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(Studio) Mexico rocked by earthquake in early morning hrs. Quake hits Orizaba, Mexico, hardest. Casualties, injured undetermined.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Police capture gunman who's been holding 4 hostages in Stockholm bank vault for nearly 1 week
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Stockholm, Sweden) Hostages safe after police use tear gas to overcome gunmen.
REPORTER: Peter Kalischer
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(Studio) Britain under letter bomb alert. No bombs discovered in London. Bomb discovered but dismantled at British embassy in Paris, France.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(London, England) Police warn Londoners via public announcements all day with regard to letter bombs. Citizens react to bomb warnings and Scotland Yard swamped with calls.
REPORTER: Bert Quint
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(Studio) After Soapbox Derby winner, James Gronen, was disqualified for cheating. Legal guardian Robert Lang admits he put his nephew and ward up to cheating.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Boulder, Colorado) Lang admits bad judgement and regrets his action, but insists derby winners in the past have consistently broken rules without punishment. Gronen's rigged-car workings explained. [District Attorney Alexander HUNTER - intends to find any rule violations at derby and take action.] [Father of derby entrant, Ed MARTELLA - insists he will carry probe as far as necessary because his son treated unjustly.] [Ed MARTELLA JR. - says he would ask Gronen reason for cheating.] Rule changes anticipated before next derby race.
REPORTER: Ike Pappas
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(Studio) Big 4 auto makers request Cost of Living Council increase prices for 1974 cars.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Chrysler makes 1st offer for new contracts and UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) unanimously rejects offer. Contract negotiations begin in earnest now.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Lawyer for H.R. Haldeman further explains Haldeman's access to White House tapes in letter to Senate Watergate committee New developments released.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Middle-class American reacts to President' plea for fairness in Watergate affair.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Providence, Rhode Island) National committee for fairness to the presidency founded by retired Rabbi Baruch Korff. Contributions buy ads in papers throughout country to back up President' stand on Watergate. [Rabbi KORFF - says he must pay for ads that support President, but other anti-Nixon ads given free space.] Rabbi Korff insists no backing comes from Nixon reelection committee
REPORTER: Bruce Morton
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(Studio) Seymour Friedin named as reporter serving as secret informant during Nixon reelection. Long-time Nixon associate Murray Chotiner admits paying Friedin for information on other President candidates.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Washington, DC federal judge acquits comedian Dick Gregory and others arrested for praying at White House in antiwar demonstration.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Pentagon doctor Richard Wilbur returns from touring American hospitals, equipment, staff in Germany. Finds conditions deplorable just as CBS report found facilities in Germany.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Pakistani economy conditions worsen under floods. For. aid desperately needed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) India and Pakistan agree to release prisoners and refugees stranded since 1971 war.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn believes Russian secret police threaten his life. Nobel Prize winning author has made arrangements for greatest novel to be published in West world on his death; Solzhenitsyn's books banned in Russia.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Eric Sevareid returns from Europe; takes another look at America.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Studio) Somewhere between President Eisenhower's and President Nixon's administration, 24-hr work day became norm. Nixon claims bureaucracy is too big, but administration does nothing to clear up paper work and lessen work loads. If any more mistakes like Vietnam and Cambodia made, 5-hr. work day, coffee break, tea break and all wives welcome will be rules of the day for all depts.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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(Studio) Indian movement chairperson Carter Camp jailed in South Dakota after shooting fellow leader Clyde Bellecourt.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Tornado hits West Stockbridge, Massachusetts. 3 killed, 40 injured.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Today is 10th anniversary of civil rights march on DC.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Studio) Film from August 28, 1963, march shown. Reverend Martin Luther King expresses dream of peaceful integration and equality for all races. Decade boasts considerable gains for civil rights. Benign government disinterest followed, and ghetto rioting broke out. [National Urban League Vernan JORDAN - insists black people aren't sitting around, satisfied with black situation today, but problems can no longer be solved by marches.] Civil rights movements are now locally oriented. Statistics outlined with regard to black gains and regressions in income, unemployment rates, poverty level, education, pols. [Wilma RANDLE - says blacks unafraid to fight system now because of black pride.]
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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