GOOD IV&lllG IVIBYBO~Y: It toot ten da71 - three triea-and it produced 10■• bruised feeli•1• at both ••d• of Penn11l•ania A•••••· But toda, - all the effort• paid off - aa Preaideat Johnaon woa hi• firat ■ajor battle with Coaar••• - •h•• the Mo••• •oted in an uaprecedented dawn ••••ion - to abandon it• atte■pt to our~ wheat ••l•• to the S~•i•t Union. The wheat credit ••••••••t ••• P••••d in a Hou•• roll call •ote - •• part of the three billion dollar forei&n aid bill. l ■■ ediatelJ after the bitterl7 oonteated Yote - the •••r1 ~o••• ■ e ■ber1 agreed to adJourn tbe current ••••ion next Moaday. lone of the Con1r•••••n 1ta7ed around to tilt shop aaaaber1 often do. litbin ■ inutea the Bou••••• e■pty _ its ■ lcrophonea were hooded •i~h green baize th 1 bb •• re On ly two ahirtsle•••d co•ers - and in • o Y pa g e boys and the clerks - co ■ pleting t h eir paper work. The foreign aid bill was hustled off to the Senate - which is expected to approve the measure on Monday - President Johnson meanwhile, flew ho ■ e to spend the holidays at the L.B.J. ranch. Pre s i dent J oh n son t od ay rec a 11 e d his c 1 o s e association with the lennedy family - while he was Vice President. One day - said Mister Johnson - while President Kennedy and his cabinet were struggling with a new budget - the phone rang. The Vice President picked it up and heard a saall voice at the other end • .Lt was six year old Caroline i.ennedy. •1 want the Preaiaent• - she said. •Darling• - replied Mister Johnson - •vaddy is working in the cabinet rooa•. •thy don't you let ■1 JJaddy . co11e ho ■ e• - asked little Caroline. Mrs. (ennedy was away at the ti ■ e. The lhite House said today that Caroline will have a bright red fire engine for Christ ■ as - the gift of sixteen year old Lucy Baines Johnson - daughter of the President. Lucy delivered the gift bo d ho.e l ·n Georgetown last week - before the [enne y Caroline left for Pal ■ Beach - where Mrs. ~ennedy took her children for th e holidays. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - C'iPHUS _____ .._ The s trife- to r n island Re p ublic of Cyprus saw n e w violence today between the Ureek and Turkish p opula t ions - despite ap p eals for calm and order fro■ their national leaders and despite the efforts of neutral di p lomats. At least four Greeks and two Turks are reported dead today - the fourth day of open fi g hting between elements of the two communities, and the climax of friction that goea back much farther. The traditional en ■ ity between Turk and Greek is concentrat•d into an explosive mixture on Cyprus. T h ere Greeks outnumber Turks some four to one - and when Cyprus won its independence from Britain in 1960, the Turks feared that tblir rights would be ground by the majority. down/ They feared especially that the island would t G Guarantees were written into become part o reece. the constitution_ the Turks were promised a fixed share of government jobs and their own municipal life. CYPRUS - 2 ---- Bu t the guarantees have been put into practice only slowly if at all. Besent ■ ent has grown in the Turkish community - and it burst out in gunfire last Saturday. Since then twenty-three people have been killed - and more than fifty wounded. Tonight Britain and the United States offered the mediation of their diplo ■ atic representatives - neither country wants more trouble in the Mediterranean which ~as more than its share of headaches already. There was some uproar today in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia. La s t Thursday, President ~ukarno thundered defiant disapproval of the United States plan to send portions of the Seventh fleet into the lndian cean. Mr. Sukarno chose to see this as a move to counter bis intention of crushing the new federation of Malaysia. Extremist eleaenta in Indonesia are seldom slow to take their cue fro ■ Sukarno. Today they voiced his displeasure in the tor ■ ot an angry crowd of five hundred people outside the U.S. Embassy. But in the meanwhile Mr. Sukarno apparently switched a few signals. Govern■ ent security forces dispersed th• crowd, with shots fired into t.he air. POPE _ __. __ Pope Paul the ~ 1 · xth ~ ap ealed to the nations of the world tonight to do their utmost to keep the peace. peaking to the diplo ■ atic corps assembled tor midnight mass in the Sistian Chapel of the Vatican, Pope Paul appealed for negotiations to avert war - even, as he put it, if they appear in certain aspects hu ■ iliating. •it ie necessary to negotiate•, said the Pope, •to negotiate without tiring, the avoid this aupreae hu ■ iliation, the aupre ■ e catastrophe, the recourse to ar ■ a.• ~choing fro ■ the island of Madeira - in the eastern Atlantic - are some angry words today. 'Horrible, disgraceful, terrible, undisci p lined' - and so on. The angry words - uttered by ■ any survi•ors of the blaze at. sea aboard the Greek cruise ship Lakonia. More than half of the estimated 945 survivors arrived today on the sunny Portuguese island - and complained that the crew aboard the ship was •no help at all' in the caos that followed the fire. One of the complaints, fro ■ a british woman. •we had to look after ourselves, getting into lifeboats,• she said. •There were no ladders,• she added, •and we had to get off as best we could.• Other passen g ers told much the sa ■ e story - one ■ an saying that he will take up the situation with his lawyer. • h . d • d . •The crew was horrible - e sa1 - an 1n a state of shock.' The Greek Line - which operated LAKONlA - 2 ------- the thirty-four year old Lakonia on holiday cruises - refuses to comment on what it calls •isolated incidents.• At least thirty four persons are known dead - and fifty seven are missing - of the one- thousand thirty-six passengers and crewmen. INTRO TH O MAS TAP£: ~--------------- - --- There's a story tonight - about Cbrist ■ as at the frozen wastes of Antarctica. It coaee to us froa sunny Hawaii - of all places - from vacationing Lowell Thomas - who sent us this report. Lowell ••••• TAPE: -- . . From the frozen wastes of Antarctica to the warm Judean hills - Chr1·st1 · ans t · ht on1g are giving pause to remember the birth of ~hrist at Bethlehem nearly two thousand years ago. ln Jerusalea - where a spring-like warmth caresses the rolling hills - the gates between the two parts of the divided city were thrown open today - to allow thousands of Christian pilgrims to celebrate Christmas in Bethlehem. Thousands of Israeli-Christians lined ~p before dawn to cross the frontier - fortified with sand bags and barbed wire - dividing the holy land between hostile l ■ rael and Jordan. The crossing began at sunrise - while Israeli and Arab troops watched fro• machine gun posts - as long lines of Pilgri ■ s trudged past the ruins of war through the Mandlebaum Gate - a red and white barrier flanked with concrete tank traps and barbed wire. The Israeli Pi lgrims wore Jordan CHRISTMAS - 2 -------- headdress or other Arab apparel. Several blind men were led by their sons and daughters - many going for a brief reunion with their loved ones in Jordan. That• s the news - for Lowell T ho11as and ay self - a very erry ~hristaas.