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(Studio) In the Atlantic Ocean north of Azores, British frogmen search Queen Elizabeth 11 for bombs. New York City telephone caller makes threat.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(New York City) At 2:45 p.m., New York City headquarters Cunard Line, anonymous caller asks for Charles Dixon, Cunard Vice President Dixon tells Cunard President Richard Patton of caller's message. [PATTON - says caller says 2 people on ship prepared to detonate bombs if $320,000 ransom not paid] [Authorities wonder how conspirators would communicate. Cunard prepares to pay ransom.]
REPORTER: David Culhane
(London, England) 4-man team British Army bomb experts leave England in RAF Hercules, parachute to ocean, and board ship in attempt to diffuse bombs. [1969 films of plane and ship shown.] Queen Elizabeth II due to arrive Cherbourg, France, Saturday, with 1550 passengers and crew of 900. 90-yr.-old conductor Leopold Tchaikovsky; George Kelly, uncle of princess Grace of Monaco, aboard. [Cunard chairperson Victor MATTHEWS - says passengers not told until last minute of bomb threat.]
REPORTER: John Laurence
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(Studio) Alabama Governor George Wallace receives hourly physical therapy treatment for paralysis of lower body.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Wallace's wife Cornelia brings flowers to visit Secret Service agent Nick Zarvos, wounded when Wallace was shot, at Walter Reed Army Hospital. [Cornelia WALLACE - says husband will continue to campaign. Roosevelt campaigned from a wheelchair; Alabama Representative Bill Nichols, walks after having been told he never would again. Wallace will fight slim chances to walk again.] Mrs. Wallace returns to Holy Cross Hospital. [Alabama neurosurgeon, Dr. James GALBRAITH - says Wallace is tired. Rests under mild sedation. Pain is better.] Thousands of letters, telegrams, phone calls arrive at hospital. [Wallace's mother-in-law, Mrs. Ruby Fulsome Austin, and 2 others, sort communications.] Wallace campaign announces list Of speakers who will campaign for Governor, include: Senator James Allen; Alabama Representatives Flowers, Nichols; Alabama educator Max Rafferty.
REPORTER: David Dick
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(Studio) Car (shown) of Arthur Bremer, charged with shooting Wallace, contains books on assassination of Robert Kennedy, McGovern campaign literature. Agents investigate possibility Bremer was following McGovern as well as Wallace.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Milwaukee, WI) Bremer's father and brother return from visit to see him in Baltimore County jail. [Father, William BREMER - says no one spoke much during visit, but he was glad to see son, if only for 5 minute Attorney present. Says money son spent, he had saved.] Bremer's apt. now up for rent.
REPORTER: Jeff Williams
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(Studio) Senators George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey zero in on California primary. McGovern endorsed by Mrs. Martin Luther King.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) South Vietnam forces air lifted to 2 1/2 mile from An Loc. American B-52's and fighter bombers hit enemy targets around city, as well as in central highlands at Kontum. Fighting reported near Hue.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) American jets raid North Vietnam. 6 bridges around Dong Hoi destroyed, as were ammunition and fuel dumps. Radio Hanoi says jets hit populous areas, include some near Hanoi. Claims 5 American jets downed. Hanoi displays 8 captured US pilots.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Hanoi, North Vietnam) [Lieutenant Commander David Wesley HOFFMAN - nays POWs shocked to learn of American raids on North Vietnam. Says bombing, mining won't end war. Says peace comes through freedom and independence. Nixon has expressed concern for safety of Americans in Vietnam, and yet he increases bombing, commences mining of North Vietnam, putting Americans in far greater danger, causing death among civilian population.]
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (narrates) (DENPA Newsfilm)
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(Studio) Report that 7 Americans killed when cargo plane downed near Kontum city, said wrong. 2 crewmen wounded , 3 missing. 13 Americans killed in Vietnam combat last week, 26 wounded, 5 missing. 14 men missing from aircraft shot down over North Vietnam not listed. Of 32 men killed in helicopter crash, some listed among 18 dead of non-hostile causes. 18 listed missing for non-hostile causes.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Reuter's news agency reports from Peking that top-level delegation from Hanoi, North Vietnam, is in China to coordinate delivery of Russian supplies through China for North Vietnam.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Johnson administration Secretary Defense Clark Clifford calls Nixon's mining of North Vietnam harbors and railroad bombing, dangerous and reckless. Testifying before House For. Affairs Committee, Clifford predicts United States involvement in Vietnam will continue if policies aren't changed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) White House reports President Nixon and Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin meet at Camp David, MD, to discuss Nixon's trip to Moscow. At State Department, Dohrynin and Secretary of State Rogers sign treaty.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) United States and Russia sign Seabed Arms Control Treaty, which bans placement of nuclear weapons beneath the sea. [DOBRYNIN - says he has other treaties to sign.] [ROGERS - says "later!" Comments refer to arms control agreement both countries want to sign in Moscow. [DOBRYNIN - says Russia looks forward to having President there.]
REPORTER: Bernard Shaw
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(Studio) President Nixon urges Congress to cut red tape on Federal aid programs: health, job training, rehabilitation, nutrition, etc.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Congress committee opens hearings on possible staging of television news.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Most witnesses before Marley Stagger's Interstate and For. Commerce Subcommittee are television technicians. Lead-off witness is owner of dynamite store who claims he and young man hired by CBS, staged phony dynamite sale for cameras. Witness Jack Reynolds, CBS soundman, backs up testimony of store owner. Reynolds tells acting committee cnsl. Daniel Minelli, he had complained to reporter on job about what they were filming. CBS film cameraman Tom McKinley, who filmed dynamite scene, says story on young people drinking pop wine was partially staged. Former CBS reporter Bill Stout says story on hitchhikers include shot of his daughter thumbing a ride, staged. Technician Roy Gardner accuses Walter Cronkite and CBS news Vice President Gordon Manning of restaging speech by IN Governor Roger Brannigan in 1968. CBS news President Richard Salant says staging violates CBS news policy and reporter has been suspended.
REPORTER: Marya McLaughlin Artist: Howard Brodie
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(Studio) Arizona drought noted. No rain in Phoenix for 141 days.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Prescott, Arizona) Fire has burned 21,000 acres Prescott forest. Air Force planes bombard flames with chemicals. 2000 men fight blaze. Soldiers called in. Fire believed to have been started by camp fire. Ranchers sell off cattle as grass drys up.
REPORTER: Ben Silver (KOOL-TV Newsfilm)
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(Studio) Commerce Department reports corporate profits up $5.6 billion in 1st quarter 1972, a 6% gain. gross national product revised upward to 12%. Econ. adviser Herbert Stein predicts continued expansion, hopes government can hold down inflation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(DC) Alabama Governor George Wallace, wounded, while campaigning for President, likely to suffer depression at realization he is a cripple, as did Franklin Roosevelt. Roosevelt emerged even stronger. Wallace now will be less content to merely influence Democratic Convention 3rd party might hurt Nixon more than Democrats this time. McGovern, who may win California primary, has, like Wallace, projected image of antiestablishment mover.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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