From SA JG ON . . . . . . . . . . From PARIS . . . . . . • • . • • Wednesda , April 2, 1975 Stuart No ins From W4SHINGTON . . . . . comes today's news. Good evening. I'm St11art N() ins, CBS News sitting in for Lowell Thomas and reporting on the CBS Radio Network. North Vietnamese llnits are pressing toward Saigon from two directions - from the north and the west. A11d ahead of them come co11voys of panicked, des1'erate refugees and soldiers trying to reach Ille relative safely of Sordia Vieh,amese capital. The American Secretary of Defense, James Schlesi,ager says whether Saigon itself ca,a be saved will be tested in the next thirty days. The outcome, he says, can not be predicted. In Paris the Viet Cong is sayi,ag they will indeed attack Saigon, 11nless President !J'hieu is re1'laced and unless American aid for South Vietnam is ended. It says it wo11ld SAIGON - 2 open talks with Thieu's successors if the successors umdd endorse the Nineteen-Se ve nty-Three Paris peace accords. In Saigon, the Sotdh Vietnamese Senate normally supporters of Thieu, voted unanimously today for a change In leadership. The Senate blamed the Theiu government and the United States for the series of disa$ters in tire country. That plane that brought about fifty-seven orplta,a,d 1 Soutl, Vietnamese children out of South Vietnam today, refueled in Japan and is now flying toward Oakland, Califonda. Tire pilot of the plane says when he took off from Ta,a Son Nllut airport in Saigon, tlle control tower tried to t,reve,al his departure. The Pilot says, "I just didn't get tire message." Two of the fifty-seven clrildren were taken off tlae plane in Japan for treatment of malnutrition. WASHINGTON Vice President Rockefeller i as asked today if there were anything the U.S. might do - to relieve tl1e plight of the South Vietnamese war refugees. Rockefeller replied: "It's really to late to do a,aytlling about it - a lot of tllem are going to die." PHNOM PENH The battle for Phnom Penh i,i Cambodia is also building today toward a climax. Co11unrinist troops today capt11red seven positions - East, West and South of tl,e beseiged cit) ' · These included the last government outpo~ts - on the Mekong River; whtch means perl,aps as many as six tl,ou sand additional comm un is t troops are now able to ; oi,e ,,. the expected Communist assault of Phnom Penh itself. -0- Tlte United States Embassy staff,,. Plt,eom Penh is being withdrawn - pltased out. Tltirty of tl,e two hu,idred employees will be flown out to Tltailand tomorrow. MIDDLE EAST In the Mid u , , . - Israeli Prime Minister Rabin today call e d Jo : · .f 11c, -1 0 , · ace talks with Egypt. "Contentions ha v e been raised about misunderstandings" he said - "but the reason for misi,nderstandings lies mainly in the absence of direct contact. " Rabin said tl,e Vietnam situatio,a ,aotwitltsta,uli,sg - lte is confide,at there will be no cr,toff ,,. U.S. military aid to Israel. Tltis - said Ire - because Israel co11ld ,,. •o ••1 -be equated with tlte countries of I,1doclai11a. SHELYEPIN Alexander Shelyef>in, the former chief of Ilse Soviet Secret Police has returned to Moscow from Lo,adon, after cutting his sclleduled tJisit short. Be had bee,a i,avlled to Britain by tire Trade U,aio,as Cou,acil i,a his t,rese,et t,oslllo,a as lie ad of tl,e soviet trade-unio,a orga,a i~ atio,a. Sllelye/H,e 1110s llarrassed by large numbers of East Eurot>ea,a re/Ml•••· Be called tlaem u,agrateful Zio,aists, opposed to dete,ete. MADRID Negotiators for the United States and spain met today to begin the fifth round of bargaining over the future of American military bases on Spanis . 'i territory. At the Madrid meeting, it is understood that Spain, in addition to economic benefits derived from tlae agreement wants an open biPldi,ig secu-rtty ag-reemeftt witla tlae UP1ited States. The U.S. Senate, in tl,.e past, has ot,t,osed sucl,. an agreeme,it. ENERGY The go ernment reported today that tire United States is using less energy now. The Bureau of Mhees, whtch keefJs the figures, sa y s in Nineteen-Semnty-FoMr, tlae use of energy declined by more than two percent beloa, tlae previous year. It's the first decline stace Nh1etee11-Flfly- T11Jo. Tlaat statistic may be distoned, however, by the fact that the period measured, includes the time of the oil embargo, laigher prices for petroleum, a •lo11Jdow,e ,,. iNdMs trial produc tioa and a very mild wi,ifer. TIie news co,etinues after th is . •.. VIZ ILLE In the French Alps, near Grenoble - a crowded blls was returning today from a t,ilgrimf'ge to a Fre11clt shrine; when suddenly - it's brakes Jailed. The bus hurtled down tl1e road, fflissed a curve - and plunged more tla,a a hrindred feet to the banks of a River. Police report at least twenty -s e v e ,e: dead - a" d s ix teen in ju red . Today's accide,it occurred at virtually Ille same st,ot - wllere a similar bus accident claimed Jorty-tllree lltJ Just ,.,o years ago. Stuart Novi11s - CBS News.