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...Washington a special-action group of top officials was meeting almost daily, sometimes with a pipe-puffing President Gerald Ford, to hear the latest news--uniformly bad. On April 17 the Senate Armed Services Committee, reflecting an overwhelming American desire to be done with Vietnam, rejected an Administration request for $722 million in emergency aid to the Saigon regime. "Those bastards!" exclaimed the usually calm Ford. Though nobody believed the aid would turn the tide, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and others had hoped it might enable South Vietnam to put up enough of a last-ditch fight to persuade...
Preparations for the final assault were well under way by Thieu's resignation. Responding to an urgent request from the forces in the South for more ammunition, Hanoi had sent thousands of trucks racing down the coastal highway loaded with rockets and shells. Bui Tin, a colonel and journalist for an NVA newspaper, arrived in Danang on April 21, en route from Hanoi to join the final push. Two days later he flew south on a helicopter that, he says, "was filled with new military maps of Saigon that had been rushed into print and flown from Hanoi" to guide...
...WANT TO DO BUSINESS IN VIETNAM, FORGET ABOUT HELP FROM Washington. Encouraged by the recent opening of a U.S. liaison office in Hanoi, executives from Caterpillar and Boeing last January asked to talk to National Security Adviser Anthony Lake about business opportunities in Vietnam. When their request was denied, Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski tried to help by requesting his own meeting with Lake. Could the Senator bring the executives along? Lake replied that he would be happy to talk with Murkowski, but not with the businessmen...
Prosecutor Roger Dobris argued that Pattis didn't prove that the charge should be dismissed. The judge didn't rule on Pattis request, saying it would have to be made in writing to another magistrate, Superior Court Judge Richard Damiani. Alander set a May 4 pretrial hearing...
...noted that many personal ads placed byAsian American men in gay publicationsspecifically request white partners...