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(Studio) Audio difficulty 5:30:00 - 5:31:40.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(No location given) Evacuation ships off South Vietnam coast shown. Many South Vietnam soldiers have come aboard evacuation ships to become refugees.
REPORTER: David Cohler
(Studio) Viet Cong and North Vietnam protest against American ships anchored off coast. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger says remaining ships well out into international waters now. Schlesinger holds news conference
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) [SCHLESINGER - says if any South Vietnam reach American ships, they'll be picked up. Amt of equipment fallen to North Vietnam estimated at $5 billion; much equipment unusable to North Vietnam.] Schlesinger admits events in S.E. Asia have shaken confidence of many cntrys. in American power and determination, but expects no further military challenges to United States in Asia.
REPORTER: Charles Quinn
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(Studio) Domain of Communists now runs from border of China to south tip of Indochinese peninsula.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) New revolutionary government in South Vietnam ntlizes. nearly all businesses; strict decrees issued. Japanese reporters say troops of new government patrol streets unarmed. Viet Cong says all of South Vietnam under control.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) House fails to approve South Vietnam humanitarian aid bill. President Ford's reaction sharp.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Capitol Hill) Before vote, President writes house speaker Carl Albert requesting immediate action; reassures House he won't send forces back into South Vietnam, although bill would give him that power. [Representative John ANDERSON - says Capitol Hill suspicions that President can't be trusted; attitude dangerous.] [Representative Phillip BURTON - sees vote as reaffirmation of Congress's responsibility to declare war.] Admin. must try again next week with new bill.
REPORTER: Ray Scherer
(White House) [Press Secretary Ron NESSEN - reads statement from President, deploring congress failure to approve aid.] During day, President has unusually heavy schedule; details given. All activity to show President putting Vietnam behind to work on other problems. [President FORD - believes it's time for American to look ahead now that Vietnam war over.] Somehow, Vietnam hangover still remains; reasons given; stemming from this, Nessen walks out of news conference in exasperation.
REPORTER: John Cochran
(Studio) Nessen arrives at briefing with reporters wearing bullet-proof vest.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Retired Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, former chief of naval operations, says President Nixon and Henry Kissinger told him South Vietnam President Thieu was promised vigorous American response to any Communist troop violation; Congress never informed.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) South Vietnam ambassador Graham Martin talks to reporters aboard USS Blue Ridge after evacuation from Saigon. Martin says if United States kept its commitments, evacuation wouldn't be necessary.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(USS Blue Ridge) [MARTIN - thinks Navy's performance in evacuation superb. Surprised at number of South Vietnam evacuated.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
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(Studio) Unconfirmed report that convoy with 600 refugees on way from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to Thailand runs out of gas. French say all refugees fors., but new government insists hundreds of members of old government, incling. a former deputy premier, among them. United Nations recognizes new Cambodian government as legitimate power in country
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Japan says fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia to affect other cntrys. in South East Asia. Japan doesn't subscribe to domino theory, however; but many American officials do.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Manila, Philippines) Philippine President Marcos and advisers reassess foreign policy in light of Indochina. From events in South Vietnam and Cambodia, Philippines believe United States can't be depended on anymore. On Philippine TV, Marcos says US can't be looked to for protection anymore. Philippines now wondering why United States military bases should be allowed to remain. Things change; recently Romania's chief of state visits Philippines; Mrs. Marcos visits China; President Marcos to visit Peking this year Philippines leaning toward neutrality. [Treasury Secretary William SIMON - reassures Philippine officials that United States to stand by its word.] [Pol. columnist Teodoro VALENCIA - doesn't think American word can be trusted. United States doesn't have same influence it did before fall of Cambodia and South Vietnam.]
REPORTER: Jack Perkins
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(Studio) Officials of Thailand and United States say withdrawal of United States troops from Thailand to be announced next Monday
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Doctors strike to protest big increases in malpractice insurance premiums.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(San Francisco, California) Emergency care available at nearly all hospitals. Some doctors to quit medical profession because of high insurance rates; others plan to leave California.
REPORTER: Bob Flick
(Tule Lake, California) Husband-wife doctor team to leave this small community at end of month [Dr. Lloyd KLATT - says no one in California expected malpractice ins. rates to increase 360%.] Team must now pay $20,000 per year for malpractice insurance Plan to move to Wyoming, leaving Tule Lake without doctor
REPORTER: Fred Briggs
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(Studio) President vetoes farm price support bill.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Chrysler loses $94 million in 1st quarter of year
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) David Brinkley discusses isolationism.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) This reporter doesn't think United States mood turning toward isolationism; instead, United States wants only to stay out of needless wars and spend more on this country and its people's own needs.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Reports reveal President Ford and Egypt's Anwar Sadat to meet in Europe next mo. to discuss Mid. E. Official announcement expected tomorrow.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Fast-talking photographer with Vietnam wife managed to return to South Vietnam last wk. and with energy and good luck, succeeded in bringing back to United States 12 of wife's relatives.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Dick Swanson spent 6 days getting Germaine's family out of Vietnam. [SWANSON - says paperwork incredible. Whole experience frightening, tiring and debasing.]
REPORTER: Carole Simpson
(Studio) Mrs. Swanson's family fled southward from Hanoi in mid 1950's.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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