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#5292
(Studio) Senator Edward Kennedy attacks Nixon administration tactics in Vietnam.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#5293
(Studio) President Nixon and President Nguyen Van Thieu to meet at Midway Island to discuss how to end war.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#5294
(Studio) Attorney General John Mitchell says outside forces are financing militant students.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#5295
(Studio) Apollo X astronauts continue journey to moon's orbit.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#5297
(Studio) United States takes "Hamburger Hill" on 10th day of fighting. Casualties reported Costly battle causes Senator Edward Kennedy to attack administration policy, calling battle senseless and irresponsible. Senator Hugh Scott says such talk didn't serve cause of peace.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#5298
(Studio) Nixon to meet with President Thieu on Midway Island on Jun. 8 to talk of war's end.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) Nixon cancels major University speech on campus unrest to attend meeting Thieu indicated uneasiness over Nixon plan, so conference arranged. [Representative Gerald FORD - says not hurried meeting Admin. wants to clear up differences between Washington, DC and Saigon.] Mtg. could keep Thieu's concern over coalition government from becoming public split.
REPORTER: Tom Jarriel
#5299
(Studio) Secretary of State William Rogers attends Southeast Asia Treaty Organization meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, and says United States won't abandon peaceful evolution of S.E. Asia. Report of Rogers South Vietnam trip's purpose.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Saigon, South Vietnam) Rogers visit sets stage for summit meeting between Nixon and Thieu. South Vietnam understands and approves Nixon plan for pulling out 2 or 3 American Divs. this year Rogers told South Vietnam United States not abandoning her. Thieu believes he can replace 1st contingent with South Vietnam troops. Will Nixon hold up future withdrawals if South Vietnam manpower scarce and battlefield situation changes? Thieu regards all decisions as tentative until he meets Nixon.
REPORTER: John Scali
#5300
(Studio) North Vietnam spokesperson Xuan Thuy says if Nixon keeps Thieu in place, it'll prevent progress in Paris. Says won't comply with requests for prisoners of war information until US stops fighting and withdraws.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#5302
(Studio) Attorney General John Mitchell tells House sub-committee on campus disorders there will be federal prosecution of protesters, but speech didn't deal with government intervention.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) Mitchell drops hard-line and rhetoric. Says no new federal laws needed now and deplores idea of cutting off federal funds to colleges where unrest occurs. No drastic action planned.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
#5303
(Studio) National Guard sprays tear gas from copters on protesters at Berkeley.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#5304
(Studio) Not all campuses torn.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Richmond, Kentucky) E. Kentucky University quiet and calm. [Student Body President Jim PELLEGRINON - says we don't want disorders here. No need for activism now.] [President Robert MARTIN - says youth always rebels against authority and elders. Most students couldn't care less.] Young faculty who believe in change not having contracts renewed or are leaving. [Teacher Ned MOOMAW - says faculty intimidated.] Students resent severe discipline.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
#5305
(Studio) Soldiers on military bases openly challenging Vietnam war. Pvt. Joseph Miles demands right to protest.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Fort Bragg, North Carolina) Army lets Miles "do his thing" under their conditions. Most soldiers don't care what anti-war protesters trying to do. Officers worried. [Lieutenant General John TOLSON - believes young men should think, but can't condone organization opposed to democrat government] Miles arrested for breaking ground rules. Shortly before, attys. for Miles and others filed court injunction against Army rules prohibiting anti-war activities on base. Test case for man's rights in uniform.
REPORTER: Lou Cioffi
(Studio) Soldiers confined in Fort Jackson, South Carolina stockade for taking point in anti-war protests. Federal court asks Army to explain why it's holding men.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#5307
(Studio) House Ways and Means Committee debates surtax.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) Chairperson Wilbur Mills tells Treasury Secretary and Budget Director he wants slashes in budget. [Secretary Treasury David KENNEDY - says administration has come up with substantial cuts.] [Budget Director Robert MAYO - says cuts to be considered.] Nixon will have to agree to cutbacks to get surtax extended.
REPORTER: Bob Clark
#5308
(Studio) Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans says if rising imports to United States not cutback, something will have to be done. Stans tried unsuccessfully to get Japan to reduce their textile exports to US.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Atlanta, Georgia) South textile workers earn $2.28 hour, 5 times Japanese income. Fulton cotton mill shown. American textile industry worried about increased foreign imports. More than 2,000 mills closed in last 20 years Mill workers see foreign textiles as threat to their livelihood.
REPORTER: Don Farmer
#5309
(Studio) United States trade embargo against Cuba attacked by United Presbyterian General Assembly meeting in Texas. Assembly calls for lifting embargo and recognition of Castro government
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#5310
(Studio) FTC (Federal Trade Commission) proposes cigarette advertising that says smoking can be dangerous to health and may cause death.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#5312
(Studio) American Bar Association Committee on Ethics says Abe Fortas-Louis Wolfson arrangement controversial to judicial ethical canons. Committee says judge must avoid even an appearance of impropriety. Senator Margaret Chase Smith says Nixon rules out appointed of Congress members to Supreme Court until after 1970 elections.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#5313
(Studio) Representative Gerald Ford says Nixon to ask Congress for new voting rights bill to contain stronger measures against fraud and corruption.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#5314
(Studio) Apollo X astronauts on way to moon.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(ABC Space Hdqtrs.) Course accurate. Day of star-sighting and television in relaxed style. Risky point when Apollo X put in orbit.
REPORTER: Jules Bergman
#5315
(Studio) Commander Apollo VIII, Frank Borman, greeted by crowd in Prague, Czechoslovakia as he attends convention of International Committee for Space Research.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#5316
(Studio) Chairperson House Appropriations Committee George Mahon says damage to sunken sub. costs $25 million and damages United States faith in military leaders Chairperson Armed Services Committee Representative Mendel Rivers says Mahon playing into hands of US mil. enemies.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#5317
(Studio) Chairperson American Medical Association Drug Council Dr. John Adriani calls for stop of use of brand names on drugs. Says use of generic names safer for public.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#5319
(Studio) Nixon-Thieu meeting reminiscent of LBJ and former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. mtg. LBJ convinced Ky street rioting had to stop, Const. written, and elections held. Right move by LBJ. Vietnam issue not between doves and hawks, but those who don't want to work out problems and those who do. Nixon will work out problems.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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