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(Studio) Unarmed American ship, Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian gunboat in Gulf of Thailand.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(White House) [News Secretary Ron NESSEN - says Mayaguez forced to port of Kompong Som; President meets with National Security Council and considers seizure an act of piracy. Failure of Cambodian government to release ship to have serious consequences.] Rptdly., 39 or 40 crew members aboard; no word of injuries or ship's exact whereabouts now. White House states Mayaguez not spy ship and it was in international waters. Reaction mixed on Capitol Hill. [Senator John SPARKMAN - thinks United States should go after ship if Cambodia fails to release it.] [Senator James BUCKLEY - recommends immediate retaliation. Advises President to use immediate air strike.] [Senator Hubert HUMPHREY - urges government to stop, look, and listen before taking most drastic recourse.] CBS learns United States beginning delicate negotiations, primarily through China, to retrieve ship.
REPORTER: Phil Jones
(Studio) Pentagon sources tell Ike Pappas United States Navy ships moving toward Gulf of Thailand. At Sea-Land Services Incorporated, ship builder's reaction to seizure taken.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(Edison, New Jersey) Sea-Land spokesperson says Mayaguez on regular route from Hong Kong to Thailand when seizure occurred. Some cargo obviously military, but spokesperson could not say exactly what was on board; any suggestion that Mayaguez working for government is ludicrous.
REPORTER: Gary Shepard
(Studio) Lloyd Bucher,captain of USS Pueblo, the ship captured by North Korean gunboats in January `68, says administration should take positive and swift action against seizure.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) Communist political takeover in Laos now seems imminent, but White House says President Ford has no immediate plans to evacuate Americans in Laos. After forcing rightists out of coalition government, Pathet Lao begin to bring loyalist military into fold; military pledges not to interfere with any new government action by pro-Communist group. Commander of CIA's now defunct tribal army in Laotian fighting flees to Thailand.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) Pentagon considers designating more military bases in United States to house Vietnam refugees temporarily. Senate Foreign Relations Committee agrees on legislature to finance refugee program. Senator Mike Mansfield to delay Senate floor action on bill till White House provides specific information about unspent military aid money that could be spent for refugees.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(DC) Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes out similar aid bill as 1 in House calling for $405 million for refugee aid. Committee requires administration subtract from that any military funds appropriated for but never spent on Vietnam. Admin. witness urges speedy Congress action. [Senator Charles PERCY - asks why other Asian cntrys. aren't absorbing fellow Asians.] [Refugee task force director Dean BROWN - says there are political reasons. North Vietnam puts pressure on other Asian cntrys. not to accept refugees.] [US Catholic conference John McCARTHY - says same government support and organization needed to get refugees to United States as was used to evacuate them from South Vietnam.]
REPORTER: Lesley Stahl
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(Studio) South Korean President Chung Hee Park announces new security crackdown to guard against Communist encroachment from north
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) In 1st of series of reports, American treaty obligations explored.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(DC) United States has defense treaties or agreements with 41 cntrys., but in only 1 case, NATO, does language of treaty clearly oblige United States to take military action. Details of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) treaty outlined. Rio-Pact treaty examined; language less binding on US. Outside these 2 treaties, language much softer; treaties with Japan and South Korea considered. There's even less US commitment to S.E. Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). Language not only yardstick to measure United States commitment; Israel, Berlin cases in point.
REPORTER: Marvin Kalb
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(Studio) Soviet naval warships enter American port for 1st time since World War II. Russian ships dock in Boston as part of 5-day exchange visit to commemorate 30th anniversary of Allied victory over Nazi Germany.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) Supreme Court refuses to review and thus lets stand school desegregation court orders in Boston, Massachusetts and Kalamazoo, Michigan.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(Boston, Massachusetts) For mos., Judge Arthur Garrity target of antibusing forces in Boston. Last Saturday, Garrity ordered new busing order for Boston to go into effect this fall; details given. Reaction against Garrity and plan bitter. [Boston RESIDENT - reacts angrily to plan and Garrity.] Racial tension high now. [Antibusing leader Louise Day HICKS - says Judge Garrity's orders do nothing to calm fears of Boston.] [Boston NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) pres. Tom ATKINS - reacts to Supreme Court's decision to uphold Judge Garrity's busing order.]
REPORTER: Betty Ann Bowser; ARTIST: No artist given
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(Studio) House Ways, Means Committee approves energy bill.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(DC) Details of committee 's energy bill discussed. [ULLMAN - says White House energy program a marshmallow, not his committee 's. Believes he's cooperated with White House and Federal Energy Administration head Frank Zarb all down line, but at some point, White House decided not to cooperate.]
REPORTER: Nelson Benton
#239930
(Studio) Rockefeller commission ends its closed door hearings on CIA.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(DC) [Acting chairperson, Rockefeller commission Douglas DILLON - doesn't think anything new to be learned about Kennedy assassination from hearings.] Report to go to President Ford in 2 weeks Report expected to contain major points with regard to domestic spying, Kennedy assassination, foreign leaders' assassinations; details given.
REPORTER: Daniel Schorr
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(Studio) Eric Sevareid discusses recent political changes in S.E. Asia.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(No location given) Indochina fell to Communists like a collapsing tower - in stages. Communist control in Laos, South Vietnam and Cambodia compared. Present approach to governing Cambodia means country to be returned to an almost completely peasant economy for long time. Politically unified Indochina seems long way off. United States ought to stay out of Indochina's problems in foreseeable future and leave China and Russia pitted against each other.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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(Studio) Report on Hungarian refugees follows.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
(Cleveland, Ohio) Thousands of Hungarians sought refuge in United States in 1950's. Designers, physicians, Olympic coaches, economists among Hungarian refugees; names listed. [Jeweler Aladar SOLYMOSI - thinks it will be little harder for South Vietnam to adjust to American life; details given.]
REPORTER: Sharron Lovejoy
#239936
(Studio) Walter Cronkite's back kicking up again.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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