This program is 28 minutes long
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(Studio) Apollo-Soyuz crew in separate spaceships. Prepare for undocking Saturday Crews visit each other's craft.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Aboard Apollo-Soyuz) Tours given of Apollo and Soyuz. [Valeri KUBASOV gives Vance Brand tour of USSR craft.]Alexei Leonov eats with Thomas Stafford and "Deke" Slayton in Apollo. News conference held with Stafford and Leonov in Soyuz and Brand, Slayton and Kubasov in Apollo. [STAFFORD - speaks of opening new era of space. How era will go depends on cntrys. and world.] [LEONOV - shows sketches to illustrate joint mission. Good dinner isn't what you eat but with whom you eat it. Best part of meal was eating with Stafford and Slayton.] [BRAND - gives Kubasov tour of US craft. Cites 1st flight ever from North Carolina.] Stafford and Leonov join Apollo-Soyuz medals, representing flight together. [SPKR. - says next mtg. to be on ground.]
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Studio) Report on Soviet cosmonauts' families.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Aboard Apollo-Soyuz) Kubasov holds up photograph of family. [BRAND - describes Kubasov's family.]
REPORTER: Steve Young
(Moscow, USSR ) [Svetlana LEONOV - says husband's handshake with Stafford doubly pleasurable because Stafford nice, amiable and sociable. Glad crews could get to know each other during training. Their joy transmitted to us on earth. (translated)] Lyudmilla Kubasov shown.
REPORTER: Steve Young
(Studio) Mrs. Leonov teacher; Mrs. Kubasov is aeronautical engineer.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Secretary of State Henry Kissinger meets with Ambassador Simcha Dinitz. New proposals go to Egypt. 3 Arab guerrillas killed in Israel near Lebanon border. Suspected terrorists captured at Tel Aviv airport.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Near Metulla, Israel) Israeli soldiers search for guerrillas. Guerrillas killed in subsequent fighting. Fires break out. Guerrilla weapons shown. Leaflets demand return of Arab prisoners in Israeli jails. Guerrillas rptdly. members of Arab Liberation Front.
REPORTER: Bob McNamara
(Tel Aviv, Israel) 2 terrorists with explosives arrested at airport. Security alert since Japanese killed 25 at airport 3 years ago.
REPORTER: Bob McNamara
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(Studio) Socialists clash with Communists in Porto. Mobs opposed to swing to far left ransack Communist party headquarters in 2 other towns. Mil. security force orders troop alert. Pro-Communist Premier Vasco Goncalves pressured by moderate military to resign.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#241045
(Studio) Organization of American States meets in Costa Rica.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(San Jose, Costa Rica) 11 year old embargo against Cuba may be lifted. Try made in November; try failed because United States abstained. [US ambassador to Organization of American States William MAILLIARD - says if wording of resolution acceptable and there are 13 other votes, we'll make the 14th.]
REPORTER: George Natanson
#241046
(Studio) Peasants and others demanded land reform 3 weeks ago in Honduras. 5 killed. 7 other bodies found. American killed was Michael Jerome Cypher, 35, of WI. 2 landowners and 3 army men arrested.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Uganda President Idi Amin urges other black African ntns. to destroy white controlled government of South Africa. Tells Org. of African Unity that South Africa's policy of detente with black Africa was deadly poison.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President Isabel Peron may take leave of absence due to flu.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Fugitive British Parliament mbr., John Stone house, escorted by police back to London to stand trial for fraud, theft and forgery. His secretary, Mrs. Sheila Buckley, also returned. Stone house disappeared in November in Florida; turned up in Australia. Film shown.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator Frank Church says ex-Air Force Col Fletcher Prouty unable to substantiate charge of Alexander Butterfield being CIA contact man.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) [CHURCH - says no evidence to support charge.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) RRs and rail clerks' union agree on tentative contract.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#241053
(Studio) Postal Service and postal unions continue talks.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Contracts end Sunday night. [President Letter Carriers Union James RADEMACHER - says if no contract, we won't work.] Job security is issue. [Postmaster General Benjamin BAILAR - says opportunity to adjust work force important. Unions make it difficult for us to grant their economy requirements by refusing flexibility.] Critics say rates have gone up; service deteriorated. [BAILAR - says average over all service is very good.] 90 billion pieces mail handled yearly Postal Service doesn't pay for self; 1975 deficit is $850 million. Congress asked for more aid.
REPORTER: Jed Duvall
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(Studio) Retired Ford Motors executive, John Brennan, 56, sues Ford for $1.3 million. Says many social functions necessary to his career turned him into alcoholic.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President Ford greets visitors outside White House
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Shakes hands with tourists.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite (narrates)
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(Studio) Ex-President Richard Nixon tries in vain to help 3 Marines involved in car crash near Camp Pendleton, California.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Govt. to allow poisoning of wildlife in public lands.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(No location given) Ban lift is compromise of ranchers and environmentalists. 1 of devices to be used is M-44 sodium cyanide gun; it kills nontarget animals too. Collar containing cyanide in testing stages. Department of Int. film shows coyote attacking neck of sheep and coming away with poisonous collar. [Defenders of Wildlife John GRANDY - says collar kills quickly and only gets offending animal.] 80-90% sheep farmers have had losses.
REPORTER: Lee Thornton
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(Studio) Minnesota trial involving hockey player, Dave Forbes, results in hung jury.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Debbie Davis, 20, gives birth to 4 girls and 1 boy in Dallas, Texas. Had taken fertility drugs. Husband Jerry a bit faint at 1st.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Analysis of Apollo-Soyuz.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Studio) Senator William Proxmire says television rpting. event and championing space program. Public debate will go on. Space program doesn't give off scent of lying, crime and dishonesty. There is waste and doing something just because it can be done. Questions coming with regard to lasting detente and future missions.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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