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(Studio) Paris Peace Talks collapse again. United States and South Vietnam suspend them.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Paris, France) [US Ambassador William PORTER - says North Vietnam and Viet Cong will not discuss halting their invasion in South Vietnam. Says cancellation of talks due to complete lack of progress in every available channel.]
REPORTER: Peter Kalischer
(State Department) Public and private efforts to break diplomatic deadlock have failed; include secret trip to Paris by Henry Kissinger. Admin. braces for another major escalation of Vietnam war. Heavy United States naval and air attacks against North Vietnam, include Hanoi and Haiphong, expected. Pentagon spkmn. Jerry Friedheim provides photograph intelligence of new Soviet weapons in use by North Vietnam. (shown). Kissinger, in Paris, proposed 7-day cease-fire, mutual withdrawal of for. forces, and coalition government, include President Thieu. North Vietnam rejected proposals. Nixon, though angry with Russians, still hopes to go to Russia.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
(DC) Another bold military move under consideration by President Bombing Hanoi, blockading Haiphong, amphibious landing by South Vietnam troops with United States air and naval support above DMZ (demilitarized zone) considered. President pressures Russia to restrain North Vietnam offensive.
REPORTER: Dan Rather
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(Studio) Enemy rests, regroups, and resupplies. Communist forces almost surround Hue, where major attack expected. Some normalcy returns inside Hue. Panic eases among refugees; looting and arson diminish. President Thieu meets cmdrs. there. New commander, Major General Ngo Quang Truong orders South Vietnam soldiers who deserted at Quang Tri to regroup or be shot on sight.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Hue, South Vietnam) Fire levels much of central market Merchants and others flee city. Sampans used as North Vietnam cuts roads south of city.
REPORTER: Don Webster
(Studio) South Vietnam launch 1st counterattacks at Am Loc, and between Kontum and Pleiku. VC sets up revolutionary administration at captured Quang Tri. More United States planes en rte. to Vietnam. United States Air Force gem. relieved of Vietnam command for ordering pilots not to fly below 10,000 foot in attacking North Vietnam supply trucks. General John Lavelle replaced.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite; Dan Rather(quoted)
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(Studio) 2 Americans killed in Vietnam last week; 24 wounded, 19 missing.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Funeral services for FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover held in DC.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Security henry at National Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower sits with president and Mrs. Nixon at funeral. Cabinet mbrs, FBI colleagues also attend. [President NIXON - eulogizes Hoover, who fought permissiveness.] [Reverend Edward ELSON - Hoover's pastor and United States Senator chaplain - reminisces about Hoover's role in church.] Hoover laid to rest in Congress Cemetery.
REPORTER: Robert Pierpoint
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(Studio) Associated Press reports Senator Judiciary Committee report will find acting Attorney General Richard Kleindienst acted properly in ITT (International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation) affair and will recommend his confirmation.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) 2 days after Ohio primary, all votes have not been counted, but Humphrey still leads McGovern.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Cleveland, Ohio) Federal Judge Frank Battisti orders new primary election for 4000 voters in suburban Cleveland, residents of 16 precincts where polls never opened. McGovern backers led by Howard Metzenbaum plea to have Federal supervision of Ohio vote count, but are refused. [METZENBAUM - questions accuracy of some precinct returns.] Humphrey and McGovern supporters and election officials disagree on ways to examine all Cuyahoga County returns.
REPORTER: Sylvia Chase
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(Studio) Senator Edmund Muskie, who dropped out of primaries, still sees Democrat nom. as wide open situation, himself include
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 37 die in Mexico City flood caused by thunderstorm. 10,000 homeless.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) American Psychiatric Association reports researchers have found probable biological cause of schizophrenia. Researchers at Lafayette Clinic of Wayne State University of Detroit, Michigan, say enzyme called Anti-S Protein may be key to cure.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(DC) United States military build-up in South Vietnam, failure of Paris Peace Talks, indicate US government reaches moment of truth on Vietnam policy. Nixon may increase bombing to avoid having to choose between 2 other alternatives: military defeat of South Vietnam or negotiated defeat via coalition government establishment.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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(Studio) 2 years ago today, National Guardsmen shot and killed 4 students at Kent State University who protested American incursion in Cambodia.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Kent, Ohio) Kent State students commemorate 2nd anniversary of Kent State shootings. Quiet postmidnight candlelight march through campus. Places where students fell cordoned off. Vietnam vets lead march to Taylor Hill. Antiwar sentiments appear as strong as they ever were but nonviolent. [Harvard Prof. George WALD - says he wants victory for North Vietnam and VC, opposing Thieu's dictatorship.]
REPORTER: Robert Schakne
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(Studio) Pay Bd. decision on raise for E. and Gulf Coast longshoremen blocked by Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons, only remaining labor member on Bd.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite; Daniel Schorr (quoted)
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(Studio) A few weeks ago, FDA (Food and Drug Administration) filth tolerance level on some foods, include peanut butter, reported 50 insect fragments and 2 rodent hairs per 3 1/2 ounce peanut butter said acceptable. John Kelley Iron of LA, 9 years old, writes his mother got upset from report, and won't allow peanut butter anymore. He says a rat shouldn't be too bad - pleads for an ok on peanut butter. Reporter says investigation shows it is good for you.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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