STEEL Tho threat of a nationwide steel strike averted at Pittsbureh, - today A for at least four months. The strike put off by an extension of the steelworkers 1 existing contract -- with a temporary but immediate pay increase. The compromise calling for an eleven-and-a-half cent pay boost per hour -- effective through~ Firet. With negotiations to continue in the meantime -- toward a totally new contract. However, the steelworkers remain free to strike thirty days after August First -- if no settlement has yet been reached by that time. VIET NAM There 1s no need for the use of nuclear weapons ln Viet Nam. That word today from Defense Secretary McNamara. Putting the damper on anonymous weekend reports -- that the United states wae weighing the po~sible use of atomic weapons in vtet !fa■. McNamara asserting that "there la no military requlreMnt for the_µee of nuclear weapons in the current situation." ("And so useful purpose can be eerved" -- said he -- " by epecula tion on remote contingenciee.") Adding, ho"8ver, that America will continue ite b011b1ng or C011aun1at North Viet la■ -- and enlarge ite eea patrol. (Tbe Detenee se . cretary e■phae1z1ng tbat these have proved "ettective" means -- or 41erupt1ng North v1etnue1e eupply 11ne1 to the aouth.) Sec. McNamara also confirmed a report rr011 Saigon -- the one that a regular combat unit or the North Vietnaaeee Ar■y -- haa now 1nfl\lt19 ted into south Viet Nam. But thie -- VIET NAM - 2 said McNamara -- lE a clear indication that the communists have ulready "used up or dried up" -- their supply of military recruit:: ln South Viet Nam. Communi.st lossee over the first £l i 1J,) four years -- said vO total eighty-nine thousand men. ~ UNITED NAT IONS FOLLOW VIET NAM ~ ~ use of atomic weapons A- also under discussion today at t he Un i ted Nations. There -- the firet sees ton of the U .N. Dls a rmame _ nt there, too -- Russia Commission -- since Nineteen Sixty. And offer~ to join in an international / pledg e -- that it will not be the first to use nuclear weapons. ~ Nothing new in that. But the Russian propoealAconsidered highly significant at this time -- in view of rioing East-weet tension over Viet Nam. Fi,00D The raging Mississippi today battered at reinforced - / ~ a four-city ~ still protecttq ~~ metropolitan area of Iowa and Illinois. The~industrlal complex -- embracing levees and d lke s . . - ·- Rock I~ land, MO! ine a nd East Moline, Illinois -- on one s 1de of the ram pa ging river. Davenport, Iowa -- on the other. Two thousand persons already driven from their homes -- with hundreds of volunteers racing from one danger area to another -- in an attempt 'to prevent wholeeale flooding. A ,erilabi• wall of sandbags -- thrown up around the Davenport ~ . water works. Meanwhile, the river still climb• -- and '<l expected to hi.t a record crest of twenty-t , wo-and-a-half feet sometime Wednesday. KLAN - At Hayneville, Alabama -- those three Ku Klux K}ansmen today pleaded innocent -- to the Civil Rights murder of Mrs. Viola Lluzzo. The three men also granted separate trials -- the first of these to begin next Monday. The defendante accompanied to their hearing today by Robert Sbelton -- Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan • . Shelton later v,~cing a veiled threat -- against the undercover agent for the FBI -- who turned them in. Said Shelton -- "a man who lets the greed of money push him like this -- that same greed w111 bring his destruction." That from the Imperial Wizard -- of the Ku Klux Klan. RIOTS Two violent anti-American demonstrations -- todaJ in the Far East. One in Phnom Penh -- the capital of cambodla. The other in Tokyo. At Phnom Penh -- a mob of some two thousand screaming ~tudents -- attacking the U .s. Embas~y there with rocks, ink bottles and rotten tomatoes. Smashing virtually every window from the second to the fourth floors. Tearing down the Embassy's American flag -- and trampling it in1he street. The demonstrators protesting an article -- in an American news magazine. The article a lleging -- among other things that Cambodia's Queen Mother Moseamak -- operates a string of bordellos on the outskirts of town. In Tokyo -- more than twenty-five thousand Left Wing students -- swarming through downtown streets -- in an attempted march on the u .s. Embassy there. This a protest against u.s. policy in Viet Nam. The demonstrators met, however -- by four thousand, five hundred steel-helmeted police. lt 1 •• t:-Dlldp• DOMINICAN Noar chao~ r oi ens toni~ht ln the Dominican Republic __ wlth rival military factlom: stL . l battling for control of the eovernment . rrhe l'ivllian junta headed by Donal Reid Cabral . ;tr-d.,JiJ,tK. ,AtR_l . -- overthrown ove . r the weekend. The fight now "' 0-011 whether ·v- / 1 ouEted president Juan Bosch -- will be permitted to return from exile -- to resume office. In the confusion, at least twelve perf:ons killed so far -- with no end in sight. That Tunisian call for Peace with I1~ae1--and the resulting desert blcklash--aaid today to have d~atroJed coapletely--what little re■a1ned or Arab unity. Cairo aourves reporting that Tunisian President Bourgu1ba--now al■ost certainly will 101' send a representative to the next Arab SU1111it Neettng. Indeed, other Arab countr1e1 now aaid to be 1ncreae1ngly reluctant--to have that ••ting take place at all. Jlllanwhile, Bourguiba•a Israeli peace bid 11 1een ae .. rt ot hie own long-ranp plan tor tbl Jllbgreb--a grouplilg ot uab nation■ 1n northern and •■tern Atrioa. Bourguiba ■uppoeedlJ anxious to d11u1oc1ate biMelt tro■ tbl Ilruli proble■--llblch hi regards•• e11entlallJ a Jllddle Saetern proble■• Re 11 aaid to dre• ot one daJ Joining llorocco, Algeria, Libya and hie 01111 !lan1e1a--1n a we1tern Arab Pederation that would be known a, tbt Greater Jlabgreb. Juet one proble■• Iara• 1 won I t cooperate • In tbl ARAB.5 - 2 latest news from Jeru:::alem -- Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol -- -~ reJect~Bourguiba•s l&boab peace plan. The proporsal that I~rael permit .Palestinian Arab refugees to return to their homeland -- in return for Arab recognition of Israel. ~shkol asserting that the well-being of Palestinian Arab r , efugees -- demands that they remain among their own peopl, PARADE F om Berlin -- East Berlin, that is -- news today of plan~ for an unprecedented parade. The Russian and East German armed forces -- to march together through the eame tha~once rang to the hob-n::.iled boots of Nazi GermanJt It 1 s to be the first time that soldiers of the two nations -- have ever held a Joint , parade in East Berlin. Th.is remarkable demonstration of communist may solidarity -- set for May Eighth. In case yoi)Ahave forgotten -- that I s the Twent,ieth Anniversary of V-E Day. The Russians celebrating -- Victory in Europe. The East Germans celebrating • ( ~ they call fl a,. "Liberation Dey." If nothing else -- the · occaeion p,11b1,1 proving once again that -- everybody loves a parade. Behind the Iron curtain __ "everybody" meanlng absolutely-everybody - IIDIA India todfy ordered a general troop ■ob111zat1on -- a■1d reports of new fighting in the ~ann or 111tch. Thia the delolate border area, on the Arabla Sea -- where Indian and Pak11tan1 troope have clashed repeatedlJ 1n the paat aa t•• da11. In tbl latest ak1r■1eh -- a tank-eupported br1pde or Pak11tanl troope wae eald to have ••abed etx ■1111 1ne1de Indian Territory. !bl ••• Delhi govern•nt calling lt -- "• verJ eer1oue 11tuat1on." Karachi calla the Indian report, -- greatlJ engprated. A govern•nt 1poke1un adding that Pak11tan 1 1 41•1•Jonal allltar coa■andere -- al though carrentlJ a11eabl1d in the cltJ ot Ra•lplndi -- are not plamtng a •r. "!hlJ are" -- 1ald hi •• "I i■ply playing golt."