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...many as 130 South Vietnamese planes and helicopters, including F-5 fighter-bombers, transports and attack planes, were reported meanwhile to have reached the U.S.-run Utapao air-base in Thailand with about 2,000 soldiers and civilians; already some 1,000 Cambodian refugees were crowded into tents there. Alarmed, the Thai government announced that the refugees had to leave within 30 days and that it would return the planes to "the next government in South Viet Nam." Defense Secretary James Schlesinger firmly advised Bangkok that it should do no such thing; under aid agreements, the equipment cannot be transferred...
...week's end another group of nearly 600 refugees reached Thailand after an arduous, 3½-day truck journey from Phnom-Penh. Mostly French, the evacuees had sought haven in the French embassy when Cambodia's capital fell to the Khmer Rouge and had been virtual prisoners ever since. To the annoyance of France, one of the first non-Communist countries to recognize the Khmer Rouge, the embassy had been turned into a virtual prison. Food, medicine and communications had been cut off. After protests from Paris, the regime finally allowed the 600 out. Sidney Schanberg, a correspondent...
...Wake Island and Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. Others were scattered on Saipan, 250 miles from Guam, where 56 refugees landed after commandeering a South Vietnamese C130; at the U.S. naval base at Subic Bay, 110 miles from Clark, where about 6,000 were staying; and at Thailand's Utapao Airbase, where almost 3,000 Vietnamese sought refuge. Soon they would be moving on to three military bases on the U.S. mainland-Camp Pendleton, Calif., Fort Chaffee, Ark., and Eglin Air Force Base, Pla.-where they will remain until the U.S. Government has figured out what...
...employees. Last week a new and jaunty type appeared for the first time: flight-suited Vietnamese air force officers who had fled with their planes, their wives, children and cousins. Colonel The Ban Huu squeezed two passengers into the second seat of his A-37 fighter and headed for Thailand. Colonel Dang Duy Lac, a transport pilot, somehow piled 200 passengers into his C-130 for the flight to Utapao. Lieut. Tring Thiet Thach, 24, who escaped from Danang two months ago by swimming to a Vietnamese navy ship, took off from Tan Son Nhut in the midst of Communist...
...beat our breast. It was a close choice with moral factors on both sides. On a wider view, buying time for the nations of Southeast Asia to stabilize their governments was the major reason for our actions. Thus there is faint consolation in the fact that such countries as Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia are not in all that bad shape...