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(Studio) Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge called home from Paris Peace Talks. President Nixon talks to Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker before he returns to Vietnam. President to meet with Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, General Earle Wheeler, and others Saturday Lull conts. 1 battle reported Casualties reported.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) Laird says Cmdrs. have new orders to cut down casualties. [LAIRD - says tactics changed due to Viet Cong and North Vietnam. Impact being assessed. We'll press Vietnamization program.] Says scaling down point of program.
REPORTER: Robert Goralski
(DC) President decorated 4 war heroes in ceremony on White House lawn. [President NIXON - says rededicated selves to bringing peace. Heroism is man's greatest asset.] Lull may be enemy's choice; an attempt to keep casualties down while waiting to see what happens on United States home front.
REPORTER: Richard Valeriani
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(Studio) No progress in Paris. Ambassador Lodge asks other side to look at President Nixon's peace proposals. Enemy says October 15 protest shows how United States feels.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Wednesday's moratorium incring. to include conservative corps plus students. 17 Senators and 41 Representatives endorse it. Ceremonies to be held across nation House may stay up all night to hear antiwar speeches.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) former booking agent for ofr. and NCO Clubs in Vietnam, June Collins, testifies that club mgrs. demanded kickbacks. When she complained she was boycotted; i.e., her acts not hired.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) [COLLINS - says corruption widespread in NCO Clubs. Don't know any custodian who doesn't get kickbacks.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Potential for graft in Vietnam. On 1 post, 42 clubs.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Long Binh, South Vietnam) 100s clubs in Vietnam. $9 million year operation here. Club shown. Clubs now have tighter accounting procedures.
REPORTER: Robert Hager
(Studio) Clubs operate on own income. Govt. accounting doesn't apply. Virtually no accounting in some.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Senator Judiciary Committee approves Haynsworth nomination 10-7.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) Committee shown. [Senator James EASTLAND - reports vote. He'll be confirmed with 30-35 votes against him.] [Senator Birch BAYH - asks why President conts. when 1/2 Senator has doubts?] Republican Senators Robert Griffin and Charles Mathias vote against Haynsworth. Mathias asks American Bar Association to look into allegations. Senator Ernest Hollings says confirmation by 1 vote would be victory.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Illinois Governor Richard Ogilvie puts 2,000 National Guard on standby in Chicago area following Students for a Democratic Society and police fight.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Chicago, Illinois) Students for a Democratic Society arm selves to carry fight to rich. They shout "dirty words," break windows, and call it revolution. 65 arrested. [Mayor Richard DALEY - says this type of conduct won't be permitted. Those arrested between ages of 18-25.] Rally held by women carrying clubs. Police wouldn't let women march to Draft Induction Center with clubs. They march to subway and go home to suburbs.
REPORTER: John Dancy
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(Studio) Defense tries to discredit police infiltrator who testified Wednesday
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Mary Jo Kopechne's parents protest possible exhumation and autopsy of daughter's body. Judge reports Friday
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Czechoslovakian government issues orders preventing private citizens from visiting West
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) USSR and People's Republic of China to discuss border dispute. China demands USSR admits Tsars seized some of their territory.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) East Germany celebrates 20th anniversary with military parade.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(E. Berlin, East Germany) Parade shown. Soviet Communist Chief Leonid Brezhnev and E. German Communist Chief, Walter Ulbricht shown.
REPORTER: Sy Pearlman
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(Studio) National Congress of American Indians presses for Indian rights.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Albuquerque, NM) Mood of meeting angry. [United Native Americans Lehman BRIGHTMAN - says came down here to cause disturbance. Geronimo and others would turn over in their graves.] Indians demand government action against poverty and discrimination. Indian parade shown. Vice President Spiro Agnew and Interior Secretary Walter Hickel sent out to talk to Indians. Senator Edward Kennedy pledges to support Indian policies. [KENNEDY - criticizes American policies to Indians.] [AGNEW - says policies are less than effective, but 8 years Democrat control did that.] Indians heckle Hickel. [HICKEL - says no plans without asking Indians 1st.] Even moderates tired of promises.
REPORTER: Don Oliver
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(Studio) Labor Department says it will try to end racial discrimination on Fed. construction projects. Says cities should work out own plan for private projects.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Witnesses say Denis Rohan often removed from Jerusalem mosque he burned. Defense to try and prove insanity.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) British Home Secretary James Callaghan orders crackdown on rioters and troublemakers.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) United Nations General Assembly to debate hijacking policy. Cuba to ignore it. National Airlines jet hijacked to Cuba; 46th this year Air Force resumes 24-hr. surveillance in Florida straits after Cuban flew in last week
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Jungle movies outdated, so man who rented out wild animals goes bankrupt.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(1000 Oaks, California) Animals auctioned. Mrs. Gladys Porter gets orangutan and mate for $20,000. She'll give them to zoo in Brownsville, Texas. Zoo to be named after her.
REPORTER: Jack Perkins
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