L.T.- (sustalnlng) TUBSDAY SEPTEMBER 6 1 1966 GOOD EVElfDfG EVERYBODY: The Union of South Atrlca -- ln a vlrtual state or shock tonight; followlng the assasslnatlon or Prl• Nlnlater Hendrik Verwoerd called the -- 11 Chlef Architect or Apartheld. 11 As you have doubtless heard by now -- Pr.la llnlater Verwoerd waa stabbed to death -- by a white religloua lanatlc; a man who had been working u a mesaenger -- 1n the Swth Atrl Parliament. The as1a11ln -- Dllltrl Taafendaa -- a naturallud South Atrlcan or Greek and Portuguese descent; aluhlng at two other members of Parllaaent -- betore he na overpowered and disarmed. Finance Mlnlater Eben Donges -- laedlately naMd Acting Prime Mlnlster. In a later radlo address to the natlanf• Donges appealing to South Africans to remain calm. "Motlvea are still not known -- the police are engaged ln a thorough iJm lnvestlgation" ... said he. REACTION FOLLOW VBRWOBRD _______________ ,_,_ ______ _ _____ _ tltt•crlbed •• ahntfltttl ltorror. I• Cat,e To•• - • 6l•cl •••• 't o,ee of oar t,eot,l• •llo did It. " B• tll•t •• It • • , - t••r• ••• little •1•,•ll1 , .. , .. I ••o•e brotller ••• •l•ll•rly •l•I• by •• ••••••I•. ao66J ••ti •• tier• la•tll,eg o• 6otll ,mr.r!t •Ide•. " B•llll•••r Vorster I• e%/Htctetl to tote over everet••II, - Naal •,•,•llllaer. Fro• Totyo - •11 •••erlio11 totl11y tlt11t Retl of .,orltl lti•lory. " So ••Y• Dr. lre11e Ta11&er - • Prl■ celo■ of tlte Far Ea• t. I• tltere • l'o••l&lllly tie•• - tle•t CIII•• ••Y •l•rl . ••Y• Dr. 7'••&er. Atltll■6: "I tlo ■ 't tlel■ lt Cltl•• •I Ille lter 0.,11 bortler•." PBKING FOLLOW FAMINB ---------------~------.-- of tl,e .,.,. I• Viet N•"'· aau VIET NAM POLIDM PEKING In the meantime the B-~1tty TWoa -- were back 1n action today; blasting away at C011111unlat poaltlona -- ln that 1yPpo1edlJ dem111tarlzed zone between Horth and South Viet 1&11. A 1ecoad flight -- pounding a 1uapected. Vlet Cong stronghold l'INl' Salpn. Blaewhere ln the South -- U.S. tlghter-bollben . . providing cloae support tor allied troopa. BlpeclallJ -- at Da lang; WheN u. s,: . planea killed an ••tlaated ••venty-tlYe Viet Cong -- attemptlng to •oape an attacking force or AMrloan Mari.nee and South VietnaMN Ranpra. SVPBltSONIC ------------ Federal A vlatlo,e Age,ec y ,,. Wa•ltl,eglo•. Locltlt••' • • ' •o•••• related i•for•allo•. Ge,eeral Electric ••II Pr•II • Wlll■ •J claoic e. HEART The - first person ever to survive heart pump surgery -- was permitted to leave a Houston hospital today -- under her own power. Mrs. Esperanza Del Valle Vasquez -- smiling and happy, u she walked to a waltlng car -- enroute to the plane that would carry her h0111e to Nexlco. lllra. Vasquez•• release from the hoapltal -- leaa than a month atter her amazing operation. Doctors repalrlng 4&11111• to her heart plus a aoftball ■ ized pump -- to take over about forty percent of the duties of the heart. Its Job done -- tne pump -- or so-called 11 artitlcfal heart" -- was later removed. Doctors today reporting that 111'1. Vasquez should be able to resume full actlv.ttlea w1thln forty- to-alxty days. RFSCUE Lesa than three days ~om tibe scheduled : light of Gff1n1-Eleven -- a aobert.ng thought today from Dr. George Jlllleller Director or America s manned Space Program -- •1th headqaartera at Houston. Dr. Jllleller observlng that a present -- there ta no - , on earth to help U. S. utromu1ta -- lnJUNd, alllag or stranded 1n apace. Questionable whether earth-to-apace reacae operatJalae.t •111 ever be practicable vlthln the roreaeeable future. Dr. lllleller estlmatlng the coat of developlag an effective space i-eacue prograa -- at about the.._ coat u tbal or exploring the Noon and all the planets or our untverse. One possible alternative -- said he -- equipping apace cnrt •1th aualllary rocut-pwered modu.lea. In ertect -- lifeboats ; to enable astronauts 1n d1atress -- to abandon •n •1th tr.e .. castaways " hopefully returning to earth -- w-ader their own power maybe Warren. NIICl'l'A The latest on Nikita Khrushchev -- la reported today I.ii thla next from Moscow. Condemned to political silence -- bored wlth inactivity -- the seventy-two year old former Ruaalan Premier -- aald to have taken up a new hobby. that or tnlllllll a Jackdaw -- to 1ay a few words. The Jackdaw -- belilg the •-la counterpart ot the Aaerlcan Grackle.