This program is 27 minutes long
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(Studio) Teamsters, truckers agree on $1 per hour pay increase over 3 years, urge work return. P. O. and air controllers reach agreement with government
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) P. O. and AFL-CIO President George Meany meet; 6% pay raise for all fed. employees; 8% more for P. O. workers when reform bill passes. (Postmaster General Winton BLOUNT - hopes P. O. reorg. successful.] Union leaders must prevent new strikes.
REPORTER: David Dick
(DC) Federal Judge Ceo. Hart stops contempt proceedings against professional Airtraffic Control Org., works out agreement; PATCO leaders to urge work return in news conference within 24 hrs.; walkout may be ending.
REPORTER: Nelson Benton
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(Studio) Labor Secretary George Shultz says no progress on railroad strike prevention; urges Congress imposed settlement.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Massachusetts Governor Francis Sargent signs bill preventing government from forcing Massachusetts men to fight undeclared war.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Boston, Massachusetts) [Governor SARGENT - says bill sincere, effect doubtful; bill aimed to prove Vietnam war legality.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Defense Secretary Melvin Laird claims all military action Const.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 12 Students for a Democratic Society Weathermen indicted in Chicago for riot conspiracy; Judge Julius Hoffman presides.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator J. William Fulbright says United States should let North Vietnam dominate Indochina; says American South East Asia policy doesn't face reality; North Vietnam greatest Indochina power Secretary of State William Rogers assures no United States Cambodian intervention.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Cambodia denies United States right to pursue communists across border; violates Cambodian neutrality.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Communists shell 65 South Vietnam towns and bases; down 3 United States copters.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(South Vietnam) Americans do much fighting by copter; 1 helicopter downed each day; enemy firepower improving; pilot risk incring.; United States insists helicopter loses insignificant. [W. O. Mike REARDON - says expects enemy to start shooting at copters more; tells of new enemy anti-aircraft gun.]
REPORTER: Richard Threlkeld
(Studio) 1,525 copters downed since January 1961.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) No progress in 61st Paris Peace Talk session.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 8 hour Israeli-Egyptian battle; conflicting loss claims cited.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 3 Soviet scientists issue letter claiming inadequate freedom in USSR ; warn of social upheaval if rights not expanded.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Japan airlines plane still grounded in Seoul, South Korea.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Thermal pollution problem; fed., state govts. attack Florida Power and Light Company for polluting Carel Sound.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Dade Cnty., Florida) Power plant heats water, kills marine life. [U. Miami Prof. Gilbert VOSS - reports danger to young marine life.] Company building canal to divert water to new nuclear plant. [Florida Power and Light Company spokesperson F. E. AUTREY - says canal necessary in order to supply electricity, protect environmental [Florida Power and Light Consultant Biologist James LACKEY - denies danger of 95 degree water.] [VOSS - says 90 degrees upper limit according to many scientists.] Electricity and environmental at odds.
REPORTER: Foster Davis
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(Studio) Eggs and pork prices decline, beef prices rise; Congress report says commission should watch beef industry and allow more importation when American beef scarce.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Admin dropping opposition to textile import limitation legislature to protect United States textile industry
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Nixon asks $65 million for wounded Vietnam vets.' medical needs and drug problems.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Nixon to send envoy to Paris to discuss French international South East Asia peace conference proposal.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) French President George Pompidou says all Indochina 1 war; United States doubts talks success; Nixon learned of French proposal through public media; chief South East Asia cultural ties with France; if American withdrawal fails, French help may be needed.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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