ATLA . NTA --------- From Canada to the Gulf of Mexico - from the Atlantic to the Rockies and beyond - influenza ts sweepi,cg the c ou n tr Y . ~ " " S'fll ~ wo.r; -&t iJJ idem i c prop oration Coast; according to asulJJ figures today - fro,,. the U S communicable disease ceJ1ter at Aj•l• Atlanta. hardest hit lly Iii Jf ■ I i i , ) and pneumonia mortality rate for the entire country ~ up again for the second straight week. In part, because of an epidemic of pneumoflia -- amoflg the childrefl of tlae Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Why -tlaA the West Coast • •• fa• •••• spared~ ta pqg~--- Governme-nt doctors •a:rt:ww · IA&4 West Co as t r es i de n ts ha v e a pp are n tl . y bu i lt u P a n i m m unity to previous exposure - during , past epidemics. WASHINGTON ------------ Washington lawyer Clark Clifford - a top government adviser for more than twenty years - President Jo h n so n ' s c ho i c e t o day to be com e t he n e w Se c r eb r y of Defense; succeeding Robert McNamara -- who will leave soon to he a d t he "''° W or l d Ba ,e k • In announcing the appoitttme,et - L B J noti,eg ~ that "Cliffo · rd has been "a very wise and prude,at coun•ellor" to three Democratic Presidents. Also serving itt rece,at years - as Chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. At the same time - the President praising Robert McNamara -- for "truly outstanding service over seven grueling years." The President t6ddx adding: "I have never known a more competent public official." VIETNAM -------- On the fighting front - in Vieh,am - a U S special forces camp at Lang Vei was ,..,.. attacked today by an unidentified jet aircraft. South Vietnamese Preside,at Thieu later telling of reports of a dog-fight over the camp -- between a North Viet,aamese Mig and a US jet. If true - - the incident supposedly marki,1g the first time - that North Vietnamese Planes have penetrated so,1tlaerJ1 air space. However, U S headquarters sayi,ig it had no mJa- informatl OJI - OJI any such dogfight. AJI American officer addin6 that a Mig attack -- "seems remote as hell" -- as he put it. More likely - we are told - aJ1otlter acci · dental raid by US planes; such as the one last••~•• March -- when two American jets mistakenly strafed the camp. PALO ALTO ---------- Palo Alto, California - a second major operation today - second in less than twenty four hours; for Mike Kasperak -- America's only surviving heart transplant patient. !!lte Mi Ml condition earlier thought to •• have been correctet4--h, SASE BO --- - ----- For a third straight day - riot police battled I efti st and Pacifist demonstrators today at Sa seb o, Japa,a; wllil e the biggest ship •lllaad afloat - the ,a11cl ear -Po•eretl U S aircraft carrier Enterprise - was dropping a,acl,or in...- nearby waters. The figleti,ag over - a Japa,aese pacifist leader circled the "Big E'' i,a a small boat; pleadi,ag •itlt A•erica,a sailors -- to desert ship i,a protest agai,ast the war i• Viet,aam. A pacifist so11,ad car - later to11ri,ag the e,atertai,ame,at sectio,a of Sasebo; again 11rgi,ag tlte s•ar• of sailors - on liberty at last - to ja n in the peace movement. (You will recall - , . four young America,a sailors did recently defect - under Ille proddi,ag of these same pacifists~At last report though - the me,a of the "Big E" were much more interested in JaP•nese maide,as SASEBO - 2 ------ in m h•i - skirts a,ad bee Iii ve llairdos - tlal tley were he tlae "peaceniks." PARIS ------ The Concorde -- conabi,aed Fre,ach and Britisla version of the lf1orld's first s11perso,aic jetli,1er - lf1ill fly tllis spring. Tlaat ass11ra11ce today - from Fr e11cla traresport Mireister Lo•is Claa•a,at.~pare,atly ire a,as.,,er ,,, to reports of serio•s di/Jere 11ces - between Fre11cla a,ad Britisl desig,aersr,ollowi,ag cancellatio,a of tle pla,ae's i,raugural fliglt - origi11ally set for ,aext mo,atl. "l,a •otters of tlais . . importa•ce -- dates Addi,ag, Aw 1 oo ~ tleat tlf1o of tlae pla11e 's Britisla -b•ill e11gi11es •ave already l>ee11 tlelifJeretl - ~ " ' ' ! •ore 011 t•• .,,, y. f IF#Ql',J,-1,. automatic pilot system - also b•ilt by the British - the o,ae rem a ini,ag lold-up. NOR TH ATLANTIC ---------------- Here's o ■ • • a story ltigll advent•re o• tlae ltigla seas. The wind-up of a two-day drama i• tlte storm- tossed North Atlantic -- some ._xn two hu•dred a•d fifty miles off.-... esaccl •rf Ne111fo••dla•d; wltere tlae captain of a si•ki•g D•tch ~• freigltter - tlie Ocean ~printe!._ - fi•ally agreed today to aba•don sliip. Tlla•ks to an lleroic effort by tlte men of tlae U S Coos t Guard C•tter A bseco• - mi ssio• a cco•Jll ialied IDit~: ~ c l t . A resc•e 1>orty fro• Ille Abaecoa - braving gale wi,ads a,ad mo••tai•o•s waves - tl,ree ti•es, in all. Safely removi,1g all sixtee,a persons aboard Iii• 6cean fl/lrinter - i•cluding O 'll- e, a woman. LONDON -------- ,,uM London - t•• •l••J r,/ 011e Roytle11 Gr••11ille Barstow wealtlly, retired bank execNtive, rece•lly gazi•g at a magazine plaotograpll of a blo11de - l1i•g 1111de 011 Ille deck of a cabi11 cruiser; •laen s"dde,aly - a spark of recogflitio,a. As Barstow later told lais k,r law,er -- lie did,a't kflow Ille face - b•t lie certai11l1 t11e• tlae teel. It was Iii s o•• cab•• cruiser - Star _ liglat T•o - a/l/lare•tl1 "pirated" b, t lae ,audie p laotograpler. A 11d as Bars to•'• lawyer today ex/llai•ed it in court -- Ille pictu.re ca11aetl l&is clieflt "great enabarrassme•t, la,miliati.011 a,ad distress." Result - a public apology from tlae magaai,ae. Callhag use of Barstow's boat - a most regrettable error. ~ - Once again clearing tlae good name - of ba,aker Royde,a .I\ GTanville BaTstowof T ~ <m ~ - SALISBURY - - --------- !'lats •rz1 .-;from Salisbury, Engla,cd. A statMs report today ot1 tl1ose British army units - - rece,ctly returned from tl1e heat of Aden; now an indepe,cde,ct country - as you know. Turns out - Britain's famed emB' desert fighters - have just been reassigned to a military base at Alberta, Canada. There to trade their c llukka boots for ski boots - to take part in a ne1t1 Arctic 111eatller trai,eing progra• · · Like the fellow says -- tlaere's a rigllt 1t1ay - a wrartg way -- and art ar111y way. __'.:>":../-~- ~