Vanderbilt Television News Archive

CBS Evening News for 1973-04-16

This program is 27 minutes long

• Introduction Walter Cronkite (New York City)

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  05:30:00 pm — 05:30:30 pm

• Laos / United States Bombing Resumed

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  05:30:30 pm — 05:32:50 pm

  (Studio) United States announces resumption bombing in Laos.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Pentagon) United States bombs Laos in response to large Communist build-up in North.

  (Studio) Congress reacts to renewed bombing.
  REPORTER: Bob Schieffer, Walter Cronkite

  (Capitol Hill) [Senator Mark HATFIELD - expects United States bombs to drop again in North Vietnam if Cambodian and Laotian bombing continues.] [Senator John PASTORE - says US goal was to get out of Indochina, not become more deeply involved.]
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Bayer Aspirin; Haley's M-O.)

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  05:32:50 pm — 05:33:50 pm

• Cambodia / South Vietnam Incursions

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  05:33:50 pm — 05:36:50 pm

  (Studio) United States continues Cambodian bombing. Reports say South Vietnam troops again crossed Cambodian border after Communist forces.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) More supply ships reach besieged capital of Phnom Penh. United States bombing said to be inflicting heavy civilian casualties. Marshal Lon Nol under pressure from United States to broaden government's base of support by bringing opposition leaders into government This would lay foundation for negotiations with Khmer Rouge.
  REPORTER: Ed Bradley

• Cambodia / Refugees

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  05:36:50 pm — 05:37:20 pm

  (Studio) Senator opens hearings on Cambodian refugee problem. Senator Edward Kennedy says United States should send diplomats rather than bombs to Cambodia. Dep. Assistant Secretary of State Arthur Hummel says negotiations far off.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Mideast / United Nations Debate

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  05:37:20 pm — 05:37:50 pm

  (Studio) Egyptian For. Min. Zayyat and Israeli Ambassador Tekoah exchange hostile remarks at United Nations debate on Mideast.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Mideast / Oil Pipeline Dynamited

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  05:37:50 pm — 05:38:10 pm

  (Studio) For second time in 2 days saboteurs attack installations American owned Trans-Arabian Pipeline Corporation
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Mideast / Hensley

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  05:38:10 pm — 05:38:30 pm

  (Studio) In DC, New Zealand charge d' affaires says someone shot at house during night and left warning painted on walls. Message signed by Black September movement.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Hush Puppies; Wilkinson Razors.)

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  05:38:30 pm — 05:39:30 pm

• Watergate Case / Executive Privilege

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  05:39:30 pm — 05:40:00 pm

  (Studio) Senator Sam Ervin says his Watergate committee wants all White House aides called before it to testify in open session with reporters present. No compromise deal has been worked out with executive with regard to executive privilege.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Nixon / Construction Workers' Address

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  05:40:00 pm — 05:43:40 pm

  (Studio) Nixon addresses construction workers' meeting in DC.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) [NIXON - says defense budget cannot be cut.] Nixon plans meeting with USSR Communist party boss Brezhnev.
  REPORTER: Dan Rather

  (DC) Labor critical of administration economic policy and of Labor Secretary Peter Brennan on minimum wage issue. [NIXON - says Brennan hasn't sold out labor.] [AFL-CIO President George MEANY - says Brennan not in on decision making process.] [Labor Secretary Peter BRENNAN - says resigning when he doesn't get his way wouldn't solve problem.]
  REPORTER: Daniel Schorr

  (Studio) Dan Rather reports Nixon will tighten price controls.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Economy / Price Freeze Bill Defeated

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  05:43:40 pm — 05:43:50 pm

  (Studio) House refuses to force rollback of prices or to freeze them at current levels.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Economy / Interest Rate Guidelines

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  05:43:50 pm — 05:44:00 pm

  (Studio) Admin. announces new guidelines intended to hold down interest rates for small businesses and home buyers.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Stock Market Report (Studio)

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  05:44:00 pm — 05:44:10 pm

  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Defense Cutbacks / Military Bases

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  05:44:10 pm — 05:46:00 pm

  (Studio) Defense Department announces cutbacks at 274 military bases.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (San Francisco, California) Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard employs 5600. Is scheduled to close June, 1974. [Acting Mayor San Francisco Robert GONZALES - criticizes closing of shipyard.] Closure will hurt area's econ.
  REPORTER: Jim Kilpatrick

• (Commercial: Woolite Rug Cleaner; Lawn-Boy Mowers.)

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  05:46:00 pm — 05:47:00 pm

• Drug Indictments

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  05:47:00 pm — 05:47:40 pm

  (Studio) Fad. agents say have cracked largest drug distribution ring in US history. 86 indicted in NYC, Detroit and New Jersey.

• Mayor's Race / Oakland, California

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  05:47:40 pm — 05:50:50 pm

  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (narrates) (WCBS-TV news film)

  (Studio) Oakland, California, votes for mayor tomorrow.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (Oakland, California) Bobby Seale, veteran radical turned establishment, running for mayor of Oakland. [SEALE - says represents positive constructive change.] Conservative incumbent Mayor John Reading favored to win. [READING - urges people to vote for him if happy with existing situation in Oakland.] Other candidates mentioned.
  REPORTER: Richard Threlkeld Artist: Howard Brodie

• School Integration

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  05:50:50 pm — 05:51:10 pm

  (Studio) Appeals court orders school districts in 17 southern and border states to proceed with integration.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Analysis (Safire)

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  05:51:10 pm — 05:54:00 pm

  (DC) Reporter needles William Safire, ex-Nixon, ex-Agnew ghost writer, for joining ranks of Eastern liberal establishment by becoming columnist for New York "Times."
  REPORTER: Eric Sevareid

• United Airlines / Discrimination

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  05:54:00 pm — 05:54:20 pm

  (Studio) Justice Department charges UnitedAir Lines and 5 transportation unions with discrimination against blacks and women in employment practices.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• Picasso Funeral

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  05:54:20 pm — 05:54:40 pm

  (Studio) Pablo Picasso buried in garden of his chateau in France.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

• (Commercial: Pittsburgh Paints; Alka-Seltzer.)

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  05:54:40 pm — 05:54:50 pm

• Panda Bears

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  05:54:50 pm — 05:57:30 pm

  (Studio) 2 pandas China gave to Nixon as gift to United States observe first anniversary of arrival at Washington, DC National Zoo.
  REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

  (DC) 2 panda bears play and amuse crowds at zoo. Henry Kissinger a regular visitor.

• Good Night

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  05:57:30 pm — 05:57:30 pm