j~TRQIA.V1' The L.T.-OLDS. WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1963 (Richard c. Hottelet, substituting; L.T. in New Guinea) space flight or astronaut Gordon Cooper is such a resounding success - it's hard to decide juat where to begin to describe it. So, just to be different - let's begin with something that astronaut Cooper will .nil acco ■ plisb. He will Dil orbit the earth - ninety- two ti ■ es. But the significant thing is that he could - it be had the necea1ary equip ■ ent aboard his apace capaule. His flight into orbit - is that perfect. ln L ~ ~ ll-1 ~liH6 ~ (5. ,J - ~~ M,4e.<' other worda, I t■ sc}eee ''--&,,• ~~ 1hatter •• record - of the top Soviet coa ■ onaut. But the Cooper flight ia specifically tailored -- to - twenty-two orbits. And tonight there see ■ a to i?(MAINS be no doubt - that he'li make it. Everything ilr in •a go condition• - as they say at Cape Canaveral. Or, as the astronaut put it in one of his reports fro ■ outer apace - •!~• really comfortable, in fact l had a little nap.• on The feeling/a• the ground is summed up in the words of one technician - •it looks l ike a milk run.• The point being that Cooper has been using up - leas fuel than expected. Giving hi ■ more than the reserve he needs - to finish his orbital flight. Here are - ao ■ e basic figurea. The Faith-Seven weighs - three thousand pounds. l~a traveling at a apeed of - ■ ore than seventeen thou1and miles an hour. ~ircling the earth - in just under eighty-nine minute,. Highest point of orbit - almost one hundred and sixty- six miles. Lowest - al ■ ost exactly one hundred ■ ilea. Since the question of te~perature has co ■• up in previous space flights these readings ought to be noted. Th• interior of th• space capsule is - one hundred and five degreea. But the astronaut inside his air-conditioned space suit - feels a comfortable sixty degrees. jSTBOl!ADI - 3 Right now, ~ ordon Cooper is - a busy man. Turning dials and flipping switches - on the instrument paoel. Noting everything from the oxygen content of the space capsule - to the ap p earance of the earth far down alow. ~"' ~ (~ s. ••••••••he'll g et - some sleep. Apart froa that - he haa no tiae on his hands. L. ~ordon Cooper - traveling taat and far tonight. Also - high, wide and haadao••• fELE!.!§10.ti The only disa p pointin thing about the Cooper S?ace flight - was that Europeans didn't get to see the blast-off. Somebody on this side - pulled the wrong switch. Only a garbled picture arriving at - the ground station in Britain. But the radio reception - was as perfect as the flight itself. Millions of people from Vublin to Warsaw -~~.-.•-••t•H•-••• - following a second-by-second acco,nt of man's latest leap into spnoe. IHTRODUCTION TO TAPE The astronaut 1 e flight makes anything else seem anti-climactic. Still, Lowell Thomae does have a report - from India. So - let 1 s listen to him. DESCENT - 2 to hie bird~eye 1 ndin g in the Pacific. GOA ,, Hello Everybody: I'm •kins a qulck atop ln southern India tonight. · Where am I heading tor? Cit, I'll tell 1011 about lt 1n a tew daJ•• lor a moment let•• chat about Indla. Have 1011 ever wondered what happened to Goat Or, had 1ou. torgotten all about the little country on the weat coast ot the Hlndu.atan Penlnallla'l After the Brltlah pill.led out ot Indla, 1•ara ago, the Indiana Mxt thNW out the French who had aeveral ama11 · colonlea 1n that part ot the world: but, the Portuguese they were at111 here. 'l'heJ had been holding their colon1a1 empire 1n India tor nearl1 tlve hundred 1ear1. Par longer than the Brltlah and the Prenoh. WhJ the Portugu.eae were here nearlJ 200 JNN betore the hJ Mahal WU bullt by the . mogul.a. . I . . ooa - 2 You Will recall that Vaaco de Gama, the great navigator, aalled around Africa 1n 1492, aa111ng to the Ind1ea. Soon atter that the tamoua Portuguese pro-Conaul, Altonao Albuquerque came out here and became the Governor or Ooa, a rloh province ot Indla then about the alze ot Rhode Island -- rolling countey, vlllagea with handaome Cathollo ohurohe1 were soon built; palm treea, beautltul beachea llke the Italian Rlvlera. Population alx hundred and tlttJ tholaaand. Portugueae mlaalonarlea, the legendar, St. Pranola lavler, an4 others, chrlatlanlsed halt ot the■• T01ffll and YlllagN OOftY8l'ted enmuae. I Ive Juat 1Nn talking to an attnotlve Joung woman nuecl Mona Alb~uerque. She'• pure Blnd11, But lhe tell• • that all the people ln her village ln ooa were glven the name Albuquerque, . tour hundred 7ean ago bJ thell' Portusue•• oonqu,rora. Long long ago I apent -conalderable tl• 1n ooa 10 naturally I'v• · b~n ourloua to tlnd out 1mat ha~ happened to Goa - 3 Goa alnce Indla aelzed 1t trom Portugal - that was only about a 1ear and a half ago - December 1961. What alnce thent · Up to that tlme Ooa hod been a conaumera• paradlae • . . no cuatoma 4ut1ea. It vu one ot the world'• number one smuggling oentera. Prom Goa watchea, rad1oa, Nfrlgentora, an4 the twat automobllea, were smuggled over the border lnto India. Iver, taxl 1n Goa - a Meroedea Bens. In 1961 lrlahna Menon waa India'• Detenae Mlnlater, atlll ln ottloe, atlll lehr\1 1 1 tavorlte. He waa running tor Parllament tl'OII BombaJ, the great aeaport Juat north ot Ooa. Menon needed 1oathlng to make hlll poplllar at that m0111nt. So wlth tlN ln hla eye he ■aid • ''Indla muat liberate Goa. 11 WheNupon the Indian arm, moved ln, and 1n that Bombay election Krlahna Menon ... eleotld u llbentor ot ooa. Slnce then atter nearlr tiv• hUndNd Jean ot propperity under the lortugueae I u told the eoonomlo llte ot Ooa · 11 now a ~ok. Goa - 4 All Goaneae who had an, Portug~eae blood - there were thouaanda ot them• they've all lett, aa have aome several thouaanda Ooaneae ot pure atock. Othera who were proaperoua under the Portuguese, but tailed to eave their moner, theJ are now beggara • . Goa 1n a aad atate, I am told. Ooa, going, gone. · Al tor lrlahna Menon, h•'• not doing 10 Will lither, . &I )'OU know • . Solong; POLLOW LT, well, Lowll, - all hope you do -- that the probl•• ot Goa will be IOlftd 100n. ~ , .. _ , L - ~ ~ 1L Some abservers are surprised that the President ol Haiti - ia still in p ower tonight. But strong-man DuTalier is not to be - so easily dislodged. He asauaed th• title of •Chief of the ReTolution,• today - on the xpiration of his ter■ as Chief Executi••· Aa4 ~ ~ expect, to be inaugurated for a aecond ter■ - next week. Cloaely guarded bJ two thousand troop• or the Haitian Ara:, - and all of its five tank• - ~uvalier 1• plannia1 to briag live hundred thouaand pea1ant1 into th• capital, for bil •re-inaugural c1r1■0117.• Ghich ■ight turn out to be interesting. Because the peaaant• uauallJ carrJ ■ achete• - in their belts. Meanwhile Duvalier's exiled opponent• in Santo Domingo - were supposed to launch •operation Vry Clean• today. In an atteapt - to oust Duvalier. ~ut have fallen out - over their methods. And the plan ha• collapaed. The Caribbean baa been so much in the ne•• th••• paat ••eke, that•• tend to forget - another trouble apot. Tonight violence ia rearing its ugly head once ■ore - in th• Congo. Tribal rioting at the aining town of Jadotvill• in Iatanga - tinall7 had to subdued tiJ U.I. lndoneaian troopa. And in teopoldville, oapital of th• Congo, Conaoleae troop• are patrolling th• road to the airport - after a aerie• of attack• on luropeana. Tb• new outbreak• of fury in tti• citJ - due to a a ■utinr, of th• police force. lbicb re ■oved tho•• fa■ iliar a7 ■bol• of la• and order - fro■ the atreeta. ~..P~r~oH■t-1•~p~a~e~et-----J\~0~1~p~i~•~• ..... There's yet another spy - in the news tonight. Dr. Giuseppe artelli that ph7aiciet fro• the European Atomic Energy Co~7, - indicted in a British court today - had just aet up bia apyiag aechaniam, when he was caught. Bi• apparatus including - the following. Shoes - with hollow heel ■• Ciaaret case - with false bottoa. Diar7 containing address••• aeetin1 place• and code fora•laa for iussian apiea - in London. But thl• t iae the •PJ was nabbed - before ht could be1ia opera\ioas. So aa,a the Britl1h prosecutor today. ChargiDI th• pbJaicist with breaking •e Official Secrets Act. The state ■ ent particularlJ appreciated by - .Bri tiab counter-espionage agent a. Ibo have been blaaed so often recently - for letting secrets get to Moscow. ] There's at least one Englishman wh o is sorry - that he ever listened to P resident Kennedy. To wit - the Marq ~ is of Bath. His Lordship develo p ed an enthusiasm fer fifty-mile hikes - after hearing President Iennedy on the subject. ~o, the Marquia set out troa Bath - in high spirits. lie covered thirteen miles - before hia chauffeur found hia sitting on a atone by the aide of the roa4. The Marquis, puffing - like an7 rudd7 co ■■oner. tonight, recuperating - back at the ancestral 11tate. lo m~r• ot P reai4ent Ienad7'• tltt7-aile hik•• - tor his Lordship, the Marquis of Bath.