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(Studio) People's Republic of China, sends telegram to United Nations announcing arrival of delegation soon.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator approves non-binding amendment, to foreign aid bill, urging cut of funds for UN.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Bill under fire due to attacks on aid program, anti-war amendments and Senator pique over United Nations vote. Senators Frank Church and John Sherman Cooper's anti-war amendment fails. Senator Mike Mansfield's amendment calling for full United States pullout in 6 mos. survives. House expected to kill it. Restrictions on aid to Greek military junta fails. Repeal of President' authority to use force to defend Formosa (Taiwan) fails. 2 attempts to cut actual United Nations money fails. Senators John L. McClellan and Church call for end to foreign aid.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
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(Studio) People's Republic of China, and Italy sign 3 year trade treaty.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Associated Press reports Cuba with new USSR jet fighters; brings Cuban MiG fleet to 67. Defense Department film shows USSR naval task force off American coast; reported within 75 mile of Cape Kennedy, Florida, today. Soviet news agency, Tass, says fleet headed for Cuba.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Yugoslavia President Josip Broz Tito says Egypt will open Suez Canal if Israel pulls back 36 mile from banks; quotes Sadat. Quoting Leonid I. Brezhnev, Tito says Soviet troops to be pulled out of Egypt when there's solution to Middle E. issue.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Brezhnev says farewell to French broadcast by radio and TV. He recorded remarks before he left Moscow, USSR .
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Govt. hands over document with regard to Amchitka Island, AK, blast to Washington, DC judge. Environmentalists hope Judge George L Hart, Junior will delay test. Canadian protesters go to site itself.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Vancouver, British Columbia) Ex-Canadian Naval vessel en route to Aleutian Island, AK, to protest planned American blast there. Trip sponsored by citizens' group; hopes to stop test by being 3 mile away. [Protest leader Irving STOWE - says if United States tows boat away, will show they'll let nothing stand in their way.] Ship renamed Green Peace II; launch shown.
REPORTER: Jim Kilpatrick
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(Studio) Conf. on FBI opens. Yale law professor, Thomas Emerson, charges FBI operations infringe on Const. rights. FBI sends letter of defense to conference
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Princeton, New Jersey) Sponsors call conference scholarly effort to understand FBI. FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, feels many prejudged FBI. FBI criticized for excessive use of wiretaps and questionable use of informers. Ex-informant David Sannes tells of being instructed to organization radicals for purposes of bombing and arson. [SANNES - says agent Bert Carter said man who placed bomb to be killed by booby-trapped explosion; couldn't go along with it.] FBI denies report [Ex-Assistant Attorney General John DOAR - says federal government and FBI couldn't operate without informers in case of civil rights workers' murders in Mississippi.] Conf. to deal with FBI's failure in dealing with organized crime; dealing with civil rights laws, budget, and public relations activities. Hoover says no useful purpose served by his coming to the conference
REPORTER: Robert Schakne
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(Studio) Chairperson Price Commission Dr. C. Jackson Grayson invites public to submit ideas with regard to prices.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Interstate Commerce Commission not happy with Amtrak, especially its financial situation; says Amtrak hindered Interstate Commerce Commission study.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) FDA (Food and Drug Administration) says batch of Stokely Van Camps french-style green beans may contain botulism. Cans marked with code: SB-72/E213 D.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Federal Communications Commission refuses 3 requests to watch television commercials for misleading ad. Commissioner Nicholas Johnson dissented. Federal Communications Commission says it's FTC's responsibility.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) How 18-yr. old vote influenced Texas election reported.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Huntsville, Texas) Campus candidate for city council seat is Danny Billingsley. He's 25, has short hair and local boy. [STUDENT - says we're trying to get Danny elected.] Students shown working. Prominent business and civic leader, Mrs. Gloria Pickett, favored. [2nd STUDENT - says not radical; just wants voice.] [RESIDENT - says students qualified to act in responsible manner.] [2nd RESIDENT - says need new ideas.] Town segregated. [BILLINGSLEY - talks about lack of access to city sewer.] Dep. registrars sworn to get new voters. [Student Mobilization Committee Bob McCRACKEN - says students apathetic.] [3rd STUDENT says not qualified to vote; doesn't pay enough attention to what's going on.] students lured to vote by petitions to make town wet. Car pools and buses take students to vote. Nearly 400 have voted. Billingsley wins. [BILLINGSLEY - says got to live up to what I can do.] [Countdown `72 David MADDOX - says shows students can do it.] Only 25% town voters voted. Students enthused over prospects of student government
REPORTER: Morton Dean
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(Studio) Dr. River Bernard Finch paroled in California. He and nurse, Carole Tregoff, convicted of his wife's murder. Finch and Tregoff can't see each other.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Soldiers at Chu Lai, South Vietnam, playing football lose ball in South China Sea. 5 of 9 who went in water thought dead.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Black jury in Indianola, Mississippi, convicts white man, Wesley Parks, 26, of murder of black girl; drew 20 year sentence. His brother and nephew await trial in same case.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Postmaster General Winton M. Blount resigns; rptdly. will run for Alabama Senate seat.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Supreme Court nominee, William H. Rehnquist, visits Senator Birch Bayh.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [REHNQUIST - guesses he's talked to 50-60 Senators; won't make full round. Hearings will start Wednesday Homestate Senators Paul J. Fannin and Barry M. Goldwater will present him; will count chickens when hatched.] [BAYH - says reserved about Rehnquist's view with regard to Bill of Rights and human rights; notes he will deal with views openly.]
REPORTER: Marya McLaughlin
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(Studio) California Representative Thomas Rees develops new rating system for Congress Representatives Bella S. Abzug and Barry M. Goldwater, Junior score 100%.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Horse gets in swimming pool at home of John Armstrong near Chicago, Illinois; photograph shown.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Connecticut woman, Mrs. Mary Downey, en route to Peking, China, to visit son; held prisoner since 1952. John Downey was in military plane shot down over cntry.; sentenced to life in prison for spying.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Pat Nixon hosts pre-Halloween party
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) 1st Lady welcomes each of handicapped children to party Disney characters put on show.
REPORTER: Connie Chung
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(Studio) Dundee, Michigan, hsewife. finds 3 bags of candy bars having sewing needles in candy. Parents warned of sadism.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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