!,AO§ T he chance l lories of the free wor l d re ho ing - th n t Laos h a finally assed out of t1e milit a ry h a st;, A ~ ln~catng 1( the p hase of d i p lomacy a nd ~•ii■ii■■ z p olitic This hoe, bostered by - the b a tt l e eterin g out. The R ed rebels, calling off their a ttacks - fter re eated a 1p eals by ll&lt radio1 Toni ht, t h e jun le is eaceful - exce p t tor p trol activity alon the front. ot th a t the end of the shooting - uts an end to the p roblem o f Laos. Western observers are being t &J cautious - until they see h a t kind of a government Ihrus h cheT demands. The belief is th a t the remier of a coalition regime - will be rince S ouvanna P hou■ '!, wa. the former P remier w ho h a s been - tourin g the Communiat block. ~ a kin g s t ~ temen:s Ke fusin g an invit a tion - to · a sh in g ton. ~ - that soun d r e -C omm unist. till, S ouv a nn a h ouma ter m s himself a neutr a list - w h ich is w h y he' in line to h e a a the n e xt ov e rnmeit o f L a os. VIET NAM OLLOW LAOS At h i s news conference, Sec r etary of State Rus k stated flatly - that wef r e movi ng to prevent South Viet Nam from becom i another Laos. Stepping up military aid - in the face of increasingCommunist activity. Have we given Premier Diem a pledge to intervene with American troope . - if the Rede be in a real war? Secretary Rusk refused to answer vthat question. One of the schools occu p ied by mili ti amen in Cuba today - Fidel Castro's alma mater. Delo res s chool in anti ag o - which Castro attended back in the forties. Velores, now cau g ht in the net - of Castro's •••*•••I*•• nationalization. All Cuban 1 rivate schools - taken over b7 the ictator. Sta rting a n exodus of C a tholic te a cher• - fro ■ Orient• rovince into H vana. L eaving Catholic• facing the queatiin - •How far will Castro go in hi• war on the Catholic church?• T h e twelve r r e ee f r om Cu b a wh o w e r e ta k en a sho r e t o a, - ~ t N e w O rl ean n - are d el i r ouf ihey•r~ lu ck y - to be A a l ve. Three o f th e i r c ompa n ons die d - e n r ou t~ to freedom. The f i ftee n , "'ett n ~ai l from Cuba - i n a twenty-five foot sa l boat '""'so o n found - the wind a g ainet them. And they had no one a b oard e x pert enough - to handle the sails. Anyway, their voya g e lasted - two wee k s. By which time - they had run out of food and water. When t::hey N&'e found - they were actually farther from the American mainland than when they started from Cuba. The i r boat, noticed by an American frei g hter - a h undred and seventy-ei g ht miles off Louis i ana. In the boat - three dead. ffiwelve eurvivore - euffer ing f r om ehoc k , " e posu r e, sunburn, and h u er. Also - del i r i ous. But the med i cos sa y - t r a y 1 _1 p 11 throu h. I g uess t h e y 'l l b e g lad to mo w - t at g ett n · a a from Castro• ... C ommu n st pol ce tate waen 1 t an y m ra g e. HO IER A g eat Amer can eneral ment i on - a rea t Br tish b attle. Dwi ht · senhower, referri to - Gallipoli. The famou .. plan drawn up b Winston Churchill - to break throu g h t e Dardanelles n Word war Jne. A o od plan - that wasn 1 t carr ed out properl • Today Mr. E senhower was diecu~s ing - what went wrong in the Cuban invasion. Confining himself - to one point. The rebels put all their communications equipment in one old Liberty ship - that was sunk by Castro's shore batteries. General -rlw-- Eisenhower points out,{ the same mistake was made at Gallipoli. The British, concentrating their communications in one ship - losing it all to Tur k ish guns. Said General Ike today - "we learned not to do that again after Gallipoli." Unfortunately, whoever planned the anti-Castro operation - for ot Gallipoli. ALl,QOH A radio message coverin twenty-one miles - thei: q may not seem 1 i k e much of a f e • t . B u ij t, It~ rad i o ti,. ~~~~~ t enty-one miles •f;;;;;;;;;.i:)_, rt,,,: worth li tenin to. /. Occasion - balloon flight beginning on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Commanders alco ■ Bosa and icter Prather - taking off from the •Antieta ■.• Soaring u~ twenty-one miles - then ndioin back to their ship. Their ■eesage - "l t!s wonderful, come on up!• !h• navy twoA••~ ■ en, setting a new altitude record - and z ■a reluctant to return to earth. \ 6S IIQIAQT The key aan at ~ape ~anaYeral again tonight - i i the weather■ an. lill he or won't be - let the aatronaut take ott? At tbe ■o ■ ent the anawer ••••• to be - •t•••• Th• weather report for to ■orro• - clear aki•• alMl little wind. Juat what the aiaail ■ eD ordered So - another countdown tor aatronaut •laD ~hepar4; who ia deacribed aa - •in auperb condition.• lo ill efteot1 - beoauae of the delaJ. Bia ie41tone &octet - readJ too. All up to the weather. A• for the tentatiYe ti ■ etable; aatroaaut Shepard la due to blaat off at •i&ht A.M. - iaatern la7li1bt ti ■e. He'll hit a speed - of fort7-flYe hundred all•• an hou. Zoo ■ iq up up a hudred-and-tifteen aile1; and down the Atlantic range - for two-hundred and nine\J ail••• where his capsule •ill be ejected - and picked up fro ■ the Atlantic by helicopter. lirat atop af\er that a boapital in tbe Baha■ a1. 6STIQIAQT - 2 lt all goes well - A1tronaut ~hepard will be back in Washington fort7-eight hours after eetting oat. At a big pr••• conference; of course; and reo•i•i•1 personal congratulation• fro ■ the Pre1ident of tb• United Stat••• A i s p atch from Jakarta, Indon es i a , oints u p some ? roblems - of New Guinea. Th connection, of course - is the Indonesian claim to the utch alf ot the big island off the northern coast of Australia. The problem is - what resident uukarao could do with Dutch New Guinea, if he bot it. The ague, with the resources of a European p ower - ha s had trouble civilizing it's colony. New Guinea still has - headhunters and c a n n i b a l s . ~ f it is - tropical a w a m p l ~ : ~ , ~ : : ! . ~ • ~ ~ coast. Villages of the ~terior - · small and ~¾5~~~. pri ■ itiv1. So, a switch from Dutch to lndonesian rule - could be catastrophic. After all, lndonesi needr aid froa abroad - and wouldn't have muc) left over to p ut into • New Guinea. from 1-ollandia. o the Indonesians would have trouble enough just ge tting there. V hich the D utch are vowing to nrevent. BOUBG!U,BA On Ca ~ itol Hill, one Sen a tor rem a rked - •It was an enc o uraging a dress.• The reference - to wh t the resident of Tuniaia said before a joint session ot Con g ress. Habib Bour g uiba, discussing America's anti- colonial p olicy - an d assuring our law aakers that thia pilicy has•••••*~ strengthened American _ restige in Africa. Bourguiba\e■arks, encouraging - because he's A regarded aa - one of the ■ Cit, tree _ tive states ■ en in the world. He was right about what was going to h appen - ,e~ in p laces like Algeria and the Congo. ~ it's nice to · 1 ~ know that Tunisia's ~ourguiba thinks weN on the right ,,( track - in Africa. !!!!QUE ISLAND • La Rhode Island *k•~ t h ey~e celebrating - the Da y of the Republic. Inc se you didn't kno it, our smallest st&te was the first re p ublic - int e new world. Two months before the D eclaration of Independence, Rhode Island decided - to leave the B ritish Empir~. I /ecoae - an independent po litical power. Later joined in it's rebellion - by the rest of the *•a thirteen A..1,,4.., colo-r Republican ~hode Island - a hundred-and-eight7- five years old today.