GOOD VENlNG £VtRYBO D Y: There's an e p idemic in Ethbpia - Ye ll ow Fever. J \ disease sel dom encountered in East Africa. ln fact, this is the first time in modern history - that Yellow - swept in - fever h a s s~ept into Ethio p ia/like the plague. Tht ied Cross in Addis Ababa - had no rea s on to stock vaccine, so they thought. But now an ~OS has gone out to ~eneva, •i• laperor Haile Belassie, beg g ing ht W orld Health Organization - to rush the antido\t to bl• s tricken kingdo ■• The Lion of Judah says - his of fie ia ls can't keep u p ill the death toll of the epide ■ ic. The toll - al ready reaching many thousands. Lthiopia, dev a stated by - ~ el low F • 1ver. To newsmen ' ecretary or St a te iusk said toda7:- •1t will be difficult to hold a conference while people a re still shooting.• The ref e rence - to Laos. o ecretary Rusk, re p eatin g t ha t we wan t a cea e-fi~e in Lao•.- oefore any eace conference ia held. No negotiating with the ieds - while the1 are still tryin g to gobble up Laotian territory. Tonight, the cease-fire see ■ s farther off, with battles now ra g ing on three fronts. 'i'he first front - near Vang Vieng, here Loyalist troops are counter- attackin g a b ainat Coamuniat , aratr o opera. The second front - twenty miles away at Muong Kassy, where the ar-, of • ..1 rince boun Ou■ is trying to break through - along a barricaded h i g hway, over an intricate minefield lai~ by the Reds. hi s thrust, if it succeeds - will cut otf one hed salient. · rhe t h ird front - near th e city of Luang Prab ang. This, a holding oper a tion by ~ ro-~estern detachments. A defensive battle - while other units leapfrog by he ico p ter to the rear of the Communist lines. 1n ashington, thebelief is stronger - that next door to Laos, South Viet Nam may be the world's next dan g er s p ot, where fighting - is still going on in the jun g le. l oday a n American Aid official, illiaa fho ■ aa, was injured - when a terrorist threw a bomb into hi• home in Saigon. A• a result, our govern ■ent reiterate• its backing of _ > resident Dita - to whoa we are offerin1 the military assistance he needs to beat the Comauni1t guerrillas. yUBA The dictator ot Cuba promises his eople more hardships. Fidel Ca stro, tellin g the ~uban workers to tighten t h eir belt. ithstand more rivationa. •ait for - the great day. All - £or the glory of the reTolution. The glory see ■ a to be wearing - a bit thin with the great day vanishing in the distance. Unemploy ■ent, a serious roble ■ in Cuba, g rows worse, with factories - grinding to a standstill. Unable to get s p are ~ arts from America - as they used to. lt's not s~rpriaing - that anti-Castro agitation is on the increase. Terrorist bombings · n Havana - more frequent. The island, jittery - because anti- Castroites say their inva s ion of Cuba is near. The french city of ~vian ia full of gendaraea, assi ned to Evian - to guard the men negotiating an Al erian p eace. lnatead - the Mrenoh olice are on the hunt for terrorists. The peace talks - never got ott the ground. But the violence - goes on and on. Moale ■ gunmen and iight ling French faraera - both coamittiDI outrages in France and Algeria. fro e stern Tibet - more re orts about the war that never ends. The occu ation forces of ied China - colliding with the hard-riding horse ■ en of Kham. The troop1 of Mao Tse-tung - were on the ■ arch t h rough We stern Tibet, where the , ha ■bas, from 6aat Tibet - set a tra p - tor . the■; m a c1ine ~ns - on o p posite si d es of a narrow defile in the mount a ins; waiting for the Chinese Reds to enter the gorge - then opening up with their ■ achine guns and rifles, and hurling - grenade• fro ■ the cliffs. The Ihaabes claim to have killed aore than a thousand of the enemy - before the Communi1t 1 1 ■ ana g ed to break out of the trap. The men of Kha ■ admit the7 suffered a few casualties in the battle. But they say it was worth it. The ■ en of Kha ■, p rovin g once more - that w h ile Tibet m a y be occu . ied by the Hed inv ad ers; the Roof of the W orld is f ar from aubJua~ted - . IIBII - 2 lf you are interested in T ibet, d on't miss a ne• b ok just out, the title •Tibet ls My Country, by the D h ali Lhama•s brother. No book like it ever before was · ut in the - Weat - or in Tibet. The • S. Army document on helpin g overthro~· Communist regimes - is not official. ~eneral ~rthur Tradeau of iesearch and Develo>ment admits - the doou■ent. was drawn up for purposes or information. But•• General is circulating the doouaent - among his senior officers; and it's pretty strong. lt argues that we should go as far as the •u11iaaa - in helping our firenda. That if oacow interyenea la Cuba - •• should intervene in eastern 'urope? •t Khrushchev supports Co ■■ uniat rebels around the world - we should sup ort treedoa-fighters everywhere. The Aray docu■ ent suggest we harrasa the Coa■ uni1t em p ire with everything from ~ ropoganda to guerrilla warfare. ~~FECTOB The l ate s t defector from Comauniam - a ~ithuanian who h ad been servin g in the Soviet navy. Co m mander ot - a s ubmarine tender. a e s a iled his shi p into Swedish w aters - a nd ordered o ne of his sailors to row hi ■ ashore. ~ereu p on he ~ ~ ked the ~w edisb overnaent - for political asylua. Rumors .er s ist that a Soviet sub ■ arine - atte ■ pte4 to head off the sub-tender. But Stockhol ■ denies - that its territorial wa era were p enetrated, except, by the defecting ~oviet officer fro ■ ithuania. M, 1 • 1: 1 The focus is on science toni ht - in Cambridge, a ss a c h usetts. Re as on - the centennial of the a ssachusetts lnetitute of Technology. A hundred and fifty top scientists there for the occasion, along with guests - fro ■ the world of olitics, business, education, and so on. Chief speakers - S ecretary of State iuak, this afternoon; Pri ■e Minister lac ■ illan - tonight. There is much reminiscing going on; or how M.l.T. was founded in Eighteen Sixty-One - mainly by Willia■ ogera, who became its first ~esident. lleld up b7 the Civil War, then in tighteen ~ixty-fi•e its first l · . bor a tor ie s were bull. t. ith building going on ever s ince. ' fhe number of' students, multi lyin g into the thousands. The faculty some of the moat distin g uished scientists of our time. One hundred years old - M.l.T • . This year's •Atoms for eace• award- oes to B ritain's Sir John Cockcroft. Sir John, Master of C h urchi l l College at Cambridge - receiving the Accolade of the S~ientific world; also - a check for Seventy-liYe thousand dollars. Both of which he accepted today. The cere■ ony, in Bo1ton, held at M.l.T. So Diet her•'• to Sir John Cockcroft. .resident Kennedy is asking Con rees - to save aoae monuments ot ancient Egypt; those tem lea of the i ha~aohs, on the Nile that will have to be m oved, or be flooded by the Aswan Dam. 1 resident Kennedy propoaea that we put ten million dollars into a sal,ag• operation. The money, to come from Egyptian currency - belonging to the United States. lJollars for a • ,cient Egypt. for the age-old monuaeats on the banks of the Nile. Abu Siabel and others. - 0 - l still have a few seconds left, Dick - so perbapa 1 should tell you where 1 am. l'a surrounded by soae Live dolls? 1 am interested in live dolls. five thousand doll•~/ But these are real doll• of the other sort - fro ■ ell over the world. The largeat collection in the world. ~oae day Sam Pryor will have t1em in a museum so you can see thea. hnd 8 - l - U - t - ••