President plans Asian trip soon
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson will visit possibly half a dozen other countries on his trip late this month to the Philippines for a seven-nation conference on the Viet Nam war.
There was speculation in Saigon that the chief executive would stop at a major American military base in South Viet Nam. There was no official word on this.
President Johnson was expected to announce his Asian itinerary at a 1 p.m. news conference.
The heads of the states Johnson plans to visit were first to disclose the President's plans to stop off to see them on his trip to the Manila conference, now set for Oct. 24-25.
Johnson's Asian trip, scheduled
just three weeks before the American congressional elections, drew sharp criticism from some Republicans who saw it as an effort to help in-trouble Democratic congressmen.
As announced by Asian leaders, the President's travel plans looked like this: New Zealand, Oct. 19; Australia, Oct. 20-22; the Philippine conference, Oct. 24-25.
After the conference, Johnson would go to Malaysia Oct. 30, South Korea, Oct. 31, and Thailand.
If Johnson did make the widely rumored tour to South Viet Nam, it would mark the first time a serving U.S. chief executive had visited a war zone since Abraham Lincoln did it more than 100 years ago.
Inez aims at Yucatan after drenching Cuba
MIAMI — (UPI)— Hurricane Inez, gaining speed and following a snake-like course in the Gulf of Mexico, aimed her 100-mile an hour winds at the Yucatan Peninsula while dumping torrential rains on Cuba.
The advisory said that Inez had speeded up to about 100 miles an hour.
TORRENTIAL rains drenched Havana from the backlash effects of Inez and continuing downpours threatened to damage Cuba's fine tobacco crop.
Forecaster Paul Moore of the Miami Weather Bureau said he saw nothing to interrupt Inez' general course.
As much as 12 inches of rain
within 30 hours fell in Havana and forecasters said, "it seems certain that much of the part of Cuba to the west of there will get similar amounts."
WEATHER
The U.S. Weather Bureau predicts fair skies today, tonight and tomorrow, with no probability of precipitation. The low tonight will be in the low to mid 40s. The high Friday should be around 89.
Viet talks called for by Britain
BRIGHTON, England—(UPI) British Foreign Secretary George Brown said today he will ask the United Nations General Assembly next week to set up a Viet Nam peace conference as soon as possible.
The conference should include the Communist National Liberation Front, the political arm of the Viet Cong.
Prior to the conference, he would ask an end to U.S. bombing in North Viet Nam, a halt to northern Communist infiltration, and a lid on U.S. troop increases.
Could go free
AUSTIN, Tex. —(UPI)—Jack Ruby, granted a new trial in the slaying of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, could conceivably go free, one of Ruby's former lawyers believes.
Ruby gets new trial
"Somebody just out of law school can handle it (the case) now," said attorney Joe H. Tonahill of Jasper, Tex. He said he believed the defense could get a murder without malice verdict in the next trial.
PHIL BURLESON, the only defense lawyer at Ruby's 1964 trial for slaying presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald still in the
case, took the news to Ruby at the Dallas County Jail.
"I said, 'Jack, you won; you got a reversal,'" Burleson said. The lawyer said he was too excited to remember what Ruby answered.
"We discussed it in a serious manner . . . it was a serious subject," Burleson said.
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