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(Studio) Violence at Washington college after students ask that all-white board of trustees take in black member
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Seattle, WA) 1,200 Negroes out of 12,000 at Seattle Community College. Officials yielded to student demands by hiring black administration Protesters who try to take over administration building held back by police. Students rally in sts. Rocks and fire bombs thrown. Police use tear gas and snipers fire back from bldgs. 35 arrested. Negotiators and Governor Dan. Evans try to work out solution. [EVANS - cites reason black trustee named.] 1 board mbr. resigns. Black leaders order return to classes.
REPORTER: Douglas Kiker (KING-TV)
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(Studio) Gunfight at Texas Woman's University in Denton leads to injuries and arrests. City College New York officials agree 50% of each freshman class to come from black and Puerto Ricans. Mayor John Lindsay against all quota systems.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) South Vietnam negotiator Pham Dang Lam says South Vietnam won't accept coalition government and elections before 1971.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) B-52's bomb enemy infiltration rtes. from Cambodia. Fighting has effect on Saigon.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Saigon, South Vietnam) Govt. hard pressed to meet demands for luxury goods. Econists. fear inflation if luxuries run out. Motorbikes, TVs, clothing, and night-clubbing popular.
REPORTER: Bob Jones
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(Studio) South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu visits South Korea where President Chung Hee Park urges him to fight on.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Congress sub-committee studies military spending and concludes Pentagon wastes billions on weapons they don't need or don't work. Defense contractors get money.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) Senator William Proxmire says $80 billion defense budget could be cut $10 billion without harm. Admiral Hyman G. Rickover says uniform accounting practices could save $2 billion year Representative William Moorhead wants Air Force to suspend order for 57 C-5-A transport planes. [MOORHEAD - believes no more C-5-As should be ordered until plan studied.] [Assistant Defense Secretary Barry SHILLITO - says new program to keep Congress and others current on programs status.] Proxmire wants General Accounting Office to oversee defense spending.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) post office motto read. post office loses money, so President Nixon asks Congress to make it independent corporation free of pols.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) [NIXON - says plan improves working conditions, increases efficiency, reduces cost, and removes political control from department] Democrats oppose federal business; say post office government service. Republicans want patronage. Unions oppose it because they'd lose lobbying power.
REPORTER: Richard Valeriani
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(Studio) Org. labor opposes 10% surtax unless tax system overhauled. Nixon may not get surtax extended.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) House Ways and Means Committee offers plans to tax foundations, churches, and social orgs. and limit write-off of hobby agriculture pursuits and charitable contributions. 15 Senators propose excess profits war tax. Oil depletion allowance in jeopardy. Tax reform, but not overhaul, is certainty.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Interim President Alain Poher says he will open talks to get Great Britain in Common Mkt. if elected.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Czechoslovakian President Ludvik Svoboda says those who fled during Soviet occupation can come back and won't be punished. Cntry. has serious problem to face.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Prague, Czechoslovakia) Problem is inflationary buying spree. Price increases don't stop buying. Rents, post office costs, telephone rates, and transportation fares to go up.
REPORTER: Bill Brown
(Brno, Czechoslovakia) Chronic shortages in small industry cities cause people to stock up.
REPORTER: Bill Brown
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(Studio) Senator sub-committee votes to require Federal judges to say where outside money comes from. Congress irritated by Abe Fortas and William O. Douglas episodes.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) James Earl Ray returns to prison following turn-down of appeal.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Nashville, Tennessee) Ray claimed pressured into pleading guilty. Judge Arthur Faquin says Ray asked repeatedly if he knew what he was doing. Ray has no comment. Attys. to take case to Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals.
REPORTER: Floyd Kalber (WSM-TV)
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(Studio) Gary South Krist and girlfriend kidnapped Florida girl, Barbara Jane Mackle,and buried her in box in Georgia. Money paid, girl released, and kidnappers caught. Krist sentenced to life.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(Atlanta, Georgia) [KRIST - says probably got off with life because no brutality or threats of harm. If kidnapper executed, might prevent safe return of victims in other cases. Resigned; not nervous.]
REPORTER: Gloria Crow (WSB-TV)
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(Studio) Congress committee votes for stronger warnings on packages, but turns down move to put it in advertising.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Apollo X astronauts return to Houston, Texas. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) to decide in 2 weeks if Apollo XI to be launched as planned in July. Reporter says lot of training left to do and test vehicle has problems.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller says Fidel Castro still trying to start Communist revolutions in other cntrys. Colombian guerrilla who defected says guerrillas got rich with Castro money, spent lavishly, and got captured by government troops.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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