LO A ELE ~ 1 ~ . If-~?. - - - ---- - - - - - - (U. ~ ~ ' l , Q Campa i g 11 ~----~ - ~~~~~- i X I.\ - E i g h - u,e tHg ft N hi.. R i' bza r r1 ~rili J--!li x on and llu~e,-1 Hum , phr e y - p•·a,ticall!f n ec k and 11eck ~ ~ t poll - ~ ~~~w~~~? ~ - w # t .. .,-,.:,t..B~:ei;:f! • f!=...:t:l-::IJ#t1C<J-at::o/ ,OP•uoµ> &o=il•~ Both major ~ - r 1 . ) • • , _ UA._ -fi::t~~ · · lele i ion -~--o ~ ~ ~ a:J:i4 t«ix t on i g h t . · · cl i max f{-- one of t he m o ~ l ~ ~ i t e Ho11 e_ rtt1 ea•• o/ 1 Pi eat lUSfot)- ~ ; ; : - Los Angeles, , ) " h e ~ / spe,it most of I he day irtually i ' ncommtuiicado - getting /~-& re a d y for a plan ,i e d four - hour t e l e t hon . 4P pea r "4 in A :14~~' public only once - and then briefly. , ~ -...o7£,;-. ~ hopes for peace in Vietnam ~ r e becoming "quite discouraging." Add i ng that on l) a n i R e publtc•n ~ administration - •• '4' pre ent a pot e nt i al "diplomatic d i saster" at Paris. J.ffl# ~ ~ Ii a Ii e rs e atzt:..- - Hub er t H,,mphr ey""i r:•• • i •• ~SM£!:;'!!~,~ ~fornia' fort electoral ole ; be f ore b g ~ nning ,-,epo- preparatio,i LOS ANGELES - 2 for his own four-hour television appeal. ~ Jilflll Ifie Uinj • Humphrey 1 releasing perhaps Ills last position paper of the campai~~sling South Vietnam ,4' for its tlireatened boycott of 11a:S. Paris peace talks. Asserting that the United Slates sllo11l.,,.ake it plain - "we intend to procee~l,e negotiations in any case." Humphrey adding: "Tlte ; foreign policy of the United Slates and the /ale of .,,,_ yo,u,g Americans in Vietftam .. ••• sho,dd aftd will be tie term ift e d by t lae President of t lte Uftil ed States a•tl ,aot by any foreign .» gov ernm e•I. " SAIGON FOLLOW LOS ANGELES ----------------------------- Be t lia t as it may - So tit h Viet name s e President Thieu remained adamant today. Refu . sing to send a negotiating team to Paris - for expanded talks with the Viet Cong. Tliieu declaring: "Nobody can force us to do that. " Meanwhile, presidential aides were predicti•g a turn-out of about six thousand - for a governme•t spo,ssored rally tomorrow at Saigon's City Hall. P•rt,ose of tlae rally - 11Je are told - to stress SoMtla Viehaa•ese "self-deter•i,aatio,s i,a political affairs." - - - PARIS FOLL O JV SAIGON --------------------- The situation was aggravated slill f,,rther today in Paris - iuith the arrival of Viet Cong negotiators headed by a woman guerrilla. Madame Nguyen Thi Bi111t threatening, in effect, a fight to the finish. Said she: "Unless the American governmeat gives up its ag•ressive aims" - unless it abandons Saigon and abandons its ",aeo-colonialist domination in South Vietnam - tlae,e tlae Viet,eamese people will pursue their struggle with t,erseverarace ,ottil fi,eal stat.m-.11.1 victory." Later, U S a,ed Nortla Viehaa,,.ese raegotiators Jf ft ,,-- llinti,ag at a possible pos t~o,ae• e,e t - - of Wed,aesday 's sclaed•led openi,eg of four-power talks. Bolla sides admitting t laa t "as of loraigll I" - t lier e are "•o fir• t,la,as" - for proceedi,eg ., Ila the e%pa,aded ,,. eeliNg. - AMMAN Showdown in Jordan. Tough young King Hussein - verstts Syrian-backed Arab commandoes. The latter consisting mainly of Palestine refugees - angered over Hussein's alleged "soft" stand on ,1,.,-1 /srae~peniJ« fire on the King's loyal troops today " - h1 the capital city of Amman. Using women and ••t•n-- children as human shields - to protect themselv•• from count er -attack. Howeva ~ uss~a°T,.tlllf the violence • ,.,rf -"' by clamping an immediate curfellJ on the entire c i t y . ~ ,r,i~•" up tl#r ,. with tanis, armored troop ~~ carriers and ~~Bedouin irregulars. Later talti,ag A ,.( to Radio Amman - calli,ag the terrorists "criminals, traitors, bougllt iJtdividaals." Further telling tlae commandoes to attack Israel themse Ives - if they are really so hot for revenge. Addi,ag that Jorda,a's Patience with the terrorists - llas just "ru,a o•t." TURIN ----- The death toll from tllat Italian flood ' --~ and resulting landslides - now nearing a hundred. With scores more - still missing. Most of the casualties - in the Valle Mos so near Turin. U.S. Air Force helicopters ~ s h i n g relief suf>f>lie s lo the stricken <1r11a today. Eve• as a steady rain continued to fall - over most of t1orthern Italy. This already the worst ' flood disaster it1 Italy - since Ni11eteen Sixty-Six. - - w t ~ ~ ~ ifl Vet1ice ,.{ •orst in a hut1dre years; will, tl,e city's ~....,_",.,,, famed SI. Mark's square ~ under five feet of •aler, :::-;:•o ~ •f real ,..,J,.;i/AUI•••• tile art treasures of Ve11ice ,~~ llave •• fa., been spared.- ••lite tlo ■ • •~ Florence two years ago. PLEA SANT VILLE Next up - a story from ~ . . Pleasantville, New Jersey - a,rylhing but pleasant. Police invesligators canvassing the Pleasantville area today - tryi,ag to fi,ad out who put the razor blaJ.es in a dozen or so apples; apples tltat were later handed 011t to Hallo"1'e'en "trick or treaters" - injuring at least two. A Tltis the second year - of Ila~ Soulia Jersey . . . . ~ Adeadly apples. Wlticlt accounts for a special law t,assed last week - makh1g such offe•ses pu,aishable by up lo a Y••r i,a Jail. A t,olice official observi,ag tllat So•tll Jersey - "evide•tly . . s •ore tlla• its sllare of live Hall owe 'e" witclaes a,ad laobgobli,ts. " WASHINGTON --------- - - - - From Wasliington comes a charge tod■ :, - that Americans are again ge tti,zg too •« fat b e cause of too little exercise. This - according to the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council; ,ohich, therefore, recommends a reduction of o,re hu,adred calories - in the average daily food i,atake of Ille so-call• "reference ma11" - also the "reference woma,a." The object - u,e are told - to remai• tlae same weigllt you were at age twe,aty-tavo. The ,autritio,a board notiag tllat by tlle,a - · most t,eot,le ltave already reaclted "t,laysical maturity;" with any f•rtlaer add~tiofls i,a •eight - usually "lateral groavtll." The war•i•g - · laeace, obvioa,s. Where ' health is concer,aed - ~ football - - a "lateral " i,a tlae e,ad %0Re ca• be ..c»?■ ffJ daflgerous. }1~ - -~~~~ 1\/11 . . . - ' W ' ~ ~ - : . Z t N J - - ~ NEW_YORK By the i ay - the American Communist Party was also getting in its last l i cks today. In New York - Party Leader Gus Rall noting that the Communists .,ill appear on the ballot again this year - in Mi,ueesota - 7&~r=r als~ WashingtoJt. Predicting, caftdidates - will soon appear on the ballots of all fifty states. "After Tuesday" - said Gu; Rall "tlee most important question will be- where do we go from laere?" .