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(Studio) Reports say Sudanese officials have promised to execute terrorists who murdered 2 American diplomats. Secretary of State Rogers says feels death penalty appropriate for crime. Bodies Cleo Noel and Curtis Moore returned to US today.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Andrews AFB, MD) Mil. honor guard and many diplomats greet plane carrying bodies slain diplomats and their families as it arrives US. Dep. Secretary State William Macomber escorts wives murdered men off plane. Noel and Moore children follow. Secretary of State William Rogers and wife greet them. Men to be buried in Arlington Cemetery near President Kennedy.
REPORTER: Barry Serafin
(Khartoum, Sudan) Earlier today bodies Moore and Noel and body Belgian diplomat Guy Eid, also murdered by terrorists, put aboard planes bound for respective homelands. Eid's fiancee accompanies casket of Eid.
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
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(Studio) North Vietnam releases 106 POW's Sunday Today Viet Cong release 30 more.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Clark AFB, Philippines) [POW Captain Stephen LEOPOLD - says people can't know how good it is to be free and to be home.] sergeant Richard Burgess, sergeant Bill Baird and German nurse Mofrika Schwinn among those released.
REPORTER: Don Webster
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(Studio) Communists walk out of meeting Joint Mil. Commission in South Vietnam. Threaten to boycott future sessions unless South Vietnam increases number Communist POW's to be released in next exchange. White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler says expects American POW's to be released on schedule.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson warns North Vietnam will get no aid from US unless peace in Vietnam stable.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [RICHARDSON - says $2.9 billion appropriated in defense budget is for Vietnam. If there is peace it can be used for reconstruction purposes; if not it can be used for war.]
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) Big city mayors generally hostile to Nixon budget cuts. Housing Secretary James Lynn tells mayors they will be consulted during change from old programs to revenue sharing plans.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Edward Brooke urges Congress to block Nixon plans to stop subsidies for housing.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator hearings for confirmation L. Pat. Gray as FBI chief continue. Committee gets FBI file on Watergate investigation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) FBI documents reveal White House attorney John Dean sat in on FBI interviews with White House officials on Watergate case. Attys. from Nixon reelection committee sat in on interviews with committee officials. Some officials say felt intimidated by this action. Gray says FBI vigorously investigated Watergate case.
REPORTER: Neil Strawser
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(Studio) In January Environmental Protection Agency proposed gas rationing in California to control air pollution. Govt. holds hearings on proposal in Los Angeles. California Senator John Tunney says plan would have to be forced on people as they would never accept it.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 200 Indians still occupy Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Marxist government Salvador Allende issue in Chile's national cong. elections.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Santiago, Chile) Allende opponents had hoped to win 2/3 Chile's cong. seats so as to be able to impeach Allende. But with most votes in, Communists win extra seats rather than losing any.
REPORTER: Ike Pappas
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(Studio) Leftist coalition doing well against Gaullist party in first round voting in French elections.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 2 Spanish planes collide over France. 1 plane crashes killing all 68 passengers. Civilian air traffic controllers striking in France. French and English pilot assns. urge members not to fly over France.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Zuider Zee in Holland being drained.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Zuider Zee, Holland) Holland draining Zuider Zee area to use for farming and development new cities. As waters recede, Dutch finding wreckage many war planes which crashed during World War II. [Royal Netherlands Air Force Colonel Arie de JONG - says families and friends of pilots and crews which went down over Zuider Zee want to know what happened in last minutes of flyers' lives.] 1200 Americans still listed as MIA (missing in action) over Holland in WW II.
REPORTER: John Sheahan
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(Studio) European government banks closed today because of current money crisis. For. financial mins. from many cntrys. will meet in Paris, France, to discuss plan of action.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 2 Johns Hopkins University researchers claim to have discovered area of brain in which opiate drugs produce mental effects. Discovery could lead to safe mental treatment for heroin and cocaine addiction.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Weinberger orders survivors syphilis research program at Tuskegee, Alabama, be given necessary treatment.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Health officials confirm 35 typhoid cases at migrant labor camp in Florida. 66 other cases suspected.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 2 weeks ago government ordered recall of canned mushrooms believed to contain botulism, food poison. But some cans used.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Ossineke, Michigan) Ilario Fabbrini, pizza maker, forced to throw out 40,000 pizzas because of possibility of their containing mushrooms contaminated with botulism. [FABBRINI - says feels sick about loss.] [Olga FABBRINA - says after going through periods of dire poverty, seems crime for so much food to be destroyed.] To try to make some good of disaster, Fabbrini invites newsmen and Michigan Governor Milliken to ceremony of burying suspect pizzas. All guests get free pizza.
REPORTER: David Culhane
(Studio) Fabbrini has filed suit against mushroom companies
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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