August ll, 1912 - Friday GOOD EVENING : Federal agents , here in New York , have arrested a twenty-seven year old man, Andrew Topping, and charged him with plotting to assassinate the President. For the story, here is Chris Kelly in New York. VIETNAM 1,i Vietnam-the end o f an ef'a . The U.S. Command in Saigon , toda y .:,rdering the withdrawal o f America's last ground combat unit still in Vietnam . The men of the Thif'd Battalion of the Twenty-Fif's t I ,cf an tr y Divis ion - h ea ding home, at las t, like all the rest : nearl y half-a-million, in all - who were p,-eviously pulled back o v ef' the past three-and-a-Ital/ yeat"s. PROVIDENCE On the campaign trail a public apology from George McGovern at Providence, Rhode Island, where the Se · nator apologized to State Chairman Larry McGarry over the division of delegates at the recent Democratic Convention. It was all the result of a "lt:1gitimate misunderstanding, s imp le and hones t " - s aid Se n a tor Mc Gove r · n , would now as ks the Sta le Chair.man's sup port and confidence. " ~ l But when Chairman McGarry was asked If hef,iuppor , t McGovern, he said pointedly "'Yeah - one thousand per cent." NEW YORK Later, when Senator McGovern arrived here in New York he was asked whether the withdrawal of the last ground troops in Vietnam will remove the w : ar as a campaign issue. He replied emp6atically no, saying : "Have the people forgotten already - the little children running from American bombs?" STATE For the Republica,is - Secretary of State William Rogers, front and center today; attempting to refute a charge - from Sargent Shri,,er; that the Prestde . nt missed a "historic opportunity" for Pe · ace in Viet 1 nam - back in Nine teen-Sixty-Nine. Not true - said Secretary Rogers; he said: A chec , k of communicat'ions from Mr. Shriver, when he was Ambassador to France - shows , ,.o such evidence; Mr. Shriver is engagi , ng in, "political fantasy," said the Secretary of State, who then lashed out - at form , er Atlorney Gener . al Ramse y Clark; for statements he made about alleged U.S. bombing of in - nocent civilt.ans in No'rlh Vietnam. Secretary Rogers said: "I am s . hocked - it's beyond belief - it's contemptible." 'A . BITE HOC-SE Sc c 1· c I a 1· .,· o 1 B o 11 !-- in R G c o 1· ll r • R o m , 1 l , Ea!-lcrn Pc11n , l,· an i o loda ., i,rgcd P1·cs i de,rl ]\ ixon lo make Q, 0 I h C 1· f> l' ,. ~ 0 '10 J I i I I IO I h (! 0 ,. C' a - •• O / fl e (' OT Ji e. I p ,., ~ b , h I C' n o m <' n t : •· h c c a " s c I h c "p e n p I c n c e d I o b e c on , . i • c c d the Pre s irlrnt ca,·cs . ., Then - a mcetin~ u·;tl, reporters ,,. 11 <' ,. r S c c ,. c t a r . ,· R o m n c y s o i d h e u • o u I d I i II c t o I ea ,. c • · s Cabinet r,ost' - to dc • r • otc hin self ''in a p1·ir · otc cabacit.,· Io f> ,, fJ I i c · p 1· ob I cm . '' But he odd e d - I he Pr cs id en I has f> , ~ 1 · s II a d c d h i m t o • I a ~ on I c m p o 1· fl 1· i I .,· . A n d ll s .f u r a S th e campaign L c · onc e 1·ned - Georg e Romcn ., said : "I c,.·pect I u !-- 11 f1 p o 1· I I h l' P 1· c s i d e n I - I h a i · e 11 o q u cs I i o n a b c u t h i. ~ u fJ c • 1·; or; I_, • •· TYNDALL Al TJ 1 ndall Ai1· Force Base i,i Flo1•ida - the r·erdict , toda J' of g11ill:\I : Air Force Master Sergeant Walter Perkins - c , o w i c t e ti of s I e o .1i 11 g m i Ii ta r ~, s e c re t s t ii !1 t I, e in ten ti o n of passi11g them to tire R11ssians. But the Sergeant's sentence - was set at only three yea,·s; alth0Hgl1 he co11ld h,iv . e recei,·ed - as much as tuent · y -six yea:r s . His mother exclaiming: "Thank God this is Hea ven!" • BELFAST Another story of grim retribution ; from Northern Ireland : A young girl attemr,tin , g to plant a bomb in a food store in a busy Belfast sh or,r, ing center ; when she was chased out - she hurried back to a waiting car; and at once, then was a tremendous ext> l os ion. The girl and a young male comf,anion - killed i,istantly. TALC Ore deposits that y ield asbestos and talc - are often found inter-mixed in their natural states ; and often a little of each - slip through in the refining process. Hence - an order toda y from the U . S . Food a,,d Drug Administratio,i ; banning th e use of talc in foods and food packaging - unless the lalc is tota.lly free of asbestos. This in line with the 1·ecent findings - that asbestos, wlren inlraled, can cause cancer . Government experts note tlrat talc is us , ed i,a \ H,e manufacture - of any number of products; besides the obvious - polished rice - chewing gum - and papers, cottons and so on used in all kinds of foo . d packaging. REYKJAVIK At Reykja v ik. Iceland - Bobb _,, Fischer wins again ; Jina II y taking the measure of Russia's Boris spa~sky in the se v e11ty-fo11rth mo,e of yesterda) ' and today's record- length match . In his quest of the i,orld chess champion- s la ; p , F is c h e r I ea d s - e i g h t - t o - f i r 1 e . SUGGESTED LEAD-IN TO THOMAS TAPE "ANIMALS" Next - Lowell Thomas; discussing tonight a return to nature - in the · BfJly Land. Lowell . .. ( L. T. Tape lnse-Yt - unedited) ANIMALS HOLY LAND Here's 011e - an al/empt to sa ve from extinction - the fabled B iblical animals of the Holy Land; an attempt sponsored in Part - by the Hol..J Land Conservation FuNd of Ne1 York; all under /he direction of retired General Abraham Voffe - the director Israel's new Nature Reverves Authority. General Yoffe explaining that "ma,zy of these Old Testament creatr,res - are already extinct in Israel and fast disappearing elsewhere . " But adding - there's still ttme. As demonstrated by the recent establishment of Hai Bar South in the NegetJ Desert - Israel's first habitat park. The animals now ensconced there - safe at last from marauding nomads and the inroads of modern civilizatioN - inclllding : More than four thousand gazelle - some two hundred Syrian water b11ffalo - twelve onagers or Persian wild ass - four scimitar-horned oryx from Chad - a numbet ~f Nub i an i b ex O r w ; l d g O a t - a n d f o u r a d d ax w it h the i r I on g wavy horns . ANIMALS HOLY LAND - 2 The park's master plan also calls f or the e v entual addition - o f Judean lion, Syrian bear, Arabian oryx, fallow deer and roe deer ; most o f which - can still be obtained in Ira · n ; with negotiations - now underway . The Hol y Land Conservation Fund noting : "ll is especiall y fitting that during the same era i:n · which Jews were retur : ning to Israel after being scatter , ed across the earth so too · would return the wild a . nimals w . hich inhabited the la · nd millenia ago . " SUGGESTED FOLLOW TO THOMAS TAPE "ANIMALS" Thank you, Lowell. MONTE SILVANO The news the world has bee , n waiti , ng for - from Mo11te Silvano, Italy; there an inventor by the name of Gravino Agostinoni has joined the immortals - by inventing the world's first fully-automated spaghetti-m , aking machine. The way it works - says Signor Agostinoni · is this: Yo11 put a little flour and water in one end - and out the other end come forty prates of s,,aghetti. With th , e , additia , n of sauce and cheese - we are told - the correct description is magnifico. But not for Italians, appare : ntly; Signor Agostinoni saying: "I hope I can sell my machine - to the Americans.'' The name of this remarkable device latest boon to mankind - is still to be chosen. But here in New York - perhaps the best suggestio : n comes from a local headline writer who calls it simply - the "bur,, gun. " Robert Trout saying Good Night.