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(Studio) US-South Vietnam report says allied operations to be scaled to match enemy's. This reverses Thieu's prior rejection of cease-fire. Scattered violations; casualties reported B-52s refrain from action. What happens after truce over?
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) Admin. hopes for longer lasting truce by limiting offensives if enemy does. Effort to test intention of Ho's successors.
REPORTER: John Scali
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(Studio) New leaders take point in mourning for Ho Chi Minh.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Hanoi, North Vietnam) Hanoi mourns. Ho to lie in state 2 days in glass coffin.
REPORTER: Lou Cioffi Narrates
#7393
(Studio) Senator passes resolution of sorrow at death of Everett McKinley Dirksen.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) Body to lie in state in rotunda. Reporter describes Dirksen characteristics and ability as orator. Wanted to restore prayer in public schools. He loved marigolds. Senator Margaret Chase Smith places some on his desk today.
REPORTER: Keith McBee
(Studio) Dirksen leaves political void.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) Probably conservative and liberal Republicans to fight over successor. [Senator Mike MANSFIELD - describes close relations with ED.] [Senator Hugh SCOTT - says his leadership important] Liberal Scott and conservative Roman Hruska available for Minority Leader post.
REPORTER: Bob Clark
(Studio) President Nixon to deliver eulogy Tuesday ABC to cover ceremonies live at 12 p.m. EST.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
#7394
(Studio) President Nixon, en route from West White House to DC, stops in Del Rio, Texas to meet with Mexican President and dedicate Amistad Dam.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Amistad Dam) 2 cntrys. shared expenses over 16 yrs, of construction. [President NIXON - speaks of friendship with Mexico.] After luncheon, President Nixon goes to Gulfport, Mississippi to view hurricane damage.
REPORTER: Tom Jarriel
#7397
(Studio) Ambassador C. Burke Elbrick released. Brazil government begins drive to get kidnappers. 12 arrested. Junta says order and tranquility to be preserved. 15 political prisoners fly to Mexico.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Security officers with him. [ELBRICK - says kidnappers had little good to say about their government Told them he deplored violence. They were young and determined. Describes his release.] He also talked of security for ambs.
REPORTER: Charles Murphy
#7398
(Studio) Arab commandos bomb Israeli sites in Bonn, West Germany; The Hague, Netherlands, and Brussels, Belgium. Palestine Liberation Front takes credit.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#7399
(Studio) Protestant killed in Belfast. Police and troops at barricades.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Belfast, North Ireland) Troops used tear gas Sunday on Protestants. Crowds huddle by barricades.
REPORTER: Bill Beutel
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(Studio) Justice Department files 8th suit versus Georgia school district. Federal court in Aberdeen, Mississippi orders schools to go ahead with desegregation plan. Schools opening leads to political activity.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Birmingham, Alabama) Rally for "freedom of choice." [George WALLACE - says we accepted "freedom of choice" as least disruptive plan. But Justice Department says it won't work.] Black, Isaiah Flowers, comes to see Governor Wallace about daughter who wants to go to all-black school and can't. [FLOWERS - says Board of Education can't do anything. Girl threatens to drop out.] Blacks think parents should make choice, not courts [FLOWERS - says if old enough, you shouldn't have something forced down your throat.] Wallace has new issue.
REPORTER: Don Farmer
#7402
(Studio) Australian Rod Laver wins 2nd Grand Slam; 1st player to do so.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(NYC) He wins US, France, England, and Australian championships 1st Grand Slam in 1962. Laver beats Tony Roche at Forrest Hills.
REPORTER: Jim Kincaid
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(Studio) Frank Reynolds tells anecdote of Dirksen telling LBJ he wouldn't serve him root beer at his party
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Studio) Dirksen was last, best show in town for reporters Tells humorous incidents regarding-Dirksen. Democrat President knew he could deliver votes.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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