MIDDLE EAST. Border tension in the Middle East -- again at fever pitch today. Egyptian and Israeli jets -- clashing in a 11 dog fight" over Israeli territpry; Israel later claiming -- two 11 kills." While back on the ground ...... another brief exchange of gunfire acros the Jordanian frontier. h , ~ - " ' - ~ k.1%4 Mean~, Jordan's tougtF,- young King Hussein "-- calling a newfonference today at his capital of Amman. There placing much of the blame for --7c . urrent strife -- on Sovi~gedly inflaming old hostilities. Hussein pledging, nevertheless, that Jo~dan will strike back in force -- in the event of another Israeli border attack. " We can only die once" -- said he. Adding: "We will dle well." A relate · d item -- from Washington. The United States today agreeing to sell Jordan -- Thi.rty-Six supersonic 1 .: :J --1.,"\ '\. F-One-on---Four Jet fighters ,._ ti- further attempt to strengthen Hussein ...... who 1s generally considered a moderating influence -- in the explosive Middle East. VIET N AM Hal f w a y round t h e world - · - in Viet Nam -- American troops, t ank s an d a r t : 1l l er y swept the field today; in a se · rles of widely- scattered clas h es -- w 1 t h Vi , et Cong guerillas. merican firepo w er -- claiming at least fifty-Three enemy dead. In the words of a tt .S. military spokesman -- "cutting down the opposition wherever it appeared." clash Perhaps t he most significantll1tu■A-- in the Mekong Delta 1 . .\lfftere a U.S. Navy landing craft put to rout -- an attempted enem . y ambush. This 1n an area entered in force by American fighting men -- only last week . UNITED NATIONS ' q .:...4. ' Once 2MJlft ~- as in each of the past Sixteen years -- Red China h a s been denied a seat i['the United Nations. As fully expected, the U.N. General Assembly today rejecting an Albanian motion that would have admitted Peking in place of Nationalist China. The vote -- Fifty-Seven-to-Forty-Six against admission. A far cry -- from the required Two-Thirds majority. Indeed, a o worse setback for Peking than last year -- when the vote was a Forty-Seven-Forty-Seven tie. ,1 ,~, l. !tw A ~erdict following an impassioned plea from Nationalist Chinese delegate Wei Tao-Ming -- against the seating of Red China. Wei declaring that Peking -- "is the greatest disruptive influence in the world today." Adding that oat admission of Red China -- would only bring in a " demolition crew" -- that could wreck the world body. In a later vote -- the General Assembly also rejecting that recent It a lian proposa1 1 calling for study of a possible "Two China" solution -- to the problem of seating Peking, The UNITED NATIONS --2 .United States -yt ,mtaaxmf.--K only one of the world's great powers -- to support the plan. W ASHI?I.TON FOLLOW UNITED NATIONS More news of Red China -- comes today from Washington. currently The U.S. State Department reporting that Peking -- i ~ -· getting ready__.,, ~i~~!1/ pu,axug-tc,explode its ilUU nuclear device. With the test likely to occur almost anytime "in the near future." This -- said Washington reflecting Red China's determination to move ahead in nuclear weapons development -- "in defiance of world opinion.,: No clue -- as to the kind of test we can expect. However, speculation centering on the possibility -- that the Chinese may ~guldej be ready to ~nch a new, improved nuc~ear-armed ~ missile. -..91\J.~ In effect -- a follow-up to their first such test - ~ s t month. BUD A PEST FOLLOW W .SHINGTON ... t ~:/; _ L u ~ C h i n a item from B~dapest scene of the Ninth Hungarian Communi.st Party Congress; where Soviet Party boss Leonid Brez h nev today renewed h is call for a world Communist summit meeti.ng to deal with Peking . Brezhnev emphasizing there is no desire -- to " excommunicate " the Red Chinese from the world Connun1st movement. Reports to the contrary -- "utter nonsense" said he. Adding that the sole purpose of such a meeting -- would be to "draw up" a frame "or guidance for the future;" with the ultimate goal -- that of unifying Communist aid to North Viet Nam . Meanwhile, a report from London that earlier opposition to the Communist summit meeting -- ls fast crumbling under {i_;-if. mounttng Soviet pressure. Kremlinologist . s ~ now predicting meeting wil l be held -- probably sometime late next year. the LBJ R A NCH A meeting between President Johnson and President 11az of Mexico -- set for Saturda y at the Texas-Mexican border. The announcement today -- from the LBJ Ranch. The Two leaoers to inspect work on the new International Amlstad Dam -- second Joint U.S. and Mexican flood control project on the Rlo Grande. On the domestic front -- President Johnson today approved a Three-Billion-dollar cutbe:k in Fede!'al spending -- through curr~ the remainder of the~•• fiscal year. Purpose -- said he - to keep from pouring "gasoline -- on the fire" of inflation. BURUNDI The world ' s only teen-age king - · - Ntare the Fifth of Burundi in Central Africa -- deposed toda . y in bloodless coup. The Nineteen-year-old ruler -- who oust . ad hls own father last ' ~ t · ~ · July -- himself ousted by his T"Prlme ■lnlater. Twenty-Seven- year-old Michael Micombero -- a former Army capta1n.f;;ho promptly announced that henceforth -- Burundi will be a republic. Maybe so -- but the new chief or state 1s still a Watusi - just like his predecessors; a me1111ber of that tn-lbe -- or giant, 1 Seven-foot warriors,~ -- though outnumbered near'ly..-fin-to- ,efie by the pygmy-like Bahutua -- ha . ve held their little countrymen in virtual serfdom for centuries; acd todJy's coup -- ta not expected to change that. BONN - At Bonn in West Germany -- a rich Bavarian lunch today for Chancellor-designate Kurt-George K1esinger of the Christian Democrats -- and National Chairman Willy Brandt or the Social Democrats. The menu featuring bolled beef and buttered noodles -- a little strudel -- ~d,, a taste of humble _!>le. After years of tearing at each other's throats Kiesinger and Brandt forging the last details of their "grand ✓ alliance ;" for final presentation tomorrow -- to both their respective parties. If approved, as expected, the new coalition govemaent as of Thurtlday nigh~ will take power --)--xm,..axar B . cLCHEN T ~ e ~mertcan Pol·r Societ y has J ust elected Bernt Balcnen an honornry member the ninth person to be onored in this way. Colonel Bale· en who is now an A merican citizen, was associated with the great Amundsen at one time. Then Byrd lured him to ;.merica and .e was the chief pilot on Byrd 1 s famous , trans-Atlantic flight, not many days after Lindbergh flew the \ ',y I .4tlant ic solo. Balchen also piloted Byrd 1 s plane on the flight over the South Pole, Colonel Balchen also November twenty-Nine, Nineteen Twenty N6ne. played an-tmpoi-t~nt role ~n World ~ar Two, l build in_g airbases in Greenland, rescuing fliers down on the Greenland Icecap, creating an Arctic rescue squadron, serving as ' ,:,{_ . ~ ~~ ~ io"t"-.R ~ Sc~.,.;,.... e~~ advisor to our government(on Pol~r matters: and,only recently he took part in the first flight ever made around the wo , rld ) ' -l"'-~~~, (?_f)_ ~ ~ - by way of bot · Poles, 1 , a year ago.~~u•••r. llrwteen, NtneteeA 81X6: ~ Ptv:a:. CHICAGO stories of young love -- and romance that conquers all. Which makes this next -- a pleasure to report. It's the announcement today from Chicago -- that pretty, vivacious Sharon Percy -- will soon become the bride of John D. Rockefeller the Fourth. The bride-to-be -- Twenty--One-year-old daughter of Republican Senator-Elect Charles Percy of Illinois. Her fiance .... a strapping lad of Twenty-Nine -- nephew of Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York -- and Republican Govemor-eleot Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas. John D. the Fourt~--61;self recently elected to the West ~ by his own aLdmission -- n Virginia l e g i s l a t u r ~ rs oc efeller Democrate _,,, All of whlch proves -- that love knows no party lines. I. I i 1