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Date: 18 April 1975
By IVER PETERSON
Iver PETERSON
Khieu Samphan career traced; is comdr of Cambodian People's Natl Liberation Armed Forces and Deputy Premier and Natl Defense Min under Prince Sihanouk's new Cambodian Govt; Khieu Samphan and Sihanouk illus (M)
Date: 18 April 1975
By MARJORIE HUNTER Special to The New York Times
Marjorie Special
Amer Soc of Newspaper Editors holds annual meeting on Apr 17; discusses what polls have shown to be low credibility rating for newsapapers by public and decline in readership; those commenting include authors Michael Novak and Stephen Hess and Mrs Virginia Sheehy (M)
Date: 17 April 1975
By William Safire
William Safire
W Safire, noting his Mar 20 comment on excerpts from Benjamin Bradlee book Conversations With Kennedy which appeared in Playboy (pub), revises his opinion after reading whole book
Date: 18 April 1975
By FOX BUTTERFIELD Special to The New York Times
Fox Special
US Embassy, Saigon, begins to determine how much its remaining Amer personnel can be cut and how many sent out of S Vietnam as soon as possible; embassy spokesman says there are still 1,100 Amer personnel; sources say either Gen Richard M Baughn or someone on his staff had arranged to fly Vietnamese from Saigon out of concern that embassy was moving too slowly to evacuate Vietnamese employes of US mission; say Vietnamese were employes of Defense Attache's office and their families (M)
Date: 18 April 1975
By The Associated Press
Cambodian Communists set up hq in Phnom Penh few hrs after surrender and invite all mins and gens of former govt 'who have not run away' to meet and help formulate measures to restore order, broadcast monitored in Bangkok; no fighting reptd countrywide; AFP dispatch from Phnom Penh repts Communist patrols with loudspeakers were moving through streets warning residents, regardless of nationality, to evacuate; AP dispatch 8 hrs after surrender notes city is quiet; Army vehicles with loudspeakers reptdly toured city 1 hr before formal surrender, instructing residents to display white flags; Premier Long Boret reptdly went to Govt hq with Information Min Thong Lim Huong to broadcast message; message was not heard; fate of Long Boret is uncertain; mil sources in Bangkok say he flew by helicopter from capital to Kompong Chhnang; rumors indicate he then went to Thailand with Lt Gen Saksut Sakhan; scene described as Communist troops entered city; freelance Amer phogographer Al Rockoff reptdly was seen aboard jeep loaded with Communist soldiers; radio broadcast announces that talks between members of surrendered mil command and Communist leaders were beginning; broadcast is interrupted by Communist spokesman who says capital had been taken by force; adds 'we did not come here to talk'; radio announcemnnt says Gen Chhim Chhuon, Brig Gen Lon Non and chief monks of 2 Buddhist sects 'have come to meet with us', Gen Sisowath Sirik Matak reptdly took refuge at Hotel Le Phnom along with several other generals and Op Kin Ang, vp of Gen Matak's Republican party; Gen Hem Ket Dara says he is taking command of Phnom Penh; map (L)
Date: 18 April 1975
Dispatches from Amer news sources in Phnom Penh end when communications lines are broken few hrs after surrender of Cambodian Govt; last message from Cambodian AP reporter Mean Leang makes no mention of 5 Amer journalists reptdly in city, including NY Times correspondent Sydney H Schanberg; Mean Leang had been denied access to Hotel Le Phnom, Red Cross neutral zone where Amer journalists are believed to be; AFP says rept thought to have come from French Embassy in capital said Schanberg was in hotel; whereabouts of Schanberg's Cambodian asst Dith Pran are not known; AP repts Amer freelance photographer Al Rockoff had been seen riding on insurgent jeep; Cambodian Communist spokesman says Information Min will decide, case by case, whether journalists will be allowed to work in country, Paris news conf; Red Cross in Geneva says it has had no direct contact with Phnom Penh repr Andre Pasquier since Apr 12 (M)
Date: 17 April 1975
By LES BROWN
Les BROWN
NBC Radio's syndicated Natl News and Information Service is scheduled to begin June 18, providing subscribing stations with 50 mins of natl and world news every hr, leaving remaining time for local news coverage by stations themselves; service will call itself NIS Network; NYC outlet will be WNBC which will change its call sign to WNNS when it adopts new format; service in Washington will be carried on WRC, in San Francisco on KNBR and in Chicago on WMAQ; NBC pres Jack M Thayer says format will also be carried in Los Angeles but station has not yet been determined (M)
Date: 17 April 1975
Soc of Silurians presents Medallion Awards to NY Times reporters John L Hess and Leslie Maitland (S)
Date: 17 April 1975
By RICHARD D. LYONS Special to The New York Times
HR passes its 1st regular appropriations bill for fiscal '76 with $1-billion more than Pres Ford had requested; bill provides funds to major Fed aided educ programs; if Sen goes along with HR increases, Pres Ford reptdly will veto bill; positions of Reprs E R Roybal and R H Michel noted (M)