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...partially evacuated before it was struck, city officials have already counted 215 dead and 257 wounded-with many more missing or still buried in the rubble. French observers in North Viet Nam claimed that close to 1,000 civilians are dead or wounded in the suburban town of Thai Nguyen...
...truck parks, and SAM and antiaircraft installations. The report stated that dozens of these targets were destroyed or heavily damaged-the Phuc Yen airfield was bombed, the Hanoi port facility on the Red River hit hard, "all buildings" in the Haiphong petroleum-product storage area were struck, and the Thai Nguyen thermal power plant was virtually wiped out, and on down the target list...
...middle of the most populous metropolitan and suburban areas in the North. The Hanoi thermal power plant, for instance, was only 1,000 yds. from the very center of the city. A main petroleum storage area was only 200 yds. from the Bach Mai hospital. The town of Thai Nguyen lay right next to one of the key power plants...
...four gunmen took control of the embassy and hung a green and white Palestinian flag out a window. The guard and all Thai employees inside the building were promptly set free. But six Israelis, including the Ambassador to Cambodia, Shimon Avimor, were held as hostages. As 500 Thai police and troops surrounded the compound, the terrorists threw out notes listing demands, including the release by Israel of 36 Palestinian prisoners. If the demands were not met within 20 hours, the invaders threatened to blow up the embassy with everyone in it, including themselves...
Watched by several hundred Bangkok citizens who swarmed into the narrow street outside the embassy. Thai, Israeli and Egyptian officials raced to the scene. Thailand's Deputy Foreign Minister Chartichai Choonhaven and Air Chief Marshal Dawee Chullasapya, as well as the Egyptian Ambassador to Bangkok, Mustafa Essawi, entered the embassy to negotiate with the terrorists. Israeli Ambassador Amir remained outside, in direct contact with the Israeli Cabinet in Jerusalem through a hastily installed telex machine...