ABC Evening News - 1969-11-17
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[0:01] Good evening from ABC News headquarters
[0:03] in New York. I'm Frank Reynolds.
[0:05] >> I'm Howard K. Smith. These are tonight's
[0:07] headlines. In what President Nixon calls
[0:09] most momentous negotiations, the United
[0:12] States and Russia open talks on
[0:14] limitation of strategic arms. A South
[0:16] Vietnamese official says he has no firm
[0:19] evidence to support charges that
[0:21] American troops killed nearly 500
[0:23] civilians in a village sweep last year.
[0:25] The Apollo 12 astronauts soar on
[0:28] smoothly into the grip of lunar gravity.
[0:31] And Japanese Prime Minister Sato arrives
[0:34] in Washington for talks with President
[0:35] Nixon on control of Okinawa. Frank.
[0:40] >> And reports tonight from Tom Jarriel
[0:42] with comments on President Vice
[0:44] President Agnew's speech from the White
[0:46] House and Hubert Humphrey.
[0:48] Bob Clark on the Haynsworth nomination
[0:51] as the day of decision nears. Kenneth
[0:53] Dale on the battle of Bu Dop in Vietnam.
[0:56] Jim Burns on the effect of the General
[0:58] Electric strike on one small town in
[1:00] Massachusetts. Jules Bergman with
[1:03] pictures from space sent back by Apollo
[1:05] 12. And tonight's commentary, who is
[1:08] winning the Vietnam debate, the
[1:10] President or the protesters?
[1:13] For all their profound differences and
[1:15] deep ideological divisions, the United
[1:17] States and the Soviet Union share a
[1:19] common concern. Neither wants to see the
[1:21] world each must inhabit reduced to a
[1:23] pile of radioactive dust. So a new
[1:26] acronym has come into the vocabulary,
[1:29] SALT. Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
[1:32] They began today in Helsinki. And as
[1:35] President Nixon indicated in a message
[1:36] read at th