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(Studio) West Coast Longshoremen resume dock strike. White House to ask Congress for special legislation to halt strike.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Oakland, Cal.) [President ILWU, Harry BRIDGES - says union wants guaranteed annual wage to offset use of fewer men in unloading containerized cargo.] [Pacific Maritime Association, Ed FLYNN - says issue is whether guaranteed income will come from per-container rate or from taxes.] [Longshoremen on picket line interviewed.]
REPORTER: Richard Threlkeld
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(Studio) Canadian air traffic controllers strike.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Supreme Court to hear 1st case on segregation outside South on Denver, Colonel schools.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Supreme Court to hear cases on constitutionality of death penalty.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Supreme Court) Prof. Anthony Amsterdam, Stanford Univ. argues increasing rarity of death penalty indicates increasing repudiation by United States public. State attorneys reply that cruel and unusual punishment clause in constitution was never meant to apply to killing without unnecessary cruelty. [Georgia Assistant Attorney General, Mrs. Dorothy BEASLEY - speaks out for death penalty under due process of law.] [NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) legal defense fund, Jack GREENBERG - says Supreme Court should act as discrimination against underprivileged is involved.]
REPORTER: George Herman
#219781
(Studio) No executions in United States for 5 years Supreme Court consolidates 6 appeals, from 697 persons awaiting execution, for hearings.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Reidsville, Georgia) Lucious Jackson, convicted of raping a white woman and sentenced to death in 1968, thinks his race and class insured his sentence. Process of execution, Georgia statistics on executions cited. [JACKSON - pessimistic about fate; bitter about racism.]
REPORTER: David Culhane
(Raiford, Florida) Statistics of men on Florida death row given. Donald Schneble convicted of murdering a woman, studies trigonometry and navigation. [SCHNEBLE - discusses political motivation of Supreme Court to rule as public wants it to. Tries to be optimist.] [Murderer, Willie YOUNG - describes fear felt before execution stayed, 22 hrs. before death.]
REPORTER: David Culhane
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(Studio) New Jersey Supreme Court declares state death penalty law unconstitutional. Law provided execution upon conviction by jury; set maximum life sentence for guilty plea.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) New hope reported for CIA base at Long Cheng, Laos. United States air strikes slow North Vietnam attackers. United States B-52 hammer enemy supply lines on Ho Chi Minh trail despite Communist missile attacks. Heavy South Vietnam air raids used to blunt expected enemy offensive. United States helicopter pilot killed near Da Nang; 9 GIs wounded by land mines near Saigon; 7 servicemen wounded by grenade.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Draft dodgers and deserters in Canada say only acceptable amnesty would be a total one. Refuse to accept any implication of guilt.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Pakistani President Ali Bhutto offers Bangladesh P. Min. Sheik Mujibur Rahman control of Pakistan to reunite country.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) World Council of Churches in Geneva reports 200,000 Bengali women, raped during India-Pakistan war, deserted by husbands.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) IRA (Irish Republican Army) terrorists escape from prison ship Maidstone. 600 police comb Belfast for escapees.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) French-American joint effort subdues heroin smuggling operation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) United States Surgeon General reports results of study on effects of television violence and aggressive behavior in children.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219792
(Studio) Clifford Irving, author of book about Howard Hughes, says book will reveal loan Hughes made to President Nixon's brother Donald in 1956. Then Secretary Defense Clark Clifford said arranger of loan.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Los Angeles, Cal.) [Former Hughes executive, Noah DIETRICH - says Frank Waters arranged loan. Recalls Hughes contributions to attain political influence, cited gov't actions after loan made.]
REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater
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(Studio) Fire set by arsonists damages Stanford University office building Bomb found planted at power plant. Campus disruptions stem from suspension of radical professor Bruce Franklin.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) New York Department Store reports 19 year old Russian hockey player caught trying to shoplift sports coat.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Federal Reserve Bd. reports industrial production up .7% in December due mostly to coal strike settlement.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Dollar falls to new low on European money mkts., despite devaluation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Edmund Muskie endorsed for Democrat President nomination by Senator Harold Hughes, Senator Mike Gravel, Senator Lee Metcalf, and Senator Quentin Burdick.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(DC) 2nd session of 92nd Congress opens tomorrow in atmosphere of election yr. Actions predicted.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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