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...appearances of legality and mask the fact that the Communists were haughtily dictating terms. President Nguyen Van Thieu, who had survived a decade of intense but disorganized political opposition while fighting a devastating war, tearfully announced his resignation. Soon afterward he departed for Taipei aboard a U.S. military transport; from there he was expected to fly into exile?possibly in England or Switzerland. Thieu was replaced by his aging and feeble Vice President, Tran Van Huong, 71. Almost immediately, the Communists imperiously declared Huong unacceptable. This development raised grave questions...
Fare cutting has spread to international routes too. British Airways is considering no-frills service on its North Atlantic runs. And in Geneva last week, members of the International Air Transport Association, the rate-setting cartel for international flights, reached an agreement that will permit carriers to continue offering scheduled flights at new bargain rates of about half the normal coach fare. If the U.S. formally approves the agreement, it will allow major American carriers to meet competition from foreign airlines without starting the wide-open rate war that some executives had feared would break out over the Atlantic this...
Fearful that the enemy is infiltrating along with the refugees, the government is setting up guard posts on the roads leading into Saigon to keep out any additional outsiders. Cyclos (pedicabs) have been banned because the government fears that Communist sappers might use them to transport satchel charges into the city. In an effort to prevent riots or a possible coup attempt, new army orders forbid civilians to congregate in groups on the streets or off-duty soldiers to carry their weapons in the capital. Many Saigonese fear rape and rampage by their own troops as much as they dread...
...even informal families or much of a future in Viet Nam. Even before the current crisis, some 2,000 of these war waifs had been assigned to adoptive parents-mostly in the U.S.-but could not leave until the South Vietnamese and U.S. governments cleared much paper work and transport became available...
Outside the U.S., the London Daily Mail chartered a Boeing 707 to transport 150 orphans from Saigon. The Australian air force ferried out 212 more, who headed to Sydney, and 63 children were sent to adoption in Canada. At week's end a West German agency was still negotiating with the Saigon government to take out 50 orphans...