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Thousands of civilians had to be evacuated from Viet Nam border settlements to safer places. One of the evacuees was Nguyen Him Oanh, 26, who decided to keep on moving and finally escaped to Bangkok. "We had to give up our cloth and spice shop and move along the road east," she reported. "Then we had to dig bunkers and bomb shelters. Every day I saw Vietnamese soldiers going toward the border in trucks, with tanks and artillery. Just before I escaped, I saw the bodies of 20 Khmer Rouge laid out along the road. Our soldiers put them there...
...this episode that finally prompted Viet Nam's Premier Pham Van Dong to go all out in retaliation. No less a military leader than Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap, hero against the French at Dienbienphu and scourge of the Americans during the Viet Nam War, took charge of the campaign. Characteristically, Giap planned slowly; he devoted a full two months to studying the terrain and the situation...
...newest refugees from Viet Nam told TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein of the long, laborious preparations they had made for their escape. First a boat had to be acquired, then supplies and fuel were hoarded-in small quantities, so as not to arouse the suspicions of the security police. Nguyen Duyen, 39, a former South Vietnamese naval officer, started plotting his escape as soon as the Communist tanks began rumbling toward Saigon in the spring of 1975. He sold everything he owned to buy a fishing boat, but his escape plans were interrupted when he was imprisoned for ten months...
Small Cache. Three weeks ago, Nguyen, his family and six other people made an audacious getaway from Danang in broad daylight. Pretending to start out on a lazy, late-afternoon pleasure excursion, they headed for the Philippines. They took with them a small cache of weapons accumulated during the war; the refugees intended to fight it out, if necessary, with Communist patrols that capture eight out of every ten escape boats...
...from Macao gave the refugees water and guided them into Hong Kong, where, by a stroke of luck, they passed unnoticed by harbor police. Once inside Hong Kong last week, the group immediately went to the authorities and turned in their arms. While the U.N. pays their living expenses, Nguyen and his family are hoping to be accepted...