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With those words, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger acknowledged last week that the final Indochina crisis was at hand-both in Indochina and in Washington. The Khmer Rouge were masters of Phnom-Penh; the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong were tightening their noose around Saigon. Meanwhile most Congressmen remained adamantly opposed to voting any more military aid for South Viet Nam. U.S. involvement in the wars of Indochina was coming to a last and dangerous conclusion; now the most important question to the U.S. was how to evacuate several thousand Americans from South Viet Nam and what to do about...
...debate between the Executive and Legislative branches centered on President Gerald Ford's request for $722 million in emergency military aid for the Saigon government. In speeches and testimony before congressional committees, Ford and top members of his Administration argued that the aid was needed to "stabilize" the military situation long enough to permit a negotiated settlement of the war. At the very least, it was needed for a safe evacuation of Americans...
...lines of the proposed contingency fund would eventually clear Congress, though when remained uncertain. In the Administration's view, if no military aid was to be voted, American interests would be better served by a delay of that verdict that would keep alive a spirit of anticipation in Saigon and, as one presidential adviser said, "avoid spooking the South Vietnamese." The long agony of America's involvement in Viet Nam seemed to be ending in one final act of deception -cynical, but perhaps also necessary...
What little territory remained under South Viet Nam's control shrank steadily through the week as Communist forces drew the ring around Saigon even tighter. Along the coast, North Vietnamese forces overwhelmed the towns of Phan Rang and Phan Thiet, bringing to 19 the number of provincial capitals they have captured. In the Mekong Delta they stepped up their sporadic attacks in an effort to cut Saigon off from its primary source of rice and vegetables. At Xuan Loc, a provincial capital only 40 miles east of Saigon, a valiant defense by outnumbered and outgunned government forces finally appeared...
Spartacus League representatives led a picket line while protesters chanted, "NLF won't stop now; onward to Saigon right now," and "All Indochina must go Communist." About 50 Greek Cypriots marched up and down the street carrying signs reading. "Turks-NATO Out of Cyprus...