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200 42 PAGES TIM WmH't 4MII1 NO SGN OF SURVIVORS REPORTED IN WATERS OFF LONG ISLAND CD 0S(lni 0 EAL Aircraft Goes Down In Flames NEW YORK (LTD Eastern jfh I conmcnew vy YJP font1 lmS V' rv Air Lines (EAL) DC7B airliner with 84 persons aboard exploded ui. turnout and crashed in the Atlantic last night shortly after taking off from New York's Kennedy International Airport on the second leg of a flight down the eastern seaboard. There aparently wert no survivors. J5LWD If the fears proved true, the crash would be the third worst U.S. commercial airliner crash involving a single plane.

The worst single disaster occurred A WlftphOtO on March 1, 1962, when an American Children Leave With Belongings After last Day In Saigon School American Airlines jetliner crashed after takeoff from the same airport here. That crash! Plana Crash Seen Near Naw York City VOYAGE EXPECTED NEXT PALL 7-Day Space Flight Astronauts Selected claimed 95 lives. 24 PLANES POUND RED BASES ABOVE DIVIDING UNE The crew of a Pan American World Airways plane report ed that they saw the airliner explode just before it struck the water. They said the area was Nbrtlh Vii? Mot mm iniuir iiul3iu. tunj Asrronaui uorann cooper, America space endurance record holder, and Lt.

diaries (Pete) Conrad "mass of flames." The Pan Am crewmen made their report to the Kennedy control tower. The Coast Guard said its sta dent said. "We shall do all that we can in honor to preserve it But we love liberty the more and we shall take up any tion at Short Beach, N.Y., on the south shore of Long Island See editorial, 8'A; tip Uerpretke, 9-A; market i cadi on, 5-B. I i Time Wire Services WASHINGTON South Vietnamese and American war observed an "explosion" off challenge, we shall answer any iVy v' G-r shore at about the time the threat, we shall pay any price to make certain that freedom plane crashed. shall not perish from this earth." A Revealing Analysis What art (he lessons to be learned from (he exchange of attacks in Viet Nam? Columnist Baiter Llppmann, writing on the editorial page, thinks the incidents how the I.S., while unable to protect its land forces from a com paratlvely small guerrilla attack, still possesses sea and air power In the far Pacific.

riea.se see Page 8-A. MEANW HILE. 1.819 U.S. gov planes ma shed Communist troop bases and anti-aircraft in ernment dependents in South were chosen yesterday as the primary crew for America i tham and most ambitious two-man space flight scheduled for seven days. In addition to lt being the planned longest space voyage, the Cooper-Conrad venture will also mark the first time an American astronaut will be required to move outside the ship and work in space itself.

SOMETIME Dl RING THE WEEK-LONG flight, Conrad and Cooper, one at a time, will open a little door and stick the upper half of their bodies outside the ship and reach back to open a hatch in the adapter area to perform an experiment. They will not completely leave the spacecraft. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said the backup crew for the flight, which will be the longest space flight ever attempted, will be civilians Neil Armstrong and Elliot See, the first civilians to be picked for possible space flight crew. Cooper is from Shawnee, Conrad is from Philadelphia; Armstrong from Wapakoneta, Ohio, and See is from Dallas. THE FIRST MANNED GEMINI flight Is scheduled for April this year; the second may be in June or July, and the third could follow in September or October.

Cooper was the only member of the "Original Seven" astronauts left eligible to be chosen for the flight and got his A COAST GUARD spokesman in New York said the "entire area" surrounding the crash scene was covered with flaming wreckage. He said the plane apparently exploded before the Italia linns in North Vict Nam Viet Nam began packing reluctantly but calmly on Johnson's orders to leave Viet Nam. yesterday in the second retail atory air strike in two days. The new action came amid crash. A group of 91 is scheduled to leave today on commercial airliners.

The school for American children in Saigon closed signs the United States will answer strike for strike any new Bed assaults in the south. Three Coast Guard cutters, helicopters and other search aircraft and boats were rushed base at Plciku after it was at tacked by guerrillas on Satur The new strikes drew what to the scene but visibility was In the new air strikes, 24 day. Johnson also reviewed the appeared to be coordinated pro hampered by darkness and fog. situation with the National Se curity Council for the second An Eastern Air Line spokes South Vietnamese propeller-driven planes, accompanied by U.S. jet fighters, bombed and strafed a military communica tests and threats from North Viet Nam.

Red China and Soviet Russia and a warning by the Communist guerrillas in time in two days. man said the four-engine plane There were indications that carried 79 passengers, including a non-paying rider and five endurance record May 15-16, 1962 in a 34-hour flight orbiting the earth. the United States may have crew members. called a halt to further air tions center in the Vinh Linh area of Communist North Viet Nam just north of the 17th parallel that divides the north and If present plans hold, Cooper and Conrad will go Into their strikes against North Viet Nam to assess the military and diplo The plane plunged Into the orbit in the Gemini two-man space craft and make the first attempt at rendezvous and docking with a section ejected from water about 15 miles from Ken south. South Viet Nam that there would be new strikes against U.S.

bases. PRESIDENT JOHNSON heard a first-hand report on the situation in Viet Nam from his special assistant McGeorge Bun-dy, just returned from Viet Nam. Bundy visited the U.S. The strike was led by Air nedy Airport. matic reactions of Communist and other nations, but Johnson pointedly refused to rule out their spacecraft.

To do this, they would have to venture outside the spacecraft and would be the first astronauts to get outside the safety of their ship. Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, THE PLANE was Eastern's further retaliatory raids. the 34-year-old commander of (Please see VIETNAMESE, S-A) -AP WlrephotO Bundy Faces Questions On Viet Nam Flight 663, which originated in Boston and was slated to go as "We love peace," the Presi far south as Atlanta with stops in New York, Richmond, Va. Charlotte, N.C., and Greenville, S.C. House Reverses U.A.R.

Food Ban A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Agency said the plane had cleared Kennedy Airport here at 6:22 p.m. EST and head ed out over the Atlantic Ocean Cigarette Ads Banned On British TV nearby. He said that a preliminary check showed the plane had made a "generally normal" de parture from the airport and then mysteriously was lost on radar. LONDON (J) The British government last night banned cigarette advertisements from television and warned they soon may be barred also in the press and on billboards. The action was welcomed in medical quarters but aroused protests by tobacco manufacturers and advertisers.

The "House of Commons gave a big cheer when the decision was announced by Health Minister By JERRY BLIZIN Times Bureau WASHINGTON As changeable as Washington's weather, the House of Representatives yesterday voted 241-165 against instructing conferences to uphold a partial ban on surplus food shipment to the United Arab Republic (U.A.R.). The House thus gave President Lyndon Johnson a much sought-after victory. THERE WAS WHOLESALE shifting of votes, as southern and northern Democrats who supported the U.A.R. ban on Jan. 26 voted for the administration position yesterday.

Current events provided the fulcrum for the action. When the House voted, 204-177, for the food shipment ban, members were rankled over the burning of a U.S. Information service library in Cairo and comment from Egyptian strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser, who told the U.S. to "get lost." Yesterday, however the House reacted to the weekend crisis in Viet Nam and many members said they didn't think it was proper to tie the President's hands on a foreign policy question. (Please See HOUSE, Page 2 A) The FAA spokesman said no said methods of disseminating knowledge on the health risk attached to cigarettes are being studied.

Robinson said the government still is considering whether to take action against other forms of cigarette advertising such as newspapers, magazines and billboards. To ban advertisements in the press or on boards would require special legislation. On television, this can be done by simple government decree, since the Post Office has power over the independent television authority which broadcasts commercials. No date was set for the ban. reports of any difficulties aboard the plane had been received by the control tower at the airport or any of the FAA ground ra Kenneth Robinson.

dio stations. Reporting a 5 per cent jump in lung cancer deaths for England in 1964, Robinson The Coast Guard said the plane went into the ocean about six miles due south of Jones Beach inlet. AP Wlriphot Spacemen, From Bottom, Are Gordon Cooper, Charles Conrad, Neil Armstrong, Elliot See LBJ Asks Attack On 'Ugly America INSIDE TODAY ship of Laurence Rockefeller of New York. Rockefeller, chairman of the New York State Council of Parks, headed the Fed Jenkins To Write Answers eral Outdoor Recreation Review Commission which pinpointed the need for recreation facilities through the year 2,000 to meet The Senate Rules Committee voted yesterday that former White House aide Walter Jenkins won't have to testify in per son in the Bobby Baker probe. Story on Page 8-A.

tPKld To Thi Tlmtt From Tht Ntw York Tlmn WASHINGTON President Johnson took several steps yesterday toward new federal enforcement powers to clean up the nation's water supplies, air and countryside. In a special message to Congress on natural beauty, the President proposed permitting the federal government to set standards to halt water pollution at its source and prevent air pollution before 'it occurs. Administration officials viewed these small steps as the beginning of a new enforcement program, first by summoning a national effort to combat "Ugly America" and backing it up with broadened federal power at a later stage if necessary. The President'! message ranged over a wide variety of beautification projects for cities and rural areas, including more recreation areas, parks, wild areas and cleaning up junkyards along the highways. His suggestions included more federal grants to states and local communities, seeking the aid of universities on planning, enlarged research and possible tax incentives to industry to encourage conservation.

He emphasized "a new conservation" which he described as concerned "not with nature alone, but with the total relationship between man and the world around him." "Its object is not just man's welfare but the dignity of man's spirit," he said. The President announced a White House conference on natural beauty will be held In mid-May under the chairman- Ann Landers Outdoors i 8-C Sylvia Porter 6-C Pulse of Pinellas 9-B Best Of N.Y. Entertainment Family Today Flnnnclal the needs of a growing population. Johnson said the conference's scope "will not be restricted to federal action." Rather, it will "look for ways to help and encourage state and local government, institutions and private citizens, in their own efforts," he said. Further, "It can serve as a focal point for the large campaign of public education," which he said was needed to alert Americans "to the danger to their natural heritage and to the need for action." (Please see STRENGTHENED, Page 2-A) fi-D 1-4-D 8-7-B 6-D 8-D Bridge Business Radio-TV 8-D 8-D 2-D 6- 7- 0 6-B 7-13-D 6-7-D 6-D 8- A Classified Comics Horoscope Jumble Meetings Today Obituaries 1-6-C 2-A 7-D 0-B Sketches 1 Sports Weather What's Doing Crossword Editorial.