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(Studio) President Nixon to speak to nation on Vietnam peace prospects. Met with Congress leaders, Vice President Spiro Agnew, and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge. President won't propose unilateral withdrawal. Secretary of State William Rogers says speech important and Representative Gerald Ford calls it interesting.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) Speech is progress report May discuss mutual withdrawal and strength of South Vietnam Army. Must come up with something tangible,
REPORTER: Herbert Kaplow
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(Studio) Earlier, Lodge attends joint meeting of Cabinet and Ntl, Security Council
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Rogers arrives in Saigon to look for new ways to peace,
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Saigon, South Vietnam) Rogers and wife met at airport by son, Jeffrey, Navy ensign. Reviews troops. [ROGERS - says many pts. of Viet Cong plan un acceptable, but some can be explored. Senseless killing of Vietnam civilians isn't compatible with peace efforts.]
REPORTER: Chet Huntley (narrates)
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(Studio) NBC to carry Nixon's speech live tonight at 10 EST.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Enemy offensive in 4th day. Casualties reported 40 United States bases hit. B-52's bomb enemy near Saigon. Danang hit by rockets.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Danang, South Vietnam) People killed near 7th Day Adventist Church. 23 killed.
REPORTER: Richard Hunt
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(Studio) Defense Secretary Melvin Laird defends ABM, Defense Department spendings, and Pentagon. Senate Foreign Relations sub-committee continues hearings on ABM.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) Nuclear physicist Dr. Edward Teller for ABM. Former Presidential advisor Dr. Jerome Wiesner against it. [TELLER - says careful debate needed.] [WIESNER - says anti-ballistic missile can't work as hard point defense Need good defense] Teller and Wiesner agree about what must be done.
REPORTER: Robert Goralski
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(Studio) Geneva sources say United States ready to talk of limiting strategic missiles with USSR . USSR deps. say USSR ready to talk.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Formal request for Congress inquiry into Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas's affairs made.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) Representative Clark MacGregor says hearing should be open with Fortas and Attorney General John Mitchell invited. Unclear if House leaders and administration will go along. Fortas spends day with advisors. Fortas got and later returned $20,000 from Louis Wolfson Foundation. Wolfson now in jail for stock manipulation. Justice William O. Douglas gets $12,000 year from Albert Parvin Foundation, under study by SEC. Parvin once named as co-conspirator in stock case with Wolfson not indicated. Mrs. Fortas attorney for Parvin Foundation. Letters running 4-1 in Fortas's favor.
REPORTER: Douglas Kiker
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(Studio) Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana quiet after Tuesday violence. Governor John McKeithen to meet with students to discuss grievances.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Out of 100 candidates, 25 blacks elected or be in runoffs in Mississippi elections. Charles Evers elected Fayette's mayor.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Fayette, Mississippi) Town ruled by whites since 1875. 5 Negro aldermen elected. Evers' brother Medgar Evers killed 6 years ago. [EVERS - says we won't mistreat whites like they mistreated us. Show United States what love can do for town.] [EX-Mayor R. J. ALLEN - holds no ill-will. Loves Fayette and Jefferson Cnty.] Evers says he'll resign after year if it doesn't work out.
REPORTER: Charles Quinn
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(Studio) Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader Dr. Ralph Abernathy asks Senate Committee for food for poor. Says Johnson administration ignored poor and Nixon administration falls short of goals.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Private money and skilled hands get better lives for some Alabama families.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Alberta, Alabama) 150 black women members of Freedom Quilting Bee Co-Op., formed 3 years ago. Made $22,000 in 1968. Made $21,000 in 1st 3 mos. of 1969. Workers earn $6-15 day, instead of $2 in cotton fields. Rev. Francis Walter saw quilts, marketed them, and helped organization co-operative Publicity brings orders. Quilts cost $120-200. Co-op buys 23 acres for new sewing ctr. to be built by July. [Co-op. Bd. Chairperson Callie YOUNG - tells what workers can buy because of Co-op.] Talk of day care center, general store, and working land. Co-op may become total farm co-op community.
REPORTER: Aline Saarinen
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(Studio) 500 students fight with police in Honduras while protesting against
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's visit. 1 student shot.
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(Studio) More race riots in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Reserves called in to help Army keep order.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Israel Police Min. Eliahu Sasson says Egypt doesn't want peace and predicts war.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Pueblo executive officer Lieutenant Edward Murphy resigns from Navy because couldn't accept inquiry-finding that he was derelict in his duty.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Apollo X given go-ahead. NBC to cover event, beginning Sun at 11:30 a.m. EST.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Ponca Indian Martha Grass testifies before Senate Hunger Committee Debates Senator Allen J. Ellender.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) Ellender asks about OK assistance. [GRASS - says you guys ought to know.] [ELLENDER - says don't get smart. You're the witness; we legislate laws.] [GRASS - asks why Congress doesn't see they're carried out.] [ELLENDER - explains 3 branches of government]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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