APOLLO L . 4NDl G July 30, l97l Charles Kuralt Good i e ,, ing , • ·_vb od y . With le s difficulty than m o s t o_f us h a L ' /J a ,. k , · · "Ka car on a city street, two Americans landed a Pac craft on the moon a while ago. Gar Shepard reports: It was the climax of a journey that began on Mo,atlay morning at Cape Kennedy, when Dave Scott, Jim Irwin, a,atl Al Worden blasted off on a trip tllat would take tllem a quarter of a million miles into space. It e,aded abo•t Forty -Five minutes ago, when Scott a,ad lrwi,a, i11s ide tl,e lu,rar lander, Falcon, set dow,r ir1 tlle ri,gged Hadley-Ap,,,..,,. region, on tire surface of tlle moon. Here's tl,e •ay it sounded, as Falcon slowly lo•ered itself dow,a, Ille fi,aal Twenty-Fi e feet . (Tape) b t it We lead contact! 30 sec . . . cue ... No doubt a ou · Within,,. the hour, Dave Scott will ot,en Ille lratcll of Falcon, poke his head out the door, and take a look. Tlte l d I r to n1c>rr0w monaing. first actual moon exploration, schedu e 0 DRAFT For a month now, the country ltas had no draft law, because a number of anti-war Senato-s '"ave f , n re •s ed to go along with an extension of the draft unless tlte bill also calls for a total withdrawal within nine months of America,. troops from Vie Ina m. Today, Rouse and Se,aate ,aegotiators bro•e tlaat ampasse, approved a bill providi,ag for two more years of Selective Service, and declaring tltat it is tlae "seJtse of Congress" that the Pres ide11t negotiate a date for e,adi,ag tlae war. But that's ,aot quite a stro,ag as "'""Y Se,aators would like. Some still wa11t a firffl ,ai,ae-,,.oratll deadlirae - and they want it declared ",aatio,aal policy" - ,aot "'erely tlle "sense of Congress" - so while the House is expected to it 's not ,,et certai,a aolaat tlae SeJtate approve this compromise, J will do, and therefore, tlae fate of tlae draft bill is sti ll '" dor,bt. LOCKHEED The proposal to offer government loan guarantees to Locklleed Ai-rcraft Corporation, ts also still findt,,g rocky going in the Senate. The House seems laeaded to,oard a vote _ perhaps tonight - which could ar,r,rove laelp fo-r Locklaeed ;,.d other ailing corporations, but tlae ~••ate voted for a , J third time today not to clloke off a Jiltb••ter beiflg •aged !i!.!!!..!_t th e b ill . 0 WHITE BOUSE ('::.The White House - President Nixon met today ., 1111 ,.ail negotiators; personally urging an ea.,-ly spreading rail road s t.,.ike - t, ef o.,.• e11d to tlae -.J:l a.. --c. ~. , it affect, tit• [ - e,iti're econom y . The Preside,at quoted as aayi,ag tlat "tl,i, i,adustry - can, should a,ad is able to solve it, o•• proble,,., - 11,,.0,.gla tlae collecti v e ba.,.gai,ri,ag proc,,,." But Labor Secreta.,.y James Hodgso11 - .,1,0 •as also preaeJtt - add,., tllat tlae situation i11 lla.,.dest-lait af'eas - already "f'arage, -,:,,, from critica,,isas tf'ous." And tlae titre at o f a s ecoJtd major • trilte - a, of • midraigllt tomorro•J.1 ,ao• said to be •f•ally "gri•." T•• Untied Steel Worhers reject~ today - m•••6•"'••t'• let•• t o/Je,-) Calling it - i• a •ord, "stiragy." MORIOKA In the wake of that mid-air colliston at Morioka, Japan - the worst plane craslr in aviation history • a cluu-ge of "professional negligence;" has been filed agai,eat - tlae o,aly s•,rvivor of the tragetly; tire you,eg stutle,et t,ilot of a Jat,areese air force jet - 1Dlto bailed out just before H 1tr•ci a crowded All Nit,t,on airliner. Tlae resulti,ag deatla toll, a laun . dred nd sixty-two. VIBTNAM On the war front - Indochina - a flur,yy of gro,o, . d action today - in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, all tltree. Enemy forces also downi--41t1110 u. s. llelicot,ter• • flying cove-r Jo,- a South Viet•amese riv•.- convoy e,a ro · ufe to •aw Phnom Penh. On the political front .. a grout, of Stllitll Viel•••••• . ~ . provi,.al office'Ys - cliarg- lliat tle . , we~• coerced into supporting President Tllieu fo · r re-eleclio•; •••,. t•• ••• llley really want - t11 e,j now mahitain - is Vice Presitleat Ky. UNITED NATIONS Here ·n New Yo1"k - a repo,-t today tlaat u. N. sec re ta1"y General U Titan t - has at,t,ealed sec,-etly to me•ben of the U. N. Security Council; attemt,ting to build ••t,t,o,-t for u. N. intervention - in tlie Present dlst,ute lJ•t•••n lnd,a and Pakistan. U Thant quot d as saying tl,e •orld loll, c•• no longer ignore - this "Pote,atitd tlareat to t,e•c• and secu,-ity." JBRUSALEM In the Middle East - U.S. diplomatic trouble-sliooter Joseph Sisco - met today with Israeli Premier Golda Me,r; reportedly bringing with him - a message from Egyt,t's President Anwar Sadat; wlao is said to •a11t to co,aU,a•• efforts _ to reach an in te'l"im Mideast peace agr•••••I. B■ I Jl•d••• t ...., / Meir's reaction to that - well, we'll laave to ,oait a•tl •••· flUPOLI FOLLOW J E RUSALEM Reverse side - a meeting of Si% Arab leaders al 1 ,.;poli. An attempt to determine w,l,at, if a,ayllti,ag, Ille:, c•• do _ to get Jordan to ease ut, '- its camt,aig,a agai,ast Palestinian command groups. ~ Arab so■rce• all•itti,ag, l,o,oever - ~ tlae answer to tlaal is t,robably "very Ulll•." KHARTOUM At Khartoum in the Sudan - a bad c!Jse of Jitters today; with government officials - fearing the possibility of a,eotlter attempted leftist co11p; Uuroje!:'1.stltutl◄t•• st.-ict•t of security precau tio,as -includi,ag a caref•l esa,,.i,eatio,e of all diplomatic poucltes entering a,ad leavi•g tl,e co••lry; ;,. effect - a partial suspe,asio,a of dit>l,o,,.atlc i••••Uy. A• tlais - we are told - - ""'' llave been used in gu,i --s m1'ggli,eg operatio••. VJBNNA The daughter of Sigmund Freud - herself a raoted ~ ps y e la ia tris t - the guest of honor today at tit e Ttoe• ty -Seve,.t• International Psychoanalysis Convention ;,. v;,,.,. 0 • Dr. A••• Freud - at age seventy-six - returnirag to ••r ••live city for tlae first time since NineteeJ1-Tlairty-Big•t; •••• ••• ••ti lie.,. fa tit. er - as Jews - were forced to flee for t•••r Hoe,; a fact which figu'Yed t,romineJttly - ;,. laer f•• brief r•••rt,. Dr. Freud ~ lter colleog1u1s: "lly vlaU to VI•••• has recalled all t/ae work I did laere. But at t•• •••• ti•• I ask myself the question - 111laere tooultl •• 6e totl•y If•• had not been forced to interr11t,t 011r •ort i• Vi•••a.•" Next - Lowell Thomas. But first tlais. SUGGESTED LEAD-IN TO THOMAS TAPE "SIRIUS" Nt-UJ -- tfa•• Lowell Thomas; getti,ag set foF' tlaose "dog days"_ soon to come. Lowell. .. L.T . tape insert SIRIUS With the approach of another no doubt sweltering August - this next is Perhaps of special note. Tl&e Hme Is upon 11s whe,1 the brightest visible star in the l&eave,ea Is nearest the earth: the star Sirius - of the constellatio,s Ca,s Major, "the Greater Oog;" which accounts for tl&e fact tlaat the Greeks i,sed the expression, tl,e "dog days." It was not too long ago that parents forbade tla•ir children to swim during "dog days" - and witla good reaso11; for many ponds and lakes were covered •itl, lleat-1,edMced al,.. - and thus badly polluted. It's also said tlaat a tr•• alaalaed during "dog days" - will die no matter how sligllt tlle i,ejury seems to be. Down through the ages, "dog days" laav, • 1• 0 been blamed for fi eld-withering drougllts - tl,e deatl, of farm animals - and unexplained mid-summer sickness. Howe er, we are told that fewer dogs develop rabies d . WI ring lllllJII« or Fall; uring the "dog days" than either in ~ so it's not true - that mad dogs go out in th e • 00 " d0 Y sull SIRIUS - 2 "d da s . " during og And what t ith their Empire goree, I suppose Englishmen ,io longer go out in the mid-day su,a.