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(Studio) Senior North Vietnam negotiator Le Duc Tho en route to Paris for meeting with Henry Kissinger on Vietnam peace settlement. Kissinger will go to South Vietnam after meeting, then Secretary of State Rogers will go to Paris to sign formal agreement. South Vietnam negotiator Pam Dang Lam instructed to keep talks going until changes made.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(White House) Kissinger expected to leave for Paris by weekend for final round of Vietnam peace negotiations. South Vietnam President Thieu knows he cannot block settlement and will accept it.
REPORTER: Richard Valeriani
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(Studio) Dow-Jones Ind. Avenue makes history, closing over 1000.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(NYC) Scene on exchange floor asavenuepasses 1000 shown.
REPORTER: John Chancellor (narrates)
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(Studio) American air raids reported near DMZ. Partial bombing halt of North Vietnam continues.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Hawaii and Ohio call out National Guard in wake of storm.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Des Moines, Iowa) 8 1/2 in. snowfall in Nebraska and Iowa. Schools close, power failures result, traffic jammed. 5 die of heart attacks shoveling snow. (Chicago, Illinois) Rain and high winds sweep Lake Michigan waves onto shore causing flooding.
REPORTER: (WHO-TV newsfilm)
(Port Clinton, Ohio) 40 mph. winds drive Lake Erie waves ashore. Residents evacuated. Governor John Gilligan orders out National Guard to help with flood relief.
REPORTER: John Harrington
(Studio) Europe also hit by storms and gale winds.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Pvt. Billy Dean Smith found innocent of killing 2 Army officers with hand grenade in South Vietnam last year He was found guilty of assaulting an MP.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Fort Ord, California) 7 Army officers sit on jury. Prosecution tries to show Smith sought vengeance. Says he mistakenly killed 2 officers in attempt to kill C.O. and 1st sergeant Points to grenade pin found in Smith's pocket. [Defense attorney Luke McKISSACK - happy with verdicts.]
REPORTER: Gail Christian Artist: Gaylord Bennett
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(Studio) Navy Secretary John Warner says only small group of men involved in racial disturbances on American warships. Chief of naval personnel, Admiral David Bagley warns there will be more violence. Chief of naval operations, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt says discipline will not be relaxed.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(San Diego, California) 130 sailors, most black, refused to return to carrier Constellation last week after protesting racial discrimination. [Black Servicemen's caucus, Jake COLBERT - says black sailors punished more severely than whites for same charges.] protesters disciplined. [Captain J. D. WARD - says several men worked to create racial incident.]
REPORTER: Bill Windsor
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(Studio) Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray says he made decision to shoot out tires of hijacked Southern airliner, with concurrence of airline.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Saint Louis, Missouri) [GRAY - says crew, plane unsafe to continue strenuous flying. Ordered tires shot to abort more flying.]
REPORTER: (WSD-TV newsfilm)
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(Studio) Associated Press reports 2 McGovern aides knew Senator Thomas Eagleton had been hospitalized for exhaustion before Eagleton was selected as McGovern's running mate. Frank Mankiewicz, Gordon Wilde didn't pass information to McGovern until later.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Dr. treating Alabama Governor George Wallace says governor will never walk again.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Former Argentinean dictator Juan Peron returns from exile in Spain.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Rome, Italy) Supporters greet Peron at his stop in Rome. Wants to see Pope though he was excommunicated for deporting 2 priests while in power. Excommunication lifted. Peron talks with Italian Premier Giulio Andretti. Peron says he and 3rd wife Isabelle are returning to Argentina on mission of peace. Peronist party wants him to run for President
REPORTER: Charles Quinn
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(Studio) British soldier shot to death by sniper in Belfast, North Ireland. Sniper was from either IRA (Irish Republican Army) or UDA.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(N. Ireland) Pvt. Protestant Army, UDA, claims 60,000 members Ranks grow to combat Catholic IRA (Irish Republican Army) terrorism. [UDA colonel Sam DOYLE - says UDA fights for better Ulster for everyone, where subversives can no longer operate.] UDA claims some instructors are American Vietnam vets.
REPORTER: Jack Paxton
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(Studio) Israeli Defense Min. Moshe Dayan meets with Secretary of State William Rogers. Does not ask for more weapons or bring new peace proposal.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Bomb hidden in hollowed-out book delivered to office of United States Info. Service in Ankara, Turkey.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Price Commission authorizes bread price increase by Continental Baking Company due to higher wheat costs after United States grain sale to Russia.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) In Brooklyn, New York, man tells clerk his car is on fire. Clerk runs to stamp out fire at car's wheel, returns to office to find safe robbed.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) United States Supreme Court moves against small town speed traps. Court rules mayors of such towns can't sit as judges in traffic courts Case involved was from Ohio.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Monroeville, Ohio) 1968 traffic case involved truck driver Clarence Ward, convicted by mayor of failure to stop at truck check point to show license. Fined $100. Village operating budget comes from traffic fines collected in court in which mayor is judge. Supreme Court throws out conviction on ground that mayor, responsible for village finances, may be tempted if also traffic judge. [Mayor Thomas BERGMAN - says he tries to hold just court]
REPORTER: Lou Davis
(Studio) Despite court action, speed traps continue in American Greek government of Premier George Papadopoulos passes law making it a crime while driving a car to be poorly dressed, unclean, or ill-mannered. United Press International says new law will be severe handicap on Greek drivers who use obscene gestures to help them conmunicate with other drivers.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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