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(Studio) United States bombers hit North Vietnam military targets. North Vietnam claims civilian areas, school hit. United States refuses comment on downed planes and POW's.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
(DC) [At news conference Secretary Defense Melvin LAIRD - speaks on raids; cites North Vietnam violations; prisoners of war issue discussed; cites enemy violation of Geneva conv.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) Group headed by Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler leaves Wednesday for Peking for Nixon trip preparations. Staff, television network representatives and Secret Service personnel incld. in trip.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
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(Studio) VVAW take over Statue of Liberty as "Operation Peace on Earth."
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
(Statue of Liberty, NYC) Vets seize statue. SE Asia withdrawal object;US flag flown upside down. [Vets spokesperson Gene HALPERN - says war can no longer be tolerated.] National Park Service brings in Washington, DC riot police.
REPORTER: David Culhane
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(Studio) Other vets' protests include demonstration at Travis, AFB, protesting mil. drug cure program; ends peacefully. 25 take over Betsy Ross house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Alfred H. Hubbard heads protests; Pentagon denies Hubbard ever served in Vietnam.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
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(Studio) Defense Secretary Melvin Laird foresees no draft calls in January, February, Mar. `72. Volunteers attracted by pay increases will determine draft activity.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
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(Studio) Pakistan president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto meets Bangladesh leader Sheik Mujibur Rahman. More than 50 prisoners of war camps readied in India; war crime trials by rebels possible.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
(Bangladesh) Near Jessore, trucks convoy Pakistani POW's to India, pass refugees on road, cross border under Indian guard.
REPORTER: Peter Larkin
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(Studio) Catholic section of Belfast, North Ireland, cited for danger. Children with Christmas toy guns now present new menace.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
(Belfast, North Ireland) [Major Robert LONG - describes bizarre battles with children armed with realistic toys.]
REPORTER: No reporter given (BBC)
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(Studio) USSR defector to United States returns to USSR . Trick suspected.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
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(Studio) New IRS (Internal Revenue Service) rules require frozen prices displayed on retail items.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
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(Studio) Ex-Teamster president James Hoffa returns to Detroit, Michigan.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
(Detroit, Michigan) Hoffa tells of meeting with parole ofr. [HOFFA - lists requests made of ofr.] Appearance on television talk shows among requests. Attys. appeal conviction in case. [HOFFA - says appeal based on perjured testimony of one Chattanooga, Tennessee, witness.]
REPORTER: Michele Clark
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(Studio) American Association for Advancement of Science and Progress meets in Philadelphia. Sensitivity training criticized. Senator Hubert Humphrey appeared at conf., insulted by delegates.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
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(Studio) January, 1971, report on medics in Vietnam recalled; retd. medic featured.
REPORTER: Charles Collingwood
(Manhattan, Kansas) Delmar Pickett, Junior, hero, returns from Vietnam, finds US indifferent to war; vets' unemployment high; returns to school at Kansas State University as better student than before Vietnam experience. [Student Gwyn STEERE - speaks of Pickett's modesty.] [Vietnam film from earlier feature shown.] Pickett home is in Olsburg, Kansas. [PICKETT - tells of being spit on in Seattle, WA.] Disillusioned but not downed by Vietnam experience. [PICKETT - tells of experience as medic in Vietnam.] [Father Delmar PICKETT, Senior - says son more settled.] [MOTHER - says son a much better student than formerly.] Drugs no problem for Pickett. 2 1/2 million Vietnam vets.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
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