GOOV EVENING EV~RYBO D Y: X- \' hen the/Fifteen set a new a ltitude record today - -' ilot Joe alk er could see the entire ~alifornia Coast. In fact, hi.? could see south into Lower California - and north into Oregon - for a thousand miles. The combination lane-and-rocket ship - went up a hundred and sixty-five thousand teet. Up - up more than - thirty-one miles into the skf. as it curved over the top of the flight-arc - Pilot Walker becaae weightless for two m'.inutes. •Just. like falling through air• is the way he p uts it. Then - his weight returned. The X-Fifteen - zooaed down toward the earth, aafelJ back - to Edwards Air Force .oase. March 30, 1~61 ~£:dean Se cretary of S t a t e ~ f « ~ - Prime llinisterl\ conferred today _ for - two hours_;\ '.Dltaa -- .. - !ask: WTui ~ • • r l : a l ti ■ b st ,-- f \t ~ --- • ~-oacer r : a t ~ · Laos. L( / / ' ~kgreemg: that three points must be observed 4 in any settlement of the Laotian crisis! - _,, first, a cease-fire - before negotiations begin. ~cond, Laos is to be - free and neutral. ? Red China. 'lhird, a seat at the Conference Table - for That is, - if Mao Tse-Tung is willing to send a representative. The only difference of opinion between Rusk ancl Rehru - concerns the present Premier of Laos. The American Secreta1'1 of State - defend¢ Prince Boun Oua. k , ~ The Indian Prime Minister A' i11clined to blaae the Prince ' f o ~ ~ : 1 ; 1 ' the crisis, However, Rusk told newsmen at the New Dehli airport - that we are not coamited to any Tt:af=i«, individual leader of Laos. · ~ ~ e backing Boun Oum zi&hL now - but are prepared to see a different Laotian Premier, hen and if a settlement is reached. Ll&.L . . . .. . n ~ "-~ The situation in Laos <'ta ~or■al~ ' 1, the Laotian In f orma t ion Ministe~ Normal - meaning •serious•. Bouavan Norasing, making the point - •* that his country doe an' t need SEATO troop~ yet. Of Q0d1'18:; - \he Communist Rebels are deep inside Laos•- but then I they've been the re quite a while now . . / )(1th Laos getting used to the threat. 8111, tbere Bo panic - in Vientiane. -'Lc11,~,~ ~ te<rreali1a: / ,Bouavan Norasing admits - kat his government i i relieved, now that the Bangkok Declaration has been made public. )the SEATO ) pledge to take action - to prevent Laos fromaing swuped by the Reds. ~QIGO . . . . .. All American ships and planes are barre d from That is - arms carrying arms - bound for the Congo. ordered by any Congolese faction. Secretary of Commerce Hodges signed the Order today - making the ban world-wide. In other words, it applies to weapons - that might reach the Congo by way of some third nation. Penalty for violation of this Order - a year in jail, a thousand dollars fine, or both. . ~ . . in Iraq. Reports reaching Cairo tell of massive rioting - -r A three-cornered brawl - involing Co ■aunists, A. Arab Nationalists, and Iraquis loyal to the regime of Premier Iassem. The trouble began - with a strike of taxicab drivers in Baghdad. The Reds, using the walkout - to touch off rioting in the stre~ta. . Arab Ration aliats, joining in - shouting, •Baaaer!• •1aaaer!• Which brought Iasaea. tbe Loyalists out - to throw punches in favor of The fight, erupting iuto,A.~ ~ • ~ • with sticks, knives and guns. A triangle of forces - surging through the streets and into the public buildings. ,, Yor'-ing the government to bring the Aray the city is un d er - a strict into Baghdad. Tonight, f1; ::ti:. curfew. j'rmored cars• on / ,.._ T"anks - guarding keJ intersections. Preaier Iassea, fighting_back - against the Reds and the Arab Nationalists. Rua siane. In Geneva, the issue is s q uarely up to - the The issue of - a ban on atoaic testing. Aaerican Delegate Arthur Dean, telling newaaen - the West has mad~very conceaaion it can. Anything ■ore - would endanger our security. In particular, an7 retreat fro■ our deaand - for a cheat-proof inspection syst•. there's to be an atomic teat ban - Soviet Delegate So tt : Taarapkin will have to drop his insistence that a Soviet veto be built into the syatea. So Ar, he hasn't given the slightest indication - that he will everlbandon the veto. Out in Kansas, thlf're shouting - •Fraud!•. Residents of the Sunflower State directing~• ~ unflattering epitaph at New Hampshire. Beason. a dispute about the voting on L he Twenty-Third Amendaent to the Constitution. The Amendment giving Electural Ri g hts to ~e ~istrict of Colu■bia. A voice - in the choosing of our presidents. Yesterday, Kansas beca■ e the thirty-eighth state to ratify the amendaent. Making three-quarters ot the states - the needed plurality. Ah, but today ~e• Hampshire decide4 - to reconsider its vote. Then, solemnly re-affirmed - its sup p ort of the fwenty-third Amendment. And ? romptly claiaed - to have elbowed Kansas out of tie decisive s p ot on the ballot. Making New nampshire the state that formerly enfranchised - the inhabitants of the ~istrict of ~olr1bia. To which the Sunflower State retorts - •rraud!• AMINDMENT - 2 ~eanwhile, Ohio is trying to slip a head of both. The Buckeyes, claiming that if Iansas moves up to number Thirty-Seven - Rew Haapshire becoaes Thirt7-~ine. With the deciding spot - nuaber Thirty-Eight - belonging to Ohio. RI.Uii . . . " " The UR today acbie•ed a diplomatic triuaph - aft _. almost a century o~ fa1· 1ure .1. by the in d ividual nations. Subject - narcotics. Ever since the Rineteeat b laatza Century, efforts have been made - to arrive at an international agreement oa the drug trade. The only re~ult - a series of ainor docuaenta signed by a few of the powers. Tbfn - the UI took up the _ problea. One of tbe leaders of the caapaign - A■erican larcotica Commissioner, BarrJ Anslinger. Result - the measure signed today by the delegates. It concerns e•erything froa the cultiYation of dru1-bearing plants - to the treataeat rL The point ia - that . larcotics Control has to be int erna ti onal. A leak in one nation, always creating proble■ s for the rest. That's why llarcotics Agents everywhere are happJ about - this UI Convention to control the drug trade. • I.WU . .. . . One of the aost bizarre cases in the histor7 of A11erican crime - ended todq '1 Fort Pierce, Florida. The case of foraer Judge Joseph Peel - accused of instigating the murder of Judge C. E. Chillingwortb and his wife. Ex-convict •Lucky• Bolzapfel and Moonshiner Bobb7 Lincoln testified that Peel hired the• - to dron the Chillingworthe. The prosecutioa, charging that the ■otive was - Peel's fear that Chillingworth waa going to expose his part in Florida's protection racket. Today's verdict - guilt7. The jur7, addin1 - a recoaaendation of mercy. The case of the Judge - who conspired to have bis colleague on the bench aurdered. For ~e weather story, at Cedar ia J ids . ' .10wa; fifteen hundred famili~ are ready to flee_ at a mement's notice, from the rampaging Cedar liver. Th• flood crest of twenty-one feet is ex . ected to roll down on ~edar iapida, tomorrow. Hence - the actiYity tonigh The Iowa National Guard working frantically to strengthen the levee ot sand bags. Volunteers, all set - to plug leaks as tllydevelop. The Red \-ros1, on call - for rescue operations. The citizens of Cedar &apide - ready to take to the hills, what hills there are. Fifteen hundred miles to the East - a different weather hazzard. Canada's Prince Edward 1 land buried in snow; drifts - twenty feet high; with more than a hundred snow plows are out - trying to clear the highways. A state of emergency on lush Prince Edward lsland, famous for it~ fur farms. from snow - twenty feet dee~ - to ~ick Noel. nu . . . , The Chicagaon indicted as an arsonis .A w- a Deputy Fire Commissioner. Dave Rennie - head of the Fire Department in his district.. ~ted for - bis sense ) of dut~ )'iways showing up at the big blazes. That - was the trouble. Rennie beat the fireaen to the scene so often - t;het they b ecaae suspicious. •Lvestigat ion~,. n■ up4ww14.- -Snding ~ in Rennie's arrest. 11 1 • char1e4 ) with setting - at least \en ••~or fires. t•• lipwts Fire Commissioner - an arsonist.