GOO E VENING EVERYBO D Y: nother sens e l e s orgy o f de ath to day -- at t\ustin, Texas. An apparently mad sniper -- armed with a hlgh powered telescopic ri f le -- climbin g to t h e top of the twenty-seven story Universit y of Texas tower; where he opened fire on thousands o f' summer students and teachers during their main lttnch break. The nt g htmare that followed -- lastin g more than an hour. Despite return fire from poltce -- the sniper getting off more than a hundred shots with amazing accuracy. Felling victim after vtctlm -- as they scrambled madly for cover far below -- before he was finally s hot and killed -- by Austin policeman Romero Martine z . By that time -- t h e campus looked almost like a battlefield -- with the count a t least twelve dead -- more LEAD-- than thirty wounde~. All 1rmo~ 0 nt victims -- or a deranged mJnd. The sniper later tdent1f!en as one or the summer students , Charles J. Whitman -- a twenty-four year old ex-Marine originally from Lake Worth, Flortda. Still later 1n checkl.ng with relattves -- police discovered that Whitman had also apparently kllled his wife and his mother -- at their respective Austin homes. he Why/did 1t -- any of it -- we may never know. VIET NAM - · -------- 111 Vici Nam - Ille cily of Saigon is satd lo be men a c c d Ion i g l1 I - b y a mas s i v e fifth co l" m n . A " en e my Jo re e - of p erl,ap s as man}' as Ji e thousand me11. Nt,c e battallions of Viel Cong - in all, i ith one of the l11dtl battalions - reportedly lodged 1vithin the capital itself. This according lo reliable sources,_ ;,, lhe S011lh Vietnamese government. The same sources i,tdicating, hotvever, tllat there is little ,.,_. likelihood of a mass Comm,u,ist attaclt. Saigofl bei,cg the great heart - of the allied military effort ~ ~ .,,, ~ i,c Viel Nam. ~ expect~fl r 1 'I n a ~erie• of step1>etl- •1> lerrorl•I attacks• o • ~ 0:1._clviUa• ••d military targets. ACCI V.NT .n. tragtc acc.1dent -- followe' Ly ri .,ttll-m re tragic rtot toclay · ; at Croesus stat ion - - near Johannesburg. Adding up to the worst out'break of r::tc1al violence in South Africa -- in n number of ·:1 ears. Start of the trouble -- a head-on collls1on between two commuter trains : ; killing at least six black Africans -- and injuring about two hundred and eighty more. Survivors of the crash storming from the wreckage -- to take revenge on white crewmen . of the two trains. One engineer -- stoned and badly injured. The mob also battering two conductors and two railway policemen -- who tried to intervene. Thal armed re v olt in Nigeria - si,ccessfully completed today. Lieutenant Colottel Yakubi Gowon - thirty- CL two ) 1 ear old arm} ' cltief of staff - assumi11g comma11d of.,.. 11eN1 mililn · ry go v ernment. 111 his ow11 words -- at the "invilalio,i" - of "a majoril>' of the army." Ila di o Lagos an11 o,o,c ing the cir a,rge of leader sit It> ~i., Qi, - following a peace co,rference between Colo11el~ Go,0011 a,rd Loyalist Ge11eral Babegemi Ogundi/Je. Tire settleme11t - hot>efully averllflg the threat of a bloody tribal a11d reHglo11s war; bet.,ee11 Moslems ,,, tire North - a11d Cllristia11s ill the South. Yci..Q..,jl- co,✓-e·,~cr•.,o• t>romt>tly t>romisi•g a ret•r11 to civi lia11 rule - as soo,r as possible. As for lite •a11 1,e ••cceeds - Ge11eral Joll•son Ag11iyi-lro11si - ltis ._._ fate remai,as a mystery. JAPAN Nol Cltina - bu/ Japan - will l,a, e /he greatest impact 011 the future of Asia_;,/"Ys Edwi,i ReU;chauer - retiring US Ambassador lo Tokyo. Reischa11er asserti,eg /hat "Chi,ea's i,efl11eace is negati ve - and recognized as SHch by everybody." "But f o r th e las I y ea r or so " - he go es on Io s a y - • • "J a pa" has been showi,eg signs of geltt11g read} ' - to assa,me a fletv position of leadership". Getting ready - as lte p11t it - to assume some of the U S burde" i• the Pacific. TIits - witli tlte ready approval of Washt,rgton. Relschauer predtcliflg, however, tlaat tire Japa,rese NJill remat11 stroflgly Pacifist ;,, 11at11re "for some timetto llae f11lt1re." For that reaso11 - says lie - · o _. "Japan will co111i11t1e to look to 11s for 1111clear defe11se. '' COMMONS A, .. ross tile Atlantic - in London - the House of Com mo,,s exploded today in a"gry conlro1 ers} , . opposition Co n s e r II a I i v e s an d L i b e r a l s - c r y in g , "s h a m e , I s Ir a "'J .. ; when the go e rnn,ent ignored their demands for immediate debate - on Prime Minister Harold Wilso1t's new "save tire pou,td" program. More of the same - expected tomorrow; tolle" tlae powerf11l trades Congress - the Railroad U,aio,as - a,ad •• l,adt,slrial ma,aagement gro11J, meet separately - to review tlle a11slerily J,rogram. Eve,a so - ultimate aJ,J,roval is Noto said lo be - j11st a matter of time. SACCO A csse 11,at re/11ses to die - once more i,r tlte lim c ligl1t. Al Milan - Jlalian relati ves • o f the executed Nicola Sacco - today reporti,rg the dis c o ve ry of,. • ., e vi dence. E vi dence - llleJ ' claim - that proves tire iflflOCeflce of 011e of the principal JigHres - in the celebrated Sacco- Va,rzelti 1111,rder case of nearly half a ce11tury ago. We~e told Ille relatives ha v e received letters - from two elderly Italians ttJho emigrated to the Ufliled Stales long ago. The /talo-America11s mairtlaifliJtg llaal Sacco tuas with them all day - ort April tl1e fifteeNIII, - Nl,ael• • e,a Ttueflty, ..-rfte date 1t1hefl lie a11d fello111-aflarclli•I Bartolomeo Va,aaelli - supposedly killed 11110 mefl - ifl a payroll 'llold11p at Brai,atree, Massaclu,setts. TIie letters are to be l11r,ied over lo t,,e "Sacco- Vat1aelli Memorial Committee " - here ;,. tl1e Ufliletl St•I••• ,, ,K gro11p lllat ,,as bee11 lryi11g I • for years - lo ,rove tlaat a11tl Sacco •r Vat1aelli tuere turo11gf11lly co11demf1ed - beca11se ~ I I 1, of so-called - "J11tllcial prej11dice." ... . .. SPACE At Hous t on - an official post-mort e m today -- o,i the trouble-plagued fligl,t of the G e m i ni- Te,r. Comma,rd Pilot John Young reporting that a critical fuel s1,ortage - tDas caused by a minor error in the spacecraft's i,rltial orbit. An error that placed it slightly off-course" for its planned rendezvor,s with a11 agena target satellite. - To overcome the error - Pilot You . ng a•d co- pilot Mi lte Col l11s us i11g ,ohat they called - - a "brute fo, · c e" teclt1tique. Actually forci11g the Ge,nlni-Tefl- to c"a•ge ils Pla11e of orbit. 41 Though successful - the ma•e11ve~ e • I - up 11i•e times the amo1111t of fNel - origi11ally alloted for tl,e space re,.de& voNs. Thus fore h1g ca11cellatioft - of a .,,,,,ber of plaflfled experhne,ets. 011 t"e ,,,,. side - tire astro11aNts took ,,.otogral'"• - - ~ ~ of I h e Ear t It -A..• o s It a r p I{ I ear ...C~>-41111\ tlrat they .iux,rr., sho....,, a \vr, --v-~ . seclio11 of ltigha,ay just south of Hot1sto", " Next time - ••id ~ I,._ l'•,~011,eg - "Maybe a,e ca• get a 1'ictt1re of the astrodome." TRUMAN At Kansas City, Missouri - former Preside,al Trumn" was reported improved today - fro,nf,l,at weeller,d •I attack of colitis. Docto · rs saying his condilio,a - "is so me wha I s tr•rtglh e"e d. " A ddi11g: "He is p rogres ti ir,g fficely/- ~ no ca11se for alarm." ~~~~W..(~ ~~- ~ A . - ~ - u . - - + ~