KEDEDY L . T . - OLDS . THURSDAY , A P RIL 27 , 1 961 Tonight, the President or the United States again turns to folk wldsom - to make a point. President Kennedy, quoting the proverb, "an error doean•t become a mistake, until you reruae to correct it." SubJect - newa coverage ot our national attalra. President KeMedy, addN11tng the Allerlcan .... paper Bubllahen - - ~ f-0 Aaaociation - 1n lew York) I-- ,Appealtas tor aore reaponalble Journalism - ln the interest ot public satety. Pointing out that we ought to have 10111 war•tille reticence - becauae we are 1n a lite-and-death struggle With Coaunlat illl)erlal lam. ~ ~ What .... Pruldent Kennedy propose? Sillply that f.. I our newsmen ask •••• whether a given story - 11 newa) .-And then add the ques tlon "la 1 t 1ri the national lntere at?" It the answer ta "no" - the story should be handled wlth care. Not splashed all . over - our front page, as was the story or the invasion ot Cuba. President Kennedy's slogan - "reaponatb111ty, not censorship." ALGIBlA The President ot irance aay paaa a aentenoe of death - on the world's aoat taaoua tightin1 outfit. VeGaulle, threatening to disband - the rrench foreign Legion; so long associated •ithalled tort• deep in the Sahara; and that JroY1de4 aateriil. for popular no••l• like - •Beau Ge1te• and •Under Two rlaga.• As you know the leaionairee ba•• been iaplicate4 in - the anti-~eGaulli1t re•olt. The7 rose to the er, of - •Algeria i1 lrenob!• That aaJ aeea aatoni1hiq ainoe eigbt7 percent of the freach ~oreian ~•aion 1• actuall,J Geraan. Soldier• of fortune fro■ be7oa4 the lhine, gettiag ••&J fro■ it all - soldiering in the desert, under the trl-color of rrance. TodaJ th• Legionalr•• bl•• up - their base oaap at zeralda; then bit the d111t7 road - to Sidi Bel Abbe1; and possibly - obliYioa. Th• French 'oreign ~egion, . t f rreach politic•. into rrench hi1to17. aarch1ng ou o CUBA The captured invaders or Cuba - may not race the flrlng squad, after all. Except - the leaders marked by Castro for execution. Leaders llke Roberto San Roman - who was field ca.ander <t the abortive tnvaaton. Today Castro staged a television extravaganza - wlth hla capltvea. ,..Kven ottering - to anawer their queatlona. / But when one prisoner asked whether the present Cuban regllle ts Ca.aunlat - Cutro became coy; ~adtng the laaue by terming hla governaent - "aoclall1t." The d1ctator 1 1 cl ... ncy - •Y be brlet. Caretully coached crowds are ahoutlng "to ~ J : : . ~ ~ CUtro 8 semblance or bowing to the popular will - when and it he decides to dety publlc opinion in .. thla Ima he■t1phere; ¥ {p Jfectdea to order - - • executlona. · LAOS In Laos. the fighting ta heavier than ever - despite the agreement on a cease-tire. The Red rebels. attacking the key city or Luang Prabang - hoping to have it in their handa when the ahooting really atopa. When will that be? Our governaent la trying - to find out. Aaklng Khrushchev to enforce an ar1111tlce - on hia puppet a; /"&Nit ua to call ott - our ■111 tary ald to the Laotian government. ;«11ow negotlatlona to begin - .) ~ ,) tor a aettlement.ot tliw uoi1t1. A CHURCHES The Russian Orthodox Church haa asked tor membership in - the World Council of Churches. That may not sound ~ dramatic 1 - but 1 it took fitteen years to get that far. The Russian clergy had to proceed cautiously - because or the Soviet government. Bealdea, the orthodox church has a tradition - going back to Czarist times. A tradition of - hostility toward the western denoninatlona. 'ftle West, reciprocating -- by viewing orthodoxy aa ttrat a Czarlat mouthpiece. Later, a COllllluniat mouthpiece. The mutual auaplclon - tlnally ending today. It'• expected_. the Ruaaian orthodox churoh wlll eaally get enough votea - to,- Join the World Council ot Church••· SATELLITE America's latest satellite 11 too small - to be seen with the naked eye. "Explorer Eleven" l a ~ " - ■oonlet'j:'fe1~~ty-t1ve pounds. 0.1'011~ along the Equator - three hundred ■ilea out 1n space, When 1t•a closest to the earth. A thousand ■ilea away - at the "celling" ot its orbit. IV-<..~ But, tor all lta 11.llited aize;t this 11 one ot our moat laportant aatellltea. "Explorer Eleven" 11 carrying - a telescope. Its ■lsaion - to study guaa rays beyond the earth' a atmosphere. o - rays - tunduental 1n • coa110logy, Jlfie science that deals •~th the origin, structure, and destiny •0• ot the universe. 11eau'u (one baalc question - that our coa110logl1ts want to anawer!-r Gamma Raya created by galaxies building up_ or breaking down? You can aee the importance or Id the question. It the galaxies are building up - our universe could still be ln its early stages. If the balaxies are • SATELLITE - 2 breaking down - we could be headed toward the end or the world. The final big p bang, according to the co1110logl1t1 - who are atraid that we My not have long to go; ,fa11 about - two hundred billion years. UAW Tonigh~rlcan tMb lnlltltutlon la celebrating· 1ta silver annlveraary. 'ftle United Auto Workers - twenty-five years old. )lbldlng a union birthday party• ~ in Detroit. At ita tiret convention 1n South Bend, 1n llnetNn Thirty Slx, the UAW had aeventy•tlve • hundred -bera. low the enroll•nt 11 - over a ■llllon. That any workers 1n the auto lnduatry, led b ~ : : i e n controverllal • Walter Reuther. BASXETBALL Three basket ball players, accused today or taking bribes - were ti the national collegiate tou.mament. Johnny Eagan, Vince Kempton, and Prank Majewski - of St. Joseph's College. Key player, on~ team t h a t ~ a apectacular ~ ;I. ~ season,( t:11, In~ a chance tor tbl top honors - until ltl:s; au: t knocked orr.1\ the se■i-tinala. lfow it appears they were "shaving points" - 1n the s - s they played. Winning by • .. less than the number or points - ■ent1oned by the gaablera • • Taking a pay-oft - 1n retum. Eagan, Ke111>ton, and Majewak1 were expelled trom st. Joseph's - as soon as the Grand Jury tlnding becaae official. Six players troll other schools - are also mentioned in the 1.ndict•nt. The real villain or the piece, evidently - Gubler aJ Aaron wagaan, who races a charge ot conaplracy) 'f&& • thirty- ~ seven charges of bribery and corruption. Still, the sports 1, experts are flabbergasted - at the aup1d1ty or the players. BASKETBALL - 2 £Fq. lt'a only a decade - since the tlrat "point shaving " bribery caae rocked basket ball. FILM A Soviet CO\U't today handed down a conviction - in aa bizarre a negligence cue aa I've ever heard or. - • The defendant - Alexei Sleaarenko, one of Ruaaia'a top ■ovie directors. Sleaarenko r.a making an anti-religious r11■ -- one scene or which included a aacrificlal tire or pagan t1••• The script called tor the leading lady, portraying a prieateaa I < - to throw herself into the r1 ... 1. The actre11 objected h that the scene waa too reallatlc. Proteatlng that she dldn't have enough protection - tr011 the rt.re. But the Director wu atter realia■ • and he lnalated that ahe JUIIP into the ■iddle or the blase. Which - she fa tinally dld. Aa a result - the actress was fatally burned. The director_ accused ot cr1111nal negligence. Sentenced to five years_ by the soviet court. The Ruaaiana go 1n ~-- for - movie realia■• 9f Director Sleaarenko au a bit too realistic. WEDDING You don't often find irony at a wedding - but they sure had a dose ot it in Chicago today. '!be cereaony itself_ straight forward enough. Linda Lee Accardo - looking the picture of the pretty bride. Marrying - Mike Palermo. A d solemn ceremony, with all the Catholic pageantry - 1n St. Luke's Church. The pews, full of spectators - 1n fol'lllll dress. The real atory la - the a rather or the bride. .. - ~ N I 1 1 • Joli• Anthony Joseph Accardo 1 A klngp• or the Chicago underworld_;)Chc>wn u - Tough Tony. He turned up at the church Juat aa the rather or the bride should •..-ff\ black cutaway jacket, grey vest, and grey striped trouaera. l■~t~Tcardo'• boya ~~:~ tailored rcrthe occuion. They're not ln the habit or saying - "no" to the boas. And the boas wanted a good turn out -- at his fa daughter'• wedding. St. Luke's church, crowded with - some ot Chicago's roughest citizens. All 1 kl aaart and correct_.., the priest performed 00 ng JS # the marriage ceremony. Ii O I