Word: bangkok
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Back at the Pentagon, events were unfolding that would later create the biggest controversy of the rescue operation. At 7:07 p.m. Washington time, the Cambodian radio broadcast that the government was prepared to release the ship, but made no mention of the crew. Monitored in Bangkok, the message was relayed at 8:16 p.m. to Washington, where the President was donning black tie in preparation for a working dinner for The Netherlands' Prime Minister Uyl. After reading the text of the Cambodian broadcast, Ford told Kissinger to tell Phnom-Penh in a radio broadcast, to be transmitted internationally, that...
...mother is in Camp Pendleton with two of my sisters. She says things are pretty organized there, certainly better than Guam. They were some of the last people to leave Saigon. They flew to Bangkok and there some relatives in the government helped them get out of the country. My mother wanted to go to Paris, but the decided at the last minute to come to the U.S., because she was afraid the French might return them to Vietnam. She's one of the first people they would kill. She was active in politics, a sort of link between officials...
Then Mills heard that an Air America C46 plane with 58 Vietnamese aboard had left Saigon illegally for Bangkok. Mills immediately went to their aid. At Bangkok he found the stranded 58 Vietnamese under the baleful eyes of Thai authorities. Mills took the whole bunch under his wing and told the immigration authorities that he would sponsor the group. He persuaded Swissair to fly the 58 to Hong Kong; the airline was technically violating the law, since the Vietnamese had no proper landing clearance or onward transportation. Never fearing, Mills cheerfully paid...
...such luck. Hong Kong authorities threatened to return the group to Bangkok. At the airport, Mills picked up nine other stranded Vietnamese. All were taken into custody and detained at an old British army camp. But Mills appears to have been successful in persuading the U.S. consul general to allow his charges to fly on to Guam, even offering to pay their fares. "I'll buy the tickets if I have to hawk my left ear." The refugees probably will be released from the camp this week. In the meantime, Mills and Swissair have kept up their hopes...
Last Convoy. After Schanberg reached Thailand, he sat down at a typewriter at the Times office in Bangkok and emptied his notebooks for 19 hours. He and other journalists in the first group to reach the border had agreed to embargo their reports until the last convoy of foreigners entered Thailand. Patrice de Beer of France's Le Monde broke the embargo, as did a number of other European journalists, but their reports did not begin to compare in volume, drama or detail with Schanberg...