L. T. FISHER. MO~ID A Y, SEPTEMBER 1 2 , 1 66 GOOD EVEIING EVERYBODY: From C a pe Kennedy: The flight of Gemini-Eleven -- a resounding success so far. On their ve-ry first orbit -- Astronauts Pete Conrad and Duck Gordon quickly chasing down their Agena target rocket. Then, a scant Ninety-Four minutes after blast-off -- the report the world was waiting for. "Would you belived M equals One?" -- cracked a voice from Gemini-Eleven. "M equals one" -- space jargon for "docking complete -- mission accomplished. 11 Success considered vital to America's future plans for a manned landing on the moon. A fact duly noted -- back on the g-r•ound. Space officials at Houston radioing up into LEAD--? .:;pnre -- "Good show! -- Nicely done -- Outstand 1ng ! ·· Primary .. 1ob c:omplet'3d -- the astronauts later cutling loose from the Agena; completing a series of redockings -- to sharpen the maneuvering kills that astronauts will need for future moon flights. During one of these -- Command Pilot Conrad turning over the controls to the man beside him.- Dick Gordon thus becoming the first co-pilot -- ever to complete his own docking. Still to come: A spacewalk by Gordon -- scheduled for tomorrow; to be followed by an attempt Wednesday to fly deeper into space than man has ever traveled before. A distance -- of Eight Hundred and Sixty-Five miles. VIET NAM From Viet Nam -- news today of the heaviest U.S. aerial punch to date -- against the communist North. Air Fcrce, Navy and Marine plane -- flying a record Hundred-and-Seventy-l>ne missions; against Communist military targets -- ranging nearly to Red China. Despite intense enemy anti-aircraft fire -- all planee returning safely. nother Nam. blaetin( a Commu at troop con ntrat1on/• 1n / ~/ euppoeed ).!.n o man Is l.a'ti<i." Back at Saigon -- South · Vietnamese Premier Ky today hailed the outcome of Sunday's electione as a "political, moral and diplomatic victory." One that "epelle the beginning of the end" -- said he -- for the communist threat to South V i et Nam. PRESIDENT FOLLOW VIET NAM Here at home -- the White House expressed gratification today -- at the outcome of those South Vietnamese elections. tr~!~~~:~ ~ / \ P r e s s secretary Bill Moyers asserting: "we are heartened by the fact that the elections were held -- and heartened by the size of the heavy turnout." That turnout ae you know -- said to be about Eighty-one per cent -- of all eligible voters in South Viet Nu. By contrast -- the turnout of eligible voters in the laet presidential election here in the United states -- was only abo\lt Sixty-two per cent. I TANZANIA In the city of Mwanza 1 1 Tanzan'ia'-- two so-called "trial asses sore" today rec011118nded a verdict of not guilty; in the caee of U.S. Peace Corpsman William Kinsey -- accused or killing hle Twenty-Three-year-old wife. Kinsey must now await a final dec111on -- tr011 ll1gh - -rky~ Court Judge Harold Platt. But the trial aeseeaore -- tantuount - - " to a Jury in Tanzania; ~ h e i r verdict. =:::-C.:VV and the Judge bound by cuat011 -- to A - --t.& t One or the a11es1ore 1' an A•rican -- Gale Ba&l•J o f , I Elseberry, Mieeouri; in keeping with Tanzanian law -- which allows a •■ber of the defendant' e tribe to serve on the panel. vast numbers of judges and local magistrates in tbl African nation of Ghana -- were fired today by order or the country's new military reg1•. Affected jurists -- called "unqual1t1ed, 1neff1c1ent and corrupt;" tft abort · , "political hllckl" ,.,_ tor ousted President lwa• Nkruaah. Thi governaent pr0111e1ng to consult Ohana•e author1t1•• -~appoint- new Judges__. Ja sffcat ~ top lesal ZEE Ratla t e::ra -== to k••• •• 3adtct.., free henceforth -- tr011 both ■111tary and political control. FIRE - , J ~ At leaet/\11 15' ) persons known dead -- in a '4111■1&1 ca hotel fire today at Anchorage, Alaska. The blaze starting before da,m at the r ear of The Lane Hotel -- and s•ep1ng swiftly through the two-story frame structure. A room clerk - a.,./ reporting he was able to alert ■oat or the tenante~--~n e ■oke and tl&.1111 forced him to abandon the building. Pire•n even now searching the ruins -- tor poaa1ble additional •1ct1111. guAKE Out West -- a etrong earthquake today -- 1n the s 1erra Nevadae . • Fanning out in a roll : 1ng shock -- over a wide area ot Nevada and Northern Califor : n1a. The tremor registering S1x-po1nt-F1ve -- on the Richter scale; its epicenter -- pin)tointed ae Ju1t a rew ■11•• weat of Reno, Nevada.- No one hurt -- 1t .. _ , but ttaa ,qu~ke dt•rupttng rail and lllllw•r ~••tti:e -~ knocking out 10ll8 telephone and power 11nee -- and also causing 801118 minor da■age to a n1111ber of buildings. In the process -- the quake sending gamblers pouring lnt • o the streets -- in ~ Reno. l~oY-, he••1-, - . t at Lake Tahoe_?-- they juet looked up -- and ,went : tglll on with the game. FUNSTON Here 1n New York -- Keith Funston announced h1a retirement today -- ae Pre11dent or the New York stock Exchange; the b~•ak to take effect -- next September. '~~~,,~ ~ltZ W I Pun1ton quitting the Hundred Thousand Dollar-a-Year poet -- becaua• it•e a "night-and-day Job and too 4••nd1ng 11 - - said hi. Adding that at Pitty-S1x -- he wante to "spend ■ore ti•" with hie fa■ily; and alao • devote eo■e tille to tbl act1v1t1ea of Trinity College -- ot which be waa once Pr11idlnt. PRIEST An American citizen -- formerly a catbolic priest -- has defected to the Soviet Union. So says an announce•nt today -- from the official Soviet news agency Tass. Thi alleged defector -- identified as Harold~ loch -- a native-born Chicagoan. Hie purpose -- said Tass -- "to protest against A•rican aggression in Viet Na■ ." Koch - -·4 . //ufAr further quoted as saying A- •~wishes "to Join the Soviet people -- in their work or pr011oting peace and building a new a oo ial order • " If tbl report is t· ue -- Koch 11 the fi r st A•rican to defect to Ruaeia -- in 110re than six years. , CHICAGO ~ PRIEST In Chicago -- Koch 1s described by for•r friends as "a liberal -- but definitely not a Coaunist." Church off1ciale adding, however, that he le rt the priesthood -- when he wa1 told he needed psychiatric treatment. FOOD Here in New York -- a euggeeted solution today -- and an amazing one at that -- to one of the world's most pressing problems: How best to meet the food needs -- of the world's expanding millions. The answer -- according to Chairman John Swearingen ot the Standard 011 Company of Indiana: Artificial food -- extremely hi,. in protein -- to be made from petroleua and nat\ll'al gae. The conversion process -- already perfected in laborator - - ~ Y ~ techniques~-- ~Swearingen. Proteine extracted from petroleum and natural gae -- coming out ae food pellete; acceptable to nutr1t1on1ete -- for both huun and an1Ml conewnpt1on. _ q-µi ~~ ~ ~ P~. c)- ~ . ~ . The taste 'T- "not exciting" as yet -- •td\:a•a l■ara; J r . ~ - Wa.rv-i..e+\ - but maybe all it takes -- ie a good chef. I\ GALBRAITH A guaranteed annual 1nc0118 for every family in America- urged today by noted economist John Kenneth Galbraith; who .:s call, it -- "the one prompt and effective solution for poverty Oalbraith 1 e euggest1on put forward at a waahington meeting of Urban A11&r1ca -- a non-profit organization concerned ·-= - - - with the problems of cities. Thi cost of B\lch a progra■-- with a Three-Tho\leand-dollar-a-year baee -- about T\ • . enty ~ ~~~-<-, Billion; which "we can eae1ly afford" -- 1a1 rllilbrffih. ~o ,. ~ A V "\ ~V ~ ' LONDON ------ Time was - wise" the Sllfl never set 011 tlte British empire. But time- moves on, a,sd today a report fro"' London - telling of the immineflt collapse of tl,e la•t vestige of empire: The British Commonweallll of Natio,aa. A11d some Britons cal li,rg it -- a good tltl,ag, al tltot. Tlte Commo11,oealtl, ;,. dire straits - for o,ae over-ridl,ag reaso,e a11d . 011e reaso,a alo,ae: Briti•li i11obiUty to satisfy tl,e co11flicti,ag i,aterests of all its membera- ,ol,ite, Asian aJJd Africa,a. Eco,aomlsts a,atl )oliticla,as assert, lao,oever, tl,at Brttai11 Ila• little to lose - a,ad ,,,.,cl, to.,,,...,. goi" fro"' collaJ,se of tlte Co,,.,,.o,a,oealtlt. TIiey •ate ttat Brilai• ,oill co,a,;,..,e to mal,alaifl bllate.,-al trade ••d diJ,lomolic ties - ,oith moat member 11allo,as. F11rtller, llaat tl,ey 111ill still be bound together - If 11,aofficially - by la11gNage, c11stom a11d m.,,.,,,, 11ecessity. Al Ilse same time - a ,ru,nber of pote,atial be11efits ,oe are told. For o,se - Britai• ,0011ld 110 lo11ger be the