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(Studio) Paris Peace Talks may be making progress.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Paris, France) At 16th meeting, NLF spokesperson Tran Buu Kiem offers steps to peace. [Ambassador Henry Cabot LODGE - says rejected charge that United States is aggressor. Told them we wanted mutual withdrawal.] Communists offer substantive ideas instead of propaganda.
REPORTER: Peter Kalischer
(Studio) Reporter says Communists ready for serious talks.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Allied forces announce cease-fire on May 30 for 24 hrs. to honor Buddha's birthday.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Casualties reported North Vietnam launched heavy attack on American outpost near Cambodian border.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(South Vietnam) Enemy strikes close. [1st Lieutenant Peter JACKSON - says fighting rough. Bunkers hit hard.] North Vietnam defeat devastating.
REPORTER: Larry Pomeroy
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(Studio) South Vietnam Brigadier General who was photographed shooting Viet Cong prisoners, to be patient at Walter Reed Hospital.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Saigon military court gives 1-yr. sentence to 40-yr. old professor who suggested South Vietnam form mutual government
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) USSR wants meeting on European security with only European ntns. present. Neutral Finland offers to host meeting, but would include United States and Canada Washington, DC studies proposal.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) West German magazine Der Spiegel and Canada's Montreal Gazette say Israel produced 5 atomic bombs. Israel denies it.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) USSR reports deaths of 10 Soviet gens. involved with rocket engineering recently. Speculated they all died in plane crash or rocket explosion.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Howard University news conference interrupted by 2 parents who blame minority militants for trouble. Militants disperse meeting
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Trouble at City College, New York.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) Fire burns for an hour Classes and bldgs, emptied because of disturbances. Whites, blacks, and Puerto Ricans hold group rallies and exchange insults and eggs. Police break up activity.
REPORTER: Robert Schakne
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(Studio) Dr. James Allen becomes United States Education Commissioner
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [ALLEN - thinks college administration tries to understand problems and deals with more radical. Impt. to come up with positive answers.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch denies Allen's statement representative split with Nixon policy.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Harvard President Nathan Pusey tells House Committee violence and disorder can't be permitted. Asked for more time before government steps in.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Edward Kennedy to write preface for anti-anti-ballistic missile book. Doesn't believe book amts. to attack on Nixon.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Pentagon spokesperson tells House Committee of other times poison gas shipped across country and dumped in ocean. Asks for time in answering questions about safety of railroad shipping and ocean pollution.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Pueblo executive officer Lieutenant Edward Murphy says Navy Secretary John Chafee's decision to drop charges lets Navy off hook, but leaves him on it. Tells Christian Science Monitor he may resign.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Hugh Scott suggests Supreme Court handle Abe Fortas case. Nixon advises Congress to go slow on matter.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) House Banking Chairperson Wright Patman renews attack on Treasury Secretary David Kennedy's financial ties with Chicago banks in 52-page speech.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Agriculture Department says food prices not rising as fast as last year
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Scramble for West German marks in Europe. British pound and French franc under pressure.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to drop tobacco advertising when contracts expire.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Hartford Ins. Company to insure transplanted organs soon.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, pays tribute to Winston Churchill.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Fulton, Missouri) London's Saint Mary's Church built on Westminster campus as tribute to Churchill. Parade and simulated dogfight in air. Bishop of Dover rehallows church. In 1946, Churchill spoke here using phrase "cold war." [Former Ambassador Averell HARRIMAN - says Churchill's ideas about USSR not believed at 1st.] [Lord MOUNTBATTEN - recalls how Churchill's words were received.]
REPORTER: Bill Plante
(Studio) Church built from many donations.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Former President Harry S. Truman celebrates 85th birthday.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) J. Edgar Hoover to complete 45 years as FBI Director this week Has no plans to resign.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Black psychiatrists call racism major mental problem in US.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Reporter analyzes American holidays.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Commerce Department no longer pubs. list of special days and weeks in May to observe. France picks up Mother's Day as holiday. Profits high.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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