HANOI W e dnesda ;, S pl mb y , 1 .969 -- - -- - O f all th e nam e s in th e n e tcs toni g ht - number },t~ one - ll1al of North V i et,iam 's Pr s i d e nl Ho Chi Minl1. ' / Radio Hanoi tellin g of a serious illness - later addi•g lllat Ho's condit i on has b e en grow i ng steadil y worse. Actually there have been reports today - prompll de,aied - tlaat tlae Communist leader had alread y died. While all this was going o,a - of course tl,e questio,a paramount in Saigo,a, Paris, Waslti,agto11 laas bee11: What affect will it laave on the Viet,aamese war? To wlllc,, Comm1111lst sources have replied: No affect at all! 011 tllis Wesler,a observers agree - tlley are probably rlgllt. Nevertheles~, Saigon does predict an e v e,stual po.,er struggle - to determi,ae Ho's successor. A,ad tlte outcome- we are told: "Most likely, a figurehead Preside11t - controlled by the four key members" of the prese11t Nortll Vietnamese politburo. (To be taped for pos ibl e later 11s e - numb e r Ito) Now this - an official anno11ncement tonigl,t - that Ho Chi Minh is d e ad. Repeat - offic i al word tonight that Preside,et HoChi Minh of North Vietnam - has just died. TIie famed re olutionary - age se enty-nine. C_!._IR_Q - T_~IPOLI Latest on Libya - comes today from Egypt's * <\ Middl e East news a ge ncy In Cairo. A report that Libya's / new military regime - has asked for a temporary ban on U.S. and British training flights o er thire. The same report adding - tha t the U.S. a,ad British comma,aders ha ve agreed. This apparently on the understandi,ag that the ba,a will remain i11 effect - only "duri,ag the c11rre,at unsettled sit11ation." Back t n Tr t p o l i - a po s t mo rte m o• t II e bl o o d le•• coup. Libya's new leaders disclosing they first ltatclted their take-over plot - way back in 1956. TIie s11bseq11e,at tit i rte e,. yea rs of p la,s,a i,ag - c "l m i,sa ti,ag i,s wlaa t ti, e y call ell two "easy ho11rs" of revolutio11. TOKYO Tok y o - an attempted fire bombin g to,,ighl - at the U.S. Embassy. Japanese , ouths - appare,,tly stttde,,ts - h11rlin g four Moloto v cocktails in the directio,a of the U.S. Embassy compo11nd. Luckily though - o,aly o,ee hit its mark - no damage. This followi"g a sti,ak bomb attack on the nearby Russian Embassy. Both i,acide,ats - occuring on the e e of Foreign Mi,,ister Eiichi Aichi's trip to Moscow and Washi,agton. _w _ A -~ . .. ~ DA _ _ FQ f.LO W TOK 1 0 M a n z h i l , J a p a n 's n a I i o n u · i d , I " d II I reb llion co11linues lo rou, u ilh a pitch d baltl loda ~ , I{-{ at Wa eda U11i er ii} - one of Japan's oldest and 1110 I 1/ presligiou in lilutions. Police finally ti i11g tater j I and tear gas - to route the radicals from tu o occupi d buildi,igs. In the precess - injuring some, arrestin8 As for the rest of Japan's 1111~ee hundred and twenty-seven colleges - now nearly a third are either partly or wholly tied up by student strikes. MA LMOE ---- - -- Her e ' one - the tory of a Nazi plot from World War Two,· a b i zarre schem e to - bomb New York. This - accordtl.ng Lo former German test pilot Hans Pancherez. Tellin g details of the plan - in an article published in Malmoe, Sweden. Pancherez asserting that a suitable plane - was de v eloped on direct orders from Adolph Hitler. A gian six-engine junker - with a range of more than nine thous and m ·1es ,· capabl e of carrying - som< ninety tons of bombs. With a prototype of the craft actually test flown - says Pancherez; - flown all the way from Germany lo Capetown - non stop - in early Nineteen Forty-Four. Then the plane headed for occupied France - there to begin final preparations for its across- the-Atlantic bombing run - we hear. But along came D-Da - the Normandy Invasion - cancelling everything. Whate ve r happened to that plane? fl was e ve ntually des troy e d - s a y s Pan ch ere z - to k e r: h it from falling into Allied hands. SAN CLEMENTE New York's cultur e ex p rt Nanc y Hanks - soon lo become nei chairman of the National Council on the Arts. N e is o f her appo i ntment - coming today from the W e stern White Hous e . Miss Hanks thereby succeeding Roger Stevens - as the President's top ad v isor on matters cultural. Coincidentally, her appointment seen as an answer to feminine critics - who charge that the President has failed to appoint enough women to top jobs. WALTER REED A t W a l t e r R e e d A rm y Hosp i ta l - W a sh in gt on - Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen - is reported making "excellent progress''. His lung operation of yesterday - apparently a complete success. Doctors saying there has been no apparent spread of the malignancy - adding there is "no need for further surgery or other treatment." One source going so far as to say he could be back on the job in two months - good as new. WILKES-BARRE At Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl ania - the way was all bul cleared today - for that long-sought autopsy on the body of Mary Jo Kopechne. Judge Bernard Bromins ki rejecting a petition from the dead girl's parents - a petition that would ha e barred exhumation. The Judge ob s er vi n g th a t an in qui r y s ought b y t Ii e !l.a t e of Massachusetts - was apparently "of a criminal rather than a ci il nature." EDGARTOWN FOLLOW WILKES-BARRE -- --- - - - - - - - - - - Another de elopmenl - from Ed g artot n, Massachu ells; i her e ii is report e d that District Attorney Edmund Dini - is con idering a possible Grand Jury in estigation of th e entire Kennedy-Kopechne case. This in lieu of the inquest he had o r iginally sought - the legality of which is now in questio,i before the Massachu- setts Supreme Court. MOUNTAIN VIEW From Mountain Viet , California - ,zew comes of hou communil i ill oo,i be ome - b it own choice - omething of a garbage du, , p for 11 e arby San Francisco. Th cit fathers of Mountain Viet offering to San Francisco - free use of a Ji e hundred acre dumping ground. Enough - u e are told - to serve the Bay City for f \ ft e years. - Ah, but there's a method lo this apparent madness. The garbage arriving from San Francisco - to be used as land fill in Mountain View. Ultimate plans calling for development of the site - to make it a major park and recreation center. Warren, would you say: ''And so - one man's garbage - becomes another 5'1 Yv man's Garden of Eden?" BUDAPEST Found - for /he first lim e : a "quark". So announc d Loda a scientif i c meeting in Budapest. Ps,ofe sor Charle McCu ker of the Uni · ersity of Sydney - in Australia - claiming to be /he di co erer,· saying he is "ninet -nine percent sure" - he an erify his find. Next question: Whal ,1 xaclly is a "quark" - not a quirk - a quark:- The answer - it's the smallest particle of matter known to man - says Professor Mccusker. In fact, so small - he adds - that it takes three ''quarks" - to make up one of the protons or neutrons that form the neuclus of an atom.