AJIMAN ----- June 12, 1910 Dallas Townsend In the face of continuing strife at Amman, Jorda,a - Washingto,a today ordered the immediate evacuation of a "'"'dred-a,ad-thirty enda,agered America,as. Tltese including depende,ats of U.S. Embassy personnel - as well as ",ro,a-esse11tial" employees - to be flown to Beirut a,ad tlle,a o,a to Greece. The U.S. - i,a cooperation 111itl, Ille f,ater11atio11al Red Cross - also offe'1'irtg to evacuate a,ay addilio11al foreig,aers IVisl,i,rg to leave Jorda,a. At Ille •••e li•e, Ille U.S. Eigllty-Seco,id Airbor,re Divi•io,i at Fort Bragg, Nortl, Caroli,ra - ,,laced o,a ,,recautio,aary alert, Just i11 case it's ,aeeded to Itel/> i,i evacuatio,a t,robl•m•. , Secreta,·y of State Rogers emt,ltasiaes tltat NO U.S. """ I• goi11g to interve11e ;,. Jorda,a. All tllis - follo•i,rg six days of figltting betwee,r Arab guerillas and Jorda,rian Army troops; figlt ting tliat ma, ltave ended today - and tlien agai,r, maybe not. U . S. offkials rep or ting apparent agreement at last - on an af)paren t genuine cease-fire. The y add that " the situation in Amman AMMAN - 2 --------- - llas stabilized sonewllat." However, today's guerilla al'tack on the Jordanian Embassy in Beirut - is raising fears of still another bloody confrontation. MIDDLE EAST - ----------- Arab command oes attacked the embassy with Ilea vy maclai,reguns and anti-ta,rk ,oeapons - tore dolfln tire Jorda,aia,s flag and raised the Palesti,aian banner. Bolla floors of tlte buHding were swept by fire - a,st tlae Jorda,aia,a ambassador was beate,r by tl1e guerillas as lae tried to escape. Lebanese security t,olice made little atteffl#)t to i,a ter f ere. KOMPONG SPEU War news from Southeast Asia tells of a Communist attack - against Ille Cambo , dian crossroads city of K<'m/)011g St,eu; also. a Commu11ist attempt - tp cut tlee so-called "Freedom Higluoay;" a road that r,rovides Ille Ca•bodia11 cat,ital. Plu,om Penh - witla its 011ly direct link to tle sea. ErteJfly troot,s also ambuslah1g Ila a U.S. mecla,aiaed u11it - i• tlae Fislleooll regio11 of Cambodia. ,,. Saigo,a - SoN Ila Vi et11a ""• Vice Pre• itle,a t Ky called for 1111 all ia ,ace a,,. o,ag Cambodia, Laos a,rd "ON rs el ve• '' - as lie fJNI it - "to figlat off CommN,riam;" ;,. .,licit case - said K, - "an invas io,a of Nortlter,r Viet,aam" .,oultl •ot be "a,r i•fJossibility." PENTAGON Tire Pentagon today reported tire possibility of a ", er o d r af I " - for may be a m on t Ir or I w o la t er t Ir is y ea r. A "iero draft" - mea,aing no heductions; a situation tlaat also prevailed last year - during tl,e montlas of Nove,,.ber a11d Dec,"' 6er. Tlais made possible - .,e are told - by ll,e Ad,,.i,t1stratio11's determi11atio,e to cut bacll U.S. ar,,.,tl •,.,,_,,,,; •laicla laas already bee,e reduced from tlaree-t,oh,t-five "'illlo,e to abou I ti, ree -po,,. t-011e mill 1011 - s i,ec e Pre• ide11 t Ni%011 too It office. WRITE BOUSE Yesterda · ) ' - it was an anti-crime t,ackage . Today a leousi,eg bill. T'lte Pres dent criticizing Cong ,-£, ss agai,e for faili"g to enact mucll-needed legislation ; in tl1is latest case - a,a emergenc y 'ltousing measure tlle Wllite Bouse first pro/•osed fo11.r mo,,tlts ago. Tire Preside,it observing : "We 110w llave 1111tat I would describe as a crisis need - for , fir,ar,cir1g ofl,ous i'llg 'lleeded for l11u1dreds of tltoMsa'llds . " Be ' added tl,ougll - tltere is still "ti"'e to act. eve'II at tltis late dale. " lncide11tally. tire Prestde11t referred today si,,.l)ly to "Co•gress" - same as yesterday. B0111ever. Ille Se11ate's De,,.ocratic and Ret>ublican leaders 1>otnting out - it 10as reall tl,e Bouse lte meant ; i11asmuclt as botll measures ir,. q•estio11 llave already 1>assed tl1e Senate - o,ely to be bottled M/> at tl1e otller e,ed of t'lte Cat,itol. DODD Senator Thomas Dodd of Connecticut made it known today - Ir e "w il l not s eek nor a cc e p t " a Dem o c r a tic 11o•h1ation fo't' reelection. Tltis in tlae face of growing opt,oaition - from Caanecticut party leaders. Dodd wa• c•••,.red by Ille Senate tllree years ago - for alleged misuse of camf>aig,a /u,ads . He also suffered a laeart attack receratly. A ,ae111s aide says, laowever, tllat Dodd is still "glvl,ag serlo,.s coraalderaUon" - to a possible tlaird party candidacy. JIOSCOW In Moscow - tlae Kremlin holds forth a . n olive branch of sari•. With the Secretary General of tlae Soviet Co•mu11i•t Party - Leonid Brealanev - calli•g for h11t,rovetl SotJiet-A,nerican relaUan• "la facU Uate tlae cau• e of t,eace. " Relatlo•• tlaat must be based - he said - o• a "reali•Uc •••••••ne•I" of tie world ••t•atlo•. Brealanev said Mosca• 111Ul tr, to imt,rove tlaa•• . . rel a ti on• - a• /I art of a t, o Uc y de• i 6• e ti to t, rev e • t "'or l ti "'a r • More •••• h1 a moment. SUGGESTED INTRO TO THOMAS TAPE SLUGGED "'CRIPPLE CREEK-VIC TOR" Lo11Jell Tltomas is currently •inging liia way aero•• R•••I• - a trip about •lliclt lle'll be lellh1g ua more, · 110 doubt, i• tloys to come. Riglll now - anotlter at,ecial ret,or:I l,e - . le/I••· A11d tlte subject!" very at,ecial railroad. Lo111 · ell • .•• CRIPPLE CREEK - VICTOR In recent years great crowds of travelers have 9 been visithag my old stamping ground high . up in the mountains of Colorado, the Cripple Creek District. This summer everyone who goes there will have the fun of riding on a train called The Cripple Creek a,rd Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad. The locomotive was built ir, Pittsburgh in Nir,eteen-Twenty-Seven, taken to Mexico -- r,ow i,r Colorado. It ought to be almost as much fu,r as ridl,rg o,r the little train that cltmbs from tl,e plains of hadia to Darjeeling high in the Himalayas. Layi,rg the ties ar,d the rails for this Cripple Creek • Victor line was do,re largely by amateurs, people who make a hobby of tlle locomotives and coaches of several generalio,as ago. Says the Presider,I of the company: "I wanted my own railroad, so I could operate the locomotive myself!" IUGGBSTBD FOLLOW TO THOMAS TAPE SLUGGED "CICIPPLB CREEK - VICTOR" Tlu,1111 you, Lowell. A,ad ,aow - a fh1al item ••• HUMPHREY ------ A former Vice President of sometlri,eg muclr larger tlaa,a tire Cripple Creek-Victor railroad makes an announcemnt tomorrow. And if tire announcement is wlrat everybody tlli,alrs it is, a very familiar llat will be tossed back into tlle ri,ag. Bubert Rumplarey - retur,aing to Ille political ro111II a,ad 111,,.ble - planning to declare llis candidacy for Ille U.S. Se,eate from Minnesota - for tl,e seat bei,ag vacated by D••ocrolJEuge11e McCorlliy. Tlae Mi,a,aesota Democratic co•ve11tio• will be laeld late this montla, and B11,,.pllrey "01>•• to .,,,. its e,rdorsement. T'lte Republican ca,edidale for t"• seat is Representative Clark McGregor, wllo is unot,posed /. for tlae~om ina lion. y Humplarey leas in private life - not bee11 idle since Riclaard Nixon defeated him for tlae t,reside11cy i,e Nineteen-Sixty-Eight. But politics remains his first love - as tomorrows annoi,ncement will almost certainly make clear. Dallas Townsend-Good Night.