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#481941
(Studio) 1000's of refugees to be evacuated from Danang.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Danang, South Vietnam) Near panic at airport where refugees wait for airlifts. Mostly women and children there. Plane had 125 seats; carried 200 per flight. Most are relatives of Vietnam military officers or civilian officials.
REPORTER: Don Oliver
(Nha Trang, South Vietnam) Refugees come here. United States consulate representatives from Danang to make sure evacuation ctrs. ready. No baggage allowed. Rice available, but bread in short supply. American doctors flown in to help avoid epidemics. Airlift to grow.
REPORTER: Don Oliver
(Studio) Danang vulnerable to takeover.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Danang, South Vietnam) People trying to get out of city. Some by airlift; others by boat. 300 Americans here. [Cecil SIZER - says most of American families gone. It's said enemy will take over in 5 or 7 days.] Food supply low. Not known if South Vietnam army can hold city. Soldiers wander about, not protecting city. City doomed.
REPORTER: Garrick Utley
#481944
(Studio) South Vietnam President Nguyen Van Thieu and ex-prem. Nguyen Cao Ky oppose each other. Thieu orders arrests of opposing pols. and journalists; says they planned to overthrow him.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Saigon, South Vietnam) Some of those arrested went to meeting at Ton Son Nhut air base with Ky. 30 leaders met to form national salvation front to gradually move Thieu from office. [Govt. REP. - says (in Vietnam) that coup d'etat thwarted and those responsible arrested.] [Ky - says Communists would profit 1st from a coup. Thieu must be aware of dangerous situation. Change needed.] Thieu stays in palace. It's felt his days there numbered.
REPORTER: Arthur Lord
#481945
(Studio) Rebel forces shell Phnom Penh's airport trying to stop American airlift of supplies. Govt. planes attack rebel rocket positions. Infantry drive fails.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Phnom Penh, Cambodia) American airlift conts. Enemy fire heavier and more accurate. Govt. troops can't stop shelling. Troop morale bad on N.W. front. Govt. troops withdrawn from some positions on eastern front. Lon Nol regime's days numbered.
REPORTER: Phil Brady
(Studio) Ford disapptd. that emergency aid not approved by Congress for Cambodia and South Vietnam before Easter recess.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#481946
(Studio) In Hearst newspaper interview, Ford says chances for Mideast peace would be better if Israel had been more flexible recently.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#481948
(Studio) Reports on tornadoes, snow and floods.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Fort Collins, Colorado) Snow drifts make driving hazardous. Tow trucks begin work. [DRIVER - says couldn't see and went off road.] Electricity and telephones knocked out in some areas.
REPORTER: Mike Jackson
(Bismarck, North Dakota) Road conditions shown.
REPORTER: Mike Jackson
(Minneapolis, Minnesota) 1 foot snow without drifting here.
REPORTER: Mike Jackson
(Rockford, Illinois) Flooding forces 1000's out of homes.
REPORTER: Mike Jackson
(Lefors, Texas) 1/4 population homeless. 13 year old girl killed. Homes and bldgs. destroyed by tornado.
REPORTER: George Lewis (narrates KAMR-TV film)
#481949
(Studio) Bomb explodes in building housing FBI office in Berkeley. 5 pipe bombs explode in power company substn. in San Jose.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(San Jose, California) Damage shown and described. Electricity to 35,000 homes cut off. Pacific Gas and Electric has been target of several bombings, attributed to group that says P.G. and E. is parasite on poor.
REPORTER: Bob Flick
(Berkeley, California) Bomb explodes 1 floor above FBI. Red Guerrilla Family claims credit; warned radio station prior to blast. Building evacuated.
REPORTER: Bob Flick
#481950
(Studio) Nuclear Regulatory Commission stops issuing licenses for import and export of nuclear reactors and fuels. Rptd. suspension result of report of 1000's pounds plutonium oxide flown into New York City Kennedy airport.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#481952
(Studio) Ford confident House will uphold him if he vetoes tax bill. President to study bill.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) Ford meets with economy advisers. 1 adviser says bill would contribute to $1 billion deficit. Decision may be his most important 1 so far. Signs point to President signing bill but condemning its cost.
REPORTER: John Cochran
#481953
(Studio) In February, United States exported more than it imported. $917 million trade surplus as result of lower oil imports.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#481954
(Studio) Interior Secretary Rogers Morton to be Commerce Secretary to continue as chairperson energy resources council Ex.-gov. Wyoming Stanley Hathaway to succeed Morton. He's ex-chairperson of West govs. conference
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#481955
(Studio) Alaska pipeline underway. Report on Canadian pipeline and its effects.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) Oil gets from south to eastern Canada by pipeline owned by Interprovincial Limited and it's United States subsidiary, Lakehd. Pipeline Company Inc. Pipeline enters United States through North Dakota-Minnesota border. Map of its route through US and back to Canada shown. 1.3 million barrels flow daily. Pipeline rupturing lately.
REPORTER: Bob Jamieson
(N. Minnesota) 3 million gals. oil spilled in field of Leonard Hapka's farm. Company says 47,000 barrels oil spilled. Government representatives and property owners say figure much higher: 175,000 barrels. Pollution representative cites evidence of oil leaking into water supply. [HAPKA - says nothing grows on this point of land. Property value down.] Hapka says company hasn't paid for damage. Company says land reclaimed. Exxon, Gulf and others own company
REPORTER: Bob Jamieson
(Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) [Interprovincial Limited R. K. HEULE - says isolated flaws in pipe removed.] Company to construct facility at Superior, WI. Controversy erupts.
REPORTER: Bob Jamieson
(WI) [Pollution control Grant MERRITT - says doesn't think Canada wants to export their environmental risks here, or vice-versa.] Canadian politicians say pipeline must run through United States without making deliveries.
REPORTER: Bob Jamieson
#481956
(Studio) Securities and Exchange Commission charges Howard Hughes with violating law when he purchased West Coast airline in 1968. Says he led stkholders. to believe they'd get more than they did for shares.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
#481958
(Studio) Report on spring in DC.
REPORTER: Tom Brokaw
(DC) Besides spring occurring in DC, Ralph Nader says post office put mail cover on him. May explain why mail so slow. Senator William Proxmire complains of $84,000 going to study of why people fall in love. IRS (Internal Revenue Service) commissioner explains why men in Miami checking on people's drinking and sex habits.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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