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(Studio) India demands Pakistani surrender as condition for cease-fire. Contd. bombing of Dacca reported State Department says 165 Americans at Intercontinental Hotel sanctuary. Intense fighting reported at Khulna.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(E. Pakistan) Heavy Pakistani resistance to Indian advance, allowing Pakistani evacuation. Indians use tanks, guns, and planes in offensive. Pakistani sympathizers badly treated by Indians.
REPORTER: Richard Lindley (British reporter)
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(Studio) Fighting reported in Kashmir, India. In Karachi, West Pakistan, damage of Indian bombers assessed.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Karachi, West Pakistan) Indian air raids missing military targets, killed several hundred civilians.
REPORTER: George Montgomery
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(Studio) United States carrier Enterprise in Bay of Bengal en route to E. Pakistan coast; could be used to evacuate Americans from Dacca. Washington, DC reports ships will not evacuate Pakistani soldiers.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) At United Nations Pakistani For. Min. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto calls Security Council farce and fraud.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(NYC) [BHUTTO - says disgraceful to remain in cncl.; leaves.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) USSR ready to recognize independent government of Bangladesh; will be 8th most populous country
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) President Nixon dollar devaluation plans prompt value drop on world money mkts. French cabinet hears President Georges Pompidou's report on his talks with Nixon.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Paris, France) French think Pompidou came out better in mtgs. with Nixon, especially in United States concession to devalue dollar. Devaluation will cut prices of United States exports, but Americans traveling abroad will need more money.
REPORTER: Bernard Kaplan
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(Studio) 10 largest non-Communist ntns. to negotiate international financial in Washington, DC Friday Congress leaders back Nixon devaluation plan. President Nixon flies to Florida to prepare for Bermuda meeting with British Prime Min. Heath.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Price Commission rules doctors cannot raise rates more than 2 1/2%, hospitals 6%, without government approval.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) United States Court of Appeals Judge Otto Kerner indicted by federal grand jury on charges of bribery, mail fraud, tax evasion, perjury, and conspiracy.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Chicago, Illinois) [Chicago "Tribune" photos shown.] Kerner career as Democratic party leader, Mayor Daley associate, United States Attorney, governor of Illinois, chairperson Commission on Civil Disorders, and United States Appeals Court Judge reviewed. Plot of buying under-priced race track stock in exchange for governor power in race track dates, etc., revealed. [US Attorney James THOMPSON - says sorry indictment necessary.] Track shots shown.
REPORTER: John Dancy Artist: Verna Sadock
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(Studio) Black Panther Huey Newton released from charges of killing Oakland, California, policeman.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Miami based cargo ship fired on by Cuban gunboat near Bahamas. Cuba charges ship, Johnny Express, used by CIA.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Richard Fecteau held by Chinese 19 years; now in Pennsylvania military hospital.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Valley Forge, Pennsylvania) Fecteau agreeable and in good spirits. [FECTEAU - says he had trial in China, describes solitary confinement; says never gave up hope.]
REPORTER: Catherine Mackin
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(Studio) Paris Peace Talks halted by United States negotiators until December 30. Communists say United States trying to kill talks.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) South Vietnam enter Chup, Cambodia, without fight.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Colonel Oran Henderson My Lai trial goes to jury tomorrow.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Fort Meade, MD) Army charges Henderson with covering up My Lai massacre. Prosecutor Major Carroll Tichenor says Henderson disgraced uniform. Defense Attorney Henry Rothblatt insists Henderson did what he could.
REPORTER: Robert Goralski
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(Studio) Severe earthquake detected off Kamchatka peninsula of Siberia.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) GM, Chrysler and American Motors sell twice as many cars as of December 1, 1971, as December 1, 1970.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) General David Sarnoff buried today. Sarnoff built Radio Corporation of American, helped make NBC an institution
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(NYC) Distinguished persons attending funeral cited. Sarnoff eulogized. [New York Governor Nelson ROCKEFELLER - pays tribute to Sarnoff genius.]
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
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