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...guns had already neutralized Saigon's huge airbase at Bien Hoa, and SA-2 and SA-7 missiles were trained on Tan Son Nhut airport. A single regiment could easily cut off Saigon's sole escape route to the sea by severing Route 15, leading to the port of Vung Tau. "Every time we blink, the map changes," said one military analyst...
Most U.S. immigration requirements were waived for the emergency. Vietnamese passengers carried a certificate addressed to the immigration officer at the U.S. port of entry: "The below-listed alien dependents have been granted parole status by the Attorney General for entry into the United States without immigrant visa...
...well as the West with the capability and reach of Soviet forces. One fallout from the first Okean exercise, for instance, was the decision to upgrade the Soviet carrier forces. Their third and most sophisticated carrier, the 35,000-ton Kiev, is now outfitting in the Black Sea port of Nikolayev and will undergo sea trials this summer...
Holder, 44, attributes his multiplicity of interests to his father, a "salesman with brains" in Port-of-Spain who believed that "if you put the tools in front of the baby, the baby will walk up to the tools." Among the tools his father provided were a piano and a paintbrush, both of which were first taken up by Holder's older brother Boscoe. "From the beginning, I was high on Chopin and turpentine," says Geoffrey. He has studied none of his arts formally. Creativity, he explains, is mostly a matter of environment and exigency: "At Carnival, for example...
...thing, there is the logistic problem of how to get the Americans from downtown Saigon to either Tan Son Nhut Airbase (five miles distant) or another possible evacuation site, Newport, a cargo area near the port of Saigon. During the rush last week to get home before the special 24-hour curfew was imposed, traffic in Saigon was her-ringboned at every intersection. What then might happen in the midst of the real hysteria that will almost surely come in the capital's final hours...