,nusr; L.T .-OLDS· . MONDAY, MARCH 20, 196/ . (G ive n b y Walter Cro n kit e) Revolutionary new /J:llax:trt•n ro o sal by t · he American Secretary of Dean Rusk, addr ssing a Charter Day ga thering at the University o~ California -- to ~ ' up the questi o n of disarmament. He said that we are going back to Geneva tomorrow -- to he confer nee on a ossible atomic teat ban -- in good faith. Ar.xious for an agreeaent -- that both sides can accept. new Then Secretary Rusk mentioned -- his/qas-nsi• avtlni:sal idea. Which is -- that some small nations ought to begin disaraament on their own. Reduce their armed services -- to the level needed for internal security. Avoid be i ng caught up in -- the arms race of the ma j or pow er s • Well Neutralism? /not quite. Secretary R ' ek added that the nations he has in mind -- are at some distance from he cold liar battlefields. And t hat oould cover RUSK - 2 a ood a rt of the globe -- fro~celand t Ceylon. But places like Turkey and Iran -- they' re just too close to the e~br ce of the Russian bear. to go in for immedi a te disarmament. TO $B The Air Force has filed charges a g ainst wee officers - involved in the fall of a 1exae Tower last January. The ra ar station collapsed into the Atlantic - takin twenty-eight lives. The to p officer indicted is Colonel #illiaa Banks, who was acting as co ■■ anding officer of the Air Defense ector, Stewar~ Air force ~ase, Newburgh, New ror.k. The second officer, Major iilliam ~heppard - was a squadron commander at Otis •ir 1 · orce base, Falsmouth, aassachusetta. T~• third officer, ~aJor Beginald Stark - was acting commander of the saae squadron. Jjanka, Shepard and Starl are all accuaed of - dereliction of duty immediately p receding the disaster. The ~olonel faces the added charge of - culpable negligence. The lllllllXfllllXlAeXUIJIX~~IIXlfXl Air ~ · orce gives no further details. SOOTH AFRICA The return of Prime M•nister Verwoerd to South Africa today, brought to the aarface -- the latent animosities of his land. Boer -- against B riton. bites-- against Africans. Apartheid against integration. Forty thousand of VerY.oerd' s followers maaaed at the Johannesburg airport -- cheering and a?plauding is taking the man who~ ~outh Africa out of the Commonwealth. But English-speaking South Africans organized -- a protest march. And native Afri~ans -- watched in sullen silence. Suddenly -- a fi g ht started. Eru ting into a "ild me lee -- through the streets of Johannes bu rg. Ver oerd's p artisans showed racial broadmindedness -- attacking all opponents of Apartheid, bl li ck and white • . It took s p ecial p olice detachments -- to restore order. CONGO Conditions in the Congo's Kivu P rovince -- are not quite as bad as we've been hehring. So say• an american missionary recently released by followers of the late Lumuaba. • The Reverend Frederick Vinton describes near cbaoa -- in Kivu. At the same time -- he denies mayhem on a massive scale ~ainat american missionaries. lie describes a broken arm -- as the worst injury he knows about. The broken ara,N suffered by his father -- when a Congolese soldier swung a rifle butt at hia. S ecifica A < , ~ says Dr.Vinton -- •None of our women•••• mistreated.• ...., Which contradicts a lot of reports we've been receiving -- from I ivu Province. - . ~ &QURT The S oreme Court i s going to ta · e u , -- the case of the reluctant admiral. The case of -- hdmiral H7man Rickover. The issue -- copyright. The q uestion -- is it legal for Admiral Rickover to copyri g ht his public s p eeches? Can he prevent authors fr o m quoting hie re ■ arte in their b oaks? ~~ - The Admiral~ thinks tk1 aae••• ie ■ ¥ea.• And an Appeals Court -- has upheld him. But the Public Affairs Press, as plaintiff -- has asked for a ruling b7 the Supreme Court. Today the Justices agreed -- to hear the case next tera. They also made -- a nuaber of other rulings. One, suoporting a lower court -- which threw out the Louisiana laws a . i m e d ~ ~ g a t i o n of tile Public Schools. Our highest tribunal is also going to examine a Virginia law -- contr o lling the activities of the NAACP. n d, the case of the Baton Rouge sit-ins will be on the IJza , upreme Court calendar next term. TRIAL l • I Today, London's es p ionage trial sounded less 1-1,t..."~ J ,,__~ like Edg a r ' all a ce -- and more like J~ii8 7 iuekz■ • Leas mystery -- and more violence. Henry Houghton, one of the accused -- tol'd the Court how Communist agents called n hi ■ twice. Each time -- turning him into a human p unching bag. Beating hi ■ senseless -- because be refused to work for the ■ • • Houghton says he finally gave in -- because they threatened to kill him, and his fiancee. He adaita he took secret documents from the Portland Naval Base -- and p assed them on to the espionage ring. But his stor7 is t~t he taapered ith the documents -- in an effort to render them orthless. WEATHER Today was the f irst day of S p ring -- but l OU can't p rove it by what's happening i n the Southwest. A snow- stora blew out of the Panhandle -- across Texas and Oklahoaa. A nd into Iansas. Drop p ing s e ven inchee of snow -- in many parts of those three states. Piling up • drifts -- two feet deep. Disrupting traffic. Closing schools and stores. Bringing out the snowplows once more -- just when it seemed that they could be put in storage until next winter. ISLAlfD . . A dispatch fro ■ ~e Shetland Islands reYeal• -- that Foula is still isolated. Foula -- just a small • chunk of earth and rock off the northeast coast of Scotland. Popul tion fifty-five. T..ae peiat a£ tbw atoPf ia \hat {br over t•o months -- no vessel ot any kind has been able to make the run to Foula. Seventy-five days -- of complete isolation fro• the rest of the world. The longest such period -- on record. Mot equalled -- even during the war. The population is down to -- a diet of brea4 and ? Otatoes. ind is asking the Government to rush su p plies -- b y helicopter. 1 he alternative -- atarvation. The p redioament o f Foula Island is caused by an old enemy that the islanders know well -- the sea. ISLAND - 2 ' ~ , • Late winter st o rms driving u p the north s e a ■■ a bet ~ een Norway and B ritain. Even the Twentieth Century hasn't been a ble to s t o p t h e i g h winds and heavy seas -- that hurtle agains t the shores of the Shetland Islands. GEJIEALOGY · - O.Wt Tn Sharpesburg, Pennsylvania, the official• in charge of the upcoming election, say ~ey could use a genealogist. Someone familiar with faaily trees -- the branches of which hav E.~~a..".£D. become a bit •••pli•••••• In fact, so complicated that a lot of voters may not know -- which na ■ e on the ballot belongs to which candidate. The key office in thi• election -- Burgess of the Borough. Incumbent Anthony Bruno -- is running for another tera. One of his opponents -- his IDD, Orestes Bruno. Two other candidates ~re cousins -- S m nd Ore st es Panza. Then there 's C~ndidate Anthony Ferraro. Hi1 name sounds -- straightfor•ard enough. Hut consider the case of his three relatives -- and the p ost of school director. Three ladies -- who ~ re rally confusing the issue. First Dolores Ferr~ro, his dbugbter. GENEALOGY - 2 Secondly, Dolores Ferraro -- his daughter-in-law. Third, Dolores Ferraro -- his former daugh\er-in-law. So it's no wonder tl a t Shar esburg could uae -- a genealogist. Anyway, one thing about this election -- seems Airly simple. The successful candidate for School Director -- will be Dolores Ferraro. \ IEAI The exican jumping bean -- has jumped clear out of aukegan,Illinois. Its velocity, accelerated by - the aukegan City Council. Maybe 76u don't know -- what makes a jumping bean juap. Well, it's the hoae of -- a s■ all aoth. And the actiYity oftJle ■ otb spinning its cocoon inside c~uses the outer shell to flip o,er. In Waukegan, a ■ oth got out of one bean -- and bit a little girl. Bence -- the City Council edict. The Mexican jumping beans are still jumping -- but not in a~kegan. Sounds as if there ought to be a li ■ erick somewhere in this story. Let's see -- •There was a young girl of aukegan.• I weader what. P!t) lit~ 3'e 1± er: k ■ «ant"