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(Studio) Soyuz cosmonauts land in USSR . Apollo to return Thursday
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(USSR ) Landing shown live on TV. Rescue workers help Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov out. Men in good shape.
REPORTER: Richard Roth
(Baikonur, USSR ) Cosmonauts return to cosmodrome. Leonov says great joy to go to space, but greater joy to come back. Men greeted and then off to debriefings and medical checks. To fly to Moscow Wednesday
REPORTER: Richard Roth
(Studio) Report on Soviet cooperation with regard to press coverage.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Moscow, USSR ) Walter Cronkite talks to reporter on screen. Things move slowly here. Often information contradictory. Some asked Ambassador Walter Stoessel not to go to Baikonur launch, since reporters not allowed to go. Reporters made best of situation. Hard to guess if this type of situation will be repeated. Mission, as far as detente goes, on plus side.
REPORTER: Richard Roth; Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President Ford vetoes bill to keep price controls on "old" oil and roll back and put ceiling on "new" oil prices.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Chairperson Council Econ. Advisers, Alan Greenspan, says veto could cause 7 cents/gal. gasoline rise in 6 mos. Says action won't affect economy recovery, since President plan would do same thing over longer period. [GREENSPAN - says no significant impact on recovery. Price rise won't occur right away.] Republican House leader John Rhodes tells President he has votes to sustain veto but not to approve Ford's plan for gradual decontrol.
REPORTER: Bob Schieffer
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(Studio) President Ford meets with family of Frank Olson, who killed self after CIA gave him LSD.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Ford and Olsons shown. Ford wanted to apologize for circumstances that led to Olson's death. All information with regard to death made available to them and Attorney General to meet with their attorney with regard to claims against CIA. Olson statement reflects hope CIA is accountable for its actions and everyone safe from abuses of power by American intelligence agencies.
REPORTER: Phil Jones
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(Studio) June Gallup poll shows 52% approve of President Ford. July Harris poll shows approval by 41%.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Senator votes to limit debate on motion to take up bill to extend Voting Rights Act of 1965 for 10 years House approves extension.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Ldrs. 4 postal workers unions think members will ratify new contract. Postmaster General Benjamin Bailar expects terms, incling. no layoff guarantee, to mean higher postage rates.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Egyptian troops fire on United Nations positions in Sinai, and Israel steps up mil. movement there. United Nations Security Council to appeal to Egypt President Anwar Sadat to renew United Nations mandate. Rptd. Egypt and Israel closer on interim Sinai peace agreement.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) Israel plan is for American technicians to join Israelis and Egyptians at electronic listening posts in Sinai. Israel would yield most of Gidi and Mitla passes but retain control of eastern slopes in Sinai to build defense line.
REPORTER: Bernard Kalb
(Sinai) Israel would continue operating early warning system on western slopes. Egypt could build similar system. Israel would relinquish oil fields at Abu Rudeis and provide Egypt with link-up corridor to their territory.
REPORTER: Bernard Kalb
(DC) 1 proposal asks that all Israel-Egypt disputes be settled by talks and nonrecourse of force. Plan calls for less economy and political warfare against Israel by Egypt.
REPORTER: Bernard Kalb
(Studio) United States ambassador took Israel proposals to Sadat, who'll give answer Tuesday
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) President Ford leaves Saturday for European trip and European security conf. where post-WW II borders to be confirmed.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Helsinki, Finland) Security conference to be held at Finlandia Hall. Police, Army and Air Force to provide security. Delegates to be housed in 3 hotels; hard to find 35 president suites. Many leaders may stay in embassies. United States and USSR embassies shown. Phone company readies for conference
REPORTER: Van Gordon Sauter
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(Studio) Moderates ransack and fire-bomb 4 Communist party headquarters in North Portugal. Premier Goncalves predicts forming new nonpartisan national unity government
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Org. of African Unity charges French invaded Comoro Island France denies charge but says there are French troops on Mayotte island of Comoro group that want to stay part of France.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Christina Onassis, 24, to marry Alexander Andreadis, 30, son of Greek shipping tycoon. Expected she would marry Peter Goulandris son of another shipping tycoon.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) FBI crime statistics show 18% rise for 1st 3 mos. compared to 1974. Attorney General Edward Levi says mustn't accept this terrifying fact of life as normal. Says 1 of 5 crimes solved.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Grain handling company and 13 employees charged with multimillion theft of grain from New Orleans and Houston facilities.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(New Orleans, Louisiana) Indictment charges Bunge Corporation with false keeping of records and charging foreign buyers for more grain than they received 1/3 of US grain moves through New Orleans. Investigations continuation of grain export bus. 1/3 of all grain inspectors here may be indicted, according to Senator Dick Clark.
REPORTER: Bruce Hall
(Studio) Continental Grain Company sells $600 million of corn and barley to USSR . Longshoremen talk of refusing to load United States grain on Soviet ships.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Bal Harbour, Florida) Some longshoremen say last grain sale fueled inflation. [President International Longshoremen's Assn. Thomas GLEASON - feels resolution not to load any ships with American grain will pass. USSR will either sell wheat for profit or store it up.] Vote could come Wednesday
REPORTER: Tony Sargent
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(Studio) Rain in New Jersey causes flooding. Rail service to New York, Washington, DC and Boston knocked out.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(New Jersey) Main track and trains near Trenton under water. Flooding shown. Amtrak couldn't charter enough buses for rail passengers. [Mary FABER - says won't leave home until water comes up to 2nd story. Too many scavengers.] Rescue boats take people to high ground. Some canoe and swim. Trains sit idle.
REPORTER: Jim Kilpatrick (WCBS-TV)
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(Studio) Oil slick off Florida coast 25 mile long and heading for shore. Coast Guard works to keep it off. Not known who is responsible.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Corsica police paint 15 nude sunbathers blue due to law forbidding such nudity.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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(Studio) Many of Vietnam "orphans" aren't orphans.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Berkeley, California) April 1975 film shows Operation Babylift. 2000 children evacuated to US. Child adopted by American discovered to have parents in Saigon. Her mother smuggled her aboard plane because child 1/2 American. [Foster mother Lisa BRODYADA - says child thinks about going home when her family mentioned.] Children will be returned if established who their parents are and if they want their children back. Will take long time to settle future for children. [BRODYADA - says will be harder on child and more difficult to trace childrens' families the longer immigration representatives wait.]
REPORTER: Richard Threlkeld
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