ATHENS ------- Turmoil in Greec e . The story coming in today - in bits and Piec e s ) . -'rell i ng of a revolt - against the ruling Greek mili t ar y junta. A revolt led by King Constantine - U'ilh the backing of army and air force units. Beyond that - nothing certain. Radio Larissa reporting on one hand - t'hat the King has established a new go v ernment at Naousa on the capital. ~ Athens - preparatory to a march Radio claiming on the other ~ hand - that the coup has been broken - ~ the King 13" /\- in flight. VIETNAM --------- War news fro,fl Vietnam - the stor y today of a daring surpri , e attack aimed at Saigon itself. With North Vietnamese regulars reportedly penetrating in force - lo within twenty-five miles of the South Vietnamese c a P it a l . C l o s e s t t hey ha v e y e t c om e -" t o s tr i k in g a m a j or b l ow a t t he go v er nm e n t n er v e - c e n t er. ~ g NI y t , q ~ I he "R o ad t o Saigon " w a s b l o ck e d by 7 f ii ht in g m e n of t he U S __!!!) e n t y - fifth Inf a n try Di v i s i on - and they ;aaJ weren't about to give way. The Americans turning back a furious "human ua ve" assault - forcing .....,_ the enemy troops to beat a hasty retreat. The planned Saigon attack - confirmed by documents found on Fife. thirty-nine bodies tl,a:,e left behind. BRUSSELS Mo r e on t lz e w ar - f rom B ru s s el .· , w h e r e S e c r e tar y of Stale D e an Rusk toda y told Nato Foreign Ministers - the United States would gladly stop bombing North Vietnam, if onl y th e r e were some e v idence - that useful talks would follo w; i f onl y there w ere some e v idence - that the enemy w ould no/ take partisan ad v antage of a bomb i ng halt. As , , et though - Hanoi has given no such assurances - said Dean Rusk. Adding - as he has before - that "the United States cannot be expected to stop half the war." Vietnam not wi thstanding - the Secretar y voicing optimism over the world situation in general. Citing specifically the success of those "Kennedy round" trade agreements•- also recent progress toward a Latin American I Common Market - plus agreement on one treaty banning nuclear weapons from space -- and near-agreement on another banning the spread of nuclear w eapons - not to mention peaceful solution of that recent Cyprus dispute. BRUSSELS-2 --------- Th is a reminder that perhaps we aren't doing qu . ite as badly - as some of us ometimes think we are. COMMON -------- Also in Brus se ls - a reported c all today for a dramatic meeting of all Common Market nati10ns - except France. The parle y said to be set for tomorrow -- in a BelgilUll chateau. Purp o se -- to lay the groundwork for a united front - in the coming showdown battle with France o v er British membership in the Trade Group. The five non-French member~aid to fear that continued stalling on the British application - could well plunge the Common Market into a serious crisis. lxe• Belgian Fo rrei gn Minis ter P i erre Harmel, for one, quoted as saying it is now •eees• necessar y "to p i n the bl am e for fa ii u re a nd any subsequent c r is is - exactly where it belongs." Meaning, of course -- m8 DeGaulle. LANSDOWNE The late F r ancis Ca r d i nal Spellman - s ure l y a k i nd, gentle, grac i ous man. ls i t possible then - that he once ser v ed as a secret agent for the U S government? R i d i culous as i t sounds - Hitl e r seemed to think so. At least, that's the cont e ntion today of Dr. Robert Kempner - of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania; former U SChief Deput y Prosecutor - at the Nuremberg war trials. Basing hi s contention - on hit her to u n p u . b 1 i s he d Nazi s e c re t police repo r ts. The w a y Dr. Kempner tells it - Hitler considered Cardinal Spellman a secret agent for the late Presi dent Roosevelt; w ith h i s chief function - "to promote ant i.;. German Catholic propaganda" throughout Europe. Hitler ,,,,,, even assigning the Gestapo - "f;'!:;,,:::1,:-:::t ~ c,.,\Cardinal Spellman - says Dr. Kempner. Adding that Hitler's ult i mate aim was to use the supposed evidence - "to name men of his own choosing as the Popes of Spain, Italy, France LANSDOWNE - 2 ------------ G e rmany and other Catholic countries." · tt]'ell.f In a way - H i ller's fears based on solid ground. - A ,) ,,A"or Cardinal Spellman made no secret - of his personal anti-Nazi sentiments. Indeed, he procla i med them - at e v er y opp or ' u n i t) . But t he very idea - t ha t behind that cherubic face lay a secret double-oh-seven -- incredible! - .. NEW DELHI The death toll f r om that lttd i an earthquake of Monday - P e r h a p s ~ worse titan at first believed. New Delhi today reporting - ~:';,undred and eigltly known dead. 7Joeor chiefly itt the tolfJn of Koyttattagar - J near the center of the quake. l t t c , , r ~ ~ However, . . , gover11meflt s a d d ~ that at least five hundred ttearby villages - are still buried in rubble. With additio11al afters/tocks yes te rda _ , , and today , '1/f making the area a veritable No Man's Land. In view of this - rescue ex.perts predict.,,,,._ tlae final toll m a y ~ two huxdred and fifty - maybe more. ll In addition to thousands - injured. M-king this the w or s t ear t h qua k e in a U fl/ Hindus tan - - s inc e t he ear I y eighteen hundreds . }'t\i,4.t"- ti9-- ~ ~ :00 . • ~~ ~ ' r ~ I I ~ n-1L H~ ~ ---~~-r· WASHINGTON On the Labor front - the US unemployment rate for No v ember - down four-tenths of a per cent. Sharpest ~ one-month decline - in the past six years~cording/o figures announced today - by the US Labor Department. The improvement pushing tl1e jobless rate - baclt to three point nine per cent - •• same as it was - last Jul, ,. Government officials crediting the gain - principally to the end of strikes; especially - that Ford strilte. Also a marked increase - in jobs for women; a reflection they say - of increased business activity - marking tlae advent of the holiday season. This next - fr om the L on don Zoo. A y e a r - end r eport - m the annual "take" at the •¥ elephant house: where v isitors are always getting too close to the pachyderms - trying to feed tlaem. Items snatched b y ~ h e lephants - p!J~astil ~ainted ~ ~ ' " t o ~ ~ 0 - ~ ~- - ~ - including - - fourteen coats/, twelve }andbags - ten cameras - eight gloves - six railway tickets.- ••ft-1« ◄ • f ~ ~ ' z . . J+-;; ";o ~~ ,. ~.~~}~ NEW YORK A fiftal item - comes today from New York. Wlaere a rare Poem by Abraham Lincoln - and a rare letter from George Washingto,s - have been sold at auction for five tllousand apiece. The Lincoln poem - as follows: "My childhood's home I see again And still, as memory crowds my brai11, There's Pleasure i11 it , too ! " The Washington letter - written in Seve11tee11 -K.J. Ninety-Seven -- after MF "f'ulll~t>/ o ■ r C u a a ~ llad retired for the last time to Mount Vernon. In it - the ex-President voi)ing a hope that "Mrs. w,, shi11gton and myself" - as he put it -- will soon be able to do some thing that "has not been done by us within the last twenty years; that is - set down to dinner by ourselves}" ~ ~ - T C - . , ~ 40vv1 ( ? ~ . · -