V!ETflAM_ In o ffic ial Washitigton•circl s - an air,r- J of ''cautious opU : n i sm" today. Enhanced by President Nixon's action - in su , mmonin Henry Cabot Lodge home from Par , is. This on the e ve of the President's s ch e du le d rep o rt t o . th e n a t'i on - on Vie t ,i am e s e p e ace de elopments . ..,li"fJlloi ing earlier con , sultations - / with Viet Nam Commander General Creig1don Abrams .. ~ Be that as ii may - the White Rous~i•sisfing today~e P-reaident will not - - announce a break- through of any kind. Adding only that Lodge will receive new instructions - ''in light of the President's speech." Confusing? J.t certainly is. Roioever, the President pl , edg . . a full explanation - I'- WAR FOLLOW VIETNAM --------------- --~--- In the meantime - the war o e on - i ilh a ·en eance. Enem troops attacking alli e d force toda y - near three of South Vietnam's bigge t cities. Also, shelling Allied installations with rockets and mortars - forty of them, in all. Making two straight days - of intensified Viet Cong offensive,· where Allied ~~~~ officials wCre saying last w e e k ~ was well nigh impossible. I I 1 In the lo rg run though - they may still be /\ ~~ righ!J .,._,,. a .sew drive - alre~said to have cost the Communists about a thousand men. - ~~d:;tou;'1Pi:n■ 'f~s ~ ~ ~ t h i s is a desperation drive .,, aimed solely at forcing Filff more US concessions at Paris. WHITE HOUSE • "~"'-' Here at hom~- President 1f1xon put forward today a new draft plan. This - in another special message I ~~ ~ ~ ~ to Congress. Urging)- mong other thing~~ a reversal of the existing order or in order to take yo\lDg~ men first., A bid - we are told - to "reaove some of the uncertainties" that now plagu . e d . ratt-age men - soaetimes for years. However, the President e■phasized - this would be ■erely an interim plan. His ultiaate goal - he said again - an all-vol\llltt .Jr ■1:litary establishment - as soo . n as world conditions per■tt. KUA LA_L U.JAPUR Race riots in Malasia. The violent /lairing today - in at least fifteen communities in and arou,sd the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. With rampaging mobs of Chinese and Malays - battling each other - also, police - also, army troups. First reports indicati,sg •ore than a dozen dead - scores injured. This in the wake of a bitter political campaig,a - that ended last Saturday with Malasia's ruli,sg JS I Allia,sce Party retur,aed once more to power. Ro1Dever, the strong Malasian Chinese Associatio,s has si,ace withdraw,s from this coalitio,s regime. I?■ ,r •• 71,e w-c;,-p Chinese• today':a ,,ma.ult ~••:ca shouting over and over I - "Down "'"" the gover,ame,st." MOSCOW -------- The Russians and Red Chinese - apparently at ii again. Reports reaching Moscow ft&a,.-- - telling of a.. a s:usa• Chinese border c,•ossing in .,,. disputed Sinkia,ag- Kazakhstan area. With an es ti mated one thousand Chinese troops - now said to be occupyin~Jiftee,a 1-- square miles of Soviet territory. These same reports adding tllat nearby Russian troops - have so Jar refrained from any counter- actio,a. However, the /situation said to be te,ase - raising the possibility of a 11ew military confro11tatio11 at any mompt. GUATEMALA Go ernor Rockefeller of Nei York - the President's special emissary to Latin America - a isitor today to Guate111ala City, Guatemala. Arri i,ig under hea y security guard - departing fo11r hours lateT - same wa). Although expected demonstrations - failed lo materialize - there rvere 110 incidents. Next stop - San Salvadore~••d aJ S•l~•aa;e. HOJII 10111 Here's one· · n effect, a real-11•e version of the popular "I Spy" TV series - except in re•erae. Reports troa Hong Kong - telling today or the disappearaaee or a Soath Vletna•ee tennis ace - Lau Hoang Dae; 1ald to ha•• nnlahed en roate hOM troll Seoal - after leading the Soath Vlet11U111e tennis tea■ to a Davla Cup victory over South Korea. And llhe➔• he IIIDlf? In Bano1 - ••1• the Heng ltmg report. Adding thit Lau Heang Dae was t•rced to take tllpt - when hen• IU'llla■ke4 aa a secret agent ter the Vlet Cong; an "I Sp7• PEIRHYIDIUDRAITH •••r•••• ~•111 L1u1n,• controversial British ~ - philospher Bertrand ~ haa another book Jut out. The third •olue of his aatobiography - covering the peiod froa llneteen-Porty-Pour- to - llneteen-Slxty-se•en. P•blioati • t1■ed to coincide with hia ninety-seventh birthday - cOlllng up this Sunday. lleanwhile, at his hoae in Pe*hyn&e"'1raeth, Wales - Lord Russell taking ad•antage ot all this; blaatlng bi1 •DY critics - especially those 1n the U.S . 111 who tend to dls■i11 hi■ th••• days as being "senile.• In the tlrat place - it 1 a a lot or "rot" - said Lord Rusell. Addl111: "In any case, lt the charge la trae - I tail to see why anyone troubles to re■ark on 1111 Nbbltng.• By the way, Lord Russell waa also asked to c01111ent on a recent state•nt by a British doctor - auggestlng eighty as a reaaonable age li■it tor the elderly. Bia ..,..•r: " I'•e written twenty-two books alnce I waa eighty." He ■lgbt PEIRHYIDEUDRAl'l'H -2 have added - he was also married for the fourth tiae at ~ age eighty; and at last report _,:__..:union waa still going A 7S\i4,\ atrong_ ccl-- -P~ - ~ ~ " " " " ¥ ' " - _........., , ~ ~ io~~ ~ ~ ¢ 1 > ~ - + - ~ - ~ . SALZBURG From Salzburg, Austria - the story of Kurt Ricliter; director of the Untersberg Mountain cable car concession - also, an in entor of sorts. In fact, he recently invented a new emergency safety belt - for lowering stranded cable car riders. Only trouble - he cout..dn 't get anyone to tes . f it. Finally, Kurt Richter taking his problem - to his eighty-year-old mother,· ar,d presto - a solution. The elder Mrs. Richter doJJrtirag one of the nea, safety belts - steppt,,g out of an Untersberg cable car a ~ hundred and eiglaty feet up - puttirag her so~ irave,atlort tltrough the acid test. P. S.