lVll/TE HOUSE /1 c r c a I h o ,,, e - I I, e W Ii i I e II u " .-. c reaffirm e d I o d" y - P Ye s i d c 11 I Ni x o ,i 's p le d g e I o II i lit d r a w a l l U S ,,, O Of, S f YO Ill Ca Ill b O di a IJ ·'' J II ,i e T,i; r lj eJrl:b , T It i S ill refcre11ce lo a queslio11 deali,ig willt Cambodia's request /Ital US troops be krpl i,i Iha/ country till the end of the If a 1'. lV It ii e II o II s e p res s sec re I a r y Ron Zieg le r ; ~ " flatly: - there has heen and will be no change in US " ,, , ; /11 d r a u a l p l a n s . CAMBOD/r\ n a,· neu s from Cambodia, tells to,/c,y of" I i n k - 11 I' IJ c I 11 c· e 11 S o II I h V i e I 11 a m e s e a ,, d C a m b o d i a n u ,z i I s . Th i S 11 (' (I r I ft <' j; ;;-:: f c /111 p R U IJ b e ,. pl <t II / (I / i O II - It I, i l' It IV a S _iusl clc•(IJ•ed by Saigo,1 troops. The combined force now said lo be 111archi11g 011 To11le Bel - ••• a,i importa,il -It,~~ Meko11g Ri er fc>·ry crossing~atlempl81f1 lo isolate an cslimaled ltt o lhousa11,i Viet Co11g ~reportedly fleei'1g ~ de e pe,· ir,to Cambodia. ~ A t t I, c s a m e I i m e - b i g U S B - f if t .l' l 11 o s..A p o " n ding e ,i e,,, y ta r gets e:::nri in t Ii e nor I her nm o st sec Io r of Sou tli Viet 11 am . .,A-1/empling to head off an apparent Communist I build-up near Cam Lo -- just south of /Ital DMZ. HANOI . I - t,,< a ,- ,. i u ~ I o d a y a I II a n o i . Fly . : 11g ;,, from Dcki,ig - ;,, 011 appa1• e 11I effo,·I lo build Norl/z Vict,iamese support for II is so - call t: ,I "11 a Ii o ,i al u 11. ii)' p:o fro,, I " i ,i Cambodia. Sihanouk also co11fen•i,rg at leP1glh with the Soviet Ambassador lo Ha11oi. - - b-wi *""' •A•t • • ?a:a::cwl:, SO UT/IE RN LE BA NON In Ille slrife lorn Middle East - /he focus again /urns lo S011/ller,, Leha11on; wllere Arab troops clasl,ed loday u•i/11 Israeli f orces - just across the border from 1:fwj- rili,d4_~~ Ut1, ~ Israeli lllOJ&l bus ci:lto:c6 Gj. las/ week. R eir ul Clllling the Israeli advance - an apparent a ti e mp t I o I a k e a n d /1 o l d L e b a n e s e I e r r i I or y) A ,I ti g , ' ~.::::;r11Jrsraelis were driven off - afte:3}7:dttle A • p P C ~ l'.l\t-it:.:t i-f which - is denied in Tel Aviv. Israeli officials calling the incident - a brief skirmish; and an attempt to secure "two special corners" - sr,spected of harborfng Arab guerrillas. Jn any event, the clash pointing up the current ~ · - ~~~ intensity of I l!e ling between A . a I a r, Israelis/\ l'■ rlic:r _,,,,,__ ·14 -,~eflected in a .-« Nato report today - o:«lxiq calling the " ~ - E a s t •-ii :allc:o :::■ perhaps the ,nost dangero11s Ir o II b le s 1' o t in I h e • • ti r II w or l d. HOUSE T-K D H ht ;tr ·n A I h e do m e s I i c fr on t - I lz e Nii o• A d m i" is I r a Ii o " !at,oxt,x I o day a s k e d f o r a w h opp in g inc re as e ;,, tile national tlel,/ ceiling; an increase of eighteen hillio11 - that wo11ld raise lhe lo/al figure lo a record three ll1111d'Y'ed and ni,iely-five billion. Treasury Secretary DUE ltl H11mphrey telling a House «•and committee this was made ,iec ess ary - beca11se of a sudden deterioration in expecte d tax reve,iues. ---- CAPITOL HILL FOLLOW HOUSE Mean w l1 il e , Ho II s e a n cl Se n ate De m o c r a tic leaders w · re holding a press co,zference - there assailing a d m in is t r a t i o II e c o ,, o mi c p o l i c y • Se n a t o r M i k e Ma n sf i e l d and Co11gressma11 Carl Albert - accusing the President o f p r o m o t i ,i g s i m 11 l ta n e o us l y b o I h in fl a t ion a n d re c e s s i o n . Tliey also urged standby wage and price controls - as one mea,is - at least - of attempting to cope with the situation. - WALL STREET FOLLOW CAPITOL HILL All this serving as a sort of prelude - to anotller dismal da)' on Wall Street; with the Nero York stock market Sll//ering its biggest one day drop - since llie death of Prest'dent Kennedy. The Dow Jones ind11strials - plr,nging nearly twenty-011e fK«-N•• pohrts endi11g up al six-for1,__011e - ••••-= loMJest figure siNce Ni11etee,r Sixty Two. - CAMPUS TIie Wllite House again - an announcement t~tz.a that President Nixon u ill appoint this week - a special c o m n, is s i on t o in v e s t i g a t e can: p ,u v i o le n c e ; w it h th e stud)' expected to place special emphasis - on recent deaths at Kent State University in Ohio and Jacltson State College in Mississippi. We are also told there's a possibility - the panel will be headed by Doctor Milton a:? Eisen.hower of Johns Hopkins University; who ,uould thr,s take r,p ruhere he left off last year - as the head of President Jolueson's commissio,a o,a viole,ace. ,) SUPREME CO U RT El sew h e r e in trashin . gton - th e Supreme Court toda, , declar e </ ttPlc:o,isfitutional a federal law ; one that pre v iously prohibited a wearing of a US military uniform ;,, a sta g e or screen p e rformance - if the character w eari,z g i t te11ded to discredit the Armed Forces. Tltis ;,, c onnectio,i with an anti-war s , kit - presented ;,, lite streets of Houston - back in Nineteen Sixty-Seven. The h i gh court agreeing unanimously that enfor c ement of said law would constitute a clear violation of the first amendment guara,ateei,eg freedom of speech. LAKE GEORGE Al Lake George, New York - a meeting of the American Association~ public !Pinion research this pas/ weekend; .,.Jk!aring, among other /hings, a reporl 011 black al/iludes'-(he ,iation over - as compiled by a Wes/ Coast research firm over /he pas/ eighteen mo,aths. The study said lo/show thal most blacks feel tl1ey are making ''a I leas I w«bad" relative progress" - toward achie ing economic equality with tuhite Americans. JI adds lhal this feeling - "is buttressed by optimism and anticipatio,r about more to come." Reverse side - black milita,at leaders drawi'llg their stro,agest support - from tllose at the lowest e,ad of the economic scale. 0,a bala11ce thougll - the great majority of blocks opposi'llg violence to attain their l I d d the more successful fi1tancially - reportedly goa s. n e e , placing greatest emphasis "'011 i11divid11als or family striving" rather than ,yace. POINT BARROW ~ 4 From Point Barrow, Alaska A a report lodu:, ~~~ ltcralding Ille end of an era • .,. ••i'; mass acceptance of 1/ie s no11 mobile - wh i ~::ff: "f:::ove d II self th is ,,.. r1f ~ ~ A pas l win le;--· ~~y niaki11g 11,e dog sled as obs ole le - ~ l l l - w , s , ~ as the tgboanc. iglooJ.... And the Alaskan; themselves - ~ . et-t~- Aco11ldn'1 be happier - we are told. The s11owmobile said ~~ to have liberated th~~,,-~lYce from wi,rter isolatio,r - for the first time i11 history~- Taki,ag childre11 to scllool - ha11li~g groceries - deliveri,ag mail - taki,eg everybody ~ down t o t Ir e~ th e a t e r on Sa tu rd a y " i g I, t . Th e s " o "' m ob il e ~ ~ I& •"'t r,sed 110w - to herd II• rei11deer - lo check trap- lfw.M- lines - ~ v : l from rig lo rig •I> I• t•e uw /'- oil fields""" -rtJ ~ 5 ~ , - Even Point Barrow - the largest Eskimo community in the nortllla 11 d - reportedly switching ,aow almost e,rlirely from dogs to s,aowmobilcs. - Civil leader ' •~• Eben Hopson observi11g: "There's ,ao q11eslion that better life up here." s now mac h i" e s ha v e made a lx«betW 1 , And he adds: "clea11er, too." . ... ·.,) ·· 1' •~\) ~- ' ' - ·• ' ,. LENINGRAD Aslro11aul Neil Ar,11s t ron,, - A · , t, mericu s first man on lli e Moo,r - Ille star attraction al a space c on .f e re " c e I, e l d tll'tr .,- I o d a y a t L e n in g r a d i ,, th e s O v i e t Union .. More 11,an a lhousa,id scientists and Soviet gllesls - gir,ing him a sta,rd i ng ovation when he was first introd11ced . He w as also besie · ged by t,hologrqphers a,rd aulograpl, se e k e rs w hile maki,rg his WO} ' lo the podi11m. Ne i l A rm s t r o n g l a t e r tt6mDlr llllf dis c us s in g t e c II ,. i ca l de ta i ls ~ of his flight and then IFP a,rswer:; questto,r8,J ,/"eluding one that trsked his reactio" - o,s looki,rg b back at the earth from wa y ut, th ere 011 the Moon . The U S spac ema,r saying he coi,ld,r't l,elt, wo,sderi11g - how s11clt a tiny islaJ1d in space collld lrav e "so many problems . "