WHM HOUSE Good evening everybody. FRI. MARCH 14, 196 9 (Dallas Townsend) It was news conference day at the White House - and an i■portant ane for Richard Nixon. First and fore110st, ot course - the President's decision on anti-ballistic ■iaailea. A Solo■on-like verdict - providing for limited deployaent of an A.B.M. system. This new "Safeguard .. syste■ - as the President called it - "a defenafive syste■ only" - Designed solely to safeguard our ~wn nuclear deterrent tore• ill /-agalnst~he threat or attack troll R11asla, troil China, or even by acc1•ent. The President going on to say -this wo11ld "in no way delay progress toward al'IIS talks." A dding it ls, 1n tact - "the best step we can take to provide tor our future security;" to prevent another ar■s race - "to prevent war. " lext question - Vietnaa; add what about his pro1111e or "appropriate response " - if the Coaunists continue their current offensive. Said the President - slowly, carefully: WHIT!!: HOUSE - 2 "At my last news conference - I issued what waa widely interpreted aa a warning. It will be my policy as President· - he continued - .. to issue a warning only once. And an,thinf in the tutur! that is donw - will be done; there will be no addltlonal wamlng. 0 Signlflcantly, he later added there la "no prospect for reduction ot U.S. torcea 1Ji Vietnam - 1h the foreseeable future." Aa tor the pursuit ot peace at Pdis - the President refused to coaent on secret talks, if any. Saying; "I truet there will be private talks - I think that•a where the war will be settled - ln private. But public dlacuaalon or significant progress along the lines or private talks - I will not indulge in" - said he. Tuming to the doaestlc front - the subject of c•pua violence - next up. The President noting that a hundred and twenty-two students recently al"l'ested at San Francisco state College - were recipients of Federal aide. "I preter VHM HOUSE - 3 not to go nto it now " - aa1d he. Adding, however: ·· I will have a statement to Mke on that - a4ondaJ or tueada,. ·· A tinal note; Richard llxon publicly 1nv1ttng tol'ller Preside n t Johnson - to take part 1il ratlflcatlon ceNaonlea tor that ne~ treaty to ban the spread ot nuclear weapona. Ir. llxon saying: ··1e · · - IINDlng Lpdon Johna• - "atarted it in hla Adlilliiatratlon - and I tblnk he should partlolpate when•• ratltJ lt ... CAPE ICEDEDY At Cape Kennedy - a hero's welc011e today tor the three Apollo-Nine astronauts. Touching down on U.S. soil - for the first ti11e since blaat-otr a week ago Noncla7. The spacecraft co..ander - Ji■ llaDivitt telling 101118 tive hundred apace workers: " I gueaa it'• only been a tew aboat days - but lt seeu like a lttetllle to 111." DaYe Scott observing: "Ve couldn't have done lt without you.·· Ruty SchweUcart adding: A 1U.ght llke this - .. takea a lot IION than luck." Atter t~t - on to Housten - and a war11 reunion ot ta■lllea and trienda. MIDDLE EAST In the Middle East - tension mounts. I s raeli air strike today - &g:\lnat three Arab guerilla bases 1n Jordan. Coupled with an unconfiraed report that 118ny Israeli tankl - uy be moving up to the Suez Canal. Reverse side - Iraqi troops reported arriving 1n Syria. !heir ■iaslon - said to be the forging ot a new eastern tront - against Israel. PARIS Paris - the wind-up of a two-day Meting - between French President DeOaulle and West Qeran Chancellor lieslnger. The two Mn agreeing to a Joint atlldy - on the poaslbllltJ or building a broader Western European c0111unlt1 - including, perhaps - sa•ti■e - Britain. In the lnterl■, though - both pledging to strengthen the existing COIIIOn llarket. 3UOG~TED LEAD-II TO THOMAS TAPE Lowell Tho•a 1a up near the Arctic ~ircle tonight - 1n northeffllllOat lorway; fro■ whence we expect to hear tro■ hla - the first or next week. In the aeant1• - another special report. SubJect: Gold. Lowell .... GOLD Would you like to find a pot or gold, •ybe 1n your own back yard? Many people would gladly go to the end or the rainbow to find one. Dr. Grosvenor of the Jlatlonal Geographi~ tells ■ea new chemical eleaent has been discovered which •kes it ■uch easier now to tlnd gold. It' callet Caltromlwn. He says 1t gives otr ne11trona - 1011 what neutrons are don•t you? I'• atrald I'd have dlttlou1,, explalnlng. The Ato■lc Energy Co•iaslon haa coae up with thla idea. You Just walk around with this new lnatruaent, and audll~nlJ, you find gold, or, it will help you dlacover tln, aodi1111, iron, cos,,er, fluorine, aluminum, vanad11111 and uranl1a. Of course they don't tell us where bo go to locate all this or how bo get the gold out when you apot lt. How mach of this rare chemical C a lifomlum la needed? Oh, just a speck, s•ller than the period you uke with the GOLD - 2 typewriter at the end of the sentence. Among the people invtlved in the discover or this are s011e of the world's most distinguished physicists. Nobel Prize Wlmer Edwln McMillan of the University ot California for one. And Glenn Seaborg; they •de it by b011bardlng an ele■ent aalled curium, wlth tons of hellwn, and what they woundup with, they naaed for their state - Calitomlllll, So, as the saying goes: Callfomlwn here we coaae. So l q . KARACHI Today in troubled Pakistan the e•rgence or tabled Air Marshal Asghar Khan - as a •Jor stablllzlng force. The Marshall annouclng at Karachi - formation ot a new Jutlce ~ Party. At,d its expressed purpose - lta oilly purpose - aald he: To p~event polltlctl exploltatlon or the present crlals - tro■ either the right or the left. A legendary war hero - Aaghar already baa the support or the Pakistani ■llltary. He la also hlgbly poplllar with the peasants tor his ettorts to nationalize tbe holdlnga ot Pakistan' a wealthiest tulllea. la tor hl• dllvotlon to counlry - no question about that. During the brlet Indo-Paklatanl war ot llneteen-Slxty-PlH - lagbar refusing to deal with the ene111 even to save hla own father - who was then held captive 1n Dldla. JAKARTA Former President Sukamo of Indonesia - who was once acclaimed the " father or his country " - cast ln the role or " father of the bride " today 1n Jakarta. Making hla first public appearanee 1n aeatly a year - to attend the woddlng of his eighteen-year-old daughter. Thia ln a Noale■ cere110ny - at the h0111 or her ■other - the flrat or Sukarno's four wlvea. Proving atlll another coaedown - for the deposed President. Even aa here ln the west - the "fat½ or ·· rather or the bride" all but lgnoNcl - we are told. Ignored by everybody - that la - except hls aecurlty guard. BIRMINGHAM With the advent of spring Just a week away .. this next 1s perhaps appropriate to the , aeas , on: A . collectio . n ot youthful answers to the que . st on - "Whit la Teen-Age Love? ... as drawn from a group of nlnth•graders at B1ralngbaa, Michigan. Said one: ·•Teenaage love ls tihe type : ot love • that begins with a cr111h and ends with a r1a · 1c11lo1111 arg1111ent - that ahollld never happen at all. ·· Sald another .. a tioJ, obviously: .. Teen-age love la mostly Just a tiunch or .tan a tutr - to a tay , , m • w'itb the Gt>her guys • " Pe~haps best ot all though - this . answer: "Teen-age love ls very a . hort and sweet - well, soaetlmea . not ao sweet • well, sometbles not so short either. ·• Which see• to cove · r the subject fairly well for eyerybody - grownups as well as teenuers. Good Night.