The Real ‘Good Morning Vietnam’

Five minutes now in front of eight o'clock, uh, the dawn buster for a Thursday morning, the 27th day of August, 1970. There are few things in life as satisfying and rewarding as doing the work you like and doing it well. Perhaps you're fortunate enough to be in that position now.

In the army, however, it has not always been possible to put a man in the job he wants or the one who can do best. Often his secondary talents are more in demand. If that has happened to you, you can now do something about it.

Re-enlistment options available. Now let you choose the career field you want. See your army career counselor for full details.

We're going to kind of wrap it up this hour with one Mungo Jerry. Now we got, he was coming up with every dairy sales here. He himself is going to be getting the molecular stones to you in about four minutes of right now taking us up to that time.

Here's Mungo Jerry and In the summertime, chart rated one.

[MUSIC PLAYS - IN THE SUMMERTIME BY MUNGO JERRY]

This is the American Forces Vietnam Network. This is AFVN, the American Forces Vietnam Network, serving the American fighting man 24 hours a day from the Delta to the DMZ. With studios and transmitters in Quang Tri, Tanang, Quy Nhon, Hoi Cu, and the Trang.

The key network station in Saigon, Vietnam. So you're getting short, are you? Well, don't get so short that you start to forget things. Hold a baggage, for instance.

Set aside a few copies of your orders for your packing. You'll need six copies if you pack your own, or seven if you have the whole baggage people do it. If you happen to be making an inter-theater transfer, you'll need eleven copies of your orders.

Drop by your personal property branch before it's too late.

It's 0800 hours, second round of Middle East peace talks underway. AFVN News, compiled from commercial and military news agencies.

Good morning. United Nations Headquarters in New York was the scene of a second round of Middle East peace talks today. The Israeli ambassador is in Jerusalem for consultation.

Those special UN envoy, Gunnar Jarring, met with only delegates of Egypt and Jordan. There are reports that the departure of Israeli ambassador, Yosef Tekoah, took Jarring by surprise. But a UN spokesman says Tekoah's absence does not affect the negotiations.

The administration says it's possible the United States and the Soviet Union may be involved indefinitely in the Middle East in an on-the-scene peacekeeping role. Experts indicate the Nixon administration is building its Middle East policy around that possibility. There are predictions of a physical presence of the two big powers in the Middle East, perhaps as observers under a United Nations umbrella.

Administration thinking was disclosed Monday at a briefing of newspaper and broadcast executives at the Western White House. Information was released today on the condition that no official would be quoted directly. UN Secretary-General U Thant has asked for a record budget for next year that could exceed $190 million.

In making his request, Thant said the UN Secretariat has not escaped the pressure of inflationary tendencies throughout the world. Director George Shultz of the Office of Management and Budget has hailed the announcement of the first drop in the government's wholesale price index in two years. He says it's one more sign, and a fairly dramatic one, that the anti-inflation program is working.

In a preliminary report, the Labor Department announced the index dropped five-tenths of one percent. The drop includes a sharp decline in farm prices, especially cattle, hogs, vegetables, and eggs. The Women's Liberation Movement, among other things, will have its effect on federal agencies today, as we hear in this report from newsman John Meyer.

Here in the nation's capital, members of a group called FEW, which stands for Federally Employed Women, plan to hold a rally in Lafayette Square just across the street from the White House. Speakers will include women employed in various capacities within the government, and there will be telegrams read from some Congresswomen. At the same time, several federal agencies plan to hold so-called educational programs in the spirit of the day.

Among them, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Labor Department, where Secretary Hardin has declared it Women's Day, and the GSA. Elsewhere in the capital, there's to be a Women's Coalition rally at Farragut Square, an afternoon teach-in on Capitol Hill, and Women's Day workshops at the YWCA. To help out, a local Episcopal church has set up a daycare center for the children of participants in the various activities.

It will be staffed by men volunteers. This is John Mayer, CBS News, Washington. A Commerce Department official says industry should not be the villain in Consumer Crusade.

He claims that for every product cited as unsafe, there are dozens which were made safe by industry on its own initiative. At the same time, Deputy Assistant Commerce Secretary Richard Simpson has called for more consumer participation in setting product standards. He said this would need financial backing to find confident consumer representatives.

Simpson spoke at a news conference in Newark, New Jersey. The National Transportation Safety Board has labeled inadequate the construction of most school buses. It called for reinforcement of existing buses to protect children's lives.

In a report, the board claims that many school buses disintegrate in crashes because too few rivets, bolts, screws, and welds are used. The board's recommendations are based mainly on investigations into fatal school bus accidents in Decatur, Alabama in 1968. In other news, the Senate has rejected a bid to put restrictions on a $200 million contingency fund for work on the C-5A transport plane.

In another vote, Senators refused to ban plant-killing chemicals in the Vietnam War. The New Haven jury deliberating the fate of Black Panther Lonnie McLucas has recessed. He's charged with kidnapping and conspiracy in the death of another party member, Alex Rackley.

And finally, President Nixon talked today with fellow golfer Cardinal Terrence Cook of New York. The Cardinal reported that golf pro Arnold Palmer gave him a set of clubs with a Latin motto on them, Lord Have Mercy On Me. That got a laugh from the president who said that comedian Bob Hope had suggested the same motto for the president's club.

I'm Airman Gary Salsinger and that's AFBN News to this hour. AFBN News, compiled from commercial and military news agencies.

Oh, my God.

Ladies and gentlemen, Chando.

[MUSIC PLAYS - NOWHERE TO RUN BY MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS]

The Berry Gordy family in Detroit, Michigan. Martha Rees started out as a secretary for the Gordy firm while in Detroit in 1963.

And she waited around because everybody else was trying to get in and be a big star with the Gordy group. And then finally, about two years later, Gordy kind of discovered her accidentally on purpose. And from there, it was all the way up to the top.

Martha Rees Vandella, stateside souvenir at eight minutes after eight o'clock. Welcome in to the third portion of the Dawn Buster for this Thursday morning in Vietnam.

May it be another, another hour of living for, for, for me. It seems that every time I say the date, there's a warning I have to check the log to make sure I'm right here.

It's the Guess Who Sound 12 getting us started with Dawn, the stateside survey in hand-me-down world.

[MUSIC PLAYS - HAND ME DOWN WORLD BY THE GUESS WHO]

Hey, partner, you've been having trouble with your best band of roosters.

You've been kind of sluggish lately, and them there hens, they ain't smiling either.

Well, listen here, get your chicken coop together. Set a radio in there about four o'clock every weekday afternoon. Tune it on to that town and country show.

The armor specialist Bob Bossetfella and the hayloft fair, you know the one. Oh, you just watch them hens start a-smiling, buddy. Eggs? Oh, you'll have eggs all over the place! A, F, G, and P, M, N, O, P, M, N, O, O. Well, we're on the subject of things coming up.

Coming up at 12.30 this afternoon, it'll be fairly moderate Millie. USO Showtime, there's Millie herself. We're out and playing all your dedications and requests.

That's USO Showtime this afternoon at 12.30 on the American Forces Vietnam Network. Head bow, these are the spinners, and it's a shame. It's a shame.

It's a shame. It hurts me. It's a shame.

I'm standing all alone, on the telephone. Waiting for you, when you don't call at all. It's a shame.

When you move, it's a shame. My emotions. It's a shame.

When you move, you're like a child in pain. I'm trying to be, but you're playing the game. It's so hard to refuse you.

It's so confusing. I can't even say I love you. It's so hard to feel you.

[MUSIC PLAYS - IVE LOST YOU BY ELVIS PRESLEY]

I've lost you babe, I've lost you. Its nineteen after 8 o'clock.

Say are you leaving Vietnam soon to go home?  

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[MUSIC PLAYS - I KNOW I'M LOSING YOU BY RARE EARTH]

And its called I know I'm losing you babe, also the number 25 song on the state side. It's eighteen minutes now after the hour of 8 o'clock on a Thursday morning's Dawn busters.

Talking about Berry Gordy, a little while ago, this gal has recently gone on her own and looks as though she doesn't have any problems.  Recently completed a live appearance in Las Vegas and she's got a new record out. Now 21 on the stateside survey, from 1968 Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. This is Diana Ross.

[MUSIC PLAYS - AINT NO MOUNTAIN HIGH ENOUGH BY DIANA ROSS]

Attention army personnel. The army now offers the chance to finish college receiving full pay. If you are within two years of a college degree you may be eligible for the College Degree Completion Program. This program is open to officers, warrant officers and enlisted personnel, both men and women. In addition to receiving full pay some of the educational parts can be paid under the GI Bill. Its worth checking into at the Saigon Education Centre.

What do you think about all the protests in America today? My advice to all the demonstrators would be to love it or leave it. Pardon me sir, what do you think about America and all the protests going on? Well I think they may have a valid point, I mean somethings got to be done in America either we change it or lose.

[MUSIC PLAYS - AMERICA, COMMUNICATE WITH ME BY RAY STEVENS]