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(Studio) Viet Cong to be representative at Paris Peace Talks by new revolutionary government formed for South Vietnam. NLF spokesperson Tran Buu Kiem to be replaced by Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, foreign minister of new government Washington, DC calls government old wine in new bottle. South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu calls it propaganda. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge asks for extended vacation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Quaker group tries to read Vietnam dead names on Capitol steps. Police move in.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Every Wednesday, group petition Congress to end war before police arrest them. Immune to arrest, Representatives George Brown, Junior, Andrew Jacobs, Edward Koch, and Abner Mikva continue reading names. [KOCH - likens arrests to those of USSR . Don't expect United States to prevent free assembly and petitioning Congress]
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
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(Studio) Action South of Danang, South Vietnam. Casualties reported.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Cambodia demands $8.6 million in war damages as point of agreeing to resume diplomatic relations with US.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Assistant Defense Secretary Barry Shillito says Minuteman missile costs skyrocketed from $4 to 7 billion, as did deep-diving rescue submarine. Another witness, A. E. Fitzgerald, says sometimes defense workers disciplined for cutting costs. Defense Department attitude noted. Results in cost indifference.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [SHILLITO - says there won't be rapid spending reduction.] [Air Force Financial Analyst, FITZGERALD - says cost reductions never proposed.] [Former Secretary of State Dean ACHESON - says costs will rise in any industry McCarthy-type methods undesirable.]
REPORTER: Nelson Benton
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(Studio) Manned lunar orbital laboratory project junked to cut costs at loss of $1.6 billion. Reporter asks Defense Secretary Melvin Laird if project stopped to get back at critic, Senator Stuart Symington.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [LAIRD - says no political in decision. Major portions of contract were to have been in Pennsylvania and California, not Missouri.]
REPORTER: Steve Rowan
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(Studio) Treasury Secretary David Kennedy talked of wage and price controls if surtax not extended. White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler gives 2 different statements about controls. Chairperson House Banking Committee Wright Patman sets hearing dates on increase of interest rates on bank loans.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Reasons cited for 60-part drop in Stk. Mkt. in less than month
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Alan Bible attacks Nixon black capitalism program. Advisory panel says it promotes racial pride, but reaches too few. Basically racially separatist idea.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Police detective Charles Stenvig wins mayoral election of Minneapolis on law and order platform.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Minneapolis, Minnesota) Stenvig won 62% vote with small budget and help from above. [STENVIG - says chief adviser God.] He defeats Republican and president city cncl., Dan Cohen, who had backing of Nixon. [COHEN - thanks supporters and wishes Stenvig best.] Liberal pols. lost clout.
REPORTER: Joe Bartlemy (WCCO-TV)
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(Studio) Violence Commission has worked for year Report on author of latest commission's latest staff study.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Report by Berkeley professor Jerome Skolnick sees campus unrest as normal and black militants as understandable. [SKOLNICK - warns against police state. Police operate angrily and militantly; they use social control with force in lieu of understanding.] [International Association Police Chiefs Quinn TAMM - challenges report Skolnick began with preconceived notion. Cites police awareness, objectivity.]
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
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(Studio) Jury finds 3 Chicago cops innocent of beating city reporter during 1968 Democratic Convention United States district court judge, Joseph Sam Perry, says any red-blooded American would flare up at words reporter used.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch says high school face growing disorders. Opposes suggestions to cut off funds to districts.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) USSR and China accuse each other of starting new border disputes.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Commander Frank E. Evans, Albert McLemore, told joint nation naval inquiry he never got message from Melbourne to change course. Says officer guiding Evans had received his personal approval to command ship in fleet maneuvers. Memorial services held for Gary, Gregory, and Kelly Sage.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Niobrara, Nebraska) Town grieves with Sages. [PARENTS - say brothers wanted to be together; don't blame anybody.] Flags given to parents and widow of middle son. Pts of funeral service shown.
REPORTER: Murray Fromson
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(Studio) Alice Elizabeth Kalom, University Michigan coed, 6th in series of sex murders in area.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Ann Arbor, Michigan) [Father Joseph KALOM - says University must put pressure on law enforcers. University not taking care of what it has. Criminal outsmarted everyone.] [President Dr. River West FLEMING - says Kalom didn't attribute guilt to University Need to put his remarks in perspective.] Alice quiet type.
REPORTER: Richard O'Brien
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(Studio) Former nun and college president, Jacqueline Grennan marries Jewish business exec. Paul Wexler of Tenafly, New Jersey. Couple marry in campus music building in Saint Louis, Missouri.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Funeral held for movie star, Robert Taylor, who died Sunday of lung cancer.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Hollywood, California) Theme from "Death Valley Days" played. Those present noted. Governor Ronald Reagan gives eulogy. [REAGAN - says I'll see Taylor on late show in white tie and tails, and smile, remembering he loved blue jeans and boots.] Widow leaves with Reagans.
REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater
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