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(Studio) India-Pakistan war ends. E. Pakistan separated from West Indians occupy territory in West Pakistan. Scattered resistance reported near Dacca, Camilla, E. Pakistan; Bangladesh killing revenge. Indians to move Pakistani forces out of Bangladesh.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Bangladesh mission set up in DC.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Mission established above sewing shop; not yet officially recognized. Recognition and aid requested, though United States position on war criticized. [Ambassador designate Mustafizur Rahman SIDDIQI - says United States position hurt Bangladesh position.] Admin. said in no rush to recognize Bangladesh; relieved war is over. US-USSR negotiated to keep war from spreading. United States Navy task force organized Crisis said to have snapped Wednesday by threat of cancellation of Nixon visit; USSR , India yielded.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
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(Studio) India reports 11,000 total casualties. Pakistani figures said higher.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) USSR and People's Republic of China, split emphasized by India-Pakistan war. Premier Chou En-lai brands India as aggressor, denounces USSR . USSR , Indian and 6 European Communist ambs. walk out.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Congress resolves dispute on foreign aid; votes continue. Adjourns till January 18.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Accomplishments of 1st session evaluated in terms of football game, with Congress and President as opposing teams. [Senator Mike MANSFIELD - credits Nixon tactics, strategies.] [Senator Hugh SCOTT - notes success of Nixon measures in Congress]
REPORTER: Roger Mudd
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(Studio) 10 richest non-Communist ntns. meet on monetary problems.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Secretary Treasury John Connally encounters rough negotiations. Japan, Canada cause conflict. Dollar surplus in European banks also at issue, as well as tax investment credit program. Lifting of foreign trade barriers desired by Connally.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
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(Studio) Pay Bd. sets 7% absolute maximum on pay increases in labor contracts.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) West Coast dock strike expected to resume after Christmas.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Highway 6 scene of Cambodia defense deterioration. President Lon Nol's regime said in danger. Mil. law prevails in Phnom Penh.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Colonel Oran Henderson acquitted of My Lai cover-up charges.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Fort Meade, MD) Jury deliberates 1 1/2 hrs. [HENDERSON - thinks did well.] Psychiatric aspects of My Lai considered.
REPORTER: Hal Walker
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(Studio) 4 years since My Lai. Mil. trials reviewed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [1970 My Lai film shown; also "Life" magazine photos.] Trials considered: S/sergeant David Mitchell; Captain Eugene Kotouc; sergeant Chas. Hutto; Lieutenant William Calley; Captain Ernest Medina; and Colonel Oran Henderson. [Films, interviews, sketches shown with regard to 6 men.] Calley as possible scapegoat pondered. General William Westmoreland's advance to Army Chief of Staff noted. Was it premeditated murder?
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
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(Studio) Cuba rejects Nixon plea to release Jose Villa, crewman of captured ship Johnny Express. Pentagon agrees to back program to defense United States citizens in Caribbean. Surveillance to be incrd.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) In Boston Eugene McCarthy announces for Democrat President nomination
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Boston, Massachusetts) [McCARTHY - announces entry in Democratic primary; Comments re: Senator George McGovern.]
REPORTER: No reporter given (WHDH-TV)
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(Studio) Los Angeles girl needs funds for kidney machine to save life.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Los Angeles, California) $50,000 needed to prolong life of Rosemarie Raymond who has kidney ailment. [Mother Mrs. Rita VIRUEGAS - says money not available for needed treatment.] [Rosemarie RAYMOND - expresses fear of death.] Without machine Rosemarie will die.
REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater
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(Studio) Envtlsts. win round in off-shore oil, gas leases dispute, their suit delaying further off-shore developments.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President Nixon signs bill making killing of wild West horses a fed. offense.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Representative Charles Diggs, Junior, resigns as United Nations delegate in protest of US Africa position, especially with regard to Rhodesia.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Space contractor accused of Apollo program fund misuse. Rocketdyne Div. of North American Rockwell Corporation accused. Representative William Cotter makes charge.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Analysis with regard to India-Pakistan war.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) US, USSR ,People's Republic of China, relations considered in light of India-Pakistan war. Bangladesh called large, rural slum. Unlikelihood of a 3rd world of minor powers noted. Worst turbulence said occurring now in former colonial areas, not among European powers.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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