J):J .h.!. BUICK, FISHER. TUE DAY I MARCH r 1966 GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Sudden and tragic death today -- high 1n the Swiss Alps. With . merican school teacher John Harlin -- piungtng more than four thousand feet. This the finale to a month long attempt to climb that notorious North Wall.of Swit z erland ' s sinister Elger. Harlin -- formerlly of California -- now living in Swit z erland, and leader of an Anglo-American expedition, which had recently joined forces~ with a Ger•n Team7 in an attempt to make the first ' diretissima 1 • - - or straight-up ascent, of the more than mile high North Wall. He was returning from Base camp with foo or:. bivouac barelv a thou an " et fr0m the summlt when he s llpp e at th e jotning point o f tw o teel rope s - an f ell to the whit ~ h ar e '' sk i r un f ar bel ow . LED-- I Ironicall y , two German members o f the team have since completed the most periqous part of the climb, apparently unaware o Harlin s d eath . Th:s, the twenty-seventh such trage d y ln the rama packe history o f North Wall of the Eiger. 1 1 - - r. ( ' n . r . b 0 1 1 C C ti ,, · r 0 . ·m (' ;.. C o_ Kn d ~ n u e r - o n te n c; n 1 J · u 1 b o e a ac l n t o n . t 11 n c h r i t a n e moc ra t c p rt c au s t h at 0 b ef r e Russi a ' e no r m ous mi l tar y o wer 1~ , m o n ~ trft , el, a m e a ainst e tern uro ~ e .' Further, t a t t ' 1 Ru s n h v f a iled a yet to pro uce any ev1 ence -- o a 1 c ha n e n their pol it teal thl nl ing. 1 ' •' rh r d c on lu lng t h at G er man · s best efense against Sov e t a r s ton -- r main the nat o alliance. Tn T • om h .. o n t n G n . P I., m m t c o n 1 , n , n~" ~ t ' tton o d C h 1 'o n 11 1. t, o ~ C I o n T h u ,. nan e o rt to ee ct rem nt -- on t e at b nn n h s pr e nuclear weapon Inf o rm ources in Lon on a ding that the Br t sh sarm ment minister will also confer ~tth N or th Viet Name se o"' c 1 al n Moscow, nth continuing search -- for peace in Vet Nam. Meanwhile the United States to day amene d its own n attem t to meet russian objections to th e original raft. e e r, o P-t reaction -- till n e t ,e . n o n T i the o t l plain o f , t N· m c m le 0 l J e o" u c e · • e r. m r c n o m n ' ti f e iet C o n g comma n r o t -- ., \ e .~ t r o ne m , ammun t 1on i lling nearl o un r r V t Co ap arentl y remnant o a fo rce out b ar ne s thr e we ek ~ ago in t . e sam ge neral area. Closer to Saigon -- . merican n ustral1an troops to a c omplete their bi g sweep -- o f z one D f or Death. U . a ratr o per s cl ming a mi ssio n " ki ll ra t ion " of forty t hree t o ~ on e o vert e Vi~t Cong. pp arentl · t he high e s t mar n of ictory/ t&itmr -- in any major ag e me . t so far . FORMOSA A t Paipei in Formosa -- the man personally picked by Chiang Kai Shek as his heir apparent -- today was elected by Vice Presi d ent o f Nationalist China. C.K. Yen moving up from the office of premier to succeed the late Chen Cheng. The new Vice President described as western educated -- western oriented. At sixty-two -- s1.ateen years younger than aging Chaing, who was reelected only yesterday -- to a new alx year term as President of Nationalist China. CHURCH Arc h Bis l op Michael Ra ~ of Canterbury arrived today tn Rome -- for historic meetings with Pope Paul. The Angelican prelate -- stating that he 1s looking " forward enourmously ' to his interview with the Pontiff. But as to what may come to the vlslt -- he said: "I can only watt -- - - - - ~=--- ----. and see. .. . r r z ENBACH A plea to d ay from A ttorney General Nicholas Kat z enbach for new Federal Legislation. Designed to shatter the code ~ of sllence -- that now protects the king pins of organized crime. This enforced silence -- " secured most dramatically through terror 11 - - said Katzenbach. Citing ' dozens of cases -- where witnesses were beaten with bas~ bal! bats -- ~ a ~ n ~ d !!..- - - -:-= - - - · - - - - - - - - - tortured with acetylene torches. The answer -- said he -- a law making it a Federal crime -- to intimidate witnesses in a Federal lnvestlgatlon. Also -- a law that would allow the granting of legal l•unity to racket underlings- · 1n exchange for evidence against racket leaders. Sft! A SHER In W a shington -- s ix lo c ations recommended today by t h e National Academy of Science. As pos s ible sites for a new three hundred and seventy five mllllon dollar atom smasher -- the worlds largest. Contenders 1ndlud1ng Upton, New York, Denver, Colo, South Barrington, Ill., and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Final selection•- to be made by the .L A ~omlc enerby commission. By the way -- there were renewed reports today of llif■ unidentified flying objects -- near Hillsdale, Michigan -- about rourty-flve miles from Ann Arbor. The objects -- aa1d to have been seen by ■ore than a hundred people over the last two nights. Wlth the results that the Alr Force has now ordered a full investigation. All a co1nc1dence? I wonder. TORM . b itte r S pring storm spilled out of t h e Northern Ro ckies today -- sprea ing quickly across the Northern Plains the storm including up to Two feet of snow ln some places with winds up to seventy-five miles an hour. Producing drifts up to four feet; blocking traffic and closing schools -- ln Nebraska. North Dakota, Wyoming, an d Colorado. Temperatures? -- bwo below urat Laramie zero Leadville, Colorado -- three above, •utte. Mont. With additional heavy snow warnings posted tonight -- as far south as Kansas: with the storm apparently following the same path as the socalled " Great Blizzard of 1 66 11 earlier this month. Storm moving on into Minnesota -- and p■rst~,& Northern Iowa. YOUTH The Youth of America -- both praised and cr1t1zed today by Former President Eisenhower' -- our young people lauded a by 11 Ike 11 as quote '' Better than my generation in/good many ways. " The overwhelming majority -- decent and intelligent -- saidhe -- adding whats more that those who feel we are wrong in Vietnam -- have a perfect right to speak ou1t,,~ The danger -- said he -- in raucous and belligerent protest. That 11 bar11s the cause of freedom -- and 1n the end will cost additional lives.' Accordingly said Ike -- those who deliberately burned their draft cards should be sent to Jail -- "at least for the war 1 s duration. 11 Okay Warren. BIRTH The s tory or an astounding medical rarity -- comes today from Pomona, California. Factors there disclosing the birth of two children to the same mother -- twenty-nine days apart. The first a boy -- the second a girl -- both doing fine. The children -- not twins, we re told. But rather born of a rare -- double pregnacy. The resulting double delivery -- completed against odds of a Hundred and Sixty Thousand to one. LTP.1966.03.22i.pdf LTP.1966.03.22ii.pdf