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(Studio) North Vietnam step up attacks in South Vietnam; major offensive feared. 34 incidents reported, include attack on Bien Hoa. Helicopter with Army Secretary fired on. Long Cheng, Laos under fire.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Pentagon) Defense Department pvtly concerned about inability of remaining forces to aid in combating enemy offensive.
REPORTER: Robert Goralski
(Studio) United States economic aid to South Vietnam said $1 million/day.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Saigon) United States encourages private industry to build in South Vietnam. Foreign investors aren't convinced easily. US-South Vietnam joint venture in textile mill, French car assmbly. plant, backed by United States gov't. guarantees.
REPORTER: Arthur Lord
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(Studio) Live television coverage of President Nixon's trip to China announced.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Department of Health, Education and Welfare reports more school segregation in North than South. Figures mapped.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [Department of Health, Education and Welfare Civil Rights Director Stanley POTTINGER - says integration hard to fight in North where official segregation not in law.]
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(Studio) Saint Louis Court rules song "Dixie" not racially abusive.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Investigation of gun battle in Baton Rouge underway.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Baton Rouge, La.) 2 deputies Ralph Hancock and Dwayne Wilder killed in violence buried today. Confusion about who fired first shot persists. [Witness West Reed CANADA - says 1st shot came from crowd.] [Police Captain J. Bryan CLEMMONS, JR. thinks he may have fired first with tear gas; says he saw a Negro with a gun.] [Dep., Major William GUMBY, injured, says he didn't see who shot him.] Curfew still enforced by National Guard.
REPORTER: Lou Davis
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(Studio) United States Steel cuts back on engineers because of business slump.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Airlines business improving.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Chicago) Airlines hiring new stewardesses. United Airlines stewardess school reopened. [United VP, Andrew M. de VOURSNEY - says 2 year slump ending, growth expected.]
REPORTER: Bob Jamieson
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(Studio) Okla. grants free land as homesteads to poor Okla. residents as form of subsidy.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Studio) Gov't. subsidies criticized as inefficient and costly, continuing past need. Farm subsidies cited as example.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) 19 year old college sophomore beats stock market without money.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Abraham Treff bought stock via telephone without paying for it to prove brokerage houses so eager for business they don't check clients. [TREFF - says idea emerged from discussion on Ralph Nader. Treff said investigation would yield bad areas in any field and set out to prove it with stks.] (New York) New York Stock Exchange, Lee ARNING - violations of security laws being investigated; most stock business handled over phone.
REPORTER: Pat Collins
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(Studio) Braniff 747 jet hijacker demanded $1 million and parachutes between Houston and Dallas. Passengers allowed to leave plane in Dallas.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Sheik Mujibur Rahman, new leader of Bangladesh, changed from President to P. Min.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Cape Kennedy space port phasing down, selling launch pads.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Cape Kennedy, Florida) Obsolete launch pads to be sold to highest bidders. Prospective bidders are in salvage. One pad launched first manned Apollo shot and unmanned lunar module; scene of fire which killed 3 astronauts.
REPORTER: Fred Briggs
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