Fri. May 5, l972 ASIA Senator Goldwater today warned his colleagues - they sho11ld reject a bill that would cut off - u. s. faucds for the Vietnam war or else - as he put it - "risk givh1g the Saigon government the kiss of death" - thereby endangeri . ng the lives of American soldiers still ;,, Viet,aam. One of the measure's sponsors - Frank Clu,rch of ldaleo - concedes that cuttiNg off funds at the lieigltt of tlte curreNt Communist offe,asive may be wrong. But Cliurcll asked: "We are no1e1 iN the eighth year of the American ordeal ire Viet11am - when ,oill Ille right time ever come? A Pentago11 st,okesmaN today refused to rule out ti•• possibility tliat US Marine units might be used to llelp f>rotect and evacuate American forces, if necessary. Also, tlie U . S. is reopening an air base in TlaailaNd - a base for about eighty additional Phantom fighter-bombers now ON their way to Southeast Asia. POLITICS It's definite now - the Republican National Convention will be held in Miami Beach_; beginning August Tu,enty-First - just five weeks after the Democrats ltold their convention there ) starting July Tenth. For tlle first time in twenty years, bot.la major par ties will la old conve,ations in the same city - tl&e last time being Ni11etee11- Fifty-Tt1Jo in Cltt.cago wllere the Ret,ublicans 11omh1ated ~ ~ ~~ D10igll~Eise11ho10er and the lhmocratsA. Adlai• slsve11ao11. About fifteen-ll11ndre d delegate~ votes 111ill be 11eeded to 11omi11ate a t,resid,nt at tlle Democratic Co11ve11Uo• A U11iled Press l11ter11atio,aal count of delegates t,ledg'!,_d ,o far shmoa tllese totals for tlle leaders : McGover11, t•o- hundred-eigllty-five - B11'11af, . llrey, o,ae-hu,adred-eigl&ty-011e - Wallace, one-hundred-sixty-nine - Muskie, one-ltu,adred- . tltirty-two . ...=s"c, ~~ ~ - NIXON President Nixon doesn't agree with one of hi• oao,a commission's recommendations that birth control and abortion services be made available to all adult• and teenagers - paid for by laealth inaura,ace. Said the Preaide,at : "I do NOT support unrestricted abortio,a poHci•• - I consider abortion an ,,,acceptable form of populatio,a control." Bi• statement aoas released as lae met aoitl Jol,,a D. Rockefeller Third - head of the Commiason o,a Populatio,a Growtll and Ille America11 Future - wlicl, Ila• JM• t completed a two- )"Bar • tudy, rec om na e11di,ag t1'at #)r•• ••I re• Irie ti o,aa o,a birth control de vice• a,ad a bortlo,a be aba,adoned. HIJACK Another airline hijacking today - this one a jetliner over Pennsyl v ania - forty-nine passengers on board enroute to Washington and Miami. The hijacker - claimh1g he had dynamite in a brief case - demanded three-hu,edred ' - thousand dollars cash - parachutes, and other SNl>f>lie• wltich where given to ltim when the plane landed at Dullea Airt,ort . The passengers were permitted to leave the f>l••• - and tlten with enough fuel on board to reach Cuba - Ill• airli,eer took off agai,e. Shortly afterwards it reti,r,e•d ••II bega,e circling Dulles airp , ort. , ~ disaatisfied _ O i1lli I\ _ '(with tlte denominatio,es of tlae bills lte PLANE Tile Russians today displayed first pictures of tlaeh~ Ilyushin-Eight-Six "Airbus" - a huge plane to carry tlaree- 11,u,dred-fifty passengers - ref) · resenting the Soviet challenge to Americ 'a Boei,1g Seven-Forty-Seven. Altltouglt wllert tire plane becomes of)eratior,al irt Nineteen-Seve11ty- Five, its major role is expected to a domestic o,ae - tllat of ferrying Russians over the vast, roadless dista,aces of tlteir own country . . Except for tire Iron Curtain countries most of the tot, aviation t,eof)le in the free world are ;,. Los A11gel•• tonight - at a lra,aquet i,a ltonor of tlae man •ho leas l•ft a greater imt,act 011 tile riforld of flyi,ag titan a,yo11e si11ce tire Wriglrt Brothers. His 11ame - Donald Douglas. His designi11g tlte DC 3 probably did more to advance co,,.,,.erc_, aviatio,e than any 011e tlli,eg. I sut,pose I've flow,e over moat of tire countries on this planet in Don Douglas's good o . ltl DC 3 . 1 had expected to be in Los Ange:es for tlris 11-istoric PLANE - 2 event. Don Douglas birth.day party which they are holding one month after his birthday. In a way we are almost twins - born the same year, same month, same day. And, as yor, may recall - Douglas planes were Ille /irat to c ire le tire globe in Nineteen-Twenty-Four a,ad tlley 've been flyi,cg round ever sin,ce. LOAN In Fairfax, California, a seventy-seven-year-old widow may lose her home because she can't repay a loa,s s lie took out to pay for her husband's June ra l. Tlte Ji11a,cce company wants to auction off the home Mrs. Ailee• Pict ia• lived in for thi · rty years - but slr.e is askhag tlae co•rt to void Ille twenty-seven-hu11dred dollar loa,a - claiffli•6 it'• in violatio,a of tlte Federal Trutlr. ;,. Le,adirtg Act. A heari•• i,a tlle caae is sclleduled for May Eig1ttee11tlt. MOTHER'S DAY As Mother's Da y - Ma y Fourteenth - approaches we f ind that tim.es are changing - even in the g'reeti . ng card business . Mothe'rs are getting y ounger, we're told, as more and more girl• become parents before they af'e twenty-five ; all of whicll is b'ringing some drasHc c1la11ges in those familiar Mothef' 's Day cards. One ca'rd no• Oft sale reads : "Think of mothe'rllood as a Job - and quill" Anotlae'r : "I want you to k,iow that you're tlae dea'rest, sweetest, kindest mothe'r in the world - and you ''re a 'real swinge'rl" Don, still another ca'rd 'reads : "I Just wa11ted you to kno• tllat if you had a chance to raise me all over again - I wouldn't blame you a bit if you chicke•ed out." TEACHER A young and shapely female English instructor at the University of Oklahoma - in Norman - has her own ideas about how to make poetry interesting. Standi . ng in front of her class, poe . try book in hand, she told lier class of eighteen students: "My body is NO big deal." Tlae,a alee _ --,!-UUI.JL.! II a t is , i,. to proceeded to strip, a,ad finally settled downi\ ~ 1 lf . , . , - her chair and began to read poetry. Asked wlay she did it, slae replied: "I want to change a society tlr.at doesn't allo• me to appear in my birthday suit anytime I please." Eue,a ~ ~ 6e/o'f'e , . at'f'i/> />BY/o'f'monce, 11,e Unive'f'8ity t•d \o ;,111111 to ,,.,,1,;,,.,. ~I~ lot next year.c:J ~ - ~ J, ., __., ..