SOVIET I • I • j <. / ' ,.) 1/ (. The man on the hot 86 t 1 n Moue w - is Mikhail S uslov. The theoretician ,h o delivered the key ttac , on Khrushchev _ b fore the Central C ommittee. A five -hour harangue that spelled out - the misdeed~ of the f ormer leader. ,Knd was followed by _ I K hrushchev I e overthrow. With Khrushch e v out - you might thin k that Suslov would be riding high. In fact, he was the number four man - behind Brezhnev, Kosygin and Mikoyan. Then, suddenly - Suslov disappeared. He was said to be in Faking, or in the hospital - or some place else. Na1 the rumor going around M o sco has it - that Suslov - may soon be disgraced • .Despite his reappearance today .. at the Kremlin. Here•s l - the political logic. Suslov was the Soviet leader who grossly underestimated the reaction in the Communist world - to the ftl.11 of Khrushchev. He persuaded Brezhnev and Kosygin, who in consequence - can make him their scapegoat. Secondly, suslov hae the reputation of being - a Stalinist. And the Reds in the Free world as well as in Eastern Europe - are beginnirg to suspect a Stalinist plot aga.inst Khrushchev. SOVIET - Which ga in leav e _ u ... lov t he ca ndidate - mo ... t likely to be thrown to the wolve s . { _., I t , , •1 1 I J But · 7 B . and K. are still not out of the woods. The f least they can be accused of - is ba d j udgment in going along with Suelov. Besides, they too criticized Khrushchev - at the closed session of the Central committee. And m . any communist leadere outside Russia - are ~emanding a full transcript of all the proceedings. A demand that will embarrass B. and K. - whether they agree to it or not. JOHNSON Thi~ Pre~ident al day pane the distance - between ew England an New Mexico. L B J mo 1 r · t th .·. • • • , v ng as · - as e campaign enters it~ final week. Add r es e ing crowds - from Boston t o A lbuq ue rque . With stops at cities - lik e Pittsburgh and E vansville. His theme today - mainly domestic. That question of how much the p · ecteral government should do - to help the individual. Mr. Johnson, of course - thinks it should do a great deal. Housing, education, medicare - and so on. He repeatedly criticizea Senator Gold,;iater 's position - on these issues. That 1s, the Goldwater position - as seen from the Johnson angle of vision. 11 Two generations behind the time in which we 11ve 11 - said L_yndon Johnson. OOLDWATE Follow hi triumph 1 rece ptio t ew York's Madi~on quare Garden - Barry Gold water took off for the border states . Carrying his campaign into Tennessee and Kentucky - before going on to Ohio. And tonight's major speech - in Cleveland. The Republican candidate returned over and over - to a theme ttmt he has been hitting hard. The accusation that President Johnson - is 11 power hungry." Willing to promise anything - if the voters will give him authority to extend the power of the Federal government over their lives. In place after place, Goldwater asked - if Americans want Lyndon Johnson to have this authority. In place after h t f "M I II place, he received a resounding s ou - o o. CANDIDATES A week before the election seeme an appropriate moment to mention the other candidatee - who will be on the ballot. Because there are - other candidates. we don•t often hear their names - because they have no chance of winning. Yet they meet the qualifications of the presidency - no less than the leadeie of the two major parties. 111d ttw, de~erve :.a=antion • .. E~ic Hase - of the Socialist Labor Party. Clifton deBerry - of the Socialist workers Party. Earle MuPn - of the Prohibitionist Party. Joseph Lightburn - of the constitution Party. These are the uJor nues - uong the minor candidate ■ • They may not sound tor11ldable - but they have a place in our constitutional system. And they conceivably could determine - our next president. Because they will probably attract half-a- million votes - enough to decide close races in key states. CRASH The twin engine bomber that crashed into the Naval Air Stat ion near El Centro, California -- htrned the commissary into a blazing inferno. The impact of the plane - shattering buildings. The explosion of the fuel tank -- setting the wreckage on fire. Commu,aicatio,as between the base and the city -- knocked out. Two killed. Around 50 injured - includi,1g some children at the Base nursery. CAMBODIA The border between South Vi•t Nam and Cambodia - is more tense than ever tonight. Reason - the Cambodian announcement that its ar•d forces shot down an American transport plane. Killing the eight •n - aboard. or course Caatbodia claims - that the plane crossed the border. Violated - Cubodian air apace. But thl Alllrican authorities 1n Saigon - bave released a up ot thl area l Pinpointing the wreckage ot the transport - , - tbouaand yarde inside South Viet Ham. AIDERIANS - The following sounds like a faded clipping - from the newspaper morgue. It tells of - French Indo-China. The attempt to hold the · erritory beyond the Far Pacific - a decade ago. Ending in the calamitous French defeat - at Dien Bien Phu. Before the Battle of Dien Bien Phu - the French Army had begun to feel the l■pact of desertion. Particularly among their military unite - from North ltrlca. Algerians, •lting away .. into the Jungle. Never .. returning. Tonight's story from North Viet Nam - refers to a group ot these deserters. It 1ay1 that one hundred Algerlana - are being aent hoae. Repatriated · . Their hOlllland waa Prance - when they went to the orient. A decade later, they are returning to .. the independent nation of Algeria. V RHODESIA The first Commonwealth problem facing Britain's new Labor Government - is one that the Tories failed to solve. Namely - the problem of Southern Rhodesia in East Africa. The planters of Southern Rhodesia - led by their Prime Minister, Ian Smith - are threatening to 1eeue a declaration of independence. cut loose from the rest of the African states - and establish a nation of their own. Well, if there le a forthright Prime Minister in Salisbury - there ie another in London. And Harold Wilson made his position clear - today. Beg1nn111wlth a flat statement that the Southern Rhodesians cannot have independence - on a unilateral basis - within the coaonwealth. Moreover, should they leave the commonwealth - • London will end its economic aid. And abrogate - the existing trade agreements. The moment of truth for the African territory that has been British - since the days of the great Empire builder, Cecil Rhodes. ROBlERS The two suspects of Lido Island - were trapped at the bridge. Cliff Chapman and George Unwin, a couple of teen agers - aP9 accused of rifling the home of Yachtsman Briggs Cunningham. On Lido Island - off the California coast. Their haul - one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars in Jewels. Police say that they hid - the .).oot) )nd started tor the mainland - by car. Unfortunately, Mrs. Cunningham - had given the alarm. When the two alleged robbers drove up to the bridge - they found a roadblock.llllllllPIIIKIIIR Since the only road tr011 the island crosses the bridge - it was Just a matter of waiting for them to arrive. Kil••••r, - 1111 dear wat1on..-