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(Studio) In DC, envtl. groups win battle with auto industry
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [EPA Admin. William RUCKELSHAUS - tells auto mfrs. they will not get yr's. reprieve from 1975 deadline for pollution-free car, despite their warnings they may be driven out of business.] [Senator Edmund MUSKIE, author of Clean Air Act, praises Ruckelshaus' action.]
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
(Studio) Auto industry protests decision. American Motors says technology doesn't exist to meet new standards. Chrysler considers appeal. General Motors Corporation calls decision regrettable. Ford warns of severe economy repercussions.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Dearborn, Michigan) Environmentalists say car is major source of air pollution. Car, however, is also major source of nation's. economy health. Henry Ford II threatens shut-down. [Ford Environment Chief, Herbert MISCH - says Ford can't meet standards and will be forced to shut down.]
REPORTER: Sylvia Chase
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(Studio) American pilots knock out bridge, severing North Vietnam's rail link with China. 2-man crew of Navy plane shoots down 3rd, 4th, and 5th MiGs of Vietnam war, making them 1st American aces of current conflict. Lieutenant Randy Cunningham and Lieutenant JG William Driscoll were shot down themselves, but were rescued in Gulf of Tonkin.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Aircraft Carrier Constellation, Tonkin Gulf) [CUNNINGHAM - says there were MiGs all over. Says his kills were made by taking advantage of errors made by enemy pilots.] [Lieutenant Matt CONNELLEY - says North Vietnam pilots are good-as Vince Lombardi said, never bad mouth the opposition.]
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(Studio) Pentagon reports mining of North Vietnam ports has so far been 100% effective: no mines exploded or removed. Some of 25 merchant ships bound for North Vietnam have altered course. Chinese ports may be used. Some 7th fleet warships move south to Quang Tri city, captured South Vietnam provincial capital. 2 Russian gunships sail south between Japan and Korea.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Enemy siege on An Loc, South Vietnam, is in 37th day. North Vietnam continue shelling while American B-52's drop bombs on enemy positions. 2 American planes shot down near An Loc; pilots missing. American adviser killed in ground fighting. In central highlands many of 2800 Americans at Pleiku evacuated as enemy closes in on Kontum.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Confidence grows that US-Soviet summit will take place despite US mining of North Vietnam ports.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Henry Kissinger and other White House officials, dubious about summit last week, now resume Russian briefings. Soviet shows surprising willingness to turn the other cheek.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
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(Studio) American delegation to Paris Peace Talks ready to resume negotiations if Communists agree to bargain in good faith. North Vietnam refuses. Communists want no prior conditions.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Antiwar demonstrators continue protests around nation In San Francisco, California, police use clubs and stun guns to break up demonstration by several thousand at hotel where California Governor Reagan and New York Governor Rockefeller met to launch Nixon reelection campaign. Tear gas used at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. United Nations remains closed to tourists. Telephone lines cut in Salt Lake City, UT.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Fort Walton Beach, Florida) Parade in support of Nixon's war policy featured. Police lead parade; children released from school to march; high schools send bands. Military community near Eglin Air Force Base is solidly behind President [School principal, Ben BROWN - says country is against so much, now silent majority speaks out in favor of something.] [Mrs. Nancy BANNON - pleased with rally as her husband is missing in action.]
REPORTER: Jed Duvall
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(Studio) In West Germany, bombs damage police bldgs. in Munich and Augsburg, with bomb scare at United States Army post exchange at Frankfurt. Yesterday 3 bombs damage headquarters complex Army's 5th Corps in Frankfurt. Colonel killed, 13 others injured. United States military installations in Europe tighten security.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 10 are dead in New Braunfels and Seguin, Texas, due to flooding of Guadalupe River
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(San Antonio, Texas) More than 1000 have lost homes in worst flood in 20 years [Charles HILL, Senior left house at 11:00 p.m. last night, and by 11:20, the house was gone.] [Joan GALLAGHER - says Corvette was swept away, then house
REPORTER: Bernard Goldberg
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(Studio) All miners found (91 dead) in Sunshine Silver Mine fire. Senator Labor Committee investigator says Kellogg, ID, mine cited for 14 fire safety violations in past 21 mos.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
5 47:10 STK. MKT. REPORT (Studio)
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 8 days on job as FBI Director, Patrick Gray makes changes in policies of late J. Edgar Hoover: drops barrier to women as agents; liberalizes dress standards; opens some FBI operations to public scrutiny.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(NYC) [Acting FBI Director, L. Patrick GRAY - says FBI belongs to the people. Describes reasoning in hiring women for agents. Says changes merely indicate change in style between himself and Hoover; no change in substance.]
REPORTER: Richard O'Brien
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(Studio) 23 year old Vietnam veteran Richard Lapoint sentenced to 40 years in Fed. prison for hijacking Hughes Air-West jet in January He parachuted from plane with money and was captured. In DC, Federal Aviation Administration head John Shaffer calls for stronger deterrent telling Senate Subcommittee Judges should impose maximum penalty for air piracy: death.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) United States President activates mines in North Vietnam harbors, but so far Moscow, Hanoi, and Peking have not reacted except with words.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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