Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CBS Evening News for 1973-04-12

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Walter Cronkite (New York City)

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  05:30:00 pm — 05:30:30 pm

• Mideast / Guerrilla Burials

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  05:30:30 pm — 05:35:30 pm

  (Studio) Arab guerrillas killed in raids by Israeli commandos buried in Beirut. Huge crowds angry and revengeful.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Beirut, Lebanon) 100,000 march in funeral procession for 3 assassinated Arab terrorist leaders
  REPORTER: Bill McLaughlin

  (Studio) Palestinians charge United States with involvement in Israeli raid.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (NYC) [US Ambassador to United Nations John SCALI - denies United States has anything to do with raid.]

  (State Department) United States fears new wave anti-Americanism and Mideast violence between Arabs and Israel. [State Department spokesperson Charles BRAY - says Secretary of State Rogers fears for safety Americans and American property in Arab areas.]
  REPORTER: No reporter given Marvin Kalb

  (Studio) Israeli commandos seized documents during Lebanese raid implicating many Arabs living in Israel with Arab terrorists. Many arrests result from new information
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Mideast / Queen Elizabeth II

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  05:35:30 pm — 05:36:10 pm

  (Studio) Crew of "Queen Elizabeth II" demand and are promised hazardous duty pay for coming voyage to Israel. Most passengers will be Jews from England, United States and Europe.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Exxon.)

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  05:36:10 pm — 05:37:10 pm

• Cambodia / South Vietnam Intervention

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  05:37:10 pm — 05:39:00 pm

  (Studio) Mil. situation in Cambodia remains grim. Speculation growing that South Vietnam troops may come to government's aid. Viet Cong charge venture planned by South Vietnam with help US.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (White House) White House officially denies reports of South Vietnam plan for Cambodian intervention; plays down return General Alexander Haig from Indochina visit. Options reported open to United States are: (1) increase B-52 raids, (2) help coordinate US, South Vietnam and Cambodian efforts to relieve siege Phnom Penh and (3) arrange meeting between Henry Kissinger and Hanoi's Le Duc Tho with regard to rapidly deteriorating Indochina situation.
  REPORTER: Dan Rather

• Indochina / POW's

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  05:39:00 pm — 05:39:20 pm

  (Studio) United States has over 1300 MIA's in Indochina. Chief in charge of locating men says perhaps all are dead. Search will continue, however.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Exxon.)

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  05:39:20 pm — 05:40:20 pm

• Consumer Protection / Diet Fads

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  05:40:20 pm — 05:42:20 pm

  (Studio) Senator opens hearings on diet fads.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Capitol Hill) [Author "Diet Revolution" Robert ATKINS - insists AMA attacks on his low carbohydrate diet based on inadequate studies.] [AMA spokesperson Dr. C. E. BUTTERWORTH - feels diet dangerous.] [Senator George McGOVERN - asks what makes it dangerous.] [BUTTERWORTH - says dangerous because advocates unrestricted fat intake and greatly increased vitamin intake.]
  REPORTER: Neil Strawser

• Price Rollback

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  05:42:20 pm — 05:42:50 pm

  (Studio) House Democratic leaders change minds on postponing vote on economy controls. Action to be taken Monday on bill to put ceiling on rents at January 10 levels and on prices and interests at March 16 levels.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Unemployment Benefits

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  05:42:50 pm — 05:44:10 pm

  (Studio) Nixon asks Congress to increase unemployment benefits.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Office of Economic Opportunity Dismantlement

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  05:44:10 pm — 05:46:10 pm

  (Studio) Howard Phillips, man in charge dismantling OEO, says expects Office of Economic Opportunity to be dismantled on schedule.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) White House spokesperson Jerry Warren says administration will obey law re: yesterday's court decision that dismantling Office of Economic Opportunity is illegal. [OEO employees' attorney Glen GRAVES - says time for Congress to act to save OEO.] Office of Economic Opportunity appropriations must be voted on by Congress June 30.
  REPORTER: Bruce Morton

• School Integration

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  05:46:10 pm — 05:46:30 pm

  (Studio) Department of Health, Education and Welfare survey shows integration schools continuing. 37% black children now in predominantly white schools.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Tax Reform

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  05:46:30 pm — 05:46:40 pm

  (Studio) Democrat Senators urge tax reform.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Analysis (Tax Reform)

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  05:46:40 pm — 05:49:20 pm

  (DC) Taxes due soon. United States needs to reduce military spending, reform tax structure and impose wage and price ceilings to help people survive inflation and keep tax burden bearable.
  REPORTER: Eric Sevareid

• USSR -US Trade

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  05:49:20 pm — 05:50:00 pm

  (S)Armand Hammer, president Occidental Petrol. Company, announces $8 billion deal with USSR for chemical fertilizer production. Hammer has had business relations with USSR since days of Lenin.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  05:50:00 pm — 05:50:20 pm

  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Picasso Collection

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  05:50:20 pm — 05:50:50 pm

  (Studio) Pablo Picasso family announces is giving Picasso's collection paintings by other artists to French people. Collection incls. works by Matisse, Cezanne, Renoir, etc.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Exxon.)

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  05:50:50 pm — 05:51:50 pm

• Pollution / Auto Emission Standards

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  05:51:50 pm — 05:54:20 pm

  (Studio) Environmental Protection Agency chief William Ruckelshaus defends his 1 year extension of the 1975 anti-pollution standards for cars.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (NYC) [RUCKELSHAUS - says Henry Ford mistaken in saying Environmental Protection Agency standards can't be met by 1976. Auto industry has bad attitude towards changes.]
  REPORTER: Ronald Bonn

• Earth Week

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  05:54:20 pm — 05:57:00 pm

  (Studio) United States observes Earth Week.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Hubbard, OR) Oregon law outlaws use no deposit no-return containers. [Governor Tom McCALL - says law helps keep roadsides free of litter.] [Bottler Bill MOORE - says bottles not only form roadside pollution. Bottling industry being persecuted.] [Grocer Paul RIVENES - says dislikes law very much. Is inconvenient for grocers.]
  REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater

• Good Night

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  05:57:00 pm — 05:57:00 pm