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Wednesday, august 20, 1975
daily nebraskan
Southeast Asia headlines summer's wona events
Courtesy of the National Observer:
The World
The war in Vietnam ended. The Saigon
government surrendered unconditionally,
and Viet Cong and North Vietnamese
troops occupied the capital. In Paris, the
Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary
Government announced it would adopt a
neutralist nonaligned foreign policy in
South Vietnam.
American helicopters evacuated about
1,000 Americans and 6,000 Vietnamese
from Saigon in the hours before the capital
surrendered. In all, more than 100,000
Vietnamese fled their country before its
fall.
An American cargo ship and its
39-member crew were recovered after the
vessel was seized by Cambodian gunboats
and taken to the island of Koh Tang, 30
miles off the Cambodian coast. A force of
about 160 UJS. Marines attacked the island
in the mistaken belief that the crew of the
Mayaguez was being held there. The
crewmen, who had been taken to the
Cambodian mainland, were released by
their captors.
The Defense Department said 15
Americans were killed, 50 wounded and
three were missing following the operation.
In Thailand 23 other GIs were killed when
their helicopter crashed while they were
being flown to an air base for possible use
in the Mayaguez rescue.
President Gerald Ford told other leaders
of the 15-nation North Atlantic Treaty
Organization in Brussels that the United
States would keep its forces in Europe at
full strength until an East-West agreement
on mutual troop reduction is fashioned.
Ford and the leaders of 34 other nations
signed a document on European security
and cooperation at a summit meeting in
Helsinki, Poland. Ie summit made
legitimate the borders of East European
nations.
The Organization of American States
(OAS) voted 16 to 3 to end economic and
diplomatic sanctions imposed in 1964
against Cuba. The United States was among
the nations voting in favor of a resolution
letting OAS members determine their trade
and diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Portugal's military regime curtailed the
role of political parties in the government
and announced plans to help implement
the military's goal of socialism.
Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India,
was found guilty by a judge of corruption
in her 1972 election campaign. Shortly
afterward Gandhi began a crackdown
against political opponents while assuming
greater power by declaring a national
emergency.
The Suez Canal was reopened to traffic
eight years after its closing during the 1967
Arab-Israeli War. Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat said the reopening of the canal
constituted "a contribution to peace."
The Nation
Vice President Nelson Rockefeller
turned over to President Ford the
Rockefeller Commission's report on the
Central Intelligence Agency, and said the
study turned up some CIA wrongdoing but
no widespread illegalities. Meanwhile, Sen.
Frank Church (D-Idaho), chairman of the
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,
said he has evidence that the CIA was
involved in "murder plots." The
commission recommended that external
controls over the CIA be strengthened.
CIA Director William Colby released a
report that admits the agency and its
agents "overstepped proper bounds" and
carried out "improper actions" in illegal
domestic activities. But Colby said the
misdeeds were "few and weje quite
exceptional to the thrust of the agency's
activities and have been fully terminated."
Alice Olson of Frederick, MdL, said she
would sue the CIA for the "wrongful
death" of her husband, Frank Olson, who
committed suicide in 1953 after the CIA
gave him LSD without his knowledge.
American and Soviet manned space
vehicles were linked successfully 140 miles
above the earth. Apollo astronauts Thomas
Stafford, Donald Slayton and Vance Brand
exchanged gifts, traded space-craft visits
and shared meals with Soyuz cosmonauts
Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov.
The three American astronauts were
hospitalized in Honolulu for treatment of
lung irritation caused by inhaling fumes
that filled the Apollo space craft during its
re-entry.
President Ford urged Americans to
welcome refugees from Vietnam. Ford told
a press conference that he was
"disappointed and very upset" by
opposition of some Americans to bringing
the refugees to the United States. Ford
signed a bill authorizing $405 million for
resettling an estimated 130,000 refugees
from South Vietnam and Cambodia.
Ford increased the tariff on oil imports
by SI a barrel effective June 1 because of
Congress' failure to pass
energy-conservation legislation.
The U.S. Geological Survey sharply
reduced its estimate of the nation's
natural-gas and oil resources. The agency
said estimates cf VS. oil resources were
cut to between 10 billion and 4V billion
barrels from last year's estimate of 65
billion to 130 billion barrels.
The Serial voted 4? to 46 to partly lift
the six-month embargo on UJS. arms sales
to Turkey but House opponents of the bill
prevented it from coming to the floor for a
vote as Congress rushed to recess for a
month-long August vacation.
The Turkish government ordered the
UJS. to cease all operations at VS. military
bases in Turkey after the House refused to
lift the embargo.
Congress approved a budget guideline
calling for a $367 billion budget with a
$68.8 billion deficit for fiscal 1976.
President Ford had proposed a $355,6
billion budget with a $60 bi2ion deficit.
The FBI conducted break ins for
national-security investigations, beginning
a3 early as Work) War II and continuing
into the 1960s, FEI Director Clarence
Kelley said. He said all such activities were
ended in 1966, except for break-ins
thought . necessary for certain
counterintelligence activity.
Grain sales to ihe Soviet Union totaling
at least 9.8 million tons this year were
confirmed by the Agriculture Department.
Government experts said they expect the
sales will have little effect on retail food
prices, although Arthur Burns, chairman of
the Federal Reserve Board, said he expects
a substantial rise.
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