, KENNEDY i s n w conference t o da ' - Pre i ent Kennedy b ec am e emph tic on two points. UN b on ds - a nd me d ical care for the a ed. s to the UN - Mr. Kenne d a g ain came out in favor of the bon d issue. He's a gain st - an f merican loan , . ; . to the U N w h ic h , he pointe d out - t h e international organization would be unable to pay 1n the specified time. So - the problem would be right back on our doorstep. President Kennedy still hopes that Congress will go along - with U N bonds. )tnd that other nations can be I , persuaded - to buy their proportionate share. This, to save the UN - on which the world relies in the search for peace. The second emphatic point at today's news conference - how to handle medical care for the aged. President Kennedy, striking back at the critics - who don't want it put under social securi ty. )tho talk about - ' creeping socialism. 11 nd make dire :red1ct1ons - about the loss or Ml eric:n M fl OMQlt. KENNEDY - 2 The P resident's answer - this is the old song u that is always sung by those who have no rational argument. We heard it - when social security itself was under discussion and - old age pensions. ) compensation. d - unemployment Mr. Kennedy thinks that the accusation has no more merit today - t h a n ~ 1n the pas~~•s still pushing for medical care for the aged - on a social security basis. ,-,.N.e doesn I t think this amounts to "creeping social 1am. 11 Another issue today - Khrushchev's agreement for cooperation in outer space. President Kennedy to1dh1s . audience that heTs gratified - and is putting some of our top experts to work on the problem. The rest of the items, just about what we expected - from our ju determination to defend Ouantan~o, to the President's review of the B-Seventy controversy. B-70 Congressional supporters of the B-70 bomber - are claiming a preliminary victory tonight. Referring to President Kennedy's letter - to the House Armed Services conunittee. The President, promising to re-examine the case for - the big warplane. ~ A s ~ know, the defenders of the B-70 ' want a fleet of them -- flying at two thousand miles an ~ q ho~'i.~11 targets around the world in case of war. A /i President Kennedy and Defense Secretary McNamara have taken the position - that this could not be achieved before 1967. By which time - the B-70 would be obsolete. Outmoded - by rockets. The argument on the other side - is that we'll need conventional weapons, in the foreseeable future. Hence the prudence - of a crash program for bombers. The difference of opinion between President and . Congress, so heated - that · s Int President Kennedy now say he'll take another look at the B-'70. IDBOLOOY The ideological split between Russia and Red ~~ ~ I N - - ( A - - - China - 1 !ii says Chester Bowles - who is Just back from a tour of the Far East. The special advisor to the President, telling newsmen - that Asian leaders now regard the two Red giants as implacable enemies. "Going-in opposite directions" - ~~ as one diplomat put it. Many Asians,..( discussing the -5"~ I poaslblllty of - a war between Russia and Red China. A ~ Bowles ~ea•aa•• - 11 we have our share of trouble, but the Reda It have more than thelr share. - ARGENTINA F ~ ' In Argentina, tb8' President ~ t i l e is heading for a show down - with the followers of the exiled ~ IA4M r .en-trf\. ~~ Frondizi, preparing to meet an onslaught - by the Peronistas. The issue - shall the results fa of the election be allowed to stand? Is power in the provinces - to be handed to the men or Peron? Or is Frond1z1 to be allowed to interpose hls authority - as he has a right to do under the Constltutton. These questions add up to - a test of strength. Frond~eclar~ ■oat of Bllenoa Aires - a military b i/J. zone/1_,!ryi:ng to form a &~coalition governunt - ot clvlllans and military me4)lhe Peronlstas, countering with - a call for a general strike. FmST LADY The First Lady is 1n Lahore, P akistan - tonight. Mrs. Kennedy, cheered b y thousands of Pakistanis - as she rode from the airport to government house. Many of them, school children - let out of class for the occasion, they waved the flags of Pakistan and America - and showered the motorcade with flowers. At the end of the ride - Mrs. Kennedy was a ankle deep 1n petals. Tonight - guest of President Apdb Khan. Alsg - resting after her whirlwind visit to India. 'nle First Lady was supposed to see the hoaablfal Shalimar Gardens - on her ~~ , ' I I 'I I first day 1n Lahore. /'Sh'• prti al ts J•' • 8 ■ • thunde.;;f;:::- - ~ tt:..t-~1.fuc 'Y.; Thursday. I\ .. KIPLING FOLLOW FIRST LADY Among those who welcomed Mrs. Kennedy to Lahore - "the Civil and Military Gazette. 11 A legendary newspaper, that once had a young sub-editor -- named Rudyard Kipling. 1.!hat _ •a~-ni the eighteen-eighties - the ~cab ~~ days of Empire. •• liasposl:ae British Raj ?: £I-it rostered /I\ A the literary genius who had come to India with his parents. While he was helping to edit a the Lahore "Civil And Military Gazette ' - Rudyard Kipling began to Dia write verses on the stde}~pltd the prtnters to turn out - a private edition of his first book. Title - "departmental ditties." He bound his poetry in a flat brown oblong - tied with red tape. After which, he mailed a copy - to every top official of the Anglo-Indian administration. -t;(J The idea -~every official would be sure toq>en, what looked like an official document. The plan - worked. ~ ~ "Departmental 2,_ities 11 - were,t..read and discusse<x .-ftle ~ name of the twenty-one year old poet A became known t h roughout India, throughout t h e empire, throughout the English speaking KIPLING FOLLOW FIRST LADY world. From Lahore to fame and fortune - for young Rudyard Kipling. • . SCOTCH The latest indictment by a Federal Grand Jury - is enough to start an international incident. The Scots, outraged - on two counts. First, the eight-hundred thousand gallons of firewater tut labeled 11 scotch" - actually came from Holland. S~cond, the twenty million dollars it sold for - went into American and Dutch . pockets. Missing Scotland - all together, enough to make Q any Scot reach for his blackthorn stick - and begin flailing away. Authentic scotch whiskey, as you may know - has a seal of approval issued in Edinburgh. The seal, indicating - sootch distilled in Scotland, and aged at least four years. - Just The ersatz stuff that some of ua have been drinking didn't qualify. Heither Scottish - nor a g e ~ it RPe was drunk over here - to the tune of eight hundred thousand gallons • Ho wonder the Scots are ~ W l a : : ~ ~9 1!:~- !!be ht19Zl■ods. TAXIS The interesting thing about the taxi strike at London airport - interesting from an American point of view, anyway - 1s that it began with Ted Kennedy. The President's brother, bound for a nearby hotel - trying to enter the cab at the head of the line. But - the cabble wouldn't take him. Nor would the second or the third. They made him trek all the way back - to the end of the V. line. The argument of the cab drivers -~its not profitable for the first cabble to make a sho~t trip. While it is I tor the last - ~ ~ • =~~~~ The airport refuses to accept this argument - and orders ~ - l ( d - the drivers to take e.s:s fare-. comes along. Result - A /l A the wildcat walkout at London airport. All because - Ted Kennedy wanted a taxi. r