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(Studio) Most damaging communist South Vietnam attacks in 5 mos.; shell over 100 bases, towns; 40 Americans killed incling. Brigadier General William Bond; 5th United States General killed in Vietnam.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#209135
(Studio) Army charges Captain Ernest Medina with 175 My Lai murders.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Columbus, Georgia) [MEDINA - surprised at new charges; claims loyalty, faith in truth.]
REPORTER: Steve Rowan
#209136
(Studio) New Cambodian government claims North Vietnam overran Kratie military outpost; government troops kill 30 civilians suppressing pro-Norodom Sihanouk demonstrations.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#209137
(Studio) Laos rejects communist peace talk proposal; government doesn't want US bombing halted before talks begin.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#209139
(Studio) Teamster locals strike 30 cities; no national walkout expected.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Negotiations center on pay raise demands; no agreement reached, no walkout planned.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(Saint Louis, Missouri) Only emergency trucks moving; truckers protest contract expiration. [Unidentified truck DRIVER - says pay raise main concern.]
REPORTER: Bruce Dunning
#209140
(Studio) Airline flights still canceled, delayed; Pro. Airtraffic Control Org., government officials urge work return.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Chicago, Illinois) Air controllers' wives picket control center; 1/2 controllers out; snow complicates situation; O'Hare Airport closed; officials claim weather only cause.
REPORTER: Bill Plante
#209141
(Studio) 3 Coachella Valley, California, grape growers sign union picker contracts providing more money, and benefits; big growers still haven't signed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#209142
(Studio) Atlanta 16 day old garbage strike conts.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Atlanta, Georgia) Strikers attempt to stop scabs' cars; city offers bonus to strikebreakers; blacks consider offer demeaning to race; Mayor Massell and union leader argue. [Union leader Jerry WORTH - tells Massell he can't be both strikebreaker, champion of strikers.] 2 sides further apart.
REPORTER: Bob Jones (WAGA-TV newsfilm)
#209143
(Studio) Hijacked Japanese airliner still on ground in Seoul, South Korea; North Korea offers safe landing, passenger return; hostages hungry, tired after 40 hrs. on plane.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#209144
(Studio) 21 survive Moroccan airliner crash.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#209145
(Studio) Major Soviet military hero Semyon K. Timoshenko dies at age 75.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#209147
(Studio) Senator passes $24.6 billion education bill for equal enforcement of desegregation where segregation exists by law.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#209148
(Studio) G. Harrold Carswell debate conts.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) CBS poll shows 39 for, 41 against recommittal; 10 Senators undecided. [Senator William SAXBE - reads Nixon letter stressing President right of appointed] [Senator William SPONG - supports recommittal.] Carswell supporters incring.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
#209149
(Studio) Comment on G. Harrold Carswell fight.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Nixon intervention in Carswell debate increases; makes Carswell vote Const. matter; President letter vague, oxymoronic.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
#209151
(Studio) Nixon administration reports new hses. overpriced; mobile homes may be solution.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#209152
(Studio) Reverend Carl McIntire to lead Washington, DC anti-war march; claims White House subversion to stop march.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#209153
(Studio) New York Democratic Party debates putting Negro on Lieutenant Governor ticket.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Liberty, New York) Arthur Goldberg favored to oppose Governor Rockefeller; blacks boycott Goldberg speech. [Representative Shirley CHISHOLM - announces black walkout.] [GOLDBERG - may back black Lieutenant Governor] [CHISHOLM - accuses party of prejudice.]
REPORTER: Morton Dean
(Studio) Goldberg won Governor nomination; no Lieutenant Governor chosen.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#209154
(Studio) Massachusetts Legis. passes bill questioning Vietnam war legality.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#209155
(Studio) Detroit baseball pitcher Denny McLain suspended till Jul. 1 for taking book on basketball games.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#209156
(Studio) Agriculture Department reports food price drop.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#209159
(Studio) Key figure in Tennessee monkey trial back in classroom.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(No location given) John Scopes tried for teaching evolution in Tennessee HS; found guilty; later cleared; William Jennings Bryan against teaching evolution, Clarence Darrow defense attorney
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (narrates 1925 newsfilm)
(Nashville, Tennessee) [SCOPES - asserted teachers', not govt's. business; resents state interference.]
REPORTER: Del Vaughn
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