This program is 27 minutes long
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(Studio) Navy court of inquiry recommended court martial for Commander Lloyd Bucher and Intelligence officer Lieutenant Stephen Harris. Court proposed admonition for Pueblo executive officer Lieutenant Edward Murphy, Junior and stronger admonition to Rear Admiral Frank Johnson and Captain Everett Gladding. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Thomas Moorer recommended letters of reprimand, not court martials. Navy Secretary John Chafee overrules recommendations and says case is over.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) [CHAFEE - charges dismissed because Pueblo crew has suffered enough. Freedom of high seas had been violated.] [Defense Secretary Melvin LAIRD - supports Chafee's decision.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Navy has own code.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) Court of inquiry felt Bucher didn't act in best Navy tradition. Chafee acts on compassion, rather than legalisms.
REPORTER: Robert Goralski
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(Studio) Bucher's attorney reads statement saying Bucher satisfied with decision.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Coronado, California) [BUCHER - looks forward to return to normalcy.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Harris more outgoing about Chafee's decision.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Melrose, California) [HARRIS - is extremely happy and grateful about decision. Would willingly serve under Bucher again.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) Secretary of State William Rogers talked President Nixon out of military response when American plane shot down. Result was American show of force.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Sea of Japan) South Korea expresses doubts about United States commitment there. Regular South Korean forces poorly equipped. Mtgs. occur daily in Panmunjom. Incidents occur along DMZ. American troops told to expect fighting. Air power stepped up.
REPORTER: David Burrington
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(Studio) Nixon plans revision of food aid programs. To spend $2.5 billion yearly and include 440 more counties on food stamps by July of 1970.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Senator Edward Kennedy anti-ballistic missile report says system can't perform missions effectively, and could start new arms race.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(DC) Kennedy commissioned book, written by former President science advisor, 2 Nobel laureates and former White House aides. Sent copy to Melvin Laird. Director of Defense Research and Engineering, John Foster found nothing new in book, several errors noted. Says book offers dangerous and inadequate alternatives to ABM. Foster says estimates of USSR threat up-to-date. University California Willard Libby and former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairperson Nathan Twining and others say anti-ballistic missile makes sense and will work. Senator votes on anti-ballistic missile in month
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) 2,000 Czechoslovakians demonstrate against Soviet restrictions. Carry American and British flags. 5 arrested.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) North Vietnam attacks American outpost near Cambodian border. Casualties reported South Vietnam reopens RR, shut down by last year's Tet offensive.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Saigon, South Vietnam) Commuters board train to go 12 mile United States Mil. Command urges South Vietnam government to reopen train. Soldiers aboard. Train arrives at Thu Duc on time.
REPORTER: Jack Russell
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(Studio) Students opposing Reserve Officers' Training Corps seize Admin. Building at Dartmouth, evicting officials and nailing door shut.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Students protest tuition increases at University IN and Purdue. On 100th anniversary of Purdue, 200 arrested for refusing to end sit-in.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Lafayette, IN) Several hundred walk out before speech by Department of Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch. 229 arrested in sit-in. [FINCH - says University impulse is to be up and about the world's work.] Students march on Admin. Building where President Frederick Hovde tells them he can't do anything about tuition or give amnesty to those arrested. Admin. Building taken.
REPORTER: Floyd Kalber (narrates)
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(Studio) For several nights University Wisconsin students attempt to hold block party and clash with police.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Madison, WI) [Mayor William DYKE - cites absence of city ordinance for block party Asks crowd to disperse so police won't be needed.] 110 arrests since 1st block party attempt. Police chase students.
REPORTER: Bill Matney
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(Studio) Quakers hold overnight vigil at White House protesting Vietnam war. Read casualties for 21 hrs.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) On obscure Hawaiian island, albatrosses eat, fly, and dance. Birds dance to Tchaikovsky music.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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