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...Stallion was still 200 ft. away, its loading ramp down and its rotors slashing impatiently. Fifty people, some lugging heavy equipment despite the order to abandon all baggage, piled in, one atop another: correspondents, photographers and Vietnamese men, women and children. The loadmaster raised the ramp, the two waist gunners gripped the handles of their M16s, and, with about a dozen passengers still standing like subway straphangers, the helicopter lifted off. As the tail dipped, I could see towers of smoke rising from all over Tan Son Nhut...
...Abandoned Pastures. As Butz sees it, limiting Mirex to one application per year made the program "completely unworkable." Agricultural experts in the infested areas seem to agree. "The ants come back every year now," says Halwin Jones, an official in Florida's agriculture department. "It used to be three, four or five years before they'd return." In Lowndes County, Ga., Agent George Kessler reports that farmers this year have begun to abandon pastures to protect their animals from the ants and that "children are having to play inside at some kindergartens to avoid being stung...
...faculty meeting held the same day as the referendum, two proposals to abandon of reconsider the program were defeated. The faculty established the ad hoe committee as a compromise measure at that meeting...
Said a high embassy official later: "The old man had to lean on him and substantially." The casual, colloquial phrase summed up a momentous fact: the U.S. was finally forced to abandon the man on whom for years it had staked its Viet Nam policy?and, indeed, finally forced to abandon Viet Nam. Even as Ambassador Martin returned to his embassy, the last remnants of the once mighty American presence, the few thousand citizens who remained in the country, were hastening to Tan Son Nhut airport for evacuation flights home. For North Viet Nam, Thieu's departure represented a stunning...
Florian gets his chance. Everyone falls in love with everyone (naturally), and the scholarly maidens come to their senses, abandon their studies, and dance off to discover the infinitely more satisfying delights of Victorian married life...