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(Studio) President Johnson meets with diplomatic and political advisors, National Security Council, and Cabinet. To make television appearance later.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) Appears President will announce bombing of North Vietnam to be stopped. President met General Creighton Abrams Tuesday Tension high. President message to be aired after 8 p.m. EST. South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu says still waiting for North to show good will.
REPORTER: Elie Abel
(Studio) Speech to be aired later. 8 rockets fired on Saigon; 3 killed. 4 rockets hit Tan Son Nhut air base Friday Fighting low. Casualties reported South Vietnam and Viet Cong hold competing cocktail ptys. Weds. after Paris Peace Talks.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Paris, France) Director of NLF's information bureau is Pham Van Ba. His cocktail party held in George V Hotel. Chinese diplomats there as well as Xuan Thuy. South Vietnam party held at Hotel Maurice. Ambassador Averell Harriman there. 2 ptys. illustrate rivalry.
REPORTER: Frank Bourgholtzer
(Studio) Viet Cong will sit with North Vietnam and South Vietnam with American Won't talk to each other but will claim full status.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Report on South Vietnam economy condition.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Saigon, South Vietnam) Inflation high. Wages not up with inflation. Average Vietnam laborer makes $2 daily. People not starving. 145,000 work for Americans, not counting servants.
REPORTER: Andy Guthrie
(Mekong Delta, South Vietnam) Since American involvement, 20% riceland abandoned. Farmers' profits eaten up by high prices of trucker.
REPORTER: Andy Guthrie
(Saigon, South Vietnam) Many making lots of money during war. Black market flourishes. Real economy battles will begin when war over.
REPORTER: Andy Guthrie
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(Studio) General Curtis LeMay warns against bombing halt without major concessions from Hanoi. Fear it's political move and not genuinely for peace.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) George Wallace talks of possible halt.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 1/2 seats empty in basketball arena where he speak Brought his mother. Group enthusiastic.
REPORTER: Ron Nessen
(Hagerstown, Maryland) [WALLACE - wishes halt could have come mos. ago. Some will say move political motivated. War frustrating to whoever is President] Crowd gathers to hear Wallace. [WALLACE - say to hit him, but not any of these little girls, with rocks.] 2 girls hit with miniature liquor bottle. Police carry some of hecklers out. Hecklers provide living target for his charge of country being full of anarchists.
REPORTER: Ron Nessen
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(Studio) At Los Angeles rally, Senator Eugene McCarthy urges voters to drop write-in campaign for him and elect Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Los Angeles, California) [MCCARTHY - tells anecdote with regard to throwing 15 foot rope to drowning man 20 foot from shore. Doesn't know if Nixon can distinguish between pale horse of death and white horse of victory. Give your full effort to Humphrey's election.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) Vice President Humphrey campaigns in New Jersey.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Teaneck, New Jersey) New Jersey vital for Humphrey victory. Spk. to college group. [HUMPHREY - says want to be President instead of Vice President To put Edmund Muskie in charge of vice.] Campaigns in Chicago Friday
REPORTER: Don Oliver
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(Studio) Richard Nixon in New York for rally at Madison Square Garden. 1968 campaign differs from 1960.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Aboard Plane) [Nixon advisor Robert FINCH - says 1960 campaign marked by 2 young men campaigning physically and in depth. No comparison between then and now. Mistakes in 1960 were not proper use of media.]
REPORTER: Herbert Kaplow
(Anchorage, AK) November, 1960, film shown. [NIXON - says 1st time candidate visited all 50 states.] He won AK's 3 votes. Some said he should have spent time in bigger states.
REPORTER: Herbert Kaplow
(NYC) Better pacing in this campaign. Shown with wife Pat and daughter Tricia voting in absentee.
REPORTER: Herbert Kaplow
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(Studio) Navy research ship locates point of nuclear submarine, "Scorpion", near Azores. Vanished last May with 99 aboard.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) USSR forbids Czechoslovakia to accept West currency loans. Insists Czechoslovakia build up heavy industry and increase trade with USSR .
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) President Ludvik Svoboda and Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek came to sign new federal law. Huge crowd greets them. No anti-Soviet protests.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley narrates
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(Studio) West German representatives report senior clerk in defense ministry in Bonn killed self; 6th government representative to die by suicide or unknown causes during study of espionage.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Israel says 1 of its commando units blows up 2 bridges and power station on Nile River.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Actor Ramon Novarro, 69, found beaten to death in Hollywood home.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) reports allied Maritime exercise to begin November 5 in Mediterranean. Soviet fleet to watch.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Lynda Johnson Robb and daughter, Lucinda, leave hospital for White House
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Jacqueline Onassis says she's happy in Athens news conference Says she and husband to return to Skorpios Friday
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Skorpios, Greece) Onassis reported on verge of signing $400 million contract with Greek government Mrs. Onassis shown swimming.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley narrates
(Studio) "Washington Post" notes they'll go on world cruise to look world over before they buy it.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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