SILVER SPRING May 17, l97? Alla11 Jack.r;o,i Good E v en . in}! : Go ernor Geo1'ge Wallace recuperating i II t/1 e '1 o s I> i I a I i II S i I 1 e 1' SI> . r i 11 g , Ma r y I a II d - w as e ,, c o u rage d iii is m o , , n in g by h is fJ r i m a r y I i c I o r i e s i 11 M; c h i g an a n d Maryla;id. He asked fo1' a newspae,, first thing. With his doctor's appro v al - he scanned the accounts of yesterday's balloting. Wallace later talki,rg with his news secretary Billy Joe Camp - roho asked him: "Howe'd you like the vote in Michigan?" Wallace firing right back: "What's the latest percentage?" When he was told - fift y -one-t,er cent - Wallace adding : "Go out get me my latest vote total." But later in I.he day - a somewhat disco11raging report from o,ie of the doctors atte,iding the governor who said - the chances are less than fifty-fifty that Wallace will e v er walk again - and if he does - it probably will be only with the aid of leg braces. The Doctor - James Galbraith - a 11eurosurgeon SIL \/ER SPRING - 2 of the Univer sil y of Alabama - 11ote,l Iha/ Wal'lace still hasn't 1'egaiued an_v feeliugs in his lc!fs - beca11se of a bullet lodged nea,· lite spinal colum11 - and said - the longe, • 1,e gnes 1t ithoul i111prove111e11I - /he worse are the ch a ,ices for a II e ,, en l u al rec o v e r y i 11 l1 is legs . Al any rate - it'll be some time before they know. Another operation i11 n week or ten da .v s - to remove that bullet - and ' then another three a:r months or more before Wallace can recover - to whatever · extent is possible . PARIS As /J 'r omised , the U . S. loda _v spelled out at Paris its reasons for refusing a resumption of peace talks. A formal notice deli ver ed lo the Communist side saying: "Your actions on the battlefield and your words in Paris give no indication whatsoever that yo1t are seriously in I e r es t e d i ,i th e n ego t i a ti on of m a tt e rs of s u 1, s ta n c e . " Th e U . S . a d di n g - w e "c a ,i on l y c on c l u de th a t y o u h av e n o s er ia. purpose in demanding another plenar y session." VIETNAM FOLLOW PARIS 111 Viet11am the fighting goes 011; with e11emy forces s t e I> P i 11 g II P I h e i r P , ,. e s s II r c l o d a _v - o 11 Ko,, t II m a n d P l e i k 11 i11 the Central Highlands of South Vietnam. While go, er11ment troops - co,itirrned b11ildi11g what they called "a ring of steel" - around llue. They look over a second abandoned base above Hue - eight Soviet warships reputedly have now assembled abo11t two h11ndred miles off the coast of Vietnam. But the Russians are said to have shown no sign, as yet - that they intend to challenge the U.S. blockade of North Vietnam. At least one source observing: "They could jllst be engaged in muscle-flexi11g - sitting out there to let the U.S. know - that the Soviet Union also has a powerful fleet." KREMLIN From the K1•emlin today - a tentati v e il'inera,•y for President Nixon's upcoming missio,z to Moscow. The schedule sta,•ting out with form . al arri,al ce,·emonies set for Monday tit Moscow's Vnuko vo- Two Airport . From Tuesday through Friday - Private talks with top K1•emlin leaders, especially Chairma,z Brezhnev . Saturday - a side trip to Len i11grad. Sunday - a return to Moscow for final talks. -lnd then - brief stops at Kiev and Tehran, en route home. By the way, the Soviet newspaper - Pravda - explained toda}' why the President's visit is still on, Vietnam withstandi1,g. Pravda sa-ying: "The Soviet Union attaches considerable importa,ice - to the development of equal, mutually advantageous relations 111ith the U.S." SUGGESTED LEAD-IN TO THOMAS TAPE "APHRODJSJAS" And now - it's lime again for Lowell Thomas . Subject tonight : Well, let's let him tell it. Lowell • . . . A PllR OD!S!A S A,·clteoloKisls ha e rece11/ly discot crc•d a I o 11 K - Int 1' i c d R o m a 11 c i I .\' : A p h r o di s i a s i 11 T 1t r k e y : a n o I h e r lrcas11re /1•01 1 e of a11cien/ Roma1t arl. They've found loo, Illa/ /he Roman Empe,•or Dioclelia,i ordered a freeze on all wa}:es and rpices - around Three Hundred A.D., i11 an al/empt lo slem i11flalio11. 0 0,i llzis side of /he wot·ld al Rattler's Bight, Labrador; an expedition hopes lo find llze gra . ve of Norse explorer Thor ald Ericson -- a brother of Leif t(~t;, ~ r e _ ~ E r i c s o" • Th ey b u r I y T It or v a l d J: ~ 1 7 c lnnrs b e.e:n 1-· A . the firs/ Europearz - ever to meel American natives - or "Skraelings ", as /he Norsem , e,z called them. The National Geographic sa,,s he was killed by an tndia,i arrow. - "{j)ullin,: ii 011l just before Ile died) according lo legend he said: "T11ere is Jal around my bell, 1 !" And - wilh his las/ breath his words were: "We have won a finj and fruitful co1tntry - bu/ will hardly be allo11Jed to enjoy it." SUGGESTED FOLLOW TO THOMAS TAPE "APHRODISIAS" Thank you, Lowell . A final story - in a moment . - TRAFALGAR SQUARE H c r <? ' s o II e - I> e ,. lu, p s h a rd I o b e l ; e " e: a n d y e t ; t /,appened - /he y sa y . 111 Londo,, - a d e mo11stralio11 in behalJ of s o - c a I l e d " Pu/) i I Po u e ,. . " Mo - re than a th.ousand young bo y s a11d girls - al/empting a march 011 Nelson's Colum,z in Trafalgar Square. T l1 e y o 101 gs l e ,. s p r e s s in g s e v e ,z dema,,ds - includi'1g an end to compulsory school uniforms a"d a11 e,id to corporal /)111iishme'1l . They never got there though . Police blocking off the square - shu,iti,ig the child, • en into side stYeets; where they wandered aimlessly - for a while. Ah, but it ,uas a nice spring day "Pupil Power" 11 or no, a good day to sltifJ school. And now for Lowell Thomas - so long . Ma y 18, 1972 Al l an Jackson QUEEN ELIZABETH II Good E, ening : A bizar<Ye scene i n the Mid-Atlantic toda y - four British bomb experts parachuting into the ocean - a11d then Picked up b y the huge liner Queen Elizabeth the Second . The ship - threatened, (a telet,ltone caller said) b y a half a dozen bombs - placed aboard . The caller - telephoned the Cunard office in New York de,,;anding a ransom of Three-Hundred-Fifty-Tllousa,ed Dollars in small bills - in exchange for information as to where tlte bombs are (Jlanted - supposedly, somewhere ;,. the big sh , it> 's thirteen decks . Re claimed to lta ve two accomplices on board - an ex-con v ict - and a termi,eal c ancer · patient - both prepared to die. A spokesman for the Cunard li . ne - ,uhich owns the big slap - said - "We expected a hoax from the beginning but we daren't take chances . " There are some Twenty-Two Hundred people aboard the shit> - now - in mid-Atlantic on a rttn fro,n New York to Cllerbourg, France. (conti,eued) QUEEN ELIZABETH 11 - 2 And so theBritish officials made arrangements with the FBI to pay the Three-Hundred-Fifty-Thousand ransom. Where and when? The caller said he wotlld place a second call with that inJormation - So far - that second call hasn't come in. Could it be - that it won't? That the whole business - after all is a hoax. British police say Cu11ard has long been plagued by hoaxes - so many, they've . lost count. But j11st in case - this one might be fo'Y' real Cuna'Y'd officials a'Y'e f,'Y'epared to pay off if thot second telephone call is received.