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...there was a drought and people were starving. But life in the big city goes on as always. Abidjan's sidewalk cafes were full of people drinking and fending off the hordes of peddlars, who sell anything from boa constrictor skins to nose-rings, and have cousins in every port...
...Have been fired on and boarded by Cambodian armed forces. Vessel being escorted to unknown Cambodian port...
TUESDAY. At 2:25 a.m., Scowcroft awakened the President to tell him that the Cambodians were towing the Mayaguez toward the mainland. By morning, however, Ford learned that the Cambodians had anchored at Koh Tang, a 3-mi. by 2-mi. jungle islet about 34 miles off the port of Kompong Som (also known as Sihanoukville). That was encouraging news to Ford; rescue would be more difficult if the crew had been taken to the mainland...
...Office to report that 30 crew members had been rescued. At 11:15, the Defense Secretary called again to correct the message: all of the American crew had been aboard the Thai vessel and were safe. Ford immediately ordered Schlesinger to halt all military operations, except those in sup port of the beleaguered Marines on Koh Tang. As a dozen aides outside the Oval Office cheered and applauded, Ford announced: "They're all safe. We got them all. Thank...
...good ship "Diplomatic Drive" was certainly busy last week. To emphasize Egypt's peace hopes, Sadat in connection with the canal reopening declared Port Said and the surrounding area a free-trade zone. In preparation for his June 1 summit meeting in Salzburg with President Ford, Sadat was set to embark on a round of conferences in Arab capitals, including the first visit ever by an Egyptian President to Baghdad (see story page 32). In Moscow, meanwhile, the Soviets completed a series of strategy conferences with Arab diplomats from Egypt, Iraq and Syria and with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman...