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...General Nguyen Cao Ky, then head of the Saigon government, revealed that he had only one hero...
These episodes have seemed hauntingly familiar to Hong Kong Bureau Chief Roy Rowan, who covered the fall of the Nationalist regime in China for LIFE in 1949. "There is no way anyone can cover a defeat of this size dispassionately," Rowan cabled from Saigon last week. "We have continually found ourselves not only reporting the story, but in the midst of it. There are no safe sidelines, and the expert opinion, it seems, is often retreating right alongside us, asking us what we know. It is one of those few times when a reporter can not only witness but feel...
President Ford asked Congress last night for nearly $1 billion in emergency military and economic aid to Nguyen Van Thieu's Saigon government...
Ford also said federal laws should be changed to permit Untied States forces to help evacuate "endangered South Vietnamese," as well as American civilians should Saigon be invaded by Provisional Revolutionary Government forces...
Ford said the setbacks for the Saigon and Phnom Penh regimes have "disquieted many of our friends," especially in Asia...