L.T.- UI C K, F ISHE R . WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 , 1 9 (Da ll as Townsend substituting) GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: A ringing defense of American policy in Viet Nam -- and, indeed, throughout the world -- voiced today by President Johnson; in a speech, appropriately, at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Internation Affairs -- at Princeton University. The President declaring that his Administration -- 18 not guilty of displaying an "arrogance of power" in Viet Nam -- as charged by recent critics. Rather -- said he -- "the exercise of power in this century -- ha: meant for the United States not arrogance b ut agony." MCNAMAR Ba 0 ~ as ch1e wl t n s to a 0 - - e r ~a~ · obert Mc amara wa ~ be o e he ate Po r n ela o nv mm ee. at one on -- a estlon a out t e a equac o~ U.S. 11 ar mi g ht : n v e w o t e tremen · o s burden -- of Amer a's global commitments. Secretar McNamara repl ng that t he United States arme forces -- are m lltar1ly prepared to mee~ our political commitments" throughout the world. Citing as e 16ence -- the ~ act that we nae been able to meet our troops needs 1n Sou heast Asia -- so ar -- without ca111~4g up the reserves or n9:t1onal guard. McNamara adding that barring an emer ency -- he ~oresees no sue callu . a least -- ~or t e alance o~ t 1s year. VIETNAM FOL LO W M C NAMARA Halfwa y round the world at Sai g on -- news t oday of a step-up in Communist aerial de enses. A U.S. spokesman reporting that American warplanes -- in on e of the r at tac ks on North Viet Nam -- w re me t for the first time by ommunists M1gs armed with alr-to-air missiles. Two of the heat-seeking missiles -- fired at propellor- driven Air Force Skyraiders -- covering a pilot rescue ~peratlon. Fortunately. both missed -- but two other American plan9s were lost to intense enemy ground fire. In addition -- American pilots today reporting discovery of a new surface-to-air missile site -- near the key Mu Gia pass: already twice close -- by American Jets. The newest Communist missile site -- closest yet to South Viet Nam. JAPAN Special emer e ncy precautionary measures were put into e f fect today -- throughout Japan : to guard against possible danger from radioacti · ,e . allout -- resulting from Red China's third nuclear blast early thls week. According to Japanese scientists -- the bomb was apparently "signi f icantly stronger than a irst believed. The new appraisal base on discovery o f "glant radioactive particles" ""' on Northernr7apan 1 s West Coast. The radioactive count of these ~ particles -- said to be anywhere from One Hundred to Two Hundred times greater than that resulting from previous tests. Japanese o flclals emphasizing -- there's no danger as yet to human life · but they are taking -- no chances. WASHINGTON FOLLOW JAPAN HP.re at home -- the Defense D epartm ent to ay estimated size of the Chinese nuclear explosion -- as the equivalent of about a Hundred and Thirty Kilotons of TNT : instead of the original estln.-te -- of only about Twenty Kilotons. STATE FOLLOW WASHINGTON On the same subject --/the State Department today admitted receiving and rejecting a Chinese propoeal --/ore than a year ago;/a proposal that the United states and Rad China pledge Jointly/- that n!_ither would be the firet to u■e nuclear weapons against the other. I The U. S. etand then and now I said a State Department 1pokesun - / ;r;hat world powers 11ust first "bar aggre■■ion 1n any form;" and then proceed with general disarmament -- on "a balanced basis." SOOGESTED LEAD-IN TO THOMAS TAPE: With Lowell Thomas in Europe -- another special report tonlght -- on this latest from the Arab World. I . I U - SPAIK A startling sight today -- in Barcelona. More than a Hundred Spanish priests -- staging a demonstration of their own: in protest against police suppression -- of recent student demonstrations. The black-clad priests -- setting out from Barcelona Cathedral: intending to deliver an official protest -- to police headquarters. But they never •de it. Police charging the clergymen and taking a number 1n custody to break up the march. Nevertheles~, it's believed to be the first demonstration by Catholic priests ever staged ln modern Spain. And the police who broke it up -- technically liable to exco•unicatlon. ROOSEVELT Franklin D. Roos v elt Jr. re lgned hi g overnment post this evening. He ls expecte d to announce his candidacy for the Democratic nomination or Gov rnor ~fi New York tomorrow. Roosevelt met with P resident Johnson, handeu the President his resignation as Chairman of the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Co•isslon. Roosevelt did not make himself available to reporters at the White House. He left lrmnedlately for New York after the meeting with Mr. Johnson. In New York. A spokesman for him sald Roosevelt "will make a major statement regarding the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York State" in the Hotel Lancaster at ten-thirty A.M. Thursday. The New York Governorship was the Job held by Roosevelt's rather. WEATHER Snowmen sprouted amid the tulips -- and snow plows were back in action today in the storm-swept Midwest; thanks to a third consecutive day -- of record-breaking cold. Ahead or the storm -- temperatures falling to a low or Twenty-Eight degrees at Philadelphia; with resulting crop damage -- as far South as Georgia; ln the worst May weather -- in nearly a century. More of the same -- on tap for tonight. In the form of tornadoes and violent thunderstorms -- preducted for sections of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa. Warren -- I'd say that so far, May has been a total flop. HEIRESS From W yne svil le O hi o -- the st o ry o f a part-t i me waitress married t o a truc k d r i v e r ; w h o wo k e up today -- to f ind herself a bona f ide heiress. Mrs. ,. - ~::; Cavanau g h -- who thoug h t she had been disow1,.1d by her late fat Jr ror marrying against hls wishes -- now chief benerlclary J 1 his entire estate. Including as . b l · cash legacy -- substantial real estate 1 ldings in Vir . n1~ and Kentucky -- a private golf course -- a Hundred and Fifty a cre horse farm -- and Seventy-Two blo ded .race horses. Mrs. Cavanaugh t e mother of fo -- delighted, of course, except for one thing: Turns out -- she's alleJ'gic to horse hair. But not, we hope, to cash. Dallas Townsend says Goodnight.