April 25, 1975

Refugee Task Force head Amb L Dean Brown says about 5,000 S Vietnamese and Amers are being flown daily, most aboard US mil aircraft, to Guam, State Dept news briefing; hopes to see daily total increase to 8,000 or 9,000; adds that if Communist forces start shelling Tan Son Nhut airbase, airlift will have to cease; says he has assured Sens Alan Cranston and John Tunney (Calif) that ‘no Amer city be inundated by Vietnam refugees’; emphasizes that no resettlement plans have been made; says 3,474 Amers have been evacuated from Saigon since Apr 1, leaving 1,681 still in city; says 12,000 S Vietnamese have been flown out of country, most of them to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam; says Pres Ford has decided that as many as 50,000 refugees can be granted entry to US as ‘high risks’; ‘high risk’ categories noted; says efforts are being made to ‘internationalize’ problem, with US appealing for help to UN High Comr for Refugees, Intergovernmental Com on European Migration, Internatl Red Cross and US Council of Voluntary Agencies; says Vietnam refugee program in US is being operated on $5-million in State Dept's Office of Refugees and Migration budget; says Amer evacuees are being charged for their flights while S Vietnamese are being transported free; section of '52 Immigration and Nationality Act covering refugees admitted to US on ‘parole’ basis cited (M)

Vietcong broadcast rejects as unacceptable any new S Vietnamese Govt that includes Pres Tran Van Huong, Defense Min Gen Tran Van Don or Sen pres Tran Van Lam and strongly implies that only Gen Duong Van Minh would be acceptable to head Govt; rejects ‘any so-called const solution,’ which presumably means that Gen Minh must simply be installed in power without any mandate other than his acceptability to Vietcong; AP quotes pol sources in Saigon that Pres Huong has offered premiership to Minh, but that Minh insists on presidency; earlier broadcast denouces Pres Ford, Sec Kissinger and Amb Martin; calls for removal of ‘all CIA agents,’ mil personnel and advisers from Vietnam; group of key Thieu opponents, headed by Sen Vu Van Mau, had announced on Apr 24 that they would go to Presidential Palace with petition calling for Huong's resignation; group reptdly never arrived at palace; activities of Vietcong delegation in Saigon noted (M)

Jordan and Syria reptdly agreed to establish joint mil commands for their land and air forces; accord reptdly was reached under Soviet sponsorship through Soviet official Vladimir M Vinogradov, who met with Hussein 1 mo ago; under agreement, Jordan would move into group of Middle East countries that look toward USSR for support; USSR reptdly promised King Hussein necessary equipment to protect Jordanian airspace, initially surface-to-air missiles, as part of its support for joint commands; official announcement of accord is reptdly being withheld until Hussein completes his mission to US so as not to reduce Jordan's chances of obtaining more US weapons; Hussein arrives in Paris on Apr 24 on 'private visit' accompanied by several Cabinet mins (M)

ALBANY, April 24—A subcommittee of the State Board of Regents has recommended to the board that it revoke and cancel the medical license of Dr. Max Jacobson, the 75‐yearold general practitioner in New York City who for years used powerful amphetamine stimulants to lift the moods of rich and famous patients.

3 persons are killed as terrorists shoot their way into W Ger Embassy, Stockholm, on Apr 24, take 12 hostages and then blow up part of bldg after their demands for release of 26 anarchists jailed in W Ger are refused; guerrillas kill embassy mil attache, Lt Col Andreas Baron von Mirbach, and then 1 of hostages after deadline for release of their comrades is not met; terrorist dies after attempted suicide during capture; series of explosions rock embassy and set it afire; terrorists escape but are captured after brief gun battle; several hostages, as well as number of policemen and firemen, are injured in explosions; terrorists had threatened to kill amb and other hostages unless 26 members of so-called Baader-Meinhof gang of anarchists were freed from Ger jails, given $520,000 and flown from Frankfurt airport to undisclosed country; terrorists identify themselves as ‘Holger Meins Commando,’ named for member of Baader-Meinhof gang who died after hunger strike in W Ger jail last Nov; W Ger Pres Walter Scheel cuts short visit to France to return to Bonn; Premier Olaf Palme of Sweden calls his cabinet into emergency session; illus of W Ger Amb to Sweden Dietrich Stoecker, who had been hostage, in hosp with injuries (M)