LABOR FRONT ------------- Good e v en i ng e v er y bod y . April 2, 1970 Dallas Townsend O,i the labor front - a triple breakthrougll ;,. Wasllingto,s Leaders of the absentee air traffic con . trollers worki,rg out an agreement tDith gover,rment officials - the,r '1romisi,rg a Federal judge they will tell tlte i ir men to go back to work - aftd halt the nine-day action that has paralyzed much of ll,e nation's air traffic. In return - contempt of coMrl cllarges to be drot>Ped against Executive Director F. Lee Balley and two other officers of Patco. At tlle same time, governme11t and postal u11io11 , Jtegotiators an,rouftcit1g agreement 011 a pla11 to g,ve all Federal employees a six perce,et f>ay raise - t,lMs a" atlditio,eal eigllt percertt iftcrease for poatal worker• . TIii• last, l,011Jever, det, · e,cdeftt on a reorganizatio,a of tl,e Post Office Det,artmeflt. ANd the efttire plan - t uhiclt i,1clude• the rigl,I of collective bargai,iing, must still be submitted to Congress for approval. In the third major de v elopment on the labor froNt - LABOR FRONT - 2 ---------------- negotiators f or th e teamsters union and the trucking industr y reached a tentati v e agreeme11t on a new national contract - and the ""ion told striking truckdriver• lo return to work - pending a vote o,i ratification. WASHINGTON Se c retar) ' of State William Rogers testified in closed session today - before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. There asserting that the Nixon Administratio,a - is seeking only a "maintenance of neutrality" in Cambodia - in the hope - said Rogers - that we can thereby avoid involvement - "in what could become an Indochina War." But Foreign Relations committee chairman Ful briglet sllarply attacked U.S. policy in Southeast Asia - calling It "madness" - asserting it will lead to defeat and luonlltatio,e of American forces. F11lbrlg1tt called for a negotiated settleme,at of tlle e,atire conflict ;,., tllat area - said ",,. cold, un-ador,aed, strategic terms, it simply does ,aot Matt very mucl, for the U . S. WHO controls . lndocllina." ---- INTRO TO THOMAS TAPE SLUGGED "DALA LAMA III'' ------------------------------------------------ And now - let's return again to Hindustan - via tape ; as Lowell Thomas continues tonight - his report on the fabled Dal ai Lama. Lowell. .. DALAi LAMA Ill Hello Warren, and good e v ening e tJ erybody . When Ille Dalal . Lama fled from Tibet at the time of the revolt against the Chinese Reds in Nineteen-Fifty-Nine lee at first stayed in a summer house in the Central Himalayas 011 tlae Indian side. It was loned to ltim by a multimlllio,ealr• "'ere lta11 t- Pri11c e Bir I a, a Hi11du. B11t soon tlte go11er11m ,,. t of l11dia moved laim to the far, far Western Himalayas - to a remote corner of India, West of Net>al, aoitllire a feao mil•• of t11e vale of Kashmir. Here at Dllmarsala/ he 110,0 lives on a mou,etaire tot, at Sis Tl,ouaafltl Feet i11 aollat some call a t>alace. B1tt, it'• laanlly tlaat. But tire Dalal Lama does no• ltav, a groa,t, of buildings, all stoJte, r,ut "" rec . e11tly by llis oaon t>eot,le . TII• 011e at tlle highest r,oi11t - tlaat is his residence . J11,st belo• is a,aotlaer o,ae story buildi11g made up of rooms for offices t1/ ltis secretaries - T . C . Tara aollo came from Llrasa aoitl, laim and Te,asing Gyechee, a new secretary • a young man . DALAi LAMA 111 - 2 ., . v•unw • • · An . d he lras an adequate ante -r oom for v isitors a,id a s(Jaciorts audience room . A l l of th es e ha v e hands om e Ti be tan rugs on t II e floors and silk tankas on tire walls with f)ic tu res of Bud la a - all made laere by artists and others wllo got out of Tibet toitll tl,e Dalal Lama . In tire room for visitors agai,rst one 111all i• a boot case ,,. wllicll are Ille sacred boolts - tlle Kangyur, t1te teacllings of Budlta and the Tangyur, the comme,rtaries ,,. Sanskrit . These total, I counted them - over a lrundred big volumes t>ri,rted i,r Japan . But staclted 1,igll o,r the top of tllat booltcase are tlte same books all do"e completely by lland in Tibet 011 1>a1>er made by It and from tlae bark of t,;,ees . Pri,ated by laa,ad - a pressi11g process - text, of course, all written beauti/1,lly by hand . Tli•se are the same as all the books ,,, tlae Tibeta,a mon•stery l.ibrary that now f)res11mably has been destroye · d by the Chinese Reds . These volumes are - each torapped in be a t1 t if u l s ilk . DALAi LAMA 111 - 3 And j1Cst below these buildings is a flat area half tlae size of a football field . And on it is a medillm si~e neeu stone tenrr,le with an auditorium to accomodate a thousand or fifteen -hund ' red .r,e or, le . Also a high al tar "'ith a s ur,urb JtetO image of Blruda made by the Dalai Lama artls t . Here the Dalai Lama has bee• deliveriJtg a moittl, lo,ag aer•o,a. I'll have to wait to tell you about that . So lo,ag . FOLLOW TO THOMAS TAPE -------·----------------- Thank you, Lowell. Back to the news ... GOLAN HEIGHTS .... In th e Middle Ea s t - t Ire f o c us of b a tt le s h if t ed " toda y to that Golan Heigh:ts cease-fire line. Israeli forces launchin . g a series of air and land reprisal raids - in retaliation for a number of recent border attacks from Syria. TIie Syrians claim they shot down seve11 Israeli fl la,aes, a11 d killed or wounded one -1, u,sdred-a . ,sd-ltoe,sty Israelis. Israel says its aircraft destroyed tlrree Syria• /lla,aes. £1!].f_A_QQ Twelve members of the Ultra-Mi.Htant Weatherman faction of Students for a Democratic: Society - were clearged with conspiracy to , day in Chicago. . This in connection wit" a series of anti-war riots during OclobeT o f last year . . It was announced lateT - the accused will be arraigned before Fetieral Judge Julius Hof/mo ■ ; 111110 p-resitletl at tlte Chicago Co,aspiracy Tt•"ial . . 'IIBITB BOUSE ------------ President Nixon today asked Congress for an extr , a Sixty-Five Million - t,ayable to the Medical Care division of tl,e Veterans Administration. These fu,ads badl, ,aeede' - said the Pres iden I - to me et a "grave cri• i•" in tl,e care of Viet,eam war u,ounded - also, regular VA t,aue , nts. A•tl lae added tlaa t ''•e ou,e a st, ec ial obligatioN - t , o t•o•• •lio laave been injured in tlae servl ce of tl,e United Sides." ~AON TO_ - , & ffV] '- :J j One of the newest ideas in building construction - is reported ~ f r o m the University of Toronto's Institute for Aerospace Studies. Two professors tilll 4..._ an1101u1cing th , e development of so-called "air-curtain ••closures" fat least, o• a laboratory scale. /These "ludldiags" - if s•cli they can be called - usiag Jet str•ams of air i,a place of walls a,ad ceili,ags. ~ -t ~ we~ . ,.~u So■ ,ed• iM#)ossible, ....._true - but K really •orlJ.o r ea a; u f1la&. I,adeed, tlle professors assert tlaat - t••oretically ( " • ••ale to- ndg•t 6• • 1•'1arly acco••odated. "/s••,,.••1 .,. t6e ,rofessora caUlog t•••r bral■ cltild - "t•e ul Ii male i• dyaamic s true tur•; a,a e,aclo••r - •H• •o o i s i ~ d 1 d £ . J at all." ~tAJ~ CJ ~1,~