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(Studio) Taft-Hartley action possible since no solution of West coast strike.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(San Francisco, California) [Federal Mediator J. Curtis COUNTS - tells of negotiation impasse. Real effort made, but not accomplished. Likely Taft-Hartley Law to be enacted.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Governor Ronald West Reagan calls for Taft-Hartley injunction. President Nixon orders fact-finding bds. to report on strikes; may order some of longshoremen back to work.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) 7 of 9 Supreme Court Justices meet briefly.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Court has 2 empty chairs; those of Justices Hugo L. Black and John M. Harlan. William O. Douglas becomes senior justice. Health and age of mbrs. discussed. Nixon can only count on appts. Warren Burger and Harry A. Blackmun as on his side. Justices to confer on which of 800 appeals they'll hear. Impt. topics delayed until more court members received
REPORTER: Carl Stern
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(Studio) Representative Richard H. Poff took self out of running for justice position due to labor leader citing Poff and others offering bill to insure justices being native-born American Virginia newspaper quotes leader with regard to Senators having for.-born constituents.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) House votes to uphold President' decision to delay federal workers' pay raise. Senator votes to raise military salaries and sets limit on money for Laos.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Report on terror from Nashville, Tennessee, to Jacksonville, Florida.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Jacksonville, Florida) Hijacker of plane, real estate man, George M. Giffe, charters plane in Nashville. Orders plane to Bahamas, West Indies; FBI shoots tires on refueling stop in Florida. [FBI spokesperson James O'CONNOR - describes shots.] Giffe shot wife, pilot, and self. "Bomb" turned out to be box of papers. Nashville police find suicide notes in his car. Other hijacker, Bobby Wayne Wallace, held. Co-pilot escapes injury.
REPORTER: Fred Briggs (WFGA-TV)
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(Studio) Interior Secretary, Rogers C.B. Morton says trans-AK oil pipeline won't be built across Canada; says building won't begin until 1972.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Prudhoe Bay, AK) Pipeline to begin here. Construction equipment idle. Some wells being drilled. Conservationists fear damage pipeline could cause. Studies made. 85% Alaska want pipeline. [AK Speaker House Eugene GUESS - talks of pipeline; feels it can be built safely.] Delay insures building of safeguards.
REPORTER: Don Oliver
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(Studio) French ambassador to Peking confers with high Chinese representatives; says something going on, but he can't say what. New theory is power struggle crisis between moderates led by Chou En-lai and radicals led by Dep. Premier Lin Piao and Air Force head, Wu Fa-hsien. Surmised losing radicals may have gotten Air Force plane to go out of cntry., but it was shot down. Rptd. Soviet team reported on identity of bodies. Expulsion of Soviet spies from Britain thought to be reason for Soviet meeting
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(London, England) Many left Sunday 200 reported to have sailed on "Baltica" bound for Leningrad. Vodka in all cabins reported.
REPORTER: John Chancellor (narrates)
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(Studio) South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu calls voter turnout for him victory for Democrats, defeat for Cmnsm; charged election not fair. Riots at Danang, South Vietnam.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Saigon, South Vietnam) Votes counted. Some charges of unfairness. Vietnam Supreme court urges Thieu to fire province chief responsible for prior cheating. Province chief, who is Thieu's relative, delivers 99% Thieu vote; 95% in nation for Thieu. 1 protest at medical school broken up.
REPORTER: Jack Perkins
(Da Nang, South Vietnam) 75% votes for Thieu. Voter turnout light. Army gathered here to stop more riots. Sunday's violence cleared up.
REPORTER: Lou Davis
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(Studio) 3,215 men withdrawn. 212,500 now in Vietnam.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Captain Ernest L. Medina resigns from Army after acquittal of My Lai killings. Witness says Colonel Oran K. Henderson's report on My Lai in error. Secretary Army Senator Robert F. Froehlke to review case of Lieutenant Colonel Anthony B. Herbert.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Mbr. panel to protect Attica prison inmates testifies to controlled hostility between guards, 2 prisoners since riot. Some prisoners in suits against Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York commissioner corrections and Attica warden.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Attica, New York) 4 inmates arrive at federal courthouse. Attorney says 2 had been kept in stuffy confinement for 3 weeks as ring leaders in riot. Hearing conducted by Judge John R. Curtin, concerns what's happened to inmates since riots. Inmate William Jackson says no connection with riot, but saw others beaten on September 16, after revolt; says saw inmates' belongings destroyed. Accused ringleader, Gary Haynes, tells of ill-treatment and being denied medical attention Inmate Charles Colvin says forced to remain naked 2 or 3 days and beaten; says forced to sign paper couldn't read and 6 mos. added to sentence. Assistant New York Attorney General David Richmond conceded 6 mos., but said it'd been reversed. No cross-exam. here.
REPORTER: Bob Teague
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(Studio) Harris poll shows blacks with greater animosity to whites than vice-versa.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Secretary of State William P. Rogers offers Egypt and Israel United States help in agreement to reopen Suez Canal.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Yippie leader, Abbie Hoffman, tells Wisconsin audience changes may be brought through ballot box; says youth cult taken over by Hollywood; gets crew cut.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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