KENNEDY At his first news conference since last November - ~ ~President KeF.i.ialiy devoted much of his time to a domestic problem that may never happen. The President, referring to the possibility of -- a steel strike. Something he wants to avoid - at t "lis crucial moment of our ht . story. That' a why he emphasizeJ today -- the need for ~a or and manageaent to work out a settlement. F~restall a steel strike -- before the picket lines are 1 - formed. The rest of President Kennedy's topics today -- the obvious ones. Berlin? Mr. Kennedy said it w~uld be premature -- to form a judgment about how the crisis will develop. Foreign trade? He wants Congress to give top . . . priority - to administration proposals for easing trade with our allies. Cuba? ~ hopes that the next week's meeting in llqxJbgDft Uruguay will frankly condemn /l . {t:I~ ~ dictatorships o f the .Left Southeas( A sia? The President / ,I..._ th a t W" 'ire taking a ci1ance - when we back c~ _ lition a g rees KENNEDY - 2 g overnments. B ut he considers the chance preferable - to military action. The UN? As expected, P resident KeMedy came C, - ~ ~ out strongly for - t e oate of UN bonds.,j,(the United States. /'- /\.. 'fcivil rights? He thinks his administtration has a good rec~rd and will improve on that record 1n the future. One particular point - is worth noting. President Kennedy has ordered his science advisory committee to report on the shortage of scientists and engineers)~d to suggest how we may overcome - the shortage. NEW GUINEA That skirmish in New Guinea waters today - looks like the prelude to a is:118 naval battle. At any rate - the Dutch are braced for one. They believe~ Sukarno u cannot accept - this Indonesian defeat} rat he'll have to send a bigger armada - or face political collapse, after the wild promises he made to conquer Dutch New Guinea. The torped boats intercepted today - were trying to land guerrillas on the coast. The Dutch fleet, racing up - sinking several of s u z vessel~~ding the others, racing for de'R life A..toward the islands of Indoneal First round, to the Dutch - who are waiting for the second round to begin. COMMUNISM Man y western expert s on C ommunism a re s ay ing toni g ht t h at t h e i d eolo y co nn ecte d wit h Ma r x an d Lenin ha s b ecome - a d eath struggle between Nikita Khrusc h ev an d Mao Tse Tun g . A ll the latest i ndica tions are, t ha t t h e two R e d g iants have finall y decided - th a t the C ommunist world isn't big enou g h for both of them. S o theyJt.,e enga g ing in a ~ behind t h e scenes s t ru gg le f or power - t hat will end with onl y one survivor. A s you know, Khrushchev an d Mao have come to the end of the line - in the u smallest of the Communist nations. The symbol of the fight for half the world -- Albania. Moscow has been calling on the lbanian people- to overthrow their Red bosses. To d ay, Moscow took the u ltimate step in Red hostility - by terming those bosses 11 enemies of the ommunist movement. 11 ' Practicall y a declaration of war - for powers that use the_m1inist lexicon. -~~~- The trouble is, that Tirana is hurling the accusatio A _ back at Moscow. With - enthusiastic applause from Red China COMMUNI SM - 2 Pek in, descr i b i th e l banian r e g i me as "c orrect i~ts ana ly sis o f the wor A n d Mao Tse Tung's radio ~ mout h piece adds .lllbfl.- blunt warnin g to the Kremlin:- " whoever A ~ I attacks A lbania, attacks the peoples Republic of China." - - Un t il today, Khrushchev an d Mqo la always insisted in pu b lic - that they had no basic disa g reement. Now they virtual 1 .y admit that the disagreement between them is so basic - it can't be patched up • .,.An d that one of them - / must g o. WEATHER In Ch ica g o, t od ay - bur g lar alarms were sounding, one after the other. A dozen - or more. No, not an outbreak of robberies - in the Windy Cit y . The cause - more snow. The latest snowfall, pile d on what fell last week - exerting tremendous pressure on windows and foundations. Touching off the sensitive electrical gadgets - that aren't supposed to mak a noise, unless thieves are trying to get in. Chicago already has a near record snowfall - for the first two weeks in January. More than fifteen inches - a depth not equalled since Nineteen Eighteen. High winds, whipping the snow into drifts - of over four feet. Transportation, crippled. Schools and businesses - closed. Communications lines - down. And those pesky burglar alarms - going off when there isn't a soul near them. This blizzard is blowing across the mid-west - from Indiana to Wisconsin. Creating the kind of winter chaos ~ \ A , ( ~ A U ~ ~ ~ - J - ~ifuring the past month. ,,,.. In the south - tornadoes. Hardest hit, Hattiesburg, WEATHER - 2 ississippi - where a twister uprooted trees, knocked down power lines, and carried away countless shingles. The East? ~ ~ f o g . A ROYALTY ______ ,.. The feud between the £arl of ~nowdon and most of the London press has become so heated - that the rime •inister is ~tepping in as a peace-maker. Pri ■ e Minister ec illan, flying to the ro7al estate at Sandringham - tor a conference with the Queen. lt'a believed that he's asking Ber Majesty to suggest that her brother-in-law resign his job with The Sunday Ti ■ ea. l mentioned, in my last broadcast, about Anthon., Armstrong Jones, Joining The Sunday Tiaes ataff - in the rotogravure section. lt see ■ ed appropriate enough - since Tony used to be a fashion photographer. Still, it wasn't appropriate when that big Sunda7 paper gave hi ■ a salary of - nine thousand pounds aterling; tea times that of an7bod1 else in the trade. Besides, the bJ-line of the Earl of Snowdon would give the SundaJ Ti ■ es an edge on ita co ■ petitora. Thouaands of British readers, switching fro ■ other papers_ just to see what the ijueen's brother-in-law OYALTY - 2 -----~ is doing. And that's not exactly cricket - to London j o urnalists engaged in a circulation war. Today The London Observer - main competitor of · r he Sunday Times - remarked sourly - "royalty is being used for advertising purposes.• The Daily Mail says flatly - that the Q ueen should have known better than to let P rincess ~argaret's husband take the job. The rest of the London press, chi ■ ing in to suggest - that Her Majesty repair the damage and do it - quickiy; switch the Earl of Snowden to some inocuoua appointment - in royal circles. Needless to say, the decision - isn't really up to the British sovereign at all. The Prime Minister will •propose - a course of action;• which will then be p resented to the British p eople as •Her Majesty•s will and pleasure.• Tonight, Vick - the bettin g around London is that •Her Majesty's will and pleasure• will \ . . - journalistic profession. ,ft~ ~ho Earl of S nowdon to disappear fro ■ the/ n fish - is hav in financial tro bl e. othing unusual for h e Ki fis - except that two million dollars are involved. L nd as far as I know - the Kin fish never dabbled in finance of that order. ~ f u e man who once played the part - did. Warren Coleman , moving from the thespian art - to all Street. Getting involved in a financial scheme - that came to the attention of the New York Supreme r ourt. The court, barring Coleman - from selling an more securities. Money trouble for the K1ngfish 1 - ~x,1- e..::1:l)b 9': • ~ for mos and Andy.