MIDEAST Set,tember 8, 1970 Dallas TowNse,ad TIie PalesliNiaN guerrillas are NOIO demar,dir,g tlaat Israel r,leastt some tllree-tllousaNd Arab t,riso,aers as part of tire ra,asom for liberati,ag tllree liundred airlt,ae fJ•••er,ger• a,ad ere., be irtg II eld II os tage ; . ,. Jorda,a. T II i • ,u, ., d,,,,.. • ,I 111a• giver, lr,ter,aotio,eol Red Cro•• official• 111lao fie• lo Jorda,e or, • •ediatior, "'iss io,e ;,. bela11lf of Ille U,aUed Sl•I••, by late to'" orro• ,. lgli I, Ea• terr, ,,,., •. Origi,a•lly, tie guerrillas llad de,,,ar.tled o,aly Ille relea•e of •eve,a Ar .. b comma,u:lo,, now bei11g lteltl ill Eurot,ea11 coNr,lrie•. bet111ee,a Ille Jortla,aia,a Army ar,d Ille Palesli,.ia,a gNerrilla• after eigl,I days of figltti,ag i,r 111/aicll about oNe-1110,tlred t,ersons were re1>orted killed. S0011 afterward, 1, . owever, MIDEAST - 2 ,ae., figltting .,as reported - and tl1e ,ae., ceasefire .,e,al lie• .,a)' of all otllers i,a Jorda,a. KENNEDY ~\JRCRAS11 A DC - 8 u If' 11 e d b _ , , T l'a II s In I er II a Ii on al Air II' a y s - a c It a ,. I e r c om (Jeni y - c r fl s II e d a ,, cl b II r n e d t I, is afternoon , on takeoff from Ke1111ed_, , air(Jo1·t in New York. , \/l eleven crewmembers 011 board - i11cluding se e,z stewardesses were killed. The pla,ie had no passengers - il was headed for Du ll e s a i Y fJ o r t o 1t Is id e W a s h i 11 ; gt o ,i o ,i a f e r r y fl i g h t . Cause of the accide11t has not been determined. FAR EAST .4 blowu-up bridge has stalled a f or ce of some f our-thousand Cambodian troops, mo lJ ing north from Phnom Penh in a dri e lo break through the Commu . nist encirclement of the t own of Kompong Thom. / The task force d11g In about eight miles short of its objecti v es.; In Saigon, for the third time i,i as ma,i y days lhe U-S Air Force annouad major ..., c.. J - backs in American air strength in South Vietnam. The remainder of a fighter wing unit at the 1, , ig Bien Hoa ai-r base, fourteen miles north of Saigon./ is being Inactivated and with.drawn from the country. In Tokyo, official U-S so1trces say after the middle of next year miles of the American troops - now patrolling about fifteert Korean front j.,;11 con-fine /heir guard dut, only to the truce v illage of Pa,amunjom. This being part of a planned ioithdrawal of some twenty-thousand American V\ r: 't \J troops from South Korea. Sixt.v-thottsand are e-wr••ntly stationed there. ARMY Def e 11 s e Sec · re ta r v Me I v; n Laird h a s an noun c e d a major change in policy which affects millions of American men. Henceforth, national gitardsmen and military reservists will provide the major source of manfJowet" for an.)' rapid b11ildttp of the armed forces. The draft will ,ao --- - longer be the major s01trce as it has been for the past five }'ears. /More than two-and-a-half-MILLION men are i,1 tlae ready reserve force / nearly a MILLION of 111hom are bel1111 paid for the time st,ent in military training. CUSHING Pope Pua/ today accepted Ille resignation of Richard Ca · rdinal C11shi11g - a · rchbishop of Boston - who recently obser v ed his seventy-fifth birthday. "I'm loo weak and too old to carry 011," so said the blacksmith's t It e son who rose lo become a prince of Roman Catholic Church. The Pop e has n a m e d Bis l1 op H II m b e r to Mede r i r o s of Browns ville, Texas, to s II cc ee d Cardin a - 1< C "sh ing as Archbishop of Bos ton. Madeiros - aged Fifty-Four - will be installed in that post on October Seventh - the feast of the Holy Rosary - in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in South Boston. Cardinal 01tshing will (>reside. VIOLENCE 0 1 , e names of fifteen men /includitrg retired Army General James Gavi,i and two former U-S Attorneys-General, Ramsey Clark a11d Nicholas Katzenbach / have been proposed as c om m is s ion er of I he II a ti o 11 's larges t pol , ice for c e in New York C i t y . / Howe v er , th ere 's 11 o g u a ran t e e th a t Mayor John . Lind s a y 10 i l/ ma k e h is s e l 11 c ti on from th is li s t/, o fill th e klv.._,5, post vacated by Howard . Leary who plans to take a t,rivate " job on October First. /,'L New York today,/• firebomb N>as - tossed at the home of a high police official - John,&:. Walat - the department's second ranking officer/only hours before the scAecla~ start of a trial for thirte1. · r, Blaclt Pantlle , · • - accused of a bomb plot. /A small fire ,oas 911icllly er,,,.,,...., and there were NO i n j • r i e O In Washington, a government study grout, reported Iha t violence is increasing so rap idly in An, erica that future housing may co11sJst of forti{·ied reside,,tial areas that would be sealed off by police after dark. A task force of the Natio,.al Vi , ,lence Commission blames this siA14ation VIOLENCE - 2 o,r mass migration lo urban areas, the decay of inner cities and demoralizing conditions imposed on blacks.[rhe Commission also recommends that marijuana be legalized for persons over eighteen _/ saying "there is NO reliable I scientific e idence of marijuana •s harmful effects J R . 4/LS Negotiators for the natio,z's railroads and four .-., 1111ions resumed co,itract talks i11 Wasl,ington today - just .. _ one da_v before a threatened strike that could shut down the cot1nlry's entire , • ail system. Six-hu,,dred-thollsand employees are seeki11g wage increases comparable to the forty-six percent pay boost the Teamsters won this year in a contract with the trucking industry. No progress was reported today - the talks will resi,me tomorrow morning. THOMAS .Lowell Thomas in in Alaska lonighl - a11d we ha v e this report / ' rum him : Tape Rllns 2 : 00 O ,it cue : Song L on g. . . AMALRIK Hello E1erybody: I .; The las/ lime 1 lf'as up here in Alaska you ma3 1 recall .I was on my way lo Siberia and lhe,i to R11ssia. Here are a feu; more ••••••i• • refleclions 011 tllal jo11rney. Some .f if I y y (, a rs aft e r th e adv c n I of C om m u n is m I I, c nu n, b e r one problem in . . . Sovie/ R11.ssia slill seems lo be lack of _.a,.\.,/.. personal freedom. And 11exl lo that in some respects perhaps " of even greater importance to most Rr,ssians, failure of the Sovie/ sytem to acllie, e its staled economic goals - especially in farm production. When we were th.ere only the other day the Idaho potato king, multi-multi-multi mtllio,aaire 9 lit. 7. Jack Simplot fron, Boise after a visit to one of tire collective I\ .,,, farms shook his head ;,. wonder and said he was sure Ire could do a far far better job with one hundred of his trained people than they were doi,ag with te,a lhousand who were said Io b e on th a t h u g e Russ i an fa rm . A n d th c y we re s a y i "g th a t lltere was a shortage of man power in otlter parls of lhe USS R AMALRIK - ., So why nol lake /hos e le,, thousand peopl e and put /Item someuhere else espec:iall3 , in v ast incredibly rich unde ve loped Siberia . In o ltui I a r y Jou r n e .V 1 o Si b e r i a - llz a t 's a n e w •••x .,.. book just out, written by a thirty-two year old Musco · vite about Andre Amalrick and_. and he /ells much ,r what the Russians are trying lo do, what he thinks is wrong with his with c o" n l r ,, a n d h is -•- t p e op le , w h y a n a t ion s o e n or mo us l y ~ rich in natural resources is so chronicall,, poo,when it comes to its own people. ddse1. Ah, but Involuntary Jour,rey To Siberia by A malrtck - it's gotten him into more trouble. He's disappeared and no one seems to know tohere he is . Solong . . . . . . . . LTP.1970.09.08i.pdf LTP.1970.09.08.pdf