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(Studio) Consumer prices increase 0.6% in Apr.; food prices responsible for greatest increase
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Today's figures more in line with predicted rates of inflation. In Feb., and March, food prices unexpectedly declined but started back up in April. However, sugar prices down. From Apr. `74 to Apr. `75, consumer price index rose 10.2.; purchasing power of Americans during same period fell 4.1%.
REPORTER: George Herman
(Omaha, Nebraska) Meat production down; costs climbing in supermarket Beef prices at highest level in 18 mos. [Omaha stkyd. president Robert McCREIGHT - says retail beef prices must rise as beef prices at stkyd. increase]
REPORTER: Sharron Lovejoy
(Studio) Govt. reports orders for durable goods increase 9.8% in Apr.; sharpest incr. since December `67.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) In Iran, E. Africa and S.E. Asia, Americans in trouble. 2 American Air Force officers ambushed and killed in Tehran, Iran; antigovernment Marxist group claims responsibility Dead identified as Colonel Paul Shaffer and Lieutenant Colonel Jack Turner. In Tanzania, 40 heavily armed Africans abduct 3 American students and Dutch woman at wildlife research camp; no motive known. In Laos, leftist students continue to hold 12 Americans in Savannakhet. In Vientiane, Laos, students seize American AID compound trapping some Americans inside.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Vientiane, Laos) Communist Pathet Lao and rightist troops look on as students take over compound. United States AID operations now suspended in Laos. Communists work with students to organize these demonstrations without any violence. In Savannakhet, Communists took over town easily. 6 Americans still under house arrest in Savannakhet.
REPORTER: Ed Bradley
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(Studio) Delegation of North Vietnam officials receive enthusiastic welcome in Bangkok; officials hope to negotiate normalization of relations with Thai government
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) 3 persons killed in renewed Beirut street fighting between Palestinian guerrillas and right-wing Lebanese.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) CBS' Richard C. Hottelet reports Syria ready to extend for 6 mos. UN peacekeeping force on Golan Heights
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Despite complaints from Sovs., Secretary of State Henry Kissinger travels to West Berlin. [KISSINGER - says security of West Berlin remains vital interest of US.]
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) In Stuttgart, West Germany, murder trial of Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof and 2 accomplices begins under unusually heavy security. Trial adjourned for 9 days while another state court rules if 3 defense lawyers can be excluded from trial under new antiterrorist law.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President Ford names Daniel Moynihan to be United States ambassador to UN. Current UN amb. John Scali to be offered another foreign policy post.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Pentagon raises death toll in Mayaguez incident to 38; 23 newly reported casualties were noncombat deaths. Servicemen killed when copter crashed as they were on their way to help in rescue operation.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Republican Senators meet with President to discuss pols. Senators praise President' actions in Mayaguez incident.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(White House) [Senator Hugh SCOTT - sees little competition for President Ford from Democrats in `76 presidential election. Democrats do have Hubert Humphrey, but they probably won't nomination him.] Scott convinced Ford will run. [Senator Lowell WEICKER - says he wants to find out identities of all presidential candidates before committing to 1.] Senators say Mayaguez political plus for Ford. Press Secretary Ron Nessen says President regrets Mayaguez casualties but has no regrets about his actions.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) 1st Lady Betty Ford visits refugees at Camp Pendleton, California.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Camp Pendleton, California) Mrs. Ford amazed at size of Vietnam families and number of children. Immigration officials say security checks holding up refugee resettlement. Finding qualified sponsors for refugees difficult. Mrs. Ford visits briefly with former South Vietnam Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. [Mrs. FORD - says United States will be proud to have Vietnam as American citizens.]
REPORTER: Terry Drinkwater
(Studio) Camp Pendleton having resettlement problems, although 58% are white collar, professional or skilled workers; resettlement to be even more difficult for refugees still on Guam; 45% of refugees there are peasant farmers and fishermen; 21,000 illiterate.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) House postpones vote to override President' veto of strip mining bill.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Capitol Hill) House Democrats avoid showdown because they lack votes to override veto. [Representative Morris UDALL - claims electric utilities and administration did real snow job on facts.] [Representative John RHODES - thinks it's laughable that House Democrat majority needs Republicans to do anything.] Democratic leaders say Republican liberals not voting to override veto as expected.
REPORTER: Nelson Benton
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(Studio) Senator Int. Committee approves nomination of Stanley Hathaway as new Secretary Int.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Last week, former Representative Edith Greene dropped out as 1 of 10 noms. for bd. of dirs. for new legal services corp.; reasons given, When Senator Alan Cranston convenes confirmation hearing, another nominee bolts from room and refuses to appear.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Nearly year ago President Nixon signed bill to create legal services corporation but corporation never formed largely because of controversial nominees. Nom., Kansas lawyer Gleaves Smith, doesn't show up; 2nd nomination, Indian lawyer William Janklow ducks out back door rather than answer question about his disbarment. California attorney William Kinecht testifies but admits he's been critical of legal aid program. [KINECHT - says he won't repeat his criticism of program.]
REPORTER: Fred Graham
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(Studio) Veterans Administration launches investigation into bizarre episode involving patient in Veterans Administration hosp. in Illinois.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Hines, Illinois) Irwin Pawelski misplaced by hosp. 10 days before scheduled surgery. Massive search finds him in hosp. elevator where an attendant apparently left him; patient died soon after. [Widow Dorothy PAWELSKI - tells her story of search for missing husband.] [Hosp. director Dr. Robert FIUIN - finds it inconceivable patient remained in elevator so long. Can only be assumed no one realized his condition.] [Mrs. PAWELSKI - says this could happen in any hosp.]
REPORTER: Randy Daniels
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(Studio) Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo easily wins renom,
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) In basement of Orangeburg,SC,Cnty. cthse.; 50-lb. dynamite bomb found. Racial conflict noted.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Bureaucrat Jubal Hale, example director of federal review board, said he wouldn't mind if Congress abolished his job. Senator Charles Percy intros. bill to abolish board
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Eric Sevareid discusses FTC (Federal Trade Commission) restrictions on use of endorsements in advertising.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(washington, DC) FTC (Federal Trade Commission) attacking hypocrisy in advertising. Implications of bill mind-boggling.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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