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Turning now to Greece where the public backlash반발 sparked by the country’s debt crisis turned deadly today. Protestors are furious화난 about massive spending cuts and tax increases. They were supposed to save that country from bankruptcy. Now fears are growing that the bailout구제금융 in Greece won’t work. That could cause ripple effects파급효과 across Europe and here in the United States. Our report tonight from NBC’s Dawna Friesen.

 

They came in their tens of thousands flooding the streets of central Athens. “Only the people pay and the politicians do nothing!” They tried to storm the Greek parliament. Tear gas forced them back. As riot police fought running battles, smoke drifted over the acropolis그리스의 성채 from firebombed building and vehicles. Inside this bank, 17 employees managed to escape, but three including a pregnant woman were overcome by smoke. The deaths have sparked shock and outrage. A demonstration is one thing, said the Greek prime minister, murder is quite another.

 

All this chaos is because Greeks are furious at austerity measures긴축조치 imposed on them as part of a $141 billion bailout package. The International Monetary Fund and European countries will hand over the cash, but only if Greece makes massive cuts to public salaries and pensions and increases taxes. For a generation known for its lavish풍성한 spending and tax avoidance, it’s all a step too far. The fear is that if Greece can’t get its financial act together, then other countries with huge debts like Spain, Portugal and Ireland could be next, could need bailouts, too, which might trigger another European, possibly global financial crisis.

 

“The debt is rising very, very rapidly. They have little prospect of economic growth. So if you look ahead a few years, not where we are now, if something doesn’t change, they could also be in very serious trouble.” The pain is confined to Greece for now, but investors the world over are jittery초초한 wondering if the debt crisis will spread. Dawna Friesen, NBC news, London.

 

Today marks an anniversary more than one American generation won’t forget. Here is how John Chancello described the end of the Vietnam War on this broadcast 35 years ago tonight. “Good evening. The city of Saigon was renamed today. The victorious communist who forced the city surrender said the capital of South Vietnam, henceforth지금부터, will be known as Ho Chi Minh City.” That word came as North Vietnamese forces overran the city captured the presidential palace while the last Americans fled in a chaotic evacuation from the US embassy.

US combat role had ended two years earlier. More than 58,000 Americans and a million Vietnamese died in that war.

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