Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 the French called Cap Saint-Jacques...
...NEIL was named EIBL player of the week as he went six-for-six in a twin bill against Columbia last weekend. The Eli junior started at shortstop both games and pitched three innings of relief in the first game, yielding one run and striking out five, to pick up the victory. The two victories doubled Yale's 1974 EIBL total...
Swami of Swat's series pick: Los Angeles over Oakland...
...events are routine to TIME, but the past seven days were so full of shocks and surprises that editors had a hard time remembering a week like it. The U.S. and the world were trying to pick up the pieces after Henry Kissinger's failed Middle East mission. Saudi Arabia's King Faisal was assassinated. In Indochina, the Cambodian government seemed helpless, while President Nguyen Van Thieu's panicking army yielded province by province to North Vietnamese troops. Portugal, a member of NATO, was continuing its slide leftward. All of this presented serious problems...
...still open stairs and wheel wells. The incident and the unruly mobs at the airport caused the U.S. to suspend its program of evacuating refugees by air. The chaos and hopelessness in Danang moved President Ford to order four U.S. Navy transports to stand off the Vietnamese coast to pick up refugees and take them to safety. "I have directed that U.S. Government resources be made available to meet humanitarian needs," declared the President. He also called upon "all nations and corporations that have ships in the vicinity" to help with the evacuation...