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(CBS Space Center, NYC) Apollo X crew orbit moon. Report on lunar module jettisoning their descent stage.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Houston, Texas) Item missed from astronauts check list. Space center says astronauts never in danger and it could never happen on moon flight. Check list procedure to be reexamined.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
(CBS Space Center, NYC) Astronauts begin journey to earth Saturday
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Air Force sergeant Paul Meyer missing over Atlantic in stolen transport plane taken from British base. He called wife in Virginia and reported problem with plane. Air Force spokesperson says Meyer was drunk.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas resigns as head of Albert Parvin Foundation. Recd. $85,000 since 1962 from foundation, which recently got rid of Las Vegas casino interests.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) Douglas planned resignation.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
(DC) [DOUGLAS - says planned this for year]
REPORTER: John Meyer
(DC) Chief Justice Earl Warren calls meeting to draw up code of ethics. Could rule out outside fees. Congress has 2 bills pending with regard to outside income.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
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(Studio) New fighting erupts on "Hamburger Hill." Casualties reported Battle sets off controversy. Senator Edward Kennedy calls action senseless and battle runs counter to President Nixon peace goals. White House says Nixon didn't order increase in fighting and he doesn't second-guess field cmdrs.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(South Vietnam) [Commander 101st Airborne Div. Major General Melvin ZAIS - says fights war best way he can. Useless dialogue to put views against his. Hill was victory for US, not defeat. Can't pull back and be quiet; we'd be killed.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) 42 planes and copters lost last week Since 1961, $5 billion of aircraft lost.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Violence erupts as National Guard and police try to clear A and T University campus.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Greensboro, North Carolina) 600 Guard and police move on campus to quell University snipers. 100's arrested. 1 student killed. University searched. CBS reporter Foster Davis and camera crew arrested for trying to film violence aftermath. School closed.
REPORTER: Ed Rabel
(Studio) News crew released.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Chicago public school teachers vote Sunday on new contract that may end strike.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) House Appropriations Committee votes $1 billion to feed poor and school children. Representative Jamie Whitten concedes hunger exists in American but criticizes film like CBS "Hunger in American" for portraying false situations. CBS news president Richard Salant says Whitten's charges to be studied. Salant concerned Whitten used FBI to study broadcast, not to alleviate hunger.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Senator Vance Hartke says commercial firm ships 5 cars of poison gas from Rocky Mt. Arsenal. Pentagon says no gas had left arsenal since Mar. Arsenal involved in issue over disposing of WWII gas by RR.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Rocky Mt. Arsenal, Colorado) Army unloads 27,000 tons of gas from railroad cars near end of Denver airport. [SPOKESPERSON - says gas could kill world twice.] 6,000 sheep killed by gas in test area in UT. Train would pass through rural areas and cities like Elizabeth, New Jersey. Army secretly sent gas through city before. [Mayor Tom DUNN - says citizens concerned.] [City Council SPOKESPERSON - says we oppose any poison gas shipment through city.] Citizens worried about accidents like one at E. Germantown, IN in 1968. RR accidents gone up. [Assistant Defense Secretary Barry SHILLITO - talks of precautions to be taken.] [DUNN - says city hasn't received word of transport yet.] Soldier simulates effect of gas. [Dr. Steven TEITELBAUM - says large number of people would die regardless of available treatment.] [Colonel J.J. OSICK - says bombs made to go off, not opposite.] [TEITELBAUM - says Army should be able to handle its weapons.] [Dr. Barry COMMONER - cites difficulty of getting rid of bombs.] Indianapolis 1 of few route cities made public. [COMMONER - says secrecy used at expense of Americans]
REPORTER: Steve Rowan
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(Studio) Sirhan Sirhan secretly taken to cell at San Quentin prison. Only 2 executed in California in 6 years
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Dr. Philip Blaiberg returns home; no sign of heart being rejected. His surgeon, Dr. Christiaan Barnard sued for divorce by wife.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Washington, DC reporter for USSR Tass agency ordered home by state department in return for "Washington Post" reporter being expelled.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Nixon and USSR Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin attend concert at White House rose garden.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) University Minnesota band plays United States and USSR tunes. Tuba player plays solo. [DOBRYNIN - says would appointed him Assistant Secretary of State.] [NIXON - says United States and USSR people natural friends.]
REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint
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