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(Studio) Moscow reporter William Cole says Ho Chi Minh reported dead there. Hanoi says he's alive, but deteriorating.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Hanoi, North Vietnam) Film of last Ho appearance in May and June, 1969. What impact will his death have on peace talks and war strategy?
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite Narrates
(DC) Probable strategy won't change. State Department may push for dramatic US troop pullout to test Hanoi's stance.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
(Studio) Charles Collingwood to comment on Hanoi dvts. later.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) prisoners of war Air Force Captain Wesley Rumble able to identify 50 prisoners of war names. Families notified.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) B-52s bomb jungles near Cambodia. Casualties reported Most Americans gone from Mekong Delta. Report on Delta situation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Mekong Delta, South Vietnam) Delta is rich and most coveted South Vietnam area. Govt. stronger in area; Viet Cong weaker there. [US Advisor Major General Roderick WETHERILL - describes displaced persons in area.] Engineer Btns. only troops left. [WETHERILL - says don't think we'll bring them back.] American civilian advisors urged United States withdrawal, and to give jobs to South Vietnam. [Refugee Advisor Richard HOLDREN - says let South Vietnam do it instead of 9th Div.]
REPORTER: George Syvertsen
(Saigon, South Vietnam) Much has changed in the Delta. Enemy has to win ground back.
REPORTER: George Syvertsen
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(Studio) United States and Thailand to begin talks on withdrawing 50,000 American troops.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) United States Marine Corps Commandant Leonard Chapman appeals to Corps to reduce tension. Says blacks should have more leeway to express racial pride. Afro haircuts, soul music, and raised fist to be allowed. Fist can't be used during ceremonies.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Israeli planes attack Arab bases in Jordan and S.E. Lebanon. Raid in retaliation for 2 Israelis killed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Israel copters and police search for former Episcopal Bishop James Pike, lost near Jerusalem.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Jerusalem, Israel) [Diane PIKE - tearfully tells how they got lost, walked and rested in cave. Decided to go for help. We said goodbye to each other. Police said he could survive for 7 days in cave.]
REPORTER: Larry Pomeroy
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(Studio) Associated Press says radio monitors from Hanoi report Ho dead.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Everett Dirksen has lung tumor operation at Walter Reed Hospital.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Pres, Nixon plans cutbacks in fed, construction as move against inflation. To stop 75% of new bldgs. and hwys.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Colorado Springs, Colorado) [Connecticut Governor John DEMPSEY - says shocked by decision. Predicts inflation as govs. try to beat cut date.] [Director Communications Herbert KLEIN - says April is tentative deadline. Govs. shocked, but they know inflation must be controlled,] [OR Governor Tom McCALL - says wage and price controls is crisis way to meet crisis.]
REPORTER: Jed Duvall
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(Studio) Representatives of 3 1/2 million-member Episcopal Church vote to grant $200,000 to development of black community. Money goes to Black Econ, Dvt. Conf.; James Forman is their spokesperson
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Policeman and Negro girl killed in Camden, New Jersey by snipers. Violence reduced in Ft, Lauderdale, Florida and Hartford, Connecticut. Curfew still in effect.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Wilkes-Barre Judge Bernard Brominski refuses the Jos, Kopechne's request to bar autopsy. But he refuses exhumation until District Attorney Edward Dinis produces facts warranting such action, Dinis presses for inquest. Thinks order barring reporters to satisfy judicial concern over publicity.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Edgartown, Massachusetts) Inquest was to have begun today. Judge James Boyle agrees to inquest delay. [Police Chief Dominick ARENA - approves delay.] TV crews take down equipment.
REPORTER: David Culhane Artist: Howard Brodie
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(Studio) Supreme Court, Justice Thurgood Marshall refuses to bar Atomic Energy Commission blast in West Colorado. Federal judge in Denver also turns down appeal. Project Rulison designed to free natural gas trapped in rock.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 9 cigarette companies, not yet agreed to test chemosol in reducing cancer- causing agents in cigarettes. Hazleton labs. in Virginia probably to take testing job.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Associated Press reports Ho Chi Minh dead.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) North Vietnam prepared for Ho death. P.Min. Pham Van Dong was number 1 man. Others work as group; roles probably determined long ago. Ho was superb organizer and intense ntlist. with gift for government Was effective wartime leader
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
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