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(Studio) Officials try to find reason for 2 year delay for letter of POW Staff sergeant John C. Sexton, Junior in getting to his parents.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Warren, Michigan) Sextons told of letter in September Pts. of August 19, 1969, letter read. [SEXTON - says doesn't believe letter kept from us intentionally, feels it was mislaid; wants to know about letter.] [Mrs. SEXTON - feels someone made "boo-boo".] Sextons will meet son in Denver, Colorado.
REPORTER: Michele Clark
(Studio) Report on Pentagon reactions to letter.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Letter brushed off as propaganda and filed at intelligence center Sexton then listed as missing. Sexton's family requests review of case in July, 1971. Then, copy of letter delivered to Pentagon on Tuesday, letter proved authentic. 2 days later, Sexton walked to freedom after being reclassified from MIA (missing in action) to POW; called bureaucratic foul-up.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(Studio) Allies release North Vietnam Lieutenant as reciprocal gesture for Sexton.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Rptd. troops at Fire Base Pace refused order to move out. Commander says no order given, so issue didn't come to test. Says 5 protesting soldiers redeemed selves by going out on patrol.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Consumer advocate, Ralph Nader, charges before Senate committee that Nixon's giving power to wage and price bds. violates Const.; says bds. would operate without Congress guidelines, due process, safeguards, or appeal; administration to seek Congress approval.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) President asks Congress for more stabilization powers. Cost of Living council asks Congress for extra tools: subpoena power for pay board and price commission; power to use administration procedure like regulatory agencies, power to act against single inds. and companies Legis. goes to Congress UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) and Teamsters working with AFL-CIO. UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) President Leonard Woodcock feels pay board will have practical autonomy; believed labor leaders won't boycott phase II, but will ask for more assurance as to board's independence.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
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(Studio) Senator Robert C. Byrd reported likely nominee for Supreme Court Senator George S. McGovern speaks highly of him and then reverses endorsement the next day.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 2 bombs shake American consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, as Vice President Spiro T. Agnew arrives in city. No connection between 2 events. Next stop is Iran. Agnew and others will head for ancient remains at Persepolis, Iran, to celebrate 2,500th anniversary of Persian Empire. Iran's ruler claims he's firmly in control.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Teheran, Iran) Lights strung up in city for celebration. Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi built $5 million monument for himself. [PAHLAVI - says Iran will have important military establishment in 5 years, plus good economy]
REPORTER: Bill McLaughlin
(Persepolis, Iran) Ruins shown where world leaders to attend celebration. Tent city built for leaders to stay in. 3 day party to cost $10 million. Entire celebration to cost $100 million. Iranians not invited to celebration.
REPORTER: Bill McLaughlin
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(Studio) Egypt President Anwar el-Sadat visits USSR to discuss Middle E. Premier Aleksei North Kosygin, President Nikolai V. Podgorny and For. Min. Leonid I. Brezhnev meet him.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) United States Navy and State Department representatives meet in USSR to speak of world seas re: spying purposes. Officially talks are to help prevent ship and plane collisions.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Britain charges representative of foreign service, Leonard Michael Hinchliffe with espionage; unknown if connected to Soviet spying.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) United States and Panama renegotiating United States rights to Canal zone. At rally, strongman ruler, Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, says Panamanians will die to get zone sovereignty.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Baltimore Orioles beat Pittsburgh Pirates 11-3 to take 2-0 lead in World series.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Baltimore, Maryland) Pat Nixon throws 1st ball. Julie and David Eisenhower present. Pts. of game shown.
REPORTER: Heywood Hale Broun
(Baltimore, Maryland) [Mrs. NIXON - says enjoyed game; sure President watched point of it on TV.] She wouldn't say who her team was.
REPORTER: Peter Larkin
(Studio) 3rd game is in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator James O. Eastland wants Congress to review laws on environment; upset at ecologists' court challenges to public works projects, incling. Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway. Senator says yelling ecology at every new project has to stop.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Report on old Hollywood star now in OR.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Sun River, OR) Pts. of film "The African Queen", starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn shown. 20 years later, boat owned by Hal and Joyce Bailey sails on Oregon stream; spent 1950's and 60's as barge in Uganda, E. Africa. [BAILEY - describes how priceless the boat is. Lines of boat are fair.] [Joyce BAILEY - says boat just plain fun.] [BAILEY - describes small problems.]
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
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