MIDDLE EAST Good evening, everybody. June ll, l970 Dallas Townsend King Hussein has taken a dramatic stef, to ease the crisis in Jordan. Late today he announced tlie resigreatlo,e of his urecle as Commander in Chief of the Jorda,ria,r army - a,rd of anotlrer general as commander of an army di villloJt. Tire ousters of b,otli men had been demanded by Palesti11iare guerillas as a f, rice for f,eac e in Jordan. TIie kireg areno1u1ced tl,at lie will take t,ersoreal commared of Jorda,,•• armed forces. Observers believe todays move may · llave averted civil war in t11at Arab ki11gdom. Bui Ille situatioJt remai11s t,recarious - figlltiJtg in Amman over tire tu,st f•• days already llas take,e ma11y lives. Tire White Houae says a special actio11 grout> lteaded by Dr . He,. r y K i s s ; ,. g e r - t A e Pres id en t 's adv Is e r o" NatiOlllll Security affairs - met most of tlie day to co,esider all imf,ltcations of Ille Jordanian strife. Kissinger met will, Mr. Nixon for an lao11r. Tlte over-riding concern, Ille White House says, is the security of American citize11s in the area. MIDDLE EA ST - 2 ---------------- Administration officials also say the trouble in Jordalt may lead to a delay in the announcement that a limited numb• of additional jets will be sold to Israel. That announcement 1,ad been expected next week. PRU THANH The death toll in that C o mmunist massacre at Phu T'hanll in South Vietnam - now set at more than a hundred . Tllese including men, women and children - the innoce,at victims of an enemy terrorist raid. With Saigon callhig it "tl,e worst civilian casualty toll since the Nhe tee11-Sixty-Eiglat Tel offe11s ive. " U. s. casualty figures for tire past week; as anno1u1ced today, showing for the first time - a return to t,re-Cambodia,a offensive levels. l,adeed, ground action co,ati,auing ligltt today - througlaoa,t tl,e war zone. SENATE Tlte Senate today rejected by a narrotv margin - an effort to water down the still-pending Cooper-Church Amendment; with the final tally coming out - fifty-two to forty-seven. However, today's vote bringing about a confusion of '' Ii a ID ts " an d "do v es " - on b o t It s ides of t It e q u es ti on . Leaving Senate observers reluctant to predict •laat tlte event•al outcome will be - or even wlren; especially wltat with numerous otlrer modifications - yet to be dist,osed. of. MOSCOW A related e v ent - Moscow toda y announcing plans - to increase its military aid to North Vietnam. This in response to recent U.S. acts - according to the Kremlin - "intensifying the aggressive war in South. Vietnam." Said acts allegedly including U.S. bombing strikes against Communist Nortl, Viet11 am - plus a "military escalation in Laos" - also, "a,e aggressive war i,a Cambodia. " Quotes from t"e Soviet statement. Soviet President Podgor,ay - later est,a,edi,eg o,a t"e Soviet view. Asserting that Soviet-America,e relations are ,aow "Practically in a frozen state." Ar,d "Ille reaso,a for this" - said 1,e - "is t1re aggressive lir,e of t"e Ur,itetl States - its desire to i,aterfere in the affairs of otlaer f,eof)les - to impose its rule upon tl,em." CRIME The Nixon Administration today unlimbered its big guns in tire battle against crime. The President himself telling Congress to "get off dead center" - with regard to lais ne111 proposed anti-aime program." "I understand partisan politics" - said the President - "I understand dragging feet on some issues - that's tire way t11e game is played. But crime is r,ot a partisan issue" - said he. Addi,ag that "failure of Congress to act - NJill be something for the people to remember." Vice President AgneNJ - also addressing lrimsel/ to tie same subject. Assert•g that criminal elements - in every walk o f • life - are "truly the enemies of our country." And they "must be fought" - said he - "will& every weapon available consistent with our Constitution." NEW YORK Here in New York - death claimed today the first and, . up to now . , last - freely-elected Russian ruler . Alexande · r Kerensk y - the man who headed a brief provisional government back in Nineteen-Seventeen. Taking up - for four months - where the Romanovs left off; but later taking flight - iv hen the Bolsheviks came to power. Eventually emigrating Io t It e U. S. - b e com in g a fJ r of es s or a t St a nf or d Univ er s it y . Now - after all these years - passing away quietly in Isis sleep. Alexander Kerensky - he was eighty-nine. RBAGAN ------ Governor Reagan today /)ut the Caltfornia Natio,eal Guard o,a aleYt - for possible use to put do,o,a co,atir111ed disturbances in Ila Vista. Tl,at~ t11e slMdent com,nu,elty near Ille campus of tlae University of California at Sa,eta Ba,·ha.. Tlae Governor acted after tl,e Sa,.ta Barbarn c 011,. ty sut,e rv is ors dee lared tla e c 011n ty ,,. a •tote- of di• a• t•r Well over sl%-la11r1dred persons laave bee,c arre•ted at Ila Vista,,. ti& = t,ast five 11iglat• of tro•ble. SUGGESTED LEAD-IN TO THOMAS TAPE SLUGGED "SIR JOHN FRANKLIN" Time ,aow for Lo111ell Tlaomas; wit II a,aotlter st,ecial report toJ&iglJt - discussi,ag one of Ille great mysterle• of tl,e Nortltla"d. Lowell . .. SIR JOHN FRANKLIN In th e Arct ic, a liund-r-ed a,sd tu , e,ety years ago, Sir Jolin Franklin, an experienced Arctic leader, aJ1d l,is one-h.,ndred-and-twenty-nine c ompanions va ,aish ed ,. 11ever seen again. But, says a writer in The Jour,aal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, , tlie Frankli,a ext,edition may have contributed e,aormous ly to geographical k11owledge of the Arctic because up to ,aow some forty , expeditio•• have tried to solve tlae Sir Jol,,,a Fra,aklin m:,steTy.. Rigl,t now, one laundred and twenty :,ear s af ter tlae tragedy ,, another expeditio,a made 111> o f Ca,cadiart Army a,ad Air Force people with helic . opters. They are search ;:,, g mai,al y ha the region around the North Magn e tic Pole,, Ki.fig William lslarttl, Vic tor ia Island and places wit h such pie tu.res que rtames as Starvatio11 Cove and Terror Bay .. SUGGBSTBD FOLLOW TO THOMAS TAPB SLUGGED "SIR ,JOHN FRANKLIN" T•a,al yoa,, Low•ll. A,ad now - a firt•l ite• . . . GENERALS Tire Army Chief of Staff, General William Westmorelalul, presided at a promotion ceremony today - first of its ki,ed. Pres e,a ti,ag to two of Ir is office rs - the one-star i,es ig,a ia des ig,aa tirt.g tire ir new rank. First - Brigadier Ge,eeral Art.u Mac Ha, , s - Clrtef of Army Nurses; wlrom lie kissed liglltly - establsslli,w wllat lte called a ",eew protocol." A,sd tlle,e Brigadier Gert.eral Elizabeth Hoisingto" - Cllief of tlee Wo,,sa'• Army Cort,s; wllo,n lie also kissed liglatly - as lie put it • accordhag to "old establtslled traditio,a." A ,nerica 's first lady ge,,erals - weari,eg stars o,e tlleir slaoulders; a,ad also - stars;,. tlrei'r' eyes. Dallas Tow,esend sayi,ag good nigllt.