This program is 27 minutes long
#7027
(Studio) Soviet P,Min. Aleksei Kosygin flies to Peking for meeting with China Premier Chou En-lai. Their 1st meeting in 4 years Mtg. brief, but constructive. Irv Chapman reports meeting arranged by Romania's Premier
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#7028
(Studio) Egypt and Israel fight air battle over Sinai Desert. Reports conflict. Israel hits Jordan bases with retaliatory actions. United Nations plans to take new action on Mideast.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) USSR For. Min. Andrei Gromyko and Secretary of State William Rogers to hold secret New York City mtgs. next week United States to see if USSR really wants peace.
REPORTER: John Scali
#7029
(Studio) Pres, Nixon to speak before 24th United Nations general session Thursday May use it as forum for United States Vietnam policy.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#7030
(Studio) Vietnam fighting resumes. B-52s continue bombing. Casualties reported.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#7031
(Studio) United States and Thailand negotiate gradual withdrawal of United States troops. Thais to withdraw 12,000 from South Vietnam.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(South Vietnam) Thailand says they're needed at home. They're skeptical of United States role in S.E. Asia, They always go with winner. Thailand dickers with Peking for diplomatic recognition.
REPORTER: Craig Spence
#7033
(Studio) General Motors Corporation raises prices from $98 to $199 per car. Blames labor, material costs, and taxes. All mfrs. to raise prices. Henry Ford II fires Ford Pres, Simon Knudsen. Gives Knudsen his best wishes and says things didn't work out.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#7034
(Studio) $900 million bid for drilling rights or leases in Alaska oil fields. SS Tanker Manhattan on test voyage in N.W. Passage.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Arctic Circle) Trip normally takes 17 days 1 way. Dick Shoemaker aboard tanker plowing through solid ice. Scientists test ice for thickness, temperature, and strength to see how tanker built.,
REPORTER: Dick Shoemaker
#7035
(Studio) Consol. No. 9 sealed up in November to stop fires. Work begins to remove 78 bodies trapped in mines.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Farmington, West Virginia) [Police Chief Orville MARTIN - says mine opening better for people because they no longer have to wait.] [Mrs. Mary MATISH - says we'll never forget disaster.] [Miner Charles PRIESTER - says it's all in coal mining.] Most miners wait to return to work.
REPORTER: Bob Sprague WTAE-TV Narrates
#7037
(Studio) House Appropriations Committee told West front Capitol Building could crumble from helicopter shock waves. $2 million designated for rebuilding,
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#7038
(Studio) Senator Finance Committee holds tax reform hearings. San Francisco spinster livens up hearing.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) [War Singles Spokesperson Dorothy SHINDER - makes protest with regard to committee ] She asks for tax relief and $35,000 reparations for each woman over 35 deprived of husband because of war., [SHINDER - describes damages to women because of war casualties and homosexuality.] [Chairperson Senator Russell LONG - agrees with her about no tax advantages for homosexuals or anyone else.] [SHINDER - says they ` re taxpayers.]
REPORTER: Stephen Geer
(Studio) Doubtful she'll get reparations Senators, talk of oil depletion allowance and investment credits.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#7039
(Studio) Cairo, Illinois declares emergency after racial unrest., Schools closed and police patrol.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#7040
(Studio) 3 arrested after murder attempt on Mayor Charles Evers. Former leader of Ku Klux Klan splinter group, Dale Walton, charged with crime.,
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Fayette, Mississippi) Judge Evers turns meeting over to Mayor pro tempore. [EVERS - explains how lady warned him.] Walton attorney says no evidence to support charge. Bond set at $10,000. Walton bound to grand jury. City attorney Martha Wood introduces 5 guns from Walton's car into evidence. Walton charged with attempted murder, concealed weapons, and speeding.
REPORTER: Don Farmer
#7041
(Studio) Senator Everett Dirksen buried in Pekin, Illinois
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#7043
(Studio) TWA, at United States request, agrees to fly black militant Robert Williams from London to Detroit to face kidnapping charges. Williams and his attorney to be only passengers.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#7044
(Studio) Several arrests made in C. Burke Elbrick kidnapping case.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#7045
(Studio) Students return to college.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Lafayette, IN) Purdue's band led by Director Al Wright practices marches and songs. [WRIGHT - tells how band learns drill techniques.] Peter Jennings drills with band which spells out FRANK.
REPORTER: Peter Jennings
(Studio) Reporter comments on band spelling out his name. ,
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#7047
(Studio) Solutions sometimes lead to problems.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Studio) Washington, DC police cracking down on drug peddlers leads to crime rate increases Drug scarcity led to price increases Addicts will pay any price. Why not supply drugs at cost to users who agree to rehabilitation? Similar program cuts crime rate in London.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#664153