Thurs. June 23, l972 POLITICS Senator McGovern tonight has a legal figllt on Iris hands - to keep from losing some of tire two hundred-and- seve11ty-one California convention delegates Ire won in tlae recent West Coast primary. Even though California's Presidential primaries It. ad be en set up on a win,aey -talle -all basis four losing candidates - Humphrey, Jackson, Chisholm, and Wallace - have filed a lawsuit seellh,g to st,llt the delegatio,i and give each a proportionate slice. --o-- In Warrenton, Virginia, the F C C ruled today tllat broadcasters are not required to give the oppositlor, Ille right to respond to addresses on radio a,ad TV by the President of the United States A spokesman says Ille agency does not want to act in an area where the F C C feels Congress has the prerogative . --o-- "'enator Henry Bellmon of Oklahoma - speaki,ag Politics - 2 before a Senate sub-committee today argued that the present American system of chasing Presidents is - quote - "a national disgrace and an international joke A that sllould be scrapped as soon as possible . " Unquote. The Oklallonia,a introduced one more in a stack of constitutional ame,adme,ats which wa.ld do away with the State presidential primary and conventions ; substitute instead one national primary . REVENUE SHARING The House tonight passed the controversial revenue sharing bill to provide more than five billion in Federal aid to states and cities needing money for various problems. The bill now goes to the Senate. AGNES won't quit Agonizing . Agnes - /he tropical stoYm that - ~ e d the f!_OSt s:oast 10ilh up to t10elve i,iclies of rain, creating flash floods from tlae Carolirtas ~~tbdlM~ to New York)e•tl tClltf ■s~more than twenty-five. 1 Thousands fled their homes as lna•d ■ IA rivers left lheiY banks in eleven states. The death t o l l ~ Storm Agnes' week long Yampage has passed forty and A still mounting. NUCLEAR Presldent ... Nixon called a news conference toda )• and sald t hat lf Congress fails to approve hls recommendations for a .,,,. . new offensive weap · ons system - then all chances of a broad arms agreement "'ith t'he Russlans NJill be vlrtually eliminated. He -f~ pointed out A the Soviets intend to go ahead wltla their 11Jeapons development despite t lae limited af"ms curb recently agreed to. A■•I &-:::z:;. t h Rr,sslau will soon be ahead of us If Congress fails to act. In Mosco•, .+z: _,,,.,, ......... , •• Pravda~ underscored the President's co,ecern. It said Russia will go on preparlng for a possible nuclear 111ar "'" h the United States because the recently concluded agreemen t 11Jith Wasliinglo1J does not elimlnate the threat of Atomic a t tack. And in Gene v a , Japanese spokesmen used the NJo r d "deplorable" in describing the continued NUCLEAR - 2 a I m osph eYic I es ling of nuc leay IDeapons by~ hina and France;-~ the word "regrettable" "" referrl•g to on-sul•R undergYound t r~ ts by the United States and • • • ' Russia. Say the Japanese - these tests lead only to incYeased inteYnational tension and envlro•me,atal contamination. ffe~AJ~-·- ~ P l t ~ ~ - n d to•lght co•es " ,residents) ~ t i } ~ti.., IDOYd that th~••• . . ••••;..of tt,at storled"-land ~ Sc, .""?a..c:.~ \\A• a,, famous by Mutiny on the Bounty · - aye leavl•g tllelr A ~ ~ t11Jo hundyed year refuge. TIiey fe r the hnml•e•t French nuclear test ~ cantaml~ate the fish •ti•_. ,, I he '}' rel y on as their main supply of lfF rnl1 food. VIETl•:.4.M Norlh Vietnamese infantry - sut,po , ,,.ted by dozens of tanks - today b,,.oke through the government defense line in Quang Tri Province - then battled South Vietnamese paratroopers on tlae ,P(ain# be l ow the My Chanh River. America• ...,.pla•e• Joined in the defense of the •rea - against a Com,na,aist #At- ~ .. push/\ s o m e ~ • "'ff-tJ, the start of an offerulve against the ancient capital of.,_ Hue. f,a Saigon, U S st,okesmen say eight .,. A,nerican soldier . .- ; 11Jere killed - twenty-seven 11Joanded - ~eleven ,nlsslng I\ or captured in co 11•l ■ :t action last 111c..ek. IRELAND The militant provisional wing of the Irish Republican army announce--i JulsJ , •• , it will suspe"d - quote - "offensive operations" - in North Ireland as of midnight this coming Monday 11. the British army declares u cease-fire in return. The British promptly accepted. SUPREME COURT The Supreme Court today handed down a decision that would prohibit state and local governments from carving out new school districts that would prevent in tegra lion. PIPELINE Inferior Secr el ary Rogers Morion sa y s ~ an, , pipeline co,is/ru c led ac1·oss Canada wouldn't be ready lo carr'!, 1 Alaskan oil lo the United Stales before Nineleen Eight y -o ne al /he ~ earlies/. ~- Teslif) 1 ing befo;•e a congressio,zal conimilteeAMorto,i sa ys a lhree lhousa,zd mile trans-canadian pipeline wo1dd . - cost about seventy-six billion dollars - including lanker s Io carry the oil from the Alaskan port of Valdez. He wants to go ahead with his own proposal lo construe/ the pipeline sollth•i ed across Alask .. MolaDif ~.,,.._,_ speedlfow up the delivery ~ . S ~ d at e for I he mu c It needed petrol e tt m.. fr ,.., J • • A : s ,,. e "' eoa •I. BUGGING T It e a It e m PI Io ins ta II I is t e 11 - in m ; crop hones in t), e Democralic National Committees headquarters in Washington rf!vi es memo · ries of some , otlzer goings 011 i,r the nation's capital. Fo1· example, onlJ' recently a new member of Co,igress from Florida moved i11to a,r office vacated by a fo1·mer Congressman who had been involuntarily retired by his co,zstituents. One of the new Congressman's aides on finding an extra phone in the office - picked it up and was greeted by the bar tender of a nearby saloon. The former Congressman, a regular at the P1tb, had a private li,re to it, Warren, so his secretar.v could alert him when the time came to hoist a quick one and then rush back and vote. SALUTE Here's lo our Kool f·riends of K double O L - Kool Radio, Phoenix, Arizona. Today celebrating their twenty- fifth anniversary on the air. A,td now a final item . . . . FALL In Barranquilla, Colombia, doc/01 • s sa y twenty-one _v ear old Tor1·es Valderrama Sllffered only slight injllries when he fell from the tenth floor of an apartment building . Torres Valderrama, a student, was talking witlr friends on t h e a r, a r t m e n t b a l c on _v w h e n o 1 1 e r h e w e n I . He w a s n ' t r, u s h e d . He fell from a height of eighty-five feel . . "le was treated for shock.