PEKING-MOSCOW Ser,l. ll, 1969 Dallas TOWMffltl Good e v ening everybod v . East meets West - a,a •11•xt,ected Communist summit confere11ce ha Pelti11g. Soviet Premier Kosygin malti,ag a detour to tlle R•d Clli11••• cat,ital - after attendi,ag Ille Hanoi fu,aeral of Ho Clai Mi11II. Co11ferri11g briefly witle Red Clli11a's Premier ClloN E11-Lai - b•fore le••di,eg ou baclt to Mosco,o. All 1111• at fir•t de,aied - but later co,afirmed today by tlae Kremlin. TIie Soviets adding only tlaat "boll, side• fra,.l,ly excllanged ot,i,aion, - a,ad ltad a mutually •••Jul co,averaation." Perltat,, sig,aificantly - Ille brief 1tateme11t avoi6g t11e •se of word• s11clr as "friendly" or "cordial". Ho•ever, Ille fact tllal tltey met al all - a comt,lete •"rt,ri•• to Western diplomatic observers. As to what effect ii will have 011 the li11gerh1g Cleinese Soviet split - that we ca,s only wait and see. WHITE HOUSE Fro m tla e W la He Hou s e - an o l la er , u r pr i, e a ,a ,a o u,. c e ,,, en t disclosing tlaat Pre,ident Nixon will addres, tire U,aited Natio,as Ge,eeral As,embly - next Thursday; tlru, becomi,eg tlae first cllief of state - to put,,, a U.N. at,t,eara,ace tlais se,,io,e. Tlae Presid•,el also to meet pri v atel y - we are told - a,itlr U. N. delegate, from otlaer co•,etries; heel udi,eg - pos,ibly - Soviet Foreig• Mi,eister Gronay/to; altlaoMgla ,aollai,ag official •• yet. STRATEGY At the White House again - tliree names were added today - to tlte list of those attending that high-level Vietnam strategy meeting tomorrow. Tlte trio including Vice Prealdnt St,iro Agnew - Attorney GeNeral John Mitcltell - and o member of tire U.S. r,eace del,gation al Paris. Al tl1e same time - tlte White Houae cautio11a agai11at - will Not - be followed by a•y immediate ne.,,, break. ,,,e f>oasibility of further U.S. troop wilhtlra•al• - ,,,e w•1t• Bo••e adding it could be day• - or even weelt• - before tller•'• VIETNAM FOLLOW STRATEGY Balf-a-11Jorld away - it was back to business as usual. Tle b111iness of war - ;,.eluding some forty Viet Cong rocket a,id ,norlar attacks over tltf ast twe,ity-four ltours. Tltes11 agah,at targets - stretclring mainly from Saigon all ,,,e way to Cambodia. In turn - Allied forces stepp;,.g up tlreir ow,a military activity. Tire U.S. Command .stressing it llad ,ao a lt er" a ti v e - in v i e 10 of t I, e en e m y re - es ca la ti on . (SUGGESTED LEAD-IN TO THOMAS TAPE SLUGGED ''RAIN") Honolulu and the Hawaiian Is landa - first s to-,, Jo,,- Lowell Thomas on his current round-the-world tour. And one I Hawaii's natu'Yal t,henomen , a - tlu~ subject of anotlter at,ecial report tonight. Lowell . . . (L . T. Tape Insert - unedited) Hello everybody: After five years of drought over much of the United States - the problem this past summer as you know has been rain, rain and still more rain! And wlaere .. - . I am at this moment it rained the most of all. Here in Hawaii . ... on my way to the Far East. Year after year - and again this year - Mount Waialeale on the island of Kauai, has been the wettest spot on earth. Average annual rainfall - more than four l1111,dred and seventy inches. That's a total of nearly eiglltJ feet or enough to "drown" a good-sized office building. Next closest to Mount Waialeale here in Hawaii is the little Indian village of Cherrapunji near the Burma border. Cherrapunji - like Waialeale - is at the precise point where the jungle meets the mountains; and Cherrapunji gets about four hundred and fifty iches of rain - each year. Oh, by the way - a reminder from the National Geographic Magazine tells us that raindrops are almost RAIN - 2 never tear-shaped, as we generally t,icture them. Actually they are like snowflakes - they come in all shapes; all different - some like hot dogs - some look like dumb-bells some l ,ke telephone receivers; and some as you k,sow -just like t,e,s,sies from Heaven. Solo,sg . . . . . . (SUGGESTED FOLLOW TO THOMAS TAPE SLUGGED "RAIN" ) Tlaa,a . k you, Loa,ell. Back to tlle ,re,os . . . . SINAI I" t II e M id d l e Ea s t, E g y f> ti a ,, j e ts a t tac It , ,, g Is r a e li f'ositio"s toda y - in tire occuf>ied Sinai Desert. Accordi"g to Cairo - a ret>risal for earlier Israeli attaclls - across tl,e Gulf of Suez; attacks 1111,icll 111ere tllemselu,s billed - as Israeli ret>rlsal raids . ,,.o,.III• - llaat Egyt,lia11 t,la11es laave e11teretl Israeli air •Pac• I• stre,cgtla. Israeli Jets - q•icllly rlsl•g lo tlae claall••K•· 111 tlae res•lll11g dog figltts - boll, sides losh1g a '""""•r of Israel clalMS II sltot tlo.,,. d•ve11 Egyt,tla,c t,l•••• a,rd lost o•e of its 0•11. Egypt claifflS it sltol tlo.,,. fo•r Israeli t,la•es a,cd lost 1110. AUTO PRODUCERS Two of the count,.y 's Big Tlr,.ee auto p,.oduce,.s had majo,. announcements today in Det,.oit. Gene,.al Moto,.s - numbe,. one - disclosed tllat its Nineteen-Seventy models will cost - on the a v e,.age - about a l11,,ad,.ed-ar,d .. t11Je,aty-five dolla,.s mo,.e than tire Nh1eteen-Sixty-Nine models. But tlte ,.eal s1,oclle,. canse f,.om Fo,.d Moto,. compar,y. Tlte P,.esider,t of tlte compar,y - Semon Knudsen - bette,. l,,aoa,11 as Bur,llie - ltas bee,a fi,.ed. Kr,udser, a,ar,ounced tllat ,aea,s Iii ms elf. Be said He,ary Ford,Becond, Cllairman of t1te Boa,.d, told,,,,,. about it last a,eell. T,,e Fifty-Six-year-old K••tl•en joi11ed Fo,.d Motor comt,ar,y o,aly r,ir,eteer, mo,at•• ago - l•avi11g Ge,aeral Motors to tal,e tl,e Ford ,,,.esidency. K,audser, sayi11g tltat tlle relatio11shiP was pla,a11ed to last ten years. Addi11g "In all /ai,.ness to my reputation a11d my family, I want to make clear lhat todays decision, i,a my opinion, is ruaoarra,st«I in view of tlle accomplishments tire comf>any has made duri,ag my brief tenure. " Knudsen going on to say "As an expene,aced AUTO PRODUCERS - 2 businessma11, I am Puzzled by this sudden a11d u,cezt,ected action." A11d tlte t,uzzle laas11't bee11 cleared ut, by Hc11ry Ford Seco11tl. He merely express es at,t,reciatio,e for K11•tlse,a '• service• - a,ed a,e,aou,aced a ,aew cort,orate arra,ag.,. e,at """•r ., la icll tit ere •ill be tlar•• ot,era thag grout,•. ALASKA T Ii e s ta I e o I A las k a is up a ga i,, s t a mos t ., 11 , , · s., al problem - liow to st,e,sd ,sine hundred millio,a dollars. T"at~ ,,,e amount of money ,,.at was bid for le•••• of state-o•,eed la• o,s Alaaka's oil-ricl, nortll alof,e. T"e mo,sey ,oill be i,svested i,e US Treasury securities - drawi,ag i,sterest estimated at close to Forty-Five T"ousa,ul Dollars a day. B• t •Ila t to do •i ti, tll e t,ri11c i t,al - Illa t 's t" e q ••• tio,e . A•d set ut, several atudy committees to co,ssider Ille alter,eativ••· Moat t,ot,•lar t,rot,o•al ao far - ret,eal Ille •tale slaar• ,,. Ila• mo,,ey . " It'• ki,sd of dilemma yo" don't come aero•• very oft•" Ill•• e days. Good Nigltt.