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...address that he was offering an unconditional surrender to the P.R.G. "I believe in reconciliation among Vietnamese to avoid unnecessary shedding of blood," he said. "For this reason I ask the soldiers of the Republic of Viet Nam to cease hostilities in calm and to stay where they are." Afterward Minh told a French journalist, "Yes, it [the surrender] had to be done. Human lives had to be saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The End of a Thirty Years' War | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

...diplomats were getting out. From a row of houses behind the British embassy, residents watched the top-secret files going up in smoke. "The ashes were flying all over," reported a Vietnamese professor. "We knew that the British were not burning incense for their ancestors." Soon afterward, Ambassador John Christopher Wydowe Bushell, spiffy in a well-pressed safari suit, headed for Tan Son Nhut in his silver Jaguar. The West Germans, the Dutch, the Canadians, the Thais, the Japanese and the Australians departed too, leaving only the French and the Belgians?who maintain diplomatic relations with the North Vietnamese?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE EXODUS: Turning Off the Last Lights | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...short while later, a series of thundering explosions blew away a large portion of the four-story building, rattling houses for miles around. Immediately afterward, a ferocious blaze erupted; it raged for eight hours. No one was injured, but the $10 million factory was reduced to a heap of blackened brick and twisted metal. More than 900 people who had worked at the plant-the company's largest of several in the area-joined the unemployment rolls, already swollen in the Naugatuck Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Fiery, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...Adventure Author Alistair Maclean. At one point in the action, both men hung by their hands from the train roof and struggled to pull themselves back on board. "I pulled myself up with both arms, but I saw Bronson do a one-arm pull that astonished me," said Moore afterward. "He was amazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 5, 1975 | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...island of Skorpiós for the Greek Orthodox service marking the 40th day after her father's death. While a village priest swung an incense-filled censer, Jackie, Christina and a score of Aristotle Onassis' closest relatives and friends offered prayers in Ari's behalf. Afterward, worshipers completed the ceremonial rite of passage by eating from a specially decorated 44-lb. loaf of bread-a symbolic act to send the soul of the late shipping magnate heavenward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 5, 1975 | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

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