L.T. OLDS - TUE DAY, FEBRUARY 19, 196 3 Good Evening everybody: We hear that everything was a most all ri ght at the White House today. That is everything O.K. but the weather. The big welcome for the Pres i ent of Vene&uela was dampened by rain and snow. President Betancourt l from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Andrews Airforce Base in Uary l and. Then on to the White House by helicopter. Greeted on the North portico of the executiv e mansion by Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy. The North portico with its sheltered roof. However, the p arade of the two presidents through Washington, r esche du i -1 for tomorrow. Weather permitting. Tonight, the Kennedy's are entertaining the B e tancourts at a Stat e baniuet . The question of the S oviet troop s in Cuba ha s been on the air al day tod ay. S o let's begin with an angle about which y o u may not have h e ard. Radio Liberty is starting a Russian la nguage program beamed at Castro's island. That is, beamed at the Russian soldiers and technicians. The p oint being - that the Russians are close enough to hear the Western vi e wpoint on International affairs. Which m o ans they may be vulnerable to omething better than the Red indoctrination, which is all they ever heard behind the Iron Curtain. The hope is that they'll tune in our Russian programs that will originate in Charlotte, North Carolina. And, that they'll r e turn ta Russia with some of our ideas about freedom and dem o cracy. But, will the Russians be in Cuba long enough to bear Charlotte cal l ing? For several tho sand, it's probably too lat e . K hr us h ch e v , n o t i f y i ng o u r 1~AY - 2 Government that they'll be gone by March 15th. This announcement c o incides with a C.I.A. report of empty Soviet ships bound for Cuba. Presumably transports to take the Russians home. The Khrushchev announcement, it turns out, was the reason for last night's conferenc g at the White Bouse. President Kennedy, informing a bipartisan group from Capitol Hill. Trying to satisfy the critics who are not helping our diploaacy - according to Adlai Steven s on. Our Ambassador to the U.N. suggests that Khrushchev wil l recall his troops in Cuba, unless we make it too embarrassing for him. The Brazilian Govern ■ ent is tatin no chances ith the Reds aboard the hi g bjac ked Venezuelan freighter. The order today - to the Brazilian Marines :- •Arrest the highjackere!w Not that Brazil will decline to give tbe Venezuelan Communists political asylum. The episode on the High Seas will be investigated, and, if no crime was committed, the Reds will b releas a d. Tb• ship, and the rest of the crew, sent back to Venezu e la. -- E UROPE The Free Trade A e oci A tion of Europe - 1B going to be a t the Co m mon M a rket to th punch. Britain and h er e c o nomic allies - to re m ove industrial tariffs - - d t ' - «~I · ~/ ~~~ by 1966. ! ~ a ye ~ r r~t~ the Common Market. The e o-called •outer Seven•, · - - - in a bid to show that they can produce unity and u rosperity - before the continental group that de Gaulle hope s to lead. What about British entry - into the Common Market? London intends to resume the negotiations - from a position of strength. The .strength of - the Free Trade Assoo1at1on. -- T h R e d b o o f Bul ari is i n co - f or some x l a inin g . That' s th W e t rn in te r r _ t at ion of Zhiv k ov's hurrie d tri to th Soviet Ca p i t o l . To explain why th recent anti-n e g r o r · ol - in S o ia . Khrushchev i s described a s furi o us becau s e c mmunism now is being attac k e throu g hout Africa. Especially in Ghana - where students returning from Bulgaria are bitterci:>out the way they were manhandled by the Reds, then hustled aboard trains headed for the frontier. The Sofia affair a harsh blow to Khrushchev who bas been trying to penetrate Africa through Ghana. low, Ghana is swinging over to the Western side, threatening to vote against the Communist bloc - in the U.N. Bulgaria's Zhivkov, in Moscow to explain. - - WEATHER ------- I won der if A xa nder lh Gr at e ver had to deal with wa t r in the p a.bee basemen t '? Th e question se ms a ropriat e , because Macedonia is flooded toni g ht Alexander's homeland, feeling the effects of heavy rain plus a sudden thaw. Streams over their banks, inundating thousands of acres of farm l and, and carrying away homes and barns. Many dorwned - or missing. The Gre e ks and Yugoslavs, _, starting rescue operations along their bordere in Macedonia. Across the rest of Europe, all the way to Spain - snow, rain, avalanches, landslides. The Continent getting one ■ ore taste - a bitter taste of winter weather. Hav you hear about Florida tonieht ? Tornadoes ar r porte bouncin a ro ss the central p art of the tat e , er a ing havoc when they t o uch down. Hit by twisters today : - Orlando, La kel and, La ke A l fr e d, Indian River City. In one place , the wind picked on e ca r f rom a causeway and dropped it into ~ampa Bay. The storm moving North. Gale warnings, from Cape Hatteras to Maine. Tides, two feet above normal - along the ~e• Jersey Coast. And the middle Atlantic States can ex pe ct as much as four inches of snow during the night. New England - six inches, expected here at Mt. Mansfie l d where I am, Dick. TRAIN ---- T he ''e n e r w ho boa e r t, , ,,. r r n a L d , En an d , o day , fou d a que t l o nn a ir o n a ch s e at, a k in th m wh t th y p r f er i n a rai l r o a , s p e d, unctua l i l , o r c om f ort. The p as ~ e n e r , ... e ttling down to fill out the u e stionnair - d urin g th e run to London. Alas, on that p art i cu l ar run they d idn't have speed, punctuality or comfort . The train, vi g Leeds hal f an hour late, averaging on l forty miles an h our, arriving more than an hour late, and in darkness. The lighting system had failed. Som e of the passengers were even unable to finish th e questionnair about the service.