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(Studio) SheIk Mujibur Rahman returns to Dacca to lead Bangladesh. He announces permanent break with Pakistan.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Dacca) Sheik Mujib returns after 9 mos. in West Pakistan captivity and a flight to London and India. Bengalis welcome him enthusiastically.
REPORTER: Richard Wagner
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(Studio) United States Naval task force, headed by USS Enterprise, in Indian Ocean leaves for South China Sea and Philippines.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Black demonstration in Baton Rouge, La., erupts in violence when police try to disperse crowds. 2 police, 2 Negroes killed, 20 persons injured in gun fight.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Hubert Humphrey enters Presidential campaign.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Philadelphia) [HUMPHREY - declares candidacy for Democratic nomination for President; calls for end to Vietnam War.]
REPORTER: David Schoumacher
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(Studio) Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace, Edmund Muskie, George McGovern, Henry Jackson, Vance Hartke, Eugene McCarthy, Shirley Chisholm, and John Lindsay in Pennsylvania primary.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Supreme Court upholds Democratic National Committee plan for seating representatives at conv., giving small states bigger voice.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Federal judge in Virginia orders merging of largely Negro Richmond schools with 2 largely white neighboring county systems. Will require extensive busing.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Queen Elizabeth, being fitted as floating university in Hong Kong harbor, destroyed by fire.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Hong Kong) Ship burned 24 hrs., capsized.
REPORTER: Don Webster
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(Studio) In 1970, Russians stopped Lithuanian seaman from defecting and President Nixon vowed it would never happen again. Reporter says Russian exchange student involved in shoplifting incident (charges dropped) persuaded to return home. Attempted suicide causes officials to demand hearing to find if he really wants to return.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (Marvin Kalb quoted)
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(Studio) Howard Hughes denies authorship of autobiography to be published by McGraw-Hill. President publisher company produces check for publisher rights allegedly endorsed by Hughes. Author Clifford Irving discounts telephone interview with Hughes, though 7 reporters at interview and voice expert say it was Hughes' voice.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Army establishes British volunteer plan whereby South Carolina. and Georgia potential volunteers may try out Army at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, for 3 days, then decide to enlist or return home.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Communists infiltrate U-Tapao airbase in Thailand, bombing several B-52 planes there. United States G.I. killed, 2 wounded, in ambush near Saigon. Bolovens Plateau in Laos falls to enemy. CIA base at Long Cheng, Laos, in danger.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (Marvin Kalb quoted)
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(Studio) 25 man advance party returns from Communist China after 7 day trip to map details for President Nixon's trip.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) [Yang and Lung film of Chinese fishermen shown.] [U. of Pittsburgh, Dr. C.K. YANG, recently returned from China Describes enormous changes in China especially in human character.] [Van LUNG, restauranteur, also back from China, says China is a very disciplined society.] [Film shows few traffic problems as most people live near work and ride bicycles. China builds mostly buses and trucks, few cars.] [LUNG - says children exposed to politics only via patriotic songs and dances. Says a major theme is "serve the people".] [YANG - says Nanking bridges shown, impressive as built by common people volunteers.]
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
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(Studio) Congress study shows federal subsidies cost taxpayers $63 billion/yr. and accomplish little.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Envelope with $4 million in negotiable bonds stolen from Wall Street messenger by teen-age boy.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Surgeon General Dr. Jesse Steinfeld reports non-smokers may have health endangered from smoke of others. Tobacco Institute criticizes report as unobjective.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) CBS turns down Republican Senator Paul McCloskey's request for equal time to reply to President Nixon interview with Dan Rather, as President had not announced candidacy at that time.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Hubert Humphrey enters Presidential race in Pennsylvania
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Humphrey career analyzed, favorably.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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