1.
GV CROWDS OUTSIDE BUILDING. (SILENT)
0.03

2.
LV PAN CROWDS.
0.08

3.
SV POLLING STATION UNLOADING BALLOT BOXES ONTO TABLE.
0.14

4.
SV PEOPLE ROUND TABLE COUNTING BALLOT PAPERS.
0.16

5.
SV DITTO.
0.19

6.
SV BALLOT PAPERS BEING UNLOADED ONTO TABLE FROM BOX.
0.32

7.
SV COUNTING BALLOT PAPERS.
0.36

8.
GV INSIDE TELEVISION STUDIO.
0.40

9.
SV JOURNALISTS AND OTHERS WATCHING.
0.44

10.
SV JOURNALISTS WATCHING BOARD.
0.49

11.
CU CAMERAMAN.
0.51

12.
SV TELEVISION, MEN SEATED AT DESK AND RESULT BOARD.
0.54

13.
CU RESULT BOARD SHOWING C.D.U. IN LEAD.
0.59

14.
SV MINISTER HECK TALKING TO OFFICIALS.
1.04

15.
CU VON THADDEN SPEAKING. SOF STARTS: "THIS RESULT PROVES..." SOF ENDS: "...OF THE FUTURE."
1.29


TRANSCRIPT: VON THADDEN(SEQ 15): "THIS RESULT PROVES THAT THE CHANCES OF THE N.P.D. AT THE COMING FEDERAL ELECTIONS WILL BE AS WELL AT LEAST AS THESE ELECTIONS HERE AT BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG AND I AM ABSOLUTELY CONFIDENT IN REGARD TO OUR DEVELOPMENT IN THE FUTURE."




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Background: WEST GERMANY WAS TODAY (MONDAY) CONFRONTED WITH A SHARP SWING TO THE RIGHT, CONFIRMING GOVERNMENT FEARS THAT LEFT-WING VIOLENCE AT EASTER WOULD PRODUCE AN EXTREMIST BACKLASH. VOTERS IN THE COUNTRY'S THIRD MOST POPULOUS STATE OF BADEN-WUERTTEMBERG DEALT THE RULING BONN COALITION A STUNNING BLOW BY GIVING THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATS THEIR BIGGEST POLL IN ANY STATE ELECTION.

THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY POLLED 9.8 PER CENT OF THE VOTES YESTERDAY AND THEIR LEADER, 46-YEAR-OLD PRUSSIAN NOBLEMAN, ADOLF VON THADDEN, FORECAST THAT THEY WOULD GET A BLOCK OF 50 DEPUTIES IN THE BUNDESTAG IN BONN AT THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION IN AUTUMN NEXT YEAR.

CHANCELLOR KIESINGER'S CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS WON 60 SEATS IN THE NEW STATE ASSEMBLY - A GAIN OF ONE SEAT DESPITE A PERCENTAGE LOSS OF 2.1 IN VOTES POLLED. BUT THEIR COALITION PARTNERS, SOCIAL DEMOCRATS OF FOREIGN MINISTER HERR WILLY BRANDT, SUFFERED A SEVERE REVERSE, LOSING TEN SEATS AS ITS SUPPORT SLUMPED BY ABOUT EIGHT PER CENT. THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATS, PREVIOUSLY UNREPRESENTED, GAINED 12 SEATS.

AFTER THE RESULTS WERE KNOWN ADOLF VON THADDEN MADE A STATEMENT TO VISNEWS IN ENGLISH...