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(Studio) President Nixon sends Congress legislature needed for phase II.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) President wants power to control wages, prices and rents through Spring 1973; wants standby power to control interest rates; has need of 3 judge federal court setup to handle appeals from wage and price bds. [Undersecretary Treasury Charles E. WALKER - says industry and business have to get permission from bds. to raise prices and wages; notes 2nd group wouldn't have economy concentration of 1st group, would report to bds. after the fact; 3rd group subject to controls.] President adviser, Don Rumsfeld, says proposed legislature in spirit of orderly decision making process by others.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Labor Department report shows urban poverty up, especially with Blacks. Department suspends further reports until 1973. AFL-CIO and Hubert H. Humphrey charge Nixon move to suppress ugly economy news until after `72 election. Bureau of Labor Statistics says move planned all along.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Fire Base Pace under siege for 3 weeks Reconnaissance plane spots enemy force near camp. Air strike ensues; force turns out to be South Vietnam; 18 killed; report on unchanged area of South Vietnam.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Binh Dinh Province, South Vietnam) Binh Dinh reported least pacified of provinces. 1 million live here; 1/3 support Communists Viet Cong hamlet shown. Only women, children and elders sleep there at night. American combat troops left. New campaign begun to pacify area. Popular Forces don't guard area well. [Adviser Major Lee KLEESE - tells of Viet Cong retaliation due to 1 of Popular Forces killing a VC; Popular Forces will no longer fight VC. They accommodate VC. People insecure there.] Village headquarters shot up by VC shown. Not enough Popular Forces there. Hamlets nearby unprotected. VC held daily propaganda mtgs. there. [KLEESE - says men in field tired of war; don't care who wins.] Province needs total security or accommodation of VC.
REPORTER: Bill Plante
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(Studio) South Vietnam Senator refuses, 37-18, to study President Nguyen Van Thieu's unopposed election. Students protest in sts.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Nixon supporters block House vote of Senator Mike Mansfield's end-the- war amendment.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) White House briefings held for House leadership and fence-sitting Congress Parliamentary tactics to avoid direct vote used. Tactic worked 215-192. [Representative Charles West WHALEN, Junior - says American public expects more of House] [Representative Gerald R. FORD - says serious to tie President' hands by political vote when he's going to Moscow, USSR , and Peking, China.] Doves lost by 23 votes. Troop pullout announcement and trips abroad may hold off doves for President
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
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(Studio) House post office sub-committee urges postal service nullify job evaluation contract with Westinghse. Another company could do job for 1/3 of cost. Representative Thaddeus J. Dulski calls it board room cronyism and sad commentary on P.O. leadership post office will cooperate, but feel Westinghse. necessary for reform.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) American journalists and members embassy staff accused of accepting espionage material from Czechoslovakia reporters Last of American diplomats there; Sam Wise, Junior told to get out of country
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Vice President Nixon [sic] takes trip to ancestor's homeland.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Gargalianoi, Greece) Dances performed for Vice President Spiro T. Agnew. Vice President and family visit his father's birthplace. Town repainted and cleaned up for visit; visits convent his great aunt founded; places wreath on her tomb; he meets more kin.
REPORTER: Dean Brelis
(Studio) Error, with regard to Vice President's name, corrected.
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(Studio) In Cork, Ireland, 6 trunks taken from Queen Elizabeth II contain weapons. Owner not found. Mil. intelligence ofr. says it proves United States ships guns to IRA.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Security beefed up for Premier Aleksei North Kosygin.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Canada) Protests against USSR treatment of Soviet Jews continue. Militant Jewish Defense League leaderRabbi Meir Kahane and others sent home after denied entrance to Canada.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (narrates)
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(Studio) Bps.' synod rejects idea of priests being married; oppose women priests and priests moonlighting with secular jobs.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Supreme Court to decide if pro-baseball is exempted from anti-trust laws. Outfielder Curt Flood charges baseball's reserve clause as virtual slavery. Court refuses to hear lower court ruling that putting defendant on trial in prison clothes, creates unconst. guilt impression.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senate sub-committee on freedom of press hears both sides of argument.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Representative William Springer says he would have liked to see case against CBS documentary, "The Selling of the Pentagon" go to Supreme Court [SPRINGER - says ought to prevent more falsification of news films. Congress influence has been constructive in broadcasting.] Springer says even CBS admitted errors in documentary. CBS President Richard South Salant says CBS made no admission because not guilty of charges. Salant says Federal Communications Commission ruled editing decisions were matters of journalistic judgment; CBS had fulfilled responsibility under Fairness Doctrine. 2nd witness, anchorman David Brinkley, saw no conspiracy either way. [BRINKLEY - says rampant political bias charged doesn't exist, although we've made mistakes. Biased opinion is 1 you don't agree with; must be doing something right if both sides accuse us of bias.]
REPORTER: George Herman
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(Studio) Department of Health, Education and Welfare Under Secretary Elliot Richardson urges Congress to approve administration health insurance plan; calls Senator Edward M. Kennedy's plan unfeasible.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Tennessee Attorney General says death of 17 year old, in Memphis, Tennessee, homicide not car accident as reported by police. 23 police relieved of duty until study ends.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Soviets close to completing $1 million purchase of 28 acres adjoining Mt. Vernon.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Ex-secret service agent, Rufus Youngblood, says Nixon administration runs service like advertising agency or Disneyland. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler accuses him of stirring up publicity for upcoming book.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Eric Sevareid analyzes world affairs.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Spiro T. Agnew, Henry A. Kissinger and John B. Connally busy with for. affairs. Supreme Court needs new members and wage and price board mbrship. must be settled. Econ. in Paris work under pressure. Signs of economy catastrophe visible.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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