Saigon under bombardment as North launches assault
Tracer fire lit the Saigon sky as Red bombers raided Tan Son Nhut and downtown. Air bases were sealed, evacuation flights halted, and a 24 hour curfew ordered as Viet Cong forces closed in on the city. Rockets struck Cholon and navy HQ while refugees faced crossfire and looting surged at the American commissary.
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Saigon
Newport Bridge
Bien Hoa
Here
Cholon
Paris
Tel
Washington
Pentagon
AdTs
Danang
Nguyen van Minh
Tah Son Nhut
Sime
aJlal
U.S
Lummer
San Marcos to widen Mission Road at cost up to 410000
City officials cannot locate the main street right of way on Mission Road in San Marcos. Records are lost on survey markers for the widening project originally estimated at 200000. City Manager Bill Bradley says the yellow centerline on pavement is not a guaranteed boundary. The council approved paying up to 410000 to the California Department of Transportation to locate the accurate right of way.
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Ban Marcos
Main Street
Mission Road
San Marcos
City Collesimen
California Department of Transportation
Bill Bradley
Tragic Lake Pontchartrain crash spares one Del Real child
A plane carrying six Del Real relatives crashed into Lake Pontchartrain. Ricardo Del Real Jr. survived after 40 hours in the water, while his mother Roselyn Carmen and brother Anthony and sister Carmen were found dead. Rescue teams search marshes and waterways as Coast Guard officials express cautious optimism about the missing father Ricardo Sr. and Lisa, 5, who authorities believe floated ashore.
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New Orleans
Lake Pontchartrain
del Real
Ricardo Jr
Roselyn
Carmen
Brgthr Anthony
Thomas Ward
Savannah
Wes Real
Ricardo
Roy Katz
Katz
Coast Guard
Hiwarda
Ricarda
Sheriff's Department
Tom Buell
Mandeville
Pompano Beach
Fla
Lakefront
South Shore
Sihanouk to Head Cambodia Amid Neutral Government
Cambodian Abera sion movement names Prince Norodom Sihanouk as chief of state of a neutral Cambodia and keeps Penn Nouth as prime minister in exile. Samphan to lead the government after the April 17 takeover, with unclear details on the governing structure and future leadership in Phnom Penh and Peking.
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Norodom Sihanouk
Cambodia
Radia Fhnom Penh
National Congress
Penn Nouth
Sihanouk
Peking
Khieu Samphan
Bangkok
Samphan
Roops
Cambindia
Lon Nal
Phnom Penh
Ford opposes new federal consumer agency plan
Ford urged postponing a bill to create a federal consumer agency and called for repeal of fair trade laws that fix minimum prices. He criticized extensive government regulation as a hidden cost to business and consumers, and urged streamlining federal agencies to cut costs. He cited proposed reforms in finance, transportation, and gas price controls while noting recent vandalism at a local school and Chiang Ching-kuo's unanimous chairmanship of Taiwan's Kuomintang.
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Ford
Port
Accus
Federal Regulatory Commission
Congress
N.R.A
Executive Departments
Agen
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hunter dies after 19 foot saltwater crocodile ambush
In Weipa near Brisbane, a 32 year old hunter, Péter Reimers, was swallowed while napping beside a freshwater lagoon. Police say the crocodile lunged from the water, then divers killed the animal after dynamite shocked it. Reimers’ dismembered body was recovered from the belly, identified by his head. The incident highlights Crocodile activity in far North Queensland and recalls a historic Queensland death by a large crocodile nicknamed Big Momma.
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Brisbane
Australia
Apt
Searthers
Talice
Péter
Reimers
Weipa
Bui
Queensland
Fidal
Big Momma
Reimers al
Evacuation Drives Limit Vietnamese to United States
Airlifted Vietnamese refugees flood Guam and Wake Island camps as officials seek to cap arrivals at about 130,000. Thousands more wait in tent cities across Asia while Flight Tiger Airlines aids a discreet exodus. Evacuees recount fear and loss as Pentagon accelerates the round‑the‑clock airlift and processing centers race to house arrivals.
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United States
Guam
Durward Powell
Vietnam
Robert McCloskey
Los Alamitos Naval Air Station
Air Force
Flying Tiger Airlines
Los Angeles
Asia
Tran Thi Lang
Orote
Liberty
Pentagon
Little Lock Park Air Force Base
Utah
Navy
Finy Wake Island
George S. Morrison
Ints
Philippines
Clark Air Force Base
Subic Hay
Tiger” Airlines
Joan Saigon
Saigon
Dc& Cargo
Tan Son Nhut Airport
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Lisa
United Press Internatioonal
Consumer Agency
Carson
Annalee Avenue
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Taipei
Taiwan
Chiang Ching ‘Ua
Kuomintang
Clara
Montgomery
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Spueis
Scanoga Paik Snd
Atrrance
Ose Mar Montel
Pat Hivroe
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