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(Studio) Verdict reached in Manson trial.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Los Angeles, California) Charles Manson and 3 girls "family" guilty of 1st degree murder. Court room scene described. [Defense Attorney Paul FITZGERALD - anticipated verdict; lost case when lost venue change; could have won case outside of Los Angeles; forced to select jury from hostile Los Angeles population] [Prosecutor Vincent BUGLIOSI - says pleased with verdict.] Severity of sentence yet to be determined.
REPORTER: Bill Kurtis
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(Studio) Cambodia shifts several 1000 troops to Phnom Penh; orders dusk to dawn curfew.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Phnom Penh, Cambodia) Film shows aftermath of week end power company switching station bombing. Cambodian government admits probably Communist in Phnom Penh underground.
REPORTER: Bruce Dunning
(Studio) United States helicopters defend against North Vietnam attack near Phnom Penh. Defense Department says Green Berets training Cambodian forces in South Vietnam and Thailand. Senator For. Relations Committee begins hearings on United States Cambodian role; Secretary of State Rogers to testify.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) South Vietnam releases POWs in DMZ.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DMZ) 40 North Vietnam POWs released; 3 decide to stay. POWs row selves across river; no North Vietnam delegation present; North Vietnam delegation, admission of presence in South Vietnam.
REPORTER: Jed Duvall
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(Studio) Tennessee Congman. William Anderson says Berrigans heroes of peace movement; urges church leaders become Christian activists. VP Agnew calls speech claptrap.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) United States investigators determine responsibility for wounding 3 Vietnam children; 2 previous incidents caused antagonism toward GIsland
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Qui Nhon, South Vietnam) Anti-Am, riots in Qui Nhon after GI kills Vietnam boy. Vietnam school teacher in Bong Son killed by United States truck gun fire. Local South Vietnam units threatening to shoot United States vehicles using road. Incidents increasing because lower GI discipline and morale; Vietnam sensitized; small incident triggers large reaction.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
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(Studio) Uganda President Milton Obote government overthrown after brief fighting; Obote returning from Commonwealth Conf. in Singapore, S.E. Asia, flies to Kenya, E. Africa.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) E. and West Berlin citizens able to telephone each other for 1st time in 18 years as of January 31st.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Apollo 14 moon flight countdown begins for Sunday launch; astronauts restricted to quarters,insuring health.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President Nixon meets with Congress leaders; generates support for revenue sharing plan.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [Representative Gerald FORD - says confident Ways and Means Committee will hold hearings on revenue sharing; legislature will pass.] Nixon meets Representative John Byrnes and Chairperson of Ways and Means Committee Representative Wilbur Mills, promise expeditious hearings on revenue sharing.
REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint
(DC) Mills says hearings to kill revenue sharing; Byrnes opposed to revenue sharing. [Ohio Governor John GILLIGAN - says if program adopted, state and local government continue to fall further behind financial] [Detroit, Michigan, mayor Roman GRIBBS - notes cities at best expect moderate increases in funds, at worst decrease] Labor and civil rights lobbies oppose plan.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
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(Studio) Sierra Club opposes proposed nomination of Rogers Morton for Secretary of Interior.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) FTC (Federal Trade Commission) proposes detergent manufacturers required to place phosphate warnings in ads and on products.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Supreme Court strikes down Wisconsin law, barring venue change in misdemeanor cases.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Chicago, Illinois restaurant just the right place.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Chicago, Illinois) Jerry's Place on Grand Avenue run by Jerry Myers; Jerry leads customers to counter, demands order immediately, yells at customers. [JERRY - never really mad, must see customers helped immediately. If customer remains after 3 mins., gets food free; never given anything away in 25 years Think customers sense love of fellow man behind it all.]
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
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(Studio) Maker of bricks by hand, 92 year old George Black, to help set up brick making factories in Guiana under State Department sponsorship.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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