FLOODS Yesterday , the report from Barcelona sai d - " the worst floods that Spain has had in 1his century. " Tonight, they are being called - "the worst floods in Spain since the Middle Ages.'' The toll, as far as it can be determined - mor,than a thousand, dead or missing. Perhaps double that number - injured. Many thousands - homeless. Damage - in the hundreds of millions. One casualty of these devastating floods - the Spanish textile industry. Two cities near Barcelo . na - ~ turlout most of Spain's domestic textiles. Tonight, both cities - are under water. Their textile factories - ruined. The situation in Northeastern Spain, so desperate - ' " that Madrid has asked the US Air Force to rush men and pla~es from our Iberian bases. YEMEN The news from Yemen indicates - that another of the worl d 's historic dynasties is about to disappear - the Imam o f Yemen, overthrown - by a sudden coup. Seif El Islan El Bader -who inherited his throne from his father, only a week ago. This revolt, evidently - a palace revolution. The insurgents, storming into the palace - in Talz. Seizing the Imam - proclaiming a Republic. The uprising, said to be - anti-Communist. The young Imam, accused of SQJl trying to put his principality - inside the Soviet sphere of influence. If so - the political significance is obvious. Yemen, down on the coast of the Arabian Peninsula - commands the entrance to the Red Sea. ~~ ~~ A strategic spot on the map . ~'!ct Khrushche~ t,S!t Ce§h• 1M interested.Wt. The rebels, forestalling the Kremlin - by u deposing the Imam of Yemen. The rb fate of the Imam - a mystery tonight. BOYCOTT That boycott of a Yugoslav freighter in Houston harbor - will cost Uncle Sam a storage bill. The ship was supposed to leave for the United Arab Republic - with thirteen thousand tons of flour. But, she arrived at Houston - after carrying a Russian cargo to Cuba. Result - picketing by Cubans and Americans. The Houston Longshoremen, respecting the picket lines - refusing to handle the freighter, which means, that those thirteen thousand tons of flour - will have to be stored. The storage bill, going to - the US Treasury. ..... CUBA One big question about C uba tonight - the meaning of the new wave of executions, Castro, cutting d own seventy - five prisoners - in the past month. More work for his firing s quads t1' than at any time since the abortive invasion. And the bearded Dictator promises to keep his firing squads - at work. The - ot:: lees inference - growing opposition to Ca , stro -->o ~ ~ inside Cuba. Aee ,noNsrtil:treash·o•~ enemies outside Cuba.,- / '-. az•• ••& lug The exiles, insisting - that only the Reds are still supporting Castro. The rest of his former followers , ~ disgusted I' his subservience to the Russians. In fact , we are told to watch for - a coming battle for Cuba. A battle between the Cubans - and the Russians. COMMANDO Th~ US Army 1s going 1n for - more commandos. Ant1-guerr11la forces - to meet brush fire wars. Uncle Sam, to have - a thousand more of them. Making almost seven thousand - rea<iy to go into a c t i o ~ a ! : 1 - : ~ Their specialty - Jungle warfare. This, the result of - our success in South Viet N a ~ a { i detachment of American specialists - hel~ -. turn the tide against the Red guerrillas. ~ ◄IQ Lhe Army wants tu h■•• * more commandos. INTEGRATION On Capitol Hill, the debate over Mississippi - ls not alon g party lines. It's along - the Mason-Dixon Line. Northerners, backing - strong feder~ . l action by the President. --- - - -tlJ- Southerners, warning the President to go easy - wccaae the A South can handle its own problems. ;lficludlng the problem or ' integration - at the University of Mississippi. Two Senators from the North - Keating of New York, and Douglas of Illinois - want a resolution supporting the President. r .Even - if he has to send troops IIMio Oxford, / M1ss1ss1pp1. But the Southerners in the Senate - led by Eastland and Stennis of Mississippi - say ,'1IIIC they will fight such a resolution right down the line. The southern governors - agree with Eastland and Stennis. The most vocal governor - Patterson of Alabama, who backed Kennedy 1n Nineteen Sixty. Governor Patterson has warned the President ln a telegram - not u to use the army in Miss iss 1ppii ,/r - in any other southern state. M e a ~ 1 1 1 e P ~ ~ • n . . li INTiGRATIOI - 2 - Meenwhtle James MP.redtth still wBnts to enroll. And the Governor hes thrown a cordon of stete police eround the UntverAity to atop him and the U.S. MarBballs. FARM - The P resident agRX signed the farm bill at the White House - in a formal ceremony. Vlce P resident Johnson, was there. hnd, of course - Secretary of Agriculture Freeman. Also, the congressional leaders - who shepherded the bill through Capitol Hill. eollgre11tore1 approv•J, or uae 111 m bl11, gtv laag Prw1lde11t le1111ed1 ,ne of hta I: 18011 t 1 eg1 s J at,1 ,ee vtetefite1. In his brief remarks, t'1e President predicted - a better day crnnh@, for tta farmers.of tM•i'lllM, Greater farm income - due to price supports and acreage re . ntals . . As usual, the President used a number of pens - ti( to sign the measure, after which, he handed the 111111111 around - as •■ax souvenirs. e, e pm.:, soli@ co - tM sac: utirl ,,, AgriOYlCQPe, t &I ... , . Sal;d OPulll• JiSli••· •ltl•' s i i one I WU Z I a,11,- GOLD RUSH My favorite newspaper .. The Cripple Creek Gold Rush .. reprints an item from a newspaper that was published in what was then callerl "the world's greatest gold camp" ~,~ back i., Eighteen N1nety--E1ght. It reads: Last night the Miners Union Hall was filled, to hear the debate on the proposition that a man should have five hundred bucks in cold cash or property before taking unto himself a . wife. Let's see, five hundred dollars in Eighteen Ninety- Eight. In buying power would that be about Two thousand Dollars today? Which side would you prete, t:o take, today, if you were debating that, Dick? I was flat, busted, only y a week ui tR before I marr'ied. IIJ ■ 1"8, ,.... SPACE Here's wh t soun s like - an appropriate nautical expression. " The Mariner - ls riding the surf." But this particular mariner - has never been,- near the water. Mariner Two - our space probe toward Venus. And the surf - has nothing to do with the sea. It's what t h e astr~nomers ,. Ll - "solar surf. 11 Va6t wav s of energy, fo1low1ng one Jther - frorr he su across the solar syste~ ,ei-eatlng turbulence 1n space - l lke surf at the seashore. tA lhtz, - "solar surf." - bet's g11 )191:tc t,11 • tl&W 1,111111&1 1at11es+. "The .$ Mariner -=ia' riding the sur:," 1 11feanmg, that Mariner Two has run into cosmic turbulence. Ow 1p ■ 11 ii• uba, liounclng d d " 1 surf" al .~, five million . miles from up an own on so ar - - - - the earth. Knocked off balance - until its automatic guiding ~ ~ system qul.,lts§ into act1onj Jutti~Jsti,• t IP 11i: 1 t11rgac:. ~ ~ Y~. back o n ~ Two ; tEIL11