B A tliOR Richard C. Hottelet Oct. 31, 1969 . t the top of the news tonight - another airplane hijacking - surely the most ambitious yet. A story that began before dawn - somewhere 1n the skies between San Francisco and Los Angeles; with a khaki-clad youth a1"118d with . an M-One rifle - seizing a T.W.A. airliner with 1011e forty aboard. orcing the fllot to f ly to Denver - for refueling; and then - after discharging the passengers - on to Hew York and later Bangor, Maine, for another refueling stop. At last report - the aircraft heading out over the Atlantic - tow:;.1=: 1 ' = - :V.1th its final destination - said to j , be Cairo, Egypt. The "why" of all this- still a aystery. HoweYer.Jthe U.S. Marine Corps has tentatively identified the hijacker - as Marine Lance corporal Raphael Minichiello; a Vletna■ veberan who escaped from custody yesterday - en route to face a general court martial at Camp Pendleton, California. His alleged crime - breaking and entering at a Marine PX. SAIGON From Saigon - a broadcast address by South Vietnam's President Thieu - on the occasion of that country's National Day. Including an emotional appeal - for nationwide support o the government's new austerity program. His voice trembling - tears welling in his eyes - Thieu asserting he would leave office if his policies were rejected. "My aim" - said he - "ls to save the country - - not Just be President." Meanwhile, a brief flare-up ~f fighting today - in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Leaving thirteen Allerlcans dead - thirty wounded. Thia in an area - suspected or harboring a major Worth fietnamese troop build-up. An area that was then promptly blasted - by U.S. B-Pifty-Twoa. BEIBUT In the teeming M1ddle East - Iraq stepped to the fore today as a would-be peacemaker. Sending to Beirut its deputy premier - Lieut. General Saleh Mahdi Ammash - to confer with Lebanese President Charles Helou. '!his 1n an attempt to stop the f ratricidal fighting - between Arab guerillas and and Lebanese Army troops. General A1111ash apparently bearing the views of guerilla leaders - with whom he conferred earlier in Cairo. Backt:n Cairo itself - Egypt's President laaser continued today his own mediation talks - with Lebanon's c nder-iri- chie f , General Emile Bustani. At 1aa, report though - the guerilla leaders still refusing to meet the Lebanese face-to- face. MOSCOW l'OLLOW BEIRUT Mean,1me, the Russians were also getting into the act. The Soviet Foreign Ministry in Moscow - urging today 8 resumption of four-power talks on the Middle last. Asserting that "events in Lebanon are dangerous" - and collld "dangerouly affect 11 the whole area. At the aame time - the Soviets warned against any unilateral action - especially on the part of the U.S. The 1Cremlin declaring: "It is our deep conviction - that the situation is only aggravated by foreign intervention. 11 LOIDON POLLCM MOSCCM More on the same - from London; today's stop - for touring U .s. Jfa vy Secretary John Chafee; who told reporters that · . the United States - in his own words - 11 11 not anxlous to become involved in a land operation in the Middle last. 11 He added l1111iiif : 11 We could become involved - l f clrcwtancea make 1 t necessary. 11 ~ ~ ~ oN- y WASHIMGTON POU.OW LONDON A later development in Washington: Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin- asking and getting a meeting with Secretary of State W illiam Rogers. There repeating 1n prl•ate - the ICreml1n 1 s earlier charge of U.S. aeddl1ng ln Lebanon. Rogers, in turn, expressing extreme displeasure and disappolnt•nt - at the Soviet stand. One that raises the question - said lilt - whether Russia really wan,s pace 1n the Middle last. (SUGGESTED LEAD-IN TO THOMAS TAPE SLUGGED "CAINmAL STORY ' ') And now - here again is Lowell Thomas; taking up tonight where he left off yesterday - on the "edge of nowhere • 11 Lowe 11 ••. CANNIBAL STORY Good Et e n ing E er.> bod y: Now about that skull on Patrol Officer Robtn Barcla y 's table here at this new outpost in an uncllarted par I of Ne t G u in ea . Someone died in the village nearby. A , i tch do ct or, went into a trance r nd in it lear•ed, so Ile said, tlia t a wom a ,i of the village was a sorcerer a11d had b ee n re s ponsible for a death. Where upon a group of men went to a clearir1g where tile innocent unsuspecting woman was worki,ag in a garden. They slipped up behind her and ita o•e blow of a stone axe bashed in her skull. Robin Barclay heard of it a•d wHII leis specially trained native polite he captured six ••• aoio are here with us now. They are handcwffed but ha spite of that the y carr y some of our equip•ent. From them he has learned that tlaere are two Biami tribesmen who actually did the deed, a•d lie Pia•• CANNIBAL STORY - 2 to capture them. The woman she was eaten. They al•aya 0 re . A n d ti ow Io r r it u al reasons e it her. They admit tl,a t they inherited /he taste from their ancestors. Cannibalism lias been a way of life on this great isla,ad for u,atold centuries. The Australians are now trying to wipe out the gruesome cu , slom. Also dedicated missionaries are helping. Young Australian patrol officers make tl,e first contacts with the natives in uJtexplored areas. T1le1t t11e missionaries come in. There are many who t1,;,.1, t11at t11ese a•cie•t People of New Guinea would be better off if tll,y were left alone. But in this fast moving world it se••• to be impossible. So we are here to speJtd some ti"'e fil•iflg a People who are being forced to make a ten tlaoMsa•d Year leap from the Stone Age all tlae way into llae Twentietl, c 1 en . ury. Solong . . . . . (StJOGF.sTBD FOLLOW TO THOMAS TAPi S.OOOID "CADIBAL STCBY" J Thank you, Lowell. Reik Isa ... 11111 I.,_ DW LONDON Prom out of the past - a name full of nostalgia; that of Tony Pastor - one of the biggest na•a 1n the tabllcl .,Big Band Era" - who died today at lew Lo,_on, Connecticut. tony Pastor perhaps best re•■bered - tor hie ■llllon­ J selling record of "Indian Love Call," lie alao hlt; lt big with songs such as - "A, You're Adorable" - "I'• C011t1111n• 11 - "Mak1 . n' Whoopee" - and "Marie llena". Along the waJ - ~ ~ L J introducing a string or pertor■ers that 1nclllde4 the NIIIJ - Sisters - Rosemary and Betty. Tony Pastor - he was stxty-two. PIRTH Por the men of Apollo-lleven - a reception today at Perth, Australia - biggest ever tor that city; blger •••• _ than that accorded the British royal fully. the "city of lights" - as it's know, to U.S. apace•n - coalng t• a virtual standstill; with thousand upon thoualildl pourlllg tna streets - to salute the world's flrat •--n. Perth - u , - know -the city that always turns on lta lights all nlght 11111 - as a salute to orbiting U.S. aatronauts. ROME - A final item - f rom Rome. Observing that banking interests around the globe - have declared today "World s a v ings Day. " Noting, howeve~, that Italians puaed the daJ _ without depositing even a single lira in their savings accounts. Reason: A nationwide strike of bank clerks - dellllldlig a wa g e boost in the form of a shorter day. They nnt to wl'k "banker's hours" - so to speak. I - ----- l ----