} VIBTIAJII On the war front - Vietnam - the new · ~r ~ continues~ ~ ~ I d - )_ ~ . · • U.S. intell gence reportlaB a drop in the Communist A ;, infiltration rate - o its lowest level in four years. With fewer than a thousand North Vietnamese troops - said to have entered the 5o t h daring the month of June; as compared with a monthly average of nearly eight thousand earlier this year - anfpwards of twelve thousand last year. •U•e ~ an advance report on the weekly cultlty ~ s toll~ setYb:g Aaerican combat deaths for the past seven deaths - at their lewest figure 1n more than two months. ~ M6 •hat does lb all mean? "iw11 , lt ts certalnl, f( - 1, ~re11&ture - to assume this is a de-escalation on North • Vietnam 1 s part" - said one American/\etflulal. But ,hen he added: "The significance of these figures - !! being stud1e1." WHI'l'E HOUSE Here at home - on the econom c front - President Nixon steps up his attack on that persistent "dollar drain." Ordering tod , y a reduction of twenty thousand - 1n the number of American military and civilian personnel 1n non-essential Jobs overseas. Saying the Affected persons will be brought U.S. balance of payments - expe'Cted to run about Seventy-Five Million a year. In the same vein - a new ,~reement today between Wash ngton and Bonn - we hP r. · one in which West Germany reportedly agrees to offset - about eighty per cent of the cost of ma1nta1ng U.S. troops there. That cost, incidentally - running~bout One Billion a year. nn y - with th t o l' t, e · n l o t own or pollo- l n Jut bu the U. pc wor k r· a n moon port to ay . ) way - h p ur te ins to c wat ch r - warmi 11 o ve 1· reatin - nth wor ds o f a t onaut Mi ke Collin - a "tre men d ou hu bbub." Hubbub or no th ou h - the three moonmen procee~ today w th a full-scale takeo ff rehearsal. Mi ss ion control at Houston - supervising the test; just a5 if they were actually setting out - on the first leg of their historic moon-landing expedition. By the way - a f ootnote to the flight of Apollo-Eleva~ Space officials ~od&y calling the spacecra f t' s lunar landing module - man's fi rst true spaceliner; in essence, an airplane t urned inside out - with nothing in its design to give it any aerodynamic s ymmetry. As one space scientist put it: 11 Why think about air - when you're designing a craft to travel only II in the v acuum of space ? 'KREMLIN M ea nw hile, Apollo - Eight C ornman er Frank Borman - was ...,.__ . ~~ ~ ~n'43lHF~~~ms~ today at th e Kr e mlin. He and his wi f e Susan charmin , a mo other - So v i et resident P6dgorny; who arran ed f or this meetin with a U.S. astronaut - in a setting f rien dly relaxed, almost unique f or the Soviet capital. At one point - the President offering Mrs. Borman a So"tTiet cigaret; cm- then t:fff. reached across - and lit it. At which Colonel Borman observed, in effect: "You'll spoil her." And they all laughed. C IBO Fr m iro co m e a re ort ~ - t ll ln o an A rab rift rther and fa rther tG-=~re-+e,,~ ~ ~ the point wher e Egypt 1 expect ed to become oon - the f i f t h Arab s tate to establ i s h full diplomatic relations with Communist East Germany. This - we are told - a direct result o f the breakdown of Big Four peace talks on the Middle East. With Egypt's Colonel Nasser said to be incensed - at what he calls U.S. "blind support" of Israel. At the same time - Syria was renewing its appeal to the Kremlin for more military aid. Including a f ew additional planes, no doubt - to replace the seven lost in that dogfight yesterday with Israeli jets. ELAS E lf u 8. li - r e i e n t Ni x on m e t today with vi siti E m eror aile Se l ass i e o f Et h iopia . D i sc u ss ! - th reside nt said later - "not only relations between the United St at es and Ehtiopia ; but also the agony o Nigeria and Bia - and the problems o f the Mideast w h ich are so much ln our minds." As for the se v enty-six-year-old Lion of Judah - he, too, called it a worthwhile meeting. Ending with an invitation to the President - to come visit Ethiopia some time soon. CHUR w k -lon met n o · Euro ea Ca t hol c bishop - in ses on ain to y at Chur, wit zerland . There changing its sta n d - or t he sec on d time in as man y ay s. R ef using to meet with a roup of newly-arri v ed liberal priests~ demanding church reforms on celibacy, birthjontrol and so on. A spokesman f or t h e bishops saying: "No one has a right to f orce" a change - in the conference agenda. Adding that many of the bishops would have stayed at home - had they had a ..-ad v ence knowledge of such planned confrontation. BO TON The ca e o DDT n secti c de - prese n ted orcefully o day at a m eeti n o th World He alth O rganization in Boston. WHO Directer-General M .C. C ndau asserting that the world ~ "U. lUJC cannot a ff ord to outlaw DDT - as many nee±th faddist-a A... I\ have urged. Cannot af f ord to do so - said he - because DDT has proven the most effe~tive deterrent to the World's most disabling disease; namely - malaria. Dr. Candau going on to say - that WHO is trying even now to find a substitute for DDT. One that will not accumulate in the en v ironment - one that will also prove ✓ / cheap enough for widespread use. In the meantime - DDT is "irreplaceable" - said he. Adding that any "limitation on its use - would give rise to grave health problems in the majority of the world's developing nations." And so - an A -O.K. for DDT from WHO. And now - here's I , , Warren, PD Q . e CBS Radio s tation K-W-F-T in Wi c hita F 11 , T e xa s , today its t h irtie t h anniversary on the air. ~ 1 lZ. ~K-W-F-T.- and now..,_. f1.Dal item. w W i nner o t h i ye ar' ow er u f f D erby - a C li f ornia cut y - Mr . Mara Culp o f N e wpor t Beach. So named by udges t o d ay - on the basis o f a time-power ratio. l!ttft second-place - Mrs. Marian Banks o f Sn Diego. fndeed;The irst - all ~ ~'""" """ -t6.7 from the Golden State. ~ the White House - with fifty or so who also finished - sharing tea tfiia e.l'tePfto=m. with fellow Californian · Pat Nixon. LTP.1969.07.09i.pdf LTP.1969.07.09ii.pdf