From the White House -- some comment and clarification today -- on the role of American fighting men in Viet Nam. The President asserting 1.n a carefully-worded statement that he had. issued no new order -- that would widen the U.S. combat role in Viet Nam. statement -- The ,-•tittnux'f"&Yka -- in reference to a State Department announcement of yesterday, \iidely -- inte . rpreted as a change in American policy. ..0ne that presumably would cast I u.s. troops -- 1n a major combat role in Viet Nam. Not so -- eaid the President. Adding that the U.S. commander in Viet Nam -- has long had the authority to order emergency American support -- of Vietnamese forces in combat. / ,,M and when ~ wcwca necessary. If not -- said the President -- we might run the riek or "great loss of life" -- simply because of a delay in communications. r VIET NAM FOLLOW PRESIDENT Whatever the role of Amerlcan troops in Viet Nam -- there are twenty-five hundred more of them there today -- to help carry it out. The arrival of another detachment of Army combat engineers -- raising total u.s. military strength in Viet Nam -- to more than fifty-three thousand men. In the fighting itself -- two U.S. Army military advisers were slain today. In a guerrilla raid on the South Vietnamese Army Training center -- at Gia Bay. A Marine also sniper-fire -- killed by r-,e1•tt1' -- near the Chu Lai airstrip. Another battle reported about ninety-five milee eouthwest of Saigon. Government losses -- ea1d to total about sixty men. Communist dead -- about a hundred-and-sixty-five. Back in Saigon -- Premier Quat today appealed to South Vietnamese military leaders. Urging them to mediate the pol 1 t 1cal er is is -- that now threatens to topple hie government. But whether they will or not -- remains to be seen. TOKYO Mean~, in Japan -- a massive demonstration I proteeting American involvement in Viet Nam. More than twenty-eeven thoueand la& Leftist students marching on downtown Tokyo. Thirteen of them arrested in a brief claeh with riot police -- in a etreet near the American Embassy. Nineteen policemen -- injured in the fracae. Another twenty-five hundred police -- etanding guard tonight) _,Kround the American Embassy -- and the Japanese Diet. DOMINICAN Back in this hemisphere -- ~Dominican rebels today turned loose three A~erican soldiers -- held captive overnight in Santo Dom1ni~en had to , protect them from a str · eet mob of a thousand Dominicane -- shouting for blood. The Americans said to have appeared grim I,, --t- . l.f . but showing no s _ igns of fea~ pnally released into the custody of the Organization of American States -- which escorted them to safety. SPACE From the aircraft carrier Wasp -- a weighty report today on Astronauts Bd White and Jl■ McDlvitt. The two spaceaen -- who i,st a total of Twelve pounds during the flight of the Ge■inl-Po11r are 1ald to have repined all their lost weight -- as football players do; plllB -- a couple or pounds extra. The excess -- bl . UN.a on all t ~ t steak-and-potatoes -- they've been eating aboard the ...,_, Vaap. In aftJ case -- their poat-tllght Mdical teats -- are now over with the astronauts leas than a day away troll being reunited with their ta■iliea. And after that the big welcoae. CHOU Red China•e Premier Chou En-Lal -- dropped in unexpectedly today on Damaecus 1 .,..-Kfi' route home -- from that visit to Tanzania. The Red Premier t~t by Syria• s President Amin El Hafez} Jft(o apparently learned of plane tor the surprise stopover -- only a few hours ahead or ti•. At any rate -- Chou reiterated his support or North Viet Nam) ff.so ~ support ot Syria -- againat "repeated 11raeli aggression" -- as he put it. President Hatez -- in turn -- expreaeed hie "appreciation" of China•• stand in Viet Ru. Adding, however, that Syria is determined to maintain a policy -- ot strict non-aligrllent. IRAQ POLI,OIA CHOU In neighboring Iraq -- Kurdish rebels today claiaed to ha•e killed about eight hundred governaent soldiers -- so tar thla spring. The dead said~~ have been part or a rorce -- ot rorty or tlfty thouand governaent troops ln the aountalna ot lorthern Iraq. The rebels -- who are deaandlng autonOIIJ -- aet their own loaaea at Ju.at twenty-toui_{-n. NAPIES Poli . ce in Naplee today reported the arrest of eleven members -- of an international crime r1~ --Bfaling in counterfeit U.S. dollars, narcotics, stolen Jewelry, luxury automobiles -- and Just about anything else you'd care to mention. one a Belgian -- round 1n possession or a hundred and ~ counterfeit sixty thouaand dollars I worth l" u'AAllerican money. The re1t -- Italians. A search or their homee -- turning up quant1tte1 ot narcotics and d1amonde. ,is well as tour tone or ham -- and / other stolen toodltutta. AFRICA Delegates from twenty-seven African nations -- assembled today in Lagos, Nigeria. far an emergency meeting -- / of the Organization of African Unity. PUrpoee -- to decide whether to go ahead with the next regularly-scheduled meeting ot the O A U ~ set for next September -- in Accra, Ghana. Eleven African nations have alr•dy said they will t i ; · ~ boycott th~ - meeting -- if if ~held in A~cr~ ~ Y claim .._. the eatety or certain African leaders -- would be in great JeopaJ4y. Thie part ot a charge that Ohana•e Preaident - Nkrumah -- is tomenting acts of subversion -- in neighboring Atrican nations. ~~ one proposed solution,A.call tor settle•nt ot the dispute -- by means of a mediation committee --c011posed ot A- ~ African neutral~ MHk• 9rola:l' at present -- there apparently are none. SECRET Some secrets or the Secret Service -- disclosed today in Washington. Including a report on how the President•• chter bodygurad -- posed as a •nor letters in order to appear as inconspicuous as possible -- while~ shadowing the Prealdent at a recent college coaenc ... nt. Secret Senlcean R11tlls Younp&tod -- sald to ha•• looked 10 tapreast•e ln hla cap and gown -- that an onlooker was haard to whisper: "Look! !here goes Doctor Youngblood." !hen there's the story abo11t another Secret SerYtcean assigned to gm-ad PN1ldent Kennedy -- durinl a ""kend at t.he beach a rew years ago where he atteapted to blend ln -- •1th the crowd; in order to appear aa inconaplcuou aa poaslble. All dressed 11p 1n awl■ trunka -- J111t like all the other bathers; except Cor one thing: -- Dick -- he had a th1rty-e1pt caliber re•ol•er -- strapped to his bathing suit. KINT The little college town of Kent, Ohio -- not far from Cleveland -- the center of a liquor scandal today. With State Highway Patrolmen converging on the library at Kent State University -- of all places. In an attempt to wipe out -- a burgeoning trattic 1n false ldentjty cards. The phony cards -- used by minors to purchase liquor in <llio -- where the legal dr1nk1ng age 11 twenty-one • So what doee that have to do -- with the library? Juat thie. Under-age colleglane -- said to be turning out phony dupllcatee ot real identity cards -- at the llbrar1•1 photostatic chick-out counter. lr~t7iJ;.1J;;.':'f!: .t '.. . instant forgery~