SENA TE 0c lober 9, 1969 Mike Wallace (Tak• from carbolt copy of scrl/>t - ori.ginal lost.) For Clement Haynsworth - and more so for Richard Nixon - a telling victory today before tlle Senate Judtcta-ry Committee : rollich v oted nea-rly two-to-one - to co,rfirm J•d6• Bay,as wo-r tll 's n om i,ra tio,r to ilte S•f>-re "'e C ou-r t; tll e-re by • e,ul i,e tl,e matter on to t"e full Se,aate - .,,,ere a final vote ts expected,,. about two weeks . Still to come, of course - a floor debate - exf>ectetl to be lteated at times. No,retlleless, today's vote clea-rhcg , ..... ,,.., a major ll11rdle - t"wa-rth,g a ,cumber of co,,u,eittee.. ts a wllo bitterly ot,t,ose tlle Bay,cswortll apf>oi,ct,,,e,ct. Leatli,eg tlte Judge's SNf>f>orters to predtct r10111 - • • will .,,,. co,,firmalioft ; if "ot llaPldily - at least, b y a r1a-r-ro111 ,,,,,,,.,,,.. DALLAS FOLLOW SENATE Just to make sure though - the Administration stepped up today its pro-Haynsworth campaign. Vice Preside11t Spiro Agneto asserti11g on a visit to Dallas - tltat "every cltarge . against" tlte Judge "llas been investigated and disproved." This following a,a eat'lier remark - that lie was "asltamed" of wllat lie called an attempt at "claaracter assassi11atio11" .. during ,,,e just-completed committee lteari11gs. PARIS On the peace front - Paris - another apparent exercise in futility today. Henry Cabot Lodge - o,ace more I> le ad i ,a g for j o i,, t agree m en t on free el e c ti o ,as i ,a So" t la Viet,aam. TIie Communist side - 011ce more t11r,ai,eg lllm do•• /lat. INS tead - at,peali,ag dlrec tly to ti, e A merica,a t,Mllllc; urgl,eg l,ecrea,e, oppos itio11 to Ile war - as a mea,as of forci,ag U.S. accepta,ace of Co,nmu,aist 1>ro1>osals. SAIGON FOLLOW PARIS Meantime, in sa,gon - the U.S. Command today reported its lowest weekly casualty toll - in nearly tltree years. Tlae figures sllo10ing sixty-four men killed,,. actio11 - as co,nt,ared 10itll ni11ety-five Ille week before. Tllis said to reflect a co11ti11•i11g battle l•ll - tlaat co•ld lead to f11-rtlier u. S. 10itlldra10al• ,,. tlle 11ot-too-dista,at f11t11-re. WHITE HOUSE FOLLOW SAIGON Here at home - President Nixon today presented the Medal of Honor - to four Army heroes of Vietnam. Laudhag i I their courage - but calling it a tragedy they hai'l to come to tu 1 fore during time of war. Ti• Preside,et tJae,r we,et o,e to proclaim tie cere•o•y - a time to "dedicate ourselves ane111 to bringi,eg tie f>eace 111e all 1110,et." A,ed ie added: "I am co,afide,at tllat tie cllalle,ages of peace •ill u,ecover great lleroes In America'• yo•,ag t,eot>le - J••t as tie cllalle,ages of •ar llave 11,ecovered lleroes. " PENTAGON FOLLOW WHITE HOUSE Elsewhere in Washington - Defen , se Secretary Melvin Laird - front and center. Disclosing today that American commanders in Vietnam were ordered months ago - to turn over co , mbat operations to the So1tth Vietnamese "as rapidly as possible." Laird also said that the current lull in the Jiglating - is e11couragi11g to a certain extent. Be added, hot11ever, that afly "s ig11a l" of Hanoi's peaceful in tent - wou Id better be made at P4ris t0ltere it really counta. (SUGGESTED LEAD-IN TO THOMAS TAPE SLUGGED "CHINN H01 Next - Lowell Thomas. Reporting again tonight - from the Hawaiian Islands. Lowell ... L. T. Tape Insert - unedited CHI N HO (3) Hello El erybod Ha e y ou e, e 1 · Ilea rd of Chi1111 Ho ? No. Well, t,ull up a chair and I ' l l tell y ou u hat little I k,iow about Chinn Ho. He's a11 Hall . aiian Chinese, a11 expert at organizing Buis, a11d a Hui has no relation to a hippie . A Bui is a syndicate, a11d e e r s in c e Ho fin is Ired Hon o l u l u 's Mc Kin le y Hi g II Sc II o o I , t II a I' as far as he went, with what is usi,ally referred to as "Tl,e Great Class of Ninetee11 Twenty Fo11r" Chinn Ho laas bee• organizing Huis, syndicates, and Iris fortune has bee11 mounting and mo11nting and mounting. Tire tell me the Nineteen Twent y- Four higlr sclrool class turned out a high perce11t of Hawaii's present day leaders, one of whom is Chinn Ho, and his helicopter today flew me o er the mo11ntains of Oahu to see his latest Bui lrere in th is land of Queenf ilia luk ilan i , King Ka mah am eha and Dulle Kahanamoku. J • . Ii (J 1 ( , .,,(I u I fl , , ' n I i < n , c - P 1 1 c 1 , , . . , , , (} , , ( 1 , , l 1 • f t 1 l B I , I · 1JI • , . , 11 0 ( I < ~ · b 1 t ( " ( 11 I I 0 • I, G 1 , " • I J ( I II , f I 1' I ' - . . , f O • I I I fl lz i c n , Jl I , • I I . , '1 I. I l I i t h , , t h I rn u ,i c u · • p c ta , u l a, . 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Wester,a obsef'vef's citl11g as a11 obvio•• reaso,e - tire g,.o.,l•g ,..,,.. •• ,. of C%eclas fl•ei•g to ff'eedom. AMSTERDAM-BRUSSELS For the men of Apollo-Ele v en - a double-header today . Astronauts Neil Armstron g , Buzz Aldri11 a11d Mil,e Collins - starting the da y will, a slot, at Amsterdam ha s1uu1y Holland. Tlleir greeting tllere i11cludi11g an Amsterdam t,olic• ba,ad - t,layi11g Dixiela,ad music; followed by Jive hours - of t,aradi,ag, t,omt, a,ad circumsta11ce. A,ad after tllat - o,. to Brussels for more of tlae same. F LUN A final item - from Falun, Sweden; i here one of that ountry 's leading lee/ grouf>s reported toda - it ha just lost an American order t orth Thirt ,-Fi e Million; an order that was u on in stiff comf>etilion - that was all but signed, sealed and deli ered. Reason for the cancellation - we are told: Sweden's announcement last week - that it plans to give North Vietnam Forty Million in economic aid ov er the next three years. The prospective American buyer quoted as saying: "When Sweden /)ledges money to a country with which the United States is at war - there is •no reason to fulfill the contract."