NBC Sunday Night News - 1973-09-02
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[0:00] This is channel 4 WSMTV Nashville.
[0:09] This is the NBC Sunday night news
[0:12] brought to you by Exxon.
[0:17] Tonight, September 2nd, reported by
[0:20] Floyd Calber with David Brinkley's
[0:22] Journal.
[0:24] Good evening. Officials have arrested
[0:25] and charged a 34 year old convict with
[0:28] starting a hotel fire yesterday in
[0:29] Copenhagen, Denmark. 35 persons,
[0:32] including 20 Americans, mostly tourists,
[0:35] died in that fire. The convict, Bent
[0:38] Billy Neielen, was on a special two-day
[0:40] leave from prison. He was staying at the
[0:42] hotel. An American couple told
[0:45] authorities that he admitted setting the
[0:47] fire. The Copenhagen fire officials
[0:49] called the hotel the Ha a fire trap that
[0:54] had no fire alarms, no fire doors or
[0:57] sprinkler systems. For the eighth
[0:59] straight day, communist insurgents in
[1:02] Cambodia have kept closed that country's
[1:04] most important supply highway. Route 4
[1:07] from the capital Panam Pen to Kong Sam
[1:10] remains in communist hands. This despite
[1:13] fierce fighting a Kong Sam is Cambodia's
[1:16] only deep water seapport and oil
[1:19] refinery city only 15 miles from the
[1:22] capital. Government forces tried to
[1:24] retake Highway 4 today. They were lured
[1:26] into a trap and they lost 20 men
[1:30] across the United States on this holiday
[1:32] weekend. There frankly is very little
[1:34] news and a lot of hot weather.
[1:39] In New York City, thousands of citizens
[1:42] fought the heat in bathing suits at
[1:43] beaches. For the sixth straight day, a
[1:46] hot, soggy paw had settled over the
[1:48] city. Temperatures in the mid '90s, and
[1:51] that had turned the normal urban Labor
[1:53] Day exodus into a scramble to get away,
[1:55] to b