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(Studio) Senator examines wreckage of foreign aid bill. Stopgap funding considered.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Senate Foreign Relations Committee decides some form of aid will be needed. Secretary of State William P. Rogers to give administration's view Wednesday [Senator J. Nm. FULBRIGHT - says ought to discuss values of foreign aid program.] [Senator Hugh SCOTT - says doesn't feel Senator will vote to cut all foreign aid.] [Senator Jacob K. JAVITS - says administration will have to come to terms with Congress That type foreign aid outmoded.] [Senator Frank CHURCH - says Senator may have come to senses with vote; notes new program can be set up.] Congress, by resolution, will allow old form of aid to continue for several mos. New plan may avoid direct military aid. Mil. aid will continue to be given to key cntrys.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
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(Studio) White House mood is to fight for military aid.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) President Nixon meets with Defense Secretary Melvin River Laird and adviser, Dr. Henry A. Kissinger. They discuss ways of continuing military aid by pressuring Congress; feel United States pullout from Vietnam and Korea could be slowed by no military aid, and relations with USSR and China (People's Republic), could be harmed. [LAIRD - says Senator action not final; will tell Vietnam such.]
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) China (People's Republic), flag hoisted at UN.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) Film shows raising between flags of Chile and Colombia.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite narrates
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(Studio) Econ. says 1 cause for market decline was prediction by economy Eliot Janeway in "New York Times" that Dow Jones index will fall to 500 and lower next yr.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Chairperson Federal Reserve Bd., Arthur F. Burns, disagrees with House Banking Committee Chairperson Representative Wright Patman on how to reduce interest costs on consumer loans and home mortgages. Patman calls for mandatory controls. Burns hopes voluntary measures will do job.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) House rejects desegregation money bill.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Bill gives $1.5 billion to help school districts desegregate. Some members of Congress see it as helping busing. Bill loses, 135-222. Representative Roman C. Pucinski says bill didn't require busing; courts did. Representative George West Andrews calls it bait bill. Pucinski says he and others will bring it back Wednesday with anti-busing amendment attached.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
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(Studio) Senator passes $1 billion and 40 million acres land compensation for AK natives; to be spread over 12 years
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Washington, DC Judge refuses to stop Amchitka Island, AK, blast; says environmentalists not proved case against government
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Admin. accuses American Bar Association screening committee of leaking 6 names of Supreme Court nominees. American Bar Association committee accuses administration of leaking finding that 2 of 6 weren't qualified. American Bar Association telephoned latter information to Attorney General John North Mitchell; information leaked afterwards. Dep. Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst told American Bar Association publicity on 6 names not undesirable.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Mississippi' Governor's race reported.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Ruleville, Mississippi) Attorney William L. Waller shown campaigning. He's opposed by Fayette Mayor and ex-NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) field secretary, Charles Evers. Evers campaign shown. [WALLER - objects to his candidacy due to polarization of races introd. in campaign.] [EVERS - says campaign is bringing them together; notes won't be controlled by party machine.] Establishment goes with Waller. Evers won't win, but made black pols. statewide force.
REPORTER: Foster Davis
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(Studio) American strength in Vietnam decrd. by 5,300. 2 members of Women's Strike for Peace back from Hanoi, North Vietnam; not allowed to see POWs. North Vietnam say they gave POWs copies of Pentagon Papers.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Consumer group accuses mfrs. of M-16 rifle of hiding defects from inspectors. Exs. cited. Charges denied.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) FDA (Food and Drug Administration) withdraws warning with regard to botulism of Stokely-Van Camp Incorporated product. Company spokesperson cites money lost but felt FDA (Food and Drug Administration) warning necessary.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Virginia Judge orders reform in prisons; bans chaining convicts, censoring mail and bread and water diets. Governor Linwood Holton and prison representatives say most practices banned long ago.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Report on Washington prison given.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Walla Walla, WA) Prison democrat occurs within walls of Washington State Penitentiary. [Supt. B. J. RHAY - says trying to form partnership in admin. of prison; feels it'll work.] 1,200 inmates have new freedoms. They can wear anything, have long hair, write uncensored letters and express any opinion. Inmates and staff meet daily to discuss rules. [INMATE - tells of being sick and laundromat, where he works, not finding out.] [Staff MBR. - says inmate could have told someone to tell laundromat manager he couldn't be at work.] 11 man inmate council makes rules. Warden makes final decision. [President Council John HARRIS - cites change in attitudes at prison.] Younger inmates feel it's establishment trick; older guards don't like sharing power. Guards and inmates meet. [INMATE - says tried to get in bakery shop for 2 yrs; observes new white prisoner-gets' it; thinks he's robber just like me.] Money still needed for reform. Temperature "cool" at prison. [INMATE - says care for inmates as people.] Men can do things here besides serving time.
REPORTER: Richard Threlkeld
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(Studio) Executive Director International Association of Chiefs of Police Quinn Tamm tells Senator sub. committee homeowners, who bring handguns for protection, would be better off armed with brick; says more homeowners killed by guns than intruders.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 2 bombings in Belfast, North Ireland, wound 12. Civilians and British soldiers fight in streets. 2 detectives killed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 2 bombings in London, England; warnings of Parliament bombing. Scotland Yard tightens security. Queen Elizabeth opens Parliament Tuesday
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Est. 3,000 dead from cyclone and tidal wave in India. 4 million homeless along Bay of Bengal.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, ffrench-Beytagh, is leader in fight against South African racism; sentenced 5 years for terrorism.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Eric Sevareid analyzes foreign aid plan.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) White House warns Senator action jeopardizes American security. Some say USSR will rush to fill gap. United States will continue to help cntrys., but won't help surplus arms shipments, loans, and subsidizing American business firms overseas. Senator bloc also hopes to reduce bureaucracy. Many foreign aid promises wrong and thus didn't work.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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