Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CBS Evening News for 1971-10-28

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Walter Cronkite (New York City)

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  05:31:10 pm — 05:31:30 pm

• Common Market / Britain

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  05:31:30 pm — 05:36:20 pm

  (Studio) House of Commons votes, 356-244, for Britain to enter European Common Mkt. Final vote in Parliament to come. Prime Minister Edward Heath worries over opposition.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (London, England) Protest held against Britain entering Common Mkt. 1/2 British population against move; 30% in favor. Entry fee is $2 billion. Food prices will increase 15-20%. Living costs up 5-6%. [SPKR. - says will have to pay more for all on set income. Won't help old.] [2nd SPKR. - says for Mkt. because of children. Britain too small to stay on own.] [Historian Arnold TOYNBEE - compares situation to that of ancient Greece.] Common Mkt. will become largest trading unit in world, with 1/3 trade and 1/5 GNP. Econ. strength will rival United States and surpass USSR . Some American econs. fear Mkt. will compete with US. Britain will share fortune and failure of neighbors.
  REPORTER: John Laurence

• Trade Surplus

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  05:36:20 pm — 05:36:40 pm

  (Studio) United States had trade surplus in September Exports exceeded imports by $265.4 million; due to dock strike.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Dock Strike

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  05:36:40 pm — 05:37:00 pm

  (Studio) Longshoremen went back to work in New Orleans, Louisiana. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, workers also back at work. Excepting Texas, other Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports shut down.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  05:37:00 pm — 05:37:20 pm

  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Tums Antacid Tablets.)

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  05:37:20 pm — 05:38:20 pm

• Phase II Conference

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  05:38:20 pm — 05:40:50 pm

  (Studio) President Nixon and advisers brief busmen. via closed circuit television with regard to phase II.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) National Association Mfrs. arranged showing for 26 cities. [Commerce Secretary Maurice H. STANS - says price commission and pay board must realize retroactive wage adjustments hard on business because not possible to make prices retroactive.] [Treasury Secretary John B. CONNALLY - says not asking for tax on excess profits because aren't any excess profits.] AFL-CIO President George Meany told House Banking Committee continued labor cooperations depend on quality of sacrifice. Meany tells pay board labor will discuss nothing else until retroactive wage issue settled.
  REPORTER: Daniel Schorr

• Agnew

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  05:40:50 pm — 05:41:30 pm

  (Studio) Vice President Spiro T. Agnew tells Associated Press too early for Nixon to decide to replace him on `72 President ticket; rumored Connally to take Agnew's place.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Amchitka Blast

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  05:41:30 pm — 05:41:50 pm

  (Studio) United States Appeals Court refuses to delay nuclear test at Amchitka Island, AK. Court orders government to produce secret studies that conclude environmental damage could result from explosion.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Oil Spill / Standard Oil

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  05:41:50 pm — 05:42:20 pm

  (Studio) Last January, 2 oil tankers collided and spilled gals. of oil in San Francisco Bay. Standard Oil of California agreed to pay cost of cleanup; estimated at $4-6 million. Federal grand jury indicts company for violating 1899 Refuse Act.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Texaco.)

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  05:42:20 pm — 05:43:20 pm

• Senate / Foreign Aid Bill / 2 Chinas

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  05:43:20 pm — 05:44:10 pm

  (Studio) Admin. wins rejection of rider to restrict military spending in Vietnam to withdrawal. For. aid bill contains Senator Mike Mansfield's amendment, calling for total pullout by Spring. Senator votes, 43-40, to reaffirm support of 1955 resolution authorizing military intervention if People's Republic of China, invades Taiwan, China.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• United Nations Vote / Chou / Taiwan

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  05:44:10 pm — 05:46:50 pm

  (Studio) People's Republic of China, leaders delighted with United Nations entry vote.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Taipei, Taiwan) Film shows Chou En-lai at reception for Shah of Iran after United Nations vote. He moved about reception freely, accepting congratulations. Ruling leaders of Ntlist. Chinese party meet in special session. Chiang Kai-shek called for meeting [Govt. Info. Office James WEI - talks of United Nations charter; says Taiwan, China, will go on.] Taiwan can manufacture goods cheaply and quickly for foreign goods.
  REPORTER: David Henderson (narrates)

• Vietnam / Casualties

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  05:46:50 pm — 05:47:10 pm

  (Studio) Casualties reported 32 died of non-hostile causes.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Vietnam / Prisoners of War Release / Talks / Camp

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  05:47:10 pm — 05:49:40 pm

  (Studio) South Vietnam to release 3,000 POWs to honor President Nguyen Van Thieu's inauguration. United States calls for prisoners of war exchange at Paris peace talks. Communists call South Vietnam move impudent maneuver to turn attention from fascist character of South Vietnam regime. Reporters see prisoners of war camp.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Can Tho, South Vietnam) South Vietnam has 6 prisoners of war camps. 3,000 POWs here; mostly VC. Camp divided into docile and rebellious groups. 2 camps shown. Tour staged, but food, care and visits observed as set down by International Red Cross.
  REPORTER: Bob Simon

• Prisoners of War Release

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  05:49:40 pm — 05:50:00 pm

  (Studio) Pentagon denies "Chicago Tribune" story of mass release of American POWs in near future.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: American Motors Buyer Protection Plan.)

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  05:50:00 pm — 05:51:30 pm

• Northern Ireland Conflict

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  05:51:30 pm — 05:52:10 pm

  (Studio) British and Irish troops confront each other at 1 bridge on border. Irish said bridge 1/2 theirs and British couldn't blow it up. British back down.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Tito Visit / Washington, DC

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  05:52:10 pm — 05:53:50 pm

  (Studio) Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito welcomed at White House
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) Nixons greet Tito and wife. Ceremony heavy with military trappings. Tito emphasizes Yugoslavia's freedom from USSR and People's Republic of China, [NIXON - says "long live Yugoslavia," in Yugoslavian language.] [TITO - says "long live American"] Nixon plans to do same in People's Republic of China Nixon talked to Tito of planned trips and Middle E. affairs, India and Pakistan. Tito plucking for more trade and more American industry investment there. Tito lays wreath at Arlington National Cemetery. He and wife to tour West of Mississippi after Saturday
  REPORTER: Dan Rather

• Middle E.

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  05:53:50 pm — 05:54:10 pm

  (Studio) USSR news agency Tass says Egypt rejects United States plan for interim peace.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Opera House Fire

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  05:54:10 pm — 05:54:20 pm

  (Studio) Operahouse in Cairo, Egypt, burns to ground; built in 1869.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Porterfield / Death

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  05:54:20 pm — 05:54:40 pm

  (Studio) Robert H. Porterfield, 69, dies; founded Barter Theatre in Virginia.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Bank Robber

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  05:54:40 pm — 05:55:20 pm

  (Studio) Wounded bank robber, James Leroy Cochran, shows up in Columbus, Ohio, with his latest hostage.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  NO AUDIO FROM 5:54:50 TO 5:57:10

• (Commercial: Sealy Posturepedic Mattresses.)

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  05:55:20 pm — 05:55:50 pm

• Analysis (USSR and US)

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  05:55:50 pm — 05:58:30 pm

  (Studio) NO AUDIO.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) NO AUDIO UNTIL 5:57:10. Speaks of Soviet assault on Czechoslovakia and preceding events; affected Democratic party; next summit set for 1972.
  REPORTER: Eric Sevareid

• Good Night

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  05:58:30 pm — 05:58:30 pm