AIIIIAN-NICOSIA Set,t. ll, l970 Dallas To•,ase,ad J,a tlae Middle East a partial br•a•tlaro•gll • Af'ab gMerillas r elea•i,ag Sixty-Six 1,ijaclt ltoatage• - IJ•l,I flo•J1 to Nicoaia, tlJe cat,Ual of ,aearby Cyt,rus - OJI • ltoy•I tlae trar,a/er to A ,..,,.a,. of • o"' • t•o lla,atlr•d ••d f lfty ,ulditio,aal llos tage• - • till lleld aboar,}/1:;;e 1,iJaclled occarretl la• t su,ulay - aJ1d •o"'• of tl,e •o . . ,. f•l•l•d aclle,a tll• t,la,ee la,.tled oJI tlle deaert airs tri/1. Afterw,ar,la, AMMAN - NICOSIA - 2 th in gs w e re no t m tt c h . b e tt e r u, h e n th e y '!' e r e t a k e n t o th e hotel in A . mman. The girl - who won't let her name be used - s a y s the re was a l o t of s h o o ting and s he l ling, and they were lying on tlae floor in the corr · idors, crying. All agreed tlaey had been through a dreadful experience. PRESIDENT The U.S. is taking steps to ensure that ii doesn't haPPen again - at least, not on American planes. President Nixon announcing the start of a program, assignin , g armed plainclothes guards to selected U . S. domestic and overseas airline flights. This lo be combined with increased use of electronic surveillance equipment - additional grouftd police and security agents - also, a step-up in at1ti- sabotage training amo,eg airline f>erso,,nel. TIie Presitle,et asserting: "We can - and we will - deal effectively •itll t>iracy ,,, the skies." ISRAEL Israel today charged for the first time that Sam-three missiles have been mo v ed into t he Suez Canal tr" c e z one , in f u rt h er v iol a ti on 0 1 / t he Midd l e Ea s t c ease f i. re .. This was Israel's 21,irteenth complaint of a ceasefire / violation by Efypt ... and the Jirsj_o mention 11,e soplaisticated Sam-threes, wlaicll Israel says are manned by Soviet crews. WASHINGTON in tlae continuing battle of the White House versus Capitol Bill. President Nixon accusin.g the Democratic-coxtrolled Co,,gress / of ti . nkering with its old programs wllile all ba,t t!!"""-- - lg■ori■K !.!,f. J!.!'° ones. I The President menllonl11g •l>•cfftl:all1 • li• commitmeret, ullmately , to an all-volN,tleer ar•y; also, ---- ,,,. pending fa•ily aasistaace t,la• / as well as llis atalletl a11H-crime -acl,age. / T,.e Preside,at asaertirag : "Tliere ia "" unmistakable "atio,aal jutlgement /- that somel1,ing need• to be do,.e . " DETROIT In Detroit - first Chrysler - now General Motors. GM n ego tia tors f>res en ting to the United . Auto Wo- kers today their own newly-sweetened contract 1>ro1>osal)said to contaiN, among otller tilings/ a wage boost amounting to better tlaan nine per cent in the first year./ However, union leaders - quickly rejecliNg the offer. j The UA W's lrviNg Blues tone saying : "Based on the curre,at situation - I would lave to predict tleere • i l l be a strike." ~nd tlae deadli•e re,,.al,as, of course - mid,eigllt Monday. KOMPONG THOM War 11ews from Southeast Asia includes a report today - telling of a series of American air strikes in direct support of Cambodian troops . The U . S . jets s1'f>f>osedly droppin . g bombs and napalm - ju , :; t ahead of a Cambodian task force which has !teen inching its way toward Kompong Thom. However, the task force is still said to be making little progress - its advance held up mainly, we are told, by blown-out bridges. An amphibio1's government force did reach and re-occupy, Kompong Thom earlier tllis week. WHITE HOUSE President Nixon has Picked a tentative prime site - for the celebration o f 4merica's two hundredth birthday in Nineteen-Seventy-Six. The White House annou,a , cing - it's Philadelt,hia; a selection contingent - we are told - only on t11e Yaising of neces . s • ary funds. ~ Philadelr,ltia 'J'i ere the Declaration of Independence · was t,roclaimed in 1116. The Preside · nt thus by-passing Boston, Wasl,ington, New York and Miami - all of which . l,ad also . t,ut i,n bids for the /)rime bicent . ennial celebr . ation. T • he President noting that the over-all observance - would not be limited to "a single city"; stressing, howeve'r, that Pliiladelt,h,a - the fabled "cradle of Uberty" - could well be "an exciting /oc · al t,oin . t for international t,articit,ation." SUGGESTED INTRO TO THOMAS TAPE "ASWAN - THE H . IGB DAM" And now - as Lowell Thomas co . ntinues his trek up North - it's lime ag · ain for another special report he left us. Subject for tonight - Egypt's As 1 wan Bigl& Dam. Lowell • •• L ASWAN - The High Dam Good Evening Everybody: What with war news dominating the Mid-east headlines these recent .,.. years - the growing impact of Egypt's . . new Aswan High Dam has to some extent been I d overlooked; another I was out there not long ago - and . now comes ~ report perhaps some of de ta i l i ng s o m e of I h e go o d - an d I\~ h e b a . d - that h n s been wrought by this miracle of modern engineering. : ¢ · a An engineering job that we might have had, a . nd turned dow 1 a. On the debit side - valuable minerals that once flow e d u n ob s t ,,. u ct e d do w n th e Nile - a,,. e n o · w ,,. e p o ,,. t e d t o be res ult trapped upstream behind that dam; with thA' · dTJ }( that vast numbe'rs of fish have all but deserted Mediter'ranean waters near the mouth of the Nile. There has also bee , n a slow but steady -'incursion of sea wate'r leaving ha'rmful sait deposits in the Nile Delta, as a result of the high da , m. We a re further told that many Nub ians forced to vacate the tr lands - to make way for Lake Nasser - that's the g'reat ASWAN - the High Dam- 2 body of water behind the dam - have bee : n finding their new lives difficult and they are bitter. Bui on the credit side thousands of Egyptia , n Jar.me rs are already reaping b11mper crops of grains, fr , uits and vegetables. Egyptian industry, so me of it, is reported to be bounding ahead thanks to th7'en billion kilowatt hours of electricity • that enormous dam is producing, and the once- sleepy village of Aswan has already become one of Egypt's modern dynamic cities. The National Geographic tells us that "even the Pharaohs would be awed by the Aswan High n , a,m- if only for the fact that it contains enough materi , a , l to build seventeen Great Pyramids. Solong . . . . . DETROIT Reid Collins Sept. 14, 1970 The deadline for that big strike in the 11uot ind11stry - still hours away; with negotiators for the Uni'ed Auto Workers and gia , nt Ge . neral Motors - still sl11gging it out in Detroit; hoping to acieve II last-minute agreement - an , d thereby prevent a crippling blow to the n , ation 's econo , my. But even as the tal , ks we , nt on today - the walkout llatl already begun. U.A. W. members Jumping Ille gun wiU, wildcat strikes - at Framingham, Mass. - Nort , h Tarryto11J , fl New York - Ja , n es vi ll e , Wis cons in - Winds or, 0,a ta ri , o - Ste. Therese, Quebec. Both sides agreeing, what's morB, a , n all-out strike is now ineveitable - barring a "dr , andic move" by one side or tire other.