The Huntley-Brinkley Report (NBC) - 1969-06-05
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[0:00] ation. I'm Chad Huntley, NBC News. The
[0:03] 20th session of the Paris talks on
[0:05] Vietnam got nowhere today, but the 4 and
[0:07] a half hour meeting was interesting. The
[0:09] Vietkong announced that it's opening
[0:11] consultations with what it called other
[0:13] goodwill groups in South Vietnam and in
[0:16] Paris for the purpose of provide uh
[0:18] providing a provisional government.
[0:20] Apparently, the Vietkong intend to
[0:22] bypass the present Saigon regime.
[0:24] American spokesman Harold Kaplan asked
[0:27] about the position of the United States
[0:28] on that matter said it is not for us to
[0:31] rule anything in or out. Otherwise,
[0:34] today's session featured a long and
[0:36] bitter tirade against the Nixon
[0:37] administration and against the plan to
[0:40] have the South Vietnamese take over more
[0:42] of the military burden. In Saigon today,
[0:45] a group of intellectuals proposed an
[0:46] interim government to run the country
[0:48] prior to new elections. In Washington,
[0:51] Secretary of State Rogers held a news
[0:53] conference. He refused to say when the
[0:55] first American troops will leave South
[0:57] Vietnam, but he did comment on the
[0:59] ability of the South Vietnamese to
[1:01] replace Americans.
[1:05] I think they are willing to take over
[1:08] more of the responsibility.
[1:11] I think that the training of the uh
[1:16] Arvin has
[1:18] been moving along at a rapid pace.
[1:21] They recognize that uh uh the United
[1:24] States commitment is not open-ended
[1:27] and uh they are not being pushed in in
[1:30] this position. Uh they uh uh came to
[1:35] this conclusion on their own and I think
[1:37] are perfectly ready to to move in this
[1:40] direction.
[1:41] Now
[1:43] on the other hand, the president