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(Studio) Senator Edward Kennedy asks Massachusetts Supreme Court to halt inquest temporarily.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Boston, Massachusetts) [Massachusetts Attorney General Robert QUINN - says Judge grants delay until Const. issues settled.] Kennedy attys. say he should have right to cross-examine witnesses. Say 100s reporters present changes in nature of case. Associate Justice Paul Reardan agreed grave Const. issues raised. Told attys. to be silent in the matter., To be 2-4 weeks before inquest resumes.
REPORTER: David Culhane
(Studio) Pennsylvania Judge says he'll give decision on exhuming Mary Jo Kopechne Wednesday
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 73, has tumor removed from right lung at Walter Reed Hospital.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Nation's govs. propose President Nixon increase welfare reforms with Fed. Govt. bearing full burden of cost. 1 South Democrat opposes this stand.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Colorado Springs, Colorado) Georgia Governor Lester Maddox opposes national welfare. [MADDOX - says bad to take away responsibilities of states.] [Ohio Governor James RHODES - says need this in Ohio. Can't continue to compound misery of poor.] [MADDOX - says take over Georgia if you're going to run the whole show.] [New York Governor Nelson ROCKEFELLER - says President Nixon plans to take care of a lot of people in Georgia that Maddox hasn't taken care of. National minimum is right.] Govs. except Maddox say yea to federal welfare.
REPORTER: Jed Duvall
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(Studio) President Nixon urges Cong, to act on his postal reform proposals. Calls present program obsolete. Proposes Govt. Corporation to run post office He names ex- Yale football star Levi Jackson, and Florida banker Elmer Banks, Junior to 3-mbr. President Draft Appeals Bd. Bd. makes final decisions on draft registrants' questions.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) North Vietnam Chief Spokesperson says could be break in deadlock if large-scale American withdrawal. In Hanoi, P.Min. Pham Van Dong says Communists, to go on fighting until all United States troops have left South Vietnam 400 Americans aid 2 South Vietnam Btns. 85 mi. N.W. of Saigon. Casualties reported.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Pentagon sets up news conference for 2 American POWs.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Bethesda, Maryland) [Lieutenant Robert FRISHMAN - says Hanoi given false impression. Explains inhumane treatment. Tells how rocks were thrown at him upon capture and med, care refused.' Tells of sitting in chair for hrs.] [Seaman Doug. HEGDAHL - tells of getting 3 cigarettes daily and 2 meals. That's all your activity.]
REPORTER: Marya McLaughlin
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(Studio) 4 New Hampshire National Guardsmen killed in Vietnam buried with military honors. 5th buried Monday with no military ceremony at widow's request.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Episcopal Church Conv, at Notre Dame disrupted by antiwar protesters, 2 absent without leave soldiers among group that appealed to clergy for conscientious objection to Vietnam.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(S. Bend, IN) [Airman Louis PARRY - expects to be arrested soon.] [MIN. - asks those who support Parry and Jones to stand.] [Corporal Louis JONES - says came here because it's 2nd largest American church. Should stand up against un-Christian war.] Dead list read.
REPORTER: Murray Fromson
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(Studio) Episcopal Bishop James Pike reporter missing in Dead Sea desert. Wife rescued and taken to Jerusalem.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Ousted Libyan King Idris still claims throne, Goes to Greece with $20 million. Mil. junta in Libya solidly in control; assures West oil companies they'll honor agreements.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Hartford, Connecticut declare state of emergency after racial riots. Both under curfews. 2 nights of violence in Florida. Court city policeman shot.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Hartford, Connecticut) Film of looting and burning shown. Dep. Mayor George Kinsella describes destruction as unbelievable. Library burned. Trouble conts. in day. [KINSELLA - issue state of emergency for city. Action taken for life and property of city.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Violence in Parkesburg, Pennsylvania between blacks and white motorcycle gang Negro killed; 8 Negroes injured. 8 whites arrested on murder charges.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 15 vehicles collide North of New Haven, Connecticut on fog-bound highway 3 killed; 5 injured 2 horses killed. Flames hamper rescue.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Assistant Secretary of Health and Scientific Affairs, Dr. Roger Egeberg, says present marijuana laws out of proportion to its dangers. Doesn't think it leads to heroin. Not in same class as heroin, barbiturates, LSD, and amphetamines.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Soviet author Anatoly Kuznetsov defected to Great Britain.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(London, England) [KUZNETSOV - explains filming his manuscripts to smuggle them out of USSR . Shows them. He defends self on William Styron's charges of informing on his cntrymen. Dostoievski might have informed on friends. Neither Dostoievski, Tolstoy, or Turgenev lived in Soviet USSR .]
REPORTER: Morley Safer
(Studio) Full interview shown at 9 p.m. EST.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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