L .T. BUICK, lt' ISHER. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 J, l9bb GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY : A f lat deni a l today -- f rom White House Press Secretary Bill Moyers to published charges that he talked of 1c1al s o r the National Council or Churches -- into toning down a statement on Viet Nam. The charge -- " ridiculous and untrue" -- said Moyers. Adding simply: " it did not happen." DRAFT ~---- A drastic cut in the scheduled larch draft quota was ordered today by the Defense Departaent. A cut of ten thousand fiYe hundred ■ en - reducing the monthly draft cell to some twenty-two thou1and men. Lowest number since last August. Reduction of the quota - in the face or expanded war need ■ - credited - ' to a ~i■g juap--::::::l. voluntary enliat■enta. ~ ~ ·~ Plans fore Chica g o title bout next month_ bet~een heavyweight Cassius Clay and Ernie Terrell_ were kayoed today*• by the state of Illinoia. State Attorney G eneral Willia ■ Clerk, voiding the fight contract on a legal technicality. The action following by half an hour - Clay's refusal to apologize for -M~ so-called "unpatriotic" remark•"- tl.s•.A in the wake of his recent reclassification - to one-A in the draft. VIETNAM In Vietnam -- a Viet Cong defector played pied piper today -- to two hundred and seventy six f ellow villagers. persuadin them by loud speaker from a Marine helicopter __ to leav~ their homes for uew life -- free fro• Viet Cong-Chinese Commun~st domination. The villagers were met by Marines -- who later escorted them to a refugee center near Tam Ky -- about three hundred and fifty allea northwest of Saigon. • IND O NESI A Su kar n o w ho e ar l ier t oday was repor t ed ousted as P r es i d ent -- toni g ht appears to be still f irmly in command i n In d one s ia. At any rate he ordered dissolution o r an a nt i- C ommuni s t student g roup that led two days of rioting a g ainst his new le ft ist cabinet clamped a curfew on Jakarta : and there are more signs o f a new thaw -- in relations between Indonesia and Red China. Radio Jakarta announcing plans -J to reopen a consulate in Canton to repbace the Indonesian mission closed in Shanghai last November. - GHA . A ----- Was yesterci · y•s revolt a ia inst Pre id • nt (w em e Nkrumah t h e ~ e a l t h in g ? Nkrumah himself says no - ut j ubil a nt Ghanians held a ••••t1a v·ctory ce 1 ebr a ti n t ad y in the streets of Accra sm a hing • • it e abor te ceremony - a ten foot statue of the self-styl ed lz ■■ i "redeemer" - a statue right in the center of the Gold Coast capitol. It was the most conspicuous of the thousand~ of ~ortraits end statues of hi m s e lf - that Nkrumah had posted throughout the country. Furthermore, today ther was a mass round-up of I krJ m h's p olitical followers. The defacto National iber a ti o n Council now in control mo ving quickly to consol 1d· te its per.er. It's the old old story or wh at h a pµens when a dictetor is bold enough to leave his co un try. Nkr u~~h hims lf issued a statement today GHANA - ,.. ------ at Ghana's Em assy in P e in g , wh re hews visiting Communisi cohort - w.en the lightning cou p too J•• lace a t home. In it he asserted that he'p still Presid nt of the bankrupt Gold Coast country. From far off Peking he insists he's still supreme commander of G hana's armed forces - and that he will return to Ghana - soon. To do so now, however - would mean almost certain death. So it's expected he will i■■xi■ Join his wife and family - who already have fled to Egypt. THOMAS Another two years was added today to the prison sentence of Eugene Thomas. One c ,. : three Klu Klux Klan __ implicated in the night rider slaying oe Mrs. Viola L1UZZO of Detroit. The new sentence ordered by a tederal judge at Birmingham, Alabama -- following the Eugene Thomas conviction on a charge or illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun. The gun in question -- taken from his hoae by FBI agents -- the day after Mrs. Liuzzo's death. The two yearterm be added to the ten year sentence 1mi;osed last August, when convtcted on an earner charge 01 -- vtol!ating Mrs. Liuzzo's ctvil rights. By order today of the federal T.ade Commission - a lot of televisi n sets &re euddenly going t o , . . ~ smaller. The FTC decreeing that, henceforth, the advertised size of a television aet. precisely ■ us t con form,,<..,z ■ ai• ■ l"- to the actual size of the viewing ares. For exampR, a Nt that previously 7'f4-u.- boasted a twenty.-one inch picture A "measured diagonallyj now beco m es a flat "nineteen inch set" which it really w a s - all the time. SUICIDE A famous one-time Soviet army officer -- who defected to the United States during World War Two -- today finally ended his long self-imposed exile. Fol'lller Major lictor Kravchenko -- who lived In American under the na~f Peter Martin -- shooting h1mse!f 1n the temple at his lew tork apart■ent. A friend later reporting he bad been .. ,ery unhappy" -- depressed about the war 1n Vltnaa. Kravchenko was the author ot "I Chose Preedo■" --a highly controversta[ book ppb!lahed during the earlr daJ• of the cold war. Later he found a Jch Inca gold ■lne high tn the Audes. He was stxty-one. From Brussels comes ners of an attempt~• at 1 on . 1 as t - to crap a Napoleonic decree that oes ay back to the year Eighteen Hundred and Eight. v A Na oleonic decree forbidding marriage by officers 1-,.. and men of the Belgian army - unless granted govern~ent permission. Under the law - penalties have ranaed f~om loss of pay to loss of , ■■■ i ■ pension rights. All soon to be changed - by b bill cleared for action today, in the Belgian Parlia~ent, a bill permitting Belgian military men - the right, to marry whomever they pl,,ase, or without with ~ ■irx•i:tlnt: /4. off ic ia 1 government. per■ iaa ion. It took a century and a half - but love bas finally found the way. Speaking o lov and marriage ln Belg1Wll, here's a relate 1 :em rrom a ross the Channel. It coaes today rrom Oxford, England. and reports adoption by an overwhel■1ng vote -- of amotton presented before the ra110u1 Oxtord Union Debating Society. The 110tion to wit: "'l'hat sex la too ., 1nteres t tng -- to be left to •rried people ... And, now -- for coaent, if any -- here 1 1 the nUllber one bachelor around here -- Warren Noran. MILWAtJKEE F rom Mtlwau k ee -- the story today of a teen-age auto thie · -- who won a rather surprising sentence fro■ the judge who heard h is case . The bo y -- 1n court -- admitting that he stole six cars over a peri od of months -- and took the■ Joyriding all over town. Whereupon, the judge coaented: " I am delighted to see a person of such strong will and deter■ination. " But remember" -- said the Judge -- "re■e■ber that success doesn't mean taking other people I s property." And, with that, he suspended sentence -- on condition the boy enroll in a school f or the handicapped. The j udge ' s helping hand extended to a boy bom -- witr.~ut hands -- 1n f act born without arms. And now fro■ WBRK , Pitts f ield, Massachusetts -- Solong untll NoDday.