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(Studio) Navy Secretary John Chafee says no further charges to be brought against Pueblo crew. Navy board of inquiry recommends court martial. Bd. studied affair for 80 days.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Bd. recommends Commander Lloyd Bucher be put on trial for 5 charges. Recommends court martial for Lieutenant Stephen Harris, in charge of intelligence. Lesser punishment recommended for Lieutenant Edward Murphy and 2 shore officers: Rear Admiral Frank Johnson and Captain Everett Gladding. [CHAFEE - says no further legal proceedings necessary. Feels Pueblo officers have suffered enough.]
REPORTER: Steve Rowan
(Coronado, California) Bucher's attorney feels verdict equivalent of Bucher's being cleared. [BUCHER - says findings anticipated. Wants to return to normal life.]
REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater (narrates)
(Melrose, Massachusetts) [HARRIS - says glad Secretary overruled court martial recommendations. Secretary looked at human element as well as facts.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) President Nixon opens battle on hunger.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) $2.5 billion welfare program includes free food stamps, White House conference on nutrition, special food for pregnant women and infants, and new food and nutrition service. [Urban Affairs Advisor Daniel P. MOYNIHAN - calls on Congress to act with vigor.] Moynihan denies program had ever been shelved. Admin. to testify before Senator George McGovern's nutrition committee
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
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(Studio) Pentagon spending questioned. Navy Pentagon procurement official, Gordon Rule, told House of high costs, low quality, and late delivery on defense contractors. Rule charges former Pentagon official, Robert Charles, under fire for cost of C-5-A cargo planes, with ending Navy fighter bomber to spare contractor penalty payments. Saint Louis defense contractor pleads guilty to profiteering and awaits sentence.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Much criticism of the Pentagon arises from anti-ballistic missile dispute. Pentagon's research chief, Dr. John Foster, defends ABM, as necessary. Says Nixon might not strike back, but would want anti-ballistic missile as retaliatory capability later. Foster says no way USSR could wipe out all United States defense in 1 blow.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Eugene McCarthy resumes campaign against Vietnam war.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Quakers stand in vigil protest at White House Many took point in McCarthy's campaign. Representatives of 5,000 New England college students came to DC to present 5 demands. Want United States out of Vietnam. [Student Joan ENTMACHER - says administration not meeting commitment to peace.] Bus.men for Vietnam peace in touch with McCarthy. Harvard biologist and Nobel Prize winner says he won't be satisfied with small troop reductions. [George WALD - says get troops out of Vietnam in ships.] McCarthy to begin spking. out again.
REPORTER: David Schoumacher
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(Studio) Enemy tries to overrun United States base. Casualties reported 34 copters downed in last 16 days.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Former P.Min. Pierre Mendes-France may enter presidential race. Reporter says feeling is he'll unify Socialists to run strongly against Gaullist candidate, Georges Pompidou.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Egypt and Jordan assured France's Mideast stand won't change because of Charles DeGaulle's departure. Israel will have to give up captured territory as part of any settlement.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Lebanon government troops clash with Arab guerrillas operating near Israeli territory. Govt. blocks actions for fear of Israeli retaliation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Students seize Purdue Building after 229 arrested for protesting proposed tuition hikes. Protest for same reason at IN University Firebombs reported at Brooklyn College and anti-Reserve Officers' Training Corps protests continue at Dartmouth.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Issue at University Wisconsin turns from Reserve Officers' Training Corps and black studies to police handling of protesters.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Madison, WI) At gathering students ask for study of police brutality. Mayor says he couldn't promise such. Police confront students trying to hold block dance. State Saint becomes battleground. Tear gas used. [SAILOR - says police threw tear gas.] [Alderman Paul SOGLIN - cites police beating up kids in hses. and using tear gas everywhere. Makes 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention look like panty raid.] Madison newspaper accuses students and police of extremism.
REPORTER: Murray Fromson
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(Studio) Southern Christian Leadership Conference head, Dr. Ralph Abernathy, promotes Mother's Day March for 1000's of poor.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Charleston, SC) Labor dispute becomes major civil rights campaign of 1969. Mrs. Martin Luther King, Junior, spoke and marched. Abernathy and 100's arrested. [Southern Christian Leadership Conference Reverend Andrew YOUNG - says taking Poor Peoples' Campaign back to local levels. May fight it out, town by town.] Striking hospital workers want union to bargain for them. [Governor Robert McNAIR - says state can't be run if turned over to different units.] [Striker Mary MOULTRIE - says McNair pays $8,000 per day to suppress workers and economy community just to preserve his right to pay starvation wages. Curfew and state of emergency won't stop effort.] [Mayor Palmer GILARD - intends to contain situation.] Strike improves Southern Christian Leadership Conference fortunes.
REPORTER: Foster Davis
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(Studio) Nixon appts. William Brown chairperson Equal Employment Opportunity Cmsn.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Admin. says farmers can form unions and proposes law to cover their labor negotiations. Labor Secretary George Shultz calls tactics "product boycotts" and suggests law protect growers from surprise strikes.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Richard Russell praises radiation treatment that took tumor off lung.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Tricia Nixon to host masked ball. Date is Barry Goldwater, Junior Julie and David Eisenhower to attend.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) North Ireland grants amnesty to imprisoned radicals involved with civil rights. Will free militant Protestant leaders P.Min. James Chichester-Clark hopes amnesty will wipe slate clean.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Reporter analyzes Pueblo affair.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Bucher and crew found neither guilty nor innocent. Public opinion was that they had suffered enough.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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