VIET NAM Th e b i g 11 am . e in Sou I h Vie i Na n1 ton i g h i - Maj or Gener a l D 11 on g Van Minh . K xx~ Jttil• e o m ,n and er of the military forces - that rose against P · re , mier Diem a,ndapparently caf,lttred •Ji1nost all of their objecti v es - within a few hours. The hardest fighting, taking place - at the presidential palace in Saigon. General Duong Van Minli insists that he has - "no political ambitions." His motive for this uprising - to fight Communism, by breaking the political forces that It a v e hampered h is m en in tlr e fie l d. His primary P "r po s e - to get rid of Premier Diem. And of Diem's brother= Ngo Dinh Nhu. Apparently the General - has achieved his aim. Some ~ dispatches from Saigon, reporting - Ngo Dinh Niu,, llilled during the revolt. Diem- a prisoner. The men ~ ' - · toho made the cottP - in power in Saigon. The new strong - -\. man of Soi,th Viet Nam - General Duong Van Minh. KENNEDY There has been a constant flurry at the White House all day today - a stream of visitors coming and going.- enl J:"":t!f>n •~na-.e--t'Q--te~~The President~..- calling in his t5 ~ advisors ---f-et'---h-~ ... talk the crisis in South - /'- /, Viet Nam. A crisis - that z■ broke early, /nd kept moving at top speed - hour by hour. Many reports from Saigon were out of date - by the time they reached Washington. Overtaken by events - in the Vietnamese capital. In spite of the fragmentary information - President Kennedy took a few obvious steps right away. Beginning with orders to our Seventh Fleet - to move south into Vietnamese waters. A precautionary move to protect the Americans in South Viet Nam. COi!P FOLLOW KENNEDY + ../. , ~ ' l, ~ c.c 1/f The confusion in Washington "" enough to prove - ,,._ that our people in Saigon had nothing to do with the anti- Diem cottp. The p1•0-Diem faction, of course - is trying to make America the scapegoat. As is Madame Nhu - whose American travels have taken her to the West Coast. But the State Department says flatly - that we were not involve, in an . Y conspiracy against a. Diem . ..- Much less - in this / armed revolt. Inevitably, the opposite criticism - is being heard. Were Ambassador Lodge and his advisors ca11ght by surprise - when the violence broke otd? If so - why? Henry Cabot Lodge - between two fires. Between those who call him - a party to the coup. And those who charge - that he didn't know anything about it. NOR TH AFRICA Military campaigns u uall y in v ol e - obscure places i itlz odd names. And the North African border war - ;;- '""' --< ~1 is no exception. The place - Figuig. Where is Figuig? That depends 011 - whose maps you consult. Algerian maps put the town in Algeria. Moroccan maps - in Morocco. Anyway, the Algerians appear to be in possession - tonight. Ben Bella's men, attacking - under a massive artillery barrage. ~shing King Hassan 's army - back. ,, Over-running Figi,ig - in the No-Man's Land between Algeria and Morocco. EXPLOSION The toll in the Indianapolis explosion - ..-a.ke-s " ' 9 ~ ":ftri.... ~ ~ S i xt y - l h re e - - k ill e d by th e bl as t. Three hundred and forty one - in_jured. Many - seriously. Th e m a gn i tu de o J th e tragedy was du e to the J a c t that the explosion occurred - directly below one section of seats in the Indiana Coliseum. A/>Paren/L'!:..__,,, broken valve on a gas lank. The gas - escaping. Igniting when it reached the stoves - of the concession counters. Eri,pting with a ~ • f u r y 11 that smashed the concrete floor of the Coliseum, ,-,And tossed those in the seats above - air through t h e ~ like rag dolls. A macabre ending to the show - "Holiday On Ice." MINE ~ \ A~ 1.P e ~ West G e r ma ny~ the crowd cheered and A ~ applau d ed - when th&'le thr e e trapped miners came to the i\ surface. They might have g iven a few hurrahs themselves - except that they were exhausted after more than a week at the bottom of the iron mine. A-1-i'-~~ in darkness - two- / hundred - and sixty,-two feet below the surface. So far down, that they had to spend three hours in a decompression chamber - to ward off an attack of the 11 bends 11 • Then - up they came. Their condition tonight - described as 11 good. 11 WEATHER The rain that fell on Harlan Count y, Kentuck y, toda y - came just in time. Dousing the forest fire that seemed about to destroy - eight tlz ous a11d acres of timber. A hout to turn the mining town of Liggett - into heaps of smoking ashes. And the rains have come to New York and New England. SPACE The latest Soviet Sputnik did somethin g - that hasn't been done before. It jumped fromone orbit - to another. The space capsule, full of sophisticated instruments - roared into its first orbit aboard one of those big Soviet rockets. Then the instruments began receiving commands - from the ground. One of which was - to move farther out into space. The mechanical brain - got the message~ .,And the artificial satellite whizzed off at a tangent - into its present orbit. - so says Moscow. ►&..(,.~"- A tdM display - of space technology. One more Russian A step - toward the Moon? Khrushchev didn't make that claim - today. But he did hint that he might be willing to accept ~ President Kennedy's proposal - for a joint~ to the Moon. This, apparently, corroborating - what Mr. Kennedy said to yesterday's news conference. Namely, that there's no evidence to prove - that Khrushchev ls pulling out of the Moon project. U-2 Here 1 s a familiar reference - that was in headlines not so long ago. Remember - the U-2? Gary Francis Power,, shot down - over Russia? Touching off the international incident - during which Khrushchev torpedoed the summit conference of Nineteen Sixty? w..u..-The U-2 1 s~n ,, \W• 1mD11..,.. are still flying. And now Red China claims to have shot down - another. One of the high altitude planes that we gave to Chiang Kai-Shek - failing to complete an overflight of Mao Tse Tung's domain. The fate of the pilot from Formosa - not revealed by the Peking dispatch. HARVARD Said a Har ard undergraduate today - "may be they'll mo v e Radcliff". A somber thought for Cambridge, Massachttsetts. Take all tlzose girls away from the men of Barvardl But I don't think anyone really believes it will come to that. At Harvard stttdents are accused of entertaining girls in the dorms. Coeds from Radcliffe - being notably present and accounted for. "Wild parties" says Dean Munro. "More smoke than fire", say the students. Adding - that they'll defend the present rules and regulations. Would you say, Dick:- "fight on Fair Harvard", fight on for the Fair Sex. BLACK WATCH Some luck y y oungsters are to be guests at tl,e White House next week. Not just that they are going to meet the President and the First Lady ► But the Black Watch, Scotland's renowned Highland Regiment will be there. Pipes, drums, - the works. Performing on the south lawn of the White House - before an audierzce - of seventeen hundred from the Child Care Agencies. Thrilling - for any boy or girl - shaking hands with the President and then a colorful military display with the flasl1ing kilts - and skirling bagpipes - of the Black Watch.