This program is 28 minutes long
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(Studio) Chief United States negotiator, Henry Cabot Lodge, called to Washington, DC for new instructions from President Nixon.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#5162
(Studio) Nixon proposes lottery draft system, drafting 19-yr.-olds 1st.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#5163
(Studio) College president says black militants pushed by white revolutionaries.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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(Studio) Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader Reverend Ralph Abernathy says nothing constructive came out of mtg with Nixon.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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(Studio) Nixon requests Ambassador Lodge come to Washington, DC for briefing.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Nixon to announce major Vietnam proposals. [House Minority leader Representative Gerald FORD - says Nixon feels Viet Cong making progress.] Nixon encouraged by VC peace plan.
REPORTER: Bill Gill
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(Studio) Nixon's address to nation telecast live at 10 p.m. EST Wednesday
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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(Studio) Nixon proposes changes in draft system by introducing lottery and reducing maximum vulnerability time to 1 year between 19th and 20th birthday. To continue college deferments, but would be liable for draft 1 yr. after graduating. Present system not equitable or reasonable.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Fort Dix, New Jersey) 1/2 of draft age don't qualify for service. Only 39% of those who do qualify ever go in service. 4,000 local-draft bds. make decision. Major draft board members over 60, former veterans, and don't understand potential draftees.
REPORTER: David Snell
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(Studio) Militant students block main entrance to Southern University in Baton Rouge and cause disruption. Louisiana Governor John McKeithen calls National Guard on standby.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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(Studio) Senator sub-committee on student disorders hears from acting President San Francisco State College, S.I. Hayakawa.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Hayakawa says 100 white revolutionaries on his campus who think they're superior and use 50 black students. [HAYAKAWA - says blacks pushed into revolution by whites. Blacks will go to prison for it, not whites.]
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
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(Studio) Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader Dr. Ralph Abernathy meets with Urban Affairs Council on poor peoples campaign.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Abernathy didn't get extra talks with Cabinet members and Nixon. [ABERNATHY - says Nixon gracious, but nothing constructive came out of mtg. Most fruitless of all mtgs.] Abernathy angry because Nixon won't send federal mediator to Charleston, South Carolina to settle hospital strike,
REPORTER: Tom Jarriel
#5173
(Studio) For 1st time since 1965 Federal Voting Rights Act adopted, Mississippi population votes in municipal elections. Charles Evers runs for mayor of Fayette and 1 town postpones elections.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Canton, Mississippi) Angry Negroes postpone election because of white group annexing itself from Canton.
REPORTER: Don Farmer
(Fayette, Mississippi) Evers casts vote. Registered blacks outnumber whites 2-1. [EVERS - says would try to run kind of community that brother Medgar, and Bobby Kennedy died for. Would have no guns.]
REPORTER: Don Farmer
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(Studio) Algiers Motel in Detroit scene of death for 3 black men in 1967 riots. Thought killed by white policemen. Jury of 13 women and 1 man, all white, chosen for trial of 1 white policeman.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Mason, MI) Jury to decide whether Ronald J. August guilty or innocent. Alleged 3 black youths beaten and then executed. August being tried for murder of Aubrey Pollard.
REPORTER: Vin Marshall
(Studio) Trial held in Mason because defense contends August couldn't get fair trial in Detroit due to publicity.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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(Studio) Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans says trade talks with Japan unsuccessful. Refuses to restrict synthetic fabrics and woolen exports to US. Balk with regard to foreign investments. Textile workers protest Stans' restrictions. Believed Nixon pledge to South Congmen. involved. REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Hamamatsu, Japan) Textile plant workers against United States export restrictions because it could cost their jobs. Plant manager says would have to go out of business Washington, DC imposing on Japan's friendship to get her to cut back on major market Japan did agree to limit steel exports.
REPORTER: Roger Peterson
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(Studio) New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller ends visit to Mexico, 1st stop on Central American tour.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Mexico City, Mexico) Rockefeller spent 6 hrs. at For. Min. Mexico seeking favoritism from United States in trade. Holds news conference 17 of 23 advisors present.
REPORTER: Charles Murphy
(Studio) Rockefeller meets with Guatemalan President for 3 hrs. Useless meeting reported Then moves to El Salvador.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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(Studio) Senator Joseph Tydings, backer of Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas for Chief Justice, calls for him to resign.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#5180
(Studio) Army to delay shipping 27,000 tons poison gas across United States by railroad to dump in sea until National Academy of Sciences reviews plan.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#5181
(Studio) Reporter comments on campus unrest.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) College reform needed and order must be maintained. Panels could be set up for reform on each campus and rules of behavior could be for all. Police not alien body; prompt punishment needed.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Johnson and Nixon draft proposals not fair. Unfair if any can be excepted from military service. Volunteer army not reasonable,
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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