L.T. Wednesday, October 30 , 1963 Thanks Dick and good evening everybody: le- !eems a bit strange to be saying it from my home studio, tonight. I've been gone so long on my most recent jaunt that it's a little hard to realize that I'm not in South Africa, or the Antarctic, the north Australian bush, or maybe in Central Asia, from which I have Just flown by way of MOSCOW. First of all I want to pay my respects to Dick Hottelet and Dick Hoel who have been holding my radio audience -- even increasing it, I hope, during my absence. on subsequent evenings whenever the news is not too heavy, r may have an opportunity to tell you a little about my most recent experiences in Afghanistan, north of that country ln central . Asia, and ln Moscow. But, here ls important news from Horth Africa. MOROCCO A cease-fi ' re is announced tonight ... in that three week old Algeriat1-Moroccan border war. The ems e fi1"e to be so,,nded on both sides of the front this Friday midnight. King Hassan II of Morocco and Algerian Pres idenl Ahmed Ben Bella - reached their agreement at meetings i,i the Neo-Gothic French colonial government Pal a c e in Bamako , Mali, on t he Sou the r n s id e of t It e Sahara, next door to Timbuktoo. This seems to mean a triumph for mediators Haile Selassie of Ethio1>ia and President Modibo Keila of Mali, who have been working over-time to bring it about. A committee drawn from the four nations is to outline a demilitarized zone - which will be 1>oliced by Ethiopian and Malian observers. Meanwhile, a s,,ecial all-African com,nission - will try to settle the dispute. VIET NAM More news from Saigon to,siglrt. Quite a large scale operatio,s, witlr some six lru,sdred soutll Vietnamese troops and forty-five Am erican-ma,u1ed helicopters - launclred to rescue tlle tl,ree American Ar,ny advisers who may ltave been captured by tl,e Reds yesterday in an ambuslt. TIie A •ericat1s, t.,o officers a,sd aft ••Ii• led man, reported ,nlssi,ag after the battle, may ltave bee• .,ounded. YEMEN Th e de c is ion of t h e U. N. to re ,no v e its military team from Yemen - does 11ot mea11 that tlle Yemen crisis is over. Tlte Secreta.,-y General say• in his repo.,-t to the Security CouncH, that tlae cost of the U. N. Yeme,s project ltas beco• l)rol,lbitive - bee aus e of the u,upill #,sgn es s of the two ,eall o,ss i,svol ved to foot the U. N. bill. Sa•di Arabia a11d tlle U11ited Arab Republic - Egypt. Tlee t•o lead agreed to ••1>1>ort U.N. mediatio,a. But U. N. civllla,a obaerver• tHII stay o,a. Secreta.,-y General U. Tlaa11t says Ila• sihu,tlo11 is still too critical Jo.,- the U. N. Io l'•ll 0 • 1· hopes for • a quicll /IOlitical settleme,et. He says lee SINO-SOVIET The always unpredictable boss of the Kremlin seems to have changed his mind again - about that truce on name- calling with the Chinese Reds - a truce which he himself proposed - at the weekend. At any rate, the Russian military newspaper Red Star today fired u off a new abrlng of charges - at the Chinese. Accusing them among other things of being quite unconcerned at the idea of sacrlflclng the lives or "millions of working people" - in a thermo-nuclear war. Thia new attack followa the ■ild words of Chao Kuo-Chiang, Secretary of the All-Chlna Federation of Trade Unlona, who said at a trade union aeetlng in Mo1cow that - China respects certain aspects er the peacetul co-existence theory, Chao Kuo-Chiang - was thought to be responding to llhruahchev's desire for a tr11ce. ~ ~ ~ So, what does lt all mean? l e l l L e b ~ ARRESTS )JL C ll1'~ v « e v .. ~ Q ..,..,. ~ ~ Three of the four Russians , , involved 1n the latest spy plot - have been ordered by the State Department to leave the c ountry at once. The three, Yurl Romaah1n, Gleb Pavlov and Vladlmlr Olenev - are attached to the Soviet delegation to the u N, and have diplomatic immunity. The fourth Ruaalan, Igor Ivanov, chauffeur for a Soviet trade agency - has no 1nnun1ty and 1a being held under one hundred thousand dollars ball. As la the American John Butenko - who 11 accused by the FBI of spying for the Russians. N. J. Butenko - arrested with Ivanov 1n Englewood;rallway station last night - had access to Strategic Air C ~ ' Cort,. , secret data. His employers, International Electric, have been designing a new colllll8nd and control system for S.A. C. - which would link its bomber, missile and log1at1c support bases around the world. The company has put millions or ..... 1ch keeps m~at of their workers dollars into the program - "'' 1 d 1n1atrator for the company's busy. Butenko's job -- contro am ARRESTS - 2 field operations, including SAC inatallatlona. ,,.Ile alle1edly Butenko and Ivanov - aeized;tarrying a brief caae full of a1r defense contract aecreta - pleaded innocent at their arraignment. ARC TIC Here's one tltat interests me - ltavi,eg jtlat come from the Soutll Pole. It's an Army an11otlncement tllat ice from tlae North Pole is being sent to tlae cold ., 6 atller laboratory at Hanover, . New Hamt,sllire, at Dartmofllll, wllere tlaey llave been specialiaing in ice researcll ever since Explorer Vilhjalm11r Stefa11sson made Darht1outla a major center of polar stNdies. at,ecimen of tlais ice is te11 tllo••a11d years old. It began formir,g - te,a mille,aia ago, ar,d lay tiglltly imt,ac ted at tlle Nortll Pole - Nntil tlle rece,at arrival of some of our researcll t,eople. The DartmoNIII scie,ati1ts a,ill put Ille st,ecimer, through laboratory ext,erime,ats - in a,s effort to fi,sd out more about Arctic .,eatller, usi,sg as evide,ace - a chunk of ice ten tlaousa,ad years old. ARCTIC - 2 Reading this item from the Arctic, remi,sds me of the ice down at the South Pole where some of oar s cfentis ts, as you kNow, live ,,. '"""els, do•,. ;,. tl,e ice. In tunnels where they have been able to figure out llae age of the ice al various def>llls, aloNg ll,e hu,,.el •alls. For instance, you can turn to one of your pals do•" there aNd say: "By the a,ay Dicle, since you're""• • i l l yoN bring me a glass of tl,at l•o 1,u,.dred year old? I" Mea11ing a glass of •ale-r f-rom tl,e t•o l,1u1d-red year old ice layer ,,, tire tunJ1el. I b-roa,gl,t a s•all bottle of ii from the Pole, and then, Dicle, I l os I "'Y v '" I age .,,,,,,.,. 0 • my way home. MT. EVEREST Here's an ·1 L ' em lnal i11dicates what's laat,1>e11h1g to th is fast c hangi,ag world ;,. .,,, ic h we live: The Royal Nepalese Airlifles laave Just bouglat from Aer Lingus - the Lrish Airli11es - anotlaer one of Don Douglases almost i11destructible D.C. 3's. Before the Irish Picked it ut> it belonged to tlae U.S. Air Force. Now, at last, a t•ird owJter. Tlais time t1a, veteran America1t t,la11e goes to tl,e Bimalaya,e co1111try of Nepal, to Katllmandu, 111laere it 111ill be used to fly rigltt uf> to Mt. Everest, if yo11 .,a,.t a close-ut, vie111 of the world's tallest mo111ttai11. U,etil no111 traveller• were I ucky if tlaey could get a glimt,se of tlae tot, of tlaat remote mo1u1tai,e from a 1,undred miles a111ay • For even a glimt,se you had to climb to DarJeeli,eg, i,e West Be,egal, get up before dawn, mount a ma,le or horse, scramble to the ten thousand foot crest of Tiger Hill, a,ed, •aybe you'd MT. EVEREST - 2 get a look at Everest, far in tlae dista11ce, wlae11 t~e s rcn came ufJ. Maybe you wouldn't. No• a pla,ae will fly you right along side tlris fabMlONB Himalaya11 mo11at"cla, so you can even take closeups of tlae roMte tale• last summer by Norma11 Dyt"enj11t"tla a,ad lais Jello• America11s. COSMONETTE 2 0 ,.e dollar stamp - is almost as big as a11 averag• •I•• e1tvelot,e - and ,,. gaudy tecll•icolor .. 1 bro•glll lo"'• a collection of the"'. AGENTS Here's an interesting question. "What bec01119a of Cloak and Dagger Agents - when they retire? SbMhow, retirement doesn't seem appropria», - ~ tl)f~world of Edgar -""' 4 a~ ~ Wallace and Ian Fleming,{ Can you picture Ja•• Bond ot the Fleming thrillers - settling down to the hwn drum lite ot the average man? They can picture it - on Capitol Hill. 'l'he bll!l that has just gone from the Houae to the Senate - concerna our c I A agents. lt would allow thell to retlre - arter ten years or service. ,xr - tlve or those years have bNn on I hazardous duty. Pensions - ror the ~loak and Dagger •n. I wonder what Edgar Wallace would think ot that.