This program is 28 minutes long
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(Studio) Whsle. price index up 1.5% in Apr.; major cause attributed to 4.8% incr. in farm prices. Ind. prices up 0.1%.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(NYC) Economists not particularly concerned about increase in food prices, but American shoppers very concerned. Economists more concerned with industry price index; many experts likely to be saying inflation under control soon, but shoppers will disagree.
REPORTER: Dan Cordtz
(Studio) Agriculture Department projects `75 food prices to rise 6%-8% above last year
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Fairbanks, AK, one of most expensive places to live these days. High costs and overcrowding accelerate since Alaska oil pipeline began.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Fairbanks, AK) Food prices so high, they approach ridiculous, but many say higher wages offset high food prices. Real problem is hsing. Many men hoping to find work on Alaska pipeline bring home with them. [Roy WRIGHT - says he and family brought 2 mos. of groceries and own place to live; motel at $40 a night completely unaffordable.] [Fairbanks mayor John CARLSON - says lower paying jobs at $4-$5 per hour aren't getting responses from job hunters because family can't live in Fairbanks on these wages unless they have own hsing.]
REPORTER: Roger Peterson
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(Studio) General Motors Corporation Motors says supplemental unemployment fund for laid-off workers exhausted. Ford Motor Company says it must raise prices on `76 models $150-$350 per car.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Last of fors. trapped in French embassy in Phnom Penh after Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia crossed over into Thailand. Group incls. 2 ABC news employees.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
(Aranyaprathet, Thailand) [ABC reporter Lee RUDAKEWYCH - says situation terrible in Phnom Penh. Describes scenes of hospital operations being interrupted and patients thrown in streets to die. All civilians in Phnom Penh sent to cntry - side.; those who made it back into town described death, disease, executions along way.] [Newsman Dennis CAMERON - says every city dead; no people and very few soldiers present in cities.] Bloodbath theory widely believed by foreign evacuees, but there's no way of knowing.
REPORTER: Jerry King
(Studio) Still photographs of Communist takeover of Phnom Penh follow.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(DC) Photographs show Cambodian soldiers tying flags of surrender to their machines in final hrs. of battle for Phnom Penh. Triumphant Khmer Rouge marching into city turn out to be little more than teenagers; Khmer Rouge well disciplined; force civilians out into cntryside.
REPORTER: Gregory Jackson (narrates)
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(Studio) Senator quickly passes bill authorizing President Ford to use previously appropriated military aid funds to assist Vietnam and Cambodian refugees. President' request for more money for refugees begins to move in House Appropriations sub-committee
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Capitol Hill) Committee chairperson Otto Passman admits United States must welcome refugees. [Representative Clarence LONG - says he was flabbergasted by $507 million request for refugees. Believes United States has obligation to be generous but not to go overbd.] Subcommittee ends up cutting money from each category requested, and ends up with $405 million bill. Full House Judiciary Committee meets expecting to move bill authorizing President to spend whatever amount Congress finally settles on.
REPORTER: Sam Donaldson
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(Studio) New Communist military commander in Saigon holds 1st news conference with foreign journalists; accuses United States of forcing evacuation of South Vietnam adults and children.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) South Korean officials tell President Ford they believe North Korea to attack within 6 mos. if United States forces withdrawn from South Mr. Ford rptdly. assures officials United States to honor its commitments to South Korea.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Soviet party leader Leonid Brezhnev telegraphs President Ford, marking 30th anniversary of VE Day. Contents of Brezhnev's telegraph revealed. Brezhnev says elimination of war in Indochina improves conditions for detente.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Organization of American States opens meeting in DC; topic of dropping economy sanctions against Cuba bound to come up. In Havana, Senator George McGovern says Fidel Castro willing to consider returning 9 American political prisoners and $2 billion ransom from hijacked United States plane.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Havana, Cuba) McGovern tours cntryside. of Cuba. [McGOVERN - asks what product Cuba could export to United States if 2 cntrys. had normal trade relations] [CASTRO - says sugar cane could be biggest export.] After return from cntryside., Castro holds news conference with American reporters Castro believes it's time for relations between United States and Cuba to improve. Castro denies Lee Harvey Oswald an agent of Cuban government, but admits CIA agents have tried to assassinate him. [CASTRO - wishes for friendship and understanding with US.]
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(White House) After news conference in Havana, White House admits its time to consider change in United States policy toward Cuba. United States to wait for decision from Organization of American States to lift Cuban trade embargo; United States supposed to remain neutral on issue but seems to be tilting toward Cuba slightly.
REPORTER: Tom Jarriel
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(Studio) State Department sources say President Ford to name Malcolm Toon as new ambassador to Israel. Toon to succeed Kenneth Keating.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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(Studio) Alabama Governor George Wallace quoted as saying United States may have been fighting wrong people in World War II; says today he was misquoted. Wallace says we fought right people but United States diplomacy led us to fight people who should have been friends.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) Federal jury finds Jack Chestnut, former campaign manager for Senator Hubert Humphrey, guilty of taking illegal campaign contributions from dairy ind. in 1970. Humphrey denies knowledge of illegal contributions.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) New Jersey Governor Brendan Byrne says state to introduction nation's pick-your-own daily numbers game; game to compete with illegal numbers racket.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
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(Studio) In Fort Worth, Texas, General Dynamics shows off new F-16 fighter plane, but demon. spoiled when plane forced to make emergency belly landing.
REPORTER: Howard K. Smith
(Fort Worth, Texas) Pilot Neal Anderson begins flight just as scheduled and performs well. When landing time came, right landing gear jammed, forcing belly landing; film shown.
REPORTER: Bob Sirkin
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(Studio) At first, some South Vietnam refugees were to be sent to Camp Roberts, California. This reporter taught basics of infantry soldiering there; recalls days at Camp Roberts. Refugees not sent there, probably because it would violate cruel and unusual punishment laws. This reporter also at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas; recalls days there also. Girl named Lena among fondest memories.
REPORTER: Harry Reasoner
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