiciary Committee approves nomination of Otto Otepka as mbr. Subversive Activities Control Bd. Sen Edward Kennedy to continue to fight nomination on Senate floor.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator approves Nixon plan to close 59 Job Corps. ctrs. when Democrat motion to delay closings defeated.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader Dr. Ralph Abernathy tells Nixon of job, education, and housing demands of poor.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [Urban Affairs Advisor, Dan. MOYNIHAN - says Nixon told Abernathy his voice would be heard.] [ABERNATHY - calls meeting fruitless.] Says Nixon refused requests,
REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint
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(Studio) Sirhan Sirhan says Grant Cooper to handle appeal, not Melvin Belli, who had indicated he would,
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) All-white jury to try former Detroit policeman, Ronald August, for death of 1 of 3 black men killed in Algiers Motel. Trial held in Mason, Michigan, because of notoriety.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) FBI posts fed warrants for Edward Lee Dole and woman who physically mistreated kidnapped Ann Jenkins, released in Baltimore, Maryland after $10,000 ransom paid,
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Search conts. for 3 men lost in gasoline barge explosion in La Grange, Missouri.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(La Grange, Missouri) Film of explosion shown. Barge came to rest on bridge in Quincy, Illinois. Bridge saved.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (narrates) (KHQA-TV)
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(Studio) Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower boards liner to visit son, John, new ambassador to Belgium.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) [Mamie EISENHOWER - says will stay at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania farm. Ike was honest and natural.]
REPORTER: Morton Dean
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(Studio) Students clash with police at South University in Baton Rouge, LA. 17 arrested. 600 National Guard troops on alert. 14 students arrested in narcotics raid at Stony Brook college in New York. Protests follow. 16 students arrested at Brooklyn College.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Acting President San Francisco State College, S.I. Hayakawa, tells Senate committee black students being used by white revolutionaries.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Reporter analyzes youth revolution.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Reporter cites blacks demanding money from churches for reparation of slavery as paradox. Young won't be blamed for what their parents did, but hold parents to blame for what their parents did. Hypocrisy exists in love of peace and love of campus warfare.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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