77~~, 'Y ~ ,:;-- -",,. Presicie,it Joh11so11 said today that Ge,ieral Westmoreland tt. , ill get as many tJ•oops as he needs to fight the , ar ;,, \'iet11am. After t, o da y s of lVhile discussions , ith lVestmorelan!'//,11,■P top officials, Ho"se the P,·eside11t told newsmen -- ''we ha e reached a meeting of the mi,rds -- the troops th-:, General Wall:nhd.:-4- needs and requests - and that we feel acceptable - will be sut,t,lied. '' Whe11 asked if the increase in r• troot,s would fully met.estmoreland~ request, the President replied - '«~. "The answer is } ' es. '' ,,westmoYeland is repor · ted to llave asked fo . r one hundred thousand more men. The Pre side,r.t went on to sa, , th · at the exact number of ,,,.,oops and the 1;; specific c 011 n tries -er•••■ililiiif11H•Plli4~sut,ply th em w,ll be de term i,red aft.er Westmoreland rel11r11s to Vietnam. He emt,llasized that he co11ld see no ,reed to call 11t, the reser v es. A fe"' days ago, this letter from te,. year old Juditll Borden a,ad lier eigllt year old brotller 111as received (111e offices of the United States Steamshit> Li,ae ;,. Ne111 York. It reads- - "Dear Sirs - - My brotlte-t a11d I 1,aue a f>el ratbit. Her r. , . - ~ e is Sylvia. We are goi,ag to EMro,• S..Lr.:..__ a,ad caJ111ot trust a,sybody flJitll lier. Peo,le 111a,al lo ••tA1.i.,.--. We l&ave saved si~ dollars a,ad tlllrty nl•e ce,sts afld laau• o slro•gto,r. Mom soys "'" co• l o l l ¥ y o 1 1 lei 11• . ..s~'"w Pl•a•• - ~ l a m e IUII• 1 l'I • flJitll a cllerry Ofl 10,1" ........... ? r,R ~oday, Sylvla M• I al i .. i. out o,e tl,e A lla,etic - w~- aboard tl,e l11%11ry li,ser United Stales A ridiflK ca!_!ol cl••• cross,,.,. C4J A-_,f- ~ - +- ""', SIIOOTOUT ----- -- - - - 0 11 e of t h e I as / of Br a z. i l 's o l d - t i n-1 e , g II n - s l in g i ,, g --tC,-tri~L:. .. p~ 4- ,, o l it i c a I b o s s e s was b II r i e <I to d <l\' i" th in t e r i or of Bah i a • - A ~ H e lost a shoot-out in a saloon. Se v enty y ear old Bianor Pam/)011et was boss of the ald cattle-farmi11g town of "Big Lou land." He anti his son were celebrating a cock.fight vic tory i11 a saloon when a member of a ri v al cla . ,r came in. J,zsults led to blows • ..._ -r,;e three men W"R-4.. ~ ~ ( , tuent for their guns j find Pampo11e~tlie •t-o/ h:s ■ -a ■ d«-- Th e P 1• e s id e n t of C o l lt1n b i a U 11 ; , e rs i t.v - D o c to r Gra_vso 1 Kirk -- tinn.ott11ced Loda)' that the U11i1 ersity 1,as accepted the rights to a revolutiona1·y 11ew cigarette J ilter which is designed to reduce the so-called health haza1•d ~ ~ ~ - A - c . t ~ r . L of smoking. ,.poctor Kirk si;'s~1fiat licenses for the new Jilter will be offered to er er : v cigarette manufacturer in the world. The new filter was i11 v ented by Robert Strickman, e/LJ~'"ct--- tJn i,idtts trial chemist who says he in vested t h , ;,;s-a-;.fis_# "' rJppfl~ o ver an eight-year t,eriod.N ltttJl4h:g U:. ,l Ja/)a11ese ad ve r1ture1' sailed his 11inctee1z-foot yacht iuto Yol.•oham<, ha1-bo1· today - completi11K a solo c ,. o s s i 11 g of t Tt e P a c if i c I h at b e g a ,z <1 luu, d re d a ,z d o ,-, e days ago at Long Beach, Califor,iia. Thirt_v-se,en year old Jkuo Kashima told 1zewsme11 taiFI he made the lonely oyage "chatting" with his /Jet hamster - Peko-Chan and d re a m in g of tk~ h is w if e and /Jr e tty gi r Is . Two y ears ago, Kasltima made a solo , oyage across the Atlantic from Italy to Ne, York. And now, he is the first Japanese to sail ac,·oss botll the Atlantic a11d the Pacific Oceans alone. VENICE ---- -- - ~ -( ~~ Can l It e Pi c I 11 1· e s q II e II al i a 11 c ii u - of \' e ~,-;·d_ a 11 d i ls 1 J • / A famed canals be sa, ed from llte sea? A team of I/tree D11tch engineers - say - yes -- if mo eable dikes are c on structed and used to keep tlte high seas out of the lagoons- on u hiclt. Venice built. They u,ar,1 that something must sinking into the Adriatic.~ CAPSIZE - -- ----- 1 \t least luo '11111d1 · ed thirty ()e ' rsons ll'ere reported d, , oi 11ed i11 the Ra, i R . iver in Pakistan wlten a load of camels p o n i c k e d - - o ,, e r I u n, i II g a c r o w de d b o a I i 11 t o l It e s w i r l i 11 g c wr re 11 t fl'. 0 n l )' f o r t y I' &: , 5 ,.,,, 9 w e r e rep o r t e d ,. e s c tt e d • SUR VEY OR The S ur1•eyor-Four Lunar robot is scheduled fo1· lau11chi11g tomor1·ow 111or11i11g at Cape Ke11nedy - but it 11 ill head toua1·d a section of the Moon ,J:O 1•011gh that its c hanc es for a safe la11ding are only abo11t fifty-fifty. The Surveyor's target will be the Sinus Medii - or Central Ba} -- and a rotatill!f television came · ,•a on board will sca11 the lunar ter1·ain.-- ~ -tt:..e ~ • 1/0SPITALS - -- ------- The House Commerce Commillee has approved lc}!islation that I oul<I f,ra, ide fifty-eight millio,i dollars in emerge11c:,· feden,l aid to a number Jf~.f..'f;_ :::.t~aaeillttr- One h1Lndred forty-three hospitals in more tlla1i ninct,, comm11nities would receive suclz hel(J. Six unions tuday withdrew thei1· no-strike pledge a g a i " s t t h e ,a l i o ll ' s r a i l r o ads , e ff e c t i e a t m id 11 i g It t Saturday. High administration sources in Washington immediately expressed fear of a possible strike this weekend. The withdrawal notice went to Senate and House conferees who are trying to work out compromise legislation to head off a strike. BOMB ----- An EnKl i shmau - 11lto describes himself as cz dese1 'ter from tltc French Fu,·eign Le1:iot1 - says the French lost an atomi c homb in tlte P<J.cific last month w h il e th e )' w e re I> r e P a r i ;, ,: t o t e s t i t . Do n a l d Tay l or made this assertion in Auckland, Neu Zealand, where he ar · rived from Tahiti as a stowawa)' aboard «JtX an ocean lin . er. He sa . ys tile incident occurred on M11ruroa Atoll when the atomic bomb -- sus(Jended from a balloon -- broke loose and fell i11to the sea...,_,,. two, days before the · bomb was to have detonated. -~ "They lost it, " 4 Taylor, " ,,) ~ - ; ; a n d it's probably floating around in the Pacific i" somewhere." HO . NG . KONG ~lilTB'=t- 110 / , el-11 , 1> l011igilt in the , ioleul demonstrations ~ harf!==IFB'Bw- rocki11g t11e Br itis lt C1·own Colo11y of Hong Ko11g , all .fl,is we , e . k. Pro-Comn11111 i st rioters -- i,ispired by ~ p1·01101111cemenls from Peking -- are 1 throwi11 g dynamite and firebombs from .speeding automol,iles. Police figllting back with tear-gas bombs and sa ~ eed- off s Ito tguns. They chased about six h,indred demons.trators th · rough the streets near Nathan Road in Kowloon - t-he fa111ed "Golden Mile" tourist sJ:(>(>ing area:t:dding to Hong Kong's woes $ a t e r shortage. Water rationing began and alnzost immediately led to vi olence. One ma11 was killed and another se'Yiously iuounded i11 an arg,unent over 1oho was first in line at a Public fau . cet . . /i! e11 Britislz soldiers and lh · ree Arab civilians ~ t ot1nde d in Ade,r toda_,, when a lzand gre11ade exploded near a 1,ost,ital. MIDEAST ------ - -- The Arab countries - ridic:tiling Israeli claims of huma11itaria11 K •• gains from the ant1exation of Jerusalem - ha e cha>'ged that Amel'ican diplomatic and military aid made Is r a el 's a c t ions fJ o s s i bl e • T Ii e c h a r g es were ma de in tlle U N General Assem . bly wlrich is debatin~ew Pakistani -resolution -- calling on Israel to heed a UN call to return the Old City of Jerusalem to Jordan. ' CONGO ------- Th e St a t e De Par t m en t s a y s it ,,. n de rs tan cl s the Jnter,rational Red Cross is "11rgently investigating" the fate of white civilians who - for se ve ral days - toere held as hostages by rebel forces at Kisangani in the Eastern Congo. Some of the twenty Americans known to have been in that area may have been among the hostages -- thougll this is not certain. Nor is there any confirmation of reports that ' the rebels -- led by white mercenaries - took the hostages with them as they fled. TERROR ------ - 111 Saigon, police report that Viet Cong terrorists have assassinated an employee of an ele lion Council member -- apt,a · rentl y in an attempt to sabotage the South Vietnamese presidential elections. The employee -- a messenger -- was shot arid killed by three men riding wteo ~ ~-~.1 ,;.._, ll:5~ --t;,_l}f, a motor-bike) llt1 A I in,d~ vr·