NEW YORK ----- · ----- New York - Richard Ni.,:~~ounced l'&Ja., the a pp o in t men t o I a e I e ran dip lo ma t i c tr o u b le - sh O O t e r _ ( '%,,' as his chief consultant on pre-inaugural foreign policy.~ ,tf;;.,t/.,., I A . . ~ 4 ~ f.. Seven t y-f our ye a r old R ob er t Mu -,,p h y 1 1. • • 1 rJ ~are er office r, we.o~ ~ key figure in the Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower T o ~ ~ administrations. #n• •••iw~e task of conferring with Johnson administration officials - on Vietnam, the Middle If: ~~ Ea s t, Na t °,) an o on . /z so A.exp e c ( e d to adv is e th e President-elect - on future "Personnel assignmenfin the foreign policy field." A~~ ~ Richard NixonA.telli,ag of ass11rances from Preside,at Johnson; assurances tltat he - Nlxo,a - would be give,a a key ~oice i11 a11y foreig,a poltcy moves ~ that might carry over i11to the next ~ admi,aistration.-,ris is ,aot a veto-power - "nothi,ag of the sort"_ said the Preside,at-Elect. Addi,ig:"What we are tr i, 1 g to do _ is see that the U,aited States speaks wtth 011e voice for these ,aext vital sixty days." BRUSSELS FOLLOW Neto YORK --------------- ------------ i : : - - ~ r o s s the A llantic - at B r u s s e ~ r e v i e w ~~ of Nixon administration foreign policy. ~,Renat~r Javits of New York - ser v ing as spokesman for the Preside,it ElecQelling a group of Nato parliamentarians - that once again Europe will have "first priority " amo,ig US commitments abroad. Adding, what's •ore, tlaat America "will not engage in any more Vietnams" -- u,aless fully .Iii, ■ •• supported by its allies. !.Y..§K FOLLOW BRUSSELS CXko S 11 t11u " " ' ~ Secretary of State Dean Rusk W?l.4, addres~meeting of Nato Foreign Ministers today. ~ ~ l l s g A , t at America will remain committed to the defe,ese of Europe It r~ ~ ardless of wlriclr party is in poNJer ~ m e . Dean R u ~ _,dd.., thai~v~vaslo11 of Cieclloslovakia - has " cast serious doubt about tire restraint oj Soviet leadership.'' VIETNAM -------- ~~ the searcli for peace in Vietnam - confusion ~~ continues~o rwi.f• ,.,,rJ ... , IUNlgl•A... In Paris - North ~ Vietnamese negotiators,( bitterly aj,tex rejecting charges of alleged violations of th#:, demilitarized zoNe - so-called. ,) ~a,cding U S accusations - ''false and maligNant." 'If" Mea,cwhile, Washi,igton and Stiigon were still at loggcrlaeads 'r!;l the questions::. of South Vietnamese participation at A ~ e%pa,cded peace talks. / s tl,e death toll - co,ati,cues to rise. A j&s hundred and sixty-sl x America,cs killed iPI - - U - e ~ actio,a duri,ag tlee past week - ••,,a, couNt since early October. PRAGUE ------- The Central Committee of the Czech Communist ~ pa,tyA....in marathon session todaY,,,at Prague. Liberals a,ad stali,iists alike - attempting to chart the course of future Czech Commu,aism. 11'1urJt11r }U z I )#UM= party 1..eader Alexa,ader Dubcek -- ••ilo pledged to retain the ''Positive" features of the reform program he lau,ached last spyi,a~ ~dmittiNg Huagl lhal these features~ must be kept ,,,,. harmony" with later concessio,as to Moscow. AMMAN ----- - - ~ ti, • s H 3l of A mm an c p · t l f -rt° - - - a i a o Jordan. 1 ~ a royal birthday passed today;,,- for the first time in memory, virtually unheralded. Tough, young King Hussein lbn Talal - the one-time "boy king" of Jordan - thirty- ~~ . . ~~ C: ~~ three years ol~.;;;;,-?,- if■ fi. 11;. bh·t•d111 • 111■ f , 6 ,1ua11 1- in the midst of the worst c ~ has ,-,, ~ faced i"Afourteen years on the throne. Economically, politically, militarily ~ e i n has probably done more for_,,,,, his people a,sd ended a,p with less - than any other monarch in recent history. No sooner is one emerge,acy met - than a,aother rises t o ~ ~ take its place) •'"••••a,_.,.,~,,.r=•••••~')(::;._~ Jordan at ti mes /f.' • 11 l111f l:JL ~ hopelessly~•••• ',l in a tlaree-way power struggle,'€?__ between East and West - betrc;ee,s Arab and Jew - a,ad ,sow between Arab and - Arab. Palesti,aian re/Mgees - drive,s from their villages and farms - threate,aing to lead a revolt against the desert-bred royal Jam ily. AMMAN- 2 ------ H o w ? ~ , n himself p~,!e. ~ct ~ \ ABis courage is legendary• - his fierce Bedouin tribesme,i ~~ ./ -2.e e__~ ~oy~l to a man.,,(est of all}- the respect II• Au I'•••• 1r~~~~~ 10 , s ttJJ.ee11e.i if foreign capitals. "Perhaps the true ~ , , ~ measure of the man" - sa,,s one US observer - ~ the fact that Waslil¥on, Cairo, J'er salem a,ad even~ Moscow - they're all pulling for Hussein to pull tlarougll." PARIS ------ Paris - the shoe is on the_... a;s other foot - and i t 's b e g innin g to Pi n c h , to o . With Fr enc h mo n e tar y reser v es slumping badly - speculators driving the l/tlJta price of gold abo ve forty dollars an ounce today. This increasing the pressure on President DeGaulle to devalue t 1a e franc - w h i ch he has so far s to u t l y re Ju s e d to do . In all - a situa . tion reminiscent of tlrat Pet1ei•t, Brit : sh fiscal crisis a year ago when DeGaulle could have helped - but didn't. NEWPORT ------ · --- From Newport, Kentucky - story today of a ,aovel divorce settlement. Principals - Mr. and Mrs. Thomas \'\--0 ~~ ~1-/FDAh~ ~ How a rd;- f:' at , t- ti • 11 of ft ~ - ; ';it c a t. Un de r t e rm s of the court-approved a greemer,t - Mr. Howard getti,ag -- - -wid c•s tody of the CE_ - 1 th e cJ!! getting custody of the cr;,uple 's ~ - ~ house;- and1Mrs. Howard endi•g upAwith v i s i ~ ~ - - ~ Said arrangement to continue until the cat dies - when . ~ tie c o u p ~ sell the hous . e and split the profits. MOSCOW -----~-- .De:tfNI ••• Irv• Cilitui ◄ - Russia claims aniller first. With a Moscow newspaper reporting Cir today - 11,e invention of a revolutionary new aircraft ~ -,.. C?'V\-f' called - an "ornilhopter;" • 11 , , - we are told - that ,aeeds "no airfields and is absolutely noiseless.:." ~~ 1 ~ , ii f!3cr /lsimply by ''flapping its wings." I guess if the birds can do it - well, so ca,a the Russians.