Word: option
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Plainly, evacuation by commercial flights, by military airplanes or by sea was no longer feasible. The security advisers discussed whether conditions might permit a resumption of the military airlift. If not, they would have to go to a fourth option, the riskiest of all: evacuation in Marine helicopters. Scarcely two hours after the meeting ended with no decision, Ford learned that two C-130s attempting to land at Tan Son Nhut had been waved off; the airport was blocked by thousands of panicky South Vietnamese. By then all of Ford's advisers, including Martin, agreed that...
Spurning the military option for the time being, the P.R.G. issued its 48-hour ultimatum to Thieu. Around the same time, South Viet Nam's top generals met with Thieu at Independence Palace and bluntly presented him with a message of their own: his resignation was the only way to avoid a disastrous military showdown with the Communists. Thieu accepted the verdict on the spot...
...Even many Catholics spoke of suicide. One, the wife of a civil servant and mother of nine children, fled Hanoi when the Communists took control of the North in 1954. She explained: "We cannot live with them. Since there is no longer any place left to run, the only option is death." Otherwise, she believed, the Communists would execute the children before her eyes...
...sands yesterday the Corporation delayed its announcement because "we wanted to held open the option if the Radcliffe Trustees desired a point statement...
Andreas Teuber '64, head tutor of Social Studies, said yesterday at a meeting of approximately 35 of the 50 junior concentrators that the committee decided students should "get the generals over with now," but will give students the option of taking the test any three days between now and June...