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(Studio) President Nixon to make TV-radio speech Wednesday on Vietnam.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) Chairperson Joint Chiefs Staff, General Earle Wheeler, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, United States Vietnam Commander General Creighton Abrams, and Nixon discuss Vietnam at White House: new wave of enemy mortar attacks; Viet Cong peace plan; and general military situation.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley (narrates)
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(Studio) Enroute to Vietnam, Secretary of State William Rogers denounces Viet Cong terrorism; questions whether Viet Cong want peace. Terrorism believed to be prelude to summer offensive. Enemy fires rockets on Tan Son Nhut and Saigon. 159 allied bases and towns hit Sunday and Monday
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Time of Nixon speech not known. NBC to carry it live.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Senator Paul Fannin says reliable attorney told him Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas may resign this week Fannin won't call study on $20,000 Fortas took from financier Louis Wolfson, and later returned. Fortas speaks at Memphis State University on justice.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Memphis, Tennessee) [FORTAS - says we're at a watershed of freedom and law and order.]
REPORTER: John Dancy
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(Studio) Attorney General John Mitchell admits talking to Supreme Court justice Earl Warren about Fortas.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) Nixon administration pressures Fortas to resign. Pol. brawl may result.
REPORTER: Douglas Kiker
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(Studio) Pentagon Director of Research and Dvt. Dr. John Foster says anti-ballistic missile deployment is imperative. Foster says USSR conts. to dev., and, if United States doesn't act soon, will be too little, too late.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) Possible Soviet buildup of forces main argument for ABM. Doesn't take United States subs. and airborne weapons. Responsible for underwater missile fleet, Rear Admiral Gerard C. Smith says subs. invulnerable. Strategic bombers will be dispersed across nation, making them harder to attack. Pentagon wants super insurance against remote possibilities.
REPORTER: Robert Goralski
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(Studio) Congress, especially Senator, critical of military spending. Senator Edward Kennedy 1 of opponents.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) [KENNEDY - says Americans concerned with defense spending in excessive amts. Prepared to support necessary spending.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) Interim French president Alain Poher says he'll run for 7-yr. term. Only serious competition for Georges Pompidou.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Speculators lose money when West German mark not revalued. Speculators desert mark for franc and pound.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller hears demands from busmen. and inds. in Mexico City.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Mexico City, Mexico) 1st stop on fact-finding trip to Latin American cntrys. Rockefeller accompanied by 23 specialists to confer with experts. Rockefeller greets people in Spanish. Leftists consider him robber baron. Strong security observed.
REPORTER: Tom Streithorst
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(Studio) Students for a Democratic Society ordered off Saint Bonaventure University in Allegheny, New York, by president Seminarians occupy building to protest for black demands at Union Theological Seminary in NYC. 100 students on 3rd day of hunger strike protesting expulsion of student body president at Marietta College in Ohio.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) North Dakota community quiet after wkend. rampage by college students.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Zap, North Dakota) Student tells why there were problems. Mayor Norman Puce said town ready for 2,000 Mississippi and college students due in for fun wkend. They arrived Friday and Mayor called National Guard in Friday night. Idea was to have a zap-in. Students got mad when beer rose from 35 cents to 50 cents; broke windows and destroyed property. National Guard escorted them out of Zap and Hazen, their next stop. Bismarck made park available. 60 arrested for disorderly conduct.
REPORTER: Floyd Kalber
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(Studio) Representative Carl Albert says Labor Secretary George Shultz announces closing of 59 Job Corps ctrs. before office seat warmed.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) South Carolina Governor Robert McNair, eases curfew in Charleston because of hospital strike. Southern Christian Leadership Conference holds rally.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Charleston, SC) Southern Christian Leadership Conference orgs. strike, but organized labor steals show. [UAW Walter REUTHER - says will give officers of hospital union workers $10,000.] March, led by Reverend Ralph Abernathy, incurs no trouble. McNair says strike is for impossible. Union recognition out of question; no settlement in sight. [McNAIR - says nothing can be done unless general assembly changes law.] City economy hurting. Neither of 2 hospitals likely to shut down.
REPORTER: Charles Quinn (WCIV-TV)
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(Studio) Crowds celebrate 100th anniversary of opening of 1st transcontinental railroad in Promontory Summit, UT.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Promontory Summit, UT) Driving of gold spike reenacted. 2 replicas of locomotives present. History of event related,
REPORTER: Chet Huntley (narrates)
(Ohio) Ohio train almost empty and not very fast. [Engineer Byron SCHLEICH - says they want to get rid of the train.] For lack of business, train will be discontinued
REPORTER: Mark Landsman
(DC and NYC) Metro-liner commuter train is future of trains. Makes trip from Washington, DC to New York City in 2 1/2 hrs. Prices lower than planes, and train luxurious. Fares sold out 2 weeks in advance.
REPORTER: Jack Paxton
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(Studio) Black militant Fred Evans convicted of 1st degree murder in killing of 3 Cleveland police and 1 civilian. Sentenced to die in electric chair in September
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Chairperson Senator Armed Services Committee John Stennis to begin hearings on C-5-A cargo plane costs.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) General Motors Corporation says production of Chevrolet Corvair to be stopped.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Communist China agrees to meet with USSR over border dispute next month
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Maginot Line, built to defend France from Germany, was tragic mistake. Germans went around it, conquered France, and, line became butt of jokes
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(N.E. France) Concrete bunkers making up Maginot Line for sale. French government owns them. French Defense Min. Andre Maginot built them and called them airtight defense against Ger. Bunkers converted to hses., warehses., and garages.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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