J:..T. COMJIIERCIAL ~IDAY 1 OCTOBER 24 1%6 (Dii!as Townsend Sub.)' GOOD EVEIINO EVERYBODY: the Manila Summit Conference on V1etna■ -- lesa than Twenty-tour houa old; and already the scene or the worst ant1-A•rican rioting -- or President Johnson's hr Baatern Tour. A aob of ant1-nr students -- claahing with police tonight in front ot the Manila Hotel; where the President -- and other delegates -- are staying. At leaat S•••n ahota fired in all -- aa Pillpino Aray troopa finally Joined •1th police to put down the deaonatratlon. Earlier -- at the tirat conference ... ting -- President Johnson apparently trying hla beat -- to avold ~ any suggestion that he ta doalnatlng the s111111lt. Vatting until last to speak -- the President declaring he had co■e to Manila -- an .. an equal aaong equals; to share with friends and allies -- our proble■s, our plans and our hopes. VIETJt.6 . M FOLLOW MANILA Coinciding with start or the Manila conference -- a new surge of Communist terrorist activity in Vietnam. Vietong assassins killing Two local officials -- ln a village ln the Mekong Delta. While a Viet Cong ■lne was exploding under a bus -- an a rural road near Vhay. The blast k1lllng tltteen Vietnaaese clvlllans -- wounding Twenty others. By contrast -- co■paratlve qulet on the fighting front. Coa■unlat torcea contlnlng their activity -- to a pair ot hlt-and-run aortar attacks against A•rlcan outposts; one ot oa Wang -- the other Just south of the De-■llltarlzed zone. ABERPAI An explanation today -- for that coal-■in1ng tragedy on Fri . day at Aber:i"an, Wales. The collapse or the giant slag- heap -- thlt claimed the llves of al110st two hundred persona; 110st of them -- saall children. Oovernaent investigators bla■lng the sudden avalanche of black ■ud -- on an underground spring; that apparently bubbled up deep within the 110unta1n or retuae -- lett by a century or ■lning. Distraught parent• refusing, howver, to accept the expllnation.. Bluing the tragedy on alleged negligence -- by the latlonal Coal Board. One rather -- pale and dra1111 -- rtatng at today'• inquest -- and de■andlng a change 1n hla sons• death cert1f'1cate. He aald lt sbftld read: " Burled alive -- b~ the •ttonal Coal Board . .. LOMDON Lord Mountbatten of Burma -- one or Br1ta1n • s top m111tary heroes in World War Two -- was named today to head a special government tea■; assigned to lnvestlgate the weekend prison escape -- of •ster spy George Blake . . Hoae Secretary Roy Jenkins -- announcing the appotnt■ent to a packed Parliament; ln the f'aee of reports that Blake 1 1 escape -- uy have been engineered by a auper-sec . ret R11s11an spy rlng; supposedly operating ulllder the very noses -- of British secw-ity ■en. SIIIOISTID LBAD-D TO THOIUS TAPI With Lowell Thoaaa still on the trail ot high adventure -- another special report tonight; on a recent con•emtlon -- with another world traveler. 01:l!J n e t • Jc ,. 11 s . A 11 ,1 B c u, . ------------------- Hi there Dallas, and good evening everybody: Wl,erever my lravels take me, even to lhe Antarctic, I inevitably cross the trail of anolher traveller wl,o seem• lo btt! i,a perpetual motion - Father JJesburgh, Preside,at of Notre Dame University. This disli11guished u 1 idely travelled g,n,tle,na,a is ,aot 011ly a,a educalor, lie also is a scle11tlst, a11d a liistorian, who devotes much of lais time to world problems. Fat/aer Hesburgh has bee,a telli,ag me about wliat coulll be a11otlaer of tlte most important projects of our time. He says t/aat all, or nearly all of the major Cliristian denomi11atio11s, Catholic, Orthodos-Catholic, Protestant, Anglican artd so on are joi11ing forces to create an ecumenical institute for tlt.eological studies - in The Holy La,ad. The number one objective will be the compiling of a liistory of Cllri1tianity from tlse earliest times, a JlET JE/lUS AND BETII - 2 --------------------- mo1111111ental ttnder lalllrtg that will tall• marty year~ of Tit• ,za,. I• lo eatabll•la 1111• all-failla Clarisliart rea11arch ce,eler ONI lu,re •ltere I am at tlae moment. lo "Tit• Clly o/ P••c• 'I" .. ' Solo,.1, CLIVELAID Sa•el Sheppard -- back on trial tor a second tiae today in Cleveland. On charges that h~ ■lll'dered hla tlrat wlte, Jlarllyn -- a dozen years ago. Opening aeaa1on -- de1eted to the aelectlon or a tentative Jury. teara •111111 ln Sheppard'• e1•• -- at one point; llhen the juqe warned proapectlve Jlll'Ora -- that he•• laftooent utll provenplltJ. Deten1e coW11el later ·--••ting that Sheppard -- . , not take the •t•d ln hll own derenae; •• he dld -- 1n h1a first trlal. VhJ not ? -- no explanation. VASHimTOI The U.S. Supre■e C•urt agreed today -- to review the conviction of Seventeen American antl-Vletna■ war de■onatratora. A group that attnpted to hold a rally two , . . era ago -- in lew York'• Tl■ea Sq\18re; only to have it broken up by 110unted police -- when the retuaed to dlaperae. !he students -- ••tly ■e■bera or an Ivy Leag11e antl- • r ■ow-nt. Appeallng thelr, a111taeq•nt convlctlon -- on the gro~ they weN denled the right to peaceful ezpreaalon or polltloal d111ent. In another oaae -- the High Colll't agreed today to hear an appeal -- tra h1111dred1 ot Japaneae-Aaericana; whoa• life aavt.nga were cont1acated tty the gowernaent dlll'lng World lfar two -- and still have not been retumid. BAL HARBOUR In the m1dst of spreading superaarket boycotts across the coantry -- to protest rising food prices -- a ray or hope today fro■ Bal Harbour, Plorlda. Assistant Secretary or COllll9rce Willia■ Shaw telling Allerican houaewives -- there 11 " aoae ground for opti■la■" -- that food prices will go down ln the next rew ■onths. ··ve cannot pretend that lntlatlon has been licked" -- sald Shaw; but there are certain stgna -- that• augur well tor the lature. Por exaaple -- said he -- pork prlcea "undoubtedly will drop" during the reaainder of the year. Crop prospects tor gralna "have l111>roved" -- he went on. Adding that supplies or eggs, fresh trults and vegetables -- "see■ to be catching up" wlth the deund. However, Shaw stopping Just short -- or predicting a wtdescale rollback in food a, prices next year. To do that -- said he -- "I'd have to know 1n advance the aaount or raln that will fall in lanaas -- as well as the outlook for cocoa ln Ohana. " lot even Warren Noren knows that. CLOSE A birthday party today at the hOM of the United lationa. C0111>lete with ■uslc -- good rellowahtp -- and suitable speech■aklng. Aa the world lody celebrated -- 1t1 'fwent1- Ptrst birthday. 'l'he restive occaalon t111Pered, however -- bJ a note or aOllber warning troll O. I. Secretary General u !hant . A amlllg that the orpnlatlon - t tac• up to 11 "flan, pp1 and wealme11e1" -- lt lt 11 ever tnlJ to c - or ap. Al to th• lllllllt -- i t . , - · · atNOk IOIII ll•t-N u 3ut a blt lnapproprlate. Plnal _.er on the PNPU - lerlloz I Jantaatlo SJIIIPhon,. lh• lut 1Htlona or Whloh are entitled ··111roh to the searto14" and · ,r1tehe1 Saltbath, .. . A 1oaeh•t Olllnous acc011Panl11111t tor the D'• twenty-tlrat l.rthday. Good nlght.