L.T. MERICAN TOBft . CC O . TUESD , . Y, JU L Y 1 , 1 ? 67 ( S an Fr a nci sco ) GOOD EVENING E'TERYBODY : The Bri t ish Lion is becoming less and less a lion. Despite strong appeals f rom Washington -- London &Mounce plans today ~or cutbac k s in British armed forces strength. This to include complete withdrawal or troops from the Far East -- and even the phasing out of the Royal Navy's aircrart carrier fleet by the mid-1 9 70's. The plans for Labor governments Prime Minister Harold Wilson were include d in a white paper covering over-all - - • Gr1ttsh defense strategy for the next decade . The document rerlected, a s ide f rom vital economic considerations -- Brttatn's apparent growing emphasis on cooperation with continental Europe. The sc h eme drew frowns in Washington , where U.S . o ff icials appeale d to Prlme Minister Wilson to maintain Bri tish mi litar y prP.sence Eas t of Sue ..: -- "at least f or a- LEAB-- -:i while longer." But apparently t e Labor government 1s turning a deaf ear to U.S. pleas -- even Brlti~h ~orces 1n Singapore and Malaysia will be cut by fi~ty per cent during 1;70-71 and will be completely with rawn by the mid-1J70's. Officials 1n this country are much concerned over the .. psychological impact such an ar..1ouncement by Britain will have among frleQdiy nstions in Asia. The White Paper calls for an overall cutback in British defense strength -- so that by the mid-seventies 1t will be one fifth 1ts present level. Wilson's Labor government is committed to keep defense expenditures below rive-point-six billion dollars -- and expects a saving up to at least eight hundred anc forty million by the mid-1 ; 70 1 s by thenrastic cutbac~s. Sharp militar y re.uctions o;erseas -- plus economic savings at ome -- this to t '1e ai%11 aim or Brit , 1tn' ... Labor government. HOMG KONG Meanwhile Bri t i sh au t horit ie s at Hong Kong were keeping the pres s ure on pro-Peking agita tors. Another raid today -- the British police using acetylene torches to cut through iron doors or a leftist headquarters to sei e suspected leaders of the eleven-day uprising. Ten arrested. But violence continues, with terrorists throwing bombs at a police station, a health center and a post office. One further note about •hat unsuc ces sful call for a shipptng strike in Hong Kong. As authorities watched with amusement -- one of the first ships to come into the harbor was a Red Chinese merchant freighter -- ready to do business as usual. GROMKYO Another warnlnc from the Rus:Jian~ today on the Middle Eastern situation, but strangely -- no call for action. Foreign Minister Gromyko -- in a letter to the U.N. Security Council president, saying war might break out again, ur.less Israel withdraws immediately from Arab lands. Gromyko accused Israel of "continuing aggressive military provocations in the Sue ...: Canai area." and he said -- the soviet government considers the clashes -- ''extremely dangerous and could develop into a wider military conflict." But -- Gromyko di.dn't ask for any further meeting of the Security Council. From all indications, he'll head home to Moscow on Frida· . SOUTH VIET N AM South Vlet Nam' s National f..ssembly , overruling tt , s own electoral c mml.ttee. has approve the presiden t ial can did acy of the Chief of State. Nguyen Van Thle . u, and hts , runntng mate . Premier Nguyejl Cao Ky. The show-down vote came ho~.rs after t h e electoral Committee refuse d to approve the mili t ary ticket. ·rhe clt'l:sis developed to such a tension that the ruling military Junta ordered e. standby troop alert. But. in the pre-dawn hou.rs th1 . s morning, the presidential ticket was authori ed, and South Viet Niam 1s r · eady f or an election -- September 3rd. RAILROADS They're workinE; on the rallroa·. again -- but not all o!' them are singing about it. Most of the ;;hop-craft unions bo~:ed to the govel'lnment • s back to work law -- but some insiste d on a Jederal court directive before they'd report to work. In St. Louis ptckets appeared out.side the M1ssour1 Pac tflc Building in the downtown area, . and two-thousand office workers refused to cross the ;ir • lines. Pickets also tarried at Mtssour1-Pacific 1nstallat1 . ons 1n Kansas City and Little Rock. But perhaps the loneliest picket of the day was a man walking back and forth in front of' the Texas-Pacif1 c . depot, in downtown Fort Worth, aft . er all h1s colleagues had returne to work. "Nobody told ~ to quit"! salri he! . PRr.sr ENT ~ blue-r!bbcn pan e l ls all set tc stu~y the long- Pre:.;1 4 en t Johnson ann unclng triat ,e ! 1 as .:;elected a ~~oup of dl t1ngu1s:,ect citLens from business, labor and . overnment to seek a permanent sentlement of all this ra 11 labor s tr 1 f~. The Pres 1dent a ded: he's "very Hea 'ing the board will be Senator Wayne Morse of Orego.1 -- a one-time med la tor. Serving with him will be Fre erlck Kappel, "'ormer President _;J' of AT&'r.' George MeanJ, president of the AFL-CIO: former Senator Leverett Saltonstall o:' Massachusetts, and Theodore Keel. the v~ eran me·1ator w~o played a key role in the rail n~£ottat1ons of l 'ib' . Thfanel li111 a'mlnister the new ant1-str1r:e legislation _'ust p s ~ · ei, st~rt1ng w1t:1 r~gular negotiations. an· going en to ccmpul~or~· arbitration. 1 ~ re.;.uired. PR£ !DENT- - - Th announc ment of' t1e panel ·.-ms the start of one o:, tho~e informal Pres1 enttal news c on:~rence~, wh1c1 L.B.J. ~ en!oyls calling on short n o tice . .._) He also announced that German hancellor Kurt K1es1nger wlll v1s1t Washington August 15th t• 16th: and, he anticipates a new summit meeting, of the Viet Nam allies 1n the next ~ew weeks. or months. He side-steppe~ questions abou* possible halt to the ~ bombing o~ North Viet Nam. The most he would say on t~at subject was that this country ls ready to meet "tomorrow, next week . or anytime" with Hanoi's repre · sentat1ves or any o~ their ~r1ends, to 1 iscuss the en' o~ the war. F inally -- Mr. Johnson said he st11! believes -- strongly that a tax increase wtll be needed this year. He's t~nd1n g be end n1s recommendation o~ a s!x per ~ent ~ur~~arge but he sa111 -- this mig::t be 8'1 u~ted a~ter ~urt11er 3tudy • 1 in New Jersey . · th~ rac~ r!o~ ng epl rc::: • 1 ~ -- t.lso he IBVARK Is the rioting in Newark really over? New Jersey may have more rioting. say some observers. Negro lea ers ~ : v~ three states meeting tn Newark -- have warned or the poss1biltty of more violence, with the result that Jersey C1ty has cancelled all police leaves. It's Mayor saying: "We remember the r1ot3 we had 1n 1904, and we're going to try to nip this one 1n the bud." FOLLCYti NEW ARK Background on the N w Jersey situation was given Co~ss today. A police official saying how he told Sargeant Shriver last May that riots and anarchy woul result 1.n Newark, i f anti-poverty workers continued agitating -- arousing the poor. Senator Prouty of Vermont also read to the Senate poverty Jubconnnittee a telegram from the Newark police director -- a wire to Shr1ver demanding that such practices be stopped, and forthwith. The head of the Newark police had charged that Federal employees. agitated publicly against the city of Newark, and , against the Board or Education. POLLOW NEW A RK-- " Here in California -- Governor Reagan ha~ Just completed a news conference ln Sacramento -- saying CJlirornla ls rully prepared to dea 1 with racial violence this summer -- but he hopes a meeting tomorrow with negro leaders will head off trouble. The governor said he'll listen to thetr problems and proposals, then he added "we will be prepared in case our efforts ra11." He said the State's procedures already have been planned. NEWSPAPIBS The obituary o!' a great newspaper. " We were willing to give it to somebody who's carry on publication -- but nobody would Lake it as a gift." The words of Jack Howard, President and General Editorial Manager of the Scripps Howard newpapers, as he testified t.oday before the Senate anti-trust committee. That committee -- looking into legislation to give failing newupapers limited exemption from anti-trust laws. Jark Howard said such legislation is essential to the survival or many raewspapers in this country. He tc..ld how the defunct New York World-Journal-Tribune · -- owned Jointly by Scripp&-Howard, Hearst and John Hay Whitney -- lost money hea v ily -- despite good acceptance by readers. The reason? Sharply rising costs which have created an economic situation in which even a top ~light newspaper may ~ . 11. Under questioning by the senators, pllbl1sher Jack Howard r NEWSPAPERS- -? said he'd rather sell a ne\l:spaper to an outsider who would continue publication than to a compet ~ng loc · l. paper which would fold 1t. But in the case of the New York World-Journal-Tribune -- no takers -- even as a gtft. h"1lf' o" thP.ir ri 0 cent . t'.1e /rnt "!"n .:i , eer "ace of C.i.lii'ornia ' J r unr. 1.\'h 1 tneJ· -- th~1 l~ e0t mount a in.; here tn w at tr e - ~.lnslmn:_; rall t.h~ South '1 they Y ~s. ~~e~~ n re J~al ine thi~ h.OOC ··oot pcnk the '.iard way -- mn~lng thei r rtnal a.;. .. ault up \':hat's cal le "The Ea3t Chimney " route. Thl involves ncal ing a near- · ·ert icu.1 wall -- eight h undred and ten feet of sheer precl1-1lc e u• ::u1· ti.~ top . 1 ~ o f Mount Whitney. Wh t's more it hA-s never been successfu lly climbed from this approach. The Calif0rnlan s, it's what the North Wall or the Slger is to Alpinists ln Swit . .. erlan:. Pn they say in - Mexico 3-L-untll manana -- Harren.