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(Studio) Defense Secretary Clark Clifford says enemy shelling from DMZ (demilitarized zone) commits violation of understanding, but United States committed to peace efforts.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) Clifford reveals 5 1/2 mos. negotiations that led to deal with Hanoi. [CLIFFORD - says communique agreed on by President Johnson and South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu. Later that day, Thieu said he couldn't go along with agreed deal because didn't have time to get his delegation together. He had 4 or 5 more reasons for delay the next day. Ellsworth Bunker and Thieu talk. President felt he had to go ahead with commitment. Can't speculate on what caused South Vietnam to change its mind. Know we had clear understanding until 1st objection brought up.] Clifford says Rich Nixon informed of these difficulties. Nixon teamed up with President in pursuit of Vietnam settlement. United States to look for solution whether South Vietnam goes along or not.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Studio) South Vietnam Info. Min. Ton That Thien says government wants to know agenda beforehand. B-52s hit enemy targets South East of Saigon and along Laos border and Ho Chi Minh trail.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Report on Vietnam pacification program.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(South Vietnam) 40,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnam pull out of areas where they had been entrenched. Villages and hamlets enjoy relative security.
REPORTER: Robert Goralski
(Sa Dec, South Vietnam) Province secure. Copter or plane best way to get there. VC defectors shown. 2,500 defected last month Experimental farm shown. VC destroy equipment. [Pacification Director William COLBY - says large number of dedicated young people will help to reduce problems.]
REPORTER: Robert Goralski
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(Studio) President-elect Richard Nixon names Bryce Harlow to be chief of Congress liason. Background cited.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Trial of James Earl Ray postponed until Mar.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Memphis, Tennessee) Attorney, Arthur Hanes, Senior, wanted trial to begin today. Ray did not and fired Hanes. Ray in court besides Sheriff William Morris and deputy assistant prosecutor, Robert Dwyer asks court not to let Ray delay things by changing attys. New attorney, Percy Foreman, says Ray has right to cnsl. of choice. Judge Preston Battle grants attorney change and delay until Mar. 3. [FOREMAN - says in this case for same reason that setter points. Right thing for me to do. It's how badly he's needed.] Foreman could dominate trial.
REPORTER: Jack Perkins WMC-TV Artist: Leo Hershfield
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(Studio) Severe winter storm hits E. coast from Maine to SC. Snow in Carolinas; floods occur. 20 killed.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) approves Apollo VIII to orbit moon. Launch is December 21.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(No Location Given) Apollo VIII 1st to use Saturn V rocket. Crew Frank Borman, James LoveII and William Anders won't try to land on moon. Mission described in detail. Moon photos shown. Animation of flight created.
REPORTER: Roy Neal
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(Studio) Czechoslovakian border closed to its people. Seen as move to keep intellectuals and talented people from leaving. New censorship begun.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Communist Party Chief, Leonid Brezhnev tells Warsaw Pact ntns. in Warsaw that Communist military power so great that Imperialists afraid of defeat.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) commander Lyman Lemnitzer says risk to West incrd. due to Czech invasion. Says NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) members must provide more troops and weapons to meet threat.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Catholic bps. meet in DC.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) Some of priests disciplined by Cardinal Patrick O'Boyle for liberal stand on birth control and their supporters hold sit-sing-pray-in at National Conf. of Catholic Bps. [Archbishop John DEARDEN - says we don't have jurisdiction over some areas. Will see that proposals get careful study.] Bps. wrestle with Pope Paul's ban on birth control. [Bishop James SHANNON - says he is keeping document secret until it's finished.] Pope accepts Canadian interpretation of his birth control encyclical. Americans hope to follow their model.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Ex-Defense Secretary Robert McNamara denies bringing or recing. messages from Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Moscow.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Soviet Ambassador Yakov Malik opens United Nations debate on disarmament. Says USSR willing to hold talks with US. United States calls on United Nations to reject resolution to reject China (People's Republic)
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) French high school students plan class-room boycott in support of demand to abolish exams. France raises bank rate from 5 to 6%.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Carl Louis Heiman, 72, who invented dance "Lambeth Walk", dies in London.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) John T. Scopes was the substitute teacher found guilty of violating Tennessee law against teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. He was retired geologist in Shreveport, Louisiana. Tennessee rescinded law years ago. Scopes conviction overturned in higher Tennessee court Arkansas law similar to Tennessee's declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Defense Attorney Clarence Darrow and prosecutor William Jennings Bryan and press corps led by H. L. Mencken made Tennessee trial classic. Comments made with regard to era.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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