1.
MLS TRAFFIC AND PEDESTRIANS ON STREET (2 SHOTS)
5 ft

2.
MLS TRAFFIC (TILT UP TO) DAMAGED BUILDING
10 ft

3.
MS CROWD REJOICING (4 SHOTS)
18 1/2 ft

4.
LS PEOPLE ON BALCONY (TILT DOWN TO) CROWD ENTERING PAGODA.
22 ft

5.
MS CROWD OUTSIDE PAGODA
24 1/2 ft

6.
MS WOMEN DISTRIBUTING FOODSTUFFS TO SOLDIERS (2 SHOTS)
30 1/2 ft

7.
CU HAND SERVING FOOD (TILT UP TO) SOLDIERS EATING
38 ft

8.
MS FOOD GIVEN TO SOLDIERS ON TANK
41 ft

9.
MS WOMAN HANDING FOOD TO SOLDIERS INSIDE PALACE GROUND
47 1/2 ft

10.
MS AMERICAN CHILD CLUTCHING SOUVENIRS
49 ft

11.
MS SOLDIER SIGNING AUTOGRAPH BOOK
51 ft

12.
MLS SOLDIERS IN GAY MOOD
53 1/2 ft

13.
MLS CROWD NEAR TANKS
55 1/2 ft

14.
MS RELEASED MONKS TALKING TO SOLDIER
57 ft

15.
CU MONKS (TILT UP TO) SOLDIERS ON TANK
60 ft

16.
MLS SOLDIERS ON TANK (PAN TO) CROWD
62 1/2 ft

17.
MS TRAFFIC
67 ft



Initials CAR/S/MK/GAP/AMR



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Background: AFTER A WEEKEND OF FESTIVE CHAOS WITH HUGE CROWDS JAMMING STREETS TO SEE THE SCENE OF LAST WEEK'S LIGHTING COUP D'ETAT STAGED BY THE ARMED FORCES AND THE RUINS OF THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE, THE STREETS WERE BACK TO NORMAL RUN OF TRAFFIC.

EXUBERANT CROWDS OF SEVERAL THOUSAND YOUTHS ON A SPREE OF ARSON AND LOOTING, DAMAGED SHOPS OWNED BY EX-PRESIDENT DIEM'S BROTHER, CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP NGO DINH THUC, WHO IS AT PRESENT IN ROME.

DURING THE FIERCE FIGHTING, ABOUT 400 PEOPLE HAVE DIED.

AS A NEW ERA IN SOUTH VIETNAM'S HISTORY OPENED FOLLOWING THE COUP, THOUSDANDS OF BUDDHISTS SWARMED INTO THE MAIN PAGODAS OF SAIGON FOR TEARFUL REUNIONS WITH MONKS FREED BY THE REBELS.

SCORES OF WOMEN DISTRIBUTED FOOD AND SOFT DRINKS, SPECIALLY PREPARED AT HOME TO THE SOLDIERS GUARDING THE PALACE. SOME YOUNG BOYS AND GIRLS WENT ABOUT SEEKING AUTOGRAPHS OF THEIR HEROES.

CONFLICT BETWEEN BUDDHISTS AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE LATE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRESIDENT PROVIDED THE SPARK FOR THE EXPLOSION THAT FINALLY TOPPLED THE PRESIDENT.

MEANWHILE, THE MILITARY REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE, HEADED BY GENERAL DUONG VAN MINH, WHO LED THE COUP, ANNOUNCED A NEW CIVILIAN AND MILITARY GOVERNMENT HEADED BY THE FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT NGUYEN NGOC THO, WHO BECOMES PRIME MINISTER.

ACCORDING TO A PROVISIONAL CONSTITUTION, THE COUNTRY REMAINS A REPUBLIC BUT THE POWERS OF THE PRESIDENT REST FOR THE TIME BEING IN THE HANDS OF THE MILITARY REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE.

MYSTERY STILL SURROUNDS THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE BODIES OF THE PRESIDENT AND HIS BROTHER NGO DINH NHU. HOSPITAL SOURCES SAID THE BODIES HAD DISAPPEARED DURING THE NIGHT (NOVEMBER 4).