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(Studio) House-Senator Conf. Committee postpones tax financing of President election campaigns until after `72 campaign.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Democrat contenders Humphrey, Jackson, McGovern, and Muskie agree to limit expenditures for primaries, conserving funds for election. [Sen Hubert HUMPHREY - says President Nixon's opposition to campaign financing is `hogwash.'] White House spokesperson hinted Nixon still opposes tax check-off for elections.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
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(Studio) White House Conf. on Aging ends with Nixon pledge to relieve financial squeeze on elderly.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) President speaks in campaign style setting. [NIXON vows to remedy unfair property tax burden. Financing of public ed needs new system.] President promised to reconsider decision with regard to Medicaid expansion.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Secretary Agriculture nomination Earl Butz confirmed by Senator 51-44.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Senate) Senate vote close; details given with regard to voting. Senator George Aiken strategy noted.
REPORTER: Nelson Benton; Artist: Howard Brodie
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(Studio) Senator Edward Brooke opposes Supreme Court nomination William Rehnquist.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Israeli Prime Min. Golda Meir in DC;, assured by Nixon of United States aid in Israeli armed forces modernization.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) United States to trim contributions to United Nations from 31 1/2% to 25% United Nations budget. Said not retaliation for ouster of Taiwan.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Cambodia loses towns Baray and Kompong Thmar to North Vietnam.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Defense Department film designed to show Vietnam war, turns out differently.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Film of United States bombers of North Vietnam supply lines on Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos. Pentagon admits film made by splicing old footage. Film shown.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) 2 United States `copters collide in South Vietnam, killing 4. Searchers spot wreckage of missing `copter near Phu Bai. Casualties reported
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(,S) Pakistan charges Indian invasion. India says Pakistan jets strafed airport at Agartala.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Demonstrations in Santiago, Chile, follow women's march protesting food shortages and Cuban Premier Fidel Castro's visit President Allende's supporters attack marchers.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Santiago, Chile) Film of demonstrations shown. Students defy govt state of emergency and protest.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (narrates)
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(Studio) Newark, New Jersey, has 80% black enrollment. School board votes to fly black liberation flag in classes with black majority.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Newark, New Jersey) Protest voiced over black liberate flag in classes, black ntlist. overtones, influence of playwright, LeRoi Jones. [Newark school bd. member 17 year old Lawrence HAMM - says things beneficial to blacks always controversial. Real issue not black flag, but quality education.] [School board member John CERVASE - opposes flag, says students American 1st, black 2nd.] [Negro Mayor Kenneth GIBSON - opposes flag for dividing community.) Newark schools have 4 of 5 students black; flag issue potentially explosive.
REPORTER: Robert Schakne
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(Studio) 22 year old self-proclaimed genius, Herman Baersdorf, charged with 2 murders in Houston, Texas. Shot twin brothers who refused to continue working with him on thermal-nuclear project. Twins, Leslie and Larry Owens, had been Rice University honor students.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Fire in Hammond, Ontario, Canada, kills all but 2 in 13 member family.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Navy pilot Lieutenant Thomas Conlon blacks out on test flight, streaking from Mobile, Alabama, across Virginia, to Atlantic Ocean; runs out of fuel, crashes.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Marie "X", Phoenix girl who advertised for husband so she could take care of 4 sisters, weds Lebanese medical student at Phoenix College.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Demo Presidential candidate Senator Henry Jackson won't enter New Hampshire primary, called "Muskie Cntry." Florida and Wisconsin primaries are probabilities.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Eugene McCarthy renews `68 race for President
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Mankato, Minnesota) McCarthy shown with students. [McCARTHY - rekindles war issue, political reform, economy, unemployment.] [Mankato State College student Tom OLLIG - says would not vote for McCarthy as has lost magic of `68 and echoes views of all candidates.] [Another STUDENT - praises McCarthy.] McCarthy will only enter a few selected primaries.
REPORTER: Jeff Williams
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(Studio) 3rd party candidate George Wallace challenged by Richard Kay, Cleveland, Ohio, attorney who defended William Calley.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Dollar drops to lowest value in 20 years in Japan and Europe in reaction to reports of United States devaluation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans in Poland for trade talks.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Commentator notes trade between cntrys. such as United States with USSR and China without diplomatic relations History of such trade relations cited.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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(Studio) Special committee of British Parliament recommends salary for Queen Elizabeth doubled to $2 1/2 million/yr.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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