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#5185
(Studio) President Nixon addresses nation on Vietnam peace prospects.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#5186
(Studio) Secretary of State William Rogers arrives in Saigon to find new ways to end war.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#5187
(Studio) House member proposes 1st step of impeachment for Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#5188
(Studio) Admin. hunger program branded as "1/2 a loaf" plan.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#5190
(Studio) Nixon speaks on Vietnam peace prospects tonight. Today's White House events may reflect key moment of Nixon president
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Nixon choosing words for his speech. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge arrives from Paris. Lodge feels Hanoi may respond to new initiative.
REPORTER: Bill Gill
(Studio) ABC to carry speech live at 10 p.m. EST.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#5191
(Studio) Rogers arrives in Saigon for 4-day meeting with South Vietnam officials and Us Cmdrs. Assures South Vietnam they won't be abandoned.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Saigon, South Vietnam) [ROGERS - says South Vietnam people must determine own future. Decision mustn't be imposed, but by people's own free choice. Will discuss with President Thieu moves to be made for peace.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
#5192
(Studio) Heavy fighting in South Vietnam. Casualties reported since Sunday
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#5194
(Studio) Fortas gotten 1,000 letters and telegrams; 80% urge him not to quit. Call for Congress action conts.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Fortas being tried by rumor, gossip, and innuendo. Representative Clark MacGregor proposes investigation by House Judiciary Committee, [MacGREGOR - says issue being solved by rumor. Committee could establish facts.] Committee Chairperson Emanuel Celler to decide. Senator Harry Byrd 1st Democrat to ask Fortas to resign. Rptd. other justices told him to sit tight.
REPORTER: Bob Clark
#5195
(Studio) Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader Dr. Ralph Abernathy to speak to Senate Committee on Hunger and Malnutrition. Because he's late, someone speaks before him.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Ponca Indian Martha Grass reports Indian children don't get fed. lunches and Senators don't do anything. [GRASS - says she'll take Senators to places that need investigating.] [Senator Allen J. ELLENDER - asks about OK help with lunch programs.] [GRASS - says she should be asking him.] [ELLENDER - says don't get smart. I fathered school lunch program.] [GRASS - asks why aren't they fed?] [ELLENDER - says local people are doing something wrong.] [ABERNATHY - says hunger should be declared emergency.] Poor camped at Agriculture Department and Abernathy lectured chair representative Secretary Clifford Hardin. Says violence may follow if non-violence doesn't win victories for poor.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
#5196
(Studio) 1st time since Reconstruction Mississippi town elects black mayor. Chas. Evers becomes Fayette mayor.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Fayette, Mississippi) [EVERS - says we won't mistreat whites like you've mistreated us. Show love stronger than hate.] [Ex-Mayor R. J. ALLEN - says he'll cooperate with new administration] [Mrs. Marie WALKER - says we'll see if he'll produce.]
REPORTER: Don Farmer
(Studio) Evers goes to New York City to try to encourage industry for town.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#5197
(Studio) Last year Pvt. Asa Martin, Junior shot by sergeant after insult exchange. Earlier, Commander asked for Martin's discharge as an unfit soldier who smokes marijuana. Martin's mother flew to Vietnam to witness sergeant Bernardo Rodriguez' trial.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Cu Chi, South Vietnam) Mrs. Eugenia Willette came alone and with own money. No officials met her. Met sergeant's father, whose trip was financed by Army. sergeant pleads guilty and gets 10 years and dishonorable discharge. [Mrs. WILLETTE - says still don't know why he was killed.] All she heard was how bad a soldier her son was, and how good his killer is.
REPORTER: Frank Mariano
(Studio) Mrs. Willette says she went because it was symbol case for blacks. Rodriguez same color as son.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#5199
(Studio) H-bomb scientist and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird urge anti-ballistic missile system. Former Kennedy advisor urges against it.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) [Dr. Jerome WIESNER - says anti-ballistic missile weapons system to do little good. Unwise to build it to backup game of chicken.] [Dr. Edward TELLER - says better defense won't make us more offensive. USSR won't attack if not confident of success.]
REPORTER: Bill Downs
(Fort Myers, Virginia) Laird conts. to sell anti-ballistic missile for administration [LAIRD - says Safeguard purely defense]
REPORTER: Bill Downs
#5200
(Studio) Former Pueblo executive officer, Lieutenant Edward Murphy resigns from Navy due to results of Navy hearing. Says Navy won t send him to postgraduate school.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#5202
(Studio) 100's of students demonstrate against New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller in Honduras. Heavy security while Rockefeller visits Guatemala Tuesday
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Guatemala City, Guatemala) Terrorists killed United States Ambassador and 2 United States military officers last year Rockefeller gives reception at Amb's. home for President and Cabinet. Stays 4 hrs. because of weather.
REPORTER: Charles Murphy
#5205
(Studio) Reporter comments on Nixon speech.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Not sure of what Nixon will say. Chief questions are why are we still in Vietnam and is it in national interest to continue to resist there. Need to know why.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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