JNDO CHINA ~ The war in Vi e ltiam - marked /oday by I\. a udden upsr,r g in groi,nd fightin g; with the loll of Am e rican dead, coming lo at leas/ nine ; for US day forces - /lie high e I single A . . ~ figure in a month. At the same time it enemy gunner0ooting down a U S recon,iaissance plane .I " o v er North Vietnam. US headquarter in S a i g o n ~ saying u..t both crewmen "are presu ,n ed dead. " .s Melvin Laird call~ the downing of the America,s plane - a violation of the agreement th.al originally led I:••~ to t h e U S b o m bing halt. Laird adding that the U S stands ready to take "appropriate action". WHITE HOUSE From !he Wliile House - a clarificalion loday of US Polic - wilh regard to ii, admission of Commu11isl China lo /lie Uniled Na/ions. This f o l lowing a U N s P e c l1 b }' U S am bass ado r Chris top h er .. ~ Pl1illipsA. widely interpreted as a U S move /oward a "lwo cliina" policy; '!_:£._epl that /he While House flow A, ->DYS - it a just isn't so. While House U S is interested in seei,ig Red Cliina - "Play a con st r u c ti v e r o le a m on g JI, e fa m il } ' of n a Ii on s ". Bu I , "the position of /hi tsox government - regarding Red Chinese admission inlo /he United Nations - lias not changed," said l1 e. Adding, thal , indeed, "Peking --~ in joining /lie u N I has never indicaled any inleresl - I\ unless it is co11pled will, the exp11l ion of Nationalisl China." GUATEMALA CITY Guat e mala Cil) 1 , Guatemala - - a declaralion of modifi e d martial low today; by order of President Carlos Ara,ia O orio - wlio was elecled recently on a tough law and order platform. >t,ew-- The Presldent's A action -- followittg Lile killing of two policemen; the latest in a series of terrorist slayings~allegedly per pet rat e d by le f Ii s t guerrilla~ • M l , k«s A u I ho r i ti es adding that the two policemen apparently lllere shot - merely to gel their side arms. MONTE VIDE 0 At Montevideo in Uruguay - a darin , , bank ;yob b er y l o d a :, b Tupa m a r o tat« 1e r r or is ts ; " ll o escaped with an estimated forty-eight thousand in ~· cas~/also jewels valued at six million. According to a bank spokesman - /lie biggest jewel theft of all time. MINNEAPOLIS Here at home - Minneapolis - a bizarre plot to kidnap Mtss Minnesota Go v ernor Harold ~ d . Levande1'). isclos e d today witlt the arrest of a twenty year old youth - Ronald Reed - who was originally sought for attempted bank robbery in Omaha. . F B J agents s a y - they found in Reed's pocket a couple of notes indicating plans for tlie kidnap attempt - also'( an air liner ,,., hi - jacking. ·~ With Reed's apparent purpose - · we are told - t~orce the . - i . . . releGse of Angela Davis, Bobby Seale and others. A third note found in Reed's apartnient saying: ''We want the Black Panther party to be given national TV time to present their . , , program and platform/· !fe fllant fifty thousand in goldf- !!e have - • nothing to lose and everything to gain." CHICAGO ~ Vi c e Pr e s id en t SJEl£j, Agnew ~ tl e target of a nu m be r of 1z e ate d a it a ck s '!!,y at a m e et in g O J the Sigma Delta Clii journalism society this week in Chicago. One e~ · cepliotz though - Mrs. Katherine Graham who Ii ea d s 1"li e W a s hi n gt on p o s l , a ls o Newsweek • "We owe 11,e Vice President something" - said Mrs. Graham - "for he has forced us to •/IJ,Kk«a« reappraise oursesves - whicll , is not something that comes easily to the news business. ,,"(Mrs. Graham then N1ent on to say: "We in tl,e news business liave known about our problems - some of them inherent to our trade - and we were even doing something about tlietn lon , g before Mr. ~~~) Agne"' became our counselor." "Bu,;"we have not done ~ "th and are not now doing nearly enough .,.....,_.4'.!I~ wi ,) the re s u l l t It at t Ii e •-- nation 's n e w s m e di a - ''are suffering from an unprecedented crisis of I>"' public con/id enc e. " CHICAGO - 2 By /lie way, Mrs. Graham also said that n ew s m en m us t s Io P I Iii n king of n . e w s a s only th a t r , eflecting a "departure from the norm." And she added: At some point in a so<J_iety as tort~red as ours - bi,siness as usual ought to be considered news." PARIS /he mos/ r vered land mark in all of France. fl was b11ilt by Napoleon - ii ha ince served as /he site of c ou n /1.e s s m o vi n g c er e m on i es . A n d t he a r ea which ~ surrounds ti aptly dubbed f t "L'Etoile" "/lie tar"; .,< in as much as it serves as the hub of eight major ~~~ b o u le var d s - - - ~ ~ a "" m b er of less er street s . Now - anolher lribute to the memory of Charl s DeGatllle. The Paris , : ily council voting loday lo rename "L'Etoile" - t:t6- call it, henceforth - "Le Place Charle DeGaulle". A star - for a .;far. VISIT Tile White House again - a vi it today from Mexico' Preside11t elect -- Luis Echeverria also, liis wife and ltis daughter; who were welcomed warmly - by the President and Mr • Nixon. And then - a family type lunclleon; followed by private talks - between the President and the President - e lecl. The White House stressing that the main purpose of today's vi it - aoas to allow the two • • - "to get acquainted and build a personal relationship." MARTHA Mar/ha Mitchell - llie wife of Us Allorney General Joltn Mitchell - hostess al a party attended mainly by news women. She was /old today by•• one of /hem Iha/ size now represents tile true "liberated woman." Whereupo11 he observed "a woman can be as free as . he wants to be - but firs/ she has to convince her husband." Many of /he guests were given a guided tour of the Mitchell apartment where special appointments include a phone in the bath room- for "Private calls" - said Martha. Common enottgh in many hotels and homes nowadays. Also, an autographed picture - from Harry S. Truman to John N. Mile hell." Oh yes, and a Pillo"' ,n her hu band's s I udy - beari11g lite inscription "you can always /ellf Republican - b11I yo11 can'I Jell htm I much." GENOA The hero of /his next - one Lazzaro Delfino of Genoa, 1/aly; a former savale champion who has ince laugh/ th sport lo thousands of lialians. Suvale, a you perhaps know, lite art of fist and foot fighting. And now - at age eighty-eight Lazzaro Delfino fi11ally laking the plunge; getting married for the first lime - with a view no doubt lo some companion hip it1 his old age - someone to lake care of him. Al any rate, Lazzaro taking as his bride a charming wido111; lite former Giovanna Solari -- a spri flgluly eighty-three. And here's wishing them both - a long and • ~ happy marriager- ~ ~ s ~ .