CONGRESS December ll, l967 KLZ - Den v er The Nin e th U. S . C on gr es s - off an d run n in g today . In i Is "g e ta way we e k ; " begin n in g an exp e c t e d f i v e It e c tic day s before adjournment - by handing President Johnson his greatest legislative victory of the entire session. The House giving final Congressional approval - to a new Four-Billion Dollar, Two -year extension of the war on poverty. Th is the larges t au th or i z a t ion e v e r - for the th re e - ye a -old poverty program. Also the first Great Society program this year - to get more money than last year. And coming from a House - often hostile to the President, wllere four weeks ago - the entire poverty program was in grave doubt. The measure now enroute to the White House - for the President's signature. VIETNA/J -2 b y fr y ing to get Hanoi to the peace table, in . .:;tead of trying to foment trouble - over alleged U.S. military threats against Cambodia and Laos. The statement further emphasizing ; "we seek no wider war!" The Russians presumably want us to be involved in an interminable war! PRESIDENT The nation's number one newlyweds - Major and Mrs. Chuck Robb - happily secluded today in the Wrgin Islands. Meanwhile, here at home, publicution of an interview - tuf,ed on the e v e of the Robb's White House Wedding. In it - the President saying he has been barely able to control his temper; when provoked by false or damaging pres s a c c o u n ts - ab o u t e it h er of d a ulJ hers . "I ha v en ' t written an y letters yet" - like Truman - said LBJ - "But I have bristled and choked myself. 11 How does he feel - as Commander in Chief - about the fa c t th a t I, is n e w s on -in -la w w i l l s o on b e going to war ? Said the President: ''it is pretty hard to appreciate enough a man who is willing to give hi,ife for your liberty?" As for the differences between his two daughters - the President saying: 11 1 see in Lynda her Mother - everytime she w i · it es a check . I see in Luci her grandmother - everytime she can't find her check book - and doesn't know th a t the balance is . 11 Does th a t make Luc i the a l l-Jtm e r i can girl? KOYNA NAGAR From India comes word toda y - of a 1'1ajor earthquake. And not in the Himalayas where they often have them. Tit ts one ranging from Bombay in the North - almost the entire length of the Western Coast of that vast sub-continent of Hindus tan. Hardest hit - the toNJn of Koyna Nagar; about two hundred miles Southeast of Bombay - near the ep i ce11ter of the quake. First reports saying the town was almost raaed - w i th a b o u t one h u 11 d re d dead - a ti.· o us and injured . Trouble of a different kine . in Central India, in ■; ;a 1 Uttar P r adesh State, where a mrb of demonstrators toc.. '-' Y burned shops and attacked police - in protl',t against a government• bill to re~ai11 English as an official language in India. In this wild day of violence some three-hundred were injured. CAIRO Arab Fo reign Ministers meeting in Cairo - came up today with Plans f or a Fifth. Ar b summit conference; to be held Jan u a r Y Se v e n teen th - in Ra bat , Moro cc o . Pu r po s e : To plan for united action - in the next stage of their conf'rontation with Israel. At the same time - Premie'r Zayyen of Syria arriving today in Paris. The Militant Arab leader meeting with Frencll Premier Georges PompiJou for a Jive-day round of talks, even as Israel recalled its Ambassador from Paris - for consultations on De Gaulle's recent courting of the Arnb bloc. While on Cyprus - special U. N. representative Gunnar Jarring of Sweden getting ready to begin his role as Middle East mediator, planning to leave tomorrow for Beirut - to begin "initial contacts" with Arab countries and Israel. CRIME From the T e xas White House - a renewed plea today for speedy approval of that safe street and crime control act - cur re n t l y p ending in C on gr es s . The President asserting tl,a at "mounting evidence of its need - can be ignored only ~ o u r peril." This following release of Justice Department figures - showing a sixteen per cent increase in crime during the first nine months of this year. LONDON From London - the story today of a sad sack rugby football team - made ufJ of U.S. Navy men stationed in Britain. I The Americans closing out a disastrous season - i n a final burst of scoring - though not their own . Losing to the London Fire Brigade - by a tally of thirty-five to nothing . When the final massacre was finally ended - the Navy's Captai,a John Rathburn leading his team off the field bloody but unbowed. "True - we lost eleve~T twelve games ! I - but we won the big one" - said he - "we beat the U.S. Marine Corps. "' On the other hand when a Dartl.,,,outh rugby team ~ in v ad e d Br i ta in th e y won a l l or a l m o s t al l th e i r g am es , W arrn. Ma y b e the s e Na v y lads ■ . e v er go t a way fro m th e i r s ea l e gs ! TOULOUSE At Toulouse, France - a long awaited moment today, with the French and British unveiling for the first time - the Concorde - world's first supersonic airliner. The Concorde - nearl)' two-hundred -feet long. Designed to carry up to one-hundred-forty passenge r s on non-stop flights between Europe and New York; at a speed of Mach Two - about Fifteen-Hundred miles a,i hour. Literally - faster than a speeding bullet. The plane expected to make its maiden flight - late in February; which means it can be expected in regular service probably as early as Nineteen-Seventy-One.