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(Studio) President Nguyen Van Thieu wins 91% of South Vietnam vote. 85% voters turned out.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Saigon, South Vietnam) No one concerned with election but foreign reporters Downtown area guarded against anti-government protests. Security for newly elected lower house Of 159 mbrs., 65 supporters of Thieu, 33 against. Thieu doesn't attend lower house opening, as has in past. He needs little legislature support.
REPORTER: Jeff Williams
(Studio) Danang election representative claims tampering with results. Reporter Bruce Dunning reports ballot box stuffing and figure riggings widespread.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Enemy attacks 92 times. Casualties light. Offensive near Cambodian border in 9th day.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator votes to limit spending for Laos ground action. Limit amount same as administration requested.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Secretary of State William P. Rogers outlines 6 point plan for Middle E. peace at UN; rejects USSR requests for disarmament conference on grounds China, P.R.'s, entrance in United Nations would provide forum for such talks; urges both Chinas be admitted to UN.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) [ROGERS - talks of letting People's Republic of China, in UN.] Peking, China, has said it wouldn't come in as long as Taiwan remained member Ldrship. struggle going on in People's Republic of China, at lower levels. No reason for President Nixon to change plans for China trip.
REPORTER: Richard C. Hottelet
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(Studio) Visiting group from Chinese Embassy drove from Paris to 1 of provinces in middle of night to awaken visiting foreign trade minister in his hotel room. French ambassador to China says something going on there, but can't say what.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Nashville, Tennessee, real estate man, George M. Giffe, kills pilot, estranged wife Susan and self after hijacking attempt foiled in Jacksonville, Florida.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Nashville, Tennessee) [Mechanic Larry REED - tells events with regard to take-off; called security police.]
REPORTER: No reporter given (WLAC-TV)
(Studio) Plane took off for Bahamas, West Indies. Pilot, Brent Downs, persuaded Giffe he needed refueling. FBI waiting.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Jacksonville, Florida) [Co-pilot Randall CRUMP - describes suggesting plane stop for gas; didn't hear shooting. FBI shot tires and engine 5 mins. after I left plane.] 2nd hijacker, Bobby Wayne Wallace, arrested and held.
REPORTER: No reporter given (WJXT-TV)
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(Studio) Nixon accidentally cut off at giant anti-drug rally.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Monroe, LA) Pep rally held for 12,000 youth to tell them to leave drugs alone. Nixon speaks on telephone from Florida. [NIXON - talks about drugs effects.] President reconnected after 3 mins. [NIXON - says must wage war against drugs. Americans must refuse to tolerate drugs.]
REPORTER: Jed Duvall
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(Studio) Nixon to appointed 5 member board to study dock strike; 1st step on invoking Taft-Hartley "back-to-work" law. AFL-CIO President, George Meany, at House Banking Committee, urges Congress to re-assert control of economy
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Federal Judge Stephen J. Roth gives Detroit, Michigan, 60 days and Michigan 120 days to get plans for ending school desegregation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Detroit, Michigan) [ROTH - says a lot have consigned me to places I don't want to go. They (parents) fear things that may happen; trying for quality education for all. It's desegregation plan, not busing plan, trying to rescue disadvantaged children.] Homeowners present plan for integration of 61 districts within 12 mile of city. Map of districts shown.
REPORTER: Ike Pappas
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(Studio) British Labor Party opposed to entry into Common Mkt.; wants Parliamentary election for people on market Parliament to vote on issue later.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) House delays pay raises for federal employees for 6 mos. by 207-174 vote.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator votes 65-4 to add military pay raise of $380 million a year Move to create all-volunteer army.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Supreme Court pays tribute to late Justice Hugo L. Black and ailing Justice John M. Harlan.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Court has important decisions upcoming on capital punishment and immunity of journalists' information President and Senator must fill 2 court chairs. Representative Richard H. Poff removes self from consideration due to possible controversy like other 2 rejected Nixon appointees; cites Nixon and Attorney General John North Mitchell's criterion for justices. He'll pick member like his social philosophy. High court shouldn't be extension of executive branch. Appts. should be quick.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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(Studio) Brussels' reporter shown stolen Jan Vermeer's painting "The Love Letter"; to be returned if $4 million raised for E. Pakistan refugees and Brussels and Amsterdam art museums' organization against world hunger.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Baltimore Orioles beat Oakland Athletics 5-1 for 2-0 lead in best of 5 American League series.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Yippie leader, Abbie Hoffman, gets hair cut; claims Warner Brothers took over youth cult look; urges youth to work within system; says long hair once rejection of American values, now affectation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Report on childhood pleasures.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Tiburon, California) Kids swing on rope tied to eucalyptus tree. Childhood seems unchanged here.
REPORTER: Charles Kuralt
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