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(Studio) South Vietnam Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky says 40,500 troops to pull out by November
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Admin. confirms report, though angry with Ky actions. President Nixon to announce numbers Tuesday It will leave 480,000 in Vietnam. President Nixon favors Joint Chiefs of Staff recommendation of 10,000 number in 1970. Vietnam Commander General Creighton Abrams to have final say on who will be withdrawn. He's opposed to pulling out Infantry.
REPORTER: Steve Rowan
(Studio) 1st 25,000 pulled out from Mekong Delta. North Vietnam move into area.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President Nixon to begin draft reform.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) President Nixon hopes to retire Selective Service Director General Lewis Hershey in 90 days. Advisor John Ehrlichman screens for successor. Plans to withdraw more troops and suspend draft for month or more while Congress considers lottery system and other changes. 19-yr. olds to go 1st.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) United States Marine Corps clears out enemy strongholds.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Near An Hoa, South Vietnam) United States Marine Corps evacuate citizens and burn village if it's thought to be Viet Cong stronghold. North Vietnam and Americans fight across rice paddy.
REPORTER: Tony Sargent
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(Studio) Wives of 4 shot down over North Vietnam go to Paris to contact Hanoi's representative
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Paris, France) [Mrs Bonnie SINGLETON - says they want to know if wives or widows. Want to tell children what fathers are doing.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Dallas, Texas television station sent group Only allowed to read from prepared statement.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) United Nations Secretary General U Thant concerned over mad momentum of arms race. Says threat of nuclear war increases and calls for new efforts at arms talks, incling. People's Republic of China
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Students protest Const. amendment rammed through by Ntl, Assembly which gives South Korean President Chung Hee Park 3rd term. Referendum to be held.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Arab guerrillas attack Israeli settlement in Golan Heights Last wk,, Israel reported 11 Egyptian planes shot down.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Cairo, Egypt) Israel Mirage fighter from France shown being shot down. Pilot in Egyptian hospital.
REPORTER: Bob Allison
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(Studio) British Army Commander visits London to talk with P.Min. Harold Wilson about Catholics refusing to move barricade, Demand protection from Belfast Protestants. Protestants threaten to build theirs back.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) National elections to be held in 2 weeks
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Bonn, West Germany) Christian Demos, and Social Democrats rule cntry, in coalition government SDU leader Kurt Kiesinger is Chancellor and his For. Min. Willy Brandt heads SPD. Coalition government probably to continue. Kiesinger former Nazi Party member and youth won't let him forget, Brandt's image not as good as Kiesinger's. Anti-Fascist protests follow 3rd party, NPD, Fight shown. CDU right-wing led by Finance Min. Franz Josef Strauss He's far-right and attracts protests like NPD, Calls students animals.
REPORTER: Bill McLaughlin
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(Studio) 2 British scientist teams with sonar and subs, to search for Loch Ness monster for 2 weeks
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Mayor and Police Chief William Petersen quiet in Cairo, Illinois, Petersen fears bloodshed. Mayor Lee Stenzel hopes his resignation to have calming influence.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Govt, guarantees college loans on 7% interest. House, assures banks of 10% interest.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Attorney, General John Mitchell calls for ban on manufacturing and use of marijuana, LSD, and heroin. Asks for "no-knock" drug raids. He doesn't regard criminal and experimenter as same.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Admin. adopts more lenient attitude toward 1st offenders. [MITCHELL - says LSD possession calls for maximum 5 years Marijuana possession calls for mandatory 5 years and maximum of 20 years Higher than manslaughter and sabotage sentences.]
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) 2 Cabinet members tell Senator that food stamps won't be ended under welfare reform program. Agriculture Secretary Clifford Hardin and Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch say program to be moved from Agriculture to HEW.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Finch explains that proposal of incling. out-of-hospital drug costs in Medicare is only under study.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) American Bar Association accuses FTC (Federal Trade Commission) of inept consumer protection, Proposes overhaul and replacement of Chairperson Paul Rand Dixon, 16-member panel ordered study by President Nixon.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Last week private plane and jet crash, Air traffic controller had warned their radar couldn't pick up small planes, National Assn, Govt. Employees says controller James Knecht punished for his opinion. Says he was held incommunicado by FAA, grilled, and denied counsel. Federal Aviation Administration says Knecht was given new assignment due to his lack of faith in Indianapolis equipment.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President Nixon and task force set 1980's or later for man on Mars.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Moon rock to be displayed to public.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Rocks to go on display in Smithsonian Instution, Wednesday, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) film shown. Conclusions of study included: there are volcanic rocks on moon; moon may be old enough to enable scientists' study of whole solar system, [Lunar Geologist Robin BRETT - says rocks entirely different. 3 billion years old.]
REPORTER: Nelson Benton
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