~L.T.-DELCO. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 24, 1958 -""'- -- (G iv en by Allan Jackeon, L.T. in Zanzibar) The latest Russian suggestion - is getting little welcome i n the cap i tals of the West. The new twist or Soviet propaganda - tal ki ng up the notion of an East-West conference on European security. Which would ignore - the que~tion of German reunif i cation. Moscow takes advantage of a statement issued by the conference of Nato powers in Paris. And does a bit of m1einterpret1ng. Ttisting the statement - so as to make it mean what it doeen•t mean at all. Pretending to read into it - an aseumpt1on that the westem powers will be willing to try for a settlement of cold war issues, without considering the problem of a divided oeruny. Moscow saying., fine, okay. Da, da. J:nie IHtppeOift8 yoa wm1t1 le give • ''" duilere. 8e I ea, - - •~•• • ~ • tM tlft. In Washington, today, the state Department ridiculed the ne~ Russian twister, and pointed out that the Nato .-cGI - 2 - declaration states clearly - that there can be no luropean settlement without the reunification of Germany. • CHRISTMAS - BERLIN Tonight, there was a city aglow - with thousands ot candles. Flickering lights - in the windows or houeea along the streets. West Berlin - celebrating the Peaat or the? Nativity with an especial fervor. Today, the West Berliners go~ a Christmas present that gave them - added hope and courage. A Yuletide •asage from the Western powers - that Britain, Prance and the United States will back the freedom or west Berlin against any sort or C011111unist pressure. A Chr1atmaat1me guarantee - againet Red aggression. So that•s what the candles, tonight, were hailing. Houaeholdti's - putting lighted tapers 1n the windows or their homes. All the more symbollical - because behind the Iron Curtain, the communiet authorities do all they can to discourage observance tne reli g oue ~m--;• of tne Joyful cnr1etian feast. In Ca i ro, today, u.s. Ambassador Raymond Hare signed an agreement - for sh i pments of American wheat and flour to Egypt. Twenty-five million dollars• worth of foodstuffs - from our Mid-western farms. The Land of the Nile has to import wheat - ind had been getting it from Soviet Russia recently. Now - switching to the Aaerican product. An indication - of 1mprov1:ag relations between -tit.,,~ . this country and the United Arab Republic. ~~tching things up, apparently - with Nasser. Actually, this transaction 1e the second step recently, in that direction. Last week, the United ltatea agreed to let Egypt have the use - of the largest dredge in the world. The Cairo government wants to enlarge the Suez Canal - to permit the paesage of new giant oil tankers, and that huge American dredge Will be a lot of help. At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the shout is - three cheers " id ,. for the gu ance eyetem.• The control - that regulates the course of the Atlae missile. They tried it out again, laet night - and it worked perfectly. The new fangled guidance eyetem wae used first - when the four and a half ton eatellite was put into orbit, last weekend - and it worked eo well that the record-breaking man-made moon has been going around and around ever since. Laet night, the ~efu with an intercontinental missile - euch as might carry a hydrogen bomb warhead. The rocket went soaring to a target area four tlouaand milee away, ~~( down the South Atlantic - the guidance system uAd111g it Just where it wae supposed to go. Meanwhile, that satellite Atlae le getting eomething or a Christmas vacation. It 1 e been eending and receiving messages constantly, but the schedule will be reduced until next Monday. The scientists now believe the Atlae will etay in orbit until mid-February_ longer than had been antic i pated. STRIKE federal mediator presiding, repreeentativee of the Union and the newspapers talked for three hours, and ended by scheduling another meeting for Friday morning. The fifteen-day walkout of newspaper deliverers has, of course - passed the most important t111e of all. More than two weeke - of the Christmas shopping season. So the major part of the damage hae already been done. The nine great New York dailies - losing millions in Christmas advertising. Retail stores - sustaining huge losee. Because the lack of newspaper advertising resulted in a sharp decline of Christmas buying. Ten thousand out of eixt~en thousand New York newspaper stands - forced to close, because they have no papers to sell. Thousands of newspaper employees, not count i n g the forty-five hundred etr1kere - idle w i thout wages/. A mi g hty expensive affair - a New York newep~per tie-up i n the Chrietmae season. ~~Lil5 st11,1 ln the airline at.rite - an atteapt to get a truce for Christmas, and p ut the p lane ■ of American Airline■ iat.o service for the holiday trawel ruah. •ut the effort failed• and, at the same ti ■ t, the tie-up of Eastern Airlines continues. Eastern mechanic• haYe ratified a new contraot - but there's no aettlemeat with the flight enaineera. IIJ;-9, TO IUiCOBPllG Last night •e had a re ort trom Lowell Tho■ as about a bullfight at Zanzibar - thst fablulou• island ott the coast . of East A~rica. Tonight, Lowell continues th• story. Most exotic - tor ~hrist ■ a1 I••• (Recording: 2:16) T e bulls are raised . s ~ ecially fort is s o rt. hey hove their orns blunted 80 they'll not 5 ear the c o mic looking matadors. The latter, for lf hour or s o b e f o re he f i rs t b u 11 i s b r O ught in, d an c e and c av O rt , to sow you how they are going to frighten t e bull. At 3: 0 the 1 1 u11ber One bull - his name, "Son of " a tan", ,as led in ty twenty or thirty men, dragging hi ■ on a lon 0 rope. The rope is also ~", if the bull gets out of the ring - an he always does - they can catch hia an haul him back. The main thing is to annoy the bull so he'll charge. A dozen or more bullfighters surround him with their capes. s he charges the matadors , ins out of the ay just as the bull is about to hit him. ~t any rate, that's the idea. But often a bull will send a matador spinning in the air. Sometimes 8 bull will do this to two or three of is tormentors in one charge. And often a spectator a well. For in the excitement, the s p ectators leap into the ring. \ ' j n 8 bul l tires, anot er i b rou gh t in. Som etimes one hundred or more 1omen sin g to it _ a son g t t they say annoys t he bull. A fter listenin g l coul un erstand. . t t ... 1 s en. a ybe you'll see why the bull not only oes a fter them tadors, but after t e s ~ ectators too! (Singing) lf you were a bull - what would you do? At any rate, the mata ors of Zanzibar don't throw the bull - except before . the show - it's the bull that throws them. And everybody gets so excited that at one time I counted over 500 spectators who climbed down into the ring. I was one of them! So long. T ft ES --- 1 lo o ks a s i f some p eo p le in ~ itts b ur g h m o y ha~ e - a s m e l l y Ch r i s t m a s . The y'll hol t he ir no s es, a s t ey g a z e a t t he C h ri s tma s tree. lt s ee ms t e l' ittsburg H ousing A ut ority im p o rted a number of ine trees from Austria. Trees O a n extra s p ecial ty p e - ort h a h un red dollars each. And these were p lanted - as .iE rt of a roject for beautify in t he city. Some folks, a p parently, were not clear about the s p ecial value oft ose ustrian . ine trees. Nine of w ich - were cut down and carted away as C h ri s tmas trees. Today, ut ority Administrator Alfred t onzo said that t h ose A ustrian ines were s p rayed with a s p ecial ind of insecticide_ not noticeable, out in the cold. But w h en the trees are in a ~arm room they will p ro d uce a terrible odor. W hic h certainly w ill mean a sm e l ly C h ri s tm a s f rom t h ose nine stolen trees in ittsburgh.