Embassy siege ends with three serious incidents
The incident began when Protter hid inside the consulate before dawn Monday and announced a security exercise. He fatally attacked Israeli supervisor Giora Raviv and South African staffer Edwin Malpa, with another victim found unidentified. He wired the building with numerous hazardous materials and a detonator, while taking staff as captives and using a light machine gun and three revolvers before surrendering later.
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Protter
Giora Raviv
Edwin Malpa
Arich Bustan
Michael Ram
Yanks Fight With S Viet Evacuation Near Rout
The Ho Chi Minh evacuation scene as Duong Van Minh orders Americans out within 24 hours and South Vietnamese flee amid rumors of a Viet Cong and North Vietnamese march. Vietnamese air force mass flights to Thailand, civil officials retreat, and Marines killed in Tan Son Nhat shelling. A DOGB with 130 aboard lands in the Philippines. Some reporters and missionaries stay behind to aid locals.
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Duong van Minh
U.S
Foreign Ministry
Ulapay
Thailand
Washington
Congressional
Frank Church
D-Idaho
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Sig Vietnam
Tan Son Nhaut
Clark Air Base
Philippines
Air Force
Associated Press
George Esper
Peter Apnett
Matt Franjola
Max
Long Beach man seeks visa for family stranded in Vietnam
L B man Flatau, former U S AID worker, struggles to secure release and travel for his wife and her family from Saigon. He has paid police and immigration officials to speed the process, hoping to reunite in California within months as bureaucratic delays and a delayed surgery loom. He relies on embassy support and letters from April to push the case, while awaiting a hospital operation long scheduled but not set.
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Eimbassy
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Saigon
Flatay
Flatau
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Flatan
Pacific Coast
U.S
Pham Thi Lang
Minh Tai
Long Beach
V.A
Ford's Evacuation Edict And The Final Saigon Pullout
Ford weighs final evacuation as aides assemble in the Roosevelt Room. Kissinger, Scowcroft, and Colby monitor Saigon data while Martin in Saigon signals timing. Option 4 supports a last helicopter rush. Ford finalizes the plan after late-night briefings and pizza. The president and Kissinger stay in contact through the night as events unfold.
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Roo
Roosevelt
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Scowcroft
Schlesinger
George Brown
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CIA
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Nancy
White House
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Scowcrdit
Saigon
Graham Martin
Martin Old Kissinger
Phnom Penh
Donald
Bill Greener
Oval
U.S
Marsh
Max Priedersdorf
Willi
Greener
Larry M Speakes
Pentagon
Adm
Noel Gaylor
Pacific
Homer Smith
Jordan
Hussein
Woman 56 slain in North Long Beach home
The body of Evelyn Sarah Cunningham, 56, was found Monday by her son in a bloodstained kitchen of their Country Club Drive home in North Long Beach. She had been stabbed repeatedly and beaten. No sign of forced entry or robbery. Cunningham, a physical therapist, co-owned a therapy firm and lived alone.
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North Long Beach
Evelyn Sarah Cunningham
Linden Ave
Robert
Dake Dakex
Baker
Bob Forbes
Lovan Wren
Chile
First of 20000 Viets Arriving at Pendleton
San Clemente Mayor Tony DiGiorgio warns refugees may bring disease and seeks quarantine at the camp. Orange and San Diego officials join Sacramento in urging federal reimbursement and nationwide dispersal to ease local impact. Rep Clair Burgener notes constituent concerns near wealthy seaside towns. Gov Brown balks at state refugee aid without clear federal reimbursement terms.
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San Clemente
Tony DiGiorgio
Halth
Wisteret
Clair Burganer
Edmund G. Brown Jr
California
Promac
Vietnamese pilot flees war with family to U S ship
Quoi flew from Hien Hoa air base with his wife, infant daughter, relatives of a murdered officer, and 15 men aboard a 19,200 ton U S Navy ship after bombing began. Pentagon officials said helicopters ditched near the Blue Ridge and in the Denver area. all aboard were rescued.
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Vung, Tau
Saigon
U.S
Quoi
Quai
Pentagon
Joseph Laitin
Saigon Air Force
Denver
Sixty Vietnamese seize Air America plane at Tan Son Nhut
AP reports fifteen South Vietnamese including a colonel forced their way aboard an Air America C48 at Tan Son Nhut airport. Pilot Stephen Sadler said the colonel rammed a jeep toward the plane and four others joined before takeoff. Names were not released.
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Hong Kong
Air America
Saixin
Tan Son Nhut
Stephen Sa
Sadler
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