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...major Communist effort has gone into restoring basic services like water and electricity and keeping food markets stocked. Thousands of refugees from the countryside have been transported back to their homes; thousands of others were returning to the city from as far away as Cam Ranh, 200 miles to the south. Clearly, for the time at least, the Communists will be more concerned with the awesome problems of managing the huge territories that fell so unexpectedly into their hands than with political change. They will have to feed the population before they can revolutionize...
...week four more provinces had fallen to Communist control for a total of 17, fully three-fourths of South Viet Nam's territory. Six full South Vietnamese divisions had disintegrated. The Communists occupied such refugee-swollen coastal cities as Qui Nhon and Tuy Hoa, Nha Trang and Cam Ranh. Although they slowed their advance toward week's end, presumably to consolidate the huge areas that had unexpectedly fallen into their hands, they were also infiltrating men into the south at the rate of about 1,000 a day in preparation for what most analysts believed would be an assault...
...people fleeing desperately from the Communist advance. Hundreds of thousands, exhausted and dispirited, arrived in areas where they hoped to get refuge only to find that North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops were about to take over. Communist forces in such coastal cities as Tuy Hoa, Nha Trang and Cam Ranh abruptly cut off escape routes. In international waters just offshore, U.S. cargo ships waited, unable to move in any closer to pick up the fleeing people. About 60,000, mostly defeated soldiers, made it to Ham Tan and Vung Tau, a coastal resort 50 miles southeast of Saigon that...
...board the American ship Pioneer Commander, sent to Danang to take refugees to Cam Ranh, 300 miles to the south, passengers were shot or pushed overboard by soldiers trying to make room for themselves. Other evacuation vessels, including flat tug-drawn barges, took three days under the scorching sun with neither food nor water to make the Danang-Nha Trang trip. The vessels were so packed with people that most had to stand for the entire journey, except for those who died en route. Six children and two elderly men were taken dead from one barge after it landed...
...Cam Ranh Bay, a once impregnable U.S. base visited by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966, leaderless marines went on a rampage when their evacuation ships arrived from Danang. They took over cars and Jeeps at gunpoint, robbing fellow refugees at random. Soldiers even fired on American helicopters and chartered aircraft seeking to land in Cam Ranh. The situation was so bad that field commanders in the military region around Saigon were ordered to execute rioting troops on the spot; one commander in Binh Tuy province east of Saigon ordered some troops shot for indiscipline...