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(Studio) USSR Premier Aleksei Kosygin meets with People's Republic of China, Premier Chou En-lai in Peking. 1st meeting since 1965, Mtg. reported frank and friendly, Rptd. Rumanian leaders in Hanoi arranged meeting
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Film report on Ho Chi Minh's funeral.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Hanoi, North Vietnam) People shown grieving and sobbing. Religion may evolve out of his death. 100,000 in Red Sq. for state funeral. Ldrs. there include Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and USSR Premier Kosygin. No observed burial; entombment place to be kept quiet 1st Secretary, of Party, Le Duan, reads ovation and "Ho's will" or message to people calling for union of world Communists Communist leaders weep.
REPORTER: Michael MacClear Canadian Broadcasting System
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(Studio) War resumes. Viet Cong attack 41 bases and towns. B-52s hit enemy positions. Marvin Kalb reports administration plans to pullout 200,000 by November 1970. Prefers to have rest of troops be non-draftees. Casualties reported Near Saigon, South Vietnam Army Guard goes berserk and kills 2 American officers, Lieutenant Colonel Eugene Smallwood, and Major Anthony Broullon before killing self.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Egypt hits Israeli bases in Sinai Desert with air strikes. Reports' conflict.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Big 4 auto mfrs.: GM, Ford, American Motors, and Chrysler Corp., reach compromise with Justice Department Mfrs. charged with conspiring to suppress development of air pollution devices for 15 years They agree not to block such in future. Los Angeles officials to fight agreement to keep it from being swept under rug. Last week, 18 Congmen. urged Department to bring case to trial. General Motors Corporation reports 3.9% price increase $38 new equipment incld. Ford and Chrysler to report prices soon. No White House action planned. President Ford, Semon Knudsen, fired by Henry Ford II.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Sen, Finance Committee hears witnesses on tax reform.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Author Philip Stern of National Committee on Tax Justice asks that his taxes be raised. [STERN - cites his capital gains earnings and how he should be taxed more. Income and capital gains should be taxed alike,] Dorothy Shinder demands reparations and lower taxes for "war singles," women deprived of husbands due to war. [SHINDER - says Congress sent men to war and punished singles for not having husbands.] [Chairperson Senator Russell LONG - says never heard her amendment before. Glad to consider it.]
REPORTER: Hal Walker
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(Studio) Senator Everett Dirksen's body flown to Pekin, Illinois for burial. Vice President Spiro Agnew, 3 Cabinet mbrs., and 60 Congmen. incld.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Dale Walton bound over to grand jury for plot to kill Fayette, Mississippi Mayor, Charles Evers.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Fayette, Mississippi) Former Ku Klux Klan member Walton accompanied by wife. Mayor Evers disqualifies self as judge. [Woman ATTORNEY - makes charges.] [WALTON - not guilty.] Guns found with Walton shown. [EVERS - explains tip-off phone call that alerted him to plot.] Judge Ferd Allen bounds Walton to grand jury on charge of attempted murder. Walton attorney Billy Jordan says there's no case. Bond set at $10,000.
REPORTER: Ed Rabel
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(Studio) Fugitive militant Robt, Williams returns to Detroit on Trans World Airlines, Inc. (TWA) jet, with only his attorney aboard. Costs Trans World Airlines, Inc. (TWA) $20,000. Wanted for North Carolina kidnapping.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Wednesday sale of Alaska oil leases brings $1 billion.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Anchorage, AK) [AK Bard Larry BECK - recites his ballad for sale,] [Governor Keith MILLER - speaks on rendezvous with dreams.] Eskimos and Indians picket. Bids on North slope read aloud, Crowd applauds some of figures. Highest figure: $28,233 acre. 9-hr. sale brings $900 million. Oil companies to pay 16% royalties and taxes on production. Jets chartered to take checks to banks so interest could accumulate immediately, [Bank of American Neal PETERSEN - says interest to be $45-50,000 daily.] Only 1/3 Alaska slope leased.
REPORTER: David Culhane
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(Studio) Oil tanker USS Manhattan seeks commercial route through N,W. Passage. Stuck for few hrs. in McClure Strait.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(N.W. Passage) Film of icy area shown. Polar ice frozen for 3 or more years stopped ship. Physicists test ice. Canadian icebreaker, MacDonald helped out. [Project Director Stanley MASS - says success to lead to more and bigger tankers by 1980. Lower costs involved.] Question as to whether trip was profitable.
REPORTER: Robert Schakne
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