POOR ----- B e d r aggl d by rain - bed e iled b y congressional ind · .rJ e r e ttce - b es mirched b y violenc e - phase one of til e Poor People's c ampaign came to a sudden end toda ) i H { V ashittglo11. By m · 1tl1tal consent - z ith peaceful cooperation all around - Wnsllinglo,i police closing down Resrcrrecl ion City; a1•resting eight) i -five ....- s tragglers - who r em.ained behind for jttsl that purpose. While a mile awa - in Ille sl,adou of lite Capitol Building - additional police were laking into cuslodJ the Reverend Ralph Abernath y ; a l s o, s om e t 1, o Im , n d red of hi s r e ma in i ng f o 1 low er s - a l l c lz a r g e d I e c la 11 i ca ll y w ii l1 di s or de r I ) ' c on d" c t . In sum, tile Washi11glo11 campaig" ending not f i i tl, a ban g _ not I itll a whim.per e i ther ; bid,,_ ,nor like - a colle c li e sigh of relief. 1 WHITE HOUSE --------------- From Presid e,i / Johnson - a special mes sage to Congress toda) urging expanded gun control - beyond t I,, o s e Ii e or i gin al l y Proposed aft er t he a s s a s sin a Ii on of Robert Ken11edy. Controls calling for the ._gistration of all gu,is as well as the licensing of all gun owners. /11 line willi recom,,I! ndalions last week - from Vice Pr e s i d P · n t II I I i r=- H II m P hr e y • VIETNAM O,z the uar frot1t - a highest priority "Red alert" is i11 effect b,ziglzl i,i Saigot1. With more llian twenly-fi1 e thousand America11 and Sottth Vietnamese defenders - ready and wailing for a tlireatened new Viel Cong invasion. Earlier lho1tgh - U S B-Fifty Two's perhaps selling back the enem) timetable; wl,en they bombed a gian,t u,iderground ammunition dump - only thirteen miles from the heart of Saigon. Tlie resu . lting series of explosions - lasting six minutes. According to the U S command - destroying "se eral hundred to11s" of Viel Con . g bombs, rockets and grenades - probably meant for Saigon. VATICAN --------- From lite Vatican in Rome -- comes an impassioned plea today for , orld peace .f~ tlnam ,- - Ar Nigeria - - In /he Middle Easl/- - rig/II around t/ze globe. Pope Paul dealing firs/ and foremost wit/1 Vielnam. Calling for an immediate cease-fire by both sides -- as a first step tot ard ending the current Paris impas::;e. Asserl.i,ig tliat such a solution -- is "relatively near and easy." As for ci il war ill Nigeria -- tl,e Pontiff urging speedy r, sumption of interrupted peace talks. Also imploring tlze Arabs and Israelis: "Don't take up arms again." PARIS FOLLOW VATICAN ----------------- - -- - - - Just lit e r e e rs e -- from P11ris ; where Hubert Hu mph 1 • e : , 's we e k e n d P le a for a Vi e I,, a m c ea s e - Ji re - - was flatly re j e clecl loda) b y North Vietnam. Hanoi's Xuat1 Thtt) suggesting the Vice President had "mixed up" - - both Ille "aggressors a,id their v ictims." Adding Iha , / the "onl) objecli v e of the Paris talks -- was to agree on a c es sat ion of U. S. air raids . " Concluding Iha t "o,, l y if an a gr e e ni e n I is reach e d o" /llis ma t t er - - can io e mo e on lo other subjects." - - Till DEGAULLE_FOLLOW PARIS --------- Elseuhere in Paris - lriumphat1l Charles DeGaulle met lodaJ l ilh Frencli Premier Geot>ges Pom.pidou, ,,Alappi11g campaig11 strategy - for the second 1 eek of toting in Fre,ich National elections. Hoping to steamroller llie Gaullist party to its biggest majority - in the ten-) ear history o f , . _ tlie Fifth French Republic. W,sunday ' s first test -t the Gaulltsr;:;t,ssured ~ a I le a s I a h u n d re d-a n d- forty-- e i g Ii t s ea t s in I he next 11ational assemhly. Gaidlist candidates also topping the prelimina,•y vole - in a hundred-and-fifty other districts. All but guaranteeing the Gaullists of a vast majority - ill I he f our-hun . dred-and-e igllty--s even seat French iJ Parlianten1Xi1iere the,,-.. been forced to rely lately - on coalition go ernme · ,its. /,icidenlall), a group of abo11t a hundred students _ allempted /.o stage a11other demo11stratio11 ton i g II I i ,i l he .la t in Quart er of Pa r i s . H o 1,e v er , c l u b - swingi,zg riot police - quickl) dispersi,ig tile mob. WASHINGTON ---------- -- - eriotts crime in /he United Slates - u.p s e v e II I e e n P er c e 11 l d" r in g I Ire f i r s t I Ii r e e m o ,i t Ii s of / It i s ) ' e a r ; a c c o r ding I o a r e p or t t on i g Ir I - fro m lite Federal Bureau of In es ligation. This including an eiglllee11 pe · r ce11l increase in crimes of violence - robbery, rape, assault and murder. With cities of a ltun<lred thousand or more - showing 111 . e greatest increase. St1burbat1 areas - right behind. - REl KJA l ' IK ----------- U S S er larJ o f Slat e Dean Rusk - a ke y note speaker loda 3 , - al op eni ng sessions of tile Nato Foreign Ministers Co,if ere nce - in Re3 , kja vi k, Iceland. Asserti11g that America is "deepl y disturbed" - a b o II t l Ii e t Irr ea l e n i n g ,, e I B er l i ti c r i s i s . Also acc11sing the "other side" - as h e put il - of creating problems in Ille Middle East, Lali11 America, soullleasl Asia and Korea. Dean Rusk addin . g, liowever, lliat lllese co11dilions 011.l3 poi11l up the need for renewed Nalo sol i darily - - in 11,e co11 ti,uling struggle for peaceful accord. Said he: " T I, er e m u s t b e n . o «« o P en hos t i l i I y across lhe board -- when tliousands of tons of nuclear b · b ·1 ·1 of a nuclear exch . ange is ombs a ~d the poss, z 1 Y tl1reate,iing I he It orld. '' SAN ANTONIO _ FOLLOH HOUSTON - - - --- - -- ------- Oil · pa ce - from San A11to11io ; 11here a lop Pac official - lodaJ addr e sed Ille Fourth I II I e r II a Ii o II a I SP ace W rile rs m ee ting. Dr . Ed I a rd we Is h d cla1'i11g Iha/ abandonmenl of /he U S space program - uould b "th e "orsL mistake i11 histor y ." This - aid lte - because of res1tlling damage , to the donie lie econom - that would lower our standard of Ii i n g; , Iii I e I ea v i ng Iii e Uni t e d SI a L e s i" a posit i on of "secondar) strength" - lo Ille Soviet Union. Dr. We I s h f tt r I II c r 11 o l i 11 g I II a I Hu b er t H tt m P I, r e y i s tli e on l Y preside11lial ca11didale - t Ito favors an aggressive U S Pa<-·e policy. Whal about that so-called "race lo the moCJI ?" Dr. Welsh •--- ,, asserting t::IRlf- lite U11iled Slate still l,opes for a ma1111 d l11t1ar landing - some lime in /he fall of Sixty-Nine. 4 r'l Wltereas Russi~ appears ready lo settle /.. I e m P or a r ii l ' - for a "fl y a r o 11 "d " of l h e m o o 11 • - 11:tH ff - *1 . • • HOUSTON - ----------- - - Al lhe U.S. Manned Space Center in Houston three bearded astronaut emerged today from a mock moon fl igh I i,i an Apollo space craft. A.fl er eigl, t days of simulated space lra e l -- Joe Kerwin, Vance Brand and Joe E,igle calling Ille Apollo capsule letter-perfect. Space /righer-ttps -- also said to be "elated" by tile test. Promising · more de la il s lV e d n es d a,, - - aft e r de - b r i e fin g.