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(Studio) President Nixon met with Vietnam advisors. B-52 strikes over South Vietnam resume after 36-hr break due to enemy tempo increase 3 reporters analyze President Nixon's policy to see if his differs from predecessor.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Walter Cronkite cites New York Times reporting: President Nixon's tardy reaction to truce proposal; contradictory South Vietnam cease-fire statements; refusal of South Vietnam to honor truce; and failure of United States to extend truce in editorial. Wonders if there is firm Vietnam policy. [RATHER - says President Nixon started withdrawals and halted B-52 raids for time. Long-range policy being formulated. Plan includes 200,000 pullouts by next year] [KALB - says President Nixon has said he had plan. No one answers "what price for peace?"] [ROWAN - cites Pentagon confusion about policy changes.] [KALB - says lack of confidence among top officials on policy they respected in May.] [RATHER - says President Nixon's policy tightly kept secret between him and Dr. Henry Kissinger.] [KALB - says this was to be open administration] [RATHER - says they've ad-libbed policy. Unsure what to do about Ho's death.] [KALB - says chaos isn't a plan.] Walter Cronkite asks if State and Defense Department know of President Nixon's plans. [RATHER - believes they don't have access to plan, except Secretary of State William Rogers. Kissinger has more influence.] [ROWAN - says Laird's people concerned about direction of plans. Joint Chiefs of Staff and others bypassed for Bunker and Abrams.] [KALB - says State Department wants to scale down military actions. Wants diplomatic answer.] Cronkite wonders if Kissinger and President Nixon took matters in own hands because of State and Defense Department differences. [ROWAN - says Laird wants to see 20,000 a month pulled out. General Abrams at odds with Pentagon representatives] [KALB - says President Nixon is own Secretary of State. Policy not inspired by State Department Diplomats may carry it out.] Cronkite asks about State and Defense Department leaders disagreeing with underlings. [KALB - says White House and Saigon relations broken down this wk.] [RATHER - disagrees about split between Thieu and President Nixon. Those on second level at State and Defense Departments have different opinions and are trying to influence President Nixon.] Cronkite asks what can be expected from Washington, DC meeting [RATHER - expects large pullbacks.] [ROWAN - expects nothing larger than pull-back for rest of year] [KALB - says leaks will tell us if President Nixon wants 200,000 by election time, 1970.]
REPORTER: Dan Rather, Marvin Kalb, Steve Rowan
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(Studio) B-52 bombers resume raids. Ground raids produce casualties.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) No more said of Kosygin-Chou meeting in Peking. Chinese Press maintains attacks on USSR .
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Israeli planes attack Egypt across Gulf of Suez.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Suez Canal) Israeli film of fighting shown. Wounded shown. 2 Egyptian downed planes shown, Israel lost 1 plane; Egypt got pilot.
REPORTER: Larry Pomeroy
(Studio) Israel claims 62 Arab jets shot down since 1967. 14 Israeli jets lost.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Secessionist Biafra to go along with Nigerian Plan for Peace Conf.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) North Irish Catholic member Parliament, Bernadette Devlin, raises $95,000 on American tour.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Black militant Robert Williams returns from self-exile. Arrested as fugitive.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Detroit, Michigan) Williams 8 years abroad. Spent 1 week in London jail trying to get airline to take him home. President Republican New Africa, Williams, and attorney arrive by themselves. Williams wears Mao-style suit. Returned to fight North Carolina kidnapping charge. [WILLIAMS - must have complete separation. It's our Const. right.]
REPORTER: Bill Plante
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(Studio) MPs arrest 12 absent without leave GIs in Hawaii churches. All object to Vietnam.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Army says soldiers have right to publish antiwar newspapers according to Const. right of freedom of speech and press, unless they disturb morale or combat operations.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) In test case, Interstate Commerce Commission has no power to stop decline of quality in passenger service. Asks Congo to give it that power, South Pacific Sunset Limited from Los Angeles to New Orleans charged by South states on its rte, with deliberately downgrading service.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Major airlines granted fare increases of 6 1/4%. Hike in effect until January 31 when Civil Aeronautics Board ends fare study.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Sen, refuses to defer building of nuclear aircraft carriers Senator votes 75-7 for $377 million for carrier in military procurement bill.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Possible Dirksen successors: his son-in-law, Senator Howard Baker, Senator Hugh Scott, Senator Roman Hruska, and Sen, Gordon Allott.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Civil Rights Commission criticizes Pres, Nixon's school desegregation policy. Notre Dame President and Commission Chairperson, Theodore Hesburgh speaks, for panel
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [HESBURGH - cites little desegregation in several S states in 15 years]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(DC) Criticism of President Nixon at institution for elected black officials. [Mayor Chapel Hill Howard LEE - says administration failed to perpetuate more than South bigotry. Hasn't dealt with blacks and poor Needs total commitment.] Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch to speak before institution and show more schools desegregated this month than any past opening.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
(Studio) Transportation Secretary John Volpe tells institution highway projects won't be started until housing found for those to be relocated.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Admin. eases its proposed 20% cut in medical research to 5-10%.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Houston Space Center gives lunar soil samples to scientists not connected with center
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Oil tanker USS Manhattan switches from McClure Strait to Prince of Wales Strait in N.W. Passage.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) New York Giants football coach Allie Sherman fired. Replaced by Assistant coach Alex Webster.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 1000s of residents of Mississippi Delta returned to homes Evacuated after train derailment near Glendora, Mississippi leaked gas. Senator James Eastland calls for tightening of railroad safety rules.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Sad task of reopening Consol. No. 9 begins.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Farmington, West Virginia) 78 buried there last November Escaping methane gas dangerous. [Governor Arch MOORE, JR. - likens recovery to beachhead operation.] To be mos. before all dead found.
REPORTER: Nelson Benton
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