This program is 27 minutes long
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(Studio) Astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan separate from Apollo X command ship and fly near moon's surface in lunar module. Color pictures of moon shown. Stafford and Cernan tell John Young to have good time while they're gone.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Other side unyielding at Paris Peace Talks. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge says time come for bargaining. North Vietnam spokesperson Xuan Thuy says Lodge playing to American public opinion. 2 sides far apart. Says withdrawal never possible. Casualties reported.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Head 101st Airborne Div., Major General Melvin Zais, defends "Hamburger Hill" attack. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird not optimistic.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) [LAIRD - says enemy steps up offensive; questions their intentions. Hope Nixon peace plan to succeed. Will dwell on South Vietnam army modernization.] Says enemy ground attacks more than any time since Tet offensive.
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) Secretary of State William Rogers and Southeast Asia Treaty Organization allies agree ntns. giving troops to war should have voice in peace terms. Suggested United Nations force of Asians could supervise end of fighting.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Congress asks Air Force Comptroller if there'll be another bad contract like C-5-A contract with Lockheed. He says `no.'
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Marietta, Georgia) C-5-A Mil. Transport is Air Force showcase. Cost reported as $2 million over original cost. Lockheed Georgia president T.R. May blames overrun on inflation. [MAY - explains how inflation changes cost.] Lockheed doesn't count extra hardware needed to keep C-5-A flying; their estimates differ with critics. No scandal unearthed. Program's size enhances errors and cost increases 2/3 planes built by subcontractors-in 45 states. Air Force examines construction steps which cost more. Overrun due to military- industry complex and taxpayers continue to accept it.
REPORTER: Blaine Littell
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(Studio) Cost of living rose 0.6 of 1% in Apr.; more than 7% year Workers' wage increases wiped out by price increases Apr. increases biggest in 13 years
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Senator Carl Curtis tells House committee able-bodied poor should work on road gangs to earn their food stamps. Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch wants Congress to replace program with cash.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Police and National Guard fight with campus snipers at North Carolina A and T University in Greensboro. 1 black student shot and killed.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Teachers from University California at Berkeley meet with Governor Ronald Reagan.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Sacramento, California) Profs. protest National Guard on campus and use of copters with tear gas. 200 teachers refuse to teach if Guard and police not removed. [REAGAN - asks if rioters will give up Hitler-like tactics if they're moved.] [Prof. Gwen CHAMBERLAIN - says revolutionaries small group. Mil. interference not necessary.] [REAGAN - says teachers should say they don't condone disorders.] [Prof. Leon WOFSY - cites major students against violence. Chancellors stop negotiations with students for fear of Reagan firing them.] [REAGAN - calls Wofsy liar. Denies putting political into regent's mtgs.]
REPORTER: Don Oliver
(Berkeley, California) 200-500 students arrested for refusing to disperse.
REPORTER: Don Oliver
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(Studio) National Committee group tries to see how to pick convention delegates more fairly.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Jackson, Mississippi) Negro reformers tried to unseat Alabama delegation last year [Regular Alabama Democrat Robert VANCE - says violence at convention threatened Democrats] [Reform Alabama Democrat John CASHIN - says regulars never try to reform Democratic party] [Mississippi Freedom Democrat Fannie Lou HAMER - tells of being pacified.] [Mayor-Elect of Fayette Charles EVERS - says should reform National party 1st.]
REPORTER: Fred Briggs (WLBT-TV)
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(Studio) Nixon says he'll never appointed friend to Supreme Court or make appointed based on geography, religion, or race. Former President Lyndon B. Johnson's close friend appointed was Abe Fortas.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) Liberalism of Warren Court predicted to decline, especially in personal rights and criminal procedures. Warren and Burger moderate on civil rights, but tough on law and order. Burger strict constitutionalist; Warren saw Court as tool for social engineering.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Nixon explains process of picking justices. Herb. Brownell, Potter Stewart, Thomas Dewey, and Attorney General John Mitchell asked not to be considered. Burger 1st heard of appointed from Mitchell. Nixon asks Burger and family to coffee.
REPORTER: Herbert Kaplow
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(Studio) Sirhan Sirhan's brother, Munir, thanks Senator Edward Kennedy for trying to save Sirhan from gas chamber.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Will former Arnold, Fortas, and Porter law firm take Abe Fortas back? Lawrence Stern of Washington Post says firm can't decide. Fortas has no plans beyond Israel visit. Washington, DC attys. think firm would find his name an embarrassment and won't take him back.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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