FORT MCPHEARSON In the court martial of Captain Ea,·nest Medh1a at Fort McPltearson, Georgia a ve-rdict of not guilty today; freeing the captain of all clta-rges in co••ect,on •itlt tl1e My Lai incident. Tire five officer Jury tllat heard Ille case - tating less titan an hour to re•der its Judgment. Captain Ea,-,aest Medi•a tonite - ones again a free man. UNITED NATIONS Al the United Nations - a surprising display of s14pporl today - fo'r Nationalist China. TIie World body electing as one of its neao Vice PYesidents - the U N delegate from Taipei; who received in all, seventy-thYee votes; seven mo-re than a majority. This is - maybe - a big boost - for America's new l•o China proposal officially offered to the U N today - in the form of two companion resolutions. Still another big boost - the fact that Japan agreed al the last minute, to co-sponsor the U S move. So the stage Is no• set for a showdo•n-- starting •Ith debate OctobeY Elgltteefftlt and a firaal vote soon to follow. ADD U N As you may have heard tlaere have bee,. a series of reports -- indclath,g that Red China may be In the midst of some great Internal crisis. Just what - 11obody seems lo know. WHITE HOUSE FOLLOW U N A #1tlot•d Ilea· The Wlaite House aano••c·l4, hd■ J that Presidet1t Nixon wUl meet 1111111 Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko -- next week al the Wliite House. For Gf'omyko - wlio is llere to attend tlae opet1it1g of the U N - this to j'oUow talks •Illa U S Sec1'retary of State WUUa,i,a Rogers. Stated goal a mutMal reduction of Na.to , a,ad Warsa111 pact Jo-,ces - i,e Europe. PARIS Paris agalft - the Commuftist s i d ~ ~ ~ t m p ea c e I a l k s « I u dD :, a,." o '"' c e d pl a n s t o boy co tt tomorro10's regulaYly scheduled bargaini•g session. This in - • • - protest against recent massive U S air strikes -- directed at e,aemy targets in Cw••• ■ JuJ North Vietnam. As for our side, a U S spokesman suggesH,ag - well, If t,.at's the 10ay they want it - so be it. But . . , he added tlaat the U S hopes the Communists will use tlais i•terlud..: - "to seek instructio•s permitting them to aba,adon their propaga,ada posture;" a,ad ••1r1ea,. - "get df"'" to work." U MINH FOLLOW PARIS There 111as a resumption of heavy figlttiNg today - ha the U Minh forest, VietNam's "Forest of DarkNesst' Saigon troops - 111itli tlie backiNg of off-s1tore fire f'rom tl,e U S Destroyer Epperson killhag al least thirty-five. Tlais raisiNg e,aemy losses i,a tlae U Ml•la over the pas' 111eek - lo 111ell over six huNdred; as agal,ast gover,ameNt losses put at a li1oult · ~d a,ad t111e•ty- five. SA JG ON FOLL O W U Min la On lhe Poll ti cal front - South Vietnam's p,-es id ent T laie u was "11 campaigning today -, at Pleiku in the Cefllral Highlands. About half tlae members of the South Vietnamese Senate - mahaly those •ho support Tltieu ~ bu . sy else•laere. Tlais pavi,ag tlae •ay -- for a ,pecial sessio,e of 11,e Se•ate; •here a motio• •as passed -- urgi,eg . _ . JL Thieu to cancel th., upcomi,eg Presidential election ~ Ja• "'1 call.tar for a •e• contest u,eder the auspices ~ of tlae speaker of the Senate. ••• observers I ~ s a y ~ "Not Ulre ly." COMMONS In the British House of Commons - the start of n special t,oo day debate - on the ass: ewl crisis •••-•llil••ta I in Nortltern lrela,ed. Lead off spealler: Britlsll Home Secretary Regi,eald Mauldi,eg -- layi,eg it all o,a the line. Asserti,eg that "force must be J) fL_.J. fl de/eat e"' .t~ltere can be no com promise ,oil Ii ~ violence;" a:,l;a.l•W• flerlfirl,( that Brill s It troops will remain in north •r,e J,-ela,ed - "so long as tltey at"e . . . Needed ht support of la,o and ordeY." Bf:1,1-'AST FOLLOW COMMONS 7' h i s - .f o I I , J u i "~ a II o I It c r d" .\ ' of , , i u I e II c c w i I It ... II i p C ,. ti 11 ti b O Ill b i II ~ a I I ll (' k S , O II c w o '""' e d B r i I i s It s o I ,Ii t' r " '"' a c i , , i Ii a 11 c · r i I i ca 1 I·' ' i 1t J u r c d • One of tile bombitl~ al/flcks - al ·o clnmagi1tg lite U S Co,isulale i ,r B ,. l fa s I • -- - - ti hlootl _ , , 111 t' s . / tJ cl" . \' - i ,, I h e F ,. enc /J s / )' / , .• Will, t1 pair of con 1 1 i c I s - s e , i z i 11 g ' " guard "11 d n pr i s o ,z ,, 111• s e as hos/ages ; lu1rricadi11g themsel v es - inside the prison 11ospiJal . • T Ji er e - s l i ti i n g I It e I It r o a l of Ut e g1tard and -"-'ta, llle,i wlle,1 additional girnrds finally broke it1 - also slitting the n . ur~e's lltroat killing l11e,n bot It • . All I his just four miles from Colomb ey- ~ ~ q l i ~ fo - rmer co1,nlry home of C:lliillFIII <416 DeGa11lle. ....... - \AT/CAN , .. r U Ill I I, C l "/ i C ll 11 i 1l Jl O Ill C - ,, . . S ' " / e Ill •• II/ Io day II o I " r l d re~ s c d Io - b II I II c 1 1 C' ,. I I, e 1 cs s i ,, I cud c ti for - I h e · N . A R oman Catholic relief organizalion - repo1·1i11.g /Ital strife l orn East Pak isla 11 now fa ces "en c o f /h e worst fami,zes in modern 11istor y ." Noting ti,a/ U N specialized agencies - have also said lhe ~ same; -f._ so far - nothing has been done about i l. Tile Vatican adding that "urgent action must be taken - lo a v oid the population of East Pakistan being decimated." Sot • i,·I Commu11isl P11,•ly Cl1irflai11 Lco 11 itl Bre.zlt11('t ' - u t • itdlor today al Bel,:rocLe, ,111,:osla ia ; - recei1 ittg a :roy,11 uelc:ome a11d ctn embrace - from Ju,:oslal'ia's Prt'side11/ Tiio.B11/ Tito stressed i11 later ,·emarks Iha/ Russia11 and Jugoslovia,i cooperalio11 " · is based on eqllality a11d mulual respect." Adding I/Jal Jugoslavi• remains ''an iinaligned country." Jnci . denlally, Brezhnev's airport reception - drew less llian half Ille crowd lhal greeted President . Nixo11 wll.en lie visited B . elgrade. Observers noting, moreover /hat what little applaHse lliere was - "mostly for Tito." Nf:IIPORT NRIIS A I N c w /> o r I , N (' u s , l i r I! i 11 i a , Fi ,. s I L a d ·' ' p a I Ni x o II I o d" .,· <" h ,. i ,,; I c n c d n " e w 11 u c I e a r p o w e r e ti }! 11 id e d missil e .f'ri}!alc -- Ille U S S California. Reaching 011 t nnd s mas lting a cha m pagnc boll le across l he bow - just as /he ship began lo slip away from lier. Navy Secretary Jolit1. Cltafee -- also present,._-- txpressi,ig ltope lliat "tltis magnificent man of war" as lie put it - "will earn no ballle scars; and will never use her missiles - except for the practice required to lrfl keep her sharp and credible; for it wottld be a tragedy of /he first order" - said he - ll•+•aw "were site et:er to fire lier weapons in anger. " - SAN DIEGO T h i s 11 , ' . , I f ,. o III Sa II Di e Ko - a i: II i l I i II g i I c 111 • JJ r • T h <> 111 " •" Ou e n of I h c Na I i ,,,,,, 1 Sc i e 11 c c F o 11 11 d" I i o 11 re/Jorfi11K Iha/ lhc ca,·tlt's flue1·aKe /empe,·alure has d,•oppccl subslanliall:v si11ce Ni11ctee11 Forty; with lite wo · ,•ld heading for auolher ice age. lnc ide11tally , glaciologist P 1·ofessor Maynard Malcolm Miller of Michigan Slate made Ille sa,ne prediction two years ago. Does lltis mea11 for us all lo 1•ttslt ou/ at1d buy fur coats? Says Dr. Owens: No hurry. He predicls il will be five tltousand years before lite ice man c om . ellt. Bul as yoi,r wife always sa,,s -- "wliy wait 'till /he las/ minute." C£f'<j7'R \L .\HE . RIC\ R e 11 e " r .1111 r r i ,. an e Ir e 11 c a II d H II r 1 · i ca" e O Ii , i a a r ,: I h e s a 111 e s / o r m - w i I /J I w o di ff e 1 ' e" I 1u1111 e s . W /, y ? Tlt e W ea /her Bu,·eau ·u31s ii was ll11rric,111e lreue nl its birth i11 l11e South Alln:nlic. Tlte11, lite s /01•111, cro sse d lhe c . en/1•,,l American p e ninsula on out into the .Pacific - . where t11e3 1 14se different code names. So - Bill - il's goodbye lre11e - hello Olivia. (Bill Marlin) - McAlle11, Texas - a l es limoninl clinner i11 //ouo · r of Texas Co11!-fress1ua11 Eli1:io "l(ikr," de la Gfl1,za: "'- (I ma11 who u 01•//ed him se lf up J,·om"- shoeshine bo_l , .- m - a _ ,Jt.a$ UtlUI - 01 · - !fT6-fl , _ .. Te 8,, e Vt-. B ti I I he man w I, 0 (,A.+-·u:_. , i.-~ l.'.o ·- ,-'(~~" • c. L : ~ ~~.' ~~ - · really slolt the show If ex Presiclenl L y ndon Baines Joh1zso11 who was greeletl on his a·rri-val - by a band playing "Hello Lyndon." fD:tivt1r,;g bji h,ftg i!Mr -d--:::::: .d ct. A=wa ·y;,.en - L B J deliver~R ll Drlvj. speech in ,,raise of Ille Co-ngressma11. Adding: "A man i,z p , ublic life needs a lillle appreciation n.ow trnd - ~ 1...-B . ~ I\ then•- I speak j'rom experience./'' ~