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(Studio) Americans bomb North Vietnam heavily; Hanoi denounces act.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) Missile and anti-aircraft sites hit. [Dep. Assistant Defense Secretary Jerry West FRIEDHEIM - says not bombing resumption, just retaliation for North Vietnam shooting down American reconnaissance plane.]
REPORTER: David Schoumacher
(DC) No agreement ever made saying American reconnaissance planes can fly over North Vietnam; administration just hoped they wouldn't be shot at.
REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint
(Studio) Senator Mike Mansfield says bombing renewed involvement.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Paris, France) North Vietnam delegation denounces raids, claims 6 United States aircraft downed; says raids hurt Paris Peace Talks. [INTERPRETER - says Nixon responsible for hampering peace talks.]
REPORTER: Peter Kalischer
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(Studio) Navy claims sinking North Vietnam trawler in South China Sea.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Americal Div. used Orange defoliant after ban; cmdrs. knew was violation; punitive action considered.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Jury acquits sergeant David Mitchell.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Fort Hood, Texas) [MITCHELL - praises Army justice; something probably happened at My Lai, doesn't know what.] [Defense Attorney Ossie BROWN - says Mitchell won't testify at Lieutenant William Calley's trial.]
REPORTER: Phil Jones Artist: Skip Brown
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(Studio) James Kelly ambushed and killed near Covington, Virginia; escaped from prison with hostages; no others hurt.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Office of Economic Opportunity director Don Rumsfeld fires attys. Terry F. Lenzner and Frank Jones.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(DC) [LENZNER - says poor deserve good legal aid; wants Office of Economic Opportunity reformed.] [RUMSFELD - says Lenzner bitter about being fired; will improve OEO.] ABA wants good legal defense for poor.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
(Studio) Jones claims Office of Economic Opportunity run by South bigots and right-wing pols.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Transportation Secretary John Volpe proposes all 1972 cars have bumpers that can take 5 miles per hour crash without damage.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) Some General Motors Corporation assembly lines rolling.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Willow Springs, Illinois) Fisher Body Div. of GMC plant operating. [UAW MBRS. - didn't like money loss from strike.]
REPORTER: Ike Pappas
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(Studio) Football fans' rally becomes near riot.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Columbus, Ohio) Ohio State U-Michigan game old rivalry; past games described. [GAME FILMS SHOWN.] Ohio State won today 20-9.
REPORTER: Heywood Hale Broun
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(Studio) South Vietnam Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky toured United States military bases; some South Vietnam avoiding military service.
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
(Montreal, Canada) Many South Vietnam students stay in Canada. [Student Truong LOI - says won't kill Vietnam; writes pacifist poetry.] Some students support VC actively. [Doan Phung MIEN - says would be arrested in South Vietnam for political views.] Saigon watches students closely; Canadian government embarrassed, cancels scholarship program; some South Vietnam say support Nguyen Van Thieu, don't want to fight. [MAN - says wants to help economy after war, doesn't want political war.]
REPORTER: Murray Fromson
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