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(Studio) Pres'. Nixon sends draft reform proposal to Congress making draft a lottery in which 1 year between 19th and 20th birthdays would be the time one was eligible. College deferments would continue. Nixon calls it step toward ultimate elimination of draft.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Viet Cong offensive conts. 40 allied bases hit. Viet Cong turned back from Saigon, Danang, and Pleiku. More fire from DMZ (demilitarized zone) than before bombing halt last November Casualties reported.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Saigon, South Vietnam) Terrorist attacks occur within city. Casualties reported
REPORTER: John Rich
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(Studio) Ambassador to Paris Peace Talks, Henry Cabot Lodge, returns to United States to confer with Nixon before Nixon's address on Vietnam. White House sources say Nixon's speech to be interesting, but not sensational.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Representative Gerald Ford optimistic after talk with Nixon.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) [FORD - says administration has definite plan. Thinks Nixon feels progress on point on enemy.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) NBC to telecast Nixon's speech live Wed at 10 p.m. EST.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Senator Judiciary Committee approves Otto Otepka as member of Subversive Activities Control Bd. Senator Edward Kennedy didn't think there was room on committee for man supported by John Birch Society and Liberty Lobby.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas quiet; cancels New Hampshire judicial conf Senator Sam Ervin cautions against impeachment, saying he'd have to be charged with actual violations. Strong backer of Fortas for Chief Justice, Senator Joseph Tydings calls for Fortas resignation.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) [TYDINGS - says Fortas situation deteriorated beyond recall. Fortas should resign.]
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Dep. Defense Secretary David Packard says radar and missiles for anti-ballistic missile system being purchased with old Sentinel money. Told Senator William Fulbright he wouldn't do that.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Opposition to anti-ballistic missile grows. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researches for military
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Cambridge, Massachusetts) Massachusetts Institute of Technology gets $100 million from federal government to conduct military research. Students and faculty protest this misuse of science. No new government contracts taken until issue studied. [Director Instrumentation Lab, Dr. Chase DRAPER - says University point of nation Believes labs will be destroyed.] [John LISMAN - says looks forward to day Massachusetts Institute of Technology deals with domestic affairs.] Dissidents say 19 of top 25 defense department contractors representative on MIT corp., school's ruling body. Radicals want to ally with labor. [Student Body President Michael ALBERT - asks what will make working class go against present structure.] [Union Official Edward SULLIVAN - says closing of 2 MIT labs would be bad for Boston economy] Labor on side of estimate
REPORTER: Robert Goralski
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(Studio) Democrat resolution for delay in closing 59 Job Corps ctrs. voted down.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) President San Francisco State College, S.I. Hayakawa, tells Senate committee white radicals using black students. Says blacks will go to prison for violence, not whites.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Police and students clash at Southern University. Governor John McKeithen calls National Guard.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Baton Rouge, LA) Construction truck burned. 30 injured in clash. 17 arrested. National Guard on standby near campus.
REPORTER: Doug Ramsay (WDSU-TV) narrates
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(Studio) 200 Negro students at Providence, R. I. Mississippi destroy property and injure 4.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Black and white students clash at Ossining, New York, Mississippi.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Ossining, New York) Students organization wkend. of sports and events with theme of "Togetherness." No trouble during wkend. [Frank DANIEL - says never enemies with Bob.] [Bob WOLF - says athletes closer together.] [DANIEL - says opportunity for friendship here.] [WOLF - says hard to break down barriers, but not impossible.]
REPORTER: Dean Brelis
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(Studio) 1,000 Chinese troops occupy 24 square mile of USSR 's Kazakhstan. USSR troops make no effort to drive them out.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Egyptian artillery hits Israeli truck across Suez Canal. Israeli patrol kills 3 Arab guerrillas in Jordan Valley. Israel patrols search daily for guerrillas in Jordan Valley border villages.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Israel-Jordan Border) Israeli patrols search for Arab guerrillas. Border town shown.
REPORTER: Alvin Rosenfeld
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(Studio) Ann Katherine Jenkins released in Baltimore after father paid $10,000 ransom. Federal warrants out for Edward Lee Dole and woman.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Civil rights leader Charles Evers given good chance to win as mayor of Fayette, Mississippi.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Army to delay transporting 27,000 tons poison gas to New Jersey and into Atlantic Ocean. Study to be made.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) 5 crewmen killed by gasoline barge explosion near La Grange, Missouri.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) 50 killed in racial riots between Chinese and Malaysians.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Youth told police boy fell in Chicago River.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Chicago, Illinois) Police and firemen drag river all night for Randy Usry. [Mrs. Carl USRY - says possible boy ran away. He was very happy.] Little boy returns home after hiding under porch for fear of school suspension.
REPORTER: Jeff Kamin
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