GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: The Senate todA adopted the first significant amendment -- to the President's s1x-po1nt-eight-bil11on- dollar Medicare package. A measure to lower the retirement age -- un er Soci8l Security -- to sixty ears of age -- for both men and women. Those who retire at the earlier age -- to get two-thirds of the amount they would have earned -- at age sixty-five. 'rHUrl' While at Geneva -- ~ ,1 u.1. Secretary-General u T h a n t ~ today -- that there is no longer a choice -- between victory and dlteat in V1et lam. It there ls to be an, peace -- ea1d Thant -- lt '/ ■Ult start •1th a ce11atlon or all bo1t1lit1e1. ~ be toll01114 ~ J by negot1at1on1 -- toard a J>'rMMnt ceaee-tire. BU.Son •Jor conce111ona -- by both 1lde1. HI added that theae d11CUll1one -- "IIUlt 1nvolw all tho•• who ue actually tlghtlng." 'l'h11 including pre1U111ablJ -- the C01111unl1t Viet Cong. AltboUlh they have alreact, blen barred tr• an, euch negotlatlona -- by orcllr ot Pl'e■ lclent Johnlon. VDT NAM The vanguard of another eight thousand AIM!can Marines landed today in Viet Nam • ...-16' full battle gear -- aa:t ) ready for combat. / ✓ " The Marines -- bolstered by their own tankl and artillery. About halt assigned to Da Nang -- the reet to Qui lhon 1 ~ r e they will attempt to turn back -- a aountlng Coanuniet ottene1ve. One that now threatens to cut tbl count,, in two -- along the titteenth parallel. In the ••nt!.11!., , - ~ T••••{'U.S. and Auatral1an troope A reported 1n heavy fighting today. ~ that guerr1lla-lnteeted zone D- I to»-death -- s0111 thirty miles north ot Saigon. larlJ report■ indicating at least five American dead -- as againat tive ot the Viet Cong. CHICAGO In Chicago -- a powrtul bomb exploded •1th a bla■t today -- outside a ten-■ tory otnce building in the weat LOop area. The pre-dawn explosion causing damage -- eat1Mted at more than two hundred thousand dollars. With wlndowe blown oul or a facing building -- all the way up to the ninth floor. ' According to police -- no apparent reason tor the bomb attack, .,.....-xcept that it may have been -- a "teat devlC!, 8 ~ ott by soaeone -- who mes Ices wanted to deter■ine tbl ett1c1ency ot such a bomb. l It so -- aa1d police -- they know now. It workl.-- J u l - ~ A Ru ss ian-built military transport -- today crashed in the desert near Cairo. K1111ng twenty-seven -- of the twenty- nine on boar . S1x ~f them -- members of the Russian crew. The rest -- Egyptian soldiers, en route to join Egyptian forces -- now fighting with Republican troops -- 1n the YemP,n civil war. In Yemen itself -- President Abdullah Al-Sallal today appointe~ himself the new Premier, an0 innedlately ord . ered the arrest -- or all supporters of former Prem!~r Ahnld IOlllln, a moderate in the Republican movement, who resigned fr the Yem!n government last week -- 1n a feud with the President. He has since fled to Cairo. WW~ British Prime Minister Harold Wilson t•y shrugged ott ae "accidental" -- tboae two deteate he suffered last ntgbt in the House or Co•ons. The Labor leader letting 1t be knoWn • that he has no intention or reeigning. The double setback 1at4 to be at worst -- a blow to h11 pride. Kevertheleaa, Coneervat1ve Leader Sir Alec Douglu-Hoae -- today called W1lson•s pledge to carrJ on -- • "an e■pty boast." Sir Alec euggeet1ng that there 11 Jut OIII reason -- that V11■on doe■n•t re■tp) ■J, .. ■■N Ill •· "" rut that 1ate1t polls indicate a Coneervatlve victory -- lt an " election were beld now. BISIBALL A grill atory today -- trom San fedro, Calltornla. Where Jira. Delore, Stanford wae watching her ■on -- ln a Lt.ttl• 1-ague baseball,-. Afflen the youngster -- bit a ■tgbty bolll I run. According to police -- Jira. s tantord leaped to blr ~ teet to obeer -- then tell o u 11 lit • ~••. 1111 • pronounOld dead on arrival at a n1arb1 hoepltal -- at•• ■ 'n11M1 laler. Doctor• reporting tbat in her exciteMnt at tbl hOM run -- 11r1. stantord appuentlJ ••allowed a n4 ot ohltd.ill guaJ A'liat lodged 1~r throat -- and 11terallJ cboked bar to death. SPlII A major shake-up today -- 1n the Spanteh goverraent. With Oeneral1aa1mo Pranciaco Franco -- tiring 11.x cabinet M1n11tere -- and appointing eix others/~ an atte■pt to t1nd a solution -- to Si,a1n 1 s worsening economic and agricultural outlook. The prvblem aggravated by a lengthy drought -- that baa caueed a ••• exodus or tar■ worker■ to the clt1ee. 'l'bll tbl second Cabinet ebake-up 1n Spain -- 1h le11 than three yeu1. Th Gr t · ho~ on E rth -- h a 'f or (:al II gn on i ~ to h. Th n n o ther arn m and B ailey Cir cu ~ -- pr e at a out t n n lion o lla re . W it h the Madison Square Gar e n C orporation -- and th e Ame rican B roadcasting Company -- said to be ( A named as would- be buyers . If completed -- the sale would mark the second joint entertainment venture for Madison Square Garden and ABC. Following the pattern of diversification -- set by the Columbia Broadcasting System} Affien it purchased UR~x■tttq control of \_I'ecently -- the New York Yankees~ at a cost of fourteen million. ' •'o () ., !"' ne ,n r , l , c • n m· · 0 rl .. ' . (' (' ,.· [-) , ~ 0 ~ ... (? U" t o n P: h t · , ., :., on ; • n cl 0 hoo t ( I t. i a 0' .. -- . h ,.. .... m ent. r. o o n -- 00 1. e B tt.· T h een 0 lta 1 . e m re t h a n~ 1·t tlm o r for M. PUC in r s er in the c enter -- '1 h ion n t e r n 1 o p r ... Bu t e as . . ha co m b a n e r e hop1n e 0 i t a a in. CHUR CH Londo wor en o ay b ga n the task of dismantlin g ric by ric k the li t tle st .Ma ry Ald erma n bury Chur ch -- near famed st. Pau 1 1 ~ Catttedral. St. Mary's -- b uilt by Christopher wren in seventeen Seventy-Six. Later gutted by German bombs -- in world war Two. Now a gift from the Anglican Church to the people of Fulton. Missouri. There to be reconstructed -- again brick by brick -- as a mentQrial to the late Sir Winston Churchill. Marking the spot -- whene he made his famous -- "Iron Curtain" speech -- so many years ago. R I GO T me 1 ·~ f no man -- n t ven the B eatlee . A nd o o e more aware o hat than .Bea tle drummer Ringo tar:., . .--wn'o today achieved the te, der a e of -- twenty -five. If he were an ordi ary mortal -- living here in Am eri ca --Ringo mi g ht have reflected on the fact -- that he could now get auto insurance at a cheaper rate. But being a Beatle -- Ringo reflected i nstead -- on the fact that he has now reached a ripe old age -- at least for a pop entertainer. ~- 11Th1s 1~ terrible" -- eaid Ring~./. 11 If I keep going at this rat e -- why by next year 1 1 11 be -- twenty-six." ~ 0 1 · · ~ : · nrj () 1 an , . of t l.- or :1 ~· . rh l l r• 0 · : h , r- -- t o n e 0 l . , 1 - - , r ' ' 11 .... -- , .o h n ... n t t t o t . o in ne o t , e o nl o o e - F.: ar c h f r -- thirt - i x -- 1 0 0 . u l o , "' t p o t o n t o ~ et a bett e r view -- 11 into t h e riv r an in o oln a truc k h i e on a boat -- ne er ame p . Hi. bo .. r c overed from the Fater f fteen minute later. H rmon -- a witne s to that tra e - - at the ur 1n of atholi c p 1 ~, t -- no eel e -- not to u . p . . 11 e sav 1 f lost. LTP.1965.07.07i.pdf LTP.1965.07.07ii.pdf