April 19, 1975

60,000 drs and dentists with Brit Natl Service on Apr 18 win pay increases averaging 30% yrly (M)

Agence France-Presse says last news dispatch from Phnom Penh before communications were cut on Apr 18 indicated Communist patrols with loudspeakers rolled through sts on previous night telling all residents to go more than 12 mi into countryside; while reason for order is unclear, dispatch quoted soldiers as having said city might come under shelling; Thailand AP office says broadcast heard in Bangkok from Cambodian Communist radio station asserted that most of former Cambodian leaders have been beheaded; French officials say they have been in radio contact with capital and that Communist forces expect US shelling; diplomatic source suggests part of reason for evacuation order was to thin out city's population, which had swelled to 2-million, or 3 times its normal size; evacuation orders reptdly touch off panic in some neighborhoods; hundreds of citizens reptdly sought refuge in French Embassy compound, where number of foreign newsmen reptdly are staying; Cambodian sources deny, in repts distributed by Yugoslav press agency, that evacuation order had been given; USSR news agency Tass says thousands of Cambodian peasants left capital after mil Govt surrendered; French Foreign Min Jean Sauvagnargues confirms repts of evacuation order; Brit Cable and Wireless Co says it has been unable to restore Telex and telegraph service between Hong Kong and Phnom Penh; telephone are not in service; Internatl Red Cross office in Geneva has been out of contact with 16-member team in capital since Apr 17; team, headed by Andre Pasquier, had established neutral zone at Hotel Le Phnom; Communist soldiers reptdly evacuated everyone from hosp where team of French drs had remained on duty to treat wounded; whereabouts of Premier Long Boret are unknown; was last reptd seen in Phnom Penh prior to formal surrender; Bangkok officials deny repts that he had arrived in Thailand; illus (L)

N Vietnamese reinforce mil units in Xuan Loc as small-scale attacks continue near Saigon; Bien Hoa air base hit by heavy artillery; S Vietnamese move fighters and bombs to Tan Son Nhut; attacks continue at Phan Thiet; rockets hit Phu Lam communications center; N Vietnamese attempt to sever Saigon's link with Mekong River Delta; map (M)

Pres Ford, in speech to White House conf on domestic and econ affairs, Concord, NH, urges re-evaluating 'so-called fair trade laws,' saying they permit mfrs to dictate price at which retailers must sell (S)

GM proxy statement discloses that compensation to co's top execs in '74 was reduced by 68.3% because of 60% decline in profits; says execs recd only salaries, in contrast to salaries and bonuses in previous yrs; says 69 top execs recd $6.6-million in '74, compared with total compensation of $20.9-million in '73; salaries of some execs listed (M)