ABC Evening News - 1970-01-01
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[0:00] Vice President Agnu visits Vietnam and
[0:03] tells the troops, "The people back home
[0:05] are proud of you." As the holiday
[0:07] ceasefire ends, new combat deaths raise
[0:09] the number of American dead in Vietnam
[0:12] to more than 40,000 men. President Nixon
[0:15] establishes a council on environmental
[0:17] quality and says the time to end
[0:19] pollution is literally now or never. And
[0:23] in football today, Texas edged Notre
[0:25] Dame 21 to 17 in the Cotton Bowl and
[0:28] Mississippi upset Arkansas 27 to22 in
[0:31] the Sugar Bowl. Howard, also tonight,
[0:34] reports from Bill Gil on the vice
[0:36] president's trip to Vietnam. Russell
[0:38] Jones on those gunboats arriving in
[0:40] Israel. Peter Jennings on new press
[0:43] censorship in Greece. Gregory Jackson on
[0:45] the big plays in the Sugar Bowl and the
[0:48] Cotton Bowl. Dick Shoemaker on Busby
[0:50] Berkeley, the man behind many of the
[0:52] movie spectaculars of the past, and
[0:55] tonight's commentary on the decade
[0:57] ahead. Frank,
[1:00] we wish it were otherwise, but the new
[1:01] year begins with a report on the old
[1:04] war. The 24-hour truce declared by the
[1:06] Allies has come to an end, and American
[1:08] and South Vietnamese forces have resumed
[1:11] normal operations on land and in the
[1:13] air. American battle deaths in Vietnam
[1:16] now total more than 40,000. 86 men were
[1:19] killed last week. Despite the Christmas
[1:21] ceasefire, 20 more men were lost than in
[1:24] the previous 7-day period. However, in
[1:27] 1969, the number of Americans killed in
[1:29] action was 5,000 fewer than in 1968.
[1:33] Vice President Agnu visited Vietnam
[1:36] today and told the troops, "The people
[1:38] at home are pretty darned proud of yo