GREETINGS Mon. August l'l, 1970 Good evening everybody and a special g,·eeting to two new CBS Radio Jrie11ds - joi,ai,ag tlle ,aetwork today. W H E C in Rochester, New York - a,ad w G L Fort Wayne, Indiana. AGNEW ------ Vic e Pres id en t A g,a e ao - address ; n g a v F W Convention i,a Miami Beaclt - cllarged today tl,at a Se,aate tn·ot,osal to cut off funds for tlte Vietnam war is "a tragic blunder" tltat Klould bring cltaos, and rui,e cl,a11ce• for peace i11 Soutlieast Asia /tr tlae rest of tllis ce11t11ry. A,ad lie atltl•tl "I wonder aolaetlaer backe,·s of tlais t,rot,osal really give a tl•• about tire Soutla Viehramese t,eot,le." TIie Vice Presitle,ct - i,eterr11t,tetl te,e ti••• by at,t,la11se - we,at 011 to call tlae t,rot,osal a bl11et,ri•t for America's first military defeat. Be referred to a ••a••r•, co-st,o,esored by Retu,blican Se,eator Marll Hatfield of Oregor, ca,a and Democrat George McGovern of S011111 Dallota tolaicla would cut off Federal f1u1ds for tlae war by Ille e•d of tlai• year • - requiri•g witlldrawal of all America,e troops from Vietnam by the middle of •ext year. A vote on Ille •eas11re is expected l ater this •o,rtlr o,- early next. In co,ecltcdirag Iris brief st,eeclt before some Jive thousand delegates, Ag-,eew AGNEW - 2 -------- said - "while I do not question the patriotism of the meas11re'6' spo,asors, I do deeply question thei'Y wisdom, their j•dgemenl a" d t I, e i r l og i c . " Also in a copy,-ighled interview in U S News a,ad World Report, A,sgew says tlttlt Preside,at Nixo,a 1,as ,aever asked him to tone down his co,stroversial speeclaes - a,ad tleat la is re la ti on. slt.i I> "'it la t Ii e W la it e Ho" s e is ,. o "' cl o s • r tie a t e v e r before. Said tlae Vice Preside,at - "Tise Preside,at Ila• ,aever indicated tliat lie wa,ated me to l•r" off llae blowtorcll." AN.TARCTIC ------------ One of the last o f Antarctic's 11next,lored regions - the Lassiter Coast along the Pe,u,insula that Juts nortllward toward South America - is now being . mat,t,ed and surveyed by a team of U S Geological engi,aeers. The ar•a ,nader est,lora tio,a i,acludes ti, e La lady, Scaife, Wilki,as """ Bau berg mountains - ll,e Rare RaNge - aJ1d t,arts of tu Wetnaore Glacier - an area embracing more tl,an sis 11,0,.,u,d sq•ar• miles. Leader of tl,e eigl,t-man team - Doctor Paul Willia"'• - 111ill ltead a seco•d est,etlUion to tl,e La••Uer Coast Iii• autumn and move north,,,ard fro• a ba•• ca . mt, at Weh,.ore Glacier - e~plori,e'6 the Hutto•, Play/sir a . ,,d Werner Mountains. STORM .------ What's termed "a severe tropical depression" - bringing leurricane force winds and higlt tides - moved up tile eastern seaboard today - damaging several resort towns in . tle . e Carolinas and ca,,sing at least tltree tleallts. Far I •er out in I" e A t la · n Ii c , a c on tie ,,u, e ti Wo r l ti 11, r 11 Liberty s•it- t11oved throu~II tlte storm - flyi,eg 6rigltf r.etl 111or,eing flags fro,n its riggl,eg - a,ed 111itll its ca,rgo of n . erve ga• ,,. Its ltold. T"e slliP is · more lllan l,alf•ay to Us tlesli11alion two-111,,atlred-eig,.ty miles off tll . e Florida coasl - •llere Ille shit, - cargo a• all - will be su,ei into slzleert-thou . sand feel of •aler, ,tteatller t,ermllti11g. VENUS ... ------ Russia's Venus-Sev , en is moving tonigl,t into a t•o-hundred-million-mile fligl,t pa . th . toward Eartll's nearest planetary neigl,bor - in a new unmanned 1>robe. Tass - tl,e Soviet news agency - announced tlte launclti11g - giving NO details on its projected arrival date - or w,laetl,er it's anotlaer Soviet attemt,t to soft la,ad a• object on tlte 1>lanet's surface. Otlaer attempts lave bee,a unsuccessful. VATICAN --------- The Vatican's P'1lice have decided to crack down on both drivers and pedestrians . The penalties will be tougher and steeper for such offenses as Jaywalking, illegal pa r king and speeding - wllich means anything over eighteen miles an hour for cars and nine for trucks. In th e Va Uc an , s II o u l d t II a t be ca ll e d a v eh i cal a r viol a ti o II o 'r - a traffic tra11sgres sion? SHIP --- Imagine a one-ltund,-ed-to" oce • an-going shit, with speeds ut, to ONe 1a · und,-ed . knots an hour - abau t four times te,. st, eed of c onvenlional s hit,s. Such , a vessel would 6e propelled by two large rocket-engine t,umt,s - 111illa Iii• lu,U submerged o . nly · a fe• inclies as t1ae s , hit, st,eeds ov : er t1a · e ,oater on a cus 1aioN of air. Cons true ti ON is already ,u,tleru,ay al Tacoma, Waslli•glo" - not ON l1ae shit, itself, b , ul on its prototype. Tlu1 only s,aag tltat miglal cause tl,e :>r.oject lo g,o agror,Nd is a tlisagre . emet1I among Fedsr , al age11ci•• aver fl•a RC ing. RACE --------- The second I-rans-continental "clean ai-r" ca-r race will begi . n . next we e k - with sixt y a · utomobiles beginning the thi-rt y -six hund-red m ile Jou-rney coast-to-coast 011 August 11ven ty-Fou-rth . The -race l; ,:- gins at M-1-T in Cambridge, Massach . uselts and ends al Cal Tech in Pasedena. AU Ill~ c omt,eting ca-rs we-re built by s l•dents - a · nd all velliclea . m . ual comlJly with Federal exhaust emission standards. As sucla, tlae t,ro/ndsion systems in tllese cars include stea•e-rs, electrics, turbi,aes a . nd even some with -regular co•6•sUo• e,agi,aes tllal burn 10111 1Jolluta11t fuels. 111 any eve11I, Ille race is est,ectetl to take several days - if NOT weets - • · ill ca-r• broke• do•• across tlaousa11tl• of ,nil , es of lllgluoay." CLOWN ~- ... -- Coco - the Ringling Bf'others-Baf'num and Bailey clown - says things af'e changing - it's a tough job to get t,eot,le to alugh nowadays because life is so gf'im. Coco says "It's even haf'd to get childf'en to l•ugh - t,eot,le af'e so da,.,. ut,-tiglit - so te · nse". Re says he used to get a laugh just by falling down. "Now;" Coco tells us sadly, such a fall mea11s nothing. Peot,le af'e diffef'ent, too. We used to wof'k in tAe autli ence - t1t'rowing con/ e tti on t,eot, le out , of a t,a il su . t,t,osedly filled with watef'. And we had a chat, d'ressetl •II in a fake go'rilla suit. Now a wo,nan wants to sue tlae clt"CNB if slle gets a piece of confetti in her eye - a . 11d a ma• claims he was shocked by tl,e fake gorilla he suffe'red f'f'o • m tlae sca're P-3or Coco I Poo'r the rest of us if whal he says is true. Warren, you don't look uptight/ l'ICTURE ----- --- W ii~ c o n s i 11 - >C 11 a I or Pr ox 111 ; r e ; s d e m n n cl l II g a ,, i111esligalio11 of what he calls "'Operalio11 Razor Bla,lc" which - I, e s ".\' s - i 111 o l v es f if tee 11 a i · nn e 11 a Lack I rrn ,I Bas e i ,z Texas who Here orde1·ed lo s/)end a full day cultiug their conunanding Gc11c1•al 's Pie lu r e out of ten thous and copies of the base 11ewspaper. P >'ox mire says he was ad l' is e d by the p 1t b Ii s h c · r that, reccnll_v, cz senior non-commissioned officer stormed inlo /he office 'in a rage - dis · missing the assistant editor - and chargi,ig that the General's Picture had been inappropriately cropped. He then ordered fifteen airmen - armed wilh razors - to c1tl the offendi,zg photograph 01' of I h e r,a p e rs , l e a v ; n g a h o l e s o m e th re e c o l l4 m ,, s w id e a n d f i v e inches deep on page Jive. Operation Razor Blade. .. - LTP.1970.08.17i.pdf LTP.1970.08.17ii.pdf