INDOMESIA ,,. .. Another~ step today -- toward eventual reconciliation between Indonesia and Malaysia. At Jakarta -- the Indonesian government officially agreeing to peace talks with Malaysia. Foreign Minister Ada■ Malik saying he will meet with Malaysian oeputy Premier Abdul Razak -- ae soon as Razak sets the time and place. His only condition -- that it be a neutral eite. Razak -- for hie part -- cutting short a visit to North Borneo -- to return to Kuala Lt111pur. There declaring he hopes to get the talks underway -- "in a couple of days." INDIA An official protest today at New Delhi -- from Indian Prime Minister Madame Indira Gandhi. The First Lady of Hindustan -- charging distortion and exaggeration in published reports of food scarcity and fami~e in India. Reports -- said she -- that go from one extreme to the other. In some cases -- depicting mass death from starvation; in others -- denying there is any food scarcity at all. In truth -- said Madame Gandhi -- there is a shortage of food -- over only about half' of the country. With moet or the ~ ~ ¥ ' affected districts -- in Northern India. B u t ~ -- said she-- --... ~ xiii ••A there i r 111despread starvation. "This situation"/ •• .. •••nir serious -- but "not ne• in India" -- said Madame Gandhi. Adding that "there has scarcely been a year -- •hen some part of India was not affected" by food suortages. 0 :10 aar:•s ·a~t e~~at-"!.sMd ty t he ~~r.eteen-:!!'ty-F"~r Gene,"!\ '-$., = onteren e; !n a fu t i:e 3ttempt to aulas a ';)S1r ""f gc,·ttrnaent • • ~ ... .-h ,:, ~ • ~ o·..;. po! ... s -- .A.n ~ou. \ _e, nam. t i ~ ~ Th i s~~ !'1rst direct Yiolat t on cir the North-S uth frontier . Apparently in celebration -- of North \1etnameee President Ho Chi M1nh 1 s -- seventy-Sixth birthday. SOUTH FOLLOW VIET NAM Meanwhile, to the South -- a pitched battle in Viet Nam's war-within-a-war. Loyal government Marines clashing with rebel troops -- near a Buddhist pagoda at Da Nang. At least Five killed -- some S 1xty wounded -- most of them civilians. At the same time -- Premier Ky today clamped a blockade-- on the Buddhist stronghold at Hue. The Premier further promising to us~ whatever force necessary -- to put down Buddhla• backed rebels. JAPAN The maj :>r part of the Japanese air force -- conei . sting mainly of American-made Super Saber and Starf1ghter Jets -- grounded today by government decree. After the Sixth crash this year -- 1nvol vi . ng one or the other of t h e ~ planes. Each of - 9 -- the grounded aircraft t o ~ s a·• thoroughly inspected; also -- the men who fly them. You may recall -- the west Germans have had a similar rash of accidents -- involving the Star fighter. A•rican airmen insist, however, that most of the crashes are due to pilot error -- because or insufficient or inadequate training training. SUPERSONIC Speaking of America•s planned supersonic transport -- as I was yesterday -- a related item today from Edwards Air Force Base in California. The giant XB-Seventy -- military prototype of the supersonic transport -- c011pletlng 1te toughest test to date. Flying at Two Thousand miles an hour -- at Seventy Thousand feet -- for Thirty-T•o mir.l!tes,... ••••Isa•. ,,.Afs pr0111sed-• faster than a speeding bullet -- a n d ~ ~ . ~ , Incidentally, surface temperature of the aircraft -- reaching a peak of Six Hundred and henty Degrees. Inside though -- a constant seventy-Five. GREEN The recently retired veteran Senator Theodore Francis Green -- oldest man ever to serve in Congress -- dead today at Ninety-Eight. At h1s home in Providence, Rhode Island. Senator Green -- a millionaire bachelor -- son of a prominent political family. He had served as governor of Rhode Island for two terms -- before his election to the Senate at the age of Sixty Eight . To his s.nate colleagues -- a physical phenomenon and a pol1t1cal paradox. In his ■id-Eighties -- still an expert diver from the high board of the Senate pool -- untll the doctors finally ude him quit. Though rich -- he was a leading proponent of New Deal and Fair Deal legislation ; also largely responsible for framing the first G.I. Bill or Rights. Serving three Senate terms in all before his retirement in Nineteen-Sixty at the age o f Ninety-Three. Senator Theodore Green -- who once said he wanted to live to be a Hundred -- and u he nearly made it. PIKE - The resignation or the Right Rev. James Pike ae Episcopal Bishop or California -- formally accepted today 11: u 1tUH1t0t2F~ by the presiding Bishop -- or the Bpiacopal Church. The resignation -- to take effect Septe■ber Pifteen. In the aeantiae -- Bishop Pike still ae controversial as ever. At hie home in San Prstnclaco -- the prelate branding a California abortion law ae "evil." Calling tor doctors to wage a mass "civil disobedience" ca■paign -- until the law is changed. 1pp0IMTMENTS Appointment of a pair of new American ambaseadors -- announced today by President Johnson. Eugene Murphy Locke -- a Dallas attorney and prominent Texas Democrat -- · n811l8d Ambaeeador to Pakistan. Career dipl011at Jacob Beu -- preeen.tly . ~ aaeigned to the U .s. Ar■e control and D1sarmaaent Agency•;;,--a Ambaseador to Czechoslovakia. COITAMINATION This next -- a real shocker. Reported by Professor William Sladen -- of Johns Hopkins University. As you perhaps know -- the use o f pesticides has spread throughout the ctvillzed world ln recent years; to the point where man and beast -- have become to a certain degree -- contaminated. Each of us -- wheather we like it or not -- slowly accumulating wlth1n our bodies -- minute quantities or DDT, one of the deadliest -- of all poiaons. Now it develops that the same contamination -- has finallJ spread to the most isolated place on earth; the South Pole. According to Professor Sladen -- penauins at the Pole• y have recently beentaking an DDT; apparently carried down fro■ ' the Horth -- by birds and fish and ocean currents. Does this mean that Man finally has polluted -- our entire planet ? IJIDIANS From Blg Bend, California -- the story today of an Indian uprising -- in the best traditions of the Early West. With a stubborn band of redmen -- scoring a stWining victory over invading pale face . J The battle over a dusty road -- crossing the Indiana : 1 reservation. The trouble starting when heavy luaber trucks began to ase the road -- to reach valuable timer country. The Indians -- in tum -- quickly on the war path; blocking the road with logs and bulldozers. All of which lead to hand~to-hand combat -- and eventually to the courts. The verdict finally rendered -- in favor of the Indians, who announced that beginning today -- they will charge a trucking fee of a Dollar-and-a-Half per Thousand Board feet -- for use of the road. t " w he Indians to get "heap plenty wampum arren. How! RED Here's a quick one -- from Bari, Italy. Firemen there were racing through the city streets -- en route to a reported blaze -- when -- they had to stop, quick -- all because their own fire trt.1ck -- had suddenly caught fire. And Solong Until Tomorrow.