\ ' . SPACE At Cape Kennedy - Houston - Washington - all systems are "go" tonight for a manned assault on the ■oon. 5~~ 1 , Target date - on or about Christmas. Successful return of the record-breaking Apollo- Seven - clearing the way for official approval; which 1 8 now expected - around the middle of next month. As soon as space officials have confirmed from tapes and tests - what ~ they alreadyAfrom personal observation; that Apollo-Seven's hiatory-mking eleven-day flight - has successfully blazed \. I, ';...._ a trau for manned flllght around the ~ - Looking even beyond - Genqral Su Phillipa or the !!-M9d .!Pacecraft ..e.rogra■ predicting~ act11&l lunar landing at lasl - perhaps as early next spring. If not then - I al■ost certainly bafore thee~ of the year - said he. ~ Smiling broadly, Gegeral Phillips add1ngKrav8 officials can "talk schedule&" for the first time in history - and 11 Thi s - said he - "because ~e a~ making rea y mean it. them now." ESSEX FOLLOW SPACE Meanwhile, the three Apollo-Seven astronauts were happily readjusting to c1v111zatlon today - aboard the ~'1 :,,,,,- O .S. aircraft carrier Essex. Command Pilot Wally Sch1rra - / who had complained loud and - often about space food - interrupting his medical e~amination for a lite breakfast of steak and eggs . Crewma tes Donn Eisele, and Walt Cunnlnghu later Joining Schirra - 1n taking a shower, shave and ~~ shaapoo - also, donning a change of clothes. ~llowd by a final check of their spacecraft - which Schlrra called "a •gnlflcient flying •chine: - and so _ it was. t2)"Z( Best of all - the three a1tronaut1A1aid to be physically "A-on':;" ~spite their head-co~A~erlng no ill-effects ft-011 the splashdown earlJ today. Vhlch \. means that early tomorrow - they'll all be headlllg back to Cape Kennedy. The plaudits of their resident as well as their nation - still ringing in their ears. VIETNAM On the war front - in Saigon - South Vietnamese President Thieu conferred again today with U.S. Ambassador - ~~ Ellsworth Bunker.)~ Wlwz &Que ~ issued a formal statell8nt - saying he "does no ~ oppose" a conditional bombing halt over North Vietnam. This apparently a b oftening of Thieu's poaltlon - as stated last week. The South Vletna••• President further ' ~"':11- 1.gnoring a key point - he had earlier streaaed; 11_ ~ r - assertion that South Vietna■ - would never agree to negotiate with the Viet Cong. At t!i8 sa■e ttM • the po11t1ea1 ff■ ot the Yt•• PARIS FOLLOW VIETNAM Effect 1n Paris - another bull market in peace rumors. With French Foreign M1n1ster Michel DeBre - adding to the speculation. After a meeting with ,,sslJc::t ~ DeGaulle - DeBre asuwrt"@ H·•t President Johnson's "courageous policy" 1n Vietnam - ls beginning to bear fruit . .... ,A-4., Thia"' taken as the first seal-official confir11at1on - that the United States has really escalated its current peace offensive. WRITE HOUSE At the White House - another b111-s1gn1ng ceremony today. President Johnson putting the final touch to that new gun control law - banning interstate •11 order sales of rifles and shotguns - also, Ullun1t1on. "Today we begin to disarm the crl■inal - and the careless - and the insane" - sald LBJ. Adding, however, that "this bill, aa big as it ls, falls short.- D uat IIUBt have 11censtng,'',A41'J~, ~ wd- ~• •y ·~; ,q j{J._ 5 ' ~ ~ . CHICAGO The Aaerican Academy of Pediatrics - in session today at Chicag~ ~ a r ~ report from Dr. Harold Lief ~ of the University of Pennsylvania - to the effect that the pride of American womanhoo~ comes from the South - also, the Midwest. Sf-ti, Dr. Lief basing his asserti~n - on recent collegeA surveys. Showing a participation · rate up to fifty per cent - uong senior coeds in the lortheast as well as the Far West. ,II Vhllle the great •Jority of coeds 1n the South and Midwest - were said to re•in pure and untouched. PHILADELPHIA In the battle of the polls here at hoae ~ Hubert Hwaphrey scores a major advance. Thls according to the GL. Sindlinger Sur:ey - of suburban Philadelphia;~ abssc 11tw1t ~ tabulation glv.esRlchard Nlxon thlrty-elght per cent ot ~ the vote - Hubert Hwaphrey thirty-one percent - George Wallace ten per cent. As coapared with a forty, twenty- nine, eleven split - Just a week ago. POLITICS FOLLOW PHILADELPHIA Polls or no though - the three •aJor candidates were all running "flat out" today. Richard Nixon - 1n OhioYror his first and probably last whistle-stop train tour - of Campaign Sixty-Eight. Time and again - the Republican contender referring to the Truman campaign of Nineteen-Forty-Eight. Asserting: "It is one thing to g1 ve I em hell - but it 1s eomething else again to give 'em Humphrey." if sn lailll~~bert Humphrey - the Vice President was beginning a two-day whirlwind tour of Texas. If nothing else - the Humphrey visit bringing about a reconc111atlon - between Texas Governor Connally and~Texas Senator Yarborough; both of tl 1 ■ now Humphrey supporters. On his own - at ~ Fort Worth - HumphreY. pledging to serve as a peace president ~ 1 " - to ful 111 "the greatness of Amer ca. As for George Wallace - the third party canrtidate has decided to cancel - a planned motorcade tomorrow at Youn gs t wn Oho . ~ a t e s accusing police - 0 refu ing to take a equate ecurity precautions. ·· ----~>=.. ADD POLI TICS -- The nece s ity of whic w am ly demonstrated today-- at sbkosh, iscon in; where a 1 ce was struck by a flyin ppl core-- nd n rowly dodged a thrown eg~ ARIAS a ·h ngton aga in - the U . . se rve a a .a e re f u ge - for still another deposed tin American president . nulfo Aria of Panama arri v ing by lane today - a ~ ter ten ctay of sanctuar int e U.S.- contro lled Canal Z one. Prompt ! deman d ing a meeting o f the Org a nization of American State s - to consider possible action against the military j unta that eized control of his country. Later, Arias as s erting "squatter's rights" in Panama's Washington Embassy - which has been without an Ari d 1 1 "This is Ambassador since t he coup. as ec ar ng: my Embassy an d I am the Pre ident - I will li v e here as long as ne ces ary." 4J .A1 - J) t, )¥..n - -