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(Studio) Astronauts Eugene Cernan, Thomas Stafford, and John Young complain of water tasting bad. They played "Up, Up and Away" and "Fly Me to the Moon" on tape. Apollo X halfway to moon. Film of earth shown, with astronauts' voices in background. Charlie Brown and Snoopy introduced as mascots. Young and Stafford show weightlessness.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) USSR newspaper, "Izvestia," praises Apollo X crew for bravery. Soviet radio says crew substituted courage for craft imperfection. Tass News Agency says no USSR plans to send men to moon.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Commander Apollo VIII, Frank Borman, honored by Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences with gold medal. To make 4-day visit to Prague.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Call for slowdown in space program came at Clark University in Massachusetts.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Worcester, Massachusetts) American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard Memorial Library dedicated. Apollo XI, Colonel Edward Aldrin, and Senator Edward Kennedy receive honorary degrees. [KENNEDY - says space program must fit into priorities. Substantial point of funds should be diverted to problems at home. No need to race with USSR .]
REPORTER: Robert Schakne
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(Studio) Army says test versions of Cheyenne gunship copters not successful. Cancel $875 million contract with Lockheed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) United States says American POWs not getting humane treatment.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Defense Secretary Melvin Laird calls on North Vietnam to release prisoners or abide by Geneva Convention [LAIRD - says 200 men listed as POWs or MIAs for 3 years Not getting humane treatment.] Calls for international inspection of prisons and mail delivery. [Dep. Defense Secretary Richard CAPEN - says 1300 classified as POWs or MIAs. Families have lived for years in uncertainty of status of loved ones. In 1 case, 20 wives believed unidentified captive in photo to be their husband.]
REPORTER: Neil Strawser
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(Studio) Enemy withstood repeated assaults on "Hamburger Hill" in A Shau Valley. 101st Airborne Div. troops make 10 attacks in 9 days on hill. Casualties reported Some GIs question objective's worth.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator William Fulbright criticizes military which dominates United States foreign policy. Calls foreign policy 1 of chronic warfare and intervention, leading to authoritarianism.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Supreme Court overturns narcotics conviction of high priest of LSD cult, Dr. Timothy Leary, crippling federal marijuana laws.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 1st day of decisions for Supreme Court since Abe Fortas left.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Justice Thurgood Marshall moves into Fortas's seat, leaving vacancy for new junior justice. Justice John Harlan delivers Leary decision which declared tax on marijuana self-incriminating and in violation of 5th amendment. Possession doesn't imply importation. State and local marijuana laws unaffected. Federal laws weakened.
REPORTER: George Herman
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(Studio) Associated Press reports Albert Parvin Foundation, associated with Justice William O. Douglas, sold its interest in 3 Las Vegas gambling casinos. Douglas received over $85,000 from foundation in last 7 years
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) California Supreme Court ruled topless dancing allowable as freedom of expression. Supreme Court refuses to review case.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Abraham Ribicoff says riot control chemical, mace, shouldn't be used because Surgeon General William Stewart says it could cause eye damage.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Gaylord Nelson speaks against DDT at Senate hearing.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [NELSON - calls DDT global contamination and could cause national calamity. Govt. reacts too slowly to world pollution crisis.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) IN Attorney General Theodore Sendak charges black Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary with encouraging protesters to disrupt dinner for governor Sendak says mayor and administration helped organization vandals. Mayor orders investigation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Gary, IN race issue brought up in California mayoral race.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Los Angeles, California) Incumbent Sam Yorty and Thomas Bradley in midst of heated campaign. [YORTY - says militants quiet so as not to jeopardize Bradley's chances.] Issue clearly race. Yorty appeals to whites on riot issue. [YORTY - says Gary mayor, who campaigned for Bradley here, has his cnclmn. intimidated. Could happen here.] [BRADLEY - says Yorty stirring up fears and hatred.] Bradley backed by Los Angeles Times and high-ranking Democrats like Hubert H. Humphrey and Edward Kennedy. [YORTY - says outsiders wouldn't be so helpful if they had to live under Bradley.] [BRADLEY - concerned over failure of leadership and programs in city.] Mistake by Bradley or racial unrest could give Yorty the election.
REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater
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(Studio) Senator sub-committee hearing on nation's. credit rptg. system hears Mrs. Virginia Knauer, Consumer Affairs advisor to Nixon. Knauer says legislature needed to regulate credit bureaus and give public chance to correct false reports
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Report on United States progress in space and slower progress in South Vietnam typified by "Hamburger Hill."
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) What will be accomplished when moon and "Hamburger Hill" is reached is uncertain. Nice if we could see future from each summit. Neither likely to be Americanized in long-run.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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