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(Studio) Nixon is reorg. cabinet.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Camp David, MD) News Secretary Ronald Ziegler makes announcements of changes. [ZIEGLER - Elliot Richardson, secretary HEW, will be nomination Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, director of Office of Management and Budget, will be nomination Secretary HEW.] Roy Ash will succeed Weinberger. Rumors say Helen Bentley, maritime commissioner, might replace John Volpe as Secretary Transportation. Volpe might become ambassador to Italy. President having difficulty finding successor for George Rommey for Secretary HUD. George Shultz will probably remain Secretary Treasury; Rogers Morton might stay as Secretary Interior; Secretary of State William Rogers will probably remain.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Roy Ash is powerful California businessman and president of Litton Industries. Defense and Department of Health, Education and Welfare spend most money in government and have new heads.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Defense Department) Elliot Richardson will head huge bureaucracy. Statistics of Pentagon staff and dimensions given. Melvin Laird did some overhauling of procedures left by Robert McNamara and oversaw United States de-escalation of war. Did not cut defense budget much.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(Department HEW) Department of Health, Education and Welfare takes 1/3 federal budget. Bigger spender than Pentagon. Much of budget (such as pensions) unalterable. Under Richardson Department of Health, Education and Welfare lost battle for welfare reform. Pulled back from school integration crusade. [RICHARDSON - looks for shift in spending priorities from Dep. to HEW. Richardson wanted to be Secretary of State.]
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
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(Studio) Defense Secretary Laird says fewer than 10,000 will be drafted before country converts to all-volunteer army. Nobody will be called in January Says separate draft for reserves might become necessary.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) South Vietnam President Thieu's personal envoy Nguyen Phu Duc arrives Washington, DC to meet Nixon. Peace talks snagged over South Vietnam demand that North Vietnam troops pull out of South Vietnam.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(State Department) Compromise hoped for on terms of settlement. Kissinger will propose that after cease-fire North Vietnam troops would regroup in 3 or 4 areas of South Vietnam. Troops would be withdrawn in stages while South Vietnam's 1 million man force demobilized. North Vietnam says has no troops in South Vietnam.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
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(Studio) In South Vietnam 6 United States planes bomb South Vietnam village near Danang by mistake. 19 killed, 29 wounded. Investigation ordered.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) IRA (Irish Republican Army) spreads violence in North Ireland. 4 die in Ulster; 3 from bomb in Londonderry; 1 policeman killed from antitank rocket in Belleck. 10 police stations and army posts came tender such attacks. IRA (Irish Republican Army) vows to do same in Irish Republic unless leader Sean MacStiofain freed. MacStiofain on hunger strike. Priest says fast broken today. [Mrs. MacSTIOFAIN - will stand by husband.]
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Dublin, Ireland) Irish Parliament in process of making it easier for government to prosecute members of IRA. Protesters in Ireland say government has sold out to British, and that Ireland a police state. Journalists on strike because Dublin reporter sentenced to 3 mos. for refusal to give evidence against MacStiofain. If MacStiofain dies, Dublin could turn into another Belfast.
REPORTER: Bob Simon
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(Studio) In Helsinki, Finland, European Security Conf. talks proceed. Yesterday talks hung up by Romanian demand for equal representative for all countries regardless of military alignment. Today compromise settles problem.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Japan Air Limes plane with 76 aboard crashes after takeoff near Moscow. 17 survived. 42 killed possibly. 2 Americans aboard, fate unknown. Plane on flight from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Tokyo, Japan. REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Most Navy racial problems aboard Constellation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(San Diego, California) Kitty Hawk had race riot involving 100 men while carrier was operating in North Vietnam waters. Sailors ordered not to discuss incident. [Captain Marland TOWNSEND - says gag-order came because most sailors knew nothing of incident. Wants to prevent rumors.] Townsend refuses to discuss incident. Considers incident insignificant. 21 blacks face court-martials for incident.
REPORTER: Jim Kilpatrick
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(Studio) 16 year old black youth arrested for shooting of 5 students at Pontiac, Hawaii, Central HS. 2 black youths charged with conspiracy to incite riot. All 3 blacks are students at Central HS.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President cutting down on White House staff and power, both of which had increased under his administration Nixon will spend more time at Camp David, MD, because he says he thinks better there.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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(Studio) Admin. vows not to spend more than $2 billion for urban sewerage facilities. Congress appropriated $3 billion. President says inflationary.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Court injunction keeping actors and newsmen at CBS from honoring technicians' picket line will remain in force. AFTRA sought to order members to respect picket lime of IBEW on strike against CBS.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Prof. Sam. Popkin jailed last week for refusing to answer grand jury questions concerning Pentagon Papers. Freed today because jury dismissal.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Cambridge, Massachusetts) [POPKIN - says grand juries have great powers and give witnesses no rights.]
REPORTER: David Henderson
(Studio) Popkin says grand juries pose same type threat as Joe McCarthy.
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(Studio) Gold rush taking place in Charlottesville, Virginia.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Charlottesville, Virginia) At site of old house of ill repute people have been finding money hidden - thousands of dollars uncovered. [DIGGER - says found $4000. Believes vault with $250,000 is buried there.] Rumors spread and bring more diggers.
REPORTER: Barry Serafin
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