Rebels Near Airport Threaten Phnom Penh Airlift Continues
Communist insurgents pressed toward Phnom Penh near the capital's airport, advancing through rice paddies toward a dike barrier by government positions. The US airlift of food and fuel resumed at dawn as government forces held other areas and battles intensified along the Mekong.
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Phnom Penh
Tuol Leap
Washington
Saigon
Thailand
Neak Luang
Mekong
Long Boret
Viet Airlift Expands as Saigon Faces Major Offensive
The United States plans to use commercial vessels under Military Sea Lift Command for initial Viet airlift. President Ford met Saigon leaders and ordered Weyand to assess aid needs. A divided Senate committee backed $82.5 million for three months and $73 million in aid. Evacuations from Da Nang began, Thieu reshuffled the cabinet to fight a historic North Vietnamese onslaught. Refugees swelled Da Nang as Hue fell, with troops and civilians fleeing toward ships. North Vietnam extended its push into the Mekong Delta, seizing Hla Tien as Radio Saigon reorganized government to meet the emergency.
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Military Sea Lift Command
AID
Indochina
Ford
Washington
Tran Kim Phuong
Saigon
Army
Fred C. Weyand
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Cambodia
John Sparkman
D-Ata
United States
United Naions
da Nang
Hue
Imperial
Dunkirk
Quang Ngai
South Vietnam
Peter O’loughlin
Pleiku
Kontum
Tuy Hoa
North Vietnam
Mekong
Hla Tien
Radio Saigon
Thieu
Prince Faisal’s former girlfriend doubts mental illness
Christine Surma, 2 year-old former girlfriend of Prince Faisal Ibn Musaed Ibn Abdul Aziz, says he was not mentally deranged and appeared brilliant. She recalls his radical shift at Berkeley and notes his past academic troubles at UC Berkeley and Colorado, including a prior drug case dismissed.
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Christine Surma
Los Angeles
Faisal Ibn Musaed Ibn
Abdul Aziz
Miss Surma
Iramhoto
King Paisal
Knbc-Tv
West Hollywood
Prince Faisal Ibn Musaed Ibn
Prince
University of Colorado
UC Berkeey
Berkeley
Surma
Nbc-Tv
Faisal
Radio
Riyadh
Royal
King Faisal
Faisal Ibn Musaed Ton Abdul Aziz
Beirut
Fahd
Washington
Saudi Arabia
U.S
Monte Carlo
Radio Riyadh
Khaled
Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz
Allah
Nixon mourns death of Saudi King Faisal
Former President Nixon described King Faisal as an immense loss to the country and to Arab American friendship. He noted the assassination is a personal loss, stating the two leaders had known each other for 20 years after Nixon met Faisal during his final Middle East trip last summer.
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San Clemente
Richard M. Nixon
Faisalay
Nixon
Middle East
Faisal
Riyadh
Washington
Israel
East Jerusalem
Palestine Liberation Organization
PLO
al Fatah
Arabian American Oil Co
Aramco
Prince Khaled
Khaled
Fahd
Cleveland
Ohio
Palace
Tax rebate plan trims Senate bill in tax relief push
Negotiators agreed on rebates up to 3400 for working poor with children and higher child care deductions for upper middle income parents. A $500 million Chrysler tax break was dropped, Senate cuts totaling 46.6 billion bring the measure closer to Ford’s acceptable level. Rebate details set 10 percent of 1974 taxes with caps and a declining maximum as income rises. checks to be mailed automatically about 45 days after Ford signs, over six weeks, by filing order.
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Chrysler
Senate
Ford
Congress
Internal Revenue Service
Assassination of King Faisal Shocks Arab World
The killing of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia unsettles the Middle East as Prince Khaled is named his successor. Officials note risks of Soviet penetration, regional power shifts, and OPEC instability while global leaders, including Egypt’s Sadat, express condolences and plan attendance for the funeral.
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Sadat
Egypt
King Khaled
Saudi Arabia
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Palestine
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Hussein
Jordan
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
OPEC
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Los Cerritos, Cerritos
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