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(Studio) Cost of Living up .4% in December, but Consumer Price Index for 1971 up only 3.4%. Gross National Product up 2.7% in 1971; up 6.1% during last 3 mos.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219878
(Studio) White House estimates $1 1/2 billion trade loss due to West Coast dock strike. President Nixon asks Congress for legislation. (Oakland, Cal.) Damage to nation's economy mounts with continuing strike.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Key Biscayne, Florida) [White House Press Secretary Ron ZIEGLER - says lengthy dispute inexcusable.] [Undersecretary Labor, Laurence SILBERMAN - criticizes Congress for not acting on no-strike legislation.] (Oakland, Cal.) [Union members consider legislation unfair.]
REPORTER: Dan Rather
(Studio) Longshoremen Union President Harry Bridges says legislation will not settle strike.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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#219881
(Studio) Hijacker who baled out with $50,000 ransom, arraigned in Denver. Former Army paratrooper, 23 years old.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Sterling, Colonel) 2 highway patrolmen found Richard La Point in Colo. pasture with sprained ankles and wrists. 2 F-111 fighter planes tailed hijacked plane and saw La Point jump. Parachutes wired with radio transmitter to help track him. [Logan Company Sheriff Vincent BIANCO - says Logan, in jail, spoke of Vietnam parachuting activity.]
REPORTER: Bill Kurtis
#219882
(Studio) Air Force Academy in Colonel rots. 20 cadets have resigned, 55 under investigation, for cheating. Only 3 cheated, other failed to report it as required by honor code.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219883
(Studio) Draft lottery announced for February 2, to select order for calling men born in 1953.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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#219885
(Studio) Fight for Long Cheng, Laos, continues. B-52s bombard South Vietnam midlands. US `copter shot down SW of Hue, South Vietnam.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219886
(Studio) 101st Airborne Div., Screaming Eagles, pull out of South Vietnam.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219887
(Studio) 2 architects, accused of designing gas chambers and ovens used to kill Jews by Germany's 3rd Reich in World War II, stand trial.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Vienna, Austria) Walter Diako, now 63 years old, assigned to design concentration camp in Poland; Fritz Oertel, now 71, charged as accomplice. Several survivors of camps attend trials.
REPORTER: Tom Fenton
#219888
(Studio) 13 killed in Rhodesian riots, latest victims from Umtali. Blacks protest English agreement to extend white rule. British P. Min. Ian Smith says riots prove black lack of maturity and civilization.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219889
(Studio) Colombian Airliner crashes, killing 34.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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#219891
(Studio) Democrat President contenders on campaign trail.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Muskie endorsed by Senator Harold Hughes, AFL-CIO, and others. He is front runner so far.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
(DC) Senator Hubert Humphrey campaigns as alternative to Senator Muskie. Posing as anti-establishment rebel.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
(Daytona Beach, Florida) Senator George McGovern aims at capturing each vote, one by one. Directs efforts to blacks, poor, and young.
REPORTER: Michele Clark
(Montgomery, Ala.) Ala. Governor George Wallace strives to achieve Democrat posture.
REPORTER: David Dick
(Key West, Florida) Senator Henry Jackson campaigns against school busing and for defense spending.
REPORTER: Hal Walker
(Studio) New York Mayor John Lindsay attacks Wallace in Florida
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219892
(Studio) 11 Congress Democrat reply to President Nixon's State of the Union address. House Speaker, Carl Albert, calls on President to cooperate with Congress.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219893
(DC) Commentator doubts ability of Congress and President to approach national problems in nonpartisan way in election year Political issues discussed.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
#219894
(Studio) National Republican Chairperson, Senator Robert Dole, blames Democrat for getting United States in Vietnam War. Says all Democrat President candidates in Congress backed involvement.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Mainland China timed 2 weeks before President trip to Peking.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219896
(Studio) Govt. lawyer, Mrs. Catherine McGrath, accuses Congress of encouraging sin, divorce; discouraging marriage in 1971 tax rate schedules.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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#219899
(Studio) Federal judge okays Navy maneuvers at Reid State Park in Maine, despite protests of envtlists.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219900
(Studio) President Committee reports mental retardation could be prevented by program of health care and living conditions of poor. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Elliot Richardson, Committee Chairperson, says 6 million mentally retarded in United States due mostly to poor environment
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219901
(Studio) President Commission reports 24 million in United States have smoked Marijuana. In age 18-25, 2 of 5 have tried it.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219902
(Studio) National Disease Control Center reports spread of flu epidemic.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219903
(Studio) Florida Prison officials to resume accepting new prisoners Jan 31. Faced with possible contempt charges, they will make room by releasing several hundred convicts early.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#219904
(Studio) Dade Company housewives bootleg banned phosphate detergents from Broward Company
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Miami, Florida) At a Broward Company grocery store, as many Dade Company license plates as Broward Company Business booming. [HOUSEWIFE - says other detergents don't get clothes clean.]
REPORTER: Fred Francis (WTVJ-TV)
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