This program is 27 minutes long
#219706
(Studio) Communist forces mount 34 attacks, striking at Bien Hoa, Tay Ninh, and central highlands. Copter with Army Secretary attacked but missed; road blocks for collecting tolls set up. Threat of another Tet offensive very real.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219707
#219708
(Studio) Outbreaks of flu reported.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Atlanta, Georgia) Center for Disease Control is National monitoring point for Hong Kong flu which killed 30,000 in 1969. Flu outbreaks across country mapped. [Medical Epidemiologist, Dr. James B. SPRAGUE - says there is no way to predict epidemic.]
REPORTER: Chuck Scarborough WAGA-TV
#219709
(Studio) Gov't. reports, for first time, less segregation in South than North. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Civil Rights Director Pottinger says busing has improved figures in South.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219710
(Studio) Saint Louis court rules song "Dixie" not racially abusive. 29 blacks from Jonesboro, Ark., had protested song.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219711
(Studio) Federal Gov't. gives more authority for self-determination to American Indians.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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#219713
(Studio) Legislation requiring welfare recipients to register for work, found faulty in that few jobs available. Viewer takes issue, citing lack of domestic help.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(New York) [State Employment Service, Miss Linda COLBURN - says few welfare applicants meet employer's standards, such as recent references.] Statistics showing small percentage able bodied adults on welfare shown. Experimental work relief program proved costly and of little help. [Welfare Admin. Jule SUGARMAN - says 4,000 men put to work on municipal projects to earn welfare checks.] 30,000 had been projected.
REPORTER: Robert Schakne
#219714
(Studio) Department not to spend extra money allotted by Congress for food stamp program.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219715
(Studio) Treasury Department reports tax evasion charges levied against drug pushers. Profit being removed from drug traffic.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219716
(Studio) Supreme Court refuses to further liberalize Warren court ruling on standards for accepting confessions in trials.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219717
(Studio) Supreme Court extends gov't. control over electric utilities giving Fed. Power Commission authority over statewide systems.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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#219719
(Studio) Negotiations underway for sale of United States warplanes to Israel.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (Marvin Kalb quoted)
#219720
(DC) Vietnam, Bangladesh cited as embarrassing political situations for US. Implications discussed.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
#219721
(Studio) White House News Secretary Ziegler announces live television coverage via satellite of President Nixon's China visit. Chinese ping-pong team may visit United States next spring.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219722
(Studio) Artist Andrew Wyeth announcement of painting Nixon official portrait denied by Admin. Historical Commission
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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#219724
(Studio) Baton Rouge remains under curfew after racial battle.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Baton Rouge, La.) Police officers, Deputy Sheriff Ralph Hancock and Dep. Dwayne Wilder, shot during racial violence, buried today. [Witness, LITTLE LUKE - insists
#219726
(Studio) Teenager beats stock market without putting up any money.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Abraham Treff, 19 year old college sophomore, makes money on market via telephone. [TREFF - explains technique in ordering stock.] Treff says he did it to prove brokers are breaking stock exchange regulations.
REPORTER: Gary Shepard
#219727
(Studio) Gun battle between police and Communist guerrillas reported in Dominican Republic; students demonstrate in Santo Domingo.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219728
(Studio) Braniff 747 hijacked between Houston and Dallas. 93 passengers allowed to debark. Hijacker demands $1 million and 10 parachutes. Bomb threatened.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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