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(Studio) Aide Henry A. Kissinger arrives in Peking; meets with Chou En-lai. Radio Peking broadcasts news of his arrival.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Ottawa, Canada) [Soviet Premier Aleksei North KOSYGIN - says Nixon's visit to USSR and People's Republic of China, are 2 different matters. Both mtgs. should lead to international detente; cannot equate these 2 visits. (Interpreter speaks)]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Kosygin defends Soviet treatment of USSR Jews; says no anti-Semitism there and some of his best friends Jews.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) West German Chancellor Willy Brandt gets Nobel Peace Prize.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Cambodian Premier Lon Nol says will be no democrat in his cntry.; will decide on laws; dissolved national assembly Saturday; protests continue.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(NYC) United States is financing Cambodia's fight against Communists& dictatorships; now just 1 more dictatorship, like South Vietnam. What is worth 1 more American life? Nothing.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Students protest South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu's 1-man election. Buses burned. South Vietnam Supreme Court puts off decision with regard to legality of election.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Saigon, South Vietnam) Thieu controls most, if not all, of court Senator discusses election. Critics want study; proposal defeated by 1 vote. Army engineers build platform for Thieu's inauguration.
REPORTER: George Lewis
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(Studio) Senate Foreign Relations Committee approves plan to limit money, in Laos, Cambodia, and South Vietnam, for sole purpose of withdrawal. Proposal drafted by Senators Frank Church and John Sherman Cooper. Committee also approved Mansfield amendment, which calls for withdrawal, in 6 mos., if American POWs released. Committee votes to reduce administration's foreign aid request by $349 million and bar any aid to Greece and Pakistan.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Dean business school at South Methodist University, Dr. C. Jackson Grayson, will be named chairperson phase II price commission Bd. members may be reported Thursday
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) American Bar Association finds 1 of administration's Supreme Court nominees unqualified and 1 other barely so: Judge Mildred L. Lillie and Arkansas attorney Herschel H. Friday. Attorney General John North Mitchell talked to committee by phone. Admin. threatens to bypass American Bar Association committee , who says they'll take their findings to Senator Judiciary Committee anyway.
REPORTER: Carl Stern
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(Studio) Some big banks cut prime rate from 6% to 5.75%. Morgan Guaranty Trust Company made 1st move. Treasury Secretary John B. Connally delighted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Record breaking grain harvest brings lower farm prices. Agriculture Department will increase subsidies by $600 million to reduce crops. Corn harvests reported on.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Central Illinois) Farmers reluctant to sell because of abundant crop bringing very low prices. Much of crop being stored; brings better price than market price. Agriculture Secretary Clifford M. Hardin reports subsidy increases; American taxpayers to pay for these.
REPORTER: Rebecca Bell
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(Studio) Memphis Mayor Henry Loeb orders 15 day curfew due to death of black teenager, Elton Hayes, in encounter with police. 23 police relieved of duty while investigation goes on.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Memphis, Tennessee) Hayes' funeral held last night. Overflow crowd. Many concerned over police brutality. After funeral, some blacks on street Police copters stand watch. Fire bombings and arson occur. Some car windows smashed. Police on 12 hour shifts. Small crowd at burial. Loeb says city will survive.
REPORTER: Fred Briggs (WMC-TV)
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(Studio) Federal Communications Commission chairperson, Dean Burch, takes issue with CBS President, who cites fed. conspiracy to intimidate network television news. Burch says Dr. Frank Stanton's theory won't wash. Burch and Federal Communications Commission commissioner, Nicholas Johnson appear before Senator Sam. J. Ervin, Junior's subcommittee on freedom of press.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [BURCH - says when evidence exists of news slant or error, Federal Communications Commission acts to protect public interest. No government agency should try to authenticate news. Federal Communications Commission will shun censor's role. Govt. intervention worse than possible rigging.] [JOHNSON - cites networks' opposition to cable television and public's efforts to gain access to own stations through court They want us to do away with Fairness Doctrine internally inconsistent policy. What are their motives?]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) 6 die in Texas floods after summer of drought. Tornados sweep through Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. Tank car fire reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Houston, Texas) Reporters and firemen near fire when 2nd blast occurs. KPRC cameraman, Bob Brandon, suffers 2nd and 3rd degree burns. City fire inspector killed. 37 firemen and reporters injured. Some of injured shown.
REPORTER: Peter Nolan
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(Studio) Executive head Michigan Ku Klux Klan and 4 associates indicted for conspiracy in August bombing of 10 school buses in Pontiac, Michigan.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Admin. says blast planned for Amchitka. Island won't be set off before October 27.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Attorney General John North Mitchell agrees to study Attica prison inmates' charges of state trooper beatings after prison riots.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) USSR urges People's Republic of China, be admitted to United Nations and China expelled.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) New York City policeman tells Knapp Commission extent of plainsclothesmen's take or payoffs.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(NYC) [William R. PHILLIPS - says told never to take money in narcotics, prostitution or involving weapons; notes narcotics payoff becoming frequent now; cites money per month per patrolman according to New York City director; explains how "pad" works, even when policeman leaves division]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Police commissioner, Patrick V. Murphy, calls Phillips rogue cop and doesn't believe many policemen on take. Murphy transfers 260 policemen to other assignments.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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