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(Studio) Green Berets' trial called off.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) [Army Secretary Stanley RESOR - says CIA won't make its personnel available to testify in trial. Defendants can't get fair trial and charges will be dropped. Men to be reassigned out of Vietnam. Army won't condone alleged unlawful acts,j
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Several House Representatives applaud decision. Report on how decision was reached.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) President Nixon personally orders charges dropped. President Nixon finds way out of case when CIA Director Richard Helms says CIA men wouldn't be able to continue Vietnam jobs if they had to testify. General Creighton Abrams to be disappointed by outcome. He ordered court-martial due to Berets telling him 2 different stories about incident,
REPORTER: John Scali
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(Studio) Beret attys. elated Edward Bennett Williams expected to drop charges.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(San Francisco, California) [Henry ROTHBLATT - says they had to drop charges. How can men doing their duty be charged with crime? CIA representatives didn't tell the whole truth and Army representatives are upset.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) F. Lee Bailey says good judgment prevailed. Colonel Robt, Rheault says "thank you very much."
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#7295
(Studio) Charges and countercharges about Chicago 8 trial hurled about.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Chicago, Illinois) Judge Julius Hoffman drops contempt charges against 4 defense attys. and allows them to withdraw. 2 defense attys. offer mistrial motion; motion denied. 200 attys. hold march around Federal Building [Former Defense Attorney Michael KENNEDY - calls Hoffman injudicious, intemperate, and impatient. Hoffman not fit to sit as judge in US.] United States Attorney Thomas Foran criticizes defense cnsl. Sculptured clenched fist placed on defense table.
REPORTER: Hugh Hill Artist: Anthony Accurso
#7296
(Studio) Court hearing on Kopechne case held,
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) Mary Jo Kopechne's parents there to prevent autopsy. Attorney Joseph Flanagan says DNA. Edward Dinis's request for autopsy should be denied, or autopsy hearing should be delayed until inquest begins. Dinis asst,, Armand Fernandes says autopsy essential. Judge Bernard Brominski asks Fernandes for medical opinion of autopsy value 2 mos. after burial.
REPORTER: Stephen Geer
#7298
(Studio) Minority Leader Senator Hugh Scott asks for 60 days free of Vietnam criticism. Assistant Minority Leader Robert Griffin says next 60 days important for negotiated settlement. Senator Edward Kennedy rejects pleas. Senator debate set for October 8.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Boston, Massachusetts) [Hubert H. HUMPHREY - says President Nixon has had a time. Compares administration to student, and says student apt to fail due to poor work.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) 65 of 74 Justice Department attys. say President Nixon lets political slow down school desegregation, Asst, Attorney General Jerris Leonard says too few people in administration to enforce "instant integration."
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#7300
(Studio) Report on Cleveland Democratic primary,
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Cleveland, Ohio) 1st Negro mayor of major city, Carl Stokes, up for reelection. Controversy surrounds Stokes replacing white policemen with blacks for ghetto and administration scandal over alleged special treatment for Negro police applicants. Former Service Dir,, Robert Kelly, is Stokes' opponent. [KELLY - says Stokes' failure to enforce law divided people. Spks, of crime and violence in city.] [STOKES - says some question our safety on street record and our support of police out of pol, motivation,] White Republican candidate is Ralph Perk, who is expected to win in November Voter registration down in black wards and up in white.
REPORTER: Howard Tuckner
#7301
(Studio) 1000 welfare protesters and University students take over state Capitol in Madison, WIN led by Father James Groppi.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#7303
(Studio) CDU has dominated West German chancellorship, Examples given: Konrad Adenauer, Ludwig Erhard, and Kurt Kiesinger. CDU may lose to Willy Brandt's Social Democrats
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Frankfurt, West Germany) Brandt says he'll form new major government He calls on President Gustav Heinemann, as does Kiesinger. Brandt implies he has necessary Free Democrat votes, If elected he'll decide whether to revalue mark upwards. Central Bank says it won't support mark at present level, and will let mark find own level.
REPORTER: Ray Moloney
#7304
(Studio) Atomic Energy Commission reports People's Republic of China sets off nuclear bomb in air. USSR offers 5-part plan for reconciliation with China, incling. mutual withdrawal from border area.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#7305
(Studio) Alexander Dubcek and supporters purged from Communist Party posts in Czechoslovakia.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#7306
(Studio) Report on Bulgaria and health.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Sofia, Bulgaria) Bulgarians claim yogurt and mineral water reasons for good health. Yogurt factory shown. Factory director says 2 pounds yogurt needed daily for good health. 500 mineral spas in country Free mineral water fountains available. Baths shown.
REPORTER: George Watson
#7308
(Studio) Democrat can be dangerous. Hitler came to power legally.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Studio) West German elections should encourage US. Allies provided aid for reconstruction after WWII. Election shows progressive democrat, and mark shows mighty economy base.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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