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(Studio) President Nixon announces cutback in size and power of White House staff. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird will leave cabinet. Nelson Rockefeller and John Connally will get no cabinet positions.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Camp David, MD) [NIXON - says cabinet will have more power. Wants to make government more responsive to people.]
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(Studio) MUD Secretary George Romney leaves cabinet. Will organize citizens group to educate public.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Political parties avoid discussion of real issues, says Romney. [ROMNEY - citizens lack knowledge of what needs to be done.]
REPORTER: Ron Nessen
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(Studio) Director of Office of Management and Budget Caspar Weinberger will resign.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Henry Kissinger and Nixon confer in Camp David, MD, about Vietnam peace talks. Rumors say talks bogged down because of South Vietnam insistence on certain impt. points.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Heavy fighting in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam. South Vietnam seems to be winning.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Phu Hoa Dong,South Vietnam) Town near Saigon recently taken, then lost, by VC. Some Viet Cong may still be in area, and "roam plows" level all vegetation to uncover any Viet Cong in hiding.
REPORTER: Tom Streithorst
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(Studio) Lieutenant William Calley, sentenced to 20 years in connection with My Lai massacre, appeals for clemency.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Fort Benning, Georgia) Parole board officers hear appeal. Interest in Calley case diminishing, as evidenced by emptiness of "Free Calley Hdqtrs."
REPORTER: Kenley Jones
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(Studio) 130 black and white sailors clash at base on Midway Island. Investigation of incident underway.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Govt. of Irish Republic and IRA (Irish Republican Army) clash over jailing of IRA (Irish Republican Army) leader Sean MacStiofain. MacStiofain on hunger strike in military hospital. Police and soldiers on alert in Dublin as demonstrations in support of MacStiofain continue.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Dublin, Ireland) MacStiofain sentenced to 6 mos. for mbrship. in outlawed IRA. Workers go on strike and close several Dublin factories in support of MacStiofain. If hunger strike continues, might die.
REPORTER: Jack Paxton
(Studio) Last week, interview with MacStiofain broadcast over government TV. As result, Irish government fired top execs. of network.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Dublin, Ireland) [MacSTIOFAIN - says IRA (Irish Republican Army) campaign will end when Br. government accepts its terms. Not prepared to compromise.]
REPORTER: Jack Paxton
(Studio) Violence continues in North Ireland. 14 year old boy killed in Belfast when car in which family driving ambushed.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) In Norway, government sources admit that foreign sub allowed to escape from Sogne Fjord to avoid international incident. Mystery sub may have been Russian. USSR newspaper ridicules this idea.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) In Pontiac, Michigan, 5 students (4 white, 1 black) at Central high school shot and wounded by black boy.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) In Cleveland, Ohio, Mayor Ralph Perk has idea on how to cut crime rate.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Cleveland, Ohio) [PERK - says murder must stop. Expects police to do better.] Perk wants police to work 20 hrs. overtime a week Calls for 5% cut in crime rate by December
REPORTER: Lou Davis
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(Studio) On Now 16, 2 black students shot to death during student-police confrontation at Southern University's Baton Rouge campus. Today 2 investigations of incident begin.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Baton Rouge, LA) 12 member commission appointed by state attorney gem. begins hearings on causes and consequences of campus unrest. Blacks hold investigation of their own. Meanwhile students hold demonstration on steps of capitol. [Governor Edwin EDWARDS - blames militants for deaths.] [Edwards and students exchange hostile remarks.]
REPORTER: Fred Briggs
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(Studio) Rachel Magee goes on trial in San Francisco, California, for part in Marin County courthouse shootout of 1970. Angela Davis acquitted on charges on taking part in this shooting in which 4 people killed.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) United States trade deficit is $415 billion in October
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) There is sudden mania for Washington, DC Redskins football team. Team may go to Superbowl after years of obscurity.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Public interest in team intense, hysterical even.
(Studio) President of Redskins is lawyer Edward Bennett Williams. Williams' law firm is counsel for Democratic national committee , and Williams is deeply involved in Watergate bugging case. Nixon comes to games anyway.
REPORTER: Douglas Kiker, John Chancellor
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