JOURNEY Febn,ary 17, 1972 Allan Jackson At the top of the news this e v ening - here at home, in Moscow, in Peking - the President's "Journey for Peace'/ I,,.;' Ji na ll y begun today . In a departure statement at tire White House - President Nixon sayi,rg : "We, of course, are under 110 ill11si0Jt - tltot tweJtty years of lrostility are going to be swer,t away by one weelt of talks." But lie added - 111 a quote from Clrou E,r-Lai: "TIie American r,eor,le are a great t,eot,le - tlte CltlJtese r,eor,le are a great t,eor,le;" ,u,d "tlae fact tlaat tl1ey are set,arated by a vast ocear1 ar1d great differer1ces in f>IIHosofJlty - slrould ,rot r,rever1t t/ee"' fro"' fir1dir1g comm on gro11,id. " The President went on to say tltal Red Cllina a11d tire United States - have lrad grea . t differences i,a Ille t,ast; and will - said 1,e - ltave differences in tl,e future . "B11t we must find a way" he continued - "to see that we can leave differences without being enemies in war ; " for thus tire claa 11 ces of our cllildren - "to grow uf> i• a world of peace - JOURNEY - 2 NJ ill be infinite l )' greater . " Artd tllen - a concl"ding note . The Preside11t sayi11g: "If tlaere is a postscript tltat migl,t be writte11 .,,,,. regard to tl,is trit> - I ltor,e it would be tl,e tc1ords on tlie plaq•e wlticla ,uas left o" tl,e moon by o"r first astro,r.a•ts. '•We came i,r peace - for all ma,r.kilad."' Next stop - Hawaii; to be follotc1•d by G•a• - s•a11g•a1 - and, Sunday nigl,t, Pekhag. T•e Pre•i de11t's "J• rftey for Peace". SAIGON-PARIS In Vietnam - the ioar goes on ; including · today a series of U.S. air strikes - against enemy targets in tlle Communist North; anotller attempt - we are told - to preclude the f,os s i b il it 3, of a belated Te t of/ens ive. In Paris - a Comm101ist dema,ad today for re••mf>tion of peace talks - as of next Tllursday; 6y 1111tic• time, coh1cideretally - President Nixo,a will be 11earf1t,g t•e ertd of lats Pekl•g visit. Ho.,ever,, tl,e u . . s. a11d S011tll Vietnam - refused to accede to the Comm11nist dema,cd. A Salgolf spokesman say ilfg: "Wie,a we •ave t••••" 011r decision to resume - "•e •ill iafo'l'm Ille Com"'""' st side." BRITAIN It was a close v ote in Britain's House of Commorts but tire government of Prime Mirtister Heath wo,e - ratification of Br · itain's treaty with Commo,e Market-- ar,1>roved b .v a v ote of tlrree-hu11dred-11ine to tltree-luuulred- o,re - a narrow majority of o,r.ly eig'ltt votes. A,etl THAT - o•ly afl'ti · r Heall war,r.ed tl,at Ills gover,ement woMld re•i6" - a,ed force a ge,eeral electio" free-for-all if it lost tlae ratification vote. As it was - when the close vote was aJ1nou,eced - some of tlae Labor /)arty 01>1>osition members - slaoMled dema,ads tltat Beatie resip anyway. Tirey were drow11ed o"t - by ,aoisy clreers from tlte Tory side of tire Ho•ae. TORONTO The capture of one of t he FBI's ten most w an t ed criminals - is reported today from Toron t o 1 <ai, i11 Canada. Karleton Armstrong - a prime suspect i,i that fa , tal bombing at the Universit y of Wisconsin - back i n Ni neteen- Seventy . Captured by Royal CaJ1atlia,a Mo,uatetl Police ac ti,ag on a tip. Officials ad ' tliag that Arms t ror,,g to i U j' ace an extradition lrearing - "witlcin a day or two . " CAPITOL HILL Labor Secretary James Hodgson - the main witness today before a House-Senate Joint Economic Committee ; tllere n otiftg that total U.S. employment - has increased by one-point-three million since just last July. Hodgson adding that th is trefld. "if continued - will soon begin to llave an impact" in reducing unemployment . At the same · time - a meeting of tie t,reatiglous - - - U.S. Business Council; ruliich today exf>ressed "strong concern" - at Administration attemt>ts to stimulate tlie eco,eomy; charging that tllerein lies a possible retur,a to "more rapid i.nflation - later tllis year and in Nineleefl- Seventy-Three." BELFAST At Belfast in Northern Ireland - a rare display of unity today. Hundreds of Roman Catholics and Protestants alike - demanding a restoration of law and order in that strife-torn land. A spokesman for tlle demonstrators adding: "There are many people, Catl&olic and Protestant, wllo feel as we do - but tlley af'e afraid to express tlaemselves because of intimidation . " CAIRO J,i th e Middle Ea s t - at Ca i r o - Egypt 's President Sadat was gi v en a solid vote of confidence today - by th a t c o u n I r y 's s o l e p o l i t i c a l pa r t y ; a n d , th er ej, r e , no ,,eed to resign, as promised - if his leadership were in doubt. SUGGESTED f.,EAD-IN TO THOMAS TAPE "SOUTH SEAS" Next - Lowell Thomas ; checkiJ1g ;,, to,aigltt - 111 ;tll anoth11r tale from the South PaciJic . Lowell . .. , SOUTH SEAS ._ . When I opened my mail today I found a letter from Tahiti, an invitation lo join an expedition. How I wish 1 could accept! I'm sure many of you would like to be included in this venture too. So, I'll tell you about it. One of my most sttccessf,,l books was "The Sea Devil", the story of Count Luckner, the jovial German ,oho raided the seas ;,. a most unusual way dur · ing Wo , rld War One, with a sailing slail>. The Allies chased von Luckner for months, and finally, as you may recall, his Seeadler - Sea Eagle, went aground o,r a coral atoll in the South Seas. Later it slit,ped off the beach and sank. Various divers have been down to try and salvage things from von Luckner's raider. 'hey w11re not successful. But it looks as though their pre-:ent expedition knows what it's doing, and undoubtedly will come back with parts of the Sea Devil's ship, his cannon, and whatever else is down tlaere. .t ' ,t ' l , l Th~ l Iii, of the expedition is a Frenchman named I' SOUTH SEAS - 2 Jean Clatide Mathio. At the moment he and his party, witli their yacht La Licorne are at Papeete, capital of Tahiti, in French Polynesia. He sen . t me Pictures they have made of parts of the von L11ckner raider down there on the ocean /loot'. So, if you want to get in on an expedition you migllt drop a line to Jean Claude Mathio at Papeete, Talttti. • SUGGESTED FOLLOW THOMAS TAPE "SOUTH SEAS" For Captain Mathio and me, too - tltank you, Lowell. A final note - in . a moment. MANAGUA From Nash v ille, Ten,zessee - the cou.,ih ·y -mu.sic cap it a I of I '1 c world - a n e w rec o rd today en titled : "H O ward Hugh es Is A l i v e and We l l. " A ,i d l i v in g in Nicar a gtt a _ it might be added tonigh · t . Th e famed billionaire recluse forsaking · his hideaway in the Bahamas - as the result of an immigration llassle with local officials, we are told. Later passing throllgh Miami - en ro11te to Managua, Nicaragua ; where a government sr,okesman said the r,ur · pose of his visit - is strictl y business; adding that H1,ghes and Nicaragua's Presiden t Somoza - had been in contact for some time. How long will Hughes remain there? Nobody is saying - Nicaragi,an officia l s are deliglrted with all the attention they 're receiving - one of them said - this will really put us on the mar, - this is as important as Nixon's t'Yif> to China - will maybe .f or Howard Hughes it is. N O w Jo r L owe l l - s o Ion g u n Ii l tom o rr ow . BLACKPOOL A grisly story - reported today from Blackt,ool , England; where a wild-eyed man burst into a host,ital demanding s l e e /J in g P i l ls ; w h en h e was turn e d down - Jo rcir,g Iris way into a children's ward. The man there stabbi,sg to death - three small ch ii dren; also critically wo1u1ding a fourth cltild - and slashing two nurses. TOKYO For Senator Kennedy of Massachusetts - en rou.te home from Bangladesh - a b'Yi . ef st : op today at Tokyo. Kennedy conferring with Japan's Prime Minis, ter Sato - as "'ell as opposition political leade'Ys . The Senator later quoted as saying - tlte war in Vietnam will probably be ove'Y wit"in a year. Kennedy also quoted as saying tl&at America's hard-line policy toward Nortll Korea - will ,aot be cllanged in the near future.